Love Layout on the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog

I'm back on my blog today to feature a Mixed Media  "Love" Scrapbook Layout for Southern Ridge Trading Company. Our Monthly Challenge this month is all about love, which gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, there is still time to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my "Love" Scrapbook Layout and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.

To start my layout, I applied a thin layer of heavy white Gesso randomly in the middle of my patterned paper. Once the Gesso dried, I painted a layer of Dark Velvet and Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint over top of the Gesso.

After both layers of paint had dried, it was time to add some hearts. To do that, I placed my stencil in the middle right of the page, and applied texture paste through two rows of the heart stencil by Tim Holtz. I repeated the same step with the stencil in the middle top left of the page. Once the texture paste hearts had dried, then came the fun part of spritzing my entire page. I used Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal, Pressed Petal and Perfect Pearls Mist to cover the middle, texture paste hearts and parts around the painted middle of the page.

The spritzing will take a while to dry, so I would leave it for at least 2 hours before moving on. Once the spritzing is dry, I used my chicken wire stamp and applied Black Archival Ink to it and slightly stamped over top of the bottom right hand row of hearts and then right over the top of the two top rows of  hearts. 

I wanted to liven up my Rectangle Scroll Frame so I covered it in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Dark Velvet Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire frame. After the crackle paint had dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire frame. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts.

The next piece I wanted to liven up was the Love Word  and a heart so I covered them booth in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint had dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire heart and love word. After the crackle paint dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire heart and love word. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts on both pieces. 

For the Heart Scramble background, I sprayed it with two coats of Vintage Coal Colour Bloom. 

The last element I created to finish my layout was embossing the tips of my large flowers and medium flower with Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder. 

Some finishing touches for my layout included adding a variety of smaller black and white flowers around the larger pink and purple flowers. 

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

-Rectangle Scroll Frame

-Love Word

-Heart Scramble Background

-Heart

-40mm Purple Flowers

-40mm Pink Flowers

-15mm White and Black Flowers

-10mm White Flowers

Other Supplies Used:

-Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brushes & Palette Knife

-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Black Soot Distress Ink & Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy

-Ranger: Perfect Pearls Spray- Perfect Pearl, Texture Paste & Archival Ink - Black

-Prima Marketing: Acrylic Paint - Dark Velvet & Vintage Rose, Heavy Gesso - White, Color Bloom - Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal & Pressed Petal & Tales of You & Me - Contes des toi et moi

-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder

-Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil

-Bo Bunny: Distressed Textures Stamp

-Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark

I have added this project to the Anything but Cute Challenge - Grungy Love: http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/02/challenge-10-grungy-love.html

Thanks for taking the time to check out my "Love" Scrapbook Layout. Stayed Tuned for some more inspiration next week!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

February Remix Tag - "Today is full of Possibilities"

It's time for my February "Tim Tag". I'm excited as I have now completed two months in a row!!

This year for Tim's 12 tags, it's all about remixing past techniques and combining them together with other techniques that he has used over the past years. This month's tag features the Monoprint and Embossed Texture Paste Technique.  

For this month's tag, I decided to use the Gothic, Bricked and Typo stencils to create the base of my tag.

I  love the effect that the monoprint technique gives to the base of the tag.  When I embossed  over top of the texture pasted Typo numbers and alphabet, I used Emerald Creek Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder. I love how they turned out. 

Because I didn't have any photo booth found relatives, I improvised and used one of the relatives out of the Found Relatives set. Once I had chose my relative, I trimmed him down to 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" and then rounded the corners. 

To finish my tag, I added the gears to the bottom right hand corner as well as the top left hand corner. I ended up combining the small gears with larger gears together and love how they work so well together. I also added film strip underneath the top and bottom of my relative,  attaching with a staple at either end of each film strip. The last pieces I added to my tag was the ribbon at the top of the tag and adding the saying to the bottom of the tag.

I love how this tag turned out and I can't wait for next month's tag! 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my second 12 tags of 2016 inspired by Tim Holtz.

Products Used: 

-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Antique Linen Distress Stain, Distress Sprayer, Walnut Stain Distress Ink, Pumice Stone Distress Ink & Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

-Ranger: Texture Paste

-Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Gothic, Typo & Bricked Stencils

-Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Film Strip Ribbon, Mini Gears, Sprocket Gears, Linen Ribbon, Small Talk & Stapler

-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Lucky Clover Challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a new challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares blog, featuring "Lucky Clover". When we received this challenge it took me a while to figure out what I was going to do. I don't normally do anything for St.Patricks Day, so this was a great challenge for me. For my project I decided that I would create a fun St. Patricks Day themed tag. 

To start my tag,  I blended Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto the tag with my blending tool. Once I was happy with the blended colour, I spritzed some water onto the tag to give it a  watermarked effect. 

After the watermarks had dried, I added some shamrocks on the background of my tag using the smallest heart from the heart stencil by Tim Holtz and Lucky Clover Distress Ink.

