My Happy Place by Charmane Koch

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you've had a lovely start to the week! I'm here with you today to share with you my interpretation of the August Moodboard/Sketch - I've taken inspiration from both. I think the Botanicals Collection is the perfect match for this!

Here's the Moodboard - there's still plenty of time to get your entries in!

I've used a few different papers to create layers - Here are the papers I have used:

I cut out the circle image from the Romance Paper, keeping the Floral corner as well - I distressed the edge...

Using a plate I cut out a circle from the Elegant Paper:

I also distressed the edge of this as well. Then stuck it over the top of the Romance paper...

I matted my photo using White Cardstock, a piece of hessian & a torn piece of cardboard - 

I also cut out some leaves from the Blooms cut out paper

I cut out the Stalks Die 3 times using both sides of the Bouquet Paper as I wanted light & dark "stalks" to add behind my matted photo...

I positioned the Die Cut & Leaves from the Bloom paper along with strips of distressed papers onto the papers...

I used Double Sided tape & Glue to stick them all down. I also machine stitched around both circles twice. 

I added string & paper flowers & Chipboard branches to my layout - plenty of layers on this page!

Using a small paintbrush I have flicked a bit of SOOT Colour Artist Ink around the edge of my layout.

I used a Word Cut Apart for my title...

I also had to make a Charms Creations to match the page...

I really had a lot of fun putting this page together - the Botanicals Collection is absolutely stunning! I will definitely be getting it out again!

Thanks for popping by!

Happy Creating!

XO Charm

'Game on Grandma' by Elisa Ablett

Hi Crafters, 

Elisa here from the design team with my latest inspiration project for you for this month, featuring the new collection by Tanya Froud, King of the Cave!

Tanya and I went away together recently for some self imposed 'time out' and created up a storm with our Bee Arty goodies. This is one of the layouts I created using the new collection, a mixed media layout with loads of colour and texture. We created the chess pieces together by hand drawing the bases and adding the crown and negative offcuts from the 'King' metal die.

I just love this photo of my mum and my youngest son playing chess together, the concentration and the sore losers are real, but I love that I captured this moment of them spending quality time together.

Let's take a closer look -

I continued on the circular themed design by adding large handdrawn scribbled circles with Black Soot Colour Artist Ink, die cut Wheelz with metallique waxes and stamping with 'Checkers' stamp set.

The centre of the layout features the 'Game on' Stencil from the King of the Cave collection and it was stencilled using the Deep Water Paste and one of the new fine Embossing Powders in Lime.

I added a bit of colour to the background using Colour Artist Inks in Mermaid, Soot and Barley. 

To create the title, I stencilled ink through the Game On Stencil and embossed and then I used the 

365 Alpha die to create the word Grandma from white cardstock, I then used Mermaid Colour Artist Ink to add colour to the title. 

Products from the Bee Arty Website : - 

 

King of the Cave Collection Kit

Envy Colour Paste

Barley Artist Ink

Black modelling paste

Metallique Waxes - Prima

Black Cardstock

White Gel Pen

Black Ink Pad

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you visit the Bee Arty Hive group on Facebook to get more inspiration! 

Hugs

Elisa