Blast from the Past 2 - AIR Round 2 Layout

Hello friends, while I was doing a little 'housework' on the back of my Blog I came across another post I have not shared (or at least I don't think I have!!)  This one being my second submission for the 2014 Artist in Residence for Imagine Crafts - my favourite ink  was a pleasure to be on their Team for nearly 3 years.  You can see the first submission you can see it HERE

Supplies:

• IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Brilliance Pigment Ink in Pearlescent Lavender, Starlite Silver; GooseBumps Texture Spray;  ; Sponge Daubers; Vertigo; Monterey Pine
• Spellbinders Paper Arts: Shapeabilities: Wonderful Wings LF-006; Font One - Uppercase S6-009,  Font One - Lowercase S5-199, Foliage S4-318; Nestabilities: Grand Decorative Circles One LF-015, Grand Circles LF-014;  Grand Circles One LF-114; Grand Calibur Machine, Artisan Explorer
• Authentique Paper:   Collection 12x12
• The Crafters Workshop: Mini HalftoneBorders 6x6 Template
• Want2Scrap: Beautiful Bling Borders by Nina Brackett, Swirls Finesse, Le Creme Pearls
• Cardstock: white
• Miscellaneous:  liquid adhesive, Double sided tape, dimensional adhesive, Sanding Block

Directions:

1.Using Masking Tape to secure The Crafters Workshop 6x6 Template, apply Brilliance Pigment Ink in Pearlescent Lavender with a Sponge Dauber - circular movements are commended.

2.  Cut/emboss one (1) Grand Decorative Circles One #3 (Spellbinders Dies are numbered from the smallest to the largest - the smallest being #1)

3. Create a frame by adding the Grand Circles One LF-114 #  in the inside

4. Cut/emboss using the Grand Calibur Machine

5. Lightly rub the raised edges of the Die Cut frame using a Sanding Block

6.  Adhere the photo to the center of the Authentique Paper

7. Secure the Die Cut frame over it using liquid adhesive

8. Adhere the Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Border across the bottom of the photograph.

9. Adhere the various flowers around the frame as shown in the photo below

10. Cut/emboss Layout Title using Font One - Uppercase and Font One - Lowercase

11. Spray using GooseBumps Texture Spray, applying a second coat when dry

12. Adhere the letters in a semi circle as shown in the photos below, using liquid adhesive

13. With the Vergito cut/emboss a Wonderful Wings butterfly using the Artisan Explorer - a Metal Shim is recommended.

14. Colour the embossed portions of the wings using Brilliance Pigment Ink in Pearlescent Lavender and a Fantastix Multi-Purpose Applicator. 

NOTE: Applying colours to the back of the Vertigo is recommended.

15 Adhere the butterfly to the top right side of the frame

16 Adhere a small paper rose to the centre of the butterfly

17 Attach the Want2Scrap pearls from below the butterfly across the layout

18 Cut/emboss two (2) branches of leaves using the Foliage Die and white card.

19 Use the Die as a stencil, sponge the leaves using Brilliance Pigment Ink in Starlite Silver

20 Adhere the leaves under the flowers using liquid glue.

21 Using Brilliance Pigment Ink in Pearlescent Lavender apply ink directly to the Monterrey Pine embellishment and allow to dry

22 Attach the sentiment embellishment from Authentique Papers using liquid glue

23 Glue the Monterrey Pine to the layout, adding three small pearls underneath the sentiment.

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you! 

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Want2Scrap and Quick Quotes Blog Hop

Want2Scrap and Quick Quotes are combining to bring you a week of inspiration and I am excited to be part of it!

I have created a layout using one of the Quick Quotes pattered papers from the Dusty Road Collection, it is such a pretty paper and has so many details - certainly makes a layout easy to create.

The photo has been in a frame in my eldest daughters room for years, when she decided she didn't want it anymore I could not resist using it on this layout - I just love this photo - one tired girl and in such a pretty dress from Grandma!

along with some gorgeous Want2Scrap© bling, chipboard word and Spellbinders Dies

All products used are listed below.

