Chipboard Embossing!

Hi, It's Gilly here.

 I was having a play the other day and wanted to add texture to a chipboard flourish, when I remembered about my Cuttlebug machine which was sitting under it's handmade owl cover.

  I sprayed the chipboard flourish first with a pink mist, then I placed the flourish into the Swiss dot embossing folder and ran it through the machine.

This works well with damp chipboard .

 When the Flourish was dry, I used Liquid Pearls on every dot from the embossing folder, so in the end I didn't use the embossing to add texture but really, but as an template for the placements of the liquid pearls.

I used: Caitlin Flourish C1199

Thanks Gilly oxo

 

Misting Tips With AltaMatz

Happy Good Friday, here is a little video to help you fall in love with the new WOW chipboard AltaMatz.
Thanks Gilly oxo

Fabric and Paper Wrapping!

Hi, It's Gilly here with a fabric and paper wrapped technique, which I used on the

RWL100011 Ornamental Circle Bird Frame. to create this "You" layout.

How I created this Birdy Circle.

1. First Emboss the frame in light brown embossing powder, then distress with a file set.
2. Colour the birds in Liquid Pearls in a swirling action.
3. When dry, dry brush a bit of white gesso over all of the chipboard.
4. Rip pieces of  muslin fabric into 1cm stripes and wrap around the circle, tieing as you go. Then distress the fabric with a file.(by running the file against the fabric).
5. Rip pieces of pattern paper into approx 1cm strips and wrap loosely around parts of the circle, attach as you go.
6. Add some tissue tape to parts of the flourishes and cut off the excess.
7. Cut a piece of pattern paper in a circle a little bit bigger than the Bird Circle and distress around the edges, then attached to a back ground paper.
8. Mount your photo, adhere to the paper circle, then attach the Bird Circle on top.
9. Add flowers, bunting and pearls to the circle.
10. Add title and bling it up with some Kindy Glitz.

 Add some pearls for the eyes.

Little Lady layout & The NEW AltaMATZ Video.

Hi, It's Gilly here, I had a play with the new My Mind's Eye papers last week, I love the Shabby Vintage Distressed look in this paper range, I was thinking about putting a bird cage on this layout until I found this cute RWL9174 Little Lady Title .

I covered the words in a coat of Liquid Pearls, then put a little bit of the liquid pearls into a bowl and added a small amount of water, which turned into a glaze, I then gave the lady silhouette 3 coats of the glaze and added a piece of feather trim as I skirt.

I also used the glaze on the paper doily to add a bit of colour.

This tag is on the top left hand side of the layout, I just wanted to add some journaling.

I have also had a play with the NEW AltaMATZ and made a video using them with a little tip to help with misting, Hope you enjoy the video.

Thanks Gilly oxo

Faux Metal Distressing With Two Little Girls.

Hi It's Gilly here. On the school holidays Milly had a friend over to stay and I thought "Photo Shoot" as any scrapper does. So the girls got changed into matching coloured dresses, I got my camera ready, and off we went into the garden.

I took quite a few photos so you will be seeing more, it was really nice to take photos of a little blond haired girl, letting me use more yellow than normal.

 I wanted to use something playful on this layout and the C768 Pennyfarthing Bike was perfect, playful and old fashion.

I created the bike using what I like to call 'Faux Metal Distressing' to create this look you need:

Embossing Powder,

Embossing Ink Pad.

Distressing Tool,

Heat Gun,
And A Paint Dabber Or Paint and  A Brush.

View the short video below, on how to create this technique.

Thanks and enjoy the video, Gilly oxo

Christmas With Circles!

Hi, Happy New Year!
I started scrapping my Christmas photos this week, I wonder how many more years my daughter is going to sit on Santa's lap for, now she is a real pro. The photographer took 3 photos, which she was smiling in all of them and Santa only this one. When the photographer said "that was easy" I followed by saying "She's scrap abused" lol!
I don't know if he knew what I meant but he did laugh, he properly thought what a weirdo!

