Breathe

Hi everyone.

What a fabulous mood board to start the year off.

I was inspired by the colours to create this LO.

I started by grabbing the first sheet of card stock I found.  It didn't matter what colour it was 'cause I knew I was going to cover it with gesso.   I then stuck down, using gel medium, whatever bits and pieces were lying around on my desk.  

I'd made some paper moulds (Lowel Lattice & Fairy Garden) for another project and then didn't use them and they were still on my desk so on they went!

After a couple of coats of gesso, I sprinkled on some Lindy's Magical Shakers (Afternoon Delight Denim & Alpine Ice Rose) and gave them a spritz with water.   A little goes a long way with these powders so make sure you used the opening with the small holes!

Finished off with some Cocoa Vanilla Life is Beautiful alphas.

Plenty of time to get creating and give this mood board a go for a chance to win a store voucher.

Would love to see what you create.

cheers

Tracey

Be your beautiful self

Hi everyone,

Don't you just love this beautiful, delicate, moody mood board this month?

It reminded me of days gone by so I decided to scrap a photo of my great great grandmother.

I started by roughly tearing a couple of different scrap papers and making a collage, sticking them down with TCW gel medium. (Any gel medium would work just as well)

When dry I covered my page with gesso and then lightly removed some with a baby wipe.

I traced on some circles using a stencil and grey lead pencil and then used a combination of Dina Wakley Scribble sticks and Silver Ice gelato to colour them in. I then gave the top of my LO a spray with Lindy's Stamp Gang spray and then dribbled some Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Milled Lavender from the top, misting with a little water to assist the drips.

I fussy cut my photo and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Black Soot using a foam blending tool.

I diecut a few wings (one of which I coloured with Milled Lavender Distress Ink) and a flower.  I used a strip from Tim Holtz Idea-ology small talk stickers as my title with a little Stabilo to highlight and a little patterned paper to ground my photo.

I finished by tracing roughly around my circles using a waterproof pen and then added my journaling around one of the circles.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you've been inspired.