Tuesday 3 July 2012

UKS blog hop

Welcome to the 2nd UK Scrappers blog hop!  The original post on UKS is here, and hopefully you've arrived here from Make The Day Special.  I hope you're finding lots of interesting projects - I decided to make a canvas for you...

For this simple canvas piece, I sprayed one pump of glimmermist onto the canvas, and tilted the board to let the ink run a little before using a heat gun to dry the colour. I made sure each colour was dry before I moved onto the next.  


 When I was happy with my coloured rainbow, I positioned my black and white photos in place so that I could plan where my title would go.


 To create the title, I took some sheets of chipboard letters and pushed out the letters that I would need in my title.
 I then used the negatives as a stencil and smoothed Martha Stewart Texture Paste over the letter.


For the butterflies, I used a Martha Stewart Punch All Over The page Butterfly Punch to make another stencil, and used this with the texture paste in the same way.

I added some white flowers and a leaf to finish...



 


Thanks for dropping by!  The next blog you need to visit is Quixotic Paperie.  We're giving away a £10 gift voucher to one lucky person who comments on our blog - and don't forget to comment on the UKS thread when you've visited everyone!  Enjoy the rest of the hop :) 

97 comments:

cathy0536 said...

Lovely LO, really nice ideas

fatmonica said...

I love this-that background's so effective and the lettering looks great.UKS fatmonica

hotpotato said...

love this layout Lou. hotpotato

rach said...

Wow, that layout is awesome! thanks for the inspiration

Ali said...

So clever, love those cute faces, and the paint dripping looks brilliant.

AliTS

Amy said...

great messy layout! My name is A_M_Y on UKS.

Bernice Hopper said...

Loving the hop. Well I would with a UKS name of hopberni

Helen said...

great layout Helen_a78

pmk said...

I absolutely love the lettering - going to have to try that!! pmk

Cheryl said...

Simple but fabulous
Cherry390

Patty said...

This is superb - and I have some of the canvas lying waiting to be taken out of its wrappers!!

Unknown said...

Very effective- love the butterflies.
Kim UKS

Karen said...

I really love that canvas - I need to make one just like it :) Kitty Crafts (UKS)

Helen said...

Nice ideas here. Thanks. Weehaggis

K said...

Oooo, I havent tried texture paint yet & it looks great **adds to list of things to try**
UKS Sylphraven

Scrappy~Sarah said...

Thanks Scrappy~Sarah

Suzy said...

Fab love it

UKS name suzycad

Jo_annepinc said...

Stunning really love it thank you for sharing Joannepink UKS

Anita said...

This is such a fun technique isn't it ( have done it with watery acrylic but not tried glimmermist yet) Love how your canvas turned out.
UKS anita m

Christine said...

Great idea for the textured butterflies. Fab canvas - thanks for sharing!

(UKS - chrisrydal)

BEX said...

Stunning LO, all the colour and texture just works so well together. Love the tag as well. UKS scrap3d

jill said...

cheek faces , great way to use colour. uks lemonblossom

chris said...

Simple but very effective, thank you
Chris
DippyD -UKS

Words and Pictures said...

Simply fabulous... love the background, and then the layering of photo, letters, butterflies is super. UKS flutterby69

Anonymous said...

i love how u have used the texture paste! UKS lintsi

Jibba Jabba said...

What a fab layout. Thank you. Jibba Jabba UKS

new2this said...

As a digi scrapper I don't have much in the way of "stash" .. but I think I could get a digi version of this that might look almost as good as this does - with a bit of luck! Thanks. UKS new2this

Ali said...

Fab project - I love it! The white space, the splodges of colour, the texture paste.. gorgeous! :)

UKS Alipeeps

Kat said...

Fabulous colours for the canvas! Thanks!

UKS Kat

Anne said...

Lovely project, already got an idea for a photo I have. Thank you.
anne88 on UKS

Karen said...

great page - love the white space and the colour runs. Karen barker

Lelly said...

Great ideas - will have to try stencilling with that pasted
UKS lelly

GlitteryKatie said...

Flippin' love it!!! UKS Katie

Yolanda said...

love the all the texture, great LO UKS Scrappyyo

Elaine said...

This is great - love the use of letter waste for stencils and the white embellies against the colourful background.

Mole said...

I was curious to see how this worked out - great result! Mole - UKS

Olive said...

i just love this idea. Thank you. - UKS Freedom

littlenat said...

Cool - some great ideas to try out here!

HilaryB said...

Great technique thanks for the insiration. Tigerlady

MiniOwner said...

This is one I will definitely do. It's gorgoeus.
Thank you.
Sue x
(MiniOwner)

vixen said...

Wow loving the title technique must give that ago, the layout looks stunning :) from Boland :)

Maggie said...

Great idea, I have to try this!
Maggie B @ UKS

lizzylou said...

absolutely fab i think im turning all inky and i NEED some textured paste:) thankyou so much for the inspiration. uks lizzylou

sixofone aka Leah said...

I love the simplicity of this. UKS sixofone

Sian said...

