Beautiful but crazy, by Amanda Hartmann

Hi SC fans!

Created my own background for this layout of my beautiful by slightly crazy family...

For the background I used:

* Art Alchemy Metallique Paint

* Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays

* Dina Wakley Collage Paper

* script 12x12 stencil from my stash

* large chipboard circle from my stash

Here is the full page.//....

I started by stenciling with the Art Alchemy Metallique Paint in Vintage Rose through my old script stencil. I made sure to only stencil in a circle in the centre of the page. I used a credit card to make some swipes in the paint.

I found the big chipboard circle, and after giving it a coat of white gesso, I painted it with Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays in Ruby. I took the lid off the spray bottle and used it to paint with a paintbrush. So bright and shiny.

I layered some of the Dina Wakley Collage Papers with washi tape to create a few points of interest.

Finished with some Gloss spray splatters (Ruby and cheddar), the title and some stickers and bits and pieces!

Thanks for looking today!

Amanda

 

My Darling with Emma Zappone

Happy Sunday all! Emma here with you today sharing a page inspired by this months glorious moodboard. It has the warmest shades of mauve, purple and grape. Colours that usually would have me running, but this time I decided to really embrace them and make them my own.

Here is the moodboard.....



To achieve the different shades of purple, I used a variety of different products. But lets start from the base sheet up. I primed by paper with a clear gesso and allowed to dry. Then with a couple of different stencils added a white crackle paste and again allowed to dry. Once dry I then used a Distress Crayon - seedless preserves and a touch of Dylusions crushed grape ink to create a dramatic effect on the crackle paste.

To add a little warmth I watered down a small amount of Art Alchemy Metallique romance pink acrylic  with a fine brush, dotted in amongst the other shades of purple.

I used a number of scrap pieces of paper from all sorts of brands to achieve my layers behind my image. The chipboard is painted with the Romance pink acrylic, I primed all my resin pieces with black gesso and then brushed Prima waxes once dry. these were a combination of Heather Hills and Amethyst magic. It created such an awesome finish. 

Once all my embellishments and flowers were in place I dry brushed a little white gesso over a lot of the elements, this allowed me to then add a touch of wax over the art pebbles and other embellishments.

Lastly a few Finnabair micro beads and Prima pearls to add a soft touch. I watered down a little of the Distress crayon used on the background and flicked this around my layout to tie it all together.

I hope this page inspires you a little to try a colour that may not be your first choice or one that you play with often, but that's what makes a challenge like this so much fun.

Catch you all again soon, Em xx 

Happiest, by Amanda Hartmann

Hello and happy Wednesday!

Here is my page!

Inspired by the February mood board....

And here's some of the products in store that I used:

* Rose gold Metallique Paint, by Prima

* Stamps by Dina Wakley

* Heidi Swapp - gold foil letters
* Puffy (or "inflated") hearts by Amy Tangerine

I started with white cardstock machine stitched to black cardstock.

I used a credit card to swipe the Metallic Rose gold paint to the background.

I created a stack of layers under the photo.

One layer contains a sheet of vellum, which I stamped with Dina Wakley stamps and heat embossed with some gold embossing powder from my stash.

This was all stacked with corugated cardboard, twine and hessian ribbon.

The Heidi Swapp gold foil alphabet were easy to use and the gold looks perfect for my title!

I love the shine of the metallic paint!

You can see the embossed stamped vellum layer amongst the other textures.

Thanks for looking today. You can create a project for our mood board and upload it to the album before the end of the month. Join us!

Amanda