"My love for you" Maja Design and Dusty Attic Design Team Creation

Thankyou for returning here today. I have my interpretation of this month's moodboard.

I absolutely adore the colours of this moodboard and knew exactly what papers I would use. 

It was when I was going through the paper collection of Maja Design's new release "Miles Apart" that I came across a quote from the barcode strip of "Keep in touch", that I knew this was my starting point.

The quote reads:

"If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you".

Just beautiful don't you think? So I found my photo to work with this and went to work. I made lots of layers using torn papers from the Maja collection in the tones of the blues and apricot as in the moodboard below. I couldn't believe really how close these colours were.

They are as listed below.

Keep in touch "A"

"Keep in touch "B"

"Keeping Busy" "A"

"Keeping Busy" "B"

I did a little embossing in white around the outside of the background using a stitching stamp. I also added in some texture using white crackle paste and some random stamping in Archival Ink in Watering Can. The barstrip with the quote was cut up and distressed.

I used a number of gorgeous pieces of Dusty Chipboards some you will probably have to look very hard to see but they are there. For me it is all about the layers. So starting off once all my paper layers were down I added in the new release chipboard the "Flowering Vine". I have used the smaller vine from this pack. It was dressed in white crackle paste along with Inka Golds in the colours of mint and apricot.

Another of the new release pieces I used was the Foliage #26 packs. 

This was simply dressed with white gesso and a little Rust Paste from the Old Walls Rust Effect Pastes was used very randomly over it. 

Next I did a lot of layering using these three pieces of chipboards. 

the Juliette Balcony #3 , the Decorative Frame #4 and the Heart Swirly.

All three of these gorgeous pieces were dressed firstly in white crackle paste and then coloured with Rust Paste in Blue and inked with Ground Espresso Distress Ink. You will see how they were layered in the photos below. 

 

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And also a couple of other additions added in amongst my flower clusters are the Broken Bits 9 - Brick and some cut sections from the Wrought Iron fence. 

Oh and 1 of the gorgeous keys from the Vintage Keys set . 

Lots of lace and leaves with pretty flower pearls and muslin were also added in amongst these layers. 

Well that is all from me today. I do hope you have enjoyed this blogpost. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very blessed and safe Christmas and New Year. 

Can't wait to see you all back here again next year. 

Thanks for calling by.

Teen x

 

"Fly without wings" 49andMarket Design Team Creation

 

Hi there friends. I hope this post finds you healthy and happy. 

I am back today to share my latest creation for 49andMarket. I have called this project “Fly without wings”. I hope you enjoy my post today, so without further ado I will give you a little rundown of the products used and my creative process.

 

As you could well imagine every two weeks choosing from the amazing collections from 49andMarket is no mean feat. I um and ah so much it even annoys me!! So when I started creating this project for today I swapped backwards and forwards with differing collections always coming back to the Vintage Artistry Lilac. Oh how I love this collection. The softness of the papers always bring me back to the shabby vintage style of scrapbooking which I love to create in. 

I started out with the patterned paper “Tranquil”. This is a beautiful piece with a very simplistic background, a little cursive writing on it and touches of imperfections which always makes for a gorgeous backdrop. I added a small amount of interest to the background paper using Crackle Paste and some random stamping with Ethereal Stamp Set and Black Soot distress ink. I also used the piece “Mystique” from the Lilac Collection as well as the backer card of Sweet Reflections to help the lilacs pop a little. The blues and greys in the Sweet Reflections piece does exactly this. So using the Mystique and Sweet Reflections backer card I made lots layers and mats for my gorgeous photo of my daughter from her formal, to sit upon. I also added in ticket elements from the Lilac Ephemera Stack to help with the layers. These stacks are just amazing with a multitude of tones of purple to help with projects.

 

I added in some other elements too from the cut out sheets of the backer papers which you will always find in the collection packs. I have used the clocks from the Tattered Garden Sheet, and cut them in half to allow them to go further around my layout. These were also layered up on some Dusty Attic Chipboard doilies which added more interest to the clocks. To the clock faces I dressed them with acrylic paint and also a large covering of Dusty Attic Clear Crackle Varnish.

 

Scroll #2

Hinges 

Antique Frame

Doily #2

Decorative Door

 I have used numerous different collections of flowers from 49andMarket to help with my clustering of flowers. These include the Lavender from the Daisy Stems and the baby Blues from the Sugar Posies Huckleberry collections. With the Fluff from the Sugar Posies collection I used some in white and some I coloured using a mix of white gesso with some Acrylic Paint in Sugar Plum. This gave me a gentler pinkish colour.

