Mixed Media Dusty Attic Journal Cover!

Hi Everyone!  I thought I would share a project I made this month using the beautiful Dusty Attic Journal and some mixed media techniques.  I started out by using the Dusty Attic Soot paint on the whole outside binding of the journal book.  I love the flat black finish it gives!  I then brushed some gold paint on the edges of front cover. 

Next step was to paint the Dusty Attic Corner Scroll #2 and the Mini Cogs with some gold paint brushed with silver paint.  Then I made up my polymer clay piece.  I shared a mini verson of making a polymer clay design, if you missed it you can view the tutorial below....

 

I baked off my polymer clay design (adding the chipboard pieces after the piece was baked).  I added some cheesecloth spray painted black and brushed with gold paint onto the front cover, and then glued on my finished polymer clay design on top of it all.  Next step is to glue on the corner chipboard pieces and add dots of bronze 3D paint (Scribbles) to the edges of the book and on the corner scrolls.

Here below you can see a close-up view of the polymer clay piece....

I finished the whole design by adding a variety of ribbons onto the spine of the journal/book.  Below I've shown the products I used from Dusty Attic to make up this project.

Hope you give some of these techniques a try!!  Here is my full list of supplies for this project:

Supplies:

Dusty Attic Journal

Chipboard: Dusty Attic Corner Scrolls #2, Mini Cogs (16 piece)

Dusty Attic Color: Acrylic Paints (Soot, Fine Silver, Vintage Gold)

Polymer Clay: Sculpey or Fimo (Black, Gold, Green)

Mica Powders:  Pearlex (multipac)

Stamps: Prima frames, K&Company

Glass beads, seed beads

Other: Cheesecloth, Ribbon, 3D paint Scribbles

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Polymer Clay and Chipboard ATC!!

Every month Dusty Attic has a fun little ATC challenge (with a Dusty Attic Prize!) and each month they have a different theme for the challenge.  This month (March) the challenge is 'Industrial'.  I gave the theme a lot of thought and decided I wanted to take a more 'natural' element like a Dusty Attic  Monarch butterfly and making it 'industrial' by adding Dusty Attic chipboard cogs and Nuts and Bolts to dress it up. 

And in keeping with the metalic look of the butterfly, I decided to make my ATC (Artist Trading Card - 2.5"x 3.5" card) using polymer clay instead of using paper this time around.  I thought you all might enjoy watching a Video Tutorial I made up in using Polymer Clay, Mica Powders (Pearlex), and chipboard to make a mixed media ATC.  (I promise, this one is a lot shorter than the last video tutorial I made, but I think you might want to enjoy a cuppa coffee while you watch! :) 

Hope you enjoyed my video!  And I hope you give some of these techniques a try!  I have another mixed media, polymer clay/chipboard project to share with you all on the 11th, so please stop by to have a peek! ~Gabrielle xo 

 

Supplies:

Polymer clay: Sculpey or Fimo (black, green)

Chipboard: Dusty Attic: Monarch Butterflies, Mini Cogs, Nuts and Bolts

Mica Powder: Pearlex (multi-pac)

Stamps: Prima frame stamps, K& Company

Other: Glass beads, seed beads, wire, gold paint acrylic

It's Shipping Week at Websters Pages!!

Webster's Pages is shipping out all of their new collections this week so there is lot's of excitement going on at the Webster's Pages blog!  We're sharing new projects made with all of our favourite new collections, and for me a big favourite is "New Beginnings"...I love the sweet florals and Spring colors in this one, the perfect 'happy' fix for those grey winter days.  I made the card above using some scraps I had left over from a layout I made, added one of Webster's Pages new Charms and some blooms and Perfect Accents.....quick and easy!! 

Here's a close-up of some of the page details....taking a minute to add a little machine stitching sometimes makes all the difference in adding the finishing touches to a page.  I've been asked by a few people how I stitch.  I almost always do machine stitching as I'm usually short on time!  But I also should mention that I use a heavy gage thread and set the stitch on one of the highest settings so I get a larger stitch....this tends to give the stitching on the project a little more 'umph'!

 

Since I was in the mood for cardmaking, I thought I'd make another one up using some of my older stash from the Websters Pages Best Friends collection...

I love the book paper in this collection so I thought I'd use this paper and try stamping on it to create a nice feminine page. The brown brocade papers is also from the Best Friends collection....the chipboard is of course Dusty Attic.

 

 

Hope you liked my cards....and get ready.....these new collections should be in your local stores soon! xo 

Maja Design March Mood Board Challenge!!

It's time again for the Maja Design Mood Board challenge!  This month its based on the beautiful 'Ska vi ta en Fika' collection!!  I love the gorgeous shades of plums and greens mixed with the warm earth tones in this collection!

