A Canvas for Anna!

 

 

 With the last of the paper in the June Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals, I put together this canvas for my niece Anna.  It is her 4th birthday this weekend and I thought she would like something special for her room.

Firstly I painted the canvas a gorgeous turquoise blue using some Golden Acrylic Paint, then I attached the Sassafras paper to it using Mat Medium mixed with a little of the paint.  Then I started spraying with Glimmer Mist, some bubblegum pink, some marshmallow, some turquoise, until I got the look I wanted.  I cut out a butterfly border using Martha Stewart's Deep Butterfly Border Punch, the butterflies I cut out of a second strip I punched out.  They were punched out of some of the Pink Paislee paper.  LOVE that paper!!

I traced out the letters from a stencil, hand cut them out, and painted on some Rock Candy Crackle Paint.  The flowers were all made using the 3-D flower die from Sizzix, the paper is Basic Grey and MME.  The pearls inside were from my stash, both Prima & Kaiser.

A close up:

Lastly I splattered around some Glimmer Glaze, added a heart I cut out in the corner and voila!  Done!!

Hope she likes it!  Have a fantastic day, and thanks for dropping by!!

Checking In!!

Wow, almost a week since I posted last!!  It's a busy time of the year, things are finally picking up at work (the landscaping work that is!!) now that the sun is shining, and hopefully the rain's have stopped.  People are finally getting out and deciding what they want to do in their gardens.  I even managed some weeding & edging last Sunday!

Last Saturday was National Scrapbooking Day and at Scrappin' Great Deals we had an amazing free event for their customers.  Kim, Rose & I prepared this layout as a make n take:

Everyone played with Prima masks, glimmer mists, distress inks, border punches, stamps, ribbon, bling.....  It was a good day!!

A couple of weeks ago it was Easter, and I have finally gotten around to unloading the photos from my camera!  Here are my boys colouring up their eggs:

And our ever vigilant cat, guarding the eggs!!

Lastly, here are our two "Easter" Bunnies, having some exercise, or really just trying to avoid the kids!!

So that's it for today!!  I am working on a couple layouts for Kraftin' Kimmie's Stamps!  Her May releases will be revealed this week.  I will have a peak for you on Thursday and Sunday!!

Till then, have a great day!!

Follow Your Heart

Happy April Fool's Day!!

Yes, it is April already and it is time for the full reveal of Scrappin' Great Deals monthly kits.  Scrappin' Sheila's Scrapbooking kit for April is full of spring colour.  Perfect to chase away those winter blahs!!  It's theme is "Let Your Imagination Fly!!"

Here is the kit: 

Love this colour combo! Patterned paper from Bo-bunny, Prima, Graphic 45, & 7 Gypsies, butterflies gallore, fantastic new Prima resin flowers, gold satin ribbon, new puzzle pieces from the Gabrielle collection by Bo-Bunny, journal cards from MME, and so on and so on....!!!

The workshops I attended last weekend with Donna Downey REALLY inspired me to take my scrapbooking to a new level.  I thought I did layers well, but she showed me I can do more!!!  I knew putting the kit together that I wanted to do something special with it and I think I did.  My project combines mixed media art with traditional scrapbooking.  I took a blank canvas, started adding layers with distress stains, glimmer mists, shimmerz and acrylic colour washes, splattered with shimmerz and glimmer glazes, masked areas with both the new Prima and Tim Holtz masks, I layered patterned paper, journal cards and butterflies....and this was all to create the background!!  So have a look at my creation:

Once the background was complete, I then started the more traditional scrapbooking and started adding the dimension to the top, with ribbon, flowers, rhinestones, stickers.  I am so happy with the finished product!!
It looks fabulous (if I may say so myself!) in real life!  It will be on display at the store for awhile, I hope you pop in to see it!  I hope it can inspire you to let your imagination fly!!!

Make sure you pop over to our store blog (click here)to have a look at what Sheila created this month.  Her work is always incredible but she really rocked it this time!! 

Thanks for visiting!!!