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Epiphany Crafts Blog Hop: Day 5

February 10, 2012 By Mahlin 88 Comments

Hi, this is Mahlin on our last day of the Epiphany Crafts blog hop. I hope you have found many ideas to try this week! I have a layout for you today called “The Love of Dance”.

To make the background of my layout, I added mists and gesso to it. I like fun, vibrant colors! I used three different mists on my background, which is a paper from the Mistables paper pack. I don’t plan on where each color goes, I rather spray randomly trying to space the different colors somewhat evenly. Even if I like my colors bright, it can sometimes be to much, the patterned paper blends in too much. Then I use white gesso, which is a kind of primer in art, you could just as well use white acrylic paint. I use a plastic card to spread out my gesso. I try to cover the background where I´ll be placing the rest of the patterned papers, so there’s a natural color to divide the background from the focal point (in this layout, being the layered papers, and photo). On this layout, I also chose to spread my gesso a bit diagonal, since it helps balance my design.

I used my Epiphany craft tool to make some cute accessories on my layout. First, I used I this tool to make a cut out from the pink patterned paper to enhance the pattern. Isn’t it lovely?

I thought the paper rosettes needed some standing out so I took some gorgeous Pink Paislee pink paper, made a bubble cap and added it on top of the pattern to make it match.

I also wanted some circles to my design..adding both chipboard pops from Pink Paislee and matching it up with 14 bubble caps from Epiphany crafts. I then covered these in white mist.

Because I use smaller photos, I wanted to emphasize it by using a bubble cap on the same photo but in color and picking out the details of the feet.

Don’t forget to leave a comment on each day’s post this week for more chances to win! A winner will be announced tomorrow!

Pink Paislee supplies used:
Mistables- paper pack 12*12 – 00511
Vintage Vogue – Tailored suit -00540
Vintage Vogue- Paper rosettes – 00548
Vintage Vogue – Ribbon trims – 00552
Vintage Vogue – Chipboard pops- 00545
Nantucket – Jumbo Shrimp – 00525
Nantucket – Mini tassels – 00531
Snow Day – Hot Cocoa – 00582
Snow Day – Warm mittens -00586
Snow Day – Bitty Blocks – 00580

Epiphany Crafts supplies used:
Shape studio tool round 14 -SST-02
Shape studio tool round 25 – SST 14
Shape studio Accessories Bubble caps round 14 -SSA- 08
Shape studio Accessories Bubble caps round 25 – SSA- 14
Metal Charms Round 25 – 14-48

Mahlin

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Cuttlebug Placecards

November 28, 2011 By designteam 2 Comments

Hi everyone!

I’m not super-proficient with the Cuttlebug so when I got my assignment to create something with the Cuttlebug this month, I wanted to keep it simple, experiment, and have some fun.

Since Thanksgiving was last week in the United States and more holidays are coming up, it thought it would be fun to create some place cards for the guests you might have over during this season of celebration.

Here’s what the finished card looks like:

The first thing I did was to cut a piece of Mistables paper and put it through the Cuttlebug using Fanciful Labels. I had several different label pieces.

I then used my distress inks to color the labels lightly so the pattern showed through.

The next step was to cut a small rectangular piece of the special Nantucket Core’dinations Pack. I put it through the Cuttlebug using the Seeing Spots embossing folder. Here’s how it looked at that point:

The next step was to cut the paper so it was slightly larger than my label and sand it so the white in the “core” showed through. So now I had both my pieces ready:

The last step was to ink around the edge of the diecut label piece and glued it on top of the blue one. I then used some Cushies to add the name on top and I was done! Here it is one more time:

If your guests’ names are longer, the set has other labels. You can also use smaller letters and even put the label through your typewriter.

I hope this gives you a fun little idea to use next time you have a dinner party. Thank you for letting me share.

 

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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:

 

Pink Paislee products used:

 

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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Creating with Cricut: Thankful

November 12, 2011 By Roree 6 Comments

Hey everyone!  Roree here, and today’s post is about Creating with the Cricut.  I just LOVE my Cricut, so this was a fun assignment to have this month.  And to keep in theme with Autumn/Thanksgiving, I decided to create a home decor piece for my mantle.

I started off with a piece of green patterned paper to use as the base of my project.  I cut it to fit inside of an 8 x 10″ frame.

I cut pumpkin shapes at 7″ using my Cricut Expression and Pumpkin Carving cartridge.  I used some green cardstock for the first layer and Mistables patterned paper for the second and third layers.   I misted the Mistables paper with Mister Huey’s Pumpkin Spice mist, and then I inked the edges of all three die-cuts with a light brown ink pad.

I altered the second layer by cutting off the stem and the third layer by cutting off the stem and outside edges.  I adhered the first two layers together, and then I popped up the third layer with foam adhesive.  I added the Wood Shop Wood Chip letters (inked with a brown ink pad) to the die-cut, and then  adhered the die-cut to my base patterned paper.

I added a tag cut at 1 1/2″ using the Cricut Expression and Give a Hoot cartridge and yellow patterened paper.  I inked it with a light brown ink pad and added rub-ons.  I tied it to the pumpkin with some twine.

I cut my leaves using the Cricut Expression and Create a Critter cartridge from the yellow patterned paper in multiple sizes (1 3/4″, 2″, and 2 1/4″).  I inked each leaf with a light brown ink pad all over, then I added a little red and green ink to add a little color.

I machine stitched the veins, crumpled the leaves, and then adhered them to each side of the pumpkin.  I finished with a bow and button at the center.

I found an old 8 x 10″ frame around my house that wasn’t being used, and I painted with with some off-white acrylic paint.  I then added the finished panel to the frame to finish.

Pink Paislee supplies:

Other supplies:

  • 8 x 10″ frame
  • Rub-ons
  • Button
  • Yellow embroidery thread
  • Sewing machine and green thread

 

I hope you all enjoyed today’s project.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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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.

Pink Paislee product used:

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

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