Hi Everyone
Thanks for joining me for some Your Creative Wings
inspiration today!
The Smallest Things
The lovely Secret Garden collection from Kaisercraft and
this photo of Kayci taken a few years ago at Taupo in New Zealand were the
starting points for this layout.
I loved the shabby chic and feminine vibe to the papers, and so I knew I wanted to use a white and pale blue treatment to my chippy pieces to carry that shabby chic style through the layout.
You can see the sweet little antique key here, and for
the blue treatment on it (and the lock and clock face arms which you can see in
the photo below), I've just applied a quick coat of Tim Holtz Distress Paint in
Tumbled Glass. Because I was aiming for
an antique look I only needed one coat to the raw chippy so that you can see
some of that raw chipboard slightly showing through. After the
paint dried I used some sandpaper to sand the edges of the chippy.
The ornate post was treated with gesso and heat embossed in white, and then blended into the flower cluster by first wrapping a leafy vine ribbon around it and then some hemp twine. Then just adding a few flowers here and there really blends it in.
For the white treatment to the ornate clock and ornate
post I base coated with gesso and then heat embossed with white embossing
powder. I really like the smoother
finish that you can achieve with a coat
of gesso before embossing in white.. OCD much?!
How sweet is the little antique keyhole in the top left!?
Your Creative Wings product used: Keys & Locks YCW8013, Ornate Post YCW19005, Wrought Iron Clock YCW 16017.
Other product used:
Kaisercraft patterned paper, Secret Garden collection, Bazzill cardstock, French Lattice Small
Frame, English Tea Party Doily & French Pastry Tiny Doily dies from Cheery
Lin Designs, Martha Stewart punch around the page punch, My Minds Eye enamel
dots, corrugated cardboard, doily, gesso, whit embossing powder, Tim Holtz
Distress Paint in Tumbled Glass, topstitch thread, hemp twine, peg - mini, vine
ribbon, various flowers, Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and Tattered
Rose, Darkroom Door texture stamp, Prima Color Bloom mist in Peony.
Love
Oh my, young love.. There's something so special and
heartwarming about it yes? We were
really excited to meet Sophie for the first time last weekend and thankfully
she's a little more willing to have photos taken than Brent normally is.
I've been hoarding this amazing Gramercy Road collection
by Gossamer Blue for way too long, and it was so perfect for these photos!
Often chippy pieces are used on traditional scrapbook
layouts with a myriad of treatments, but if you're wanting to use some pieces
on a clean and simple design, try leaving them as raw chippy without any
altering - they look great! I've used
the raw camera piece on this layout and then added a little acrylic paint to
the separate tiny heart, and inked a little
shadow in a slightly darker shade of pink.
Simply adhere the coloured heart to the top of the chippy piece.
I so love my chippy alphas, to be able to alter them any
way you please is so much better than spending an obscene amount of money on a
huge stash of Thickers. I've used this
one alpha set on at least four layouts and I still have plenty left.
To treat the Polaroid Frame Set - Love, I've dabbed some
Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Black Soot on the scripted love word, and then
trimmed some patterned paper to the same size as the polaroid frame and adhered
it to the chipboard.
Your Creative Wings product used: Alpha # 1 YCW5006, Cameras YCW8002, GeoPointers - Stars & Arrows YCW4006, Hearts n Arrows YCW4019, Polaroid FrameSet - Love YCW6025
Other product used:
Gossamer Blue patterned paper, American Crafts cardstock, EK Success
edge punch, Gossamer Blue ephemera pack, hemp twine, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher,
Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Black Soot, gesso, acrylic paint, Versa Color ink
in Old Rose, Stazon Ink.
Thanks so much for dropping by today!
Jodie and all at Your Creative Wings
