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Product Pick: For the Love of Mistable Alphas

August 31, 2011 By designteam 3 Comments

Hi everyone! I am back to tell you all about the Mistable Alphas. If you’ve seen any of my layouts, you must know that I have a love affair with alphabets. I tend to create super-long titles and love using them on my pages. One of the things I struggle with when I create my layouts is finding several alphas that match the colors of my photos or products.

In comes the Mistables Chipboard Alphabet. Now I can alter my alphas to match any color I want. The great thing about these alphabets is that they can be altered with many different mediums so you can use pretty much anything you have on hand. Here’s a few I tried with what I happened to have on my desk:

in this photo (from left to right) I’ve used liquid acrylic, pan pastels, watercolor pencils, copic markers, watercolors, and distress inks. You can also use normal markers, spray inks, oil pastels, watersoluble crayons. And each will have a slightly different look and texture.

Isn’t that awesome?

Here’s a layout I made using the same alphas. For this layout, I used two different distress inks to match the colors in my papers and my photos.

You can add more layers or just a light shade to change the value of the color on each letter. You can also rub the edges more so they are deeper and stand out more.

What’s even cooler is that you can mix colors on your letters too. You can see below that I added a bit of green to the blue letters in the word “father” to give it more depth and a more unified look.

The number of variations you can create with these letters is truly unlimited. I challenge you to push your imagination to its boundaries and try mixing colors, values, or even mediums. You will quickly become addicted to them like I have!

If you’ve experimented with your Mistables alphas, please share them with us in the Live Pink Gallery, I would love to see them!

 

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Product Pick – Nantucket Wood Shapes

August 27, 2011 By Karola 3 Comments

Hi everyone! Thank you for stopping by Pink Paislee blog today! I have a little something to show you!

When I saw Nantucket Wood Shapes at first sight - I wondered how I will could to use them. This year we planned vacation at the sea, but unfortunately our plans have changed, the reasons for illness and too much work, and the terrible summer weather in Poland – believe it or not – but here it rains almost all the time! Anyway – I decided to do a mini album for upcoming photos, because I still believe on the fact that in September the weather can be improved enough so that we can truly enjoy a sunny seaside holidays. This album is empty so far, but it is completely prepared for the photos.

I combined Mistables and Nantucket collections, and one of the main decorations are Nantucket Wood Shapes:

 

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How beautiful and fun shapes, and how precisely they are cut! A truly delicate, looks like doilies – love it! The wooden shapes can decorate in various ways. We can use the stamps, heat embossig, paint them with acrylic paint, sprayed by Mists – some of these techniques I applied in my mini album.

And here are a few pages from my album:

As you can see – I added a little bit stamping on “explore” word…

Here i used glimmer mists to cover this shape, I combined Marigold and Burnt Red mists:

 

Pink Paislee products used:

I bet you have some more amazing ideas for using Nantucket Wood Shapes! Remember that you can upload your Pink Paislee projects to our Live Pink gallery!

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

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Member Mania! Scraplifting Inspiration

August 10, 2011 By Karola 9 Comments

Hello everyone! Karola here with new Pink Paislee project!

Today’s topic of our blog post is : Member Mania – This means that I will choose a layout from one of the members in our Live Pink Gallery and I will use it as inspiration to create my own layout!  It’s a huge surprise for all the Live Pink members – you never know whose work will be lifted! There is so much inspiration, and lots of stunning, beautiful layouts, cards and altered items – we encourage you to visit the Live Pink gallery regularly!

So, I had a serious problem to select only one project to scraplift, but I found a gem, something that really impressed me – it’s layout called “My Sweet Girls” created by Bente Fagerberg:

Bente’s page impressed me so much, it’s classic scrapbook page with a little bit of shabby chic style look, gorgeous bright colors, beautiful and balanced composition… it’s gorgeous!

I decided to copy a fantastic composition and arrangement of images and accessories. I did it in my favorite colors with my favorite motifs. Here’s my version – despite the sincere desire – it’s definitely much more pale and soft than a Bente’s page:

On Bente’s page are a few paper doilies, I cut out my doilies using Cuttlebug,  recently I received a beautiful gift: a few new cutting dies in a doily shape, so I thought it would be perfect for this project. As Bente – I added frills around the background and tried to create a similar composition to her layout. I combined Mistables and Nantucket collections.

I thought I would add as the photo matting something special – I chose the Nantucket – Clam Bake paper, which I precisely cut out and so here we have slotted grille – it requires some hard work using craft knife and a while of patience, but I think is really worth it!

Because Mistables collection is designed for coloring in different ways – I was able to perfectly match its elements to Nantucket colors. Coloring the background of the Mistables paper I used Ranger distress ink – Tattered Rose. To color the beautiful muslin flower, frills and chipboard letters I used Glimmer Mists: Aquamarine and Cherub Pink – ideally suited for delicate and soft Nantucket colors!

Like Bente – I created a few small embellish clusters:

Here’s the last view from afar:

Pink Paislee products used:

Thank you so much Bente for a huge dose of inspiration!! Creating this Lo was a pure pleasure and much more easily with inspiration from you!

I encourage everyone to upload your projects made using Pink Paislee products to our Live Pink gallery – we love to look what you’ve created!

Have a wonderful day!

 

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Vicki Boutin Designs Myrtle Beach Wood Album

August 5, 2011 By Rebecca Cross 13 Comments

This month on the blog the team will be showcasing our amazing Nantucket Collection that will be shipping to stores in about 12 days!  This collection is extremely versatile and full of modern prints which will make them MUST HAVE items for your scrap studio!  The papers are elegant, upscale and full of geometric prints which are all the rage at the moment.

During the CHA Show everyone fell in love with the Myrtle Beach Mini Album designed by Vicki Boutin so we just knew we need to feature it here on our blog!  Vicki used our Mistables Wood Album, Mistables Chipboard Alphabet, The Nantucket Collection and our new Core’dinations Cardstock pack to create this amazing piece of art.

In Vicki’s Own Words

“I love to create minibooks!  I feel such a sense of completion when I make a pretty little album and fill it with lots of scrappy goodness and photos.  I also have a passion for paints, inks and misting.  When I received the new Mistables Wood Album, Wood shapes, Nantucket collection and Nantucket Core Impressions from Core’dinations I new just what I wanted to do with it all!!  That is how this Myrtle Beach minibook came to be!

I started by adding Glimmer Mist to the wood album and letting it dry.  I then dry brushed the covers with white paint.  Finally, I added brown ink to make the wood looked distressed.  These layers of mist, paint and ink gave the wood album a beachy, aged wood look.  The other wood pieces were lightly misted and the Mistables Chipboard letters were inked with Distress Ink.

I swapped the inside pages of the album with the Nantucket Core Impressions Embossed cardstock and I lightly sanded the pages to enhance the texture.

The Nantucket Ephemera and Trading cards worked perfectly to fill the interior pages of the album.

 

The color and theme possibilities with the Mistables and Wood Shapes are endless!  I can’t wait to play some more and see what all of you come up with too!!!

Vicki Boutin

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