Anita Enright: texture paste

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13 July 2020

Blooming into a Woman | Bee Arty

Hi Everyone

I wanted to share with you a layout I created using Colour Blast by Bee Arty's Trendsetter collection. I love these papers due to the colour combinations of blues and purples. Michelle Grant again designed a gorgeous collection.

Over the patterned paper I added some background stenciling. I added some colour to my medium using the Passion Shimmer Dust to use with several stencils including the Croquis #2 stencil from the collection. The Passion shimmer dust was also used to colour a couple of feathers and a couple of lace flowers. I also coloured a further couple of lace flowers using some Oasis Artist Ink. Using some Embossing Powder in Lovely Lilac and Just Blue to colour the title.

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time - keep creating.

Anita E

7 March 2017

Spread you Wings and Fly | Artdeco Creations

Hello Everyone!

Anita here again today to share with you a layout I have created for goodies from the L'Aquarelle collection.

For this layout I decided to concentrate on some stamping and mixed media, building the textures.

So have you gotten hold of the Couture Creations Anna Griffin mixed media products yet. I have to say I absolutely love the gesso to prepare my papers as it is so light and it dries so quickly which is what I need due to my impatience when creating. I also love love love the embossing paste. It is just like beautiful light and fluffy buttercream icing.

Below you will see the Mixed Media products that I have used on the layout.

To start the layout I have taken some Snow White Ultimate Crafts Cardstock and coated it with a light coverage of the Acrylic Gesso. If you like you can fasten the drying process with your heat gun but be gentle as too much heat will make the cardstock curl.

Next in a small spritz bottle with water add a good mix of the green and blue Pigment Powders to mix to a shade that you like. You now have your own customised pearlised spritz.

Spray the page where you want coverage. I had issues with my spray bottle so I assisted the blending with my fingers to get a better coverage.

Once the my spray was dry I then took my embossing paste and the Daisy Batik stencil and added some more texture to the cardstock.

I next took some black spray and using the insert flicked some black ink lightly across the layout.

Below is how my pearlised spray and embossed stencil came up.

Next I stamped up the single flower from the Flowers & Flourishes stamp set, and also two of the butterflies from the 'Spread your Wings' set.

I poured out a little of the pearlised spritz on to a plate and soaked up the majority of the moisture. The remainder on the plate I used and painted on to the flowers that I stamped. Make sure you use an archival black ink so that the ink does not bleed when water touches it.

Enjoy fussy cutting the four flowers and two butterflies.

I used a couple of other stamps from my personal collection to add a few 'lines' of stamping to my page, I then hot glued some lace down the length of the page.

After mounting the photo on 3D foam tape, it is then just about laying the flowers and butterflies. I added a few extra butterflies just stamped on the cardstock and because I loved the dragonflies so much added a couple of them as well from the Spread Your Wings stamp set. I also used the sentiment from the same set as my page title.

To finish the page I coloured some of the snow white 3mm pearls with black permanent pen and once dry to touch placed some over the page.

To finish I drew a thin line around the edge of the layout to frame it.

Below are a few closeups of the page.

Products Used

ULT200001 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Snow White

ULT157795 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - Spread Your Wings Stamp Set

ULT157796 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - Flowers & Flourishes Stamp Set

CO724871 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Acrylic Gesso

CO724870 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Embossing Paste

CO724866 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Mix and Match Pigments

CO724885 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Daisy Batik Stencil

CO724389 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

CO721964 - Double Sided Foam Tape

Thank you for stopping by today.

Until next time...... happy crafting.

Anita

12 January 2017

A New Year Begins

Hi Everyone

Well I hope January 2017 has already started beautifully for you and you have all been finding some time for yourselves and get some craft on.

I have been lucky to have some time to craft even though I have still been working full time and have been having fun getting messy with this layout that I have for you today on the blog.

I really wanted to keep my layout simple so that all the attention is on the photo.

I really love gold black and red together and this photo of my niece at Chinese New Year celebrations in Melbourne worked brilliantly.

To start I mixed up some of the gold pigment powder in with the gloss texture paste. I kept adding powder until I got the richness that I wanted.

I then just smeered it across my black cardstock with a palette knife and then set it aside to dry.

Next I coloured up more of the texture paste with a red colour to match in with the photo.

I used the beautiful new 10x10" stencil from the new L'Aquarelle range called Loving Flourishes and applied the coloured up texture paste to sides of the cardstock overlapping the gold.

My next step was heat embossing my title in the Super Sparkles Gold embossing powder. I double embossed it so make sure it was super sparkly. I also head embossed several wooden stars from my embellishment stash.

I wanted to add dimension behind my photo so I die cut two of the On the Edge die Rosey Ferns Footer in red. I attached a piece of cardboard on the back of my photo and then added the dies to the back of the cardboard backing before gluing it down over the dried texture paste.

Finally I added the embossed title and stars around the page and I was done.

Products Used

CO724759 - Couture Creations On the Edge Collection of Dies - Rosey Ferns Footer

ULT157799 - Ultimate Crafts - L'Aquarelle Collection - 10x10 Stencil - Loving Flourishes

CO724389 - Couture Creations Turbo Precision Glue Pen

ULT200008 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Obsidian

ULT200066 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Blood Red

CO724988 - Couture Creations Embossing Powder - Super Sparkles - Gold

CO724868 - Couture Creations - Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Texture Paste Gloss

CO724866 - Couture Creations - Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Mix & Match Pigments

Well, thank you for stopping by.

I hope you liked my creation today.

Until next time, stay crafty.

Anita

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
xx

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.