Anita Enright: March 2021

18 March 2021

"Wild Child"

Happy Thursday Everyone....another working week is nearly done .....which means the weekend and crafting time.

For my share today I created another layout using the Bohemian Bliss collection designed by Sue Smyth. This is such a beautiful collection and whilst it can be used for boys as well, today I wanted to use a particular photo so ended up pretty and girly.

Taking a piece of the Bee Arty 350gsm white cardstock and sprinkled some of the Sunflower shimmer dust on to the page next activating it with water to move around the page. Ensure that you have the shimmer dust totally dry before repeating it using the Lollipop shimmer dust.

Once I had the Sunflower and Lollipop shimmer dust on the page I decided I wanted to add another colour. This time I added some of the Peacock shimmer dust.

Using an array of the patterned papers create a background mat for your chosen photo. Each piece was a different size and shape, with some torn and all distressed. Attach some foam tape to the reverse and when adhering the pieces together do not go right to the edge so that you can tuck in fussy cut pieces.

I coloured some white gauze using some Slipper Artist Ink. I dried this off with a heat gun and then pulled it to pieces so that it became very loose with lots of loose threads. This was used to layer under the layers of fussy cutting pieces.

Using some of the patterned paper offcuts, die cut several of the open feathers from the Fine Feathers die set. I also cut several in just white cardstock. I also cut a couple of solid feathers in some patterned papers. To add a little feature to the top I also die cut the top portion from the String Leaves die from the Grateful Heart Collection.

I added a large white paper doily to the back of the photo mat cluster, added fussy cut pieces in between the layers and layered the die cut feathers around the photo. I added the "Wild Child" title from the Sweet Talker word sheet. To finish I cut some smallish pieces from the coloured gauze and tucked them under the layers created under the photo and all added a couple of stamped imaged in a matching ink around the photo, add a couple of fussy cut butterflies and a couple of enamel dots from my collection.

CLOSEUPS

PRODUCTS USED

Bee Arty 350gsm white cardstock

Grateful Heart - String Leaves Metal Die

Bohemian Bliss - Fine Feathers Metal Die

Bohemian Bliss - Dreamcatcher Patterned Paper

Bohemian Bliss - Harmony Patterned Paper

Bohemian Bliss - Market Days Patterned Paper

Bohemian Bliss - Patchwork Patterned Paper

Bohemian Bliss - Sweet Talker Word Sheet

Bohemia Bliss - Collection Fussy Cut Sheet

Artist Ink - Slipper

Shimmer Dust - Sunflower

Shimmer Dust - Peacock

Shimmer Dust - Lollipop

Thanks for stopping by.

Have fun creating and don't forget to drop by again soon to see another amazing creation from the Design Team.

Ciao for now.

Anita E

4 March 2021

"Keep Sassy"

Hi Everyone

I haven't had much to play lately but last weekend pulled out papers from one of my favourite Colour Blast ranges - Trendsetter. Designed by the amazing Michelle Grant it truly is a gorgeous collection.

You can find it here.

For this one I wanted to also play along with the March Bee Arty Creative Hive challenge. I think I did it justice but I'll leave that up to you :).

Here is a copy of the Moodboard for the challenge and if you wanted to join in click on the link. If not, they are great colours to create a layout, off the page project or some gorgeous cards. I so love this colour combination.

Bee Arty Creative Hive March 2021 Challenge

To create my page I started by adding some Mica Powder in Polar to the lower half of the Bee Arty cardstock and after drying completely I then added a little Shimmer Dust in Velvet.

I cut a piece of the "Sassy" paper from the Trendsetter collection at about 5 1/2" and then torn a strip from the "Impress" patterned paper. Attach these the white cardstock. From a piece of off-cut white cardstock I die cut the "Party Lights" die set and attached them to the layout under the torn piece of patterned paper.

I added some stamping in a matching dark purple ink. Next I added foam tape to the reverse of my photo, added some white gauze behind it and then after cutting the "Basket Weave" in the "Impress" patterned paper, attached it behind the photo (cut in half).

Adding some flower clusters and layering some of the cards from the reverse of the "Impress" patterned paper. To finish I added some words from the "Sparkle" word sheet mounted on foam tape and punched out some leaves in white cardstock to tuck in amongst the flower clusters.