The Fairies' Festival

 

Prima’s new Cherry Sweet collection immediately put to mind this photo of my Granddaughter taken in 2013 as she prepared for her ballet recital.

This design is inspired by the September sketch from My Creative Scrapbook. I have a hard time working with busy designs, so I chose the Thoughts from My Heart paper as the main background and the Dreaming of Pink Skies sheet to form background pieces.

I started by cutting a square from the center of the Pink Skies sheet, measuring 1.5” from the borders. The outer piece was glued to a 11.75” square of cardboard to create a base for the layout. Next, I cut the Dreaming paper in half and cut .5” from the left side, resulting in a piece measuring 11.5” x 6”. The right half was trimmed by 1.5” from the bottom, making a piece measuring 10.5” x 6”. These pieces were glued to packaging, then inked around the sides and adhered to the base.

I cut a few pieces from the Pink Skies sheet to create matting layers to place underneath the photo. All of these were glued to pieces of packaging, inked around the sides, glued together, and adhered to the page.

I grabbed a few tags and inked them and placed them down the side of the photo. I cut a circle from one more of the tags and glued it down. Next came the embellishments: some die cut cherries and a few blooms placed beneath the tags. As a final touch, I added the title piece to the bottom of my photo.

A few closeups:

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Dreaming of Pink Skies #981860

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Thoughts from My Heart #981884

***Embellishments***

Prima – Love Notes Collection – Flower Embellishments – Sweet Melody #663155

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Flower Embellishments – Cherry Candy #679484

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Ephemera – Daydreams #981969

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Tag Pad – 15 Pcs #981990

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Chipboard Stickers #981938

***Mediums***

Ranger – Distress Archival Ink – Hickory Smoke

***Tools***

Kreaxions – Circle Cutter

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

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Boho Twist

 

The title of this piece – Boho Twist – is partly taken from the theme of Tres Jolie’s January Mood Board challenge and partly from all of the twists and turns that my project took to completion.

I was immediately inspired by the colors and images that Kim supplied: the blues and browns and peaches make a beautiful combination and I just love the bottom images of lights and flowers and hangings. But the idea in my head was mostly a canvas with a damask type texture and a mixture of colors created by applying layers of acrylic paint.

I started by digging out several items from my stash: a round canvas, a very loved Prima stencil and a Finn Mould that I’ve used before.

I used Paper Texture Paste through the stencil to duplicate the pattern of one of the papers that were included in the January Kit.

While that was setting, I poured resin into a few of the Mould images and put it aside.

Next, I fussy cut the section that I had chosen from that patterned paper and inked the edges.

I selected a few Finn Acrylic Paints, poured a few drops of each into a palette tray and thinned them with water. As I applied these to the canvas, I used a spray bottle to water them down, using my heat tool to dry them as I went along. Next, I covered the entire canvas with watered-down white gesso to tone down the colors, again drying as I went along. One more layer of varied acrylics, one more layer of gesso and I was done.

The Mould pieces were now set. I coated them with gesso to give them “teeth” and then with watered-down Burnt Sienna acrylic paint.

I selected a chipboard piece that came in the kit and covered it with Distress Oxide ink. The resulting color wasn’t what I had in mind, so I tried applying some of the acrylic left from treating the Mould pieces. This came out much darker than I had intended, so I covered it all with gesso and dried it with the heat tool, causing it to bubble up in spots. I decided that “I meant to do that!” as it did add a little texture here and there.

I was ready to begin assembling my composition.

I glued the chipboard piece to the top of the canvas and then started to add the fussy cut piece. This was going to result in too much canvas, so I selected a few bits of ephemera, inked the edges, and glued them as a cluster to a piece of packaging. Somehow, I wasn’t satisfied, so I created one more ephemera cluster to dangle from the bottom.

I selected more ephemera pieces to layer under the flowers on the sides, inked the edges and added packaging to the bottoms to create dimension. I took one look at the chipboard piece and realized that the color was too bright. I dabbed it with more of the Oxide Ink and finally achieved the soft brown that I wanted all along.

I had planned all along to add seam binding streamers to reflect the flow of the pattern of the paper. I cut them to about 18 inches, doubled and knotted them before gluing them down. I created my last flower cluster over the knots.

