"Back When"

  

I made this page around the title Way Back When and as I don't have any old family photos I altered this photo I found on the internet. 

The title and words say

Back when a tire swing was a kid's best friend, way before Gameboys, Ipads & xbox, 
those are the days I remember.

Beautiful Green Tara flowers and a little brown & white one from Prima.

Bench in white was left as is, and a little butterfly inked and embossed.

Center piece is a huge Green Tara flower with little cherry blossoms that have had the centers inked, A Flourish with a Bling has been cut into 4 pieces and used throughout that page, Blue flower spray from Prima.

Clocks has been inked to look like its rusty and the hands topped with a pearl sticker.

Twigs have been inked and joined with Prima flowers and a small piece of FWAB.

Green Tara products used

Camellia 8cm Paper flowers Ivory  - CODE: XF9219Iv

Satin Rosette 5cm Satin and Pearl Flowers Sage - CODE: XF9330Sa

Cherry Blossoms Cream  - CODE: FLC22C

 Extra products used

TPC studio papers, Mix'd media Inx and embossing powder, rusting powder, Martha Stewart punch. Scrapmatts chipboard, FWAB

Canvas

I have used my fav colours & fav brands of flowers Green Tara and Prima

A beautiful array of Green Tara Blossoms and large roses from Prima.

the leaves was embossed in green. Dress form has been painted then inked with touches of white.

New Green Tara flowers and a prima large rose.

Keys in sepia has been left as is.

I inked the bow in purple ink then sprayed smooch spritz over it and topped it with a piece from a Green Tara Silver trim and placed it all onto a bow made from Green Tara Jute.

the leaves have been coated in green glitter, each vine piece has been inked in green then glitter glue in green added to each of the leaves.

Birds in white, these have been left as is but I have fluffed up the wings a little by just separating the chipboard layers, there are 8 little birds on this canvas in varying sizes to represent each of my 8 children.

mother word has been inked with Mix'd Media inx Jasmine then embossed with matching embossing powder and while still wet I sprinkled Fairy dust over it in mixed berries.

Epoxy sticker words to represent what I am and mean to others, each one has been stuck on white cardstock and then cut out a little bigger than the sticker then paint added to each edge.

I used a clock mask in the background with coloured texture paste to represent how people always tell me I'm so organised when it comes to my family, thank god no one see's the behind the scenes action.

Green Tara products used

Gardenia Turquoise - CODE: FDV054Tu

1cm Mini Rosebuds Turquoise - CODE: FDV025Tu

1cm Mini Rosebud White - CODE: FDV025Wh

1.5cm Roses Turquoise - CODE: FDR003Tu

1.5cm Roses Pale Pink - CODE: FDR003PP

1.5cm Roses Lime Green - CODE: FDR003LG

Heirloom 4cm Silk and Organza Peach - CODE: XF9317Pe

Round Silver Diamante Trim - CODE: RBY28

Jute Ribbon Lavender 10m  - CODE: RB407Lav

 Extra products used

Smooch Spritz, Mix'd Media Inx & embossing powder, Alison Elis embossing powder & glitter, Misc paint, Texture paste, Fairy dust glitter, Kaiser mask, ranger stickles, scrapmatts chipboard.

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This has to be my new all time fav layout.

I just love this photo of my youngest it really shows her personality, and this canvas paper I was part of my prize pack from The Color Room was perfect made by Julia Cotrim.

Scrapmatts Precious title has been inked in white then embossed with white

Beautiful lace from Green Tara has been slightly inked

A beautiful cluster of Green Tara new flowers all with a little white paint added to the tips then the paint has been inked slightly in a grey/blue.

Scrapmatts swirl inked in white tucked into the top

A little bird cage charm available in my store.

Another beautiful cluster of Green Tara blooms with a small clock charm also available in my store

Another Scrapmatts swirl 

I have been playing with resin lately, this dragonfly is one of my creations that will be available in my store very soon.

A sweet little handmade bird, available soon in store also.

Products Used

All flowers and lace are from Green Tara, black cardstock, papers from Julia Cotrim, Ranger gesso, Mix'd Media Inx and embossing powder, Scrapmatts chipboard, Crafters workshop temp, Texture paste, resin, misc charms and tissue tape.

"Totally Stumped"

I named this page Totally stumped because i looked at it for 3 days trying to come up with a cool caption/quote or title but it had me totally stumped, which worked out well in the end.

I started with a fairly plan background paper from and old range from Fancy Pants, using a mask and texture paste to create some texture in 3 areas. Once the texture paste was dry I placed the mask back over the over and randomly added 3 tones of ink here and there to colour the textured area, by placing the mask back over the area only the texture paste is coloured and not the background paper.

A close up of the texture and ink.

And close up photos of the finished textured areas. Once finished I added some drops of glue and scattered glass beads around once dry tipping off the ones that weren't stuck I then used some watered down white paint and dabbed a little paint onto the beads to help them blend into the background.