Want2Scrap Products:

72 Count LeCreme Pearls – Self Adhesive
ADORE - Fancy Chipboard Word
Nestabling - Label Twenty Five LeCreme
Swirls Finesse - LeCreme Pearls - 2 Pack - Self Adhesive

Preferred Partner Products:

Quick Quotes Scrapbook Co. - Dusty Road Collection
Labels Twenty-Five Spellbinders® Nestabilities®
Labels Sixteen Spellbinders® Nestabilities®
Wonderful Wings Spellbinders® Shapeabilities®
Spellbinders® Grand Calibur® Machine

Additional Products Used:

double sided tape, paper rose, crochet lace, Seam Binding, Ink - Tsukineko®

Make sure you check out  Want2Scrap and Quick Quotes during this week of inspiration - both Design Teams are overflowing with inspiration to inspire you.

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Spellbinders Nestabilities and Layouts Tutorial

 

 

Nestabilities® are the theme for this weeks Tutorials at Spellbinders Paper Arts, it is my turn to share and I am using Nestabilities® on a Layout - you can see the step by step details here.

 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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LOC You're a Masterpiece

I have been wanting to create some layouts for a while now - stocked up on some Webster's Pages (YUMBLY) and had photos printed - and here is the first one - hopefully of many!!

The DP is from the Your Life. Beautiful range and is so lovely I was hesitant to cover it too much.  I am teaching this layout at my local LSS and have found that it is best to keep it simple - so it is perfect!

But I could not resist adding the divine Layers of Color Beloved Wings art stamp set and the gorgeous Crown from the Regal Wings art stamp set - they just seem to go hand in hand!

The butterflies are the Embroidered Butterfly cling art stamp, the gorgeous lace is part of a very special RAK I received. I have also used the Spellbinders Grand Calibur for the Floral Doily Motif DieCut.  I have used gold paper and sponged it with StazOn to give it a metallic look.  Finishing off with the Tim Holtz Flourish, that has been embossed with the Textiles Embossing Folder.

This layout is for the following projects:
Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - Distressing
Crafty Purple Frog - Pearls and Swirls

Just For Fun - Anything Goes
Paper Play - Anything But a Card
Divas by Design - DieCuts/Punches
Flutterby Wednesdays - Must Include Fairy/Angel or Butterfly - Open Challenge
Paper Shelter Challenge - Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptous - Things with Wings

Class Act Insider - Vintage
Fairy Fun Fridays - Pearls and Swirls
Poodles Parlour - Come Fly with Me
Stampin for the Weekend - My Favourite Things - Layers of Color Images, Webster's Pages

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You are not going to want to MISS this!

Keep watching Sneak Peeks begin very soon!

in the meantime....
You can see more of my projects in my Layers of Color Gallery, while you are there make sure you check out the other Design Team galleries there is so much inspiration waiting to be discovered, we are thrilled that Layers of Color is a Spellbinders Preferred Product Partner.

You can also check out Layers of Color Art Stamps on our FACEBOOK GROUP and have a look at the Layers of Color Art Stamps FLICKR GROUP where you can upload your LOC artwork and be inspired by hundreds of fabulous LOC creations! You are going to LOVE it!!

Making your creative world more colorful with Layers of Color!

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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LOC I Love You Layout

It feels like forever since I have done any scrapbooking and I cannot blame lack of photos as I got a whole lot printed a while ago - this layout is one that I have created using the fabulous DP from Hot Off the Press in the Color Me range.

I will be teaching a class at my LSS in a couple of weeks using this layout....there are a couple of fun techniques involved....

This fabulous chandelier was given to me by my friend Hannah (aka bubblefrog) as part of a BRAK - I have used Crackle Medium on it and added some bling - you know that chandeliers have got to have bling! 

To balance the page I have created an eclectic scene, using chipboard, flowers, bling, brads, buttons and the wonderful border from the Spellbinders Floral Doily Accent, this has been cut using my Spellbinders Grand Calibur. 

Emboss Resist has been used on the DP - it is so quick and easy to get such a great look.

A close up of the effect of the Crackle Medium on the letters - I love how it looks!

The sentiment from Layers of Color The Love Chapter has been embossed using Versamark and SU Black Embossing Powder.

I am sure there are no surprises to see that there is a bit of sponging - one of my favourite techniques...I love the aged look it creates so quickly.

I am happy to be able to play along with the Inspiration Challenge at SCS - here is my inspiration

This layout is also for the following challenges:

Class Art Insider - Vintage

Crafty Purple Frog - Favourite Things - Embossing, Distressing Ink

Bling It On - Embossing

Paper Creations Ink - Ribbon or Lace

Crafts and Me - Bling

Creative Card World - 3 or more Brads

Diva's by Design - Anything But a Card

Simon Says Challenge - Bingo - Lace, Buttons, Sentiment

You can see more of my projects in my Layers of Color Gallery, while you are there make sure you check out the other Design Team galleries there is so much inspiration waiting to be discovered, we are thrilled that Layers of Color is a Spellbinders Preferred Product Partner. 

