Shabby Card with "Scarlet" digitals...

Here is a little shabby chic card I created with Marion Smith's new printable digitals called "Scarlet"!!

The other day I decided to play along with a card sketch...

I love all the soft colors and tones of this printable digial!

It's so fun to sew on your card fronts with using your sewing machine, adding stucco/gesso texture with a mask stencil...

cutting on the Cricut to get the different shapes to highlight

the Die~Namites Die "bamboo sticks"!!

Add a little pink flower with leaves (white washing)

Cutting little butterflies images out of the Scarlet printable digital!!

Great way to create embellishments!

close up of the card...

don't forget to add liquid pearls and spray little bit of glimmer on your card...

thanks for stopping by,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Marion Smith Designs

http://www.marionsmithdesigns.com/scarlet-12x12-8x8-or-6x6-printable-papers-and-embellishments-please-sign-into-an-account-before-purchase.html

Supplies:

Marion Smith Designs: Scarlet Digitals

Die~Namites Dies: Bamboo Sticks

Prima: Cabaletta Summer 2 Pink Flower

Leaves and Demask mask

Ranger: Liquid Pearls-Bisque, Perfect Pearls Mists-Blue Patina

CTMH: Cricut Art Philosophy and Artiste Cartridges

Gesso/Stucco

Featured Artist - Misty Russell

Hi!  Misty Russell here, and I am just so honored to have this chance to share a little about myself  with you today!  I'm a mom of two totally awesome kiddo's who constantly make me laugh (they take after their dad), and I have one of the best men on earth to call my husband.   Most of the subjects on my pages are my kids or my nieces and nephews.  Really, its a contest of who has the best pics at the time! lol
 

 I found Artsy Addicts through their facebook page over 6 months ago and have been so inspired by the amazing talent there. 

 

I started scrapping in September 2010.  What started out as a work project for a convention we were attending, ended up as an obsession that I can't get enough of!   I googled "scrapbook ideas" so that I could get an idea of what to do, and when I started going through online galleries my jaw dropped.  I had no clue that scrapbooking could be such an art form!  It was unlike anything I had ever seen before.  So I was hooked.  I started out just playing around and trying on different styles, but ultimately the grungy, mixed-media pages are what stole my heart. 

 

I love the freedom that can be had with this style, because you can let go of all your perfectionism and just create...and it can be so therapeutic!  Most of my pages start out on a certain path and almost every time I "ruin" something that I was attempting, but the great thing about mixed media is that you can always turn it around into something kind of cool and/or really beautiful.... 

Some of my favorite projects were created by making some big, ugly mistakes...but thankfully, through the process of creating they turned into something that I hadn't expected, but really loved!

 

Here are a few of the projects I've created over the past 3 months...
 

 

 

 

The page that I've created for today is definitely on the dramatic grungy side...

 

I've used lots of modeling pastes and mists for the background, and I always finish a page with some Scrap Fx chipboard! The picture is of my niece Marisa. Like most of my nieces she is always taking pics of herself, and this time she noticed that there was a little orb of light reflecting back in the camera, so she started playing around and took this creative pic. I love how it looks like she is holding it...

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for this opportunity to share with you today!  I hope that I was able to inspire you to let go of perfectionism a little, and just create for the sake of creating! 

 

 

Misty Russell
Featured Artist - June 2013

 

Mixed Media Monday

I got to have some creative play this week with a friend and knew I wanted to create a mixed media canvas for someone special. That is why there is no title on this art piece yet (I will post after I have mailed this art piece out)! This was a lot of fun to create...

It all started with a plan 6x6 canvas, I glued down some wrinkled natural tissue paper.

I forgot to snap a photo of me trying out my new find which was Martha Stewart Stucco Paint where I used Crafters Workshop stencils with Splash of Color Primary Elements: Majestic Blue-Costa Rica and Dragon Wing powders those are so cool to mixed with molding paste or stucco like I used.

I used my favorite Tim Holtz Sizzix die: Tattered Floral which I cut with Coraline fabric with some of my favorite Tattered Angels glimmer mist. I just love how the Coraline will hold it's shape while being dried. I also used some Petaloo flowers that came in white.

I used some Dusty Attic chipboard pieces, which I cut apart and gesso them with spraying glimmer mist to give a weathered look.

These are Tim Holtz Sizzix die: Gears gesso-glimmer misted!!!

I just love how they came out.

Here is a close up of the handmade flowers with a Prima flower.

The next sets of photos show case the textures of adding layers of:

gesso, stucco, glimmer mist and stamping.

the fibers are cheese cloth covered in glimmer mists....

oops-I was being lazy and used my hand to clean my stamp...lol

and whoola my finished canvas (only needs a title) and will be complete and I hope my friend that someone special will enjoy it.

Don't be afraid of mixed media grab a few supplies and just start playing, it's all about the layers...enjoy!!

Thanks for stopping in today, remember to leave a comment!!

