Love & Friendship by Rhonda

Well, 2017 is in full swing and these challenges are enticing

the creativeness from within.

As a result I have a layout and a canvas to share with you all.

Being Autumn here and Spring in the north what better

theme to follow than something with flowers.

The "Garden of Love"

Dropping some texture onto the canvas is always a great place to start

and the creation of a wall for the background using the Bricks stencil

was a perfect match for what I envisaged.

Usually I would use modelling paste but I recently acquired some

Deco Art products and among the goodness was some

white crackle paste and what better to try it on than some bricks.

The background colour was created by adding Deco Art's

Media Shimmer Mister to the crackle paste.

Additional colours from the same products were added by mixing

the primaries to get the shades of green.

 

The central piece was constructed from various layers of distressed

patterned papers, cardstock, calico and muslin.

Atop this I placed a Large Ornate Frame to showcase the flowers

that were to be the focal point.

The Ornate Frame was embossed to give an aged look as were

the butterflies, central flowers, leaves and hearts.

Using the same product on all of these chipboards created both

texture and colour to deliver unity across the canvas.

Little clusters of flowers were distributed, some plain and some sprayed

to compliment the other layers.

The old metal heart along with the numerous smaller chipboard hearts

brings both garden and love together.

Scrapmatts
CB1009 Butterflies 09
CB1115 Leaves 01
CB6090 Ornate Frames 18
CB1159 Hearts 05
ST5013 Bricks

FMS
LSG – Sea Mint Green, Incandescent Copper
Stampendous – Aged Hunter, Aged Teal, Aged Aqua

Shabby Pink, Shabby Blue
Black Ink
Patterned Paper & Cardstock
Muslin & Calico
Metal Heart
Flowers - WOC & 49 & Market St
Distress Stain – Brushed Pewter
Deco Art Media – Shimmer Mister Turquoise, Primary Yellow & Cyan

and White Crackle Paste

Friendship

Is Spending Fun Times Together

Needing an excuse to use some more crackle paste I wasted no time

in setting to work on a layout.

So, straight up I placed some patterned paper on some cardstock

and then set to it with some yummy crackle paste coloured with

complimentary Shimmer Mister Turquoise.

Atop the piece I placed some sneaky metallic silver sticks stencils to

simulate some abstraction of clouds.

Applied nice and thick gave a heavy crackle.

Under the photo I again took advantage of utilising some

packaging scraps to create some depth and adding the String Circles

and netting over them tied all elements together.

Some of the flowers were coloured with the same

Shimmer Mister as the crackle.

The chipboard Gears 01 & 05 and the bottle tops were enhanced

with a little rusting powder.

Chipboard leaf spray flourishes throughout the layout always

are a great addition to fill in blank spaces and in this case I chose

them as I thought they contributed to the outdoors type theme.

Here we can see the effectiveness of the chains as they both fill

in the spaces and compliment the netting by giving an outdoors

and somewhat playful feel.

The underside of the glass pebbles were simply painted with acrylic

After sifting through my stash of Scrap Words this title just jumped out at me and locating it near the ephemera background paper (shhh this was actually some packaging) seemed a good fit.

Scrapmatts
CB4063 Leaf Spray 13
CB5114 String Circles 01
CB1229 Chains 02
CB6112 Scrap Words 31
CB1072 Gears 01
CB1078 Gears 05
ST1021 String
ST1003 Sticks

FMS

Product Packaging Scraps (Ephemera)
Patterned Paper & Card Stock
Glass Pebbles

Rusting Powder
Flowers
Fishing Net
Deco Arts Media – Shimmer Mister Turquoise, Primary Cyan & Yellow
Cadmium Red, Interference Gold, Titanium White
Metallic Silver, White Crackle Paste

Thanks for stopping by

Make sure you pop back in a day or two or head over to the 

Scrapmatts Shop

 to check out the Design Teams amazing creations!

If you have creations using Scrapmatts products why not upload
them into the gallery?!

(We would love to see them!!) 

Until next time

Happy Crafting

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