September Inspirations with Made With Love

Hello friends! Hope all are well with you guys!

Today I am sharing a project I created for my LSS Made With Love with some gorgeous supplies from their store at 313 Somerset. It's been awhile too since I did a tutorial for them, so here is a photo step-by-step to show you how I created this canvas.

1. Prime the canvas with gesso. 

2. When the gesso has dried completely (important!), create some texture on your background using UTEE powder, a stencil and some embossing glue. Use a heat tool to melt the UTEE powder.

3. Layer papers to create your main cluster. 

4. Prime your chipboard with gesso. Create a resist pattern with a stamp, white embossing powder and embossing glue.

5. Color it with Distress Stains, using water to blend. 

6. Ink the sides too to make it pretty.

7. To color the background, I'm using Tim Holtz Distress crayons. These are so fun to work with!

8. I spread out the colors in the order they came in, like a mini-rainbow.

9. Using baby wipes, I activated the pigment into paint and could control the intensity and blending between each color very well. 

10. Ta-da! Add more interest with stamps.

And this is the finished canvas after I added more stuff. It's my eldest boy's first birthday and a family photo we took. I'm planning to make a gift of it for my in-laws during Christmas. 

Details in the close-ups:

Altered chipboard from Blue Fern Studios

Background details showing the UTEE powder, Distress Crayons and stamping at work.

Cute whimsical title

And here are the supplies I used from Made With Love:

papers - Bo Bunny (Double Dot Design), Echo Park (I Love Family)
chipboard - Blue Fern Studios

mediums - Prima Marketing Inc (gesso); Distress Crayons (Tim Holtz); UTEE powder, Embossing powder, embossing glue, archival ink (Ranger's)

title sticker: Thickers

stamps: Prima kareting Inc, Kaisercraft

stencil: The Crafter's Workshop

Hello friends, how have you been? 

July has been very exciting and now that August is here, I'm looking to better times ahead! Today I'm so glad to be sharing with you two creations using the fabulous new collection Seaside Cottages. This set of papers speak right to my heart and to say it was love at first sight is a great understatement. Michele has outdone herself yet again with this gorgeous beach-themed collection filled with soft colours and stunning images.

My first layout is of my eldest having some fun with his feet in the sand. Woodgrain is really my thing and I had to use it for the background. Seeing that the paper is so full of details, I toned down my background work and used to it accent the colors on the page. 

Details in the close-ups:

An anchor from part of the Seaside Flourish chippie which I had embossed with Copper EP from Imagine Ink and painted some turquoise acrylic paint over for a tarnished look. The petals were sprinkled with Dusty Pink glitter.

Layer, layer, layer! That's what you do when you have so many pretty papers at hand! Here, I built up lots of dimension with scraps from Calling Cards, Voyage and Splendour. 

Using a Calling Card sentiment as my title. The little stars on the flourish chipboard were also given a nice coat of Sunshine glitter.

My second share is a mixed media canvas and I had used so many fun stuff on it! The starfish and shells that you see are actually from a potpourri set and they smell amazing!

This is the Seashell Frame which I had a lot of fun altering with EP and duo-toned acrylic paint.

A little sailboat from Nautical Set. Check out the background - it's one of the patterned papers from Seaside collection and I didn't have to do much to make it look so grungy and vintage all at the same time!

Who doesn't love a dolphin? I have one here with some seaweed chippies. Check out the Seaside Lilies that come as part of the coordinating flowers - they are so perfectly distressed that I didn't have to fiddle with them at all. 

Mr Octopus saying hi.

I seem to have a thing for anchors again! This one is embossed and wrapped with a piece of twine.

A title piece from Calling Cards, matched by the Seaside Roses.

And here is the video of how I put everything together. Sit back and enjoy!

Discover with Made With Love

Hello friends!

I'm up on the Made With Love blog today with a funky mixed media project using some really cool new releases! This canvas is really out of my usual but it was a lot of creative fun. Who knows, I might turn this into a class....

This is a really dark and pensive piece but there's a good reason for using black gesso all over - I had the new Prima acrylic paint - Opal Magic Violet-Gold to play with and it was so much fun! Over a dark surface, it is a lovely gold but over a lighter surface, the luminescent violet peeks through.

Details in the close-ups:

Lots of textures here! Metals with chipboard (from Blue Fern Studios), stenciled graphite paste and beads and microspheres and distress glitter make everything a lot more interesting. Did you also spot the new Art Stones? Perfect for a funky look!

Here you can see the violet-gold more prominently and it's just sweet.

My title piece from Blue Fern Studios which I first embossed with black EP and painted the acrylic paint over. The violet is a lot more obvious here over the white gesso-primed chipboard.

More Mechanicals and textures.

Supplies list (available from Made With Love):

10x10 canvas board

Prima Mechanicals
Art Stones

Archival Cast
Opal Magic Violet-Gold acrylic paint
black and white gessos

Microbeads
Distress glitter
Graphite texture paste

That's all I have for today, have a great week ahead!

