Fussy cutting the new Altair Art papers

Hello All

Back again, with a post that is a little late.  Not good at all, however, check out this little piece of loveliness ... Altair Art has released some new papers - awesome, I know!!  The range is called Nightfall and it is full of some rather unusual layouts that should get your creativity churning.

For my first one, I selected the green as my base paper and then I fussy cut the flowers out of another piece and mounted them with double sided tape around the page.  I did spray a bit more green around the die cut elements just to give them a bit of shadow effect.  After that it is the usual layering process until it is finished.  That's it from me for this month, see you early next month.  See a couple of pictures below.

Don't forget to check out the challenge for this month too - lots of fun.

Take care, be good, be kind and most of all, find time to create.  Loads of love, Delia

Keen on Green with Altair Art papers

Hello All,

Almost late with my first layout of the month.  Do you have some creative moments when the design just takes a little longer to finish than others?  Well, this layout was one of those for me and then having a deadline coming down on me causes pressure which is not good for creativity.  I think the message in there is to get my act together earlier - it is just that life is so busy all the time these days and I do not get that considering I live out in rural Australia!

So, this layout I used one of the new Christmas papers as I really wanted to utilise the green of the paper as the photo I am going to put in this layout is one of a child peaking through some leaves and flowers.

To create the photo matte, I used a variety of Altair Art paper scraps from all my various layouts.  I then dug through my die cut pieces and found these groovy squiggles from ScrapFX to use coming out from the image and built on those with flowers and a few other pieces.

Hope you like it, I really do and I cannot wait to put the pic in it when my daughter finally gives it to me!  Enjoy all.  See you later in the month.

Wedding papers - new from Altair Art

My second scrapbooking layout for this month is a beautiful pink and gold piece created on the new Altair Art wedding range of papers called "The Beautiful Moments", along with a beautiful piece of chipboard from Dusty Attic and ephemera as provided in the paper pack.  The papers have a beautiful golden cream colour to them, but I did pink them up!

That is it for me this month, may you find some time to be creative before the month is over.  

Kindest wishes always, Delia

New papers mean more enjoyment

Altair Art have new papers, The Beautiful Moments Collection which is aimed towards being wedding papers, but the cream colouring lends itself to lots of other uses as well.  The other set is Christmas papers, but I have not delved into them for this month.

So, I pulled out a piece from The Beautiful Moments Collection and decided to go with the wedding theme.  I cut out some of the beautiful ephemera provided with the papers and ripped papers and got my base layout right and then it is just a simple matter of building up your photo area with flowers and string, cut out pieces of ephemera and so much more.  The word "Beautiful" is simply inked after painting it with Inka gold first to give it the beautiful shimmer that it now has.  I thought the sentiment was perfect to go with not only the layout, but the actual set of papers!

That is it for today, don't forget to check out the new challenge for this month as well and join in with your amazing artwork.  Have a lovely week all.

smiles, Delia

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.

Crazy busy but still finding time to enjoy my papers

So, since my last post, I have now seen much more of New South Wales and I think I have seen most of it now in the last 8 months!  I had to do a flying trip back to my old state of Queensland to change my drivers licence name and 3300 kilometres later, we finally arrived back home.  Needless to say, I am completely done with travelling .. until next month anyway!  Ho Hum.

However, before I left, I got my creative groove on so I could at least be up to date with my artworks and this is a little piece I created, but it is not quite finished as I really want to find the right pieces of ephemera to put with it and I am just a tad undecided, so it will have to sit until I am inspired by the right wording and pieces. However, I love the grey backdrop of the Altair Art paper against the maroon reddiness of the layout.  My favourite bit however is the die cut pieces of the flower.  I do not know where I got the die from, but it is totes brilliant.

Anyway, I hope you are all having much fun with your own creativity and wherever that may take you.  I have some very cool pieces in my possession for doing some off the page projects or I should also get my Silhouette machines up and happening and create some groovy 3-D piece.  Just so many options and never enough time.

Pictures below of my creative piece.  Kids are on school holidays which means I get much more time to be in my craft space ....

Channelling my inner pink with Altair Art

teehee.  I am very much having a pink fest at the moment in the art room.  My inspiration piece for the month is also pink, so I suspect not much pink will happen after this for a wee while!

Anyway, I did use a little bit of grey to try and tone down the pink, but all in all, it is quite pink, but it is pretty.

It is just a fun little layout, using all Altair Art papers and some ephemera along  with some Kaisercraft ephemera and other elements.  That is it for today all, I hope you all have a great month.

smiles,

PAPERS USED IN THIS LAYOUT COME FROM THE FOLLOWING

ALTAIR ART PAPER PACKS.

My first canvas

Soooo, thought I would try something a bit different for me this month and out came a canvas.  I have been wanting to try doing one of these for some time and I must say I was most unsure as to what to do.  I am a little bit funny when I design as I love everything I have to be a bit meaningful and yet I looooove the designers work who do loads of layering with huge amounts of elements.  I struggle with doing that as I don't like to be wasteful or covering up elements that I really like.

As my first canvas, I love it, but it is my first and I am quite sure that I would do many things differently on the next one, but for now, here it is.  The chipboard elements are from Dusty Attic and they are absolutely gorgeous, however, the majority of the paper elements are from the gorgeous Altair Art papers with a few Kaisercraft ephemera elements.

Cheers, Delia

Papers used are from the truly beautiful EverDream collection

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