Welcome to a new year 2020 its come around so quick do you have new years resolutions or just taking each day as it comes
ive had the pleasure of again being on the design team for Karen Dixon at Mixed Gypsys scrapbooking & arts shop to bring you lots of ideas to use
Today we will be working with the beautiful range of Lifes a beach
pattern papers
exhale # Bap00111
sttrip of sand off the bottom of a page
Blissbap 00109
senenity word
colour blast texture paste , - singing in the rain and Deep Water
pinata colours lime green & sapphire blue
Bassall , cartuna, senenity
Acetate
all products can be bought from mixed gypsys ( except the helicopter on page )
do you have lots of photos that you can not choose which one to use, im always taking lots of photos & then having to decide what to use,
My photos this time on my double layout are from a friend of mine who was in my brothers class at primary school, i saw his photos & instantly wanted to create a layout using the photos after getting his permission to use them. again which photos to use they are all so wonderful , why not try to get as many as possible on a page .Here i have used 18 photos on one side, but you can add more , and 2 on the other page i still have more photos left
- With my double layout i have done some mixed media , using Colour Blast texture paste and using a stencil Be Arty stencil
- Also playing with something new for me is jacquard pinata colour lime green and sapphire blue alcohol inks seeing i didn't have the blender, i thought i would try Isocol which allowed me to blend the colours onto a acetate sheet with a blending tool . i have only place a bit on the first page it only takes a minute to dry . so you have to work quickly with this
- I have distressed all the edges of my papers
- my next thing i did was to use my be arty stencil, with the waves and the dots. so using Colour Blasts texture paste , (i just love the smell of this stuff ,) maybe i shouldn't smell it a lot dont know health issues on it but using my finger , you can use a paint brush or spatula i just smeared though the stencil i did both at the same time while still wet , you can leave one to dry and then go over its ok what ever works for you .
- while you have your texture paste and ocean papers create a strip of waves and dots to cover at least 3 inches wide as this will become your second page
Karen gave me a sheet it had no name so have fussy cut out the flowers. you can cut only the centres if you like to make them look like sea urchants
- while that is all drying we will go cut the papers
- I have free hand cut each of the papers at different levels to represent the ocean waves. and have distressed it and have also with the texture paste ran along each edge to give it depth
- cut at 3 1/2 inches the one with the texture paste on. next one at 3 3/4 and last one at 4 inches place the 4 inches down first then work up
- add your string like ribbon around half way on the page
- the acetate sheet you can cut to size you like i just added about half an inch and glued it under the papers as some glues show and its not a good look .
the helicopter is from one of my cricut cartridges ,as the photos were taken in a helicopter so only fitting to add it to the page
- i have used 2 - 5 x 7 photos but have shorten the sides to 4 inches & placed a bit under the papers so only that 6 inches or a little more is showing
- add your cut out flowers to the page
- add your title , i have written on my computer and printed mine out and then matted it
this is page one complete
page 2 .
- with your serenity ( fawn sheet ) you need 2 sheets , 8 pieces when finished , i have cut at this way to make the most of my paper ,
- trim 2 sheets of fawn cardstock. to 10 1/2 inches one edge, left over bit can be used for journalling if you like
- then cut at 3 & half inch off one side . trim this short one again on other edge at 7 inches. put aside we will be using it
- with the 7 inch piece, turn & cut 3 - 3 1 /2 inches ( 3 ) 7 inches by three and half .do with second sheet so you will end up with 8 pieces
- fold the long side over to make a folder on each of your 8 papers, so that its 3 1/2 x 3 1/2
- trim 8 pieces of green cardstock 3 1/4 x 3 1/4
- trim 7 pieces light blue cardstock the same as above
- trim one sheet of white cardstock to 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 this goes in the middle of your page
- trim mottle paper the 3 inch x 3 inch these can go where you dont have photos
trim your photos to 3 x 3 inch and i have distressed them also
trim your dried texture papers to 3 x 3 inch and place on 3 places at the front of 2nd page
pages opened up
enjoy
cheers
jacqui mccully
