BFS March Sketch!!!

Good afternoon!!!  Today I wanted to share my take on the Blue Fern Studios March Sketch!  BFS does such a great job putting out inspiring sketches each month and I truly love using them to foster a little creativity!  :)  Here is the sketch: 

I took a little bit of creative license with the frame because I knew I wanted to use the chipboard (from BFS, of course!) below as an eye catcher in this LO.  I also used the Scraps of Elegance February kit "Lisa's Love Letters" and a few pieces of the March kit "Anna's Daydream". 

 

This LO is a continuation in a series that I'm doing about a friend of mine.  The picture might look a little familiar (since I've already blogged about it) but I planned ahead to use it about 4 or so times. 

 

I started with some pink modeling creme from Viva to add some texture to my background.  After that I pawed through my hoard stash of ribbon until I found the pink floral ribbon to the left of the picture.  I love this ribbon because it's just delicate enough to capture the mood of this LO.   

 



 

I layered some papers from the kit that I cut into various shapes, distressed, and inked the edges of.  Then I layered on my ribbon, flowers, some cheese cloth, and a few Tim Holtz trinkets that I had laying around my scrap room. 

 

Below you can see the chipboard piece a little more close up.  I began by painting it with gesso then using some seafoam powdered pigment to make a paint as well as some Heidi Swapp color shine mist (Seafoam).  After that I stamped randomly across the chipboard and used clear embossing powder and some Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder (Cleopatra's Copper).  After all of that dried, I used some Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mist (white) and hit the chipboard with my heat gun one last time to get a few extra "bubbles".

 

 

Below you can see the flowers a little more closely.  I used some resin flowers that I had laying around.  You can also see the ribbon and how simply gorgeous it is!  :)

 

 

Thank you so much for looking!!!  I hope you enjoy this LO.  This kit was amazing and I'm always sooooo stunned when my kits come in the mail.  Just when I think they can't get any better, they do and then I am inspired to create!  :)

 

Love,

Mel

A project begins...

Hi, everyone!!!  Sorry it's been a bit since my last blog post!  March has been super busy and crazy and I've had a little trouble with the blog again!  I wanted to share this LO.  It's going be the start of a pretty long series honoring a friend who recently passed away.  The picture in this LO is one that I plan to use four times on different LOs so that they can be shared among A's closest friends as need be.  I was working the March Kit from Scraps of Elegance "Anna's Daydream". 

I used one of the beautiful papers from the kit as a background as well as the gorgeous daisy stencil and some various Lindy's Stamp Gang mists to create a more layered background.  I then took modeling paste and tinted it with some copperish metallic paint and some pink powdered paint pigment to create the texture in the two corners. 

I layered and distressed some papers from the kit along with some lace and a little bronze key from a previous kit.  I used some Tim Holtz and Prima ebellishments from my stash to add a little extra sweetness to the LO.

Below you can see some flower layering work . I used on of the bronze embellishments from the kit and layered a flower from the kit Floral Add On (I colored it with a couple different shades of Lindy's Mists) and added a flower from my stash on top.  The little pink flower with the blue splotches was also from the Floral Add On, but I wanted to mute the bright pink a little bit so I used some of the blue colored modeling pasteon the center and some of the petals (making sure not to cover all of the center, of course).

 

I hope you enjoy this LO.  There will certainly be more and more to come!!

 

Love,

Mel

Picture This Design Team Call!!!

Good morning, beauties!!!!  I wanted to blog today about one of my many sources of inspiration.  The ladies at Picture This! have posted a Design Team Call!  Click on the previous link to be taken to their DT Call blog.  My favorite part about this particular blog is that they just give you the guidelines and you create based off of your interpretation of the guidelines.  I have decided to give this DT Call a try as well.  Here is the entry I will be sending in for the Picture This Design Team Call:

 

 

The requirements for this LO were "1 photo + corners + splatter".  I'd had this picture of Kara and I sitting around for a little bit.  When I originally printed them, I printed two so that I could make a LO for each of us!  When I saw this "1 photo + corners + splatter" I knew I wanted to use this picture.  I chose some paper from the Scraps of Elegance "Lisa's Love Letters" kit and went to town!

 



Above you can see some of the splatter I used.  I went with black and white paint because I loved the already overall feel of classy and "timelessness" that came with the paper and I wanted to keep my additional background colors as simple as possible. 

Below you can see my take on "corners" for this challenge.  I used flowers to create a cluster in opposite corners of my page.  It kind of gave me a linear feel from corner to corner when I finished it!  :)

 

I used some teal/turquoise tags and labels from my stash to go with the background paper and also some papers from the kit make a few layers.  The paper inside the frame was leftover from scraps from a previous LO I had made with this kit.  I used some Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder in "Cleopatra's Copper" to add some color and give the resin frame a little more texture.  You can also see where some of my splatter got a little "out of the lines"!  :)

Below is a picture of some of the layering and texturing I did on this LO.  I had fussy cut the antique swirly paper in the background a looooonnnnnggggg (maybe last spring???) time ago and it had been sitting on my work desk since then.  I painted some crackle paint on it and hit it up with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen to age it further.  I used some modeling creme that came in the SOE kit, along with the stencil included in the kit to make add some texture.  A few buttons and brads from my hoard and "voila!"....all done!  :)

 

Thanks for stopping by to look at my take on 1 photo, corners, and splatter today...but what are you waiting for????  Get out there and create your layout for this DT Call!!!

 

 

love,

mel