Messy Boys Layout with Traffic Lights

Stepping out of my comfort zone today with a colourful layout, but staying within my zone by using cardboard as the base.

Grab yourself a piece of cardboard and tear some of the top layers off. I always cut my cardboard 29cm x 29cm to allow room to go in your photo sleeves as these types of layouts are usually thicker than a standard pp layout.

Cut yourself some cardboard gadget gears and layer then add buttons , yellow ric rac and transport charms, like our utes, motorbikes and buggies. 

Once happy with placement cover with Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium

Add Mustard Seed Distress Paint, Fired Brick Distress Paint and Black Soot Distress Paint and spritz with water. 

Don't be afraid of going crazy with the paints,  which I understand it can be daunting at first when attempting these types of layouts.  If you add too much distress paint, it can easily be wiped off with a spray of water and tissue,while it is still wet.  I did this with the Fired Brick Distress Paint, as I was going to add another photo which was mainly red, but felt the page was too busy for two photos, hence removing some of the red paint.

Make yourself a Traffic Lights which was the perfect embellishment for this themed layout.  Here is the link to creating your own Traffic Lights
PS I used 14mm cabochons for my set today

(PS if you don't have the die required I am happy to cut you one and put it in with your next order, just leave a note in comments at checkout)

With some scrap yellow cardstock I added journaling using the Sizzix File Tab die (and a few splats of Black Soot Distress Paint)

Make a title with Jenni Bowlin Tiny Circle Alphas in Vintage Brown and Silver Metallic Thickers.
Add a silver arrow pointing to the tile.

I also added another piece of yellow ric rac untouched with mediums so it was like the underlining of the title.

And to finish it off wipe over areas with Inka Gold Silver

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Clipboard Photo Frames

So my DD brought me a mini clipboard a few months back, I had a thought that it would look cool as a photo frame, and even better when a friend brought me another one so I have the start of a clipboard photo gallery on my wall (and also gave me a reason to get out the Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium, not that I need an excuse LOVE the stuff!)

So here is Photo Frame Clipboard No 1 

with Prima Engraver Roulette glued to the base

and added our black scroll felt frame (cut up for 2 corners)

yellow flowers

Silver Love Key Charm
yellow 1cm roses

scrap chipboard letters to spell love

I love you postcard charm

made with love heart charm 
antique bronze love charm

then a good coat of Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium

and when dried sprayed with Tarnished Silver Glimmer Mist and Yellow Glimmer Mist (found the yellow in a mini mister and clever me didn't label it!)

and our new I Love you to Infinity Yellow Chain (wiped with some Black Soot Distress Paint)

Yellow Stickles on the Large Filigree Butterfly which was first painted with Mustard Seed Distress Paint and once dry centred with a Silver Love Key Charm 

As this is a gold and yellow themed frame I lastly, wiped randomly with Inka Gold, over areas, and paying more attention to the silver charms
(Inka Gold is a great product to colour charms and dries within minutes!)

and Photo Frame Clipboard No 2

started off like this with

Music paper glued to the base,
gold flower rhinestone trim, 

cream tulle

black felt scroll frame, 

black and white stemmed flowers, 

selection of brown flowers and a white magnolia sprayed with Tarnished Silver Glimmer Mist that I found on my desk, 

Twiddleybitz flower flourish which has been chopped up

snuck in behind the top left hand corner of the frame is one of our silver rhinestone heart

 then a coat of Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium

and a spray of Gold Glimmer Mist, Tarnished Silver Glimmer Mist and Inka Gold
a few splats of Tarnished Brass Distress Stain for good measure
then added a Twiddleybitz fancy flourish and
one of our shabby love embellishments to the top


and I ended up with this

Wish you could see on the photo the awesome effect that the Inka Gold gives!

Tucked in underneath is a flat circle filigree, Antique Bronze Birdcage and a Twiddleybitz Chipboard Vintage Inscribed Key

I love them!

and wouldn't they be a great unique gift idea?

Multi Media Canvas with Inka Gold

Hello Everyone!

I've been playing with canvas' again, getting all inky - happy days!!

This is a 5x7 canvas board not frame so it's solid and flat.  I sprayed it with different coloured purple sprays, and then put Helmar Tacky Glue all over, hitting it with the heat gun to get the drying process underway.

I then applied Claudine Hellmuth Gloss Multi-Medium and adhered the chipboard, sprinkling the Purple Passion Sugar Beads in as well...

After heating again with the heat gun to dry it - and leaving it overnight to dry (it was excruciatingly painful leaving it overnight as I was impatient to finish!), I rubbed with Silver Inka Gold on the chipboard, and Violet Inka Gold on the canvas and sugar beads area...

I coloured the word "LOVE", and the silver key charm and silver arrow charms I used for the hands of the clock in the Violet Inka Gold before adhering and sealing with more gloss medium. I also used silver Inka Gold on the purple flower before sealing...