I decided to make the above card using a few of the plum and lavender papers and added some of my favourite Dusty Attic chipboard pieces to embellish with.  The window frame is one of the NEW Mini Arch Window chippies, the nests chipboard, as well as some of their sweet blooms! 

 

Here is the March Moodboard! (Above) You can allow the colors to be your inspiration, the beautiful poem, Jenny (our DT coordinator) does such a nice job of putting together, or some of the inspiration words.  If you would like to play along this month and have a chance at winning a Maja Design prize, you can find the challenge details here MAJA DESIGN BLOG 

Here is a close-up of the card....I made little 'eggs' using a bit of polymer clay.  I've got a fun mixed media project coming up using polymer clay, so please stop by in the next couple of days for another video tutorial!

Supplies:

Patterned Paper:  Maja 'Ska vi ta e Fika (Favoriter, Soders Hogder, Mandelkaka, Blommer pa Bordet)

Chipboard: Dusty Attic (Mini Arch Windows, Nests, DA Blooms)

Other: Lace, Pearl Strand, Leaf ribbon, acrylic paint, chalk ink.

 

And don't forget to leave a comment at my blog post below MAJA GIVEAWAY for a chance to win the new Maja Spring collection!!! xo

New Bo Bunny Misc Me Life Journal!

There has been a lot of excitement lately over these fun 'Project Life' albums and Bo Bunny has come up with some quick and beautiful ways for everyone to enjoy this style of scrapping!  There is this fabulous new collection they've come up with called Misc. Me! A beautiful collection of 3 ring binders, plastic photo/page sleaves, gorgeous tab pages, phrase cards etc. to make putting together an album a super easy task!

 

The binders come already looking very beautiful in 3 different styles (the one above is the C'est La Vie Binder).....you can leave it as is an maybe just throw a title on it or you can doll it all up with some of the gorgeous coordinating goodies Bo Bunny makes to go with it!   

Here I've dressed my cover up with my favourite Bo Bunny Blossoms, Jewel Flourishes, dimensional stickers, Bo Bunny lace and trinkets and dimensional stickers.  Today our sweet design team coordinator Kris Sylvester did a cute li'l video clip on Youtube showing my binder and some of the tips to putting it together.  You can find it on the Bo Bunny blog HERE.  And even cooler, you can go to an amazing site called Crafts 'n Things to find a whole tutorial on how to put this album cover together!  This site has a new tutorial on crafting every day!

 

I have to tell you this book came in really handy the last couple of weeks!  My sister and I came up with the idea to do a special book up for my parents 55th anniversary party.  We thought it would be fun to put together a family recipe book that touched on the memories of our family as enjoyed at the table of my parents.  All the kids, our spouses, the grandchildren....all put in recipes and food memories of time spent at 'Oma & Opa's' table.  It turned out to be a touching book of photo's, recipies and most special of all, the memories associated with the foods eaten.  ....The problem was that we came up with the idea a little late, we had hoped to make it into a bound photo book until we realized that it would take a couple of weeks to get it back from the printers!  Well, same day as we realized this, my Bo Bunny packet showed up.....what a god-send!  It worked perfectly for our purposes!  It took a little quick work from both my sister and I but in the end we came up with a beautiful gift to my parents from the whole family! 

 

So what type of albums have you all been working on?  I'd love to hear some clever idea's for these project life style books! 

Maja Design NEW Collection GIVEAWAY!!!!!

This is the one you've been waiting for!  Maja Design is releasing a NEW Spring collection called Vintage Spring Basics!  Marie has been busy putting the finishing touches on her new collection and I'm so excited to see the beautiful elements, birds, butterflies, floral branches and pretty scripts.... my favourite things all wrapped up in her beautiful vintage style!!  I already know this is going to become a favourite for me!  .....

 

The really exciting news I have though is that this is the first GIVE-AWAY I'll be doing for Maja Designs, so someone will get their hands on all the 12x12 papers in this gorgeous collection!!!!!  All you have to do is...

 

~ post a comment here telling me what you like about the sneak peek of this collection, which paper catches your eye and why (we love to hear what elements and designs appeal to you!)

 

~ become a follower of this blog (if you aren't one already), and of the Maja Design Blog HERE believe me, you'll be happy you did, there are gorgeous new projects to see on the Maja blog DAILY!

 

~ sharing a link to this blog giveaway on your blogs or on Facebook etc. would be much appreciated!

 

I will choose a winner using Random.org on March 31st, so I'll give you until March 30th midnight EST to get your comments in so that you can be counted in the draw!

 

I'm so excited to get my hands on this new collection, and I'm so thrilled as well that one of my blog followers will be able to get to play too!! xo

 



VIDEO TUTORIAL: Vintage Dress Canvas Using Maja Design Papers & Dusty Attic Chipboard!

