All Time Fav by Leonie

Hello, have you entered our October moodboard challenge yet?
See our Facebook Inspiration group to upload your entry.

Leonie here and I have a page today to share that was based on a moodboard over at Scrap The Girls but I never got around to uploading.  But I was so happy with how it turned out that I decided to share it with all our Scrapping Clearly family instead.

The background was quite easily put together.  I used Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylics in Ruby, Fuchsia and Blushing to create random squares and rectangles on heavy weight Marshmallow cardstock.  

I then used a stabilo pencil to draw a border around each of the rectangles and used a wet paintbrush to smudge out the black line.

Once it was dry I painted the circular shapes in Turquoise and Ocean. Adding some highlights with White Acrylic and repeated the stabilo pencil outline.

Three strips of the gorgeous Dina Wakley Washi Tape down the length of the page added a border and feed into the white space I created on the Left of the page.

I embellished my page with a Heidi Swapp Glitter title.

I also added some Tim Holtz Ideology rubons to the background just to break up the bright reds slightly.
Some gauze to ground my photo, a small cluster of flowers and Tim Holtz Small Talk Stickers 
and my page was complete.

Thanks for stopping by today, don't forget our gorgeous green toned moodboard for October.
Happy Crafting,
 cheers from Leonie Neal-Dawson.

Wild And Free Canvas Panel by Leonie Neal-Dawson

Hello, I hope you all are relaxing and enjoying this Easter Weekend.

Our family generally goes camping this weekend but this Easter we are staying home so have no particular plans. I am thinking maybe fitting in some crafting will be an option..? What do you do over Easter Weekend?

Today I have this canvas panel to share with you. 

"She was life itself, wild and free. Wonderfully chaotic, a perfectly put together mess."

9x12" Canvas Panel 

I used this paper 'Bright and Beautiful 1' by Paper Arts. I liked the pastel tones to this paper and thought they looked a little 'Easter-ish' and that's probably where my Easter theme ends!

I cut the paper into lots of different sized squares and rectangles and collaged them onto 

a 9x12" canvas panel using Liquitex Matte Medium.

Next up I used a black Stabilo Aquarellable pencil to define each rectangle and smudged out the lines with a wet paint brush. Some stamping and splashes of watered down Gesso finished of the base of my canvas panel. 

My Chipboard title piece Wild and Free is by Memory Maze. I incorporated this into my quote

"She was life itself, wild and free. Wonderfully chaotic, a perfectly put together mess."

Can I let you know, 'Mess' is how I was feeling about my title chipboard after adding layer after layer to it

before I finally settled on something I was happy with. 

Liquitex Gesso came first but looked too plain, then it was black ink but I didn't like that either. Texture Paste and Dylusions sprays next - that blended in with the background too much! I was really beginning to think it was going to end up in the bin until I added a couple of coats of  Dylusions White Linen Spray. This last layer covered the bright dylusions pinks, purples and teal...but still left a faint tinge of them showing through, that and the earlier layer of texture paste finally made me happy. Phew, I was getting worried there for a bit. 

I accentuated my panel with these lovely Prima flowers, I like that they also had some feathers and so  tied in with the Wild and Free theme. 

That's it for me today, I hope you have a lovely Easter Holiday.

Happy Crafting and 

cheers from me. 

Leonie Neal-Dawson

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