Hey Newbies,
I'm here working on number 22 of my 365 Page Layout Challenge 2019 (and the lessons I learned). I will try to list everything I used below and try to link up to where you can purchase them if you happen to like any of them.
Today I'm doing one of my challenges that I found on a FB group from the UK (yeap, still counting it as part of my challenges.)😬 This one was very specific about what was required. It required mixed media, BIG stencil work and stitching, which I've never done😱...which was pretty cool because learning new stuff is awesome!
I started off with a heavy red card stock for the background. I took some white 12x12 card stock, cut it down by an inch on each side and used white gesso on it to do some mixed media work. After it dried, I did the tear technique at the top before starting the mixed media work.
I used one of my favorite heart stencils and used glass bead gel, it's messy and takes a bit to get the technique down but I do love it. I used my heat gun to try and dry it but had to let it set to fully dry...so this layout took a while to do.
After the gel dried I made a heart stencil (out of a cardboard) and stenciled the big heart using my ink blending tool by Tim Holtz and blended the ink around the stencil using Stamp Craft Ink in "RED" I bought at Michaels. I also used smaller heart stencils in the middle of the larger heart using red acrylic paint and the same blending tool.
I didn't want to leave the paper white, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of white space in my layouts. I do them every so often when I "lift" an amazing layout I see on IG. So I took my blending tool and blended some more of the acrylic paint all around, making sure I don't mess with the glass beads, those are super delicate so I used Distressed spray stain in ABANDONED CORAL on them.
I used my heart punched to punch out some hearts in the same red card stock I used for the background and one out of gold foil paper (I purchased from Michaels, it goes on sale a lot so wait for it). I backed the one red heart at the top with the gold heart and did my journaling. I did the stitching on the single heart at the bottom. Not bad for my first time and no sewing machine!
The photos I backed with black card stock and some of the gold foil paper. I wanted to pull some of the black out of his shirt and add some other color other than the reds because it was starting to look a bit...red🤷🏻♀️. I used foam backing for the pictures to give some dimension to them and also it's hard for anything to stick to the glass beading so I had to use the foam.
I added the "LOVE" sticker in between the photos to pull more of the black out. That was from a very old stash and I have no idea where I got those words because I love them! It's got kind of a rough texture to it...If you guys find them anywhere please leave a comment, I would love to buy some more of those!
I then used the words NEW, ARRIVAL, HELLO, CUTE, on top of the red hearts to pull more of the gold color out and seriously, how cute is this new arrival anyways! These are so awesome and I WILL be purchasing more of them! They are Gold Foam Letters from Thickers Goldie (151) collection!
I sprayed the entire page with Perfect Pearls Mist from Ranger in PERFECT COPPER. It is one of my favorite colors!!!!
Finally, I used the EACH CHILD IS UNIQUE... and MOMENTS WORTH REMEMBERING from The paper Studio - Children Phrases I purchased from Michaels.
Well, there you have it...number 21 of my 365 layout challenge for 2019. I tried to link up what I used in case you wanted to try any of them. Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way! Please leave a comment below on what you liked about the layout and if you want to follow me on my 365 challenge please subscribe!
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Happy Scrapping🤗
Kimberly
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