'Dream' by Elisa Ablett - November Inspiration

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.

I have another mixed media girl layout to share with you today.

The photo is of my great niece, a gorgeous gal with loads of personality and big dreams.

I wanted to create a mixed media layout brimming with pastel colours and soft flowers.

I also love a bit of bohemian style to my layouts and the stencil work combined with the flowers, butterflies and gorgeous turkish lanterns worked together beautifully!

I must say the colour combo of berry, blues and turquoise has got to be a new favourite of mine.

I love a good design swatch and this one comes from Design-Seeds. 

https://www.design-seeds.com/tag/violet/page/2/)

The Chipboard featured in the layout from 2Crafty include the following (links provided): - 

 angies-vines-unit-p-1154

dream-loopy-font-unit-p-1135

lacey-border-unit-p-1644

turkish-lanterns-units-p-1941

rose-unit-p-1901

Lets take a closer look at what techniques I used to alter my chipboard for the layout:

For my title and in keeping with the boho style, 

I painted my title bright white and added an offcut of lace and machine stitching 

using berry coloured thread underneath. 

I also added the stitching to my coloured die cut butterfly embellishment.

The Turkish Lanterns are gorgeous! 

I heat embossed them with Berry coloured embossing powder, 

then I painted the chain and selected bits with a black Posca paint pen. 

The backing paper is an off cut of water colour paper sprayed with the turquoise spray

 and then fussy cut and glued to fit the back of the lanterns.

I selected a lovely Lacey Border piece and inked it with black ink, it serves as a great backing piece and border to separate my stencilled background from the white space below.

The gorgeous Rose Set of chipboard was calling my name for this layout!

To achieve this dreamy pastel look on my chipboard, I lightly gesso'd my pieces of chipboard - 

Rose Set and Angie's Vines and then once dry I used a paint brush 

to paint the 13 Arts Chalk Pastel Sprays in Berry and Turquoise

 onto my pieces of chippie. If you wanted an even lighter shade, 

water the sprays down or add a small amount of gesso.

Well that's it from me today!

I hope you have enjoyed stopping by the blog today, 

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we do like hearing from you.

Hugs 

Elisa Ablett

 

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June InspirationTwo Layouts PLUS TWO VIDEO TUTORIALS By Mary Catt

''Dream''

Hello 2Crafty friends!

It's Mary here with you today and I have two layouts and
 two video tutorials to share with you.

For the first layout, I used 7dots papers, several Lindy's Stamp Gang
sprays and powders and Prima Marketing flowers.

I have also made a VIDEO TUTORIAL of the procedure.

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE

2Crafty Chipboards used...

6" Clock Face Frames
Flourish Adornment Set 4
Dream - Loopy Font

Some close ups...

  

For my background I used the ''9mm'' paper from the ''Dreamscapes'' collection.

  I created texture on my background by applying modeling paste through a stencil.
When dried, I used ''Cattail Copper Brown'', ''Bayou Boogie Gold'' and
''Pineapple Paradise'' Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays to color my page.

 I heat embossed the ''Clock Face Frame'', the chippies from the
''Flourish Adornment Set 4'' and the ''Dream - Loopy Font''
 with ''Bratwurst Brown'' Lindy's powder.

 To finish, I added some Bronze micro beads and Copper Glass Glitter
with gel medium and made some splatters with white acrylic artist ink.

 ''Escape''

The second layout was made with Prima Marketing papers from the ''Love Clippings'' collection, Prima Marketing flowers and some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays and powders.

You can see the procedure on my VIDEO...

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE HERE

2Crafty Chipboards used...

Ada's Flourishes
Mini Flourish Bits
Mini Word Set 1 

And a closer look at the details...

To start, I applied on my paper some white gesso. Then, I created texture on the background with modeling paste and a stencil. For more interest, I mixed some Light paste with the ''Autumn Maple Crimson'' Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical and I also applied the mixture through a stencil on my paper.

 Then, I added some color with the ''Pineapple Paradise'' Lindy's Stamp Gang spray.

  I heat embossed the chippies from the ''Mini Flourish Bits'', the title from the ''Mini Word Set 1'' and the ''Ada's Flourishes'' chipboards with ''Gilded Burgundy Brass'' Lindy's embossing powder.

 When everything was glued down, I added some Art Stones with gel medium.

That's all for today my friends!

Thanks so much for stopping by!