Tree Art Journaling Page using Brushos- with video tutorial

This is another Tree Art Journaling page using Brushos and Prima Marketing Finnabair mixed media products.

I've been having a lot of fun creating these pages and playing  Brushos.

Its the second tree I made using brushos. However the process and products are different.

Here is the video:

 HERE is the link to the other one tree video in case you missed it.

Products:

Prima Water-color paper pad

Brushos

The Crafter's workshop tree stencil

Prima 3D matte gel

American Crafts black marker

Prima canvas alphabet- black

Ranger black archival ink

Prima Royal Menagerie clear stamp

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!!

Have a wonderful day!

Strength- Art journaling Page with Video Tutorial

This is a Tree Art Journaling page using Brushos and  Prima Marketing Finnabair mixed media products.

I've been having a lot of fun creating these pages and playing  Brushos.

Here is the video on how I created this page:

This was one of the tree pages I made using brushos. I also made another one, however the process and products are different. 

HERE is the link for the other

Products:

Prima Water-color paper pad

Brushos

The Crafter's workshop tree stencil

Prima Finnabair 3D matte gel

Prima Finnabair white heavy gesso

Prima Finnabair Light paste

Posca markers: black and white

Prima canvas alphabet- black

Ranger black archival ink

Prima Royal Menagerie clear stamp

Donna Downey Unity Stamp- phrases

Thank you so much for visiting my blog,

Have a wonderful day!!

Starfish Wishes- 7 Dots Studio Layout- Video Tutorial

Hi Everyone,
Its my turn on the 7 Dots Studio blog and I created this highly textured underwater layout using the "Destination Unknown" collection.
I also have a step by step video tutorial on how I created it.

Here is the video below:

This is a picture of my son in front of the Shark Tank at the Toronto's Ripley's Aquarium. I just loved the teal and green colours and I really wanted to create a textured background to match the photo.

I also added the chipboard fish to make it feel as if the background is a giant fish tank.

Products:

7 Dots Studio Destination Unknown Celestial

7 Dots Studio Destination Unknown stencil

7 Dots Studio Destination Unknown Word Stickers

7 Dots Studio Destination Unknown 6x12 die cut Elements

7 Dots Studio Destination Unknown 6x12 element stickers
7 Dots Studio Destination Unknown chipboard

UmWowStudio Destination Unknown little fish

UmWowStudio Destination Unknown marine life

7 Dots Studio Nature Walk flair

Lindy's stamp gang magicals: Shabby Turbine teal and Time travel teal

Prima marketing Finnabair Art Basics white gesso

Prima marketing Finnabair Art Basics soft gel

Prima marketing Finnabair Art Basics light paste

Prima marketing Finnabair Art Basics heavy gel

Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy pixie dust: dragonfly blue

Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy pixie dust: Golden Oregano

Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy pixie dust: Fairy pond

Prima Finnabair Sunrise Sunset Vintage Trinkets roman numerals
Prima Finnabair metal clock

Prima Finnabair Art Ingredients: crystal glass beads

Prima Finnabair Art Ingredients: micro-beads splash

Cheese cloth

Thank you so much for watching!!
Have a wonderful day!!

Your Eyes- 7 Dots Studio March Challenge

Hello everyone,

Its that time of the month to reveal the 7 Dots Studio Challenge.

This month's theme is:

"Parts of your face"

and here is my layout below with my daughter's beautiful eyes!!

Here is the mood board from the designers:

I loved using this picture of my daughter's eyes. I love my daughter's eyes and just wanted to focus on this beautiful feature.I used the messy head collection because not only it has to do with the face, but I loved the colours. 

I used a lot of 7 Dots Stamps to create texture in the background. Then I used some elements from the Messy Head collection to embellish.

Products

7 Dots Studio Messy Head papers and elements

7 Dots Studio Thoughts Keeper clear stamp

7 Dots Studio Soulmates clear stamp

7 Dots Studio Illumination clear stamps

Butterfly printout

Scrapberry's red pigment ink

Prima alphabet stickers

Prima say it in crystals

Prima Color Bloom Sprays: cotton candy, peony and carmine red

Posca pen black

Ranger black archival ink

The Crafter's workshop stencil

Prima Finnabar light paste

Thank you so much for visiting my blog

Have a fantastic day!!

Sail Away- Blue Fern Studios Courtship Lane Collection

For my second project for Blue Fern Studios this month I also used the Courtship Lane collection. I used the Town Gossip paper  for the background and then added stencilling, spraying and stamping for texture.

I framed the photo in one of the Beaded Strings chipboard which was embossed with Tangerine embossing powder. I also added the swirly doodle under the photo. I cut it in half so it would show under both ends of the photo. Both the light house chipboard piece from the "By the Sea" set, were embossed in Ginger embossing powder

The sail away title was sprayed in brown to match the Courtship Lane and Prima flowers.

