"Timeless" - A 12x12 Layout with Stay Awhile and BoBunny Craft Dies with Katherine

Hello Everyone!! Katherine here today with a page using Stay Awhile and French Vanilla Double Dot Damask. 

To start, one of my favourite designs in the Stay Awhile pack is on the Together paper with it's beautiful blue and fern like fronds with rusty berries - so that was my main strip and color focal point for the page.  I edged it with one of the stickers from the sticker sheet - I cut the sticker in half on my guillotine and added down each side of the central strip.

I added some of the Clover Pansy blossoms to the side of my photos and hung one of the wooden bird cages, which I decorated with some Mocha jewels and tied up under the pansies.

I cut out one of the little rusty coloured houses from the Warm journal sheet, added a few jewels and then the sticker - Home is Where the Heart Is.

I added the jewels across my page to look like drips of paint.

I made a banner for my title using BoBunny's All Caps Alphabet Dies.  I hung them from some twine which is held in place mainly with glue, but also some strategically paced Emerald Green brads too.

Thanks for visiting with us today! Come back soon for more ideas and inspiration for your memory keeping!

BoBunny Supplies

Double Dot: Damask - French Vanilla

Patterned Papers: Stay Awhile - Together, Relax and Warm

Stickers: Stay Awhile

Dies: Uppercase Alphabet

Jewels: Mocha

Blossoms: Clover Pansy

Brads: Emerald Green

Life in Color Altered Mixed Media Canvas with Irit

Hello my Dear Crafty Friends!

Welcome to my new BoBunny post. Today I am going to share a pretty big altered Mixed Media canvas.  I am still waiting for my new BoBunny collections to come from the US and thanks to our very " fast" postal service it will take  a few more days or even weeks. So I decided to make a project with the Life in Color collection using BoBunny products which are just perfect for any Mixed Media project.

"Trust Your Journey" an Altered Mixed Media Canvas by Irit Shalom

The base was made over the flat 13.5*9.5'' canvas, but if you don't have any you  can use a thick chipboard piece as this is just a base for those chipboard rectangles glued over the canvas.

I used old recycled chipboard and just arranged them to fit the canvas size. Four brads were added in each and every  piece,  the very simple small craft store brads for the background. The larger, decorative ones are from BoBunny.

Then the background was first painted with black gesso, misted with bronze spray and waxes were added randomly.

Three BoBunny stencils were used with glitter paste mostly on the outer spots of the project with large clock added partly in the middle.

I used a couple of chipboard sets for the main spot in the middle as the background and the sentiment.

Die cuts were made from BoBunny Double Dot Cardstocks and painted to this vintage patina look with a combination of Pentart Paints.  BoBunny flowers were painted and misted too to achieve this metallic look (originally green).

 Now let me show the whole project again and then to show you some close-ups.

 This is the central spot from the front:



And here how it looks from the side:



 And my altered flowers :



 More close-ups to background:



 On this photo you can see the white stamped background and 3D powder mixed with gel paste and acrylic paint.
Also you can see the gold transfers, stenciled part and different mediums over the background.

I hope that you liked my Mixed Media project today.  Everything here is BoBunny or Pentart, except the recycled chipboard and small brads.  So you don't need to scroll a lot of shops, but to go to BoBunny shop and to get whatever you need to make the similar project.

BoBunny Supplies:
Double Dot cardstock Licorice
Double Dot cardstock Sugar chevron
Life in Color chipboards
Bella Rosa chipboards
Alphabet gold foil transfers
Backsplash Stencils
Timeless Stencils
Take Note stamp set
Congratulations card dies
Flourish dies
3x4 Ornate frames dies
Tick Tock die
Mandala die
Licorice Glitter Paste
Turquoise Glitter Paste
Bronze Glimmer Spray
Gold gGimmer Spray
Double Dot Aqua Brads
Double Dot Aqua Flourish Jewels
Zinnia Blossoms Clover Zinnia

Pentart Supplies:
Baroque Gold Creamy Acrylic Paint
Graphite Metallic Creamy Acrylic Paint
Teal Metallic Creamy Acrylic Paint
Iron Paste
Black Gesso
Gel Paste
Coarse 3D Powder
Crackle Medium Component 1
Wax Paste Metallic Copper
Wax Paste Metallic Gold
Purplish Silver Delicate Metallic Acrylic Paint
Greenish Gold Glamour Metallic Paint
Dark Gold Delicate Metallic Paint

 Thanks for reading this post and see you in a week!

Fine Art and Mixed Media with Katherine

Hello everyone, welcome to another Fine Arts Friday. Today I have re-purposed an old frame that had seen better days. 

Katherine Sutton - Life is a Journey

The collection I used for this project was Serendipity - the feathers, butterfly and chipboard are all from this range, the colours also co-ordinate really well with some of the Pentart acrylics.  I used lots of the Pentart crackle medium - I love this product, as you create your paint layer below, then add some of the medium, once it's dry you paint over the top and all the cracks appear - it works well on paper as well as wood.

For the base I used a square of Treetops which has a beautiful pink dot on it and stuck this to the base of the frame.  I then used dark blue, antique gold, light green and pink creamy acrylics - I added pea sized amounts to a brayer and rolled it onto the paper.  I added some white gesso over the top and a little bit of the glamour metallic rich gold as well.

I painted the whole of the frame gold using the antique gold acrylic, then added some patches of crackle medium and then I went over the top with white gesso.  I did add a little bit more in the areas where you could see the gold still - a white acrylic would have worked better in terms of coverage.  I then used the flower fun stencil to create some swirls with the 3D Texture Paste, and also added some areas of crackle medium on top of the paper inside the frame.  I used one of the large blush dahlia flowers and altered the colour with some white gesso.  I then added bits of embellishment from the Noteworthy and chipboard collections.

I also added some bead paste at the base of my flower, and covered it with rich gold glamour paint, you can also see the mandala die cut peaking out behind the flower and some of the 3D Balls which I coloured with bronze glimmer spray and more rich gold.  I also added little bits of the greenish silver glamour paint - applying it with my finger in areas around the frame.

You can see the layers of paint and the crackle effect on both the wood and paper, as well as a little bit of sparkle from the sugar glitter paste.

In the top corner I added a banner from the Noteworthy collection and a smaller one from the layered chipboard.

BoBunny Supplies

Patterned Paper: Serendipity - Treetops

Noteworthy: Serendipity

Glimmer Sprays: Bronze and Gold

Blossoms: Blush Dahlia

Glitter Paste: Sugar

Stencil: Flower Fun

Paint: White Gesso

Dies: Mandala

Pentart Supplies:

Creamy Acrylic: Antique Gold, Pink, Dark Blue, Pink and Light Green

Delicate Metallic : Greenish Silver

Glamour Metallic: Rich Gold

Wax Paste: Silver

Bead Paste

3D Balls

Crackle Medium

Wonderfully Wicked Card!

Hey there Peeps! It's Ginny here dropping in to share a spooktacular Halloween project I created with Wonderfully Wicked and Tuxedo Double Dot Brads.  I'm also sharing a fun technique to customize the BoBunny Blossoms to coordinate with a fun and festive holiday card.

I loved how the Clover Zinnia BoBunny Blossom coordinated with the collection but why not take it up a notch and make them a little more Halloweeny?  I very carefully divided the flower into 3 sections....the top was a little pokey so I left it out...but the other two sections were a great base to add  trimmed spider webs from the patterned paper and secure them with a Double Dot Brad.  You can see that I snipped between the webbing and used my shaping tool and mat to give them some dimension.

I added the feathers to accent the Layered Chipboard Owl.

Securing the smaller bloom closer to the top helps to balance the arrangement.

There's a lot of layers here...but I used solid black cardstock borders to keep the patterns from getting smashed up.

While I had all the patterned papers out I went ahead and finished the inside of the card as well. This card could be used as a fun addition to holiday décor sitting on a mantle or shelf.

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Wonderfully Wicked, Apothecary, Creepy, The Daily Curse, Magic, 6x6 Paper Pad

Chipboard: Layered Chipboard, 12x12/ Wonderfully Wicked

Noteworthy: Wonderfully Wicked

Double Dot Brads: Tuxedo

BoBunny Blossoms: Clover Zinnia

That's all for me. Wishing all of you a happy and productive day with lots of time to be creative : ) G

Luscious Layout with Provence!

Hi everyone, here is Solange Marques and today I'll share with you a layout using the new collection Provence and Rough it up Stamp.

I prolonged my photo using modeling paste, acrylic gesso and acrylic paints and I used the crackle from Rough it up Stamp around it and then I added fussy cutting from Provence collection.

 

I love to add texture on my projects and this stamp is perfect for this.

The flowers and buttons give the final touch to the layout.

This collection is wonderful and I love all of the elements of it. It is so inspirational and Rough it up Stamp is amazing and it is one of my favorite!

I hope you enjoy it!

BoBunny supplies:
Patterned Paper: Provence, C'est Chic, French Quarter, My Secret Garden /Provence;
Buttons: Provence
Chipboard: Provence
Stamps: Rough it up Stamp
Blossoms: Natural Earth Bouquet , Harvest Orange Daisy
Ink Pad:Licorice