Love - 49 and Market - Art Options Rouge Collection

Hi, Rebecca with you, and today I’m sharing my first layout created with the ‘Art Options Rouge’ collection from 49 and Market. This is such a stunning collection filled with reds, pinks and greens and perfect for documenting so many memories. You can shop the collection here. 

I was inspired by the different shades of red and pink in this collection and decided to have a play with my Alcohol Inks and create a mixed media background. For alcohol inks to work properly and react with the blending solution, a special paper is required. It’s actually more like plastic than cardstock! 

I begun by adding some isopropyl alcohol to my background and then added different shades of red alcohol ink. The inks immediately started to react with the isopropyl and blend together forming a gorgeous effect. I added more isopropyl and then moved the inks around using a blower tool. I applied the inks diagonally on my background, making sure to add enough so that I wouldn’t cover it all up when I started to build my layout on top! 

The alcohol inks dried pretty quickly, which is great for me as I’m quite impatient! I added a layer of red Bazzill cardstock behind my photo, along with a layer of foam, and placed it in the centre of my page. Around it, I embellished with florals and leaves from the Laser Cut Outs - Wildflower. I adore these packs in 49 and Market collections - there are always so many pieces in them and they are always so beautiful. 

I layered the florals diagonally through my photo, following the line of the mixed media. 

For my title, I used a chipboard word from Dusty Attic which says ‘Love’. To make it more interesting (and sparkly!), I heat embossed it with a gold embossing powder. Heat embossing on chipboard is so easy and really jazzes it up. 

I finished off my layout with a few phrase banners and hearts from the chipboard set, some gold splatters and some sequins in coordinating colours. 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this layout. The Rouge collection is truly stunning and I can’t wait to get stuck back in with my second layout. 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Rebecca x

@preciouspagespapercraft

Back to Nature ..... G45 Woodland Friends

Hello,

 It's Anita here with you today and I would like to share a project I have just made after my scrapping mojo left the building once again!

I have some lovely G45 Woodland Friends papers and bits left in my DT kit from last month and this photo of myself, my Mum and Sister on a recent visit to our local reservoir was looking to be used, so I paired them together.

 I was having a sort out of cupboards and drawers at home and found a broken clock that I should have thrown away ages ago really. I am glad I didn't now as it's made quite a nice photo frame instead and with a nice cream base made it easy to work on straight away.

I started by dabbing on some alcohol inks using a small piece of felt and an old wooden rubber stamp handle with a bit of velcro on to grip the felt. The ink was a colour called Expresso and it was actually really nice to use some old stash that has been rattling round in my craft room for ages. After the ink I also dabbed some ivory acrylic paint randomly to help blend the ink. 

The clock face has been covered with a circle cut from a sheet of Woodland Friends on the lovely reverse side, which had a very nice plaid pattern and I then matted the photo on a piece of Dark Green cardstock. Using a Martha Stewart punch and some more Dark Green card I also punched out some little leaf sprays to scatter about later on.

This range of papers have some fabulous images of various woodland animals across them and I decided to theme this project with the various squirrels.

So using a sheet of  Be Curious I set about fussy cutting lots of squirrels, branches, a bird and a bird with its nest to decorate around the clock face ( this felt like it took forever!!)

Once I had cut several out I placed them round the clock face and stuck them down when I was happy with the positioning. A good old rummage in my flower basket turned up some mulberry paper leaves and tiny brown roses, so I scattered these randomly around the edges.... inbetween the branches and the squirrels.

A couple of stickers from the Woodland Friends Sticker sheet were added to just finish the project up and that was it! It was actually really nice trying something different for a change and the amazing papers that G45 produce have so much detail on them, they are really versatile.

You can see a great selection of them HERE

That's it for me today, I hope you have enjoyed seeing my project. When you are having a sort out, before throwing things in the bin, have a look and see if you could alter them to re-cycle and re love.

Warmest wishes 

Anita xxx

 

Colour By Numbers

Here is a little extra layout I created with Alcohol Inks I purchased from Papermaze. I also used some cardstock left over from the May kit and some Yupo Paper from my own stash.

The photo is from a dance show my girls took part in some years ago.

I started by gutting the sheet of Yukon Gold Bazzill Cardstock to leave a frame of 2.5cm. I had some A3 Yupo paper, and I cut this down to 29.5 x 29.5cm. Before mounting the Yupo over the Bazzill, I worked on it with the Alcohol Inks.

I selected Orange Sunset and Honeycomb Alcohol Inks, and Enchanted Pearl Alcohol and dripped these over the page, I allowed them to run into one another and then added some Alcohol Blending Solution to lighten and blend the colours. Then I added a few drops of Gold Alcohol Mixative creating polished golden highlights to the mix.  

Once throughly dry I added this to the Bazzill frame created earlier.

My photo was mounted onto some Black Bazzill, and arranged to the centre of the page. With Tim Holtz - Stacked Labels - Sizzix Thinlits dies, I cut a journalling plate and frame using the Yukon Gold and Black Bazzill. I scribbled my journalling onto the card and mounted it onto the page with some black organza ribbon.

I found some felt alphabet stickers in my stash and used them to create the title. Then with some smaller, old black alpha stickers, I scattered random numbers over the page.

Finally I trimmed some phrases from the Jen Hadfield - Reaching Out collection - Stick Together paper, and added them to the sides of the photo.

Thanks for looking. Busy working on the June kit now and will be sharing the layouts next week.
Lynn x