I'm playing along at Moments Recorded challenge March2014. Stacy Koo is hosting this month and it's a photo inspiration challenge with 2 criteria - make a project or card or LO inspired by the cushion photo and must include butterflies. I interpreted the photo as a sketch, butterflies on top and I subbed the birdcage with my nest! Other than that it's the colors - I started off with a white cardstock and the most obvious stark black butterflies. Colors inspiration from the photo was mainly blue. I did a lot of random layers of stamping all over with some dots and 2 newsprint stamps. Most of the inks used were Distress Inks. Using glaze medium I added the jute grass and cotton bandage to add some layers, before I went crazy with Dylusions. Finally I stamped some butterflies around and added the rubon title. It is certainly great having my scrapping mode back. I haven't been crafting productively until today, I'm so glad!
Thanks for looking!
Noteables : Bazzil cardstock, Newsprint stamps from Stampendous/Impression Obsessions, Distress Inks Iced Spruce/Bundled Sage, Versafine Onyx Black, Dylusions London Blue/Black Marble/Vibrant Turquiose, October Afternoon rubon, Jute Grass, Cotton bandage
This photo which was cropped from one of the shots which I used for this layout. I'm so glad I didn't chuck it away! Well, I would call this leftover page which turned out as an art journal page. This is page is on my existing thrift shop sketch book from Daiso, which has been abandoned after I lay the scrap paper and gesso for half a year or so. So sometime end of last year, I thought I could make use of it for leftover mists/inking work. I starts off this page with no intention of taking part in Moments Recorded Challenge, in fact the 2nd coat of this page with mists was already there when I did this. The condition of Moments Recorded to keep the creation flat. What I did was to add lacy stamp from Jenni Bowlin and wood grain stamp Hero Arts; all rubons from October Afternoon mambo jumbo of fall/Christmas and a sticker from Thrift Shop. Doodled a little here and there, TADA! Here's my creation for Moments Recorded Simply Simple.
This is the layout for Let's Scrap this week. Remember to tag your layout as 9-5-12 when you upload your work onto the site. OK, here's the story for this. I printed these together with some 70+ of photos back in April2012. Some of these cards are made for the Feb card blog hop at Let's Scrap. Now I'm scrapping them in a layout! Long overdue, isnt? Looking back at what I had done back in Feb-Mar2012 timeframe versus what I had done with the layout, my style has evolved and I would think it is pretty different. This is me, today.
I did spend some time thinking what to do for this week's sketch. As usual, I took a long time to choose some photos from the stack and decided on these craft related ones. I started off with the stencil and flipped it over while the mists are still wet on the stencil to create a different effect on the opposite side of the paper. Love the process of misting and watching the inks blend. Left the wet papers to dry on the newspaper while I figured out what to do next! Since I have a lot of must-use Stamper Anonymous stamps in my stash, I reckon just take one of them out for this week (AGAIN)! Oh yes why the 4 different brands of patterned papers, it's because I wanted to enter for a local Singapore crafters challenge. So I took randomly from my scrap leftovers, punched and tore them. In order for them to blend in, I inked and blended. I ended up blending and inking more and more! So anyway, this is MY STYLE! May be I'll do something different next week, who knows!
Noteables : Basic Grey 12x12, Scraps from American Craft Confetti, Buttercream Bobby, Echo Parks Springtime Blossoms and another 2pcs from RAK, all punches from Martha Stewart, Craftersworkshop Blazer Design Chervon 12x12 stencil/ Dylusions Cut Grass/Pure Sunshine, Tattered Angels Mist, Distress inks Crushed Olive/Tea Dye/Broken China/Evergreen Bough/Walnut Stain/Bundled Sage/Barn Door, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Floral Tattoo, Kaisercraft 13th Hour alpha stamps, Classiky graffiti tape, 7 Gypsies Paper Tape Postale
Let's Scrap sketch 9-5-12 (load#19)
I did spend some time thinking what to do for this week's sketch. As usual, I took a long time to choose some photos from the stack and decided on these craft related ones. I started off with the stencil and flipped it over while the mists are still wet on the stencil to create a different effect on the opposite side of the paper. Love the process of misting and watching the inks blend. Left the wet papers to dry on the newspaper while I figured out what to do next! Since I have a lot of must-use Stamper Anonymous stamps in my stash, I reckon just take one of them out for this week (AGAIN)! Oh yes why the 4 different brands of patterned papers, it's because I wanted to enter for a local Singapore crafters challenge. So I took randomly from my scrap leftovers, punched and tore them. In order for them to blend in, I inked and blended. I ended up blending and inking more and more! So anyway, this is MY STYLE! May be I'll do something different next week, who knows!
