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lovely - Crate paper Style board

Posted by Anita B on

hi everyone,
Anita here sharing more crate paper


 

this week im using the colours blue,green,gold and yellow
from the moodboard




a fun tip for getting more out of your stickers


cut out the sticker from the sticker sheet and peel the outer sticker off
  leaving your sticker stuck to the sticker paper
then stick the outlined sticker to cardstock and cut around the outlined bit of the sticker
 

now you can...

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Texture with Crate paper Style board

Posted by Anita B on

Hi
  This month I will be inspiring you with the beautiful crate paper collection
Lots of soft pastels with a splashes of brights 

for my layout this week I was going for a soft look as their are some soft watercolours in the moodboard this month


I was inspired by all the flowers and wanted to add pink texture to the background using a ScrapFX stencil and impasto paste and a drop of dusty pink paint

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New Shoes - polka dot party

Posted by Anita B on

hi
  Anita here sharing more Polka dot party
i hope you all had a wonderful Easter i know i did
  My Easter was a blast chocolate chips and video games
 
so onto some crafty fun
with this layout i wanted to have a big title
i used my silhouette to cut the title and added a bit of patterned paper behind the cut
 
 and a handmade banner out of scrap bit i had leftover
using a bit of twine, patterned papers...

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water girl layout - polka dot party

Posted by Anita B on

Hi everyone 
Anita here sharing another mixed media layout
Using the lovely papers from dear lizzy polka dot party

My layout is of
My daughter eve having fun in the pool on her birthday
This is how I created my background for my layout
I applied gesso to my white cardstock using a plastic card
Then sprayed my gesso background with the mister hueys first kiss then to get a lighter colour 
I sprayed it with...

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lion fish layout - polka dot party

Posted by Anita B on

Hi everyone,
I thought I would change it up a bit with a mixed media layout this week
A mixture of paint , mist and stamps with a stencil from ScrapFX using texture paste
And of cause some fabulous patterned papers from Dear Lizzy polka dot party

I started off with the dots texture stamp from kaisercraft and stamped it random over the page then used a stencil from ScrapFX with some texture paste
Mixed...

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