Sketchabilities #111 DT-Reveal

Hey Scrappers! 

It's just time for another beautiful sketch by Sketchabilities :) 

Here's my take on the sketch #111:

I took some photos of one of our last Florida holiday, where we were in a Lion's  Safari Park. You could feed some of the birds there by hand :) 

This time I created a rather dark and cool layout with a lot of masking and stamping on the background. 

At the first step I used glossy medium to create a subtle brick wall with one of my Prima masks. To emphasize it, it stamped with a brick wall stamp, too. I stamped the honeycombs and used another honeycomb mask with black gesso for more structure. 

After that, I used a lot different sprays and inks for more shine.

 In order to catch the eye I added a few colorful and some metallic embellishments. You can see the overlapped masks on the background of that picture. 

Then I glued down some pieces of masure tape, masking tape and the title.

And a geotag on top! 

This is the sketch for the latest challenge:

I hope to see some of you working on that sketch, too! :) 

Thank you all who participated the last time and have fun creating a new layout for us.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Sketchabilities #110 - "longing"

Hey everyone and welcome to the latest sketchabilities skecht challenge! I wanted to create another girly layout with soft powder colors, and this is it! :)

And this is the beautiful sketch: 

We have great sponsors for this challenge and FOUR prices! So just go ahead and give it a try! 

our first and second price is sponsored by:

the third price is sponsored by the Cardabilities/Sketchabilities Blog Owner and Sketch Designer Karan Gerber:

 she is offering up a $25.00 Gift Card to the Silhouette Online Store (how great is that?!)

and our forth and last price is 

Creative Embellishments is offering up a $25.00 Gift Card to their online store!

 If you have any questions, don't hesitate to comment and ask me :) Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Hugs, Mrs. Scrapalot

Sketchabilities #109 reveal

Hey Scrappers!

It's great to see you around and having a look at my first DT reveal for Sketchabilities! It's about sketch #109 and it's just as awesome as usual :) I had a lot of fun creating a layout with this sketch and used a lot of mixed media. So come on and give it a try, join the challenge, too! The DT-Ladies will give you some inspiration for your creations on the Sketchabilities blog. Besides, we have a great sponsor this month: 

It's Chapel Road Stamps - division of Class Act Stamps - a Canadian Company just launched

through Notions Marketing at Winter 2014 CHA

go ahead and visit them: 

website: http://www.classact.ca/chapel-road.html

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Class-Act-Inc/131937080163056

For the background I used a polka-dot paper and lots of different paints. First I misted a part of the paper with Dylusion Inks, Mr. Hueys and Perfect Pearls Mists in different blueish and greenish shades. For the contrast I applied some white ink, too. After that I stamped a flourish pattern using a blue Gelato.

I cut out the title and the branches with my Silhouette,

and applied some Jelly paint for more texture.

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Then I added a few buttons and some washi-tape to embellish the page. I stamped around the edges with one of my Kaisercraft texture stamps. On this picture you can see the stamped image with the Gelato quiet good. I like the distressed look it gives to your project.

And here's another close-up of the Jelly paint. 

Now it's your turn to create a beautiful and awesome layout with the new sketch! 

Thank you all for stopping by, wishing you all a great Valentine's Day and a happy weekend!

I'm excited to see what you're going to create :)

Scrap & Music - Challenge #17

Some days ago I found another challenge-blog by browsing through other people's scrap-blogs. It's  the Scrap & Music challenge blog and it provides BEAUTIFUL sketches! The twist of their challenges is about using a part of a song as title or journaling. In this case the song was "like a prayer" by Madonna. I really like this idea, and I think I'm going to join some more of their challenges in future :) Here I joined a color challenge from Sketchy Colors #191, too. It's about using white and gold in your project. So here's my inspiration for the layout:

   

 and that's what I created: 

I'm a little bit unhappy with the colors of the picture I took of the layout, because it just couldn't catch the right colors. The white was either too grey or too yellow, or the gold is way too dark. Anyway, although this is a rather "clean" layout, I used a lot of different techniques for the background. On some spots I used golden molding paste with a mask, on some other spots I used different shades of golden embossing powder and some golden perfect pearls.  

I grabbed my glittered die-cuts and gave the rose a golden finish. 

I made the big filmstrip by myself out of a piece of scrap-paper and added some holes with my crop-a-dile. The gear looks like a film roll and matches quiet good with the rest of the layout.

The banner-pieces and the ticket are cut from different embossed and glittered golden papers.  

The beginning of the title is written with liquid pearl color.

Thank you so much for stopping by and wishing you a fabulous weekend!