Before the background on my tag was finished, I went around the edges with Tim Holtz Embossing Distress Ink. Once the ink was around the edges, I covered the edges using Vegas Gold Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek. After the edges were covered, I heated the embossing powder with my heat tool. 

I wanted to use the Floral Frame Corners in a couple of the corners on my tag, so I covered them using Gold Adirondack Alcohol Ink to continue keep on my gold and green theme. 

I wanted to add a Leprechaun onto my tag, so I used the Paddy stamp from Emerald Creek and stamped it onto white cardstock.  I coloured my Paddy using Lucky Clover, Black Soot and Antique Linen Distress Markers. Once the colouring was done, I precision cut around him.

The next part was the fun part, creating my own custom shamrocks. The nice thing about shamrocks is they don't have to be perfect, so I took my Dina Wakley - Collaged Hearts stamp and stamped four small hearts onto my white cardstock. Once they were stamped, I covered the hearts with Embossing Distress Ink and sprinkled St. Paddy's Day Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek over top of them. After the hearts were covered with the embossing powder, I heat embossed them and then cut them out with scissors. 

After the large shamrocks were created, I moved on to creating two sets of smaller shamrocks. Since I didn't have smaller stamps, I used the large heart from the heart stencil by Tim Holtz. I created 8 hearts using Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Ink. Once I was happy with the colouring of the shamrocks, I cut each one out. With the leftover white cardstock, I blended Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron onto the cardstock and then cut out strips for my shamrocks. 

The final piece that I needed to create for my tag was a title. I blended Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto another piece of white cardstock. Once the colour was the way I wanted it, I took some alphabet stamps I had and stamped "LUCKY" onto the coloured cardstock. After the tittle was stamped and cut out, I went around the edges with Embossing Distress Ink and then sprinkled Vegas Gold Embossing Powder over top. Once the embossing powder was on, I embossed it with my heat tool.

Some finishing touches for my tag was placing the shamrocks were I desired first before adhering my gold corners to my tag. I also wanted to hide my Paddy, so I placed him amongst the sparkly clover to draw a bit of attention to him. Once the other two shamrocks and the title were placed, I adhered the gold corners. The final finishing touch to my tag was the custom ribbon, I dyed it with Lucky Clover Distress Spray Stain and Perfect Pearls Mist in Perfect Pearl.

Products Used from Emerald Creek:

- Paddy

- Vegas Gold Embossing Powder

- St. Paddys Day Embossing Powder

- Floral Frame Corners

- Twisted Citron Distress Ink

- Lucky Clover Distress Ink

- Lucky Clover Distress Spray Stain

- 100lb Cardstock

- Heart Stencil 

Other Products Used: 

- Ranger/Tim Holtz: Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Gold Mixative, Distress Markers - Lucky Clover, Antique Linen & Black Soot, Blending Tool/Replacement Foam

- Ranger/ Dina Wakley: Collaged Hearts Stamp Set

- Ranger: Archival Ink, Perfect Pearl Mist - Perfect Pearl, #8 Manilla Tags

- Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Crinkle Ribbon

- Amy Tangerine: Documented Alphabet Stamps

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Julia

Cathy

Diana

Shilpa

Claudia

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my "Lucky" St. Patrick's Day themed tag. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Love Wall Hanging on the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog

I'm back on my blog today to feature a Mixed Media  Love Wall Hanging for Southern Ridge Trading Company. Our Monthly Challenge this month is all about love, which gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, there is still time to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my Love Wall Hanging and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.

To start, I needed to get my Mat Board base ready, so I primed it with a coat of White Gesso. Once the White Gesso was dry, I covered the Gesso layer in a layer of Ruby paint. After the paint was dry, I wanted to add more to my background. To get the script background, I applied Candied Apple Distress Ink to the entire script stamp and stamped onto the background. I continued apply ink to the stamp and stamping until I reach the end of the Mat Board. Before the ink dried on the stamped background, I cover the entire background with Onyx Frost Embossing Powder, then I heat embossed it. 

To add some extra dimension to the background I took my Heart stencil and applied Texture Paste to the middle top left corner and to the middle bottom right corner. Once the texture paste was dry, this came the fun part of getting to spray the entire background. I started with a layer of Abandoned Coral, then a layer of Black Soot, then a layer of Candied Apple and to finish, I added a layer of Perfect Pearls. 

Once the sprays were dry, I took Picket Fence Distress Paint, Worn Lipstick Distress Paint and Penny Paint and splatter them over the background to add some extra texture with a paint brush.

Once my background was done and the splatters were dried, I started working on the Rope Heart. For the rope heart, I covered it with a layer of Candied Apple Distress Ink. Once the Distress Ink was applied, I covered the rope heart with a layer of Candied Apple Distress Paint. After the Distress Paint had dried, I added some highlights of Black Soot Distress Ink to the rope heart where I desired. My rope heart needed some more texture so I added a layer of Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint. Once the crackle paint dried, I applied VersaMark Ink over top of the heart and then sprinkled Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder over top of the entire rope heart. Once the rope heart was covered with embossing powder, I heat embossed it so that the embossing powder just melted, leaving some bubbles. 

