December Moodboard Inspiration by Leonie

The festive season is upon us and that means a gorgeous December moodboard to create with, 

this one is filled with neutral earthy tones and textures, plus some luscious gold stars.

I hope you can find some time in this busy season to join us. 

Post your creations in the appropriate album in our Facebook group. 

#Lovethislife

I've stuck with a clean and simple design for my take on this moodboard.

Using papers from Cocoa Vanilla Studios newest collection Midnight.

I chose a woodgrain patterned paper to replicate the woodgrain in the centre image.

Of course I had to add some gold stars like the moodboard.  

I used the Kaisercraft 12x12 Stars Stencil. My favourite star stencil for its different size stars plus some solid and some outline stars.

I first stencils some stars with Dina Wakley Gilt Acrylic Paint.  This is a really nice gold colour paint. The colour of gold paint can vary so much but Gilt by Dina Waklley Media is a nice pale gold colour.

I then stencilled the stars a second time with Bo Bunny gold Glitter Paste. 

Thanks for stopping by the Scrapping Clearly blog,

I hope you get a chance to join in our challenge this month.

Cheers from 

Leonie Neal-Dawson.

My Super Quick Canvas

Good morning to all our SC readers so glad you have come across to our blog for a peek, I hope your weekend is going well and that your Sunday is a relaxing one.

I am so excited to share today's blog post - I just love the fabulous Jane Davenport, she is so very clever and her drawings definitely inspire me to create.

Jane's new release of products included a JUMBO RUBON at first I was going to rub it straight to a wall in my Art Studio but where is the fun in that right......

So I pulled out a large canvas 20 x 32 inch canvas and sprayed lightly with some water I then painted a rough coat of black paint all over the canvas and edges leaving some white space.

Once the canvas was covered and dry I then painted around the edges randomly with Art Anthology Gemstones Dimensional Paint Blue Topaz, I love how this paint is thick and it has a glaze type finish. I also added touches of the Art Anthology Sorbet Dimensional paint Honolulu Blue around the edges which has a glitter finish.

I then painted some Liquitex Heavy Body Titanium White paint across the black layer using some water and a large brush.

Using 3D Gloss Gel and some gorgeous metallic wrapping paper in several designs I glued random torn pieces around the edge of the canvas.

Using Sienna Colour Blast Paste and a Dylusions stencil I placed it randomly around the edges of the canvas and set aside to dry.

Using a wet wipe and some Inka gold Marsala I randomly rubbed some colour around the edges of the canvas.

I then added another layer around the edges using Dina Wakley's Printed Media Tape

Using Bo Bunny Glitter Paste Turquoise ( I LOVE THIS STUFF) I added some glittery magic in random sections of the Canvas.

Using Super Heavy gesso and some Colour Blast Shimmer Dust Candy and some Ken Oliver Color Burst Cadmium Scarlet I made my own colour texture paste using a stencil, again I randomly placed it around the canvas and set aside to dry.

ONCE ALL THESE LAYERS ARE DRY - ITS TIME FOR THE JUMBO RUBON

Place the rub-on on the canvas exactly where you want it and start gently rubbing the surface bit by bit slowly pulling the top film away to reveal the rub-on transfer adhered to your canvas.

Yes, I added yet another layer, some text was needed, so I have used some Tim Holtz Tissue paper and the Soft Gel to adhere random sections to the Canvas.

More Bo Bunny Paste (I told you I love it), I painted around the outside edges of the rub-on.

I have used the Mod Spiral Stencil and some Liquitex Black Lava to add even more dimension and colour to the canvas, using a heat gun to dry off and develop the beautiful Black Glitter paste.

More dimension around the canvas with the Whipped spackle, I love working with this as it's  so easy to use through a stencil.

Almost complete just needed to add my Journaling.......

So easy with the amazing Tim Holtz idea-ology foam stamps and some black paint. I stamped on some marshmallow cardstock, set aside to dry, and then cut each word out and adhered them around the hair and head of the gorgeous ru-bon.

I just love how my canvas has turned out.

I'm definitely hanging it in my scrappy space...

I hope you enjoyed the process.

See you all next week, be sure to keep popping in for all the awesome

Design Team Posts throughout the week.

Believe In Yourself - With Karyn Schultz!

Happy New Year Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I have a scrapbook page to share with you,

made using lots of fun products available in the Scrapping Clearly Store. 

I created this page for the Scrapping Clearly 10th birthday cybercrop

where one of the challenges was to create a page which was 85% white,

pink and black accents.

I started with some white cardstock and using a palette knife,

I added Dina Wakley acrylic paint (black and magenta),

BoBunny glitter paste - Tutu, and Viva Inka gold - rose-quartz in places on my page.

I love the effects of the different mediums contrasting and complementing each other!! 

Next, I matted a white paper doily and pink cardstock behind my photo,

and attached it to the page. 

I added a variety of background stamps with a Ranger Archival black ink pad,

in places near my photo and, under where I intended to put embellishments.

Next, I added some Heidi Swapp Color Magic Paper Goods ephemera

and word stickers from Tim Holtz Idea Ology Small Talk Sticker Book.

Lastly, I outlined my page with a black Fude Ball pen and hand wrote the date. 

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn