Rainbow Love by Leonie Neal-Dawson

Hello, how about some rainbow love to kick off the weekend?

Rainbows never fail to to bring a smile to my face. 

Just throw those seven colours together and bam instant happy hit right there!

I created this page last weekend at a scrapbooking retreat on the sunshine coast (thats bound to make anyone happy).

As well being a whole heap of fun Retreat scrapping is great for 

bouncing ideas off your fellow scrappers. 

I just added dobs of Dina Wakley acrylic paint across the page and used a paint brush to drag the colour down the page.  Make sure to clean the brush between each colour. 

I then added Tim Holtz rubons randomly over the page and some background stamping.

I also added some white texture paste (light and fluffy modelling paste by The Crafters Workshop is great stuff) through some stencils. I find it helps to tone down the rainbow but still let all those glorious colours shine through if you know what I mean. 

My photo is backed with gauze and a border of black stitching to help the photo pop off the page - thanks to fellow Dt member Tracey Thorne for the idea and lone of her sewing machine whilst at retreat ;) it added that finishing touch I was after. 

Tracey also gifted me that lovely cut file title from her scrappy stash - Thanks Tracey x

I added some tone on tone enamel dots over the rainbow and a quote from Dina Wakley Collage paper.

Thanks for stopping by the 

Scrapping Clearly blog. 

Happy crafting.

November Moodboard Inspiration with Leonie

Hello! 

I hope by now you have seen our November Moodboard.

If not take a peek below. 

Today I have two Art Journal spreads based on this moodboard.

All entries can be added to the album in our Facebook group

My first share is an Art Journal spread in a Travellers Notebook.

To begin with I used Dylusions Paints and various stencils on the base. 

The paint brush stencil is from Kinder Kreations.  I used Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso with the KK stencil. 

I then pulled out some ephemera and added the woman and butterfly image along with an old stamp. 

Liquitex Matte Gel Medium was used to adhere the ephemera. 

Lastly I outlined the paintbrushes with a black Fude Ball pen and added a typewritten quote and some doodling. 

I was on a bit of a roll by this stage so I put together another little spread.

This one using Crafters Workshop and Flutterbys stencils.

I also used Dina Wakley Collage papers, Washi tape and Acrylic Paints.

Hope you've been inspired. 

Thanks for stopping by today, 

we hope you can join in on our November Moodboard.

Happy Crafting 

Leonie Neal-Dawson