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 :)

Underwater Mixed Media Layout

Hi Scrappers! Do you know 13arts? It's a polish blog and shop, and they are just aaaawesome! If you're like me a Mixed Media lover, you seriously have to check them out. They provide you with beautiful inspirational layouts and art, and they sell great stuff! Indeed I have to admit that I love the Polish scrapper-girls style a lot.

Anyway this is my first layout for one of their challenges. This project is for the 13arts challenge #14.
It's about using their sketch, at least one medium and the word "time" in your title. This is my interpretation:

I used white cardstock for the background and altered it with different glimmer mists, ink sprays, silver modeling paste and some perfect pearls powder. The mask I used is a fishnet mask by Jenny Bowlin, and matches perfectly with my underwater theme and all these teal and turquoise colors. 

Behind the picture I glued some real fishnet down and the die cut looks like a coral :)

I stamped a compass and some watches on glossy stamping paper and dry embossed them with an embossing pen from the back. 

I distressed all the edges of my scraps and crumpled them a little bit 

This was the sketch I used: 

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day! :)

Scrapbook Werkstatt Monatsstarter #1 2014

Hi everyone, I'm back with another clean layout. This one is for the Scrapbook-Werkstatt month starter. They provide a sketch every first day of the month as inspiration for you in their forum. I kept it really simple and used mainly scraps from earlier projects to finish this layout.

The huge white arrows are cut with my silhouette, the blue ones are some stamps from MME (up & away collection). 

I added some little brads here... 

... and embossed the plant with WOW embossing powder. It's a really cool color, something like patina. It's a mix of copper and turquoise. Love the effect! On the picture you can see one of my cats (I have three of them :D).

Thank you for stopping by! 

Creative Scrappers sketch #259

Hi everyone! I created another "clean" layout - well, at least I tried - this time for CreativeScrappers.
That's their awesome sketch and what I created with it. I played around with my new Silhouette Cameo as you'll see :)

Two pictures from one of my hiking trips with my friends! I just love nature and this is a great way to spend time with your friends and being active. We had a great day! All the paper I used is from DCWV, it's from the "Vintage Collector" collection which comes in great bright colors! I used withe cardstock for the Silhouette Cuts, and a little bit of yarn. That's it!  

I hope you like my creation! Thank you for stopping by <3 

A appreciate all comments :)

Scrap & Music #18 - Nothing Else Matters

Another beautiful sketch provided by Scrap & Music! This time they choose a song by Metallica - Nothing Else Matters. I took two photos from our holiday in Egypt. We were snorkeling a lot and took many pictures under water. Finally time to get some of them scrapped! Here's my take on their sketch:

I took different shades of green/blue and beige for the papers to match them with the pictures. I think they look a little bit like the color of the ocean. Behind the clustered papers I applied a layer of white crackle paint and covered it with a little bit of distress ink after it was dry. After that I spritzed a bit of different mists and sprays. 

At the edges of the banners I used a little bit of embossing powder to give it a more interesting texture. 

 

I had no more space for my journaling, that's why I decided to make a "hidden" pocket tag by making a cut behind some of the layers.

On this picture you can see the texture of the crackle paint.

As title, I took the "life is ours" lyrics from the song.

And this is the sketch I based my LO on: 

Thanks for stopping by :) 

Baby's 1st Birthday Card

Hey Card-Creaters and Scrappers! Tonight I just finished a Birthday Card for a baby. His nickname is "Mischa" which means teddy in Russian and he's celebrating his first birthday. So cute! My task was create a card by adding a bear :) I think it came out quiet cute and hopefully the baby will be thinking the same way, too ;)

The sentiment on the banner is once more written by hand. The stars on the background were created by using a mask and molding paste. The teddy is a layered cut-out from Docrafts and glued on a stitched label.

What a cute fella! :)

Altered craft caddy from Kaisercraft

As I mentioned, I love altering and altered stuff.  The Kaisercraft - beyond the page products are great for this purpose, so I get myself a Craft Caddy for a better organizing of my workspace. 

So finally I took out my camera and did some shots of my Craft Caddy from Kaisercraft. First I primed all the edges of the single wood pieces with withe gesso, after that I covered it twice with a rather light pink acrylic color, so it had an even appearance. After that I chose some patterned paper for the project. I decided to use the "find your wings and fly - sky's the limit and up&away " series from My Mind's Eye. This series has really bold and bright shades of pink, teal, and green. I absolutely love these series for having all these fun and fantastic images. 

I covered all the areas with the 12x12 papers and inked the edges with matching distress ink. I even covered all the inside areas from the drawers with paper! This took me quiet a lot of time to cut all the paper in the right size, but it was definitely worth it. At the end, I embellished the Craft Caddy with some metal embellishment, lace- and zig-zag-ribbon, some matching chipboard stickers and layered stickers from the MME series. 

Kaisercraft CraftCaddy front

Kaisercraft CraftCaddy back

CraftCaddy right side

CraftCaddy left side

close-up of the drawers

Every drawer has its own label with just the right thing in it. On the front I keep my favorite inks (label: ink pads) and some of my tools as sponges, craft knife, distressing tool and needles... (label: tools). On the back side I keep my patterned scissors (label: scissors) and my dry glitters (label: glitter). On the upper part of the Craft Caddy I store all my bottles, like different glues, glossy accents, crackle paint and my mini water misters. At the sides I put my Crop-a-dile, my acrylic blocks and some glue dots.

inside of the drawer

I really love how that turned out, and I keep it directly in the middle of my crafting space, so I have everything next to me when I'm crafting. Hope you enjoy! :)