I just love me some Primary Elements!

03 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Luminarte, Mixed Media Layout, Primary Elements

I’ve mentioned here, just once or twice before, how much I love Luminarte products – Silks, Twinkling H2O’s, Modeling Creme. And I have something else to add to that list: Primary Elements.

Primary Elements are artist quality paint pigment, with the expected Luminarte shimmer. There are so many different ways to use them and I demonstrated several at the last Paperie Retreat, but I’m only going to highlight two here.

I made this first LO to promote the demo at the retreat:

I went fairly basic, just one colour of Primary Elements mixed into Clear Medium, then painted on the cardstock to make a photo mat. The Clear Medium is acrylic paint base, with a built-in binder so you don’t lose any of that fabulous shine! It’s completely colourless until you add your pigment. You can mix your own colours and intensity of colours, and how much or how little you want, totally customizable!

I then blended a bunch of colours together and mixed that into some light molding paste which I smeared over the 6×6 Heart Confetti stencil:

It made a great purply/silvery colour which looks awesome.

During the demo I showed how to mix the Primary Elements into the Clear Medium or Molding Paste, how to dilute or intensify the colour, and how to mix your own shades. These next two LO were the scratch papers I used and then decided to finish off.

The first one has a photo base of mixed colours:

and then one colour for the paste:

This final LO was actually the first demo page I made, showing how vibrant the base colours can be on their own:

I love the texture of the molding paste on this one!

There are tons of colours in the Primary Elements line and they can all be mixed to make hundreds of other colours. The Paperie carries both the pigments and the Clear Medium plus they can order any colours you might like so go check out the website and then get some and go play!

If you want to see and touch these LO’s in person, I’ll be bringing them to the Paperie to display so pop by to check out their brand new location at 10 Pippy Place and take a look.

Simple Scrapper | July 2013

02 Tuesday Jul 2013

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Mixed Media Layout, Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper

We’re doing things a little differently at Simple Scrapper these days – no more monthly blog hops but there are other great things planned – like a Team Gallery! I’ll post that link as soon as it goes live. (Here it is!)

In the meantime, I’ll still post my LO’s here so you can see them.

(NOTE: click any of the photos to see them larger at my Two Peas Gallery)

I’ve already posted the Premium Member Sketch LO from this month since I also used it for my Year Long Album class:

I won’t go into details, but if you want to see how it was done, look at some close-ups, and get a mini tutorial, check out this post!

The second one was again using a new template but also my Story Starter LO and it was completely different for me:

That’s a very hybrid LO, my friends. And it’s all one photo, no paper at all, just a few wood veneer embellishments to which I added some Stickles for a bit of Superhero bling:

In general, I left it pretty simple – this was all about the story. The title itself and a bit of the journaling came from a previous post I did, if you want to check that out again.

Finally, if you want to see some other LO’s from the Team this month – and I know you do! – click any of the names over there —-> to go to the other member’s blogs or Two Peas Galleries.

And be sure to check out Aimee’s blog – I know she’s posting her LO’s this morning too so go take a look at her amazing work!

I’m hoping to be back tomorrow with some more LO’s from the last Paperie retreat – I’m waaaay behind on posting those for you!

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping.

ICAD 2013 | June 23: infinity

29 Saturday Jun 2013

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A while back I made this card and said that the back was so cool I was going to make another one and use the back as the front.

So I did!

Once again I used the Aboriginal Stencil but I pulled out the 6×6 this time. I stuck with the Graphite Ferro and used different colours of mist. Here’s the back:

Yes. Gorgeous and yummy and sparkly, though you can’t see that very well in the pics. And here’s the front:

Isn’t that the coolest? Love how this technique works; I think it’s going to have to be part of a class sometime soon.

I printed the sentiment on Sticky Back Canvas then stapled it to the card, the texture is awesome:

Basically, you need molding paste, water reactive mist, and lots & lots of water. Another upside of this card? Fabulous paper towels to use on upcoming cards!

Paperie Card Kit | June: Part 3

28 Friday Jun 2013

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I have two LO’s left to share with you from the card kit, but I’ll only be posting one today. I have a couple of guest posts happening over on The Paperie blog through July and I’m holding onto one LO for those posts. I’ll let you know when to go check it out!

The card kit had a great sheet of pink cardstock in it that would make a fabulous card base but I couldn’t make it work for the picture I wanted to use, though I did want the pink. So I altered it to suit – in my mind, being able to change product to suit you is the number one best thing about mixed media!

I used matte multimedium to adhere some Ranger Tissue Wrap onto the cardstock. Over that I painted some layers of white gesso. Although gesso is normally used as a base and primer, one of my favourite ways to use it is to tone down colours and patterns.