Over the Christmas break I was given a box full of goodies to play with and one of the items that I fell in LOVE with is the 12x12 Circle Set Frame C828 you can do whatever you like with these, cover, paint, stain, glitter, emboss, you name it.
With Santa's list layout, I used the outer frame piece of the set.
1. Cut and push out the circles from the middle of the set.
2. Paint or Ink the chipboard frame.
3. Glue some vintage style lace or in this case an old table cloth to the frame and cut out the middle and around the edges, leaving over hang.
4. Add extra inking to distress, rubbing over raised parts.
5. Use Liquid Pearls around the circle, making dots as you go.
 Note: Tap the back of the frame on to a desk top, so that the small dots don't have peeks.

Love this October Afternoon Holiday Style.

I also used: 2D Flower Pack.
1. Which I inked first in red.
2. Then embossed with red Christmas embossing powder and heat set.
3. Make rosettes in different sizes, large 12x1.5 inches and small 6x.75 inches.
4. Attached rosettes to back and the front of the shape.
5. Added some baker's twine, buttons and hat pins.

This is another layout I did using the 12 x12 Circle set, and I have 15 more circles to use in the set,
 so I'm sure you will see more.
Thanks Gilly oxo

 

Christmas Bunting!

Hi, Christmas is coming so fast, it seems like it was only August for me, when we moved into our new house, maybe because it's so cold at the moment, I'm thinking it's still Winter lol!

This week I created a Christmas Bunting to hang on our fire place, which if the cold keeps up we have it going at Christmas time.

This blog post was due yesterday morning, sorry about the delay, I was very upset as I filmed a step by step on how to create this bunting, but I doesn't want to work on you tube, so next week I'll re film it and then post it.

For these Cute Christmas Stocking Bunting,

I used: 3 pieces of papers to cover,

2 pieces to create the rosettes,

3 metres of lace,

Micro Beads,

Kindy Glitz,

Border Punch,

File Set,

Hot Glue Gun

& Score Board.

I was thinking about adding some hat pins as well.

I'll keep working on the video so please keep your eyes out for it.
have a wonderful Christmas
Thanks Gilly oxo

Sleigh Bells Ring Are You Listening?

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
On the layout, glitter glass is glistening
A beautiful sight,
We're scrapping tonight,
With all Christmas Chipboard in Wowland .

Yes it's that time of year where we are all very busy making Christmas Cards and handmade Christmas Gifts.
I usually wait until Dec to start using Christmas papers but this year I thought I would do some layouts coming up to Christmas, as sometimes you just run out of time in Dec.
In this layout I used: New Christmas Flourish.
which I displayed on: 12x12 Page Display Stand M183

Step By Step for Christmas Flourish
1. Paint the Flourish with Tim Holtz Brass Crackle paint, dry with heat gun or leave to dry.
2. With a paint brush cover the stars with pewter Liquid Pearls, you can also dry brush some of the flourish with liquid pearls around the edges, then leave to dry.
3. Colour in the tree with a  pink marker, then apply a coat of dimensional magic, then sprinkle Glitter glass or glitter over the top, shake off excess glitter then leave to dry.
4. Wrap some ribbon or glitter twine around some of the flourish.

Step By Step For Display Stand
1. Paint the stand in white paint or I like to use Gesso as it gives a matt look,
2. When the paint it dry sand parts back to give it a distressed look,
3. Coat parts of the display frame with Dimension Magic, then sprinkle with Glitter glass or glitter, shake off excess and leave to dry.
Note: you can paint a different colour on the other side of the stand so you can change the stand to suit the layout.

This is part off the

Christmas Tree M189 

I did for this months Scrapbook Creations, so make sure you grab a copy to see the Christmas Tree which would make a great Christmas centre piece for years to come.

Also in Scrapbook Creations this month I created a Christmas mini  album using:

Hot Air Balloon Mini Album M126,

which makes a great coffee table book for your guest to look at  this Christmas time or you could open up and use as a banner.

 

I will be playing with some more Christmas pieces every soon as Christmas is my favourite time of the year.

Thanks Gilly oxo

An Owly Wrapped In A Doily????

Hi, I just LOVE Owls so when I saw this new design from Wow chipboard's I knew I had to have one, a lot of my Owls I have are male so I thought I would create a girly girly Owl, which I've been told is now for my daughter's Milly's bedroom door.

I used: Owly LB044

1. Use pattern paper to cover the back of the Owl,

2. Paint the front Owl and eyes with a white pearl paint.

3. Glue the 2 parts together,

4. Add the eyes, I put some circle pieces of paper under the eyes first,

5. Put dimensional magic into the parts you want to cover with glitter, then sprinkle glitter,

6. Spray an old doily with Glimmer mist, dry, then cut in half and glue to the sides of the owl, (as photo)

7. Add some Kindy Glitz to the wings of the owl.

8. Find a place to put Owly on show.

Note: if you fold the doilies at the back of the Owl they sit up a little, also drying the Glimmer Mists with a heat gun makes the doily harden a little.

Next I have a layout of my daughter in the garden being cute, see knows how to use the camera lol!

I wanted to create a rusty look with the chipboard word and colour the branch.

I used: Flower Branch C195

Adore C1068

1. Spray chipboard word and branch with Glimmer mist,

2. Put both of them through the Cuttlebug machine, I used script embossing folder,

3. Cover chipboard with embossing clear ink pad, then sprinkle puff embossing powder over the top,

4. Use a paint brush and brush off parts of the embossing powder,

5. Then use a heat gun to set the embossing powder,

6. Use a paint brush and dip it in an open bottle of Glimmer mists, then paint it onto the top of the puff embossing powder, I used pink for the flowers and green for the leaves and a little bit of all the colours on parts of the word.

7. When dry use an file on the raised parts of the word, for a distressed look.

8. Cover the word, the flowers and leaves of the branch in Dimensional magic, leave to dry.

9. When dry add bits of kindy Glitz to the flowers on the branch.

Also just wanted to share the Happy Birthday Bunting which was in
Scrapbook Creations last month.

Thanks Gilly  oxo

I Love The New Dress Form!

Hi, I just LOVE using Dress Forms so when I received this new dress form design, I just fell in love with it!They are one of my favourite chippies as you can add lots of fabric and texture to a page or card, and this new one is alittle different as it also has some beautiful flourishes attached to the back of the dress form, which really set of a corner.

I used: RWL100063 Dress Corner

I covered the dress form first with pattern paper, then cut around the edges, sanded, then added round piece of fabric which was cut in half, glimmer misted and folded, then tied it in at the waist. To make the top of the dress I folded the fabric over and glued down, creating the top of the dress.

I coloured in the flourish behind with a marker, then added Dimensional Magic to finished it off.

Adding layers by fussy cutting and mounting with foam tape.

I also created this layout using the new borders, ( to new for a code)

I covered the scalloped border with pattern paper, then sanded with a file set around the edges, I really love the affect of using chipboard like this because it gives the piece a more distressed layered look, compared to  the sticker border which is underneath.

Adding more layering chunkness!

Thanks Gilly oxo

Sweetie Pie!

Hi, I've had a busy couple of weeks, I've been moving house and as of this Sunday my scrap room is set up,

so this is my first layout in my new house and I wanted it to be something which I love creating and that's the dress form, they are one of my greatest loves in life.

I used the Webster's Pages Let's Celebrate range, which I also covered the Dressform C909 in.

This photo was taken of Milly when she was 4, it's hard to think she will be turning 7 next month. 

Here's a quick step by step:
1. Colour the base and the top of the dress form.

2. Cover the dress form with glue and stick down on top of the wrong side of the paper.

3. Cut around the edges, sand with file set or sand paper.

4. Make a skirt out of 15cm x 8.5cm piece of paper, border punch the bottom of the paper and fold, i have used a score pal to help with the folding but you can create it with your hands as well.

5. Glue down some tulle first then add the skirt and then some trim on top, make sure you glue it down at the back of the dress form.
6. Add a flower and lots of Kindy Glitz to bring out the bling.

Also just a quick note, this was a layout I did using the beautiful doilies for Scrapbook Creations this month, which also has our Linda as the Who's Who's Yay go Wow!

Thanks Gilly oxo