We’re a bit excited this week!
We get to announce a new addition to our design team, along with introducing her in a pretty special way, as a new challenge in our Style Lounge series. We have loved this artists’ energy, enthusiasm and most of all, her talent! We will be sorry to miss her amazing entries in our challenges, but happy that she has agreed to join the team. Please join us in welcoming Leeann Pearce, and her artsy-grunge!
You might think that there’s a fine line between artsy-grunge and a hot mess , but you’d have to agree that Leeann walks it with style, and stays just this side of amazing. It’s kind of the art of throwing both meaningful and random elements on a page and having it turn into a cohesive layout. The ‘artsy’ comes from the layers of paints or mists that she’ll often start her pages with.
If you think you can replicate Leeann’s arty-grunge style, we’d love to see your projects. Leeann will be judging the winner, so send them into [email protected] by next Wednesday 18 May to be in the running for an artsy-grunge prize pack. Please try and use products from Aussie Scrap Source brands in your projects.
We leave you with some inspiration from Leeann and one of her favourite artists, Lucy Edson.
Leeann’s style is very artsy/grunge. But at times there certainly are elements of other style types. Textures and layers play a big part in this scrapper’s style. Leeann also loves paint and it’s nearly always a starting point to each of her pages, from there she builds her layers. And you will notice when you look closer that the tiny details are buried amongst those clusters of embellishments.
Complete randomness you might also spy on her pages. Quirky elements that mean nothing – for example the numbers have no real meaning just part of the embellishing.
This page definitely shows her artsy/grunge style – misting, machine stitch strips, paper curling and scrunching, layers of paper flowers and cotton doilies, buttons and Hambly transparency, twine and resin bird and lastly flicks of paint.
This next page that Leeann created started with creating an artsy/grunge background. Leeann used a couple strips of masking tape; she painted the strips of masking tape with a contrasting colour and randomly placed them on the cardstock. She then covered the entire background with white gesso and used a foam stamp which gave a subtle pattern.
Lucy Edson uses lots of mixed media techniques; this is just one element that draws Leeann to her work.
On this first page Lucy actually made these tags from pattern papers and printed her photo on to the pattern paper. But first Lucy used some gesso and soften the pattern on the paper so that the picture of her daughter didn’t have marks all through her face.
She then has used an assortment of different materials and layered then on each of the tags and then finishing this page off by flicking a little bit of paint which gives it that artsy feel.
On this second page by Lucy you can see once again that artsy feel. Leeann loves this technique of dry brushing with paint. A little bit of misting, distressed edges and finishing it off with a much softer embellishment cluster.
Thanks so much Lucy for sharing your amazing creations with us. It’s been a real pleasure.
We hope these beautiful pages have inspired you to get your grunge on! We look forward to seeing your entries – [email protected] by next Wednesday 18 May to be in the running.
