Anita Enright: sequins

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2 August 2018

"Living Today" | Colour Blast

Hi fellow Colour Blasters

I am so thrilled to have been asked to join the wonderful Colour Blast Design Team for 2018-2019. I have followed the amazing team of designers on the team for a long time and love using the product when I get to play with it..... and now I do on a very regular basis.

For my first creation for Colour Blast I wanted to do a 12x12" layout showcasing the gorgeous Artist Inks in my kind of colours - bright yellows and oranges.

To start my layout I covered the area that I was going to apply my Artist Inks to with some Heavy White Gesso. I really love this product as it dries so quickly which is great for me as I am such an impatient crafter.

I wanted to create a layout that matched the photo of my niece wearing her sunnies last summer holidays so chose the Colour Artist Inks in Citrus and Cider.

Using the dropper I added droplets of both colours along the diagonal and then using a brush blended them across the page. Next I used my heat gun to dry the inks off.

Once my page was dry I then took a matching orange ink and stamps several images over the artist ink and around the page to add another texture and feature to the page. I also add some splats in the Colour Shimmer Spray Tangareen Dream.

Using one of my many many stencils in my stash and the Snow White Colour Paste and added another layer to my page. I think the Snow White colour paste is my absolute thing EVER!!! I love how once dry the backgrounds colour show through. So so so cool!!

Now that my background is done, I then had fun putting it all together with embellishments and flower clusters. Using embellishments from Charms Creations, Flutterby Designs and D-lish Scraps I finished off my page. My title was from Celebr8 and inked in a matching orange ink, the same as the background stamping.

Here are a couple of closeups of my finished page.

Thank you so much for dropping by.

Have a great day and happy creating :)

Anita

6 November 2016

MY MUM

Hi Everyone,

I thought I would share with you today a layout I did for a scrapbooking class. It uses dies from the Ooh La La collection from Couture Creations and then a range of laces and embellishments including a gorgeous butterfly black and white heart from Charms Creations, flair buttons from Funky Flair Studio and some wood veneers created by Corbett Creations.

Instructions

1. Take you piece of Kraft cardstock and paint some white and black swipes similar to the below photos.

2. Dry off with your heat gun to speed the drying process along.
REMEMBER if you add heat to the cardstock it may curl.

3. Once dry take the stencil and using the Anna Griffin Embossing paste add some texture to your layout. I put some in the top left, bottom right and small amount of the bottom left as in the photo. Place it where you like it, and as much as you want. Set aside to dry or be gentle when drying it with your heat gun (keep it a good distance away).

4. Next cut out the Ooh La La dies. You will need one of the Framed Floral Set (cut in half) and two of the Lavish Borders in BLACK and one of the Peacock Feather in WHITE.

5. Cover your white feather die cut in Versamark ink (or similar) and then sprinkle with the pink glitter embossing powder. Set with your heat gun.

6. Your Embossing Paste should be at least touch dry by now so take the white pearlised spray and lightly spritz your page. If you like unscrew the top and add some droplets on the page. Again, if you like dry off with a heat gun.
REMEMBER if you add heat to the cardstock it may curl.

7. Take your white flowers and spray them with adhesive spray and sprinkle them with some pink glitter. Set aside to dry.

8. Now we move on to the construction. Take the piece of Paris inspired Ultimate Craft Quick Release Die Paper and tear along the left edge. Attach it to your layout with some double sided tape.

9. Take the black burlap ribbon and cut it to be two pieces 2/3 and 1/3 of the piece. Take the smaller white venise lace and the pink venise lace and attach all to the layout as shown. (The white and pink lace will be opposite to what you see below as the pink lace is wider than the white)
Hold the small 1/3 piece of the black burlap ribbon for later.

10. Next attach the heart paper doily to the right edge of the burlap and venise ribbons.

11. Take the wide white venise lace and attach with glue down the right hand side of the layout.

12. Attach 3D foam tape vertically down the back of your photo.

13. Take the two halves of the Framed Floral die and attach to the bottom left and top right of the back of the photo on the edges of the 3D foam tape.

14. Attach the 1/3 piece of the black burlap ribbon to the top underside of the photo. If necessary add some double sided tape over the ribbon so that when you attach the mounted photo to the layout it holds down strongly.

15. Attach your mounted photo to the layout.

16. Next add the two Lavish Borders die cuts to the layout to the top left side of the photo. Adhere your black sequin bow to the right side of the die cuts slightly overlapping the left edge of the photo

17. Glue the organza flower strip with the pearls to the bottom left edge of the photo and the feather to the right bottom side of the photo.
Add your large black flower, tassel, burlap flower, large white glittered flower and Charm’s Creation heart to the bottom left corner of the photo.
Add two of the small white glittered flowers to the centre curves of the Lavish Borders die cuts.

18. Adhere the three Funky Flair Studio flairs to the page with 3D foam dots. Use the twine and twist throughout your layout stapling the twine as your go to hold it in place.

19. attach the wood veneer shapes. In the final picture taken here I did not have the diamond wood veneers, so just place them where you like (they were added to the actual layout shown at the actual class).
I used the banner wood veneer to add my nieces name with a rotary stamp.

