A look back at a Celebration....Case File 240

I really enjoyed creating this layout for CSI- Color Stories Inspiration Case File 240,

and I am rather pleased how it turned out. 

So without further ado here is my DT layout for the latest challenge.

This was a very pretty colour palate to work with, not colours I would have normally put together but I like it.

So, are you ready for the new challenge? Grab you forensics kits, CSI players, and get ready for some serious sleuthing as we open Major Case File No. 239.

Case File No. 240 - Deadline: October 31, 2017

Here is the case file. 

All 5 colours used from The Scene

The Evidence used: 

* polka dots/ stripes (papers)

* butterflies/ flowers (stencilled butterflies)

* borders (flower border sticker)

* texture paste (butterfly stencil)

The Testimony used:

* Document a birthday or other celebration

Now for some details of the layout. 

I used a couple of brands of papers. Most of the papers are from American Crafts '5th & Frolic' collection. The exception is the pinky torn paper that goes across the layout. This is a Fancy Pants 'Arctic Chill' paper. I also used some red corrugated card to accent the red colours in the photo.

I love using torn and distressed papers on my layouts, I chose my papers to fit the colour scene and had thought y chosen photo would work well with the colours. The photo has most of the colours in it on its on.  

The chipboard I painted with a gesso base and then embossed with a white embossing powder.

I have added faux stitching around some of the layers with a black Pigma pen

The chipboard title was again painted with a gesso base and then I used my Rangers white enamel accents to cover the word. I did this straight from the bottle gently squeezing and filling in the area over the word. It does give a bit of a domed puffy sticker look to it.

The tree comes from the sticker sheet with the '5th& Frolic' collection. I idea is that this is a family tree because the photo is full of members of my family and friends.  

The flower border sticker comes from Kaisercraft Silver Bells sticker sheet. 

I used a Dusty Attic stencil for the butterflies in the background with some texture paste. 

Products used on this layout:

* Dusty Attic chipboard: Treasure the little.... DA16061

* Dusty Attic chipboard: Elegant Swirls #13 DA11332

* Dusty Attic stencil: butterflies

* Corrugated Card: red

* Fancy Pants:  Arctic Chill: Arctic Chill cards

* American Crafts: 5th & Frolic: Aspen Place

* American Crafts: 5th & Frolic: 2nd & Oak

* American crafts: 5th & Frolic: Simplicity Circle

* American crafts: 5th & Frolic: sticker sheet

* Kaisercraft: Silver Bells: Sticker Sheet

* gesso

* white embossing powder

* texture paste

* Prima: Druzzy Stones: Black

* Flowers from Wild Orchis Crafts

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We trust we've left enough clues for you to solve the case!

The deadline for completing this Case File is Tuesday, October 31, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Be sure to link your layout using the link tool in the sidebar of the CSI blog, and mention the Evidence and Testimony clues you used. Also, please title your link with your name and country.

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Thanks for popping by today, I do hope you will join in with us! 

Ginny :)

***CSI - Color Stories Inspiration #236***

It's time for the 2nd case file of August!

Here is Case file #236!

And here is my interpretation of the case file....

I used all five colours from the scheme.

Evidence used:

* stripes, polka dots - loosely interpreted with the river stones stencil and the postmark stripes on BG Paper

* wet medium - texture paste with the stencil

* nautical elements - die cuts of crabs, seahorses, lighthouses

* fish birds animals - seahorses, crabs, fish on BG paper

* scallops, wave shape - die cut of waves, scallop beige ribbon, edge to white lace die cut

* twine , jute, string - burlap strip, burlap decorative twine ribbon

Testimony used:

* Document an adventure

Now for some of the little details.....

The die cuts, including the seahorses, anchor, crabs and lighthouses, I dabbed with clear rock candy crackle paint to add some texture and substance to the otherwise flat paper shape.

I love this natural moss and I use it in nearly every 'seaside' themed layout. It does look like seaweed!

Here you can see the 'wave' die on the bottom of the photo and the text where I have incorporated the 'red' from the colour scheme.

The burlap decorative twine ribbon is slotted behind the lighthouse with a pale blue 'ribbon' die. 

My background paper edges and the papers used in the layers were all distressed.

I used a couple of dies under my paper layers, one a white lace die from Sue Wilson, this had the scallop edge to it and then the bubbles die in the blue colour, I thought the bubbles worked quite well in a 'water' theme. The chipboard I simply painted with the picket fence crackle paint and then went over in place with the frayed burlap crackle paint to blend them with my papers and photo.

Here you can see the burlap strip with frayed edges and the beige scalloped ribbon with the strips from the postmark on the background paper.

I love this 'river stone' stencil from Dusty Attic and used it here coming out from under my layers mimicking the rocks and pebbles that were all around us on the beach.

This was our adventure, taking the nets down to the rock pools and seashore in Pembrokeshire. The kids were so excited to try and catch something, anything, even seaweed was a major find in the mind of a couple of trepid explorers!

Products used on this layout:

* Prima Marketing: French Riviera 12x12 pad and sticker sheet

* Bazzil cardstock: Almond Cream

* Tim Holtz: Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy

                                                            : Frayed Burlap

                                                          : Picket Fence

* Finnabair: White Crackle Texture Paste

* Dusty Attic: Stencil: River Stones DA17823

* Dusty Attic: Chipboard: Doodads #7 DA74045

* Prima Marketing Flowers: Seashore #574949

* AnnaMarie designs: Natural Moss

* Burlap Strip

* Burlap decorative twine ribbon

* Scalloped Ribbon beige

* Selection of nautical themed dies.

Thanks for taking a look at my blog today.

Add your entry for this challenge to the CSI blog in the link up tool 

here

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and you could be in with a chance of winning a prize from one of these fantastic sponsors!

Ginny  :)

Steampunk and Fathers

The challenge for this months More Than Words challenge was  a 'challenging' one for a floral shabby chic girl like me!

The theme and word this month is Steampunk and Father.

The 'Father' part was easy. I chose this photo of me with my father on the Scotland / England border at Carter Bar.

The colours in the photo were then my inspiration for the steampunk mixed media masculine background.

You can view the More Than Words challenge here http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/june-2017-main-challenge-father.html

With these pictures I will just show you some close ups of the items used in the layout.

These blue and grey cogs are a die set from a Joy! Crafts. I inked the edges with Black soot Distress Ink and finished of with a Tim Holtz Loop Pin.The anchor is from Blue Fern Studios and was firstly covered with Viva Inka Gold.

The Dusty Attic barbed wire was altered with Ten Seconds Verday Patina solution with the Verday Iron. This gives a great rusty look about the chipboard. I love these Tim Holtz trinket pins, this one has reacted to the mists I have used to create the colour reaction on it.  

Tucked behind the top of my photo and its layers is my journaling card.

The Dusty Attic chipboard cogs and gears cluster was covered with 2 products, some of the cogs had black soot ink rubbed over them and some had the Viva Inka Gold 'Old Gold'. The later gave the pieces a gorgeous golden metal look about them but was just to clean and new looking, they needed 'weathering'! This will be down to the mists again but I will tell you about those in a minute.

I used some chain from my stash to wrap around the top of the chippie chain. The Game spinner is again  from Tim Holtz.

The Blue Fern Studio chains were also altered with the Verday products.

The Tando Creative key was covered with the Viva Inka Gold.

I used a shaped torn piece of corrugated card in my background behind the photo , a great product for masculine layouts, it adds a great texture. I inked the edges again with the black soot ink.

I left the use of the mists till now......  the background paper is from 7 dots studio and I gave it a coat of clear gesso before the start to prepare it for all the misting.  I spritzed the design area with several different mists using colours taken from the photo, from the blues/green from the mountains behind to the rust colour in my coat. I let these mists run by tilting the paper and then dried with a heat gun after each colour application. I have listed them all in the products list but the main ones to mention here are the Cosmic shimmer mists, 'rich gold', which gave the orange rusty effect and then the 'Blue Lime', this is a fabulous product, it is essentially green but when sprayed onto certain surfaces reacts and turns to an electric blue colour! This mist reacted on the Verday and the Viva Inka Gold and on some of the other mists giving the whole piece a very natural weathered look that I couldn't have planned! I splattered these 2 mists over the completed layout again at the end.

I then finished off the by rubbing some French sage Artisan Powder over the edges of the photo layers, chipboard pieces and the paper die cuts.

The alpha tiles were cut out from a 7 Dots Studio paper, edges distressed and then stuck on with foam pads. You can also see the small bits of stamping done with black soot ink and the Finnabair Crackle effect stamp underneath the title. This was done over the design area before the misting.

