Sunsets created by Tracey Thorne

Hello Saturday!

I hope you are all enjoying your day and filling it with creativity. I'm sharing my new 12x12 page today & hopefully it will help spark a few more ideas and add to that hum of creativity in your art space. 

 This was the beginning of the layout I created last week for Mother's Day. I was almost to the sticking down of the photo  and decided I was not happy, so I put this one aside and it has worked perfectly this week with the photo from my quick getaway from the long weekend. 

I have started with a base of 12x12 white cardstock. I have used my roll of tape to create a pencil drawn circle that I will stitch around a few times with black cotton.

After stitching the circle in place I have traced an AALL & Create stencil #116 Tre Fiori with a white crayon to leave a slight resist pattern on the page. I have used a wash of Lindys Magicals in - Oktoberfest Orange & Aged Copper with a large flat paintbrush and moved the colour across the page.

Once this had dried AALL & Create stamps from #396 Sewing Forever & #392 Memento Mori were added across the page. I have only selected parts of the Sewing stamps and omitted the ladies. this has given a muted and grungy look to the page. I have used the AALL& Create stencil #53 Florastella to add another textural layer on the outer sections of the page. Liquitex Light Modelling paste worked perfectly for this application as this is a fine stencil and I was only wanting to use portions of the stencil.

I have added ephemera from a Prima 6x6 pad I have had in my stash for a few years. I find little 6x6 pads have a lot of cute little elements that are perfect for layering and adding interest to a page. The little resin buttons I have coloured using the Lindys Stamp Gang magicals.

I have created the title using my Silhouette and have coated it in Glossy Accents to give it a nice sheen.

Prima Mica Powder in Cold Pink was used to give the typed journalling a little shimmer also.

 

I finished the page off by adding a black pen drawn border to the page.

I hope you have an excitingly creative weekend 

Runway model by Tracey B

 Hi everyone

I was inspired by this month's mood sketch to do a layout with 5 photos.  

Very hard to believe as my go to is 1 photo but the sketch made it very easy.

I started with a brick stencil and some impasto paste and added some colour using the packaging technique and some Distress ink (Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade & Rusty Hinge).

I then used a stamp and Distress oxide (Victorian velvet) to add a little more interest.

I matted my photos with some Vicki Boutin Storyteller and WR Crush patterned paper.

I fussy cut some butterflies from the Vicki Boutin paper, and added some wire as antenna (never cutting them out!) to a few of them.   I used some ancient Basic Grey alphas for my title and consider it done.

here are some close ups 

and the finished page

TFL

(and thanks to Kaz, my personal shopper!)

cheers

Tracey

love today created by tracey thorne

 Welcome to my share this Mother's day weekend. I had a lovely lunch date with my mum and captured this pic before we started out meals. 

I have used a little Prima Memory Hardware Artisan Powder in French Amber with an AALL & Create stencil  on white cardstock. I have then sprayed it with water to disperse across the page. I have then added a little modelling paste across the page.

 

  

I've used a few resin pieces on this layout which have been painted with Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic paint in Soft Satin and then rubbed over with Prima Art Alchemy wax in Bronze Age. The wax was also used to rub over the modelling paste. I have then marked out where the photo was going to go with a pencil and then used my sewing machine with black thread to create a frame on the page. The photo was mounted on Heidi Swapp Honey & Spice printed paper and then adhered using foam tape to help raise the photo. 

I have used a range of Kaisercraft stamps and Prima script stamps with Ranger black ink on the page. Finally Thickers were added to create the title and I have added journalling by typing out my story on white paper.

Thanks for popping in to check out my Mother's day layout. I hope you and your's have a fantastic day of celebration Sunday.

tracey

"Chill" with the May Moodsketch, by Amanda H

 Hello SC fans

Got a bit messy with this month's moodsketch! Channeled by inner purple and pinks!

Here are the link to the Scrapping Clearly products used to create the mixed media background:

• Dylusions paint
• Dina Wakley Paint
• Tim Holtz Distress Oxides Ink Pads
• Liquitex Inks

I followed this month's mood board:

Here is my final page......

Here are some of the steps to make that mixed media background.

I mixed some Periwinkle and Blackberry paints to get the right purple tone for the layout.

I swiped it to the white cardstock with a old store card.

I used Colour Blast Snow white paste to stencil some spots and stars to the layout.

I splatters some Liquitex ink to the page and blew the ink around with my little puffer!

Stenciled some extra stars with Distress Oxide, and painted some of the same ink colour to the page.

Painted and splattered some extra pink to the page too.

Page finished with: Diecut stars, stickers, bling dots!

Thanks for looking, hoping you go bright and join the challenge this month.

Amanda

Waste Not by Tracey B

 hi everyone

I'm big on getting the most out of my craft supplies.   Any left over ink or paint gets whacked onto another piece of card stock to start or add to a background.

I was inspired for my first layout by the brickwork on this month's moodsketch so I started with some Light & Fluffy modelling paste through a brick stencil (possibly KaiserCraft)

I scribbled a couple of Neo Color II crayons (Periwinkle Blue & Purple) onto my messy mat  and used a water pen to add the colour to my page.   (the left over colour went on to another page to start my 2nd layout) 

I then added some impasto through a star stencil and while still wet, covered it with Nuvo glitter (Lilac).   

My mind set when dealing with glitter is to know that it's going to go everywhere so I just embrace the chaos!) 

I then die cut some Heidi Swapp Pineapple Crush patterned paper (Sun Chaser) and used the waste from the die cut for my 3rd layout.

I added some die cut banners, foam sentiment and star (possibly Heidi Swapp), Charms Creations star, wood veneer arrow and stars which I coated with black Posca, some washi and a KaiserCraft die cut partially coloured with black Posca as my title.

 

here's the finished layout

My 2nd layout - Gift that keeps on giving.

With my background already started with left over Neo Color II I added some Distress Ink (Picked Raspberry) and Distress Oxide (Dusty Concord & Kitsch Flamigo) and added using the packaging technique.

I cut out the battered flamingo pinata (the journalling gives context to this seemingly random inclusion) and added it to my layout.

I added a tag from my stash with a Pink Paislee  Citrus Bliss sticker snd some Amy Tangerine enamel stickers.   I finished off with some old Basic grey chipboard alphas and a Stampin'Up marker (Pink Passion) for my journalling. 

here's the finished layout.

3rd layout - Timeless Beauty

I stuck down the waste from the brick die cut onto a sheet of white card stock .

and then brayed on some Dina Wakley acrylic paint (Magenta & Blackberry)

I used a baby wipe to rub off some of the paint through a Prima stencil and used some Colour Blaste Paste (Lipstick) through a TCW stencil for another layer of texture. 

I then painted a chippie from my stash with some more Dina Wakley paint (Evergreen, Olive, Night, Blackberry & Fuchsia) before finishing it with a little white out pen for contrast.

For some finishing touches I added some Amy Tangerine enamel stickers, some Heidi Swapp Make Pretty Stuff stickers and some 13@rts In Bloom ephemera.

Here is the finished layout.

TFL

cheers

Tracey

 

May Moodsketch

 Hellooooo May MoodSketch loving the colours and the fab starry sketch.  Load to the May Album and good luck you may just have a golden parcel turn up on your door step.