{Wedding Day Love}

Hello to everyone welcome to another week of inspiration here @ Scrappingclearly.....

Today I am sharing a layout I created to celebrate my niece's Wedding Day...

There are always so many gorgeous photos taken on wedding days so I decided 

to just use a small, up close and personal shot which I love.

I have chosen a basic background paper which is a little grungy,

I added some Lemon Zest Dylusions randomly on the background,

some squeezed orange splatters, and

some texture stamps using black ink to give an even grungier look.

Using some scrap bubble wrap I sprayed with gold spray paint to give an awesome dimensional background, which created loads of texture. I scrunched it up a little and adhered to the background paper. 

I began to layer my large array of embellishments,

starting with a chipboard scroll (which I left raw).

I then placed my photo, to which I adhered a Gold chipboard

Kodak lens frame, on top of the scroll.

 I placed all my gorgeous flowers to the right of the frame.

I used an assortment of paper and fabric flowers.

I also added some to the gold bubble wrap in the top left corner.

I adhered two paper black and white drinking straws under the frame, and a black doily folded in half to balance out the layout.

For more texture I added some black cotton and a Heidi Swapp Gold

'Happy' title, which I cut from Heidi's Dies. 

I absolutely love to use embellishments of all sorts including hair clips and pieces of jewellery

which I can pick up at the cheap jewellery stores and thrift shops for an absolute bargain.

You can see I have layered two hair clips and a gorgeous metal wing with stones.

I wanted to keep a lot of white space on my layout so clustered

and adhered some more random flowers and jewellery pieces onto the layout,

along with some cotton to tie the layout together, and some old book paper.

To finish the layout off I have journaled in the bottom corner, only small (but the details are there), and gave the layout a border with a black Fude ball.

Here is a list of suitable products that can be purchased over @ the Scrappingclearly store.

Prima Royal Menagerie 12" Paper Collection

Fude Ball

Dylusion Sprays

Heidi Swapp Happy Die

Assorted Prima flowers

Stitch Happy Thread

Prima Vintage Trinkets

Background Stamps

I do hope you like my layout,

thanks for stopping by, and have a great creative week.

Skateboard Art

Howdy Folks , Lisa here with a Friday mixed media update .

If you where blog hopping last week you may remember that I was in 

Melbourne to teach some super creatives a few fun classes.

My partner came along also as he had a weekend full of fun skate events.

(yep 54 and still rolling). Today I'm going to share with you a little about one of those events.

(And cause I've had no time to play)

The organizers THE MOSS FOUNDATION (Melbourne Old School Skaters) raise money to support and fund water tanks /wells and systems in the African country of Swaziland

( I love the Think Local , Act Global mantra here)

definitely check out the amazing results from this worthy cause Here

The 1st was an art event held in St Kilda, at the Ministry of Art.

A live auction of unique skateboard art that is showcased and combines 80 unique talented artist, offering such an incredibly varied array of styles and graphics.

Here's a few of my favorite pieces from the collection .

 Ok this one above is my fav, I love the freedom and the colour choice. the skulls, oh the skulls.

I am utterly inspired to create art on skateboard decks again.

How about you ???

 Ill be back next week , hopefully with some of my own

 creative work that is worthy of sharing .

Thanks for dropping by.

see you next week 

Dreaming about Liquitex Spray Paints.

Howdy Bloggers , Lisa here with a Friday mixed media up date .

Ohhhh I finally have some time to create this week... 

and to get my flow going I want to recreate a piece similar to the gorgeous" Charisma"

 Dreamcatcher I created a few months back .

So the story is, I have some frames with broken glass , 

that were damaged during the framing process,when preparing for my exhibition.

While perusing Instagram I came across this artist who painted out onto the frames and it looked so cool ,I thought I would incorporate that into my warm up piece for my weekend of at home, undisturbed ,creative bliss.

This is basically how I did it.

 I started with Gesso onto the board to create a barrier ,then added Dylusions ,Dina and Liquitex acrylics paints in a rainbow configuration. Drying time , then the fun starts .  

Did you know that Scrapping Clearly have an incredible supply of 

Premium Liquitex spray paints and Acrylic paints?

I have been waiting for the right time to drag them onto the art table and today was the day-

(it helped that I cleared off 2 of my back veranda working benches:)

 oh Stencils and Spray Paint ,

 how you were made for each other .

so quick , 

so effective for adding quick accents and interest points to background  pieces .

I busted out a plethora of my favorite dreamy stencils and went to work layering this baby together.

Using Colour Blast coloured paste in Royalty ,Envy and Just Blue for the Mandala style stencil , gives this piece shimmer and shine .
check out my mini Instagram video here.

 More Layering and some flicks of house and and this piece was almost complete ....almost

 it needed a few birds.. :):):):)

Thanks for dropping by the blog, see you next week :)
 Oh and this Dreamcatcher is For Sale, shoot me a message if your interested .
Lisa  xxxx