Sister tags and Birds!!!

So, at the moment, I am into birds!!! Do you have phases, where you want to use something on a project and then all of a sudden, finding yourself using the same thing on several projects and looking on Pinterest for more inspiration!! I do it alot.

For my tutorial this month over at Off the Rails,  I decided to do a tag!  Then I thought, I could kill two birds with one stone, (so to speak!!), and make my tag for the Scrappingclearly tag swap at the same time. Therefore, for both tags, I have used the colours of our tag swap moodboard at Scrappingclearly, which is here:

So this is where the bird phase took shape.
I started with a couple of mixed media backgrounds, using Distress Ink and Micro Glaze for a resist technique! (You can see a step by step tutorial on the blog at Off the Rails!) ( I used stencils & Distress Ink, then rubbed the Micro Glaze over the top of the stencilled image which causes a resist of further wet mediums.)

I added some stamping, blended the edges and decorated with washi tape, twine, stamped images, (all from Kaszazz), and some flowers from Prima, Scrap Matrix, Merci and Kaisercraft.
I watercoloured the Bird images with Kaszazz, watercolour pencils.

Hope you like my tags! I have to give one away, but at least I get to keep the other one!!!
TFL.
Tania

Guest Designer for Kraft Plus September challenge

How excited do you think I was, when the lovely Sandra, from Kraft Plus invited me to be a Guest Designer this month. I was more than thrilled. I love playing along with their challenges!
They have the most beautiful moodboard this month for the Melon Colour challenge! It looks like this:



I fell in love with it, but immediately went into panic mode when I thought about what I would do with it. As it turns out, it all fell into place, and I came up with this:

I loved this Selfie pic I found on my daughter's Instagram feed, and I will take a screenshot of any that I like! It's getting harder to get pics of my kids these days, so this one was a great find!
I Gessoed my background and then went over it with some watercolour paints in the melon colours of the moodboard. I did the same in the bottom right corner.
My papers are cut from Amy Tangerine's Rise and shine 6x6" paper pad, the cute cut file is from Cocoa Vanilla Studio, and there's a D-Lish Scraps doily there. Finished it off with some cute little rhinestones from Scrap Matrix and some cute pink alphas from Heidi Swapp!

Thanks for looking!

D-Lish Scraps February Moodboard Challenge

I've managed to find a little time for a few extra challenges this month. I'm loving all of the moodboards around the place, but this one from D-Lish Scraps caught my eye. It went perfect with the New Crate Paper HELLO LOVE papers I just purchased! Here is their gorgeous mood board!


And here is my layout!!!

 I love these papers!!! I didn't need alot of other products, as their are tags and cut outs in this collection. I did use some Distress Inks for my water colour background. I got my large circle punch out to punch the corners of the black and white paper, love this look, thanks to the inspiration on the sketch! There's a doily in there, some cute little chippies and Project Life cards from Heidi Swapp & here's a close up showing my text I added to the photo with my Aviary Editor on my phone!

I also added my journaling with a computer font. I tried to mimic the typewriter font on the little 'true love' banner!
This last image is a close up of how cool the Distress Inks look as watercolours on my background. I love how the texture of the cardstock shows up through the inks! TFL

A couple more projects inspired by Big Picture Classes lessons!!!

I'm really loving my membership over at Big picture Classes. I love that I have all these classes to choose from for such a small payment each month. The inspiration is amazing, so many cool teachers!!! Love all the choices of projects too. I can choose from cards, scrapbooking, art journalling and more, whatever my mood is, there's something to inspire me!!!! So here's a couple more cards I did this week!

The first card was about using build it up stamps, which I don't have an actual set of, so I just found a really large Grant Archival set in my stash and used a few of the cool little flourishy ones! I used Colorbox inks in some Spring colours.

The 2nd one was about finding inspiration in art, stationery or decor, or everyday! I found this cool tissue box while doing the shopping and had a play at circles. I used a cork and some Dylusions and Heidi Swapp Color Shine to stamp the circles and then watercolour paints in the middle. I also layered a die cut sentiment and embossed it with gold 3 times which I'm kind of in love with the results.

First challenge complete National Scrapbooking Day

Finished my first challenge for Big Picture Classes. This was challenge 3, create a water colour background. I did mine with Distress inks spritzed with water and then a layered stamped background.I sprayed some Dylusions on my acrylic block and used a circle stamp to add another layer. The papers are yummy Amy Tangerine, Stitched and Rise and Shine paper stacks. I added some hidden journalling in a cute little stick on envelope from EK Success, and I am happy to say, that's been in my stash for years....and finally used!

I love building layers with stamps and stencils, and I really love this colour scheme! I am def. in a yellow and orange mood today! TFL. 

A lesson complete at Big Picture Classes

So here's another nifty little card I made inspired by Big Picture Classes and Lea Lawson.

the watercolour background is created using Distress Inks on my craft mat, then spritzed with water. I took my watercolour card and Smooshed, (as per Lea!!!) it around to blend the ink colours. I love this technique and have played with it on layouts and cards previously. I'm now working on a set using this technique and my brand new Kaszazz Dream catcher stamp set...Yummo, watch this space!