Scrappingclearly Papercrafts & Mixed Media: Go where your heart takes you, by Amanda Hartmann

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Go where your heart takes you, by Amanda Hartmann

Hi everyone!

I love my Wednesday share day!

Here a sneak peek of the page.... before you see the finished project, I wanted to share some steps to how I created the page.

I started with a sheet of smooth Bazzil Marshmallow cardstock.

I got my trusty old compass and drew some mixed circles to the page.

Then I hand traced over these with a thin black Posca Pen. I went around a couple of times, and it did not have to be perfect! Added some squiggles and doodling as I went.

Next I grabbed a speckled Tim Holtz stencil and put modeling paste through - keeping the paste within the circle.

While the modelling paste was still wet, I sprinkle some OLD black/gold embossing powder (from my stash) onto the paste. I shook of the excess, and then heat set with a heat gun.

Then I repeated this - again used modeling paste - this time through a Tim Holtz sunburst stencil, applied to the largest circle.

While the modeling paste was drying, I sprinkled a fine gold embossing powder to the sunbursts and heat set with my heat gun. Things were starting to look sparkly!

Now for some colour! I used Colour Blast Shimmer Dusts - water soluble, bright, and with shimmer- they were perfect for this project! I used the colour: Duke and mixed a small amount of the dust with water and painted some of the circles. Using a wet brush and fast strokes, I was able to apply colour in different gradients. I would add more water or more colour to change the shade of blue in the circle.

I used the same water and Shimmer Dust mix to paint some flowers to match!

And here is my final page all assembled! Once assembled I added machine stitched border, a painted blue edge, blue splatters and some random black stamping. To embellish I added some chipboard circle words, flowers, enamel heart stickers and some Tim Holtz Small talk word quotes.