Moment in Time by Kristy Abela - September Mood Board Challenge

Welcome back to another mood board challenge. My personal favourite colours are coppers and teals when crafting... My collections dominates my shelves. 

This is the regular crew at my place, my sons and their best mates... can you pick who are mine and who's not???

Please forgive me for bending the rules... I used a Dragonfly! 

Check our some process shots below..

Some texture for the background

Some Lindy's sprays and a bit of dry brushing with White Gesso.

Highlighting the depth with a charcoal pencil. 

Lots of embossing with Lindy's of Scrap FX chipboards and a bit of a highlight with some Prima Waxes.

I used some rust pastes on some of the pieces as well to give it the rustic look. I finished off the patina with some blue waxes. 

Added some stones and some beads and a couple of metal charms from my stash.

My favourite part of the whole project is the way this dragonfly turned out... 

The way the wings took on the graduation of colour was perfection!

Thanks for looking Soul Sisters!

Abela Artistry

Mood Board Challenge Rules

Please use our mood board as inspiration to create an art journal page, a card or a scrapbook layout. Use the mood board however you want but you must add a butterfly on your project.

As these challenges are sponsored by Art and Soul Studio please make sure that you use at least one product that is available from the store.

There are 3 x $50 vouchers up for grabs!! One will be awarded for scrapbook layouts, one for cards and one for mixed media/art journaling.

You can enter an art journal page, a card and a layout but you cannot win all three.

You have until the 11:59pm on the 30th September to enter and then the design team will vote to determine the lucky winners.

Please note that the vouchers can only be won by residents of Australia but if you are from overseas and win the challenge you will be offered a guest design team spot.

Love Magic by Allara Bamforth

Hey Soul Sisters,

I'm up on the blog today with something a little different to what I normally create. When looking at all the fantastic products on the Art and Soul Studio website, I found some beautiful papers by 49 and Market from their Rusty Autumn collection that I just fell in love with and thought I would try and create something a little more traditional and pretty using this collection.

I've chosen the 49 and Market Rusty Autumn collection Blooming Autumn, Captivating and Charming for my base papers and to fussy cut the accents.

I've added the three layers of paper and I've use Clear gesso over the top to adde my mixed media layers.

Next I chose this beautiful chipboard piece by Dusty Attic - Birds on a Branch #3 and coated with some DecoArt Sand texture paste.

Next I coated the chipboard with Prima/Finnabair Art Extravagance Rust effect paste - Mint green. Then I used the same as above in Blue and then again with Brass.

This created a really nice layered rust effect.  I then stamped with white paint over the top to tone them down at bit with a script stamp. I finished this off with some watered down Lindy's Flat Fabio - Carribean Blue to highlight the birds and tie in the blue on my husbands shirt.

Before piecing the layout together and sticking it down, I have sponged through some Distress Oxide - Bundled Sage through a script stencil and lightly stamped a script stamp with Distress Oxide - Vintage Photo.

I've layered all my pieces together with the 49 and Market papers plus a few 7 Dots Studio Dreamscapes die cuts. Added to this was a little bit of left over packaging paper I had in my stash. Next I accented with some Prima Marketing Finnabair Glass Beads and some Faber Castell Glitter paste.

I then added a Kaisercraft Die cut and a Tim Holtz Quote Sticker. And finished off by lightly splattering some of the Lindy's Flat Fabio in Caribbean Blue watered down and then as is. I added the barcode strip from the paper as a quote at the very bottom because I just loved it.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. All the products I have used from Art and Soul Studio shop have been linked. I can't wait to use some of these products again.

Till next time,

Allara xx