What SPARKs your interest with the moodboard?

I had a lot of fun with this crazy picture of my daughter and I and the moodboard colours were just perfect. 

When you use a moodboard what sparks your interest to use it -  Is it the colours ,the patterns, the picture prompts or maybe a word? I like to try and tie it all together in my layouts. I love the colours firstly and then I try to tie in a visual as well when creating my Scrapbook layout. This week I have used the colours and the visual of the girl helped me lend this layout to one of my daughter and I. 

For this layout the base is white cardstock with a few dots of Dylusions Slate Grey paint that have been brayered around on the page.

Next I used up a few of the offcuts from last weekends layout to layer behind my photo - Cocoa Vanilla, Heidi Swapp, Pink Paislee. I have used a Pinkfresh tag - don't be scared to cut these up if you are only wanting part of it - I find I use the other parts layered on the layout or they come in handy for the next project. 

 Time to test it out for placement. Once I found where the photo composition was going I then used Dylusions background stamps to add a little more interest to the page. 

After marking out a border around the photo with an ALLS pencil it was time to hit the sewing machine and stitch around this to help add more depth. After completing that I used a wet paintbrush to smudge up the pencil. I added the title using Heidi Swapp ghost alpha. These were adhered using stitching.

 Before sticking down the photo I added a few more layers from Teresa Collins chipboard elements, Heidi Swapp washi tape, Heidi Swapp acetate label, Pinkfresh sticker words, Kaisercraft butterflies & a flair.

To finish off the layout a border was sewn with a dark grey cottom.

Thanks for popping in and having a look at my crazy life with my daughter who really is a fun little spark of energy with all her craziness... have an amazingly creative day.

Kick Back - with Emma.

Well the long weekend just flew past!!!
Did it even happen? Hmmmm…...

 Sadly I didn't get a lot of time to be creative, but I did get some time to get a little inky and create this page for you all today.

Oh boy did I get inky! I started off by priming my cardstock with clear gesso.

Then I pulled out lots of my Distress Oxide Reinkers! Wow this was so therapeutic and fun. 

I applied a little water to the background first and then 'painted' with a watercolour brush the oxides. Layering, dotting and blending the colours together.

I had applied my remaining Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs before I started this procedure, and I just love how they resist the inks so they stay prominent.

Behind my photo I ripped a couple of different grunge papers from the Ella & Viv range. And I had a left over WRMK frame that I tucked into the layers also.

The flags are from Pink fresh and I loved the texture this gave to the page. They complimented the photo with the denim vibe.

The quotes are the ever favourite Tim Holtz small talk stickers, this time I used ones from the 'snarky' collection.

Lastly I added a few splashes of black Liquitex ink over my photo and page to bring it all together.

That's this little beauty all complete.

Don't forget that we have another awesome Cyber crop happening this week. we would love to see all your creations for these awesome challenges.

I'll see you again next week.

Happy Scrapping, Em xx

Whispers in the breeze - with Emma

Hi, Emma here with you all today.

Today my share is inspired by the mood board of this month.

Lets just see this beautiful board shall we?

Stunning isn't it!

Here is my version....(the light wasn't the greatest today for the photo, so I apologise for the slight shadowy look).

The colours are just Divine and I couldn't wait to play.

Using up some supplies I had, I decided my background be kept simple.

I used Tim holtz Remnant rubs 'life quotes'  and rubbed only sections I wanted from the sheet.

Then I added my colour. For this I simply used Distress Oxides smooshed over the rub ons.

I have 5 colours for this, Cracked Pistachio, Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron.

Love how effective this is without much work ;)

Once dry I started to add my elements and image.

For the layers behind my image I used up my last couple of pieces from Heidi Swapps Magnolia Jane pack. And a couple of cut pieces of Heidi Swapp die cut sheets which I opted to leave white to be more prominent on top of the colour background.

My embellishments consisted of a Pink Fresh 'escape the ordinary' stitched heart, Tim Holtz key hole and Finnabair metal heart which I rubbed some Art Alchemy wax over.

Finally to mimic the 'drops' in the image I added some Melange (clear pebbles) in the same pattern.

Another page complete, and inspired by the mood board. 

I'll see you all again soon.

Till then, Em xx

Totally Awesome

Welcome back to the blog and the new April moodboard… isn’t she a stunner….

I found that the Avery Elle Celery & Ken Oliver ColourBurst Turquoise watercolours work so well together. The richness of colour from that turquoise is amazing and the celery was used as an undertone. I dropped a few drops of the celery colour first and spritzed it with water then dropped my white cardstock on top. I dried this with my heat tool before I added a little of the Turquoise powder to my mat and spritzed it and followed the same process. I chose the Floral Eclipse TCW stencil for this layout to help give more depth.

 

Liquitexmodelling paste was used with a spatula to push through the stencil.

 I placed it in three zones on my page .

I used a large range of different embellishments for this layout. On this page I loved the Heidi Swapp frames and the Cocoa Vanilla BoysRule stickers. I also used a few acetate pieces from the Heidi Swapp Minc ephemera pack. To complement all this goodness, I had some fabulous Pink Freshtiny words to create the title. I teamed the Cocoa Vanilla sticker ‘totally’ and the Heidi Swapp timber word ‘awesome’ to help create another title and set the mood for the page. 

I have also added a teal diecut from my stash.

For some extra touches I added some Heidi Swapp ric rac  and a Ken Oliver light bulb embellishment on top of some black cotton. Also a Ken Oliver key was added on top of the Pink Fresh word ‘Captured’ which comes from the Live More range.

Finally I added a stitched border around the layout to help tie it all together.

I hope you have a great weekend full of creative fun .

Don't forget to have a crack at the new Moodboard for April and load your project into the April folder in the Facebook Share & Inspire group. 

tracey

xx