I also used the Blue Fern Studios Journey stamp to create some texture in the background with brown ink.

Products:

Blue Fern Studios Courtship Lane collection

Blue Fern Studios chipboard

Blue Fern Studios Courtship flowers

Blue Fern Studios embossing powders

Blue Fern Studios Journey stamp

Prima flowers

Deco Art Stencil

Prima Finnabair Light Paste

Ranger Perfect medium ink

Ranger brown archival ink

Prima Color Bloom sprays

Thank you so much for visiting my  Blog

Have a wonderful day!!

Home Sweet Home Memories- Blue Fern Studios Courtship Lane Collection

Hello Everyone!!

This is my first project for Blue Fern Studios!

I usually create two layouts but this time I wanted to create something different with the Courtship Lane collection.

I really love the vintage house images on the Courtship Lane papers so I fussy cut them to fit into my three set shadow box frame.

I cut three different houses to fit each of the boxes as they measured 3,4 and 5 inches squared respectively. The houses were cut out of the West Plaza, East Plaza and Calling cards papers.

First, the middle box was framed with one of the graduated squares. Then the right box was framed with the Memory frame. Finally I placed the Iron Signage chipboard on the top corner of the left shadow box.

All three chipboard pieces were embossed in both Oatmeal and Sage embossing powders.

Then I added a "Home Sweet Home" phrase out of the Calling Cards paper to the signage.

I added some matching Courtship flowers and other Prima vines to embellish around the frames as well as the Evening Lamp Post  chipboard which was simply painted with acrylic paint.

Products:

Blue Fern Studios Courtship Lane collection

Blue Fern Studios chipboard

Blue Fern Studios Courtship flowers

Blue Fern Studios embossing powders

Ranger Perfect Medium

Prima vines

Prima shadow box set

Acrylic craft paint- tan

Prima color Bloom Tea stain

Tim Holtz distress ink: peeled paint

Thank you so much for visiting my blog

Have a wonderful day!!

Live- Mixed Media Art Journaling Page with DecoArt Products

Here is another journaling page I created this month!!

I've been having too much fun experimenting and creating without deadlines!!

I have more time now with an easier DT workload so I'm able to do some fun things!!

I especially have more time for making videos so here is another video tutorial below:

For the background, DecoArt Fluid Acrylic paints and blended them with the  Momenta Groove Tool Starter Set I figured after you watch my video you might want to buy this product.  So, If you like the product, you can press the link to buy from Amazon. Its pretty reasonably priced. It also has replacement sponges: Momenta Groove Tool Replacement Tip Sponge

Products:

Art Journal

DecoArt black modelling paste

DecoArt white modelling paste

DecoArt scribble stencil

DecoArt Inspiration stencil

DecoArt Andy Skinner Alphabet Spaghetti stencil

DecoArt black and white gesso

Deco Art Fluid Acrylic Cobalt turquoise hue

Deco Art Fluid Acrylic Green gold

Deco Art Fluid Acrylic Cobalt blue hue

Deco Art Fluid Acrylic Phtalo Turquoise

Deco Art Fluid Acrylic Ultramarine blue

Prima Marketing canvas alphabet

Momenta Groove Tool Starter Set

Thank you so much for visiting my blog

Have a wonderful day!!

Create-Inspire- Art Journaling page- Faber Castel Desing-Memory-Craft- With video tutorial

Hi Everyone,

I'm here with another post this month for Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft.

I've created a double spread art journaling page. I designed the page over a water-color paper and then cut it in half to add to my spiral bound Art Journal.

Below is a video on how I created this page.

Here is the video below:

and here are some close-ups of the page:

Products

Prima 8.5x11 water-colour paper

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft Gelatos: black, Iced rose, peach, Iced currant and watermelon

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft whipped spackle

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft gesso

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft Mix & Match Gelatos mist maker

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft gel medium

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft stamper's big brush pen- black

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft- PITT artists pen red scarlett

Faber Castell Design-Memory-Craft-  stencil set 1

Prima Finnabair Art Basics black gesso

Words- unknown 

Spray bottle

Texture Stencils: The crafters workshop, 13 Arts, Tim Holtz

Stamps- Prima

Stencil girl flower stencil

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!!

I hope I was able to inspire you!

have a wonderful day!!

******5 Year Bloggaversary Giveaway*****

I really can't believe it's been 5 years since I started this online adventure.

I had been scrapbooking for 6 years when I decided in March 2011 to start my own blog.

I didn't even give it much thought, I just decided one day and started designing it on a whim.

Little did I know it would take me on the most amazing adventure of a lifetime.

I'm so grateful for all the opportunities I was given, every design team that believed in me and in my work. It just drove me forward.

Every rejection (and yes there were many) just pushed me further to challenge myself and believe that if you dream something you can accomplish it!!

