Blue Fern Studios May sketch

One of my favorite sources of chipboard is

Blue Fern Studios.

The choices are amazing and work really well

with what I like to create,

both on layouts and mixed media pieces.

Every month they also offer a new sketch challenge on their blog.

When I saw this month's sketch I KNEW I had

to play along

This is the layout I created.

My chipboard is from Blue Fern

(a 12x12 piece which I cut up)

and everything else comes from the February Swirlydoos kit.

The background paper is from Maja Design.

Modeling Paste scraped through a Crafter's Workshop Stencil.

(because my stencil had some mist on it from a previous project the paste picked up a bit of the color which kind of added to the background).

Lots and lots of flowers…it's Spring right?

Diecuts are from Kaisercraft.

Some background stamping with a Prima stamp.

The chipboard was covered with a layer of

Gesso then dry brushed with Grey acrylic paint. 

I wan't worried about completely covering in, more in some spots, less in others,

and it's all good.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Swirlydoos March Round Robin

It's time for another layout done for a 

Round Robin

at 

Swirlydoos.

In case you don't know how it works,

week one someone shares a layout, the next week someone shares their take on it 

and so on and so on.

Kind of like the game of Telephone but with scrapbook layouts.

Here is mine for this week.

I follow Andie for Team 2

This month's twist:

Now, what could be more appropriate than DIE CUTS? From your crank-operated Bug, from your Vagabond, from your Cameo, from your Cricut… Now is the chance to show off your collection of shapes!!!! Don’t own a machine? No problem: I just know that all of you Savages have a hoard of die-cut chippies!!!!!

I used the March kit from Swirlydoos.

The paper is from Prima

Flowers are Petaloo.

Added Gesso

Some Dylusions in Vibrant Turquoise and some stamping

with a Prima clear stamp and Archival ink.

Prima ink in Worn Jeans was rubbed through a new

Balzer Bites stencil by TCW

(I am digging the new stencil sizes)

Red Velvet Art Anthology paint was brushed through

Rebekah Meier stencil

(also by TCW).

The chipboard I used is from a recent purchase from 

UmWow Studio.

I just love the star confetti.

I colored it with some Lumiere 3D paint.

Lastly I flicked some Liquitex Acrylic ink across the page .

Make sure to check out the Round Robin thread on the forum to see what others 

have created.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Swirlydoos Kit Club : Ultimate Designer Challenge

Swirlydoos Kit Club is having an Ultimate Designer Challenge happening over the next 6 weeks.

Each week a new challenge is posted for those of us playing along.

For week one it was to take a piece of chipboard or die cut and alter it to create a layered embellishment for a page, card etc.

After several starts and stops this is what I finally came up with.

I took a large Eiffel Tower chipboard piece (and when I say large--it's 12" tall) and covered it with a piece of actual French sheet music. Wiped some Gesso over it to tone it down and stamped flourishes over it. They a heavy misting with Buccaneer Bronze from Lindy's Stamp Gang. Once dry I embossed with a script stamp and copper embossing powder across the whole tower.

For the Fleur de Lis I fisrt paint it with copper paint and while wet sprinkled with UTEE. When I heated it it formed some cool texture. Once cool I stamped with a script stamp all over.

I finished the layers with a piece of crumpled and distressed paper under and flourishes on top.

This is how it looks on the page before I added anything else.

The patterned paper is from Riddersholme Design which I wiped with Gesso before misting with the Buccaneer Bronze and Tiffany's Blue mists from LSG.

The stencil is from Crafter's Workshop and I used Colorbox Mixed Media ink.

  Here is just another closeup of my altered chipboard. It was hard getting good pictures. No matter what light I used there is so much glimmer it kept messing me up.

And finally the finished page. Last April my husband took me to Paris for my 40th birthday. This pic was taken there. I printed it on canvas paper in sepia tones to match my page.

  The thread over at Swirlydoos has many more entries of altered chipboard. Head on over and chack them out.


Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!