Sugar Posies Fluff

 Daisy Stem Lavender

Sugar Posies Raspberry

Vintage Artistry Lilac Ephemera Stack

Serendiptious Layered Embellishments

Star Dust Stickles

As you will notice I added in many more chipboards pieces to help frame my photo. Also I added in some laces cut into pieces. The butterflies are from the older collection of 49andMarket’s layered embellishments. The blue leaves were from the Serendipitous collection of layered embellishments. I chose the title name from the barcode strip of the Irrevocable Beauty “Petrarch” paper...... “Fly without wings”. Finishing up my project I added in some pretty flower pearls with mat gel and some Star Dust Stickles over my flower stamens and butterflies and little birds.

Dress My Craft Flower Pearls - Snow

Clear Crackle Varnish

Well that is all from me today. I do hope you have enjoyed my blog post. 

 

Take care and until next time happy crafting.

 

Tina x

 

Products Used:

 

Vintage Artistry Lilac “Tranquil” 

Vintage Artistry Lilac “Mystique” 

Vintage Artistry Lilac Ephemera Stack 

Irrevocable Beauty – Petrarch 

Sweet Reflections Backer Card -

Tattered Gardens Backer Card -

Sugar Posies “Fluff” 

Sugar Posies “Blue Raspberry” 

Daisy Stems “Lavender”

Garden Seeds “Cotton”

Gabi’s Ethereal Stamp Set 

Serendipitous Layered Embellishments 

 

Other Products Used:

 

Assortment of Dusty Attic Chipboard packs

Dusty Attic Acrylic Paint Sugar Plum

Dusty Attic Clear Crackle Varnish

Liquitex Clear Gesso

Liquitex White Gesso

3-D Mat Gel

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot

Couture Creations Stencil  - Pavers

Dress My Craft Flower Pearls

Ranger Texture Paste

Ranger Star Dust Stickles

Acrylic Paint Rainy Day

Muslin

"Enchanted Love" 49andMarket Design Team Project

Hello and welcome back 49andMarket friends. “Enchanted Love” is my design team project for today.

My layout for today was created around the Vintage Artistry’s Color collection. When I first received this collection I was really smitten with the “Wallpaper” patterned piece. The green in this paper is absolutely stunning and I always love a little bit of greenery in my creations. So this was my starting piece. I have used this as the background paper and built textures using modelling and crackle pastes with a stencil and my palette knife. I built on this using pigment powders along with rust pastes and I also added in a little random stamping using the Ticket Express Stamp Set and archival ink.

 

I cut a piece of Rusty Autumn’s “Enchanted” paper to sit my photo upon. These pieces were heavily distressed and mounted on some old board to give my layout dimension. Once this was adhered to my project I worked on embellishing my layout.

For embellishments I started off using a mould. This was adhered under the photo. I then went to work on adding all the gorgeous 49andMarket flowers. I wanted to make it an enchanted playful layout and because the photo was taken in our backyard I wanted to build on the photo. I have used the Botanicals in the bottle green. I felt the bottle green was a little too bright so I coloured over these flowers using rust pastes and pigments. These is so easy to do with these flowers.

It is important however to always add a priming layer of clear gesso before you colour I have found. This will allow for a true colour from your media that you are adding.

I added in some Dusty Attic chipboards along with cutouts from the older 49andMarket Vintage Artistry collection ephemera sheet. I chose to cut the word “Enchanted” from the barcode of the paper to use as a part of my title. You can see this just under the Dusty Attic birdbath.

Finishing up I also added in some cute chicken wire along with a door handle mould which I added to the top of the layout.

Through this I threaded a few pieces of the 3D vines from the “Serendipitous” 3D layered embellishments pack.

Well that was all from me today. Until next time take care.

Tina x

49andMarket Products Used

Vintage Artistry Colors “Wallflower” 

Rusty Autumn “Enchanted”

Serendipitous 

Country Blooms Mushroom

Botanical Blends Bottle Green 

Botanical Potpourri Bottle Green 

Botanical Potpourri Shadow

Wishing Bubbles  Soda Pop 

Other Products Used

Little Birdie Crackle Paste

Finnabairs Mica Powder Green

Finnabairs Rust Effect Paste

3D Gel Paste

Couture Creations Stencil

Couture Creations Pigment Powder – Black

Prima Marketing Mould

Re-design modelling material

Ranger Liquid Pearls

Chicken Wire

Muslin

Dress My Craft Flower Pearls

Ranger Distress Crackle