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Love Week: Snowy XOXO

February 3, 2012 By Karola 7 Comments

Hello everyone! Karola here with another “Love Week” inspiration for you!

As you know – love has different faces. We love our life partner, love life, animals, nature, motherhood is closely associated with the great love…  It’s so many shades of love, they are difficult to count! My today’s layout is about frosty, but hot kisses, this cute photo of Rose when she playing with snow and sending “snow kisses” to everyone is perfect to cover it with Snow Day collection.

I started with create a background for embellies. I used big cake doily as a mask with a distress ink pad in a color matching the colors of the collection (frayed burlap). Then I cut two large hearts and layered them to create the background for my photo.

Using my Cricut, I cut  ”X” and “O” letters as part of the title, above I put another “XO” created from Wood Shop letters.  In the center of  the “o”, I put a funny accent – Mrs Snowman head. Almost every element is stuck with 3D tape for more dimension.

I used a lots of Snow Day – Ephemera die cuts and used almost every paper from the collection to make a colorful, playful page. Here are more close – ups:

I hope you enjoyed my “snow kisses” layout! Thank you for visiting the Pink Paislee blog today!

~~ Karola ~~

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Mixed Media – altered wood

November 22, 2011 By Karola 7 Comments

Hello everyone! Karola here with another project! This time I was assigned the task of creating a Mixed Media project, and as you well know I’m not a mixed media girl, but I have in my stash a lot of different kinds of media and love new challenges, so I decided to experiment a little.

Today I would like to show you a layout based on Mistables collection and some other, oldest products. My page have an important element in the center – this is a wooden cover from Mistables Wood Album. I decided to alter it using different media and techniques such as: painting with acrylic paint, heat embossing, misting and coloring with distress ink pads. The wooden cover is stucked with the 3d foam tape to the background so we can hide there an additional images, letters, tags, personal journaling – how I did. Let’s see the final result:

I did recently some very interesting photos of Rose, there are a truly autumnal photos and decided to create a multi-layered, “thankful” page.

So let’s start to alter our wooden cover, because it will be one of the leading decor on my website. This idea has added a lot of texture and dimension of the whole layout!

Prepare a sharp, stiff brush and acrylic paint in white color.

Cover the entire surface, put a thicker and uneven layer of paint to create a beautiful texture…

Leave to dry or use a hair dryer or heat gun to speed dry the surface. Then prepare the mask, white embossing powder (or any color you want, but white is clearly visible) and heat embossing gun. Put the mask on the surface and then put a lot of embossing ink on uncovered pieces of mask, then remove the mask and put a lot of embossing powder, remove the excess and start to melt embossing powder using heat gun.

Now we have a wonderful pattern and beautiful texture on our wooden cover. So we can add some color to match the background of the page, but also a little distress to imitate the old, weathered wood. I used a few colors of Glimmer Mists (Marigold, Burnt Red, Yellow Daisy and Mustard Seed) and paper towel to wipe off the excess color from the embossing pattern.

At this point, we can still add some color matched to our background, in my page it’s green, so I used three colors of distress ink pads (Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters and Frayed Burlap) to add green color on the edges of the cover.

And here is the final result – absolutely unique layer for my Thankful page :) Of course you can decorate wooden cover in this way for your album, not layout!

Time for a few close – ups, to see how this altered cover working on finished page:

 

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I hope you will inspire with my tutorial today and have the courage to use different types of media to create beautiful textures and backgrounds in your amazing creations! As you can see Pink Paislee products combines perfectly with the media! Thank you for visiting the Pink Paislee blog today! Have a wonderful week!

 

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Product Pick {Wood Shop Alphas}

November 5, 2011 By Karola 1 Comment

Hello Pink Paislee fans! Karola here again with another layout.

Today I would like to focus your attention on one of the fantastic Pink Paislee products that was released last July.  You might know this product very well, but today I’ll show you another way of how you can use the Wood Shop Alphas!

This time I had more than enough ideas on how to use these wooden letters. They have only 2mm thick and as you know we  think that wood is a new chipboard! Why? It’s easy – you can coat it with any type of medium, they are so versatile, very durable and give so many possibilities! You can make of them the titles, subtitles, add it as an embellies, you can create a game, a toy for your child… When I looked at scattered letters on my table it come to my mind the idea – I create a layout of the words chaos in my head. You also sometimes have the feeling that you have clutter in your head thoughts, ideas? Important to this chaos was controlled! :) Additionally, I thought that this layout will be talking a little about my passion for writing.