Products used on this layout:

7 Dots Studio; Destination Unknown: under the stars

7 Dots Studio: destination Unknown: night sky

7 Dots Studio; Thoughts Keeper: No.3

Cosmic Shimmer Mist; rich Gold

Cosmic Shimmer Mist: Blue Lime

Prima Color Bloom: Tea Stain

Prima Color Bloom: Antique Gold

Perfect Pearls Mist: Blue Smoke

Prima Memory Hardware: Artisan Powder: French Sage

Tim Holtz: Idea-ology: Loop Pins

Tim Holtz: Idea-ology: Trinket Pins

Tim Holtz: Idea-ology: Game Spinners

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Black Soot

Maya Road: Vintage Findings: Time Flies metal Charms

Chain

Joy! Crafts: Die: gears

Joy! Crafts: Corrugated card

Dusty Attic: chipboard: Birds on Barb Wire

Dusty Attic: chipboard: Cog Cluster

Blue fern Studio: chipboard: Anchors Away

Tando Creative: chipboard: Decorative Keys

Prima Finnabair: Small Clear stamp: Crackle

Ten Seconds: Verday Patina Solution

Ten Seconds: Verday Iron

Viva: Inka Gold; Old Gold

Clear gesso.

Thank you for stopping by today

Ginny  :)

May Challenge Entries

Good evening all!

I so enjoyed doing my layout for the More than Words challenge last month I decided to enter this months challenge as well!

And this one is so up my street, the word inspiration is 'Mother' and then the theme is Flowers! What could be more perfect then that for a flower loving girl like me?!

I have also teamed this layout up with the Scrap The Girls Challenge also with the theme 'Mothers'.

Here's my layout

Here is the MTW challenge and link to the challenge post HERE

Here is the STG challenge and link to the challenge post HERE

Now for a little info on my creating!

My photo is of my Mum ❤ She is pictured here visiting a beautiful garden over the winter with the most amazing backdrop of plants and flowers. I rummaged through my patterned papers for the right papers and found these perfect papers from Kaisercraft called Treasured Moments. The forest green and deep raspberry colours matched the background colours of the photo so well.

Obviously it had to be flower overload, I have created this effect with fussy cut flowers and a selection of flowers from Wild Orchid crafts.

After that I had a bit of fun with some mixed media!

This Dusty Attic Chipboard flourish is two pieces layered up and then embossed with the magenta embossing powder. This powder is lovely, it has glitter pieces in it so is really sparkly but also when its heated bits of it go slightly white which gives a lovely effect. I have noticed this with other colours from the range, not sure if it happens from over heating or is meant to happen but either way I love it!  

The other piece of chipboard, the doily, I embossed most of it again with the magenta but left alternate parts of the pattern bare so when the chippie had been finished heat embossed and cooled I could glue the bare parts and add the Army Green glitter. The doily I then cut in half and used in two places on my layout. 

My edges were all distressed with my Prima distress tool.

I used two types of flowers from Wild Orchid crafts, these are paper flowers, the small Gypsophila comes in several different colours and these two pinky ones matched perfectly with my layout.

I spent a long tie fussy cutting the flowers, a little time consuming but worth it. I gives a great backdrop for the rest of the embellishments

I firstly designed the main area of my layout with the photo, photo layers and where my fussy cutting as going to go but not attaching it to the background paper. This gave me my design shape to work with for adding my mixed media background on my background paper. 

I used a wide dry paint brush to dry brush/smudge some gesso over the design area.   I then used the Distress grit paste to do my stencilling with. I love this stuff, its so easy to work with, gives a fabulous texture and it dries a lot quicker then normal texture paste.

After attaching the main design (I popped this up on some cardboard or use foam tape/pads) to the dried mixed media background and paper I slotted the doily chipboard into the two corners under the photo mount layers. then I built the rest of the design up on top with the flourish chipboard swirl and the flowers.

I added some gesso splats all over the layout then too.

Lastly I added some Frantage fragments mixed with some pink Art Sugar with some gel medium in a few areas around the layout.

The flowers I used on top and poke underneath my fussy cut layers to help create the depth to the layout. My fussy cut sentiment was inked with the Rose Bud chalk ink pad.

Products used on this layout

*  Kaisercraft: Treasured Moments: Memory (both sides)

* Kaisercraft: Treasured Moments: Wonder

Dusty Attic: Chipboard: Decorative Scroll #1 DA0213

Dusty Attic: Chipboard: Doily #5 DA0763

Wild Orchid Crafts: Flowers: Sweetheart Blossoms Ivory

Wild Orchid Crafts: Flowers: Gypsophila pink & wine

Stampendous: Frantage Fragments: Shabby Pink

Tim Holtz: Distress Grit Paste white

Memory Box Stencil:

Gesso white

Prima Chalk Ink Pad: Rose Bud

Blue fern Studios: Imagine Ink: Embossing Powder: Magenta

Blue Fern Studios: Imagine Ink: Glitter Army Dust

Prima Marketing: Art Ingredients: Art Sugar: Pale Pink

This photo is taken at an angle to show you the layers and how this creates the depth and interest  to the layout.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and taking a look at my layout!

That's all for now!

Ginny  :)