Sparkle with 13@rts

Hello everyone!

Back in again mid week to share a little OTP project for 13@rts! Today, it's all about black!

Let me just share a little about the inspiration behind this. We managed to see the Milky Way while in Australia and my mind has been filled with sparkles and glitter and dark background ever since. And my friend Lizzy-Hill had to come along and inspire me with a great idea of mica flakes and such for my next project. So here it is!

My boss Aida packed in this plain wooden holder in my DT package and I knew I had to use black gesso on it. To create texture, I wrapped a nice piece of lace around (which just happened to be the right size, thanks YY!) and painted over it with black matte paint and silver glitter paint. That's how I got that sparkly look in the background. 

This is a chipboard word piece designed by Olga Heldwein and I painted it with a generous layer of Old Gold Metallic paint for a dimensional look. The photo doesn't quite do it justice, but the shine is just amazing.

The little stuff I have to make more texture. There was first a layer of mica flakes, then sand grit, then a nice thick paste of gold pearl paint with Ayeeda Magic Powder. 

For this chipboard piece from Blue Fern Studios, I used black gesso instead of my usual white because I wanted to use the Green Metallic paint as a glaze. See how the mica inside shines!

And all over the edge of the top I used the same thick paste I made with Gold Pearl Paint and Magic Powder to create an outline.

That's all I have for you today. What will you do if you had black gesso?

love,

xoxo with Made With Love

Hello friends!

It's good to be back from a much needed family holiday which we take once a year; just ourselves and enjoying our time together as a family. More because of the cold weather which we specifically said "NO MORE" but in the end couldn't resist. Now I'm sitting at my desk, in my singlets and shorts, breaking into a sweat with the fan on at full blast. Welcome home indeed LOL

Today I have a post with my LSS Made With Love, and I thought it would be a good time to make use of it to highlight certain things. A lot of students who take my mixed media classes at the store are new to the genre; some in fact have not done any scrapping before. But that did not stop them from being creative and surprising me with their gorgeous projects (I like to tell them to let go and just reproduce the techniques, not the sample). Still, it would be helpful to give a little introduction to what this whole mixed media thing is about.

So firstly, here is my inspiration layout. I have deliberately kept it as simple as I can so that some points are more obvious.

So what is mixed media? It is basically the use of more than one type of medium to create a piece of art; could be a layout, or canvas, art journal or altered item. To that definition, using gesso as a primer, followed by texture paste and then your mists would fall under the mixed media category - with texture paste and mists counting as two mediums. But simply priming your surface and then using 4 or 5 different colored sprays does not qualify as mixed media per se.

Another thing about mixed media is that it need not necessarily be heavily layered or appear complicated. In this layout alone, I have used a total of 9 different mediums, all of which are available from the Made With Love store. My layers come mainly from allowing one layer of medium to dry before applying on the next. Dimension-wise I have used at most cardboard pieces in place of foam dots to prop up my patterned paper. Otherwise, it would be a rather flat piece. 

Think you can identify all the 9 mediums used? Try before you scroll down to the end!

Some close-ups:

Believe it or not, the chipboard you see here alone (from Blue Fern Studios) has 4 mediums! I'll give you a clue- it's a mix of heat embossing and lots of painting... 

And here is the list of mediums (and products) used, all available from the store:

Old Gold Embossing Powder (Rangers)

UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel)

Color Lab Pigment Powder - Teal (Marion Smith)

Texture Paste (Rangers)

Versacolor Ink - Mauve

Distress Ink - Walnut Stain

Distress Stain - Worn Lipstick

Distress Paint - Victorian Velvet

Acrylic Paint - Black (Kaisercraft)

Patterned Papers - Websters Pages

Cardstock - American Crafts

Chipboards - Blue Fern Studios

Twine

Wire Trim - Prima

Word Stamp - Kaisercraft

And that's just the very basic introduction. If you would like to find out more about the mixed media genre of scrapbooking, do enquire at the store for more information about the workshops we have in store for you every month!

love,

Moments in Time with Blue Fern Studios

Hi everyone!

Where has all the time gone to? We're already in the month of May and I'm happy to share a layout I created for Blue Fern Studios using the gorgeous new Deja Vu collection.

Here is the project:

I picked these papers from the collection as they matched the colors from my photo quite perfectly. It's one of the very few of me with my kids as I'm usually the one behind the camera.

Here are some close-ups:

Layering gorgeous Blue Fern Studios chipboards with the papers and burlap. I had used quite a number of mediums for this page and the chipboards and some of you have already asked for the colors as well. There will be a full list at the end of this post.

More details here. I'm so glad that my LSS finally brought back the clear crackle medium from Ranger's. So far, it's the best I've used.  Just remember to seal it with gel as the cracks form as they can fall off easily.

My title piece, from "Petite Cartes", and more layering with chipboard, papers and lace.

Creating a velvet texture on my leaves using 13@rts new product - Magic Powder. 

My usual floral cluster.

Some details of the lace and chipboard, which I colored to look like the background paper.

Mini tags made from "Petite Cartes" cut-out.

And here is the start to finish video of how I put this whole page together:

List of mediums:

13@rts - Matt paint (Lavender, Mahogany), Metallic Paint (Purple), modeling paste, sand grit, Pastel Mist (Lavender), Splash! Acrylic Ink (White)

Shimmerz - Inklingz (Coral Reef, Pugnacious Purple, Spotlight White, Tarnished Treasure)

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Magicals (Bells of Ireland Green, Lucky Shamrock Green)

Rangers - Distress Paint (Mustard)

Colorarte - Twinking H2O (Alfafa)

And with a new month, it's a new sketch challenge too! Michele Singh has designed the following sketch and do check out the design team's lovely interpretations of it!

And that's all I have for today. Have a great day ahead!

love,