Chase your Dreams by Anita Enright

I love the colours of summer time so I wanted to play with these bright citrus colours and create a happy layout.  My niece was only little at our wedding but my girlfriend captured her 'cuteness' in this photo and I needed to scrap it.  It might be 10 years later, but I think it has come up beautifully using the Colour Blast products.

 

For the layout I only used two products, the gorgeous Colour Artist Inks and Colour Shimmer Dust.

To start I stamped a heaps of floral images using Stazon black ink so I knew the outlines would not smudge when I used the Colour Artist Inks over it. My chosen colours were Lime, Mermaid, Citrus, Barley, Cider, Slipper, Grass, Bordeaux and Oasis. Using a blender pen I coloured in all the flowers, some with mottled colours some with solid colours. I was lucky to have a punch that matched the stamped images so it was quick and easy to punch them out.

 I love my greens so next I took the Colour Shimmer Dust in Lush and sprinkled it across my white cardstock and then sprayed it with a white pearlised spray.

 

 Next I  painted my chipboard with the Heavy White Gesso

 

Once dry I then used the Colour Artist Inks again to colour the title using the colours of Slipper and Grass.  As each layer of colour dried, I added another layer to build on the colour.

 There are so many layers on my page but I think it turned out great.  Below are some close ups of it. I had to add one of the gorgeous Charms Creations hearts and some little goodies from D-lish Scraps to finish the page.

 Thanks for stopping by.

I hope to see you back soon.

Anita

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"Never Stop Dreaming" by Anita Enright

Welcome Back Colour Blasters

For my share today I created a Dream Catcher canvas wall hanging.   I love having some of my creations hanging on my craftroom walls and since  need to use up my stash (to make room for more) I went for this canvas as my project base.

To start my project, using some plain white tissue paper and a really good gel medium I attached the tissue to the canvas base.

  

Once dry I did several coats of Heavy White Gesso to seal it and give it a great working surface.

I then chose an array of Colour Shimmer Sprays including Sunshine, Tangereen Dream, Apple of My Eye, Deep Water, Lovely Lilac and Envy and went crazy. As much as I liked the background there was too much colour and a little too much shimmer.  

To fix this I went back over the top of the colour with the Heavy White Gesso again so soften the background and I was happy with the end result. I forgot to take a second photo after the second coat.

 Next I got to add my favourite Colour Shimmer Dust in Lollipop and really hit with the water spray so that the colour got in to all the creases of the tissue paper.

I then worked on my embellishments.  I love the Celebr8 chipboard and adore the feather piece.  I firstly gave it a coating of Heavy White Gesso and then with a sponge and Colour Artist Ink in Slipper. I allowed each coating to dry but I just couldn't get the colour I wanted.... maybe I was too impatient to build it up.

So I quickened up the process and added some of the Colour Artist Ink in Slipper to some Heavy White Gesso and mixed it up in my pallet.  I made sure when I mixed it that it had a marbled effect so hopefully it would transfer like an ombre effect when it dried. 

I then mixed my Colour Artist Inks in Oasis and Mermaid together to make a more jade colour and then painted it on to some feather I made using a silicone mold.  They came up a great.

 Using the Colour Embossing Powder in Deep Water and Rose Petal and embossed a wood veneer wreath with a marbled effect. I then used the Deep Water Colour Embossing Powder again and heat embossed my title.

Using an array of Little Birdie Crafts flowers, a bit of bling and all the other embellishments that I altered using Colour Blast products I completed the canvas. 

Below are a full picture of my finish canvas and several closeups.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Until next time... happy crafting.

Anita E

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Dress Up by Charmane Koch

Hey guys! Happy Holidays! We've just started ours here in SA - and I'm guessing most of you are halfway through maybe? 

Today I wanted to share another layout created using Colour Mica powders & stencil using gesso for the background, but this time adding stamped embossing & stencilled colour paste as well.

I used a mixture of Cool Mint & Polar Colour Mica Powder sprinkled onto the page that I have little sprayed with water. I have used a heat gun to dry it, and then added a couple of strips of ripped washi tape vertically over the top. I have used gesso to stencil the blossom mask. I waited for it to dry.

I decided to have a little bit of "experiment" with the Colour Embossing Powders and using Watermark Ink I have stamped two chipboard flourishes... but decided to use two colours to emboss at the same time. I sprinkled Envy & Deep Water randomly over the top of one chipboard...

and then I've rubbed the other chipboard over the top of the leftover embossing powder.

The excess I have kept aside for the stamping I have embossed directly onto the background cardstock.

After working out the positioning of my photo, I have stamped a script stamp & then stencilled a word stencil using Deep Water Colour Paste. 

Using Versamark Watermark Ink I have stamped a flourish stamp and "Like A Boss" stamp. I have then sprinkled the excess Embossing powder and using a heat gun embossed.

I am loving the mix of textures - the shiny colour paste, the glossy embossing, the glittery Mica powder background... & as you can see I have also used leftover muslin that I coloured with Colour Artist Ink from the last page I created!

I hope you like the finished product!

Thanks for looking!

"Happy Moments" by Anita Enright

Hey Hey Everyone, Anita with you today on the blog.

I have to say that I love how there are so many different colours available across the ranges of Colour Blast products. I am also having fun mixing and matching them and today I have chosen Steel and Singing the Blues.

 

My chosen products for this layout were the Colour Paste, Colour Shimmer Spray and Colour Embossing Powder.

 

I coated my chipboard piece with Heavy White Gesso prior to covering it with the Colour Embossing Powder in Singing the Blues.  It made the colour pop due to having the white base behind the embossing powder.

The base paper for my layout was a very simple and subtle grey patterned paper.  My chosen stencil had a similar pattern the wall that was behind Brian and I in the photo.  The were really funky grey shimmery glass tiles and even though they are a little hard to see I wanted to see if I could bring them into the layout somewhere.  

I think it worked really well using the Colour Paste in Steel.

Once the Colour Paste was dry I then added some 'splats' and sprayed the entire page with the Colour Shimmer Spray in Singing the Blues. The shimmer is just so pretty.

For those of us that are lucky enough to have some of the Colour Shimmer Cubes in their stash, after adding water to the cube, I used a dauber to add colour through another different stencil to add more texture to the background.  The same results can be used using the Colour Shimmer Sprays or Colour Sprays if you wanted to tone down the shimmer on your creations.

 My chosen ephemera and a few other pieces came from one of my 'Just Add Paper' monthly kits from D-lish Scraps.  On the two butterfly, heart and flower ephemera pieces I used the Colour Shimmer Brush Marker in Clear to add even more shimmer to my page.  I then used the marker in Silver to colour up two white flowers as I didn't have any grey flowers and thought this was a great way to add colour.

My large white flower was too stark on the page as it was so I added some of the Colour Paste in Singing the Blues and Steel.

 

 Along with the D-lish Scraps kit pieces I added another gorgeous embellishment set the X and O from Charms Creations.

Below are a couple of close-ups of my finished layout and also up close of the pretty shimmers of the Colour Blast products. 

Thank you once again for stopping by and not only supporting us but also this wonderful Australian made and owned brand.  It is an honour to be allowed to demonstrate their products for you.

Take care and don't forget to create a little memory.

Ciao for now.

Anita

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