Happy Snow Day! We've had lots of fun in the snow this morning with lots of photos taken and I was inspired to try different settings on my camera by the lovely photo on this gorgeous layout by the talented Katherine Sutton. Love it!
I have been continuing to watch the videos in the Creative Jumpstart series and I have been playing with my mists combining them with the techniques I have been inspired to try out. This is my first one, inspired by a video by Heidi Swapp, where I cut out my own stencil from scrap card in a starburst shape. It wasn't totally clean as I had some escaped mist in places around the edge but I think it worked well, particularly on Heidi's own Color Magic paper (which has a resist pattern printed on it).
The next technique I tried involved stamping into moulding paste, inspired by a video by Louise Nelson, which I then coloured with mists after the paste was dry. Louise's technique used a crackle effect stamp but I didn't have one so I went for circles instead using my circle stamps by Basic Grey. I used the lovely chevron tape again too (it makes me happy!). I also used lots of small silver brads - I still have a lot of brads from years ago!
Love the texture xxx
The third technique was inspired by a video from Nathalie Kalbach, who runs Creative Jumpstart. She used Gloss multi-medium and a stencil to create a resist pattern which was then coloured with mists.
This worked out to have a much subtler effect than the two other pages, although that may just have been my colour choice. There is a nice bit of thrifty scrapbooking on this layout too. There are two doily transparency pieces which are actually packaging from some Prima flowers.
If you are looking for a creative jumpstart for the beginning of the year, check out the Scrap365 blog party. It's starting today and runs for a week with lots of inspiration and prizes. There's a Facebook page to join too.
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Great pages, I've been following Natalie too! I love that textured background :)
ReplyDeleteamazing layouts, love the misting on the first one. I have some of that resist paper and been a bit scared to use it but think ill dig it out now :)
ReplyDeleteLove all the different effects you have . My personal Fav ids the delicate pastels on the last one but they all look fun to do and you have three gorgeous pages :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic layouts Emy.
ReplyDeleteC xx
These are fab. Love the mist you have used....is this a spray on one? Just wondered whether it 'buckled' your paper or not? Fancy trying it but was worried about that!x
ReplyDeleteHi Arline
DeleteI used Glimmer mists by Tattered Angels on these pages. They do buckle the page a little but The pages flatten out a lot when they have been inside a scrapbook for a while or you can leave them under a heavy book overnight ( when they are completely dry).