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Splash of Color: Primary Elements

Martha Stewart: Stucco paint

Gesso

Ranger: Archival Black ink, stamps and Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte

and Perfect Pearl Mist: Heirloom Gold, Blue Patina and Sunflower Sparkle and handmade distressed mixture of vintage photo and brushed corduroy.

and Tim Holtz Alternations Dies: Gears and Tattered Florals

Prima: flower

Petaloo: white flowers

Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist

Turqouise Blue

Graphite

Aquamarine

Coffee shop

Melissa Frances: resin lock

Coraline

gems, cheese clothe

Dusty Attic: chipboard pieces

Vintage Telegram Card

I have been playing with Marion's new Vintage Telegram printables and wow they are so fun and beautiful designs to create with. So last night I wasn't in a creative mood (tired or creative block) I had started to create a card wasn't feeling it tossed it aside to revisit at another time. Have you ever done that? I have to many times...hehe

I was ready to give up then I grabbed my folder of the printables and while I was flipping through the folder the black and white prints just jumped out at me. About 1 hour later whooola this little gem of a card was born, and I love it so not my colors (yes no pink)!!

Card size is 4 1/4 x 6

Distressed all the edges of papers and inked in black soot distress ink.

Used Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix dies (Distressed Doily and Gadget Gears).

Tissue tape from Prima Romance Novel line, gave a great boarder look to the edge of doily cutout.

I used Melt Art Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel in Platinum

to the gears to give depth and texture to the card.

Steps:

1. die cut out gears with chipboard

2. paint the chipboard gears black

3. press the chipboard gear pieces into VersaMark Ink

4. shake on embossing enamel  and heat set.

5. to take shinny finish away-I used sand paper to rough the enamel up...

Close up of flowers ohhh I love how the Graphite glimmer mist just shines!

It's cool how you can still see some of the before color peaking out in places.

Grab you glimmer and mist away!

I didn't have any black flowers so I went digging into my box of flowers and said perfect time to play with some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

 Raven black and Graphite colors!!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Vintage Telegram Printables

Kraft Card stock Base

Prima: Romance Novel Tissue tape, roses

Tattered Angels: Raven, Graphite glimmer mist

Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix dies: Gadget Gears, Distressed Doily

Distressed ink: Black Soot

Seam Binding

Averie Kay - Mixed Media

It is so much fun watching my pages evolve as the trends change.  My latest obsession is mixed media, and I love incorporating it into my scrapbook projects. While I've been doing this for a few years, I love how my technique has evolved. I just can't get enough of the stencils, molding paste, India inks, and gesso. I mean really -  this takes dirty to an entirely new level. 

In today's share - I wanted to showcase this layout that I created of my Niece Averie. The picture was taken last year during an impromptu photo shoot.  She just propped up and I snapped. Tell me she isn't a natural!

This piece is mounted on a piece of Donna Salzar's Corrugated Card board that was distressed and painted with white gesso.  Then a sheet of Prima Madeline Parkway paper was used for the backdrop. I ripped it, tore it, and distressed it with the new Prima Distress tool. Then to add texture, I glued down all the scraps laying on my desk which included pieces of a doily, hymnal pages, linen strips, and I also included a few strips of Masking tape. I tried not to glue the edges of these elements down so that I could "fluff " them up for texture.   Then I used the stencil and molding paste to add even more texture.  Once the molding paste dried (over night), I then gave the entire background a coat of gesso to make all the elements become cohesive.  To define certain areas of the background I sprinkled a few drops around the canvas of the Iced Spruce Distress reinker.  Then spritzed it with water to dilute it and make it drip.  I love how the background is soft yet course with texture.

I then began to work with my floral spray and layered elements. All the metal pieces were different colors and I found this distracting.  So I grabbed my Snow Cap alcohol ink, and began recoloring them.  This helped them blend into the background, I then dry brushed a bit of the Prima Worn Jean Chalk over the top to give them a little more pop.  The burgundy roses in the Tendrils Grape vine were a bit too bright, so I dry brushed some gesso over them.  I love how this technique made them look shabby like they were part of the wall when it was painted.

I tucked a tag in behind the picture so that I could write Ms. Averie a message.  I think that journaling becomes distracting when I use these as canvases on my wall. However, I feel that journaling is important so I try to hide it somewhere on the layout or place it on the back.  To make the tag blend better with the layout - I distressed it with the Iced Spruce, and Antique Linen. Then I tied off a shabby torn piece of seam binding that I had died with the Ice Spruce.  This made it more elegant, and called attention to the fact that it needed to be pulled out.

Who would have thought that you could take all those grungy supplies and create something this beautiful?

Thanks you all for stopping in today.

Tonya A. Gibbs
http://www.psychomoms.com


Resources:

• Prima: Distress Tool, Madeline: Parkway Paper, Chalk: Worn Jeans, Millinery Collection Oatmeal, Flowered Tendrils Grape, Marion Smith Trinkets: Metal Flowers #4, Metal Flower #3, Shabby Chic Metal Treasures: Hitches (Birdcage)
• Pink Paislee: Butterfly Charm
• Ranger: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Adornments (bird), Adirondack Alcohol Ink: Snow Cap, Distress Reinkers: Iced Spruce, Distress Ink: Antique Linen, #5 Shipping Tag (manila)
• Zutter: Donna Salzar Corrugated Card Board.
• Golden: White Acrylic Gesso, Molding Paste, Gel Medium Matt
• Crafter's Workshop: Brick Stencil 6x6
• Misc. Lace, Hymnal Pages, Doily, Burlap, Seam Binding (ivory), linen cloth, Masking tape,
• Silhouette Cameo
• Font: Alexie Cooperplate