The Love Word was quick and easy. I added a couple of layers of Worn Lipstick Distress Paint. Once the Distress Paint was dry, I covered the entire love word with VersaMark Ink. Once the VersaMark Ink was applied, I covered the entire love word with Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder and then heat embossed it. 

For the Wood Adore Tag, it was another quick and easy piece. I started by covering it in a layer of Picket Fence Distress Paint. Once the Distress Paint was dry, I took my blending tool with Black Soot Distress Ink on it and went over the entire Adore tag to highlight the word. 

My large coral and red flowers needed a highlight, so I covered them with VersaMark Ink and then sprinkled Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder over top of them. Once the flowers were covered with embossing powder, I heat embossed each one.

Some finishing touches for my wall hanging included adding a variety of smaller black, white, red and cream flowers around the larger coral and red flowers. The other thing I added were the metal key charms amongst the flowers as well as the "Love with all your heart" sticker to the bottom left of the rope heart. 

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

-Rope Heart

-Wood Adore Tags

-Love Word

-35mm Red Flowers

-40mm Coral Flowers

-15mm White and Black Flowers

-Red Roses

Other Supplies Used:

-Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brushes, Palette Knife, White Gesso, Ruby & Penny Paint

-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Candied Apple Distress Ink, Black Soot Distress Ink, Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy, Candied Apple Distress Paint, Worn Lipstick Distress Paint, Picket Fence Distress Paint, Black Soot Distress Spray Stain, Candied Apply Distress Spray Stain, Abandoned Coral Distress Spray Stain

-Ranger: Ultra Thick Embossing Powder: Clear, Texture Paste, Perfect Pearls Spray

-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Onyx Frost Embossing Powder, Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder, Metal Charm Keys

-Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Heart Stencil, Papillon Stamp Set

-Tim Holtz/Ideaology: Heirloom Roses, Small Talk

-Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark

-Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Red

I have added this project to the Anything but Cute Challenge - Grungy Love: http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/02/challenge-10-grungy-love.html

Thanks for taking the time to check out my Love Wall Hanging. Stayed Tuned for some more inspiration next week!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Anything Goes on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a new challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares blog, featuring "Anything Goes". When we received this challenge I was extremely excited as it mean't we were able to do whatever we wanted and use fantastic products from Emerald Creek. For my project I decided that I would mix mixed media and scrapbooking and combine the two on a layout.

To get the layout started, I randomly painted White Gesso in the middle of the patterned paper with a paint brush. 

Once the White Gesso was dry I used the Typo stencil from Tim Holtz and Texture Paste from Ranger and applied it in the middle bottom and middle top of the patterned paper. Once the Texture Paste was dry, I randomly sprayed Wilted Violet Distress Spray Stain over top of the stencil images and parts of the gesso. After the Wilted Violet was slightly dry, I sprayed Black Soot Distress Spray Stain over top of the stencil images and parts of the gesso that were still white.

Once the sprayed colours were dry, I splattered Black Gesso, White Gesso and Tarnished Brass randomly on the layout.

While the splatters were drying, I cut out two lattice images from the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Mixed Media die. Once the lattice die cuts were cut, I covered both lattice images with Black Soot Distress Ink and then covered the lattice die cuts with Onyx Frost Embossing powder from Emerald Creek. Once the pieces were covered with embossing powder, I took my heat tool and embossed them.

The other thing I did while waiting for the splatters to dry, was embossing the two large purple roses and four black roses. I covered the roses with Distress Embossing Ink and then covered the roses with Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder. Once the roses were covered in embossing powder, I used my heat tool to emboss them.

Some of the finishing touches for my layout were adding the Heart Brads and Metal Key Charms from Emerald Creek. As well as the word band, typed token and heirloom roses from Tim Holtz's Ideaology line.  Bunching all of these fantastic elements together created a fantastic bottom right and top left corner of the photo as well as highlighting the embossed lattice die cuts. 

Products Used from Emerald Creek:

- Onyx Frost Embossing Powder

- Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder

- Heart Brads

- Metal Key Charms

- Texture Paste

- Black SootDistress Spray Stain

Other Products Used: 

Southern Ridge Trading Company: 35mm Purple Roses & 15mm Black Roses

- Bo Bunny "C'est La Vie": Domino

- Bo Bunny Vintage Double Dot: Coffee

- Crafter's Companion: Ultra Smooth Cardstock

- Tim Holtz Ideaology: Typed Tokens, Word Bands - Observations and Heirloom Roses

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Typo Stencil

- Tim Holtz/Sizzix: Mixed Media Die

- Tim Holtz/Ranger: Distress Ink - Black Soot & Embossing, Distress Spray Stain - Wilted Violet, Distress Paint - Tarnished Brass

- Dina Wakley/Ranger: Black & White Gesso

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Julia

Cathy

Diana

Shilpa

Claudia

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my "Authentique" mixed media scrapbook layout. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn