"Reverse Canvas"

Novembers Green Tara DT work

I covered the top and bottom half of the canvas with different papers in blue and green tones to represent the sky and grass then lightly painted over the paper with a watered down white paint.

Using a brick template I created a brick wall with texture paste and distress inks. The brick wall also follows on inside the canvas. Adding a small stamped bird cage.

Adding several pieces of chipboard each one inked in several colours, the fence has had a treatment of white crackle paint. Using Green Tara wire cord I have twisted it around the fence and up the blossom tree to create a creeping vine adding flower soft and Green Tara roses for flowers on the vine.

Adding a cluster of beautiful flowers & leaves from Green Tara, I wanted smaller leaves but only had large ones left so I cut a maple leaf into 3 smaller ones . The darker flowers have had their tips lightly inked in white to tone them down a touch.

With Green Tara's new velvet rose taking the lime light, these flowers are beautiful and soft with a velvet feel and look.

Green Tara Products Used

Velvet Rose Lavender - CODE: XF9217L

Wire Cord Green - CODE: RB1164Gr

Maple leaves copper 4.5cm - CODE: LA7C

White paper leaves 1.5cm - CODE: LA13Wh

Mini rosebud ivory - CODE: FDV025Iv

Roses 1cm ivory - CODE: FDR001Iv

Roses 1.5cm Turquoise - CODE: FDR003Tu

Apple blossoms plum - CODE: FDV044PL

Cherry blossoms white - CODE: FLC22Wh

Cherry blossoms sea green - CODE: FLC22SG

Extra products used - Twiddlybitz & A2Z chipboard, texture paste, distress inks, prima paper, flower soft.

"Christmas Reverse Canvas"

My lovely kids keep telling its almost Christmas time so I thought I would get us into the Christmas spirit. I'm not a gold person and I rarely follow the traditional Christmas colours but I'm trying to challenge myself. I must say creating this was the so much fun and the idea I had in my head came together perfectly. And is totally loaded with lots of Green Tara goodies.

This canvas is 27cm wide and 20cm tall and is and extra deep canvas. I covered the inside and front edges with a gold metallic 12x12 crinkle paper from Green Tara using modge podge, adding extra folds and creases around the front edges. Then painted the rest of the outside edges of the canvas in metallic gold paint but then wiped it down with a tissue leaving only a thin layer of colour. I also white washed the gold paper so it had a softer tone.

The gold cherubs ribbon was painted with a watered down white paint to tone down the gold a little. Beautiful lace used as a garland was inked in golds and green then sprayed with a little water to blend the colours

Bead Garland Red has been wrapped around the tree to add more decoration

Bead Garland in gold and green has been used to create hanging decorations from the roof, Along with 3 flying deers from the reindeer garland that have had a little white paint added to them. I have used a white Xmas wreath and ruffled it up then added metallic gold paint to the tips of the ruffles. Cutting 2 trees from the Xmas tree ribbon I have added white paint to the edges and added them to the mantle for decorations.

The fire place was made from cardboard then bricks made with texture paste, a few sticks from the garden to make logs and a base plate made from a green paper from the Xmas art deco paper range. For the mantle I just used a couple of pieces of timber that are meant to be the corner supports that came with the canvas and painted them white.

Small gifts made from foam blocks and covered in Green Tara papers and wrapped in Green Tara ribbons & bows. Metallic gold trim added to the bottom of the canvas and slightly painted white.

A small cluster of flowers along the tree side of the canvas with wire embellishments that have been slightly painted with white paint in hearts and stars. A Christmas bouquet in gold added under the tree.

Taking a Metal swirl and straighten it, I then twisted it around a paintbrush in small pieces to create flower swirls

Adding a large cluster of flowers of the fire place side including flower sprays, skeleton leaves, paper leaves, roses, apple blossoms, gardenias, and silk flowers. I have painted metallic gold paint on all of the flowers petals and leaves.

Green Tara has a great range of Christmas themed ribbons these are some of the ones I have used.

Green Tara products

Metallic gold crinkle 12x12 paper - CODE: 1212CG

Metallic Cherub ribbon - CODE: RB605MG

Xmas tree ribbons gold - CODE: RB717Go

Bead Garland Gold - CODE: RBY06Go

Bead Garland red - CODE: RBY06R

Bead Garland - green - CODE: RBY06Gr

Gold skeleton leaves - CODE: RTB2G

Red skeleton leaves - CODE: RTB13

Xmas wreath white - CODE: TWX02

Bead garland 8mm square ribbon - CODE: RBY16G

Reindeer garland brown - CODE: RB652Br

Bows white & gold - CODE: BowS

Christmas bouquet gold -

Small red poinsettias - CODE: PFPRS

Small white poinsettias - CODE: PFPWhS

Med Red poinsettias - CODE: PFPRMG

Med white poinsettias - CODE: PFPWhMG

Art deco Xmas green paper pack - CODE: ADX2

Jaipur Red paper - CODE: SHJR

Art deco white and gold paper pack - CODE: ADGW

Mulberry paper handmade white - CODE: 1212HMWh

Wire hearts gold - CODE: WH178Go10

Wire star green - CODE: WS177Em

Wire star red - CODE: WS177R10

Metal swirls red - CODE: MS858R3

Metal swirls green - CODE: MS858Em3

Skeleton leaf paper red & gold -

Ribbon organza hearts glitter gold - CODE: RB330IG15

Metallic gold trim - CODE: RB660MG

Silk flowers with crystals small red - CODE: SDRS60

Gardenias red CODE: FDV054R and white CODE: FDV054Wh

Apple blossoms red CODE: FDV044R and white CODE: FDV044Wh

3 flower spray red CODE: PFSTR and white CODE: PFST1

2cm roses red CODE: FDR006R and white CODE: FDR006Wh

Paper leaves maple in copper - CODE: LA7C

Lace - CODE: L2920W

Extra products used - Texture paste, distress inks, white paint, creative imaginations stickers, misc bird, cameo, brads, Kaiser chipboard.

Until next time xxxx



Can you believe it my very second attempt at

The Color Room

Won me first prize for palette #133

I'm super excited & I know it was the Green Tara goodies that got me over the edge.

Green Tara products

All flowers except the very large one, jute ribbon, paper leaves and skeleton leaves

"Green Tara Goodies"

Check out all these fantastic flowers new from Green Tara and most will be available to purchase from me at www.scrappersgarden.com.au in a few days.

Now if you are a Prima Marketing fan like me these flowers will convert you into a Green Tara junkie. With such amazing colours and ranges now available you can't go wrong, to top it off they are a fantastic price.



"My new toy"

I recently went to the penrith papercraft show with hubby in tow I spent way to much and hubby even more than me lol. I used to own a Klic n Kut when I had my store but I sold it due to size and it was just a little to technical for private use. But I have wished over and over again I hadn't sold it, I do have a cricut but hate being limited and not be able to slightly change images etc. So my lovely hubby brought me the new Klic n Kut Zing its a smaller version of what I had can do almost everything the other one could AND IT JUST ARRIVED, now off to find a spot on my desk to have a play. UMMM need to give the 17mths old something to do first lol.



THE COLOR ROOM &

ONCE UPON A SKETCH

This week I needed a little help to get motivated so I headed over to see this weeks Color Room Palette, so not the colours I would normally use but why the heck not. But to beef up the challenge I thought I would check out the Once Upon A Sketch site I have been hearing about and ended up combining the two challenges to really get me thinking.

I manged to find a blue & purple flower paper from MM that I had in my stash for at least 3yrs, added some blue misc paper and added purple embossed paper from Coredinations dots range.

I painted the background with white paint that I had watered down and added a few drops of glimmer mist and allowed it to run. I also glimmer misted a paper doily.

Flowers are from Green Tara and Manor House leaves from Green Tara

Hidden journalling tag with Green Tara ribbon

The Color Room Palette

Once Upon a Time Sketch & Challenge

We would like you to create a layout based on this quote. You can interpret it ANY way you like. There is no wrong or right way to interpret this quote but your layout must incorporate something from this quote AND the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Nana

Well that word finally came true yesterday, so at only 39yr I became a Nana to a beautiful baby boy named William, Son for my eldest Jessica and her partner Scott, congratulations and well done he's beautiful and a big boy at 9p 3oz thank god for a c-sec lol.



A perfect timing photo to share of Imogen



Miss Shyanne turns 12, only one more year and I will have another teenager, Boy I'm feeling somwhat old.



Another cake made by me.... the request was a big blue cupcake with little cupcakes.

Green Tara DT October

“Building The Family Castle”

By Linda Thompson

Welcome this time around I thought I would bring a little summer into our Spring. I spotted these wonderful little beach themed charms from Green Tara & had to do something with them.

I painted the charms white and once dry sanded some of the paint off leaving the indentations with paint it gave them a more worn and weathered look.

Taking the Natural Jute ribbon I made a bow, I snipped the ends with scissors and then used my fingers to lightly fray the ends and added some white paint to age it a little.

I choose 2 colours in the cobweb ribbon and instead of cutting it I just ripped it apart this helped to fray the edges and give me random sized pieces. I used a texture paste with sand as the base on the page and pushed the pieces of cobweb ribbon into the texture paste here and there leaving some sticking up while others lay flat.

I wanted a big yellow flower but I didn’t have one so I used a mustard Damask flower from the new range and added some white paint to soften it a little as the gold didn’t quite work. Using a selection of other flowers including 7cm petals, roses & spring flowers adding a little white paint to the darker coloured flowers.

Adding a little string finished off the top of the page and a few random mini flowers thru the page.

Green Tara Products Used

Natural Jute Ribbon 15mm CODE: RB17Nat15

Metalic Sea Charms CODE: SCh25

Damask 8cm Fabric and Organza Flower Mustard CODE: XF9225Mu

Cobweb Coffee 10m Roll CODE: RB6772Co

Cobweb Ivory 10m Roll CODE: RB6772Iv

Spring Flowers from Packs "Allamanda" Green CODE: IF2A1a - Periwinkle" Green
CODE: IF2P1a - White/Yellow/Orange CODE: IPA12b

1.5cm Flower Pale Blue CODE: FDVPB

1.5cm Flower Gold CODE: FDVGo

Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Blue CODE: FLC22BPB

Cherry Blossoms Blue CODE: FLC22B

7cm Petals, Liquid CODE: FDS021Liq

Gardenia Turquoise CODE: FDV054Tu

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh

Mint Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Mi

Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

Roses Turquoise CODE: FDR003Tu

Paper String Liquid CODE: PSLiq

Extra Products used

Prima & MME papers, Thickers, Creative Imaginations alphas, Heidi Swapp plastic alphas, Kaiser paints, Texture paste with sand.

“Making a Splash”

By Linda Thompson

Thought I would put some colour into the day, here I have used a couple of the new ribbons along with the new Laurel flower.

The Laurel flower wasn't quite the color I wanted so I sprayed it with glimmer chalk in yellow and added a little blue to the edges so it would blend in more with the colours of the page. I have also sprayed a couple of the other flowers to give a blue gardenia red tips & a red apple blossom sprayed with yellow softens the colour.

Using the new organza flower ribbon I trimmed one side close to the flowers to use as a decorative border.

I created a big bow using the new organza polka dot ribbon, I found the white dots were to bright so I soften them with some yellow spray then lightly wiping with a tissue removing the colour from the ribbon but it still stayed on the dots.

Taking a red flower spray I twisted it around a cup to create a circle. I then used enough rat tail cord that went around the same cup twice and added ribbon stiff to it, once dry I was able to twist it around the flower spray and crate 2 circles the same size as the spray.

Green Tara Products Used

Laurel 8cm Silk and Oraganza Flowers Cream/Yellow CODE: XF9218CY

Red Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044R

Turquoise/White Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Tu/W

Cherry Blossoms White CODE: FLC22Wh - sprayed orange & yellow

Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Blue CODE: FLC22BPB

Gardenia Turquoise CODE: FDV054Tu - sprayed yellow and given red tips

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh - sprayed orange and blue

1.5cm Roses Blue CODE: FDR003B

1.5cm Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

Light Brown Roses 2cm CODE: FDR006LB

Organza Flower Wire Edged Turquoise/Lime Green CODE: RB326TuLG

Rat Tail Cord 50m roll Red CODE: RB1204R

Flower Sprays Red CODE: PFSTR

Extra Products used

Bo Bunny papers & chipboard word, thickers, MLSB alphas, Glimmer mist & Chalkboard.

Thanks for stopping by see you next time Linda xxx



Yippeeeee

My page below for the Color Room received a feature spot on their site, I couldn't be happier. Great news for a first attempt.

The Color Room



My first attempt at a Color Room Palette

New Green Tara Flower in green

Prima Flower & Green Tara Roses

Papers - Kaiser, webster, Prima & DCWV, Texture paste with flakes, Kaiser paint, dew drops ink, Flowers - Petaloo, Prima & Green Tara, Alphas - Heidi Swapp, Adorn it, Lil Davis, Misc - doily, white flower stem & buttons.