Can't Wait to Meet You with Melinda Sweetman

Hi there Colour Blasters, Melinda with you today sharing a page I created without using any patterned paper!!

I will start off straight away by saying that this is not my ultrasound! The journalling does explain that this is indeed my future niece or nephew!

I started this page with one idea in my head and decided as I was going that I just didn't love where it was going! You can see in the video below my process and where the layout changes directions!

And here are my step-by-steps!

First up, I decided to grab a stencil and some Colour Pastes, the colours I have used are Envy, Apple of my Eye and Bling. I have used the pastes one at a time and applied randomly all over the stencil (onto vellum) with some parts of the paste thicker than others and left that over night to dry.

The next day when I came back to my dried mixed media circles I started fussy cutting the circles. As a last minute decision I decided to leave some of the wonky edges for something a little different.

I started to lay the circles and my photo onto my page and at this point I decided that the circles were too big and I just wasn't loving it!! Instead of starting all over I decided to grab some punches, some dies and my scissors and cut a bunch of different sized hearts and felt much happier with that decision!

Next to set to work on my background. A very quick, light coat of White Heavy Gesso to the parts of the page where I knew I wanted to add some extra colour.

Then comes one of my most fave products at the moment - Colour Shimmer Cubes!! For this page I have used the Just Blue (Oh my, I love, love, love this colour!!) as I wanted a contrast but also not an opposite end of the colour wheel contrast! I activated with a little water and just painted the colour on without too much thought other than the basic idea of where I wanted the focus. I did dry this off a little with my heat tool but first I soaked up a lot of the water from the top of the page.

After that was dried I pulled out my Singin The Blues Colour Shimmer Spray and did a couple of spritzes for a bit of colour variation and again left that to dry.

I wanted to bring in some of the green also so did a few squirts of the Apple Of My Eye Colour Shimmer Spray as well and let that dry thoroughly.

Time for splatters! I have very simply used the nozzle from each of the bottles of Colour Shimmer Spray in Bling, Just Blue, Singin The Blues and Apple of My Eye and left that to dry.

While that was drying I pulled out my chipboard pieces and decided to do a multi colour emboss! First up I have used Deep Water Embossing Powder.

After that was dried and cooled I added Bling embossing powder and heat set that too. These 2 colours mix beautifully together while still being able to see the 2 different colours. I love this look!

Time to pull it all together and here is the end design again for you!

I love the pops of all those different colours and how beautifully they all sit together on the page!

Oh, and I forgot, I added a little stamping behind the chipboard! I meant to do that BEFORE I stuck down the chipboard but forgot! Thankfully I had only adhered it with staples where the photo was going to be so it was easy enough to lift the chippy - perhaps you will remember sooner ;) I have used a grey (because I thought I had grabbed black until I stamped!) archival ink and love the extra detail it adds!

I also REALLY love the extra dimension that the vellum gives. When the hearts were stuck down only in the middle the edges all lifted up which was a happy surprise!

And one last photo, this is the title area! I love how those hearts look and those alphas match perfectly with the colours I have chosen!

So, how will you take this fun technique and do YOUR thing with it? We would love to see so please make sure you stop by the FB group and share your own creations with us! 

Also, Colour Blast will be at the Brisbane Scrapbook Expo this weekend and I am making the trip over, so perhaps I may run into you there!! 

Whatever your scrappy plans are make sure you have fun and get a little messy ;)

Until next time,

Melinda 

My Bug-Eyed Babe by Amy Prior

Hi there Colour Blast fans! Amy Prior back with you all again today. This time sharing a step-by-step tutorial on how I created a recent scrapbook page titled "My Bug-Eyed Babe".

Step 1: Spray Rainforest  Colour Spray over a piece of mixed media quality white cardstock. 

Step 2: When the Colour Spray is dry, spread some Blush Colour Paste through your favourite stencil over-the-top.

Step 3: Paint some Blush & Sunshine  Colour Paste randomly onto a piece of wood veneer or chipboard. 

Step 4: Mix some Midnight  Colour Shimmer Dust with Water and splatter over the dried Colour Paste covered wood veneer piece. 

Step 5: Assemble various patterned papers and embellishments on the page then mount your photo. 

Step 6: Splatter some of the Midnight  Colour Shimmer Dust around the page that was mixed with water. 

The finished page is full of fun texture and shimmer without being over-the-top!

Well that is it from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and until next time, happy scrapping!

Amy Prior x

Gorgeous Art Journal Page by Farrel Tailor

 Happy Sunday Everyone!!! 

