October Workshop at Made With Love

Happy mid-week friends, the weekend is just two more days away!

Today I'm in to do a little bit of ra-ra for my October workshop with Made With Love.

Here are some sneaks:

There will be a lot more layering and chipboard altering techniques to be covered in this workshop, as well as learning the different ways you can use your soft gel and a chance to try out one of my favourite techniques - splattering. Also, see how you can use gold (the new black) to accent your pages and make it come alive.

Workshop details:

Dates - 11 Oct (2.30 to 5.30 pm), 30 Oct (6.30 to 9.30 pm), 7 Nov (6.30 to 9.30 pm)

Workshop Fee: $55

To reserve limited spots, call MWL at 6733 6730

Little thoughts goes a long way with OTRS

Hello friends!

How has your weekend been? I'm back in on a Saturday while my beef rendang (that's a Southeast-Asian beef curry, absolutely yummy!) is simmering in my brand new Dutch oven. Hooray for weekends when we have friends over to join in my culinary adventures :D

I have two projects for Off the Rails Scrapbooking to show you, and both are made with papers and chipboards from Blue Fern Studios. The first is based on this month's challenge:

What a pretty and vibrant color palette! Although I managed to make it all sweet and pretty with the new BFS paper collection Montage for a mixed media card:

The background was created with 13arts Ayeeda Matte Paint in Blue, and some stenciled designs using Ayeeda Acrylic Modeling Paste. I also added some random stamping as well.

The chipboard (Marakesh, Blue Fern Studios) was painted with Bourdeaux Pearl Mist from 13arts and dabbed with some Ayeeda Gold Pearl paint. Love the shimmery look it adds. The sentiment for the card came from one of the sheets of Montage paper.

My second project is a quick and easy mini-tag which I made for my mixed media workshop students at Made With Love. This was created with another Blue Fern paper collection Ombre Dreams.

I've used papers from Blue Fern Studio's Ombre Dreams collection as my background. This particular sheet is white-washed with bits of color, so it was perfect for whatever other mediums I wanted to add on subsequently.

I mixed in some Lindy's Stamp Gang's Magicals to tint the soft gel I was going to spread over a butterfly mask for the background. After that was some simple stamping with a word stamp.

Next, I took a chipboard which I cut out a bird cage with a Sizzix die and painted some metallic distress crackle paint over it. If you're using crackle medium, prime your surface with gesso first as it will help the medium to hold.

Lastly, it was adding bit of splatters with a mixture of Ayeeda Liquid medium and black acrylic paint.

Here's a close-up where you can see the stenciled soft gel butterflies better. Soft gel is a wonderful alternative to texture paste and it retains whatever color you add to it (it dries transparent), and still give a subtle look where your background paper is still visible. 

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

love,

Priceless Moment with Blue Fern Studios

Hello friends, can you imagine it's already October and the last quarter of the year?! Oh my gosh, time has really past hasn't it?

Today I'm up on the Blue Fern Studios blog with an education video and I'm squealing with excitement because it features the gorgeous Montage collection that Michele Singh has designed. I basically just swooned over it - too pretty!

Here's the mixed media layout I created:

I've used "Now and Then" as my background paper, together with layering pieces from "Society" and "Calling Cards". Tucked between the papers are the new Poppies and Jasmine collages. These are my favourite at the moment and they are actually a combination of flowers with existing chipboard designs already available (Poppies is mixed with Bits of Honey, and Jasmine is mixed with Checkered Bits).

Some close-ups:

My page title from "Bouquet".

The Poppies collage. Love the effect you get when layering shades of colors.

This is the Jasmine collage and you can see the gradients in the colors giving an ombre effect. 

This is a close-up of the previous photo (!!) as I wanted to show the effect of using Ayeeda liquid medium with any type of pigment, ink, paint, glaze ... basically whatever you can think of. Yes, even gelato (I've used that for my splatters). It's my Magic Medium and it magically extends the amount of color you can work with and gives so much extra body to the color. Instead of a flat glaze effect with my Silk Acrylic, I got a shimmery dimensional paint. In all my favourite colors!

So here's the video I've made, do enjoy the process!

And lastly, a new month means a new challenge over at Blue Fern Studios and this month's sketch is so adorable. Check it out below:

And don't forget to drop by the BFS blog to see what the fabulous team has done with the sketch. If you own any pieces of BFS chipboard or papers, whip up a creative storm with them based on this sketch and enter for a chance to win some lovely goodies too.

That's all I have for today. I'll be back over the next couple of days to show you more projects, so see you soon!

love,