🖤 You

Well hello everyone, and welcome to May!! 

Today I’m sharing a 12x12 with you that is very colourful and a little grungy. 

I started with a Paper Arts for my base sheet, this one is Psycadelic 2. 

I really wanted the paper elements and embellishments to stand out so I swiped some Jo Sonja black texture paste on the base. 

Then proceeded to add colours that were already in the base sheet but would ‘pop’ more. 

So I chose Dina Wakley acrylic paints in turquoise and sky. 

Then I created tags out of a few sheets from the Heidi Swapp 8x6 pad, And a resist tag to create my layers under my photo. I used a handful of the Tim Holtz rub ons along with some stamps prior to adding the tags. 

Under my photo I tucked a frame that I had added a couple of the rub ons onto, and then came the embellishments. 

Firstly the Heidi Swapp arrows and the complimentary flairs. 

These arrows are so easy to work with and add a nice quick easy way to embellish. Then I added a few enemal stars from Studio calico. 

Finally I flicked liquitex titanium white ink around and outlined my tags with liquid paper. 

This page was complete. 

Quick and simple. 

I hope you can play along this month and I look forward to seeing you all very soon. 

Until then, Em xx

Inspired art journal

Howdy SC family! 

Great to be here today with an Journal page I have created. 

This piece of ‘art’ was heavily inspired by so many who are journaling at the moment. 

Ie: Lisa Oxley &Peg Hewitt. 

And my awesome friend and fellow scrapper Tammy. 

If it wasn’t for these creative souls I probably wouldn’t push myself into this art form. 

I used lots of acrylics, mostly Dylusions and Dina Wakley in an assortment of colours. 

And you can see my process (and hear my voice 😮) in a little video linked at the end of my blog. 

Something that I do love is the texture that can be created. 

To add to that texture I used Scribble sticks around some of my images to make them more defined. 

For my ‘face’ I used a Kinder Kreations eyes stencil. 

They work instantly and perfectly! 

I really loved how they turned out. 

The flowers in her hair were made firstly by stamping a darkroom door stamp. 

But the colour was used by more Dylusion paints. 

I had never thought of using liquid paper pen until I saw Lisa using one and I thought that was such a brilliant idea. It’s sometimes hard to get a white texta or pen that will work on paint. And I’m totally in love with the concept. 

I also love that I can ‘play’ on my pages, squiggles, doodles, paint, stamp, splats, anything goes! 

Ahh it’s so liberating!! 

Have you tried this form of art yet? 

I totally recommend it!

I’m going to keep an eye out for your creations! 

I’ll catch you all very soon. 

Em. Xx

 

Love

Hi everyone, and welcome to a mid month reveal. This one is for DT Off the rails Scrapbooking. 

This months mood board was all about Colour Bombing. 

I was inspired by a number of colours and more so the lips. 

I had so much fun with acrylic paints for my background. 

It was fun playing with multi colours as I usually only play with 1 or 2 at a time. 

I definitely will do more pops of colour. 

I hope you get the chance to play this month, it really is an inspiring one. 

Catch you all next month. 

Em. Xxx

Opportunity to Shine

Well hello there, 

Nice to see you all again. 

Today I’m sharing a layout with oh so many flowers! 

Well for me this feels like oh so many flowers cos I don’t usually use this many nor do I fussy cut!  hehe! 

But I love it! 

 I have loved the quirky feel of this photo I found on Pinterest ages ago, and have been saving for just the right time. And when I received all these pretty Heidi Swapp flowers in my DT pack I knew it was time. 

I also fussy cut flowers from a sheet in the Heidi Swapp 6x8 pad. 

But before I did all that I chose my base sheet by Paper Arts and used the mixed media fun 3 sheet. 

It’s so artsy! 

I spread some gesso under where my design was going to be and then added Dylusions paint in pomegranate seed to add more colour. Plus it matched the colour in the base paper. 

Then I flicked some liquitex titanium white ink around as well as doodling with a liquid paper pen. 

The gorgeous resist flowers I rubbed Distress oxides over them and then rubbed back using a baby wipe to reveal the outline from the resist. I chose Wild honey, abandoned coral and iced spruce to colour these. Then I found some leaves in the pack and coloured them in peeled paint. 

I painted my chippy in the Art Alchemy acrylic paints using yellow-blue and the other in aqua-rose. 

But before I put them on I inked them with complimentary inks. 

And then I just layered. 

For a few of my embellishments I used Heidi Swapp glass button and some Teresa Collins daily stories sequins.

A couple of quotes and this pretty little thing was complete. 

I really enjoyed playing with flowers. I think it’s something I might try more of.....

I created a little video of this layout coming together I’d love you to check out too. 

Till next we meet, Em. Xxx

Magical - layout by Emma

Hi everyone, 

Hope over this long weekend you managed some down time in amongst the crazy. I know I’ve been trying to take time out for some creative play. 

So today I share a 12x12 with you. I’ve been doing a lot  of other play with art journals ect because I thought I had become boring in my scrapping. 