The effect that this has is gorgeous! It reminds me of a project I saw in Scrap 365! Absololutely lovely! Thanks. Sian - UKS Violaceous

Jayne in Norfolk said...

Very cool idea
Love the idea of this in canvas form for the wall

UKS jaykay

sam said...

love the arty side to this LO.
bubble460

Lousette said...

WOW - I LOVE this project. Stunning! UKS Lousette

susibee said...

So simple, but so effective.

Susibee

Ifa said...

Loving the texture paste! Thank you for sharing. UKS Ifa

furrypig said...

I love the simplicity of this page it is so effective, furrypig

Sue said...

very effective Love the layout - sue1952

Sue said...

very effective Love the layout - sue1952

Dawn said...

Fabulous, love the canvas idea!

Dawn said...

Sorry forgot to say i'm Mrs Cheshire Uks

Unknown said...

Really love this page- gorgeous!
UKS Laura Godfrey

Jimjams said...

I spotted this gorgeous post go live late last night but wanted to do the hop in order so have waited until now to comment!
Fab fab fab - what a great way to add lettering - pinning that :o) - though the letter "O"s must have been hard!
Jemma aka Jimjams x

Summer Sunflower said...

Absolutely fabulous, such a great way to use the negative, great idea, thanks for sharing!

UKS NAME Summer Sunflower

Lynne Vowles said...

Stunning, I love the contrast of the paste and the crispness of the letters.

Beadmad x

Chell said...

WOW!!! Lovely Lo...

UKS GOSIE

Bush Girl said...

WOW! That's such a cool LO - I totally have to try this. Thank you. UKS Bush Girl

KraftyKaren said...

Fab technique - thanks for sharing

Badgerleader

Suzanne said...

How cool! I have some texture paste from YEARS ago, perhaps I ought to dig it out again. fruitysuet.

Melanie Marshall said...

I love what you did with the butterflies and title lettering - great idea for texture! Thank you for the inspirational - UKS Pinkladymel

Melanie Marshall said...

I can't believe how much work goes in to the colouring - it looks so life like! Beautiful work, as always. Thank you for the inspiration and teaching me how to colour :) UKS Pinkladymel

Anonymous said...

What an amazing idea!! Love your use of white in contrast with the colours!!! I'm egratsia on UKScrappers!

Lou said...

I really need to get some textured paste, this is gorgeous. UKS - Louise172

Lynne said...

You make it look so easy! Thanks UK name retired nana x

Mrs Bookworm said...

Wow I absolutely love this!! Been thinking about possibly doing some kind of layout on a canvas as a gift, so thankyou for the inspiration!
UKS: acraftybookworm

Weasel said...

What a simple idea - but how very effective! TFS, UKS Weaselwise

Trish said...

Love it - the texture stuff looks interesting!
UKS Chick

Glen said...

That looks very interesting and unique. Lots of lovely texture. TFS. UKS ArtAngel

Tigs said...

Love the background you made for the layout :)
UKS Tigs

Lynne said...

That is so sweet, love the colours UKS Lynne

Niki Rowland said...

Wow this is really cool! xx (ScrapHappyNiki)

Jules said...

Fabulous! Yorkshirelass :D

nerllybird said...

That's fab, Lou, brilliant way to use those alpha sheets! x
Nerlly

Minty Magic said...

Wow this is fabulous - so simple but gorgeous! UKS Minty Magic

Dee said...

I love using drippy paint on LOs. Looks fab. Craftdee

RachyK said...

I love the way the ink has run, even though there's not much on there, it makes it look so colourful :) UKS RachyK

Unknown said...

I love this and may well have to scrap lift. Thanks for sharing x

Sharon S said...

This one of my favourite projects of the day! Lovely!! UKS Sharon1973

Unknown said...

Love your layout... wonderful ideas.
Thank you for sharing.
Hugs
UKS: kimmie_35

tape said...

Oh, this is fabulous!

Fran said...

This is so effective. Thanks
UKS Hedgie

Jennie said...

That is lovely. Such a good effect.
TFS
Jencrafts

Jess said...

Absolutly beautiful thanks for sharing x
UKS- Jessbaby

nickir said...

Lovely. Thanks for the inspiration.
UKS - Nickir

Flossyjamba said...

My favourite project so far. LOVE IT!!! Thanks! Uks flossyjamba

Dee said...

Flutterbys always please, lovely LO.

UKS Dee100

Suze said...

Great inspiration! I love the use of the texture paste. UKS: Cruzysuzie

Eileen said...

Really effective, not sure I'm brave enough to use the stencilling paste straight on the LO, though ...
(UKS Eileen C)

lynnyoung1511 said...

Fabulous LO, thanks :)

Annie Claxton said...

Absolutely stunning - love it! UKS: annieclaxton

Scrapping4fun said...

gorgeous layout, uks alison-lee

stitching lady said...

lovely mix of colour and texture
UKS name stitching lady

Claveh said...

Thank you, this is just so unusual, and I must have a go. xxx Claveh