You can also check out Layers of Color Art Stamps on our FACEBOOK GROUP  and  have a look at the Layers of Color Art Stamps FLICKR GROUP where you can upload your LOC artwork and be inspired by hundreds of fabulous LOC creations! You are going to LOVE it!!

Making your creative world more colorful with Layers of Color!

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!!  Your encouragement is such a blessing for me  - it makes my day!  God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

LOC Take Flight

I have managed to finish off a layout I started at one of the Scrapping Nights I go to - I always start a layout there but most times come home and play with it for a little while.

My photos are taken at the airport at the end of a visit from my Mum over 10 years ago - do you recognise these Mum!?  Everyone is smiling here but I can assure you that not long after there were tears everywhere - I am allergic to airports, they make my eyes water.  I am hopeless, I usually cry when people come and ALWAYS when they go - especially family.

The gorgeous DP is from Stampin Up and really set the tone for the whole layout and if you know me at all you will know this layout would not be complete without one of the divine butterflies from the Layers of Color Flutterescent art stamp set and some flowers.

The butterfly has been coloured using SU Chalks and a Blender Pen and then had some of the 3D Kindy Glitz added - so much texture, it is fabulous!

Lace is a must and this strip of fine lace was perfect layered across a trip of pleated DP, a few pearls added to add some yellow (yellow was not at all in 'the plan' when I started this layout, but seemed to arrive all on its own - funny how that happens!)

Tim Holtz Flourish - who can resist...and come more pearls for dimension to bring everything together!!  This was a fun page to make and as layouts seem to do - bought back lovely memories and hopefully captured them for my family.....how fast they grow, they are all teenagers now - sigh!

This layout is for the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz - Something that Flies

Stamp Insanity - Anything Goes

Artistic Stampers - Must Use Rubber Stamp - Monochromatic + one colour

Creative Craft World - 3 or more Flowers

Digistamps4joy - Wings

Flutterby Wednesdays - Must Use Fairy, Butterfly or Angel - Open

You can see more of my projects in my Layers of Color Gallery, while you are there make sure you check out the other Design Team galleries there is so much inspiration waiting to be discovered, we are thrilled that Layers of Color is a Spellbinders Preferred Product Partner. 

You can also check out Layers of Color Art Stamps on our FACEBOOK GROUP  and  have a look at the Layers of Color Art Stamps FLICKR GROUP where you can upload your LOC artwork and be inspired by hundreds of fabulous LOC creations! You are going to LOVE it!!

Making your creative world more colorful with Layers of Color!

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!!  Your encouragement is such a blessing for me  - it makes my day!  God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

LOC Blessed are the Children

Friday comes around so quickly, which is 'skeery' in one way, as time is flying - but it is also great, as it is one of my favourite days on Layers of Color - Faith Art Friday!!! I love it that we can combine our faith and our art !!

I have used the new Layers of Color Bella Brocade Art Stencils along with the Creative Flourishes and Flutterescent clear art stamps to create this layout! 

The past couple of weeks I have created layouts - they just seem to fit so well with scripture - this week I have been pondering on the scriptures about children....

One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so He could lay His hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples scolded the parents for bothering Him.  But Jesus said, "Let the children come to Me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children."  And He placed His hands on their heads and blessed them before He left.

Mat 19:13-15

These photos of my children when they were younger got me thinking about children and they are referred to in the Word.  What is it about children that we need to attain to - surely it is their trust and innocence, as adults we tend to complicate things and look for deeper meaning - anyone who has been around children at all would know that they see things as they are, call a 'spade' a 'spade!' 

There is a purity that we have as children that gets lost along the way.  As adults we tend to want to see our children grow up quickly, but sometimes in doing that they miss out of the innocence and carefree lives that children are entitled to....

Jesus clearly says that unless we return to the state of being like a child, NOT to be confused with being childish (and there is a difference) that we will never see the Kingdom of Heaven.  Does this mean there are no adults in Heaven - no! LOL!  He is talking about in our hearts and minds - to trust Him as a child trusts a parent, a 'no questions asked' kind of trust....as a parent I can clearly remember the feeling of having my child look at me and leap off the wall or piece of furniture without any doubt that we will catch them before they hit the ground!!

I was a Nanny before we had out own children and I used to say about some of the children I looked after, that I loved them like they were my own - at that time I had no understanding of the bond that is so amazingly there and  when you have your own child - it is so strong and defies any logic or reason....can you imagine the bond we have as Children of God....indescribable!!!

You can see more of my projects in my Layers of Color Gallery, while you are there make sure you check out the other Design Team galleries there is so much inspiration waiting to be discovered.  You are invited to join us on our SNR Group where there is lots of fun and chatter (No surprises there I know! LOL)  There are also discounts and previews that are exclusive for the Group Members - come and join us!!

 

I do want to say thank you to those of you who have sent email and being praying for us.  My DH lost his Grandmother yesterday and these times are never easy. Olwen lived a full life and would have turned  90 next month - she passed away in her sleep after having a stroke a week earlier, which is  a peaceful way to go, but it doesn't make the loss any the less - your kind words and prayers mean so much - thank you!

Thank you for visiting with me today, and for the lovely comments you leave me - I love knowing you have been - you make my day!  God bless you!

LOC Faith Art Friday - Knit Together

It is one of my favourite days over at Layers of Color - it is Faith Art Friday - this week I have done a layout  I love this photo of my DS taken about 5 years ago and how perfect is it for the verse in Psalms 139 that says

'You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body

and knit me together in my mother's womb.

Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex!

our workmanship is marvellous - how well I know'

I used the new Layers of Color Art Stencils, spraying them with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, I love using these Art Stencils for layouts, they are fabulous for other projects as well, but for me they take scrapbooking to a new place and that is great!

I stamped the matching image from the Touch of Elegance art stamp set in Distressing Ink and was excited to find that the SU Scalloped Square fits perfectly!

The scripture is computer generated using the 'Papyrus' font -it is one of my favourite fonts, especially for scripture.  I cut out each line and sponged the edges, distressing the end of each strip!

God tells us in His Word that 'we are fearfully and wonderfully made'  What a concept - our God, the God Most High made us, every fibre of our being is formed by Him - we weren''t an accident, just brought together through careless moments or earthly passions, but the God Most High, our God and Heavenly Father created us with intention and did it wonderfully!

The scripture also tells us He is a God of excellence - therefore I can know that I am complete in Him - He made me how I am meant to be, any imperfections we have are not due to any over site on His part, they may be because of mankind interfering, but we cannot blame God - He does all things well!  This also shows me, that God, who created me so 'fearfully' must therefore have a plan for my life - I am not here by chance, but for a purpose - my challenge is to fulfill that purpose to reach my destiny!!  We are a deliberate act of our Creator God.

We often hear the saying 'God Don't make NO JUNK!  This is a truth and I love that saying...sadly so many people have been told that they were an accident -never meant to be - but what liberty there is for us with the KNOWLEDGE that God, the Creator of all the Universe has already told us that this infact is not true - therefore it is a lie!  There are no accidents in Gods economy - He created us, each one, knit each fibre of our being together and remember - God don't make no JUNK!!  Look at you - you're gorgeous!!

It is easier to maintain the outer at times than what 'lies beneath' - the heart!  We can cover imperfections that happen to our bodies over time (with compliments of the odd donut or choc chip cookie - LOL) with cleverly designed clothes and cover blemishes with creams and makeup, but we cannot cover those things that we have allowed our hearts to become 'tainted by, the things we go through in life and have affected the well being of our hearts - this my friends is where we can often need the most work - thank God He is the greatest Heart Surgeon of all time, He can take our hearts, whatever state we have allowed them to be in and return them to their original state - 'fearfully and wonderfully' made - this is good enough for me!!  Thank God for God!!

You can see more of my Faith Art in my Layers of Color Gallery here.  While you are over there you can read Lauras EXCITING news!!

I am linking this to the foloowing:

Stampin Royalty - Masculine

Creative Inspirations - For the Boys

Paper Play - Something Old - the photo has been waiting 5 years! LOL!

Our Creative Corner - Gotcha Cornered

Lexi's Creations - Something Old

Raise the Bar - What a Special Guy

Cupcake Craft Challenge - One for the Boys

Creative Inspirations - One for the Boys

One Stop Craft Challenge - One for the Boys 

Crafts & Me Challenge - Friends and Family

Thank you for coming by today - I love to know that you have been, your comments always make my day and make me feel like we have had sometime together - if only we would in real life!!  God bless you!

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