I finished my project by gluing my light bulb pieces here and there and declared it “finished”.

A few closeups:

 

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 *****Supplies*****

 ***Paper***

Prima – Bohemian Heart Paper Pad #664121

***Embellishments***

Prima Marketing – Bohemian Heart Collection – Ephemera #664169

Prima Marketing – Bohemian Heart Collection – Flower Embellishments – Blue Lagoon #668297

Prima Marketing – Bohemian Heart Collection – Flower Embellishments – Wild at Heart #668327

Tres Jolie – Laser Cut Chipboard – Split Mandala

My Scrap Cabin – Hand Crinkled Seam Binding – Arctic

My Scrap Cabin – Hand Crinkled Seam Binding – Mink

My Scrap Cabin – Hand Crinkled Seam Binding – Parasol

***Mediums***

Prima – Finnabair – Art Extravagance – Paper Texture Paste #965259

Prima – Finnabair – Art Basics – Heavy Gesso – White #961442

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Liquid Acrylic Paint – Burnt Sienna #967222

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Liquid Acrylic Paint – Carmine #967253

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Liquid Acrylic Paint – Ultramarine #967291

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Liquid Acrylic Paint – Deep Turquoise #967307

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Liquid Acrylic Paint – Prussian Blue #968250

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Liquid Acrylic Paint – Coral #968274

Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Gathered Twigs #TDO56003

***Tools***

Prima – Finnabair – Imaginarium – Moulds – Vintage Light Bulbs #969578

Prima – Stencil – Flourish #564278

***Other***

IVON – Round Canvas 8”

Alumilite – Amazing Resin

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This Time

 

I came up with this inspired by the April Kit and Mood Board from the Tres Jolie Kit Club, where the topic was all about flowers and foliage. There’s a lot of fussy cutting here, along with a bit of mixed media using mediums from my stash. (Having built up quite a collection, I’m determined to begin to use it all up!)

I started by looking over a few of the 6”x 6” sheets that came in the kit, selecting those that contained the images and colors that I would need, and spending a few hours cutting them out.

Once that was done, I selected two tubes of Impasto paint. I squeezed out a bit of the Mint and watered it down to a thin acrylic consistency and used it to cover the sides of an 8”x 11” canvas. I watered it down a bit more and lightly spread it here and there on a shutter from my stash.

I used a heat tool on the canvas to make sure that it was completely dry. I had already selected one of the 12”x 12” papers (I love how it looks like the weathered outside of a cottage.) and trimmed it down to a bit over 8”x 11”. After heavily distressing the edges, I adhered it to the canvas using matte gel medium.

I created some “bricks” using texture paste and a very old stencil and let it set completely before lightly applying Boudoir Pink Impasto over the surface to evoke a worn effect.

The center of the shutter piece was backed with a bit of patterned paper that had been treated with Old Paper Distress Paint and then fastened to the canvas.

Next, I started with my layering, using bits of packaging behind some of the pieces to add dimension. I kept on adding flower images until I was satisfied and then placed some of the flower embellishments – some from the kit and a few from my stash. Once that was done, I began to glue down the vine images underneath the cluster. My project still needed something, so I added a few pieces to the upper shutter and a few more to the upper corner and finished it all with a Wishing Bauble as my title piece.

A few closeups:

 

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

Paper Heaven – First Kiss Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper #PH-PPOOset

Sheet #1

Sheet #6

Paper Heaven – First Kiss Collection – 6 x 6 Double Sided Paper

***Embellishments***

49 and Market – Florets – Mango - #FM-39005

Little Birdie – Arion – Amor Mio - #CR79434

Prima Marketing – Flower Embellishments – Piper #594886

49 & Market – Wishing Bubbles & Baubles – Mango #VAC-35243

***Other***

Prima – Memory Hardware – Venetian Shutter #996363

***Mediums***

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Impasto – Mint #966416

Prima – Finnabair – Art Alchemy – Impasto – Boudoir Pink #966379

Prima – Finnabair – Art Basics – 3D Matte Gel #961398

Prima – Finnabair – Art Extravagance – Paper Texture Paste #965259

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Old Paper #TIM19503

***Tools***

Prima – Masks – Fence #2 #550011

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