Shine Bright May Challenge with Lisa Amiet

Hello all!

It's Lisa here today to share with you.

This month we have a gorgeous moodboard for you to play with

And this is my take on the challenge....

I went with a grungy style layout using the 7 Dots Studio Hazy Days collection.

It had the right elements I was after.

I have done some stencilling and stamping on my base 

before happily splashing away with some mists and sprays :) 

I really wanted my alphas to 'shine' (haha) and be bold and bright on my layout.

I found these older thinkers I had in my stash and some small typewriter letters for my title.

I have inked and distressed all my papers and elements. 

Lots of cardboard for added dimension and to help build up my layers.

I hope you like what I have come up with. I can't wait to see your entry!

Until next time 

Lisa 

Supplies Used:

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days 12 x 12 Gelly Paper

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days 12 x 12 Oil Spill Paper

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days 12 x 12 Slick Paper

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days 12 x 12 Zip Paper

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days Chevron Stencil

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days Die Cut Elements

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days Element Stickers

7 Dots Studio Hazy Days 12 x 12 Tags

7 Dots Studio Northern Lights Clear Stamp Set

Finnabair Rust & Dust Stamp Set

AALL & Create Stamp Set #3 by Fiona Paltridge

Kaisercraft Mosaic 6 x 6 Stencil

Prima/Finnabair Art Basics Light Paste

Vicki Boutin Color Wheel Ink Pads - Cool Tones

Versafine Ink Pad - Black Onyx

Distress Ink Pad - Hickory Smoke

Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabio - Ocean Breeze Blue

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Shabby Turbine Teal

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Drop Dead Gorgeous Green

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Ponderosa Pines Olive

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Clam Bake Beige

Dylusions Spray Black Marble

KaiserMist - White

X-Press It Double Sided Tape 12mm

Other: Thickers - Sketchbook Aqua, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Label Letters, Word Stickers and Black Thread from my stash :)

Sparkle and Shine - Scrapbook/ Card Challenge - Allara Bamforth

Good Morning!

There is a fabulous mood board this month for the Scrapbooking/ Card Challenge called Sparkle and Shine add Tags and Chipboard.

I started off thinking I would possibly make a set of cards but after starting them and not really feeling where I was going with them - the cards turned into a page. Here is my process.

Firstly I pulled out some of my favourite colors Dylusions Paint Postbox Red, Tangerine Dream and Vanilla Custard, Dylusions Sprays Postbox Red, Squeezed Orange and Pure Sunshine and Distress Oxide Inks Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber. I pulled out some tags and prepared each tag with paint, spray and oxide ink by spraying or smearing the products on my surface and spritzing with water and dragging my tag through. The picture shows the difference in intensity of colours depending on the product.

Next I pulled out some Dylusions White Linen to background stamp some prepared black cards with 49 and Market Gabi's Patterned Texture Stamp.

I then stamped my gorgeous Carabelle - Oh la la stamp and embossed with Ranger embossing powders. The background of my stamps need some more interest so I stamped again with Gabi's Texture Stamp in corresponding colours, added some gold sparkle washi tape and a wing die cut.

This was a far as I got with the cards. I really was wowed by the intesity of the card with the Dylusions paint on the left and thought that I could used this as a centre piece for a layout as well. So recreating the swipe technique I used with the tags - I smeared the paint on my surface spritzed with water and dragged my black card stock through.

I loved the effect of some really intense sections and some washed out sections. Happy with this I used the Dylusions Vanilla Custard to splatter over the top.

Next I pulled out a packet of Vicki Boutin Diecuts and picked a picture from my dear friend Cherie's 40th Birthday and started laying out my design. I also decided to use the tag from the cards on my layout.

The page was coming together and I finished it off with some background stamping with Dylusions White linen paint watered down with Carabelle Background and Gabi's Texture stamp, used some Dylusions Squeezed Orange Spray to tone down the die cuts and finally added some left over Dusty Attic Fishnet chipboard, some stash flowers and Vicki Boutin Glitter. 

I really like how it turned out and whilst I started off with another idea - I allowed the creative process to take its own path and I think that's the beauty of going with the flow.

All products I've used from Art and Soul are linked back to the website through this post. I hope you join in on this months challenge.

Till next post,

Allara xx

It's a Pirates's Life for Me Journal Page - Allara Bamforth

Hi everyone - Happy New Year!

I'm thrilled to be a part of the Art and Soul Studio Team. What a fabulous group of creative women,

What to do with my first post for the blog, was a little overwhelming as the Art and Soul Studio shop has so many fabulous products to showcase but I settled on using an image from the Gorjuss collection and worked from there. I've always loved these images and the pirate one caught my eye as I have a strange obsession with pirates (might be the rum) but I think I just romanticise, as I feel I have pirate blood - as there is a fellow way back in the 1600s in my family tree by the name of  Neptune Blood.

But back to the creating. I decided on an art journal page to ease myself into my role.

Firstly I gessoed the double page of my art journal in black.

I then used my new Stencil Girl Products 9 x 12 Stencil by Traci Bautista and using a sponge applied both watered down white linen dylusions paint and slight periwinkle blue in the centre. The sponge gives good texture and this stencil being so thin is easy to work with

Next I stamped the Gorjuss Pirate girl on some scrap watercolour paper with black archival ink. I had every intention of perhaps colouring her in with copics but I didn't have the right colours in my collection - so I decided to watercolour paint her.

My painting was a little rough but I think it will blend in well with the overall messiness of the page  I'm creating. I also used some of the left over paint from above to water down and use my paint brush to create splatter on the still black page.

Next I cracked out the Lindy's Gang Flat Fabio in Caribbean Blue and dropped a few drops on the stencilled side and sprayed with water to create a drip effect down both pages.

My next picture shows the start of me putting the page together. On the background I have used the Texture Stamp from Carabelle Studio and Carabelle Flower Circles Background - I've once again used some of the left over white paint to randomly stamp. I have also painted some Dusty Attic Chipboard with the left over paint so that it will blend in. I have fussy cut my image and tried in my hardest at writing a title in best pirate text with a white Posca Paint Pen.

I couldn't resist adding some gold touches - it is a Pirate page after all and this was perfect for adding Vicki Boutin Glitter Set - Gold Flakes and Glitter.

Last but not least, a picture of the finished journal page. I did add end up adding some plaster tape and hessian for a little more texture, as I felt this added to the theme.

Hope you enjoyed my process. A full list of the products from the Art and Soul Studio Shop are listed below.

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Caribbean Blue

Dylusions Paint - Linen White and Periwinkle Blue

Vicki Boutin - Glitter Set

Carabelle Texture Stamp

Carabelle Flower Circles Background

Dusty Attic Fish Net Chipboard

Gorjuss Large Stamp Pirate

Stencil Girl - 9 x12 Stencil - Traci Bautista Design

Posca Pen - White

Till next post.

Allara x