CSI: Color, stories, inspiration Case File 203

Afternoon all,

Its time for another case file to open at CSI: color, stories, inspiration.
This weeks case file is a fun challenge with a lovely colour palette.

Here is the case file:

                                                 Its very easy , just follow these rules:

Here is my DT layout of this case file:

Now for the low down!

The colour scheme -  all 5 colours used, most of them were in the photo!

The Evidence -  * dots - clear stamp

* clouds - wood icons

*cars/transportation - photo

*mesh - stencil Memory Box 'mesh'

* string - string & cotton

* wood - clouds & buttons

* hearts - chipboard & in the clouds

The Testimony - *Inspirational words - 'play'

* journal about a child hood memory - well, one of Holly's !!

This is my daughter when she was around 9 months old in her car. She loved being pushed around in this car especially by her brother. She always looked so proud and important whilst being pushed around like she was somebody very important!

The patterned paper I tore up and took two sections out to create the effect I achieved. The torn edges I inked using a red chalk ink pad. Then stuck them on the cream cardstock. My alphas have been outlined in a black Pro-marker pen.

I used 2 stencils on my background with texture paste along with mist splodges and sponging some white acrylic paint over the page too. Also random stamping with the bubbles dots clear stamp and grey ink.

I journalled along all the torn edges for a different look. I splattered some yellow acrylic paint over the layout and used some to add some edging to my photo.

Some of my chipboard hearts were coloured with the Firefly mist and some with the soft apple paint. The clouds were painted with white acrylic paint.

The string and cotton were just twisted round and round, then glued down under the photo.

I stamped a faux stitch stamp with grey ink around the outside edge of my layout with the Prima clear stamp.

Products used:

Bazzil cream cardstock

Basic Grey; Porcelain - doulton

Tando Creative;  mini hearts

Simple Stories;  'Lets Party' chipboard stickers

Freckled Fawn; Wood chips - clouds

Jillibean Soup; Wood Nickels - Journal

Finnabair; clear stamp - bubbles

Prima Marketing; clear stamp - Rosarian

Prima Marketing Alphas

Prima Marketing; Chalk Ink pad - Blossom Bud

Prima Marketing; stencil #64216

The Memory Box; stencil - Mesh

Cosmic Shimmer; mist - Red Firefly

Staz-on; Dove grey ink pad

Folk Art; acrylic paint - Soft Apple

Finnabair; Texture paste - white crackle

Indigo Blu; acrylic paint - banana custard

Pro-Marker pen  - Black

White Acrylic paint

String & red cotton

Please pop over to the CSI blog and forum using this link to check out what the other Design team members created for this case file!

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/case-file-no-203

Hope you enjoyed this post, thank you for stopping by, until next time :)

Ginny :)

Case File 202

Hiya all,

Here I am with my DT layout for Case File 202 for CSI - color stories inspiration.
This case file had a lovely colour palette great evidence and testimony to work with AND its sketch week too!

Here is the case file:

Here is my take on this case file:

My evidence used was:

* solid white background

* Diamonds

* Triangles

*Speech Bubbles

* Stamps

* Stars/asterisks

My Testimony used was:

* Document something about a building

* Scatter your journaling in a series of speech bubbles

This is Spinnakers Tower in Portsmouth. We went up to the viewing deck at the top.

There were amazing views from up there and we watched Royal Navy Frigate ships coming into port with all the sailors lined up on the sides of the ship.

There was a glass floor up there too which was 100mtrs above sea level.

I did have to take a deep breathe when I took the first step onto it! It is my feet in the photo looking down through the glass floor. The kids thought it was wonderful and were lying on it!

The speech bubbles and the arrow were cut from a Sissix die set.

                       I hand wrote the title and coloured in with distress marker Bundled Sage.

Products used:

Bazzil cardstock - white

Bazzil cardstock  - yellow

Cosmic Shimmer Chalk Mist - pastel  blue

Indigo Blu Acrylic paint - banana custard

TCW stencil mini Harlequin

Prima Color Bloom mist - Sunshine

Kaisercraft clear stamp - triangles

Staz On ink pad - Black

Indigo Blu rubber stamp - script background

Sissix Thinlets - I Heart This

Finnabair texture paste - white crackle

Tando Creative chipboard Mini Stars

Dusty Attic acrylic paint - forest

Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Bundled Sage

Black Pen & white card

Teresa Collins Far and Away Journal quotes

Thanks for taking a peek at todays post,

If you would like to see more details about this case file and the other layouts created by the DT please visit the CSI blog and forum with this link

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/major-case-file-no-202-case-closes-on-june-30-2016

Ginny  :)

Swirly Girl Challenge (SGC)

Hey there!

This month I am hosting the SGC challenge over on the SWIRLYDOOS forum.  This is where members of the Swirlydoos forum set their own monthly challenge for us all to have a go. I have never done one before but thought  'hey why not'? so here we are!
Swirlydoos is a world wide monthly kit club from the USA, so I was trying to combine an element from there and incorporate something from the UK as well.
June is the first official month of summer and along with it the Summer Solstice here in the Northern hemisphere. In the UK the longest day ( of sunlight) is June 20th.
Having done a little research I notice that its the 'Great Outdoors' month in the USA, so taking all this into account I decided that my challenge would be about summer and being outdoors.
BUT there's a twist! I'm adding a Bingo board, a craft version! The idea is you choose any straight line of four items, whether vertical, horizontal or diagonal and you HAVE to use these on your layout or project.

 I created two layouts for inspiration for this challenge using two different lines from the Bingo board.

                                           Here is the first one, using the diagonal line :-

                                Use a Die  -    Paper Folding   -   Chipboard  -  Leaves/foliage

This layout is a summer holiday photo of my family on Torquay seafront a couple of years ago.

This layout is done on a We R Memory Keepers White Out 'Promenade - Parasol' paper backed with a beige Bazzil cardstock. I found the piece of green and orange paper, in my stash which matched perfectly with my photo. I have used a paper only a 180gsm so it is easy to fold. I folded the paper like you would to make a paper fan, 3 times from each end of my 12" wide paper leaving the middle flat to place my photo over.

The flowers and embellishments are all from previous Swirlydoos kits.

Use a Die - Tattered Lace - Foliage & Joanna Sheen Signature's - Ivy

Paper folding - the green and Orange paper

Chipboard - BFS chipboard Ornate Sign

Leaves/foliage - die cut leaves & Hydrangea leaves

No. 2 layout I used the horizontal line of :-

Diamond Shapes   -  A Tag   -  Garden Architecture  -  Leaves/foliage

My layout is about my one of my favourite outside things to do and that is walking in the countryside. In this case it was a walk in the Bluebell woods near to our home.

This layout has been created with a Blue Fern Studio Courtship Lane 'West Plaza' paper from the Swirlydoos  Purple Haze kit. All the embellishments on this page are from previous Swirlydoos kits.

My Diamond shapes is the texture paste through a TCW stencil 'mini harlequin'.

My journaling I wrote down, then cut up into strips and inked the edges.

My Garden Architecture is the Prima Shabby Chic Bird bath.

And a whole variety of leaves/foliage - paper, material, wood.

For more details on this challenge and to join in please come and visit us at the Swirlydoos forum using this link

http://www.swirlydoos.com/forums/topic/june-sgc-the-great-outdoors/

Thanks for stopping by today

Ginny    :)

Case File 201 for csi-color stories inspiration

Hello all,

Today I have got my DT layout for CSI color stories inspiration Case File 201.

Here's a peek at the case file.

My clue I used from the testimony list for this layout was

* document something about your pet

My story/ journaling tells how after my youngest, Holly, started school and I was left alone at home on my own, my husband let me go and see some Labradoodle puppies I had seen advertised and let me have one! On thinking about this at a later date the realization was that my Husband thought a puppy preferable to baby number 3!

My Evidence used was

* animals
* trees, flowers
* clouds
* diamonds, triangles   -  stencilling and stamping
* stripes  -  on the brad
* architectural element  -  the chipboard window frame
* transparent stuff  -  the tree branches on the transparent overlay
* frame  -  on the transparent overlay on the journaling

I layered the mint cardstock onto the brown cardstock with a 1cm border. The patterned paper was heavily distressed to show the mint card underneath, randomly  punched in places around the edge, inked and layered on top of the mint cardstock. Where there was heavy distressing I poked cheesecloth underneath.

For my background I mixed some coloured paint in with my texture paste to match the colour in the case file. I then used this through a Crafter Workshop stencil, Mini Harlequin. I stamped randomly with the Kaisercraft Triangle stamp in Walnut Stain.

I stamped the branch from the Card-io stamp set with a Gathered Twig distress pen and the flower from the same set with the Abandoned Coral distress pen.

The Dusty Attic window frame chipboard I embossed with white embossing powder.

The leaves in my clusters where actually attached to a ribbon but I snipped the threads to free the leaves and used them separately.

The branches are a transparency overlay. My journaling I wrote on a piece of card cut to fit the frame of the overlay which was placed over the top of the journaling. The cute little clouds are a die which my Mum has and she cut a few cut for me! They are inked with Walnut Stain distress ink.

Product list:

Coredinations cardstock mint blue/green
Dovecraft cardstock brown
Patterned paper
Kaisercraft stamp - triangles
Kaisercraft transparent elements
Card-io Magestix stamps - Oriental Blossom
Prima Flowers
Die - Clouds
My Minds Eye Brads
Martha Stewart Pansy Border punch
Distress Marker pens - Gathered Twig & Abandoned Coral
Prima Color Bloom - Soft Teal
Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Dusty Attic - Window frame
Stampendous Embossing powder detail White
Word Sticker - Prima Lifetime Journal spot stickers
cheesecloth
Leaf & flower ribbon.


If you fancy a go at these Case File challenges, then pop over to the CSI forum and come and join us, you maybe our lucky winner!!  http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/

Thanks for popping by today, come back soon, 

Ginny  :)

Round Robin at Swirlydoos

Happy Sunday!

Good evening, I hope you've all had a lovely Sunday, mine has been productive and Im happy with all the jobs I have got done today! I have even got 2 layouts done today!
This is the first one, my layout for Swirlydoos kit club Round Robin challenge for Team 2 Week 3.
I had the pleasure of following fellow Swirly girls Cheryl and Andie, to create my lift of their layouts.
Here it is,

This months Round Robin is all about Mother and daughters as its Mothers day in the USA this month. We then also had to try include bling, distressing, spring colours and loads of flowers! Also to use some of our beloved stashed Swirlydoos goodies!

This photo is me and my Mum Christmas 2013, when my Mum opened her Christmas pressie that I had made her - a Kaisercraft drawer set. She loved it! :)

So all my papers are from previous Swirlydoos kits, the background paper being a Kaisercraft paper,

In fact everything is from previous Swirly kits apart from the pink paper roses and the mixed media.

I used a Prima stencil and texture paste on the backround with Tattered Angels mist Creme de Rouge and Prima Color Bloom Glistening Waves,

I used a Martha Stewart punch for the decorative border.

My journaling is on the tag slipped behind the photo.

I used Liquid Pearls Petal Pink  on the Bobuny laser cut butterfly.

My Creative Embellishments chippies I covered with a Lindy's pink embossing powder and then highlighted with a Teal 3d paint.

My edges were very lightly distressed and then inked with Distress Ink Walnut Stain.

I found these pretty pearls set on wire in my stash and thought they were perfect for the bling.

Don't forget to stop by the Swirlydoos forum to find out more!

http://www.swirlydoos.com/

Thanks for stopping by,

Ginny  :)

OTP project using an embroidery frame

 Hello all,

It's been a few days since I last blogged, we have been having trouble with our broadband and I haven't been able to get on here for a long enough length of time to do anything useful. Today it has been better so I have been rushing around the internet visiting my DT duties and my other favourite sites and now doing this post! Lets hope the broadband lasts long enough to finish this!

So today I wanted to show you this! It is part of my Swirlydoos monthly kit - Purple Haze kit.
We had an embroidery hoop in our kit and I decided to make an Altered art 'off the page' project with it, so it turns out a bit like a shadow box.

We had a Blue fern Studios chipboard decorative circle in the kit. After painting it with gesso I covered it with some texture paste through a stencil to give it some texture. When dry I also used versamark and stamped a script stamp in various places around the chippie and used embossing powder - heated it to add extra texture and a little bit of a resist to the next step - painting some well watered down micra paints to the barer parts left.  I glued this chippie to the front of the embroidery hoop. I backed the frame with one of the Blue fern Studios Serendipity papers, these are so beautiful!

Having added some Blue fern Studios flowers and some Petaloo flowers from the kit with the Prima Shabby Chic Treasure piece, a pearl swirl from my stash, the sparkly lime Dazzlers and used a Kaisercraft quote die cut card from a previous Swirlydoos kit, I decided it still needed more. I then added the banner behind the frame with the white organizer ribbon. With some cheesecloth pushed in here and there and the everything dabbed with gesso using my sponge adapter, I was pretty pleased with the result!

I inked the edges of my papers with Distress ink Milled Lavender and Walnut Stain.

Adding the banner behind the frame gave me another level to embellish and give the piece more depth.

The embroidery hoop I also painted with a coat of gesso before I started altering it.

The pearl swirl I cut up into pieces to make it go further and balance the piece out  by putting it in three places - the rule of three!

The ribbon runs the whole length of the frame and comes out at the bottom. Where I have placed the bow it actually supports the swirl of the BFS chippie that sticks out from the hoop. I backed the back of the frame and banner with a piece of card, covering the ribbon as well to secure everything, to make it stronger and neater.

This project I have created for Angelica's All That Flutters challenge over at Swirlydoos. My     fluttering element is obviously the butterflies on the papers.

Please visit the  Swirlydoos  blog and forums for more info on their monthly kits and to join in with our challenges. We have great fun and they are a great bunch of ladies!!

http://www.swirlydoos.com/

http://www.swirlydoos.blogspot.com/

Thanks for dropping by today

Ginny  :)