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