I left some areas brighter, with less gesso, than others on purpose, like the title area:

I really wanted to focus to be the title and photo, so I grounded my pic with layered strips of Allison Kreft paper and some washi tape, with a bit of twine tied around the photo itself. I finished that section with a brad and a punched border, all to draw your eye into that area:

And overall, it’s pretty subtle, with just the right hint of pink for my girl and I:

This LO was about a conversation Molly and I had approximately three weeks before Gabe was born – see how I can’t get the bottom button of my coat fastened? – and she was only 20 months old. It was pretty easy to get her to promise to “always be my baby!”

ICAD 2013 | June 22: boom!

23 Sunday Jun 2013

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This card was the outcome of a total creative blank. I seriously looked at the card and had no clue where to even start. So I grabbed the first thing on my craft island – gold chevron washi tape – and stuck it down to cover the card. It’s always better when the space staring back at you isn’t plain white!

A mist with new colours of Dylusions Ink Spray was next. And that was actually pretty cool because they resisted the gold chevron in the washi but not the white part in between. I added some molding paste over a stencil but didn’t like it so I scraped it off, making it purple as it picked up the ink beneath. I tried again over the circle explosion stencil and liked it a lot better.

Then I blanked again. So I left the card, did another one instead with the leftover molding paste, and when I finally came back to this one I decided to go with the explosion idea of the stencil. I pulled out my Idea-ology Alpha Parts, covered some letters with Rose Inka Gold and stuck them on. I finished it off by doodling with my trusty Pitt Pens.

Pretty blah, but they can’t all be masterpieces.

As always, I do love the shine in the Inka Gold:

At least it’s shiny blah, right? 🙂

ICAD 2013 | June 21: go your own way

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Index card, Mixed media

This started out with a scrap of paper I had left from the Paperie June/July card kit. Trust me when I say I loved all the paper so much that there wasn’t a whole lot leftover See my LO’s here, here, and here)! And this piece had to be used – it’s by Allison Kreft for Webster’s Pages and it’s really just too cute.

I adhered it to an index card with matte medium, and added a piece of Studio Calico Fabrips that I had lying around – another scrap from designing with the kit, it was the binding of my mini album. I then scraped used molding paste (hence the purple colour) over the Chevron Arrow stencil and put it aside.

I wasn’t a big fan of this card, was really just trying not to throw away my scraps, so I had no idea where to go with it. Coming back to it a while later, these lyrics popped into my head – that’s what my mind saw with the mix of arrows and birds, I guess.

Anyway, I printed them on kraft sticky labels, stuck them down and doodled with my Pitt pen. A little Graphite Inka Gold around the edges and I called it done.

A weird mix for me but that’s what I like about this project – anything and everything goes, even the weird stuff!

ICAD 2013 | June 19: yesterday

20 Thursday Jun 2013

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I guess I’ve moved onto the feather stencil but I promise it won’t be on the next dozen cards!

I put down a strip of drywall mesh, misted with bronze Perfect Pearls mist, sprayed some Mister Huey’s and peeled off the mesh – I love the texture it gives without the dimension!

I then rubbed Inca Gold over the peacock feather stencil, blending the Old Silver and the Rose – this card has a ton of shimmer!

Another Donna Downey stamp and some distressing on the edges finished it off.

I’ll do my best not to use that stencil tomorrow – I have an idea for the Yearlong class I want to try out so wish me luck!

ICAD 2013 | June 18: everything’s perfect

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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I’m sorry. It’s another paper towel one but I promise to move on after this one. For a while, anyway!

The sentiment was stamped on a previously ruined index card (I keep them for sentiments) and I highlighted the word “perfect” by stamping that word with some larger alpha stamps and then outlined everything with my Pitt pens:

I smeared some molding paste through the peacock feathers stencil – on loan from Marg but I definitely have to get my own – and the dimension is fab!

As a matter of fact, I think molding paste might be the next go-to item for my index cards!

ICAD 2013 | June 17: be strong.

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Faber-Castell Pitt Pen, ICAD, Index card

This is the reverse of one I did a few days ago – instead of backing the paper towel on an index card that had the Blazonry stencil pieces cut out, I cut the pieces out of the paper towel and backed it with an index card.

I love the colours that happened to be in this paper towel and instead of having it pop against the dark pieces, I left them white and doodled a bit with my medium and XS Faber-Castell Pitt pens.

I finished off with some new Donna Downey stamps that I think will be well used over the next month and a half:

I don’t think I’m ever going to get tired of that paper towel technique – I really think it’s just the coolest effect!

ICAD 2013 | June 11: I am perfect

12 Wednesday Jun 2013

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I wanted to play with my Distress Paints a little and so had some fun blending, spraying, drying, adding – until I liked what I had. So then what?

I pulled out a stencil at random, an awesome Dina Wakley one, and smeared light molding paste over it. Since the paint had a couple of not-quite-dry spots, I ended up with this gorgeous tint in the paste. Much better than the stark white would have been!

A few flicks of a darker shade in mist and then I was stuck for a sentiment. As I looked around I found a scrap of sewing pattern tissue and that worked perfectly once it was adhered with multimedium. Just a hint of colour but still super translucent.

And the texture of the hearts once the molding paste dried is awesome sauce: