Anita Enright: seashells

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1 September 2016

Together is the Best

Hi Everyone. Hope you have had a great start to September and managing to find the time to keep your craft alive.

Today I have to share with you a layout that I created for a class. It features the wonderful Sea Breeze collection by Denise Boddey.

1. Remove the strip from your Weatherboard paper and gently tear the paper from top to bottom, approximately in the middle. See the picture below.

2. You now have two pieces made from the Weatherboard and will use both sides of the paper. For the piece with the word SUMMER you will use the reverse.

3. Rotate each piece 90 degrees as above. Distress the edges of both pieces of paper.

4. Using some texture paste and a stencil apply to the patterned paper. Remember to put some closer to the edges so that it is seen once your photo and embellishments are added. Set aside to dry.

5. The layout has 3 flowers, 1 x large Cottage Pollen flower and 2 x Paper Magnolias.
Take the large Cottage Pollen flower and ink all the tips of the petals in the blue/green ink. Using the same ink dab over the Paper Magnolias with a dauber or blending tool.

6. Take some pearlised spritz and spray the flowers with enough spray so the ink starts to soften and blend.

7. Dry off the flowers using a heat gun or set aside to dry.

8. Take your white netting and ink it with the blue/green ink. Spritz with some pearlised spritz so it blends and absorbs into the cotton of the net. Set aside to dry or dry with a heat gun.

9. Mat your photo using a corner of the Hippodrome grey cardstock. Adhere foam tape to back of the grey cardstock.

10. Cut a second rectangle our of the Hippodrome grey cardstock as 5 x 7” in size

11. Take the Silver Sands patterned paper and cut two pieces of 4 x 6” in size in portrait. I trimmed the tab off the top of the paper and cut one vertical strip at 4" and 12" long (portrait) , then cut in half to give your the 2 x pieces of 4x6". You then have a 8" x 12" piece left for your fussy cutting later.

12. Take the Bottom of the Sea patterned paper and cut a piece as 5 x 7” in size in landscape

13. From the Silver Sands remaining paper, cut out at least 4 of the shells, a large compass and a ship’s wheel.

14. Cut out the following dies:
1 x sea horse in the Hippodrome grey cardstock
1 x set of 4 shells - 2 in Hippodrome grey and 2 in the Charming blue/green cardstock
4 x coral in the Hippodrome grey cardstock

15. Adhere all the die cuts to cardstock with glue. I used alternate colours, that is, if the die cut was in the grey I adhered it to the blue/green and vice versa.

16. Fussy cut all the die cuts.

17. Using a cream colour ink pad and blending tool, soften the edges or the grey and blue/green cardstock on the shells and seahorse.

18. Take your matted photo and adhere to the Bottom of the Sea 5 x 7” piece that was cut out earlier. Offset it slightly to the left side.

19. Take the other three pieces that you cut out and distress all the edges.

20. Using the grey as a base mat the two prints on top of each other, the greenish print towards the top left, and the cream print more centred. As per the main picture.

21. Take the natural twine and snip off a small piece, big enough to use to attach your charm. Wrap the remaining twine three times around your mounted photo and adhere it to the back. Take your small piece of snipped twine and adhere the charm to around the twine that you just wrapped around the photo.

22. Take your distressed Weatherboard patterned paper and place them on to the Battle Fatigue green cardstock, do not adhere yet. You will notice that the paper overlaps on either side. Tear off more of the patterned paper (either the top or bottom piece) so that more of the Battle Fatigue green shows. See main photo. Once you are happy with how it looks add glue or double sided tape to the reverse approximately 1cm or ½” from the edge.
Once it is attached play with the edges and distress them further with your fingers so that the green Battle Fatigue cardstock shows more around the edges.

23. Finally it is all about the layering of the background papers and your newly created embellishments. Once you have attached the three background papers take the netting and attach it approximately at the half way point down the paper. I found glue works best to ensure it won’t come loose at a later time. Add your matted photo and then finish adding your die cuts, flowers, cabochon and fussy cut seashells, anchor and ships wheel.
I left enough space at the bottom of the page so that I could add what ever size title I wanted that matched my photo.
And….. you’re done .

Products Used

ULT157508Magnolia Lane Paper Magnolias

ULT200005 Ultimate Crafts Cardstock – Hippodrome

ULT200020 Ultimate Crafts Cardstock – Charming

ULT200039Ultimate Crafts Cardstock – Battle Fatigue

CO724658 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Patterned Paper – Silver Sands

CO724655 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Patterned Paper – Bottom of the Sea

CO724667 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Patterned Paper – Weatherboard

CO724670 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Cabochons

CO724732 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Charms

CO724733 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE White Netting

CO724692 Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Dies – Seahorse and Coral

CO724690Couture Creations SEA BREEZE Dies - Seashells

CO724295A Couture Creations BULK FLOWERS – Cottage Pollen

CO723286 Couture Creations Sponge Dauber

CO723022 Couture Creations 2 Way Glue Pen

CO723828 Couture Creations Non Stick Craft Mat

CO723816 Couture Creations Glue Dots

CO721985 Couture Creations 6mm double sided tape

CO721964 Couture Creations 12mm Foam Mounting tape

CO723780Couture Creations 3D foam dots

Until next time... keep crafting

Anita
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5 August 2016

Pinks and blues... and Seashells too

Hi Everyone, I created a gorgeous card using the Sea Breeze papers and dies, teamed up with some of the beautiful flowers and using one of the Anna Griffin range of stencils designed for Couture Creations.

