Prima July BAP

Happy Monday friends!

How has your weekend been? I'm in today to share my entry for Prima's Build-A-Page challenge. I havn't had the time for challenges and this one was created on a whim, almost didn't even finish it. But anyway, here is the sketch:

And my Prima-based project:

I mixed papers from a few collections: Something Blue, Delight and also Fairy Rhymes. It's quite amazing to see how versatile these papers are across different themes and colour schemes. I didn't really quite stick to the sketch, but instead flipped it and shifted my title down to next to the photo.

Also, you can't quite see it here but I actually covered up my very first layer of the background. Some misting and masking gone wrong and I buttered some 13@rts acrylic primer over. The result is quite cute actually; I had a very soft white-washed and pink-tinted base for the subsequent new background I was going to create. The acrylic primer has got to be my best friend now! 

A wood piece and resist canvas butterfly, layered on top of a Prima flower (this is one half of it, the other half is tucked in another cluster). The masking was done using Ayeeda Acrylic Modeling Paste over a Prima stencil, and misted with Ayeeda Chalk Mist in Pastel Green.

More Prima resins, wood shape and flowers. 

That's all I have for today, thanks for dropping by!

love,

13@rts July sketch challenge

Super Sunday lovely readers!

My blog has been really busy these days with postings, and I just want to say a big thank you to those who have been dropping by so often to leave such wonderful words of encouragement. Especially the two Lizzy's - Lizzy Crust and Lizzy Hill, thank you girls for being so supportive!

Today I'm sharing with you a layout I did for 13@rts July challenge. Every month there will be something interesting going on in the challenge, and it's a different theme hosted by a different DT member. This month it's hosted by the owner and art extraordinaire herself, Ayeeda. 

Here is the sketch:

Rules of this challenge:

1. Create any project based on the sketch, use at least two mediums and at least one butterfly (it can be an embellishment, stamp, or paper design).

2. Publish your project on your blog and add link directly to the post using Inlinkz tool at the end of this post.

3. Please add link and info about our challenge, where your work is published.

4. You may submit as many entries as you like.

5.You can enter with your project to maximum 2 other challenges and your work must be new, not published before our challenge has started.

7. The challenge ends on July the 27th at 23:55. Winners will be announced on July the 31st, 2014. 

When the challenge ends, our Design Team will vote and pick the best project. It will be awarded with shopping voucher for 13 arts store worth - 60 PLN with free international shipping. The winner will be invited to join us in one of our challenges as Guest Designers. Additionally we will feature few works with biggest number of points.

And my take on it:

I've used the paper "Bittersweet Love" from the "All is Love" collection. Love the washed out pink and mint tones in this line, but I've chosen a pink background to match my sakura. The background was primed with 13@rts acrylic primer and misting with Ayeeda Pearl mist in Pink, followed by some stamping with a few different butterfly stamps.

Some close-ups:

A white paper flower and paper rose from 13@rts which I altered with some Pearl Mist and stamping.

Decorative twigs which I colored with Chalk Mist in Lime. The butterflies were fussy cut out from papers in the "Fly Away" collection. 

Using Ayeeda modeling paste over a stencil, which I sprayed Chalk Mist in Black over. The color bled a little, which makes the tree branch look like something from a Chinese ink painting.

And my title is from the All Naturale word set from Blue Fern Studios.

Hope this post has inspired you in some way. Do check out the rest of the DT's amazing samples on the 13@rts blog!

Until then, happy scrapping!

OTRS DT - Mixed Media for Beginners

Hello readers!

The weekend is here and if you're trying to fit in some crafting time,

I've got a little tutorial just for you up on the Off the Rails Scrapbooking blog.

In the last few years, mixed media has entered the scrapbooking scene and taken in by storm. Looking at the products, we can see that a lot are catered for the mixed media scrapper/artist. If you've always been a traditional paper/clean-and-simple sort of scrapper, but curious about how to get started on mixed media, today's blog post will give you a little head start as well as a guide to some of the commonly used products.

Here's the canvas I've created:

I've used the Butterfly Grid from Blue Fern Studios, as well as some gorgeous Prima flowers and resins to complete my canvas.

Some close-ups:

A small floral cluster and my title.

Another cluster using resins and more flowers.

And here is the video, so sit back and enjoy!