I also added the 'treasure' word from the Tim Holtz ChitChat pack - coloured with Dusty Concord Distress Ink, using glossy accents.

I added the Mauve Love Charming Word using hot glue as the adhesive as the base was uneven due to the sugar beads.

Here's an image of the canvas with all the products I used :-)

All items available from my2angels; with the exception of the canvas and the sprays - although Glimmer Mists would be just as effective as the coloursprays I used.

Enjoy getting dirty!!

Jennifer

Introducing "some of" our latest new designs

We’d like you to welcome the latest addition to our Charming Button Collection – the ‘Precious Memories Banner Set’. 

Our ‘Precious Memories Banner’ collections provide the perfect matching embellishments for your cards and layouts. 
Each set includes a “Precious” plaque, a button with charm; and the “Memories” Banner.   

and also new to arrive are ...


 White Magnolias
approximately 4cm wide
3 for $1.20

First we had Antique Bronze Rose Chains
and now we have ...

Black and Silver Rose Charming Chain
with a coordinating Flower Centre

The combination of Silver Chain with coordinating roses and silverf flower charm with a coordinating sparkling flower centre, is the perfect embellishment for your cards, OTP's and layouts.

In each pack you receive one silver rose chain measuring approximately 18cm in length  and 
coordinating flower centre approximately 2cm

In between designing I have managed to complete this layout

The theme just had to be time!
as it was the first time my brother and sister met my DS - at approximately 20 minutes old.

So out came the clock charms - pretty much all of them - and then it was 'time' to get down and dirty with texture paste and my Twiddleybitz Clock Template over some black cardboard. (which I tore in some areas)

I've worked with the embellishments and a Twiddleybitz School Dayz Chipboard Clock to place them down the page on an angle - this helps to direct your eyes from the top to the bottom of the layout.

 

Once the paste was dry I covered everything with Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium then sprayed with Metallic Pewter Distress Stain which I put into a spray bottle

 then sprayed with Jack Frost Glimmer Mist and Tarnished Silver Glimmer Mist

added our "precious" plague
and white tags for my journalling

and our new Black and White Precious Memories Banner

COME BACK TOMORROW
as we have more new releases to share

OTP Folder for my DD love notes

To keep all my letters and cards etc that my DD has made me over the years, I thought I would create a folder to store them in ...

So starting off with a folder I coated it with Claudine Hellmuth GLOSS Mulit-Medium to seal it

For the front ....

Added a mess of embellishments including charms, white scalloped felt frame, sugar beads, filigrees, twiddleybitz vintage key, chain, felt hearts, flowers and a small handmade book (similiar to the one we made in the embellishment class at my2angels last year) plus various types of fabric behind the felt frame

Then when I was happy with the mess, I painted it over with Claudine Hellmuth GLOSS Mulit-Medium and left to dry

I made some homemade Glimmer Mist using Picked Raspberry Reinker as my base colour and sprayed over 90% of "mess"

You must leave it to dry fully before spraying another coat of Glimmer Mist

Next I painted in random areas with Sandal Paint Dabber and left to dry

Attacked with Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist and Guilded Gold Glimmer Mist, leaving to dry between coats.

And to finish with random "swipes" of Tarnished Brass Distress Stains

and the final result of the front ....

FOR THE BIND ...

I added pattern paper and chipboard hinges, which were inked with Stazon Timber Brown

Then embellished with our large flower filigree, daughter charming chain, pearls, chain and our vial bottles filled with Sugar Beads and love charms.  Hanging from the antique bronze chain is a Twiddleybitz Vintage inscribed Chipboard Key

and sprayed with Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist  (BLOT the Glimmer Mist with a tissue for you spray too much in some areas ... the Glimmer Mist WON'T transfer from the tissue to other areas you are blotting)

Then painted with Claudine Hellmuth GLOSS Mulit-Medium and left to dry

Then hit it with Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist and Guilded Gold Glimmer Mist, leaving to dry between coats.

Just for good measures I dabbed areas with Tarnished Brass Distress Stains

On the back I wanted to keep it pretty simple, so using the Crafter's Workshop Template Antiquities, I applied Texted Paste with my fingers and left to dry.  Then I asked DD to paint over it with Pink Sherbet Paint Dabber and get a photo of it (think she went abit arty on me and attempting to sell the dabbers god love her LOL)

Once the photographer had done her stuff I wiped over in random areas with Sandal Paint Dabber

BORINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ...

with our scalloped felt frame, pink orchids, pink cherry blossom, scrap flourish chipboard and our Love Rhinestone word

 BUT then came the spraying of the same Glimmer Mists and painting as the front and ta da

As the girls in class, here at my2angels recently discovered, you can add whatever you like to your projects then paint with Claudine Hellmuth and go crazy with Glimmer Mists.  

You can create something so totally different from the beginning "mess" (and not to mention fun and messy!)