You Will Forever Be My Always | Bee Arty

Hi Everyone, back with you today sharing my latest creation for Bee Arty blog using the beautiful range Forever My Always designed by Fiona Paltridge.

 

I gathered all my pieces together prior to starting.  My layout was a white cardstock base. 

Taking the Diamond metal die, cut out two in a rose gold foil cardstock. Cut a strip of navy cardstock approximately 1" in size. More navy cardstock is used to mount your photo,

I was lucky enough to have some lace already coloured to match the papers.  If you don't you can always colour some white lace with an ink that matches.  One colour in the Colour Blast range that will work beautifully is Bling.

On the Heart Beat patterned paper there is a fine black line that runs slightly to the right of the centre of the page.  Place the paper in your trim and cut along this line.

Take the smaller piece (the large piece is not required) and place it on the white cardstock to the left edge.  With a pencil make a couple of marks where the paper ends.  Use this as a guide as to where to do your stenciling.

Next, take the My Lady A4 stencil, place the floral part of the stencil, centred vertically, at the marks that you made where the patterned paper was ending. Apply Heavy White Gesso over the stencil.

Whilst the gesso is still very wet, sprinkle some of both the Steel and Just Blue Embossing powder over the gesso. Using your heat gun set the embossing powder.  If you like a textured look to the gesso, keep the heat on the gesso until it bubbles, but be careful not to hold the gun too close or you could scorch your cardstock.

Once you have set the gesso, attach the Heart Beat patterned paper to the left side of the white cardstock.  Attach your lace against the right edge of the patterned paper, then take the strip of navy cardstock and apply over the seam of the patterned paper and the lace.

Mount your photo on to some navy cardstock and then add 3D foam tape/dots to the reverse. My photo was printed with a border so if you like do a double mat.  

I added 3D foam tape/dots to the reverse of the photo prior to mounting on the navy cardstock. So there was two layers of 3D foam tape/dots. Add the photo to the layout.  For this layout I created the cluster whilst attached to the layout.

Add the two Diamond die cuts to the photo. Add a selection of fussy cut pieces from the Cut Apart sheet.  Mount some on 3D foam tape/dots to get depth to the layout.

The title used for the layout came from the Heart and Soul patterned paper, again mounted.

I finished the layout with a raw wood veneer. 

Below are a few closeups of my finished layout.

PRODUCTS USED

Forever My Always Collection

Heart Beat - patterned paper

Heart and Soul - patterned paper

Gentle Heart - cut apart sheet

Diamond - metal die

My Lady - A4 Stencil

Colour Blast Mixed Media

Steel - Embossing Powder

Just Blue - Embossing Powder

Heavy White Gesso

Other Products

Navy Cardstock

White Cardstock

Lace

Adhesives

Rose Gold Foil Cardstock

Thank you for stopping by.

Make sure you get some 'me' time in every week.

Take Care for Now,

Anita E

 

"My Sweet Provence" card set

Hi Everyone, I thought I would share with you a recent set of card that I created for a Card Class that I taught at Bella Paperie in North Brisbane.

It is great to be able to teach fellow crafters, share my knowledge and also learn a thing or two from them too.

The cards used the A4 paper pad from the "My Sweet Provence" collection from Lemoncraft, along with the purple and green butterfly fussy cutting cards and standard card bases.

The first card was a standard square card that used layers of created banners of patterned paper layered on white cardstock.  A fussy cut wreath and flowers from the A4 paper pad along with some gorgeously coloured venise lace, gauze, flowers and some pretty adhesive pearl and cute butterflies finished off the card beautifully.

My second can added touches of lace and a gorgeous paper doily to the fussy cutting.  The A4 paper pad in this collection comes with a sheet full of sentiments which was fantastic and the perfect size for your cards..  Keep an eye out for these sheets in other collections. 

Card three I just had to use the bicycle.  Don't you just love it.

For the fourth card I decided to go with a tall card.  This was the first time I had included one in my class and it came out great.  It was also the perfect size for the patterned papers in the A4 pad that had a lot of details along the edges of the paper.  It allowed me to fussy cut the detail and layer it up.

 I love making cards of all different sizes.  This last one is 5x7" in size.  I embossed the patterned paper with a fern embossing folder.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my cards.


Anita
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Beach Hair | Colour Blast by Bee Arty

Welcome back Everyone, Anita back with you today on the Blog.

For this layout I went back to the Life's a Beach range designed by Michelle Grant. Many of the elements from the collection were just perfect to highlight the photo I had chosen.

I chose the Tranquility patterned paper and applied Heavy White Gesso through 

the Footprints A4 stencil.

I made up a mix of Shimmer Dust in Peacock with water and using a wet wipe wiped it across the Tranquility patterned paper.  The stenciled image stayed mostly white and only took a little of the shimmer dust.

I then took a piece of white cardstock and tore it and then inked the edge using the wet wipe that was infused with colour.  On to the back of that I attached some corrugated cardstock and then adhered it to my page.  Next using the bubble stamp from the Making Your Mark stamp set from the  "Untangle" collection designed by Tanya Froud, I stamped with my black stazon ink over the background patterned paper.

Again I took the wet wipe that had was infused with the Peacock shimmer dust and wiped a couple of times across the white cardstock.

The same wet wipe was used to add some colour on to a piece of gauze. 

 I then went to town colouring in using the Colour Artist Inks

using colours of Lime, Walnut, Soot, Calypso, Oasis, Mermaid and Green. Once coloured fussy cut your images.

When constructing the layout, I also die cut one of the "Stringed Wreath" from the "Love and Grace" collection also designed by Michelle Grant.  I cut the die cut in half and curled around opposite corners of the photo. My photo was mounted on some scrap cardboard and the gauze was glued down across the white cardstock prior to attaching the photo.

I added all my fussy cut pieces to the layout  and mounted the "Beach Hair Don't Care" on some 3D foam dots and finished with a small cluster of flowers and a Charms Creations heart that matched perfectly.

Check out a couple of closeups of my finished layout.

I hope you have been a little inspired.

Take care until next time.

Be safe and be crafty.

Anita

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