I'm most thankful for all the amazing people that I met along the way. To all of you that believed in me, followed me and finally befriended me as life long friends.

I owe so much and although I can't always repay with material things, just know that you have my love.

Having said that, I always love to have a give-away around this time and this year is no exception.

 I not having 1 give-away,  I'm having 5 giveaways, one for each year I've been blogging. 
You could be the winner of one of these prizes:

Here they are below:

To win the prize you need to follow me in at least two of my social media places. If you follow me in all, even better!!

Here are the links:

  

This giveaway is open internationally.
Just link your name below:

Have a wonderful day!!

Paradise Layout- 7 Dots Studio with Video Tutorial

Hi Everyone,

Its my turn today on the 7 Dots Studio blog and I have a tropical themed layout to shake the winter blues!!!

Here is the step by step video tutorial on how I created this layout:

I created this tropical layout using the 9th Wave collection as the background. The Coral Reef paper was the perfect paper for this photo taken in Costa Rica's hot springs

. I used lots of flowers and other elements to really enhance the tropical feel of the layout. Finally I added word stickers from the Lost and Found collection around the photo.

Product List

7 Dots Studio-9th Wave- Coral Reef

7 Dots Studio- Lost and Found- word stickers

7 Dots Studio- Lost and Found- Sticky notes

Prima brick stencil

Prima Finnabair Mini Art Stones

Prima Finnabair 3D matte gel

Prima flowers

Blue Fern Studios chipboard and embossing powder

Embossing Ink

paper butterflies

Prima metal sign

XOX- ATC set- with video tutorial

Here is another set of ATC's.

These were also sent to three friends around the world.

I have a video tutorial below on how I created them.

Here is the video tutorial:

Here are some close-ups of each card. They look very similar but the texture in the background is different on each one.

For the background, I used the Dylusion paints and blended them with the  Momenta Groove Tool Starter Set I figured after you watch my video you might want to buy this product.  So, If you like the product, you can press the link to buy from Amazon. Its pretty reasonably priced. It also has replacement sponges: Momenta Groove Tool Replacement Tip Sponge

Products

Momenta Groove Tool Starter Set 

Prima water-colour paper pad

Ranger Dylusion Paints

The Crafters Workshop stencil

Golden glass bead gel

Tim Holtz ATC stamp

Tim Holtz black soot distress ink

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Stampers Black Big Brush Pen

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft  black Pitt pen

Prima Color Bloom Vintage Coal

Blue Fern Studios embossing powder: Grassy knoll and buttercup

Embossing ink

Prima wood icons

Prima Finnabair 3D matte gel

Fabri-tac glue

Scrapberry's metal charm

Thank you so much for visiting my blog

Have a wonderful day!!

Imagine-Inspire- ATC set- with video tutorial

I created this Inspirational ATC set so I can exchange them with some friends around the world.

I also have a video tutorial on how I designed these cards.

Here is the video:

For the background, I used the Dylusion paints and blended them with the  Momenta Groove Tool Starter Set I figured after you watch my video you might want to buy this product.  So, If you like the product, you can press the link to buy from Amazon. Its pretty reasonably priced. It also has replacement sponges: Momenta Groove Tool Replacement Tip Sponge

Products

Momenta Groove Tool Starter Set 

Dylusion Paints: Calypso teal and Bubblegum pink

Prima Finnabair Trust the Magic stamp set

Blue Fern Studios embossing powder: peacock

Posca pens: black and white

Ranger black archival ink

Ranger distress embossing ink

metallic thread: dollar store

Word stickers- Tim Holtz
Prima water-colour paper pad

Thank you so much for watching!!

Have a wonderful day!!

Special Moments- Blue Fern Studios Sketch Challenge with new Courtship Lane Collection

Hello everyone,

March is here and with it a new sketch challenge at Blue Fern Studios.

I used the brand you collection Courtship Lane for the background and the calling cards paper from the same collection to mat the photo.

Here is the sketch below:

Here is the new Courtship Lane Collection 

***Coming Soon***

I stencilled the background with the bamboo leaves stencil and light molding paste. Then I sprayed it with Prima's Color Bloom sprays: Cotton Candy, Sunshine and Iris.

I framed the photo with the Blue Fern Studios collage frame which I embossed in Cotton Candy Blue Fern Studios embossing powder.

The chipboard title was embossed in Buttercup and Iris embossing powders.

Products

Blue Fern Studios Courtship lane collection

Blue Fern Studios chipboard

Blue Fern Studios embossing powders

Prima flowers

Prima Color Bloom sprays

Prima bamboo leaves stencil

Prima Finnabair Light Paste

Prima Finnabair white heavy gesso

Embossing medium

Prima say it in crystals

Prima chalk edger: pastel yellow and pastel purple

Thank you so much for visiting my blog

Have a wonderful day!!