Memory Maze log was first painted in a white paint that had been watered down, i didn't paint the entire thing I then sanded it lightly to ruff up the surface but not take the paint off, adding brown ink to the edges for a little extra colour, I then re-did the engraved lines in black.

A small cluster of flowers, metal flowers are Petaloo and all other flowers are Green Tara

Another cluster of flowers and a metal charm tree that has been painted white then sanded and Tim Holtz stickles added to the tree like leaves.

Memory Maze large gate, lock and key have all been painted in white and had rusting powder added but only here and there. The lock and key tied onto the gate with Green Tara wire cord.

Close up of the key and lock. Another small cluster of flowers

Halloween Shabby Green Tara Style

"incy wincy spider"



Miss Imogen was not in the mood for playing dress ups and wouldn't smile no matter how hard we tried to get her to.

Green Tara Mesh & Satin frill ribbon cut to look like banner pieces,

Scrapmatts bird cage

White wire cord used to thread thru the banner and curl at each end. topped with a black flower spray.

Ripped up pieces of cobweb ribbon added here and there.

Larger cluster of beautiful Green Tara Blooms.

Smaller cluster of Green Tara Blooms

More cobweb ribbon and scrapmatts Flourishes.

Green Tara Products Used

10mm Satin Frill Ivory  - CODE: RB436Iv

10mm Satin Frill Black   - CODE: RB436BL

1mm Wire Cord White - CODE: RB1164Wh

50mm Cobweb Black  - CODE: RB6772BL

Velvet Rose 12 8cm Velvet Flowers MintCODE: XF9217Mi

Tutu 5cm Organza and Pearl Flowers Pink 12 pcsCODE: XF9227P

Lollipop 4.5cm Satin Flowers 12 pcs BlackCODE: XF9322BL

Heirloom 4cm Silk and Organza Dusky PinkCODE: XF9317DP

 Heirloom 4cm Silk and Organza Dusky Pink - CODE: XF9317DP
Flower Sprays Black - CODE: PFSTBL
1cm Mini Rosebuds Black - CODE: FDV025BL
Black Roses 2cm   - CODE: FDR006Bl
Pale Pink Roses 2 cm - CODE: FDR006PP

Other products

Pink Paislee papers
Scrapmatts micro chips 20, Bows 01 & Flourishes 04
Mix'd Media Inx peaches
Tim Holtz pearls pink petal & Distress stickles worn lipstick
Alphas- Thickers, Basic grey, Creative imaginations.
Martha Stewart punch
Liquid chalk ink - black

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"New Ride"

I am totally hopeless at doing simple these days, I just have to stick something on every empty space I can see, but this month to challenge myself i wanted to try, it didn't quite go to plan and it almost had me in a frenzy but after adding a few more bits lol I was happy.

I loved this bright background paper but it was too busy for the photos so I watered down some white paint and painted the entire thing, once dry i used some sand paper to ruff up the paper here and there it didn't remove the paint but it gave it more texture, after that I sprayed some water downed paint here and there and using a texture stamp I stamped in 2 colours around the edge.

I am an collector of stamps but I always seam to forget about them so I have tried to use as many stamps as I could, these clouds have been stamped with a texture stamp, the small banner pieces also stamped, a little stamped bingo card and the background make 5 different stamps.

I knew I wanted to create a banner across the page so started with some Green Tara rats tail cord and cut done the photos and set about making random sized banner tags.

Adding a couple of small clusters of Green Tara flowers and cutting up a leaf ribbon in red to create small leaves in the clusters. 

Another cluster of Green Tara flowers this time using a 7cm petal flower folded up into 4 and lightly dusted with white ink.

Green Tara string in red was used to create a flower, and a spring flower topped with a cherry blossom crated the perfect flower, another petal but in 4cm was folded again into 4 and added to the bikes basket topped with a rose.

Green Tara Products Used

Rat Tail Cord 50m roll Red-CODE: RB1204R
Paper String Red-CODE: PSR
Satin Leaf Garland, Red-CODE: RB573AR
Primula 4.5cm Silk and Organza Flowers Pale Green-CODE: XF9325PG
Cherry Blossoms White -CODE: FLC22Wh
Cherry Blossoms Red-CODE: FLC22R
Cherry Blossoms Red/White-CODE: FLC22RW
1.5cm Roses Green-CODE: FDR003Gr
1.5cm Roses Turquoise-CODE: FDR003Tu
1.5cm Roses Pale Yellow-CODE: FDR003YP
7cm Petals, Sky Blue-CODE: FDS021B1
4cm Petals, Turquoise.-CODE: FK018Tu
"Periwinkle" Green-CODE: IF2P1a

Other products used

My minds eye, Kaiser & Prima papers, Kaiser & Tim holtz stamps, American crafts thickers (bike & banner bits) Kaiser die cuts (clouds & birds) Distress inks, Memento ink, Brilliance ink, home made paint sprays, Bella chipboard letters