Farrel here to share with you my latest mixed media art journal page. So sit back and relax while I step you through the process in creating this very fun page.

I started off by tearing some paper out of an old book and adhered it with Matt Gel Medium and then applied a light coat of White Heavy Gesso all over.

Once the gesso was dry, I then added some different patterned strips of washi tape in black and white..after realising that I needed the washi tape to be sealed for the next step, I and then applied another coat of White Heavy Gesso. Next I added Indigo Colour Spray using a paint brush and used water to let the colour run across the page.

I dried the spray with my heat gun and then repeated the process but used Grape Colour Spray . I also used the excess off my brush to add some splatters all over.

I added some random stamping using a black archival ink.

The next I used my black archival ink and dabbed through a stencil. I wanted to heat emboss the image so I started with using Steel Colour Embossing Powder  but it was a little too light so I went over it using Dusty Charcoal Colour Embossing Powder.

My next step was to cover my ScrapFx chipboard with Black Heavy Gesso. Once it was dry I then sprayed Royalty Colour Shimmer Spray  all over for that extra sparkle!!

The last step was to cover my stencil with White Heavy Gesso...why??? I felt the colour and stamping in the background was taking the focus away my stencil. Before it dried I then used a baby wipe to remove the excess off the embossing areas.

And there you have it another art journal page!!!

Hopefully I have inspired you to create something gorgeous today.

Until next time - Happy Creating xx

Stunning! by Fiona Hughes

Hi all you Colour Blast crafters. Fiona here today with a layout of my beautiful daughter, Georgia. She works at a large hotel  and they were having a photoshoot, to promote their wedding packages. The staff had professional hair and makeup done before a day long shoot, pretending to be brides maids etc. I thought she looked absolutely gorgeous and had to scrapbook this pic.

Using kraft cardstock and some printed tissue paper, i used the Colour Blast Heavy White Gesso, to adhere the tissue and  a thin layer to prime most of the page.

Once that was dry I took my "XO" stencil and the Colour Paste- Steel & added 2 sort of triangular areas at either side of the page.

I dried those with a heat tool.

After that, I sprayed and splattered over the page with Colour Shimmer Spray- in Stormy Weather.

All that remained to do for this minimalist layout was to raise my photo on some old cardboard box and build 2 embellishment clusters, one below the pic and one on the opposite side of the page, using  black and grey flowers and some veneer pieces.

add my title and voila!

One of my favourite pages, where less is more.

It is just so easy to play with these beautiful products to create amazing layouts.

Have a wonderful day.

Cheers, Fi.

Be the Best Version of You by Suzy Loudon

 Hello Colour Blast friends. I've been playing and getting my hands all messy once again. 

Today I share another 12x12 layout.

 

To begin with I spread some White Heavy Gesso through a brick stencil and popped it aside to dry.

When the Gesso was fully dry I sprayed the brick area where I wanted colour with water before spraying with Colour Sprays. I used Sapphire and Coffee.I added more sprays of water to run the colour back & forth over my page running it through the bricks.

I did this until all my bricks were pretty much covered and I had varying coverage to add texture.

I felt it looked a bit flat so I sprayed Colour Shimmer Sprays in Singin The Blues & Leather on the corresponding blue & brown.

I sprayed some Coffee Colour Spray onto my craft mat and also some water. Using my flat paint brush I soaked it in the water then mixed in small amounts of the Coffee Colour Spray for a very light watery mix. I dabbed this around my page for a light border. I went around a second time with a stronger colour mix and not applying quite as much as the first time.

I grabbed some brick chipboard. I had to scrape the very last of my Dusty Charcoal Colour Paste out of the container. It had started to set a little so it was a bit rough to spread, so I just spread it the best I could in one big mess. I left it to dry on my mat before lifting off. It was a very messy finish so I just pulled off some of the messy bits not worrying to much as I wasn't after a clean finish. I then cut it into random bits.

I used Stazon black ink to randomly stamp around my background.

I grabbed some chipboard stars ready to emboss. I stamped with matching colours before applying Colour Embossing Powder in Apple of my Eye, Lipstick & Just Blue. When the first coat of Embossing Powder was just melted I quickly stuck it back in the powder to give it a second coating.

Time to assemble my page. Where my photo was going I stuck down a nice thick piece of cardboard. This allowed me to then glue my brick chipboard around it.

Using my finger I spread White Heavy Gesso around my photo giving it a light border.

Before I stuck my photo on I added some black twine & some coloured hessian that I had. 

Check out the wonderful shimmer.

Thanks again for looking.

See you next time,

xxx Suzy