Sunday, May 17, 2015

Amazing You by Marta Lapkowska

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Hello crafty people !


It’s Marta Lapkowska here. I am so happy to be here as Limor Webber guest designer. I will share with you my love for mixed media and journals. Today I created mixed media journal cover.



This is wonderful mini journal from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® To create my background I used Double Scoop Gelatos® –  Melon, Bubble Gum and Green Tea I also used Gelatos® for stamping and Stamper’s Big Brush Artist Pen ‘Scarlet Red’. I used Limor Webber ‘Rugged Edge’ stamp set.



Additionally, I add some Prima Marketing Flowers.


 I hope you will enjoy my video tutorial.


Happy creating. I hope to see you soon as I will show you step by step video on art journaling in my next post!

Love, Marta xx



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Saturday, May 16, 2015

The Little things

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Sherry frame

Hi everyone Sherry here. This was one of those projects that I started on without a plan! Sometimes I find the best things come from a little spontaneity, a little bit of unplanned fun! This project came from uncommonly used colors and uncommonly used products! Sometimes we fall into a rut of the same old, same old and since I didn't start with a solid concrete plan, I thought I would pick out a few amazing products that got shoved to the back of my stash! So before we get started today I challenge all of you to dig deep, pull out some colors and a few mediums that need some love and create with me! As always I back up my background with heavy chipboard. This helps to give me a solid backing for support when I use sprays, stamping and mediums. (also great for displaying upright later)


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I arranged my photos where I thought they would look nice and traced around them with a pencil. This ensures that any background texture and stamping that I do will peek out from behind the photos in the end. 

Using my lightest spray (yellow) first I sprayed a large area peeking from behind all of the photos, then I allowed this to dry completely. Then added my medium color (orange) and sprayed so the
color would peek from the right side of the photos, allow this to dry completely. Using the third and darkest color (purple) I unscrewed the lid and used the tube to create circles that would show beyond the photos, allow to dry.


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Now for the beautiful IndigoBlu Limor Webber stamps! Using ‘splattered heart’ large and small, ‘splattered butterfly’ small and ‘rugged edges’ I created a ton of texture peeking out from behind the
photos and along the right side of the layout! With the ‘splattered heart’ stamps.


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I used a black ink pad and stamped so the heart and splatters would stick out! Next came the ‘splattered butterfly, now I must admit this is one of my fav ways to stamp these days, I used Faber-Castell Design Memory Crafts® Stamper’s Big Brush Artist Pens to color the image. The reason I like the big brush pens for this is because they blend seamlessly together when you are using more then
one color, on a pre-prepped surface like mine! In this image I used a yellow and a pink to color the stamp, then made impressions wherever I thought they would peek out just right!

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Making use of the ‘rugged edge’ stamp set, I selected the splattered border stamp! and using the same coloring technique I stamped along where the photos would be wherever i hadn't already stamped. i did this to ensure i would cover up or hide the previously stamped butterflies! i also added texture to the right side of the layout using this same stamp and technique.


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Now to add a bit of shine! It’s no big surprise that I adore the Indigo Blu Flitter Glu starter kits! these are an easy way to add metallic elements to any project. so today I did so using the Limor Webber ‘ink splatter’ stamp set.

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Quick ‘how to’ of the starter kit, you apply glue to the foam pad, press your stamp onto the foam and press lightly onto your surface. Sprinkle mega flakes onto glue image and rub lightly with your hand to press flakes into glue. then use black scrubby (comes in kits) and scrub the surface to reveal your image! I applied metallic images along the right side of the layout and along the edges of the where the photos would be.


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I have had string gel in my mediums trolley for ages and haven’t had the opportunity to give it a go so I decided this project would be it! I gently folded some white gesso into my string gel, the reason I
point out that I gently folded it in is because if you mix a lot or too vigorously you will create air bubbles that are tough to get rid of once they’re there!

