boy layout | Marina Gridasova

Hello crafty fans! Marina is here and today I want to share with you new layout)))

I challenged myself again by using hard-to-scrap photo – because of contrast of the background with flowers and nephew’s clothes in military ))))

Several close-ups

So I take contrast colors – grey and yellow-beige from our collections Tears in the Rain and The Flower Harmony. The grey one was cutted, then I glued layers together and create doodling. For the central composition used different bits and pieces, including elements from sheet for fussy-cutting. Sometimes I used papers like this as they is, but not cutted elements.

Also cutted the title from the darkest sheet from collection, added several embellishments and the final point was stamping and painting, because with only two colors are very bored )))))

Here is the full list of used products:

 

Have a wonderful day!

Layouts for new babies

So, these designs are in alignment with our theme to be announced on the 5th of this month, but no early info being given out here!

I have done a layout for a boy and one for a girl.  I shall show you the layout for the girl today and save the other one for my 17th post.  I used any of the Altair Art papers that were pink and cut them down into squares either 1 or 2 inches square.  I then inked the edges on some of them only as I did not want all of them to have a bit of extra texture.  I prepped my white page with the clear gesso and then laid out my squares gluing them down with Mod Podge.  A little bit of stencilling using some white modelling paste and then I grabbed my Lindy's Magicals "oom pah pah pink".  I selected a beautiful piece of Dusty Attic chipboard, embossing it with a couple of different pinks and some gold.  I chose some pieces of ephemera and laid them out along with various flowers and pulled it all together until it was finished.

All done, I hope you like it.  Take care all.  Some pictures below.

A bit of dark fun with the Altair Art Papers

I had been wondering what to play with next in the wonderful array of Altair Art papers that grace my desk and I settled on this lovely purple backdrop paper from the ?? paper set.  However, I wanted it all to be less purple and to grunge it up a bit - as I tend to like to do.

So a bit of stencilling went on and then I applied a few different Lindy's Magicals, starting with the black, then dark blue and light blue, plus some of the pink - it all mostly stayed blackish, but in different lights, it all really lifts up, thought it is mostly hidden now with all the layering around the photo matte.

Another very pretty layout using these amazing papers and different ephemera elements that are included across the various packs.  I must say that my purple flower stash is diminishing somewhat with these papers, but, as long as the end result is worth it, I don't mind so much.  I am currently waiting on some postage to our slightly remote location that should fill the creative coffers up nicely!

PAPER SETS USED:

Uniquely Beautiful

Hello again all, Delia back with another post using these amazing papers from Altair Art.  I am certainly enjoying playing with these papers, though this time I intertwined the Sunrise and EverDream collections.  Using ephemera from the EverDream collection against the Sunrise 06 paper as my background works out so beautifully.

Strangely, when I first sat down to work on this layout for my blog post I was in a bit of a dark creative mood and yet I was drawn to the colouring of the Sunrise paper but then I wanted to grunge it up a bit and so I applied some white modelling paste just with a palette knife, randomly spreading it and then I stencilled over with Graphite texture paste with a graffiti type stencil I have.  I then got out various sprays and splattered and dribbled them in my creative areas.  I delved into my Dusty Attic chipboard collection and used 2 different pieces after embossing them with powder.  After that, it is all just a process of layering up the photo matte and then adding ephemera and flowers with a little bit of bling to finish it all off and to bring the design together.

Here are some pics to see what I have been up too.  To see more of my creativity, please visit my website at www.jacobicreations.com
Take care all,
Delia

Paper packs used from Altair Art are:

Sunrise and EverDream collections

Spring has Sprung with AltairArt papers in my creative space

Hi all.  This little black duck has been having massive fun playing with her generous paper packs I get to design with from AltairArt.  The EverDream collection is full of so many gorgeous elements to play with.  Then there is the colouring in the papers with the purple, blue and the green as the base.  Just too pretty for words really.  So, I shall shhhhh and just show you my work.  As you will see, I have been having much enjoyment.  After moving, it has been rather superb to get back into being creative, albeit at 5am, just so I can find the time in each day.

Ok, so first up is my piece using a large chipboard frame that is from no one important as it was over ebay, but I finally decided to start using some of my chipboard pieces instead of just collecting them! Ha.  Using a Kaisercraft stencil, I used white embossing paste and applied that to the background and then used some sprays lightly over the top.  I cut out the beautiful flower panel off the EverDream01 sheet of paper and inked the edges and lay that across the bottom of my main page.  I then got the chipboard frame and embossed it as shown, plus I got another swirly piece of chipboard and embossed it in pink.  

After that, it was time for some fussy cutting and time to get out the Sizzix machine and press out some leaves and the dreamcatcher.  I was going to use the dreamcatcher that is a part of the paper set, but I simply preferred the die cut one and used that.  Use of some of the tags with some ribbon makes for a really lovely embellishment.  A few pieces of ephemera and some bling and it is complete.  So many lovely elements.

So, I did two this time as I was enjoying these colours so much.  Below is my second layout, where I tried to grunge things up a bit and started stencilling with copper, silver and ?? with a few different stencil patterns.  Then let the layering begin and so the design was for a smaller photo.  My base paper was from the "Tears in the rain Vol. 2" collection and the remainder is all from the very gorgeous EverDream collection.  

2ND LAYOUT

So this time I wanted to grunge it up a bit and so I turned to the blackish toned paper as part of the design and picked up the Lift me up design from the Tears in the Rain Vol 2 collection.  Definitely the perfect piece for my background.  As always I cover the paper with clear gesso to start as there will certainly be a few layers of texture to go on from here.  I then used a few different stencils and different texture pastes that I used and then some splatters from some sprays - not too much though!  I once again dipped into my chipboard stash and found a nice border piece which I then used some green embossing powders on and the purple ones I painted with Viva Gold inks.  A bit of fussy cutting and die cutting with the Sizzix machine and I have most of the ephemera I need.  A few more pieces were found in my vast stash of mostly Kaisercraft elements from years gone by!  I am sure we all have an ever growing stash of ephemera ... don't we?

The beautiful thing about AltairArt papers is that there are lots of additional pieces of ephemera supplied, ready to be fussy cut and used in your layouts.  Out came the flowers and they were mixed in with my other decorative pieces, little pieces of bling here and there and then the final touch of micro beads and flakes and things and all done, oh, except for the inking of the edges in black of the entire page.

I just love this layout and am seriously enjoying these papers.  Have a lovely week all and see you next time.

smiles, 

Delia - www.jacobicreations.com

Paper collections used:

EverDream collection

Tears in the Rain Vol. 2 collection