But firstly I prepared wooden letters. I wanted to add a bit of texture, so painted it using pearl dabber paint – I added more paint than usual. You can always create this effect using a sponge, not a brush. Apply the paint carefully touching the surface, it will be drying a little longer than a thin coat of paint but do not worry, for to speed up drying, you can use carefully heat embossing gun.

I decided that I create a background with the letters. Deliberately placed them in a string of words with no meaning, but you can create in this way a background with a specific title, quote, or words that are important to you. As I mentioned before – I painted almost all letters using white pearl dabber paint, but I left a few and painted it white acrylic paint and misted using Aquamarine glimmer mist. Those letters make a part of my title “WORDS”. I created my page combining Nantucket and Vintage Vogue collections and added a lots of tiny details made of die cuts, brads and other embellies from a few other Pink Paislee lines.

And here are a few close-ups:

I hope my today’s post will inspired you to use Wood Shop Alphas in an interesting way! If you create a projects with this great product – please upload it to our Live Pink Gallery – we love looking at your creations!

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Thank you so much for visit us today! Have a wonderful weekend!

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Four not-too-scary photos

October 27, 2011 By Karola 5 Comments

Hi Pink Paislee fans! It’s me Karola again. This time I want to share a layout I created using our beautiful Phantom collection, but in a non-Halloween theme. Ok, maybe a little bit… ;)

I believe that in every woman there is a little bit of a witch personality. I hope this is not a controversial opinion. Just remember all these nervous times when you simply go out of ourselves, we have totally enough of everything, nerves to bear us, and we are really horrible! Although on a daily basis we are quite nice and gentle ladies! I too have these days, and sometimes I feel really like a witch! My task for today was: make a Lo with four photos. Unfortunately, I don’t have any scary photos of me, I have nothing of what would be in Halloween theme, so I used quite ordinary photos – without a crooked witch nose, no pimples or scars, even without botox! But I decided to add some funny accents on photos and next to them. Thanks to Phantom collection it was very easy! See how you can easily create an “about me” layout with a great sense of black humor and distance to yourself!

I decided to add a one more color to this Halloween palette to make it a little bit different and unique. Used Mistables paper as a background with a “broken china” distress ink and a few Mistables Alphas. I love this color combination! I used here some of Phantom – Clear Transparent Frames, they are absolutely perfectly clear and very thick, so you can use it on your photos!

How do I add a little femininity to my LO – flowers are the best! You can use these from Phantom – Banner Kit.

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Thanks for visit Pink Paislee blog today! Have a creative rest of this week and a fabulous Halloween!

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Product Pick – Phantom Papers

October 11, 2011 By Karola 7 Comments

Hello everyone! Karola here with something… spooky today!

This month we working with Phantom collection - absolutely great collection for Halloween! Actually  in Poland we do not celebrate Halloween, but I have a huge fun working with this kind of collection. Today I would like to show you what can be created using only (almost!) papers from the Phantom line.

For a long time I thought what can I do, until one day – had an epiphany! I thought to myself: what you can do on the Halloween evening? You can have fun, partying, you can threaten, you can go crazy, but when you have a small child and live in a country where it does not go into the street with the bag full of sweetness and slogan: “trick or treat!” – you can just stay at home among friends, watching horrors, eating pumpking soup and play the game…

And I created a game … These are mini-checkers! I never learned to play chess, but I really like checkers, so I thought that this easy and pretty fun game can give fun to everyone. The game usually should be stored in something – I found a great cardboard box, which I decorated with papers and some small additions. I fussy cutting some elements from Phantom – Haunted paper and added a few Vintage Vogue – Paper Rosettes. I found in my stash a few embellies from last year’s Hocus Pocus collection,  and I thought that some glitter stickers will fit perfectly here.

Inside are checkers. Board have made using 8 x 8  canvas, I painted it white and green paint, and then I added the appropriate board … It is somewhat weird, because quite different than those to which we are accustomed. In this way my game is even more unique and … a little harder to play! Instead of square fields we have here a large dots – it’s Phantom – Obscure paper.

Pawns are made also using only paper – I cut out circles and pasted foam dots underneath to give them dimension.

And here are some close -ups:

 

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I hope you enjoy my Halloween idea! So… who want’s to play? :)

Thanks so much for visit Pink Paislee blog today! Remember to visit us tomorrow, we have something amazing to share everyday!

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