18th June Scrap Thursday Part 4

This is the forth scrapbook page for my new weekly post Scrap Thursday. I will try and bring new ideas and techniques and revisit old favourites too. If you have any suggestions or requests just let me know and I will do my best to accommodate these. 

My aim is to list the products I have used with links to retailers (preferably independent stores) and if I find any bargains I will let you know!  

I usually work in a 12" x 12" format as this allows me more space to experiment and get arty!

Materials used for this layout are: smooth white Bazzill, stencils/masks, Distress Inks, Dylusions stamps, Totally Tracy Stamps, Octopode digi images, paint, Washi Tape, WOW, journal pens, Copic markers, pages from an old book.

This week I have used the new colour Distress Inks by Ranger. Ranger are releasing one new colour each month and I have used the first 5 in the layout above.

 I used some white paper as a mask.

I used masks and stencils (Artistic Stamper, Dina Wakley and Dutch Doobadoo) overlapping to create the background.

 Using a craft knife I cut along the shape of the green wave.

 This allowed the bottom of the photograph to be hidden.

Using a journal pen I added some borders between each wave of colour. I used Dylusions stamps, WOW and Copic markers.

I stamped the Totally Tracy flower stamps onto an old book page to mimic the style of the Dylusions stamps.

Using paint and ink pads I added circles and lines criss crossing and overlapping each other. 

 I used digi images from The Octopode Factory

 Added some doodling

 Used Washi Tape for the bird to 'stand' on

And added a digi word image.

I am so very pleased with the result, its full of life and vibrancy as my niece (the photo above!) is.

Scrap Thursday Part 1

This is the first scrapbook page for my new weekly post Scrap Thursday. I will try and bring new ideas and techniques and revisit old favourites too. If you have any suggestions or requests just let me know and I will do my best to accommodate these. 

My aim is to list the products I have used with links to retailers (preferably independent stores) and if I find any bargains I will let you know!  

I usually work in a 12" x 12" format as this allows me more space to experiment and get arty! 

Materials:

Smooth white Bazzill
Distress Ink Pads Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans
VersaFine in black
Indigoblu stamps Sarah's Choice, Nature 1, and Splattered Heart,
Dina Wakely media stencil Daisies
Tim Holtz Mini Paper Clips

So to start I took a 12 x 12 piece of smooth white Bazzill and tore around the edges.

Using a distress tool and Distress Ink (DI) pad Tumbled Glass I inked around the torn edges of the card varying the amount of card inked. This is just to give a bit more interest to the overall look.

I used a stencil and DI Tumbled Glass to randomly add some patterns to the inked card.

I place layers/photos in place as I work to make sure I am getting the feel I want even if I am following a sketch or using a kit.

You will notice a hole in the second piece of Bazzill above, this is because where possible I try not to waste card so I will cut out areas that will be covered to use elsewhere. I used DI Faded Jeans and the Splattered Heart stamp randomly all over.

At this stage I wanted to tie the two ink colours together, so I used a butterfly stamp (Nature 1) and DI Faded Jeans and stamped onto the Tumbled Glass.

Lastly I stamped a journal block (Sarah's Choice) in black VersaFine and added it to the layout using a paperclip.

I get a funny feeling

This months challenge can be found HERE

I had a lot of fun doing these pages.

 This is a double page of the Dylusions art journal.

 I used paints and masks.

 Added some stamping.

 Now for some features.

 A fabulous stamp by Tracy Weinzapfel.

I used Gesso to allow the the final colour to pop.

This has made a great feature.

I used images from The Octopode Factory and Deviant Scrap.

I just love the finished result.