I took a scoop of the string gel on a palette knife and tilt the palette knife to allow the medium to ‘drip’ off the end. As it starts to drip and touch the layout I made a circular motion to make rings of
string gel that peek out from where the photos will be and around where they will be. allow this to dry, I prefer to allow to air dry as it bubbles easily when heat gunned!

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I wanted to make sure that my photos stood out form the texture, color filled background so I put a little black gesso in on a paint palette and dragged the edges of my photos through the paint on all
four sides. Allow this to dry, before adding your photo to the layout. Using pop dots on the middle photo and tape adhesive on the top and bottom photo, I adhered my photos to the layout.


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Thank you so much for checking out my toturial using a ton of fun Limor Webber Designs products! To check out more, head over to my blog.

Thanks,
Sherry

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Friday, May 15, 2015

Autumn Rain

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Hello it’s Fiona
Fiona frame

here with my final guest post on Limor’s wonderful team. If you missed my last post, you can view it here “Lost In Thought”. Before I begin, I would like to thank Limor for giving me the opportunity to design for her. I have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the team, joining in with the Ustream workshops, seeing all the wonderful work by the other designers, chatting to members in the Facebook pages and seeing how amazing you all are at creating so many imaginative and beautiful works of art.


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I leave you with a little art journal spread I just had to create as soon as I saw the Retro Postcard Ephemera pack.For your convenience, I will link up the supplies below for easy reference. I started by making a little Art Journal from an old book cover. I learned basic book binding a couple of years ago and hadn’t used it since. So it was good to run through it again to jog my memory. It’s not perfect but that’s ok too.After prepping the paper I got straight to work adding some old dress pattern paper to the background to give it some texture. I felt it suited the vintage theme of the little book too.


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I had a bit of the play with the Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Shots, simply mixing them with water to make water color paints (as you know, my favorite medium!). I liked the results so these became my background papers.Adding the Lindy’s Stamp Gang “Mango Mania” and “Pineapple Paradise” Flat Shots to the background I knew would give it an Autumn feel. So with my background all done,


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I decided that I would make some leaves to embellish my page with and boy did they POP! I immediately loved them and couldn’t wait for the page to all come together.


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After some stamping with the Kaisercraft “Sketchy” background stamp I was ready to position the postcard I had chosen to use as the main feature.To add a bit of interest I decided to cut the feet at the bottom off and position them on the other page as a separate little feature on their own. I loved the city cape with the umbrella and the rain but the feet walking along the wet pavement was really the focus of my inspiration.The final phase was to now bring it all together and highlight certain elements of the page. Washi tape to define the rectangles and the photos, some black chalk paint flecks to bring out the intensity of the colors and that adorable Amy Tangerine Thickers heart to finish it all off.


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But to be honest, until the leaves were added, I wasn’t sure it was going to work. once they were in place (agonizing experience in itself LOL) THEN I fell in love with it. All it needed was some light
doodling with my little pen and it was complete!

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You can watch it all unfold in my process video.



I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Again, thank you Limor and thank you everyone for having me here. It has been an absolute pleasure.

xx Fiona
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Mixed Media Journal – Laugh

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Hi everyone, it’s Vicky here
Vicky Frame

Today, I am going to work on the first page of my mixed media journal. I’m using the mini mixed media journal by Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft®. I love this journal because it has nice thick chipboard pages that can take any medium perfectly.


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And since spring is finally here I had to work on a lovely scene with a poppy. The lovely poppy is a Penny Black stamp. 

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I have used IZINK inks to color the poppies. These inks are an acrylic-based pigment that dries permanent and semi transparent. I will also use my favorite PITT® brush markers to add shading.

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For the background I have used one of my favorite techniques which creates a lovely textured mosaic. To do this I am cutting out small patterned paper pieces in random sizes, and sticking
them one next to the other, making sure that I overlap them on the edges.


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To find out more on the techniques I used and for a step by step video on this page check out the video below:


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