Jelissa

Dream with Made With Love

Hello friends, and happy Monday!

I'm looking through my Facebook feed and seeing so many lovely pictures of young ones and their first day of school. My own boys have also progressed; A is in his last year of pre-school and I is entering a new phase where he will have to start taking his homework more seriously. Not looking forward to that as he is such a free-spirited boy!

And to spruce up this Monday, I have a lovely mixed media canvas to share with you and to give you some idea of how you can add details to scrapping those FDoS photos.

The canvas itself is already a piece of art and from TIm Holtz's District Market series. I added several layers of mediums on it, but deliberately cleaned off some parts to show the grungy clock designs on it. The first layer was priming with gesso, followed by Distress Paint in Sage - again I allowed some parts of the burlap to show through. Then it was Distress Paint in Mustard Seed and painting over with Tattered Angel's chalk mist in Cornflower Blue and Glimmer Mist in Terra Cotta. To create texture, I spread texture paste over a stencil and also used some dry-wall tape and various types of laces.

Some close-ups:

A huge bouquet of flowers which I brushed with gesso and painted with Terra Cotta glimmer mist. The wooden flourish was heat embossed with Antique Linen distress powder.

A wooden bird, resin frame and resist canvas for painting from Prima Marketing which I brushed with Glimmer Glam Golden Goddess.

My title, which unfortunately is not too obvious here - "dream" on a resist canvas butterfly piece from Prima Marketing. The metal key is from Maya Road and I re-purposed a bottle cap from one of the soft drinks we had.

Some additional details - I cut out the pocket from my favourite pair of jeans which I can't fit into anymore. It's a Levis which I bought for $14 from San Francisco - kids size when I was 28! Layering laces and some punched border, as well as mistable frame from Pink Paislee. 

More gorgeous details here of a metal keyhole (G45), a wooden floral stem (Kaisercraft) and manila tags which I had stamped and glazed over.

That's all I have for today. Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies list (available from Made With Love):

mediums:

gesso

Tattered Angels - Glimmer mist (Terra Cotta), chalk mist (Cornflower Blue), gaze (Golden Goddess)

textured paste

Rangers' Distress Paints - Sage, Mustard Seed

Flowers, resist canvas, buttons, resin frame:

Prima Marketing

Wooden Flourish:

Kaisercraft

Lace

November Inspiration with Blue Fern Studios

Hello friends! Hope your weekend of trick n treat has been fun!

I'm up on the Blue Fern Studios blog today to share two layouts. And if you've been wondering, here are my little girl's photos at last! I finally found the time to process them and print them out for scrapping. And I got to say, the feel of a newborn in my arms and their intoxicating smell is just so addictive!

Here is my first layout, based on the November challenge sketch created by Michelle. I used lots of the gorgeous papers from the Autumn Anthology collection - pastels are really my favourite!

My take on the sketch:

This time I've pretty much stuck to the sketch changing only the title. My background is deliberately simple so as not to steal the limelight from the pretty papers  and chipboards.

Some closeups:|

Under my flowers, I have the Floral Lattice Bits all heat-embossed and layered on top of strips of papers from the Autumn Anthology papers which I have the edges punched.

The French Ironwork chipboard which I heat-embossed as well - first with two different shades of brown and as an accent, I used the Fern Embossing Powder, one of the many new products from Blue Fern Studios. Some stamping in the background was done with the Garden Frolic stamp set.

Another half of the Floral Lattice Bit which I snipped off to balance the layout. Lots of layering too from different sheets of the collection.

My title, made up of words from two different sets - Baby Words and Perfect, Adorable, Special - which I brushed lightly with paint and inked the edges with gelato.  

My next share is a video tutorial and I had heaps of fun doing it. Each and every one of my kids get a shadow box or canvas for their baby photo and my little girl is no exception. While I really love how sturdy the Blue Fern papers are, I wanted something that I could mount on a wall or display without warping over time. So I chanced upon the idea of transferring the entire sheet of patterned paper over on to my canvas.

Here is the project:

You can see just how different the background paper looks now! Because of the uneven-ness in removing the layers of paper, I had little patches of white all over, with some bits of the canvas exposed. It's a gorgeous white haze effect on top of a very pretty paper, and muted it just enough to fit the theme of the photo.

Some close-ups:

My title piece - I snipped off the "Hush" from "Hush Little Baby" to fit the composition of the canvas. I painted it with 13@rts Matt paint in Cocoa, followed by Art Anthology sorbet paint and lastly distress glitter.

Aloha Flower chippie, sneaked in between all those layers of Calling Cards cut-outs. The chippie was painted with 13@rts matt paint Peach, followed by Lilac chalk mist and Violet pearl mist.

My background is a mixture of simple stenciling as well as heat embossing with another sweet color "Petal" from Blue Fern Studios. I also cut out little butterflies and placed them all over the canvas.

Butterfly Friends chippie helping to fill out the layers and also to create visual flow.

Some of the background details.

And here is the start-to-finish video. That's all I have for you today, so sit back and enjoy!

love,