Have you tried the new Couture Creations card bases yet? They are wonderful. It is great that you get prescored card bases and matching envelopes in a set of 50. There are several different sizes and colours to choose from, white, cream and kraft, square rectangle and long.

For this card I used one of the white square card bases.

I selected two matching prints from the 6" paper pad, A Windy Beach and Deep Seas and Whirling Winds.

Cut down the Deep Seas and Whirling Winds paper to just slightly smaller than the card base and distress the edges. With the A Windy Beach piece cut off opposing corners of the paper and distress the edges. See my picture below.

Next cut out two of the Sandy Border diesusing a coordinating peachy pink cardstock to match.
I have just gotten hold permanently of one of the new Couture Creations Go Cut and Emboss machines. Oh my goodness!!! They are just so beautiful to work with. The cut on it with the dies is phenomenal. It is so light and now takes pride and place on my craft desk.
Next, attach the two die cuts Sandy Border to the reverse of the A Windy Beach paper.
Attach the spot paper now with the dies adhered to it on to the square patterned paper. See below. Once adhered trim off the excess of the Sandy Border that overhang the edges. Then adhere to the card base.

Next, I took my Anna Griffin stencil, Arabesquie, and with some texture paste add some elements to the corners of the spotted paper. I had some matching coloured texture paste in my stash but if you only have white you can colour it with powders or inks. Set it aside to dry.

I then took one of my Cottage Pollen large flowers and four of the small 3cm Tie Dyed and Jewelled Florettes flowers and inked them in matching colours. For the large Cottage Pollen flower I used both a teal ink for the edges and a salmon/peach pink for the centre. For the small Tie Dyed and Jewelled Florettes I inked the edges in the teal ink. I then totally soaked the flowers in a pearlised mist so that the inks soften and they got a gorgeous finish to them. To speed the drying process up I blasted them with my head gun. You will see how lovely they look in the closeup photos. I also grabbed a couple of other flowers from my stash and inked them in the salmon/peach ink and used the pearlised mist on them too.

To finish the card I added the flowers in between the two stenciled accents and added a couple of white sprays in amongst the flowers and I was done.
When making my cards now I hold off with a sentiment on the front until I have the need to use it for someone. I then have a myriad of cards to chose from and only need to put a fitting sentiment on the front.

Products Used

CO724651 - Sea Breeze - 6" paper pad

CO724696 - Sea Breeze - Sandy Border

CO724293 - Bulk Flowers - Tie Dyed and Jewelled Florettes

CO724295 - Bulk Flowers - Cottage Pollen

CO724824 - GoCut and Emboss Machine

CO724884 - Anna Griffin Stencils - Arabesque

CO724845 - Square White Card Base

CO721984 - 12mm Double Sided Tape

CO723816 - Craft Glue Dots

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Anita

27 July 2016

Dream Big

Hi Everyone, hope you are having a wonderfully crafty week.

I am sharing with you one of, I would have to say, my favourite layouts that I have done in a long time. It is showcasing the wonderful Sea Breeze collection that has not only wonderful dies, but also papers, embossing folders and embellishments. It is the perfect packaged set.

TO START I selected one of the gorgeous papers in the Collection Paper pack and using a sunburst stencil and texture paste added some some highlights to the paper.

If you want the drying process to speed up use your heat gun, however be careful so that the paper doesn't buckle. If it does, I find turning the paper over and warming it up helps bring the paper back into shape again.

I then chose a couple of pearlised/shimmer sprays to spritz over the paper. Below are a couple of photos that show how pretty the paper looks once spritzed.

Next I chose a selection of papers from both the 12" and 6" paper pads that matched in with the background paper I chose. I tore some and cut others and then inked the edges.

After mounting my photo on some white cardstock, I then took the photo and my bundle of patterned papers and layered them to see how I like the look together. So that I didn't forget the finished layering I took a quick photo .

I can't help myself when it comes to the Couture Creations flowers, and this layout was no different. I love the Cottage Pollen flowers and those centres, yum, but didn't want the entire flower, so I just used the centre petals. Keep the rest as you just need to add a bit of bling or embellishment to the centre and you have another larger flower for another layout.

I inked around the edge of my now smaller flower. See the before and after flower below. I made two for this project.

I fell in love with the Seashells dies and just had to use them in this layout. I only chose one of the seashells to use along with the starfish. I cut out two of each in two coordinating colours. Next I glued them done on to the alternative colour and fussy cut around each of them.

How gorgeous do they look!!!!

Finally just put it all together. I glued all the paper down and mounted my photo on mounting tape to make it pop. I added a couple smaller flowers and heat embossed my title, added a metal charm and one of the cabochons and I'm done.

I hope you like what I've created.

Below are some more close ups of the layout.