But after creating a few new 12x12s I realise I love this process so much. Yes sometimes they can look the same and yes the process can be the same but it doesn’t matter, it’s about having fun, creating for you, and just really enjoying the art for what it is. I am my own worst critic. 

So with that, I got inspired by this months challenges. And I love that we have been combining them. 

I was also inspired by this beautiful art work I found on Pinterest. 

https://pin.it/gchgkibieiwzxc

I’m not sure if the original source, but I’m in awe and had to use it. So much gorgeous! 

So here is my creation.....

How awesome to have this moodboard colours to suit this photo. 

I started with a sheet of Paper Arts Artistry2 for my background, then I spread a bit of gesso, then through a stencil used Jo Sonja’s Texture paste black and then added my colours over it. I chose distress oxides in fossilised amber and wild honey. 

Then I needed to balance the yellows with some blue. So I splashed some Kaiser mist in aqua, and liquitex paint marker in cobalt blue with which I added water too and flicked it around. 

Once dry I stamped a few different images around including the darkroom door hexagons and Dina Wakley abstract scribbles. 

Behind my image I used 1 sheet from the Heidi Swapp 6x8 paper pad and 1 from the Pink Paisley 6x6 memorandum pad. 

In my embellishments I used a few of the arrows from the Heidi Swapp color resist embellishments pack, and a couple of the stickers from the Marquee love pk. 

I ended my page with some of the cool pebble rocks in blue, mixed with glossy accents to adhere to the page. These are awesome!! 

This layout is also the sketch flipped on its side. 

I hope you play around with this months challenge, they are always so much fun. 

I’ll catch you all again soon, 

Till then, Em xxx

A little journal page

Hello hello! 

Hope the month of March has been awesome for you. 

So who else is in awe of all the awesome Journal art Lisa and Kylie  have been creating? 

Oh my they are such inspiration. So because of feeling inspired by them I had a play in my journal. 

I also have been playing and self teaching a little abstract acrylic art. So I tackled it again in my journal. 

With Lisa in my head and the desire to create I made this.....

I think I’ve said it before, but the freeness of art journal is relaxing and exciting. You never quite know how it’s going to turn out. 

Once I had layered my base paints which included Dylusions white acrylic and art anthology in silve , I splashed liquitex carbon ink around and at the time thought I had ruined it a little by being to heavy handed with it. 

But this is what is so great about this process of journal, you can just keep building. So I then splashed liquitex titanium white ink as well. 

Then added some Dylusion orange and ranger distress collage medium into the mix, this ‘softened’ the black splashes a little. 

Now came the stenciling and stamping. 

I used an archival ink through a few different stencils and on the varied stamps. 

Once all my ‘messy creative’ was complete, I added to the page with a couple of we r memomory keepers Chipboard frames  And sitting in and around these I used Tim Holtz paper dolls to add a bit of curiosity to the pages. 

Then I added a few older stickers I’ve had for years to the page and finished with some more stamping on the frames and liquitex splats around to pull it all together. 

When I started these pages I thought I had totally wrecked it but.....the end result makes my heart smile. 

If you have yet to try this form of creativity, I highly recommend it. It allows the inner creative out. You might be pleasantly surprised. I know I am. 

I hope I can inspire you a little with my video of the process also. 

Till I see you all in April....happy scrapping. 

Em. Xx

Totally- a 12x12 with Em

Hey Hey my SC peeps!
Its Wednesday today and I'm here to share another layout showing some more awesome products that Kylie has in store.

So firstly i chose a sheet of the very cool Ella & Viv graffiti paper.

And yep i totally ruined it!

I put it to the side and was so disappointed in myself cos i had an idea in my mind and it totally did not work out!
Trying to choose another background paper, nothing worked with the image i was using, quite like the Graffiti paper did.
So grabbing it out again i thought i must be able to salvage it surely.....

I applied gesso and some Dina wakley acrylic paint in Ruby to the background covering some of my mistake.
You can see how i do this in my video at the end of this blog post :)

Then i played with stamps i recently purchased, Dina Wakley cling stamps to be exact.
these are so very very cool and easy to play with.



On the background i also used a few Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs instaed of more stamping.
its been ages since i used rub ons but these were awesome to use. sticky and easy to rub.
they look like a stamp.



Then for my layers behind my photo i used a few different things, starting with a sheet from the
Pink Paislee memorandum pad.
I also used a Heidi swapp Fabric Tag and a Heidi Swapp color magic notes (boy do i love these, i just love applying colour to these with a Baby wipe, with the resist on them it just adds so much depth).

Then directly behind the photo i chose a we r memory keepers chipboard frames to frame my boy.
because i chose one in the kraft i stenciled over it withone of the same stencils i used on the background.



And like with all my layouts, yep you guessed it, a splash of Liquitex Titanium white ink.

What are some of your favourite go to products, you just can not use on a layout?

I would love you to check out my latest video of this layout as well.

My gorgeous Son Jude composed the music for it. So it felt fitting to use a photo of him with his latest track.
I hope you enjoy, and will catch you all soon.
Have an awesome Wednesday.

https://youtu.be/zEAYFAdQIrU