I get some really lovely comments and emails from you sweet ladies out there and one of the things I hear is that you'd like to be a fly on the wall while I'm creating a project!  Well, you'd have to be a very patient fly because my projects can sometimes take a while! lol!  But I also know that I really like watching these 'watch the process' videos, so I thought I would create another canvas, this time using the gorgeous Maja Design collection called 'Ska Vi ta en Fika' and some Dusty Attic chipboard pieces.  I just love this paper collection, here is a little peek at it if you haven't seen it yet...

So without further ado, here is my video tutorial for my Vintage Dress Canvas!  Grab yourself a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy!

 

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial!  Here are a few close-ups in closer detail. 

   

 

I'd love to hear what you all thought of the video and also what sorts of tutorials you would like to see in the future on my blog.....I love getting your feedback!  Would you like to get your hands on some gorgeous new Maja Design collection papers?  Be sure to stop by my blog on March 1st, I've got an exciting announcement for you all!!

Using Washi Tape with NEW Websters Pages *Modern Romance*!

I often like to randomly ink the areas behind my photos when making a layout so I thought it would be a fun idea to try using Websters Pages new Washi-tape in torn strips to create a similar effect.  The cool thing about the particular tape I used here is that it has a pattern that can be lined up as you go!  Here are a few close-ups of the page...

I used one of the digi journaling boxes to make the above frame for my text.  Yep, I'm gonna get all braggy again here :)   I took this photo of Chloe a few months back on her first day of High School (gone are the days when you would dress them up in their finest for the first day of school....now it's shorts and casual wear lol!)......But I was so proud a few days ago when Chloe brought home her first semester report card, she got a 94%  grade point average for all her classes! Including French, English, Math and Art)  I couldn't be more proud! 

Do you like the blooms?  I was so happy to find them in the $1.50 bin at Michaels!!  4 blooms to a package!  I was so thrilled with this find!  And the colors where just right for the WP papers!   Thanks for stopping by today....and I hope you'll be back tomorrow, I've been busilly working on a new canvas tutorial!!  

Websters Pages *Composition and Color**

This cute collections called Composition & Color came out a few months back as a mid-season release meant mainly for the more 'Clean & Simple' style scrappers but I just fell in love with that cute cute pastel chalks paper and the lovely woodgrain design as well.  So I just had to make a layout using these papers.  I also wanted to play a bit with the new Washi Tapes as well.  For this page I thought I'd try using it for making part of my title...

I kept the design more rough looking since I was doing the word 'Art' ...I wanted to give it a kind of homespun look.  A quick and unique way to do a title right? 

I just added a few embellishments (Websters Pages Princess Petals, Bloomers and Designer Trims (kitchen twine) and cut out a couple of the chalk pastels as accents to finish the design).  The photo is one of my little great nieces getting into painting.  I'm so happy to see that they enjoy crafting and painting as well!  Come back tomorrow to see how I used Websters Pages Washi Tape with their Modern Romance collection!  Thanks so much for stopping by again! xo 

Websters Pages Digi {Quick an Easy Pages}!

I'm not normally a digi scrapper but I really wanted to give some digi pages a try using the newest Websters Pages Digital collections.  Did you know that all the Websters pages paper collections can also be found in a digital version?  And not just the papers,....buttons, embellishments, rhinestone titles and flourishes...so many cool things!  Above is a layout I made using the New Beginnings Digi collection. 

 

Even if you are not a digi scrapper, what I like about this is that you can use this as a way to layout a page design, almost like a sketch that you may want to try with the real papers.  Working in digi allows you to move things around quickly, try different patterned papers together so without having to chop up your real papers until you're sure you like the design.....I just might give these combinations a go with the real paper collection.  Below is another one I put together using New Beginnings Digital kit.  My daughter Chloe has such beautiful hands with perfectly shaped nails (unlike her mama who keeps her nails clipped short!)....and she loves to do fun nail pollish finishes.  The design she has below she painted the nails with a dove gray polish and asked if I'd put on some white polka dots....I readily agreed ....but halfway through I realize what a tedious task I'd agreed to!  But in the end it really looked cute! :)

 

If you are interested in checking out the digital kits you can find there here WEBSTERS PAGES DIGITAL.  You can purchase the designs in seperate formats or as a whole kit with everything in it.  And the beauty of digi is you can use it over and over!  There is also a nice 'freebies' section where you can download some beautiful frames, journaling cards and lunchbox notes!  (I even use the digi designs for my signatures at the end of my blog pieces....below, I used the In Love digi collection).  And before you all ask, nope, I'm not going digi! lol....I've got loads of new pages and a new canvas tutorial to share with you this week so please pop by again! xo