20. Finally add some black sequins to the layout.

Products Used

ULT200001 Ultimate Crafts Cardstock – Snow White

ULT200007 Ultimate Crafts Cardstock – Obsidian

ULT157630 Ooh La La - Paper Doily

ULT157563 Ooh La La - Lavish Borders Set

ULT157565 Ooh La La – Framed Floral Set

ULT157567 Ooh La La - Peacock Feather

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

CO723780 Couture Creations 3D foam dots

CO724870 Couture Creations & Anna Griffin Embossing Paste

ULT157149 Ultimate Crafts Quick Release Die Paper

Perfect Pearl Mist – Perfect Pearls

Kraft coloured Cardstock

Black and White Paint

Sequins

Funky Flair Studio Flairs

Lace & Tassel

Flowers

Charm’s Creations Butterfly Heart

Corbett Creations Wood Veneer

Thanks for stopping by.

Anita

19 October 2016

Enjoy Life & the Beauty of Living

Hi Everyone,

Today's post is of my latest blog post for D-lish Scraps.

For the page that I am sharing with you today I chose a gorgeous photo of my niece Cassie and her beautiful horse Tensile. It is such a wonderful photo with the two of them so in sync with each other. I wanted to bring out the green from the blanket under the saddle so based the entire layout on the colour.

Being on the Design Team I decided to go through all my goodies and sort them properly since I would need them at my fingertips all the time.

And after sorting I was quite surprised how much green I actually did have to create this layout.

Anyway, back to how I created the layout. I love using white as my base cardstock at the moment.

I find that it really draws the attention in to the photo and also give me opportunity to go crazy with bright colours.

So after grabbing my white cardstock I searched my stash for a print in a matching green and then tore it to be about 5" in size horizontally. I attached it to the white cardstock with double sided tape and then drew in a black pen some 'faux' stitching around the edge.

Next I found another matching pattered paper, the one I chose was chocolate brown with lime green so it matched beautifully. I used this to make a large mat for the photo, around 1/2" bigger than the photo on each side.
I mounted my photo, on to 3D foam tape and attached a piece of punchinella to the
back of the photo before attaching it to the patterned photo mat. I then used double sided tape to attach this to the base papers.

Finally I embellished it with lots of goodies from D-lish Scraps

I added some flairs buttons, resin flowers, paper flowers, and sequin bow.
I also used some wood veneer shapes and word from previous 'Just Add Paper' kits. Whilst these are no longer available there is plenty of other wood veneer goodies in the store. I also used a scattering of lime loose sequins from a previous kit.
Again, check out the store for stranded sequins or grab bags of loose sequins.

D-lish Products Used

punchinella

flairs buttons

resin flowers

paper flowers

sequin bows

Stay Happy and Keep Crafting :)

Anita

17 August 2016

Magnolia Lane Shaker Card

#couturecreationsaus #ultimatecrafts

Hi Everyone, I thought I would share with you some shakers cards I created using the Magnolia Lane collection by Susanne Smyth that recently featured on the Couture Creations blog. I hope you enjoy my creations.

To start I selected one of the panels that I liked from the Poetical Labels patterned paper. Okay, I admit it I love every single one of them so I wasn't short of one to chose from :)

You will find that the panel is not wide enough to go behind the frame that you cut out next. I added a small strip of matching patterned paper to the left side. It will be covered by the embellishments and dies you add to the outside of the frame later.

I then used the largest two dies from the Rectangle Nesting Dies and cut out a frame using the Ultimate Craft Obsidion cardstock. So that the frames did not move when I ran it through GoCut and Emboss machine, I placed a post-it note over the two dies as per the photo below.

The next step was to cut out a piece of the Couture Creations Acetate Sheets just big enough to be adhered to the back of the black cardstock frame. Attach some of the 3D foam strips around the inside back of the frame on the acetate making sure there are no gaps or your sequins could fall out.

Prior to removing the backing paper from the 3D foam strips add a mixture of matching coloured sequins then remove the backing paper from the foam strips and attach your chosen panel. Don't do what I did first time around and put it back to front. Make sure you chose panel can be seen through the acetate sheet.

I made a 5 x 7" card base in the Obsidion cardstock from Ultimate Crafts. I chose the Magnolia Borders patterned paper as this was similar to the panel that I chose and cut it to 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" so that I could see a good border of black behind the patterned paper.
Next, I attached the shaker to the patterned paper and attached a seam binding ribbon across the top securing it on the reverse side of the patterned paper. You can then glue the patterned paper to your card base.

I am still loving the Couture Creations Bulk Flowers. I sprayed two of the Camden Cottage Roses with a bright pink spritz. Next spray the flowers with adhesive and scatter with white or crystal glitter over the adhesive. Once dry, using glue dots, attach to the top corner of the black frame. The flowers just come up so beautiful.

Whilst my flowers were drying a little I quickly cut out the Tassels die in Precious pink, again from Ultimate Crafts, to use as a trail down the left hand side of the black frame. It also hid the seam where I widened the back panel. I added a few of the small 2mm Onyx gemstones to the tassel and then attached it to the black frame at the top using glue dots. Finally I added some 2mm Wisteria gemstones to the corners of the frame, a couple of small black flowers and a sentiment to finish.

As an added bonus I have also recreated the card using the SEA BREEZE collection by Denise Boddey. This one is perfect for Father's Day which is just around the corner.