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weekend inspiration: tattered angels

 

 

 

 

Leeann was very excited about working with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.  She decided to take her project off the page and give this Prima canvas apron a scrappy misted makeover. Firstly she applied a heap of Hambly rub-ons and then sprayed the canvas apron all over using Glimmer Mist Chalkboard, and using the same colour she took the nozzle off and poured and flicked straight from the bottle onto the canvas. 

She then made a couple of circle masks and used more Chalkboard to add pops of colour. Next she mixed together texture paste and chalkboard, applying this through a mask randomly over the canvas apron. Then it was time to finish the canvas apron off by adding pen doodles and a bit of stamping. Final touches buttons and fabric tabs with a bit of machine stitching for extra detail.

 

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For this page leeann used the pleated ribbon strips by pink paislee and  the chalkboard mist by tattered angels. Once dried she trim and machine stitched in place creating a colourful flow of ruffles. she also poured a small amount from the bottle and misted lightly with water, creating a watercolor effected.

 

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Here we have a project created by Rebecca Beattie who use’s tattered angels glimmer mist, glimmer clam, glaze and stamps in lots of different ways creating plenty of fabulous effects. She also provides us with a list of techniques she use.

• coloured silver metal handle and spout end with Glimmer Glam for a copper look
• colouring glue flowers on the cover
• using screens while spraying
• spraying after creating a resist with glue
• stamping with Tattered Angels stamps and screens to create more dimension
• adding a specked look on paper flowers by applying glue onto them and then placing them face down on a craft sheet that had dried after having Glimmer Mist sprayed onto it
• spraying onto paper to better tie the colours into the whole project
• spraying over scattered rock salt (that is quite course) to create a speckled background
• stamping with Tattered Angels stamps then accented by painting with a fine brush dipped into Glimmer Glaze
• layering colours for added depth

Thank you so much Rebecca for allowing us to share your fabulous project. You can see more of Rebecca’s work here.

 

 

 

Here we have a beautiful page created by Renee Aslette. Who tells us that first she applied texture paste to her page using bubble wrap allowing it to dry and misted over the top. She also misted some of the flowers to help coordinate with the page, and finally adding small flicks with the nozzle end. Thank you so much Renee for allowing us to share this page. You can see more of her work here.

 

 

 

Gosh how adorable is this page By Sharmaine  Kruijver. She has used the Glimmer Mist colours Suede and Creme de Chocolat.  Sharmaine has also used Juniper Glimmer Mist to colour the fabric doily.

 

 

This page is also by Sharmaine Kruijver. She has used red and black Glimmer Mists on the tags and embellished them. We love how they just pop with that added colour of teal on the solid grey background.

 

 

Lastly is this ATC card again using Red and Black Glimmer Mists. A big thank you to Sharmaine Kruijver for allowing us to share a few of her amazing projects. If you would like to see more of her work go here.

weekend inspiration: tattered angels

 

 

Louise N really enjoyed creating lots of colourful visual texture on the background of this layout. The white resist freestyle pattern was first created with gesso, and then the graded colour was created using three shades of the Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer mist; Inchworm, Valencia, and Polka Dot Pink.

 

 

Janine used several techniques while creating this LO to showcase Tattered Angels products.  Firstly, she used a mask and sprayed Seven Seas Chalkboard Glimmer Mist onto a sheet of sticky backed canvas. While the mask was still wet she quickly flipped it onto a sheet of white cardstock to get a "stamped" image of the mask at the top of her page.  Once the canvas was dry she cut around it for the striking fabric layer in this design. 

 

 

 

This amazing canvas  [from Canvas Corp], was created by the wonderful talent of Vicki Chrisman. 
Vicki used  Pop Rocks, Turquoise Blue, and Cupid Glimmer Mists to create the delish colour toning on her canvas.  Thank you Vicki for sharing your wonderful canvas with us.

 

This book was created by the wonderful talent of Lene Vibstad Neby.  The book cover is altered using gesso, snow paint, laces and Glimmer Mist; Dragonfly, Chalkboard Grape Ape, Glimmer Mist Pop Rocks, Glimmer Mist Wheat Beer. Thank you so very much Lene for sharing your wonderful creativity.

 

This lovely layout was also created by Lene.   She has created a bright funky background for her photo using glimmer mists. Isn't it gorgeous!  Again thank you Lene.

2012 cha release: tattered angels

Tattered Angels introduces a brand new product in this release, because apparently we don’t always want glimmer in our mists!  Plain Jane is their fabulous new product that contains the same pure vibrant colours as all Tattered Angels products, but without the sparkle.

Baseboard is opaque and intense, like Chalkboard with the glimmer.

 

 

 

Simply Sheer is a new range that, like Glimmer Mist starts off translucent and can build in intensity the more layers you spray, but like the baseboard, is pure colour with out the glimmer.

 

 

 

And then the Plain Jane Stained Glass is again the non-glimmery Glaze and the first release comes in these intensely beautiful colours.

 

 

 

And now back to our regular Glimmer-filled products!  There’s some beautiful and exciting new shades this season..

 

 

 

 

new years resolutions: lou nelson

 

You may be sick of hearing this; but Louise really loved getting this brief!  If there is one thing Louise never fails to scrap or journal about, is her New Years resolutions/words/thoughts! There are a few that she hasn't been able to achieve this year but they are still on the 'to do list'! One of which is 'learning to draw'.

Louise would really like to take formal drawing lessons! However in the meantime she does what she calls 'cheating' and uses her favourite Aussie Scrap Source stamps and mixes them up with some doodling.   For these particular layouts Louise has used one of her favourite Martha Stewart Stamps.  She has then added some colour with the Hero arts water colours, and a touch of doodling.

The Prima mini alphas have also been coloured using the Hero Arts water colour paint. The background colour was achieved with a combination of Tattered Angels Chalkboard glimmer mist and the Hero Arts water colour paints.

 

 

Lou couldn’t help but do a second page, and with this particular layout she has scrapped her new years hopes for her little scrappy friend Jessica!

weekend inspiration: tattered angels

 

 

To create her layout, Kathie started with a sheet of kraft cardstock and some plain mistable scalloped ribbons, crepe ribbons, flowers and stickers. Then she went to work with some acrylic paints, walnut stain, and the Tattered Angels’ Walnut Hollow Spring/Summer paint system.

The scalloped and crepe ribbons were sprayed with Inchwork Chalkboard mist, then inked with Shabby Shutters distress ink to give depth of colour. The flower stickers have been spritzed with Orange Crush Glimmer Glaze and Rum Punch Glimmer Mist. The large mistable flower was first spritzed with Rum Punch Glimmer Mist and then the ends of the petals were painted with Orange Crush to give graduated colour.

Finally, Kathie painted Mermaid Glimmer Glam onto the backdrop in places to add some colour to her neutral painted background. With her painting and colouring all done, she assembled her pieces with other bits and pieces for a fun springtime layout.

 

 

 

 

 

Iris found an old wooden bird house in a street market and decided to alter it for her scrap area. She first coated the wooden piece with white gesso. After it has dried she painted the roof and the base with a deep shade of red. After the paint has dried, Iris misted it with "Mel's Diner" which is a glimmer mist in a rich shade of red.

For the body, she painted a thin coat of white paint over the gesso just to make sure that the entire surface is painted in white. After it dried, she added strips of Tim Holtz Tissue Tape in random areas. On the left and right sides of the bird house, Iris applied a glimmer screen before misting it again with “Mel’s Diner”.

To finish the entire piece, Iris added a Prima Vine to the roof and applied some “Twinkle Toes” glimmer glam over pearl mica flakes which resulted in the silver glittery chunks you see in the roof.

 

In this second project, Iris put three mini canvas frames together and smeared the top with modeling paste. White the paste was still wet, she pressed on to the paste pieces of lace. She then sprayed the surface with yellow glimmer mist. After it has dried, she added flowers and crystal swirls. A generous coat of glimmer glam adds more sparkle and shine to the project.

 

Birgit Koopsen, Netherlands, created this stunning wall board using her favourite Tattered Angels colours: Key Lime Pie, Trunk Bay, Patina and Mel’s Diner. Birgit has spritzed the Tattered Angels mists onto papers from Prima’s Printery Line as the base for her tiles. To complete the tiles, she added stamping around the edges, 3D resin images and flowers. The four tiles were then adhered to a wooden board that had also been spritzed with Glimmer Mist. This project has wow factor, and is so easy to create!

 

Zoe Nemburt is a designer for Tattered Angels and she uses their products beautifully! Her inspiration for this page came from seeing all the wonderful frames with pegs on them right now! They look stunning to Zoe so she wanted to incorporate this into a layout. The mists Zoe used here are Marigold, Cadillac Pink & Rum Punch Glimmer Mist & Wicked Glimmer Glaze.

 

Tattered Angels have released a number of “paint systems” designed to coordinate perfectly with other scrapbooking products on the market. Mandy Collins used the House of 3 Daily Junque Paint System along with Pink Paislee Daily Junque products to decorate the cover of this gorgeous mini album.

To achieve the textured look that Mandy has created here, she advises to apply layers of colour and blending tones. The cover here is created using two base colours with splashes of a third. You can find out more about Mandy’s approach to creating texture in a tutorial here on her blog.

 

Nicole Martel created this gorgeous piece of art which one can wear with a few texturing mediums and lots of Tattered Angels treasures. A beautiful piece which one can create and be proud to display.

weekend inspiration: tattered angels

 

This layout was inspired by Suz’s son, who woke her up one morning with a totally unsolicited and rather eccentric list of favourite things. She didn’t really pay attention to the first few, but once she was focused she knew it was a list of gold.  Unfortunately, though she intended to, she didn’t write them down straight away, and many are lost in the mists of bad memory.

There's a lot of gorgeous Tattered Angels product in this deceptively simple layout by Suz. Firstly the Postage Stamp Framed Fonts that she has covered in a mix of Glimmer Mists, and then there's the more up to date Crepe Ribbons and Heidi Swapp Flocked Mistable Simple Sayings. There's a rainbow of muted Glimmer Mists and Suz has also used some of Pink Paislee's Parisian Anthology resist papers within the frames.

 

 

 

 

Louise always loves to get a Tattered Angels brief, as it allows her to explore even more creative ways of creating interesting and textural backgrounds for her layouts. Today Louise has created two layouts with a technique she uses of creating a white base first with gesso, and then spritzing Glimmer Mist into shimmering pools of colour over the top.  In the second layout she painted directly over Butterfly Framed Font shapes.  She has finished her pages off with hand doodling and Prima and Zva bling.

 

 

 

We were in awe of this stunning technique shared with us by Nicole Pomeroy, who was lovely enough to explain how she created these beautiful flowers.  ‘To create my transparency (or should I say transparent flower) I first sprayed it with three different colours of Glimmer Mist, and once dry, I used my a die to cut some flowers. With a heat gun, I heated each flower to make them curl, the longer I kept the heat on them the more curl I achieved, which is what you want when you are working from the base petals to the smaller ones in the centre. Once these cooled I glued them together and there you have it, custom transparency and custom embellishment.’

Thanks so much Nicole – it’s a beautiful technique and a stunning layout.

 

This amazing canvas was created by Peg Hewitt using a variety of amazing Tattered Angels products. Peg has also used a gesso like medium to create amazing textures on her canvas background. Thank you so much Peg for sharing your wonderful canvas.

 

The above scarf and the felt flower arrangement was created by the amazing talent of Martha Richardson. Isn't it just a fabulous idea - using the Glimmer Glams / Glazes to create and decorate a pattern on material/clothing! This idea is so cool and fabulous.

weekend inspiration: tattered angels

 

We asked Jane Clarke to have a play with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist on cards, and were stunned at the results.  She has has cleared embossed Hero Arts stamp (K5353 In the Garden image) onto vellum and sprayed new vibrant Glimmer Mist - Trunk Bay, Marmalade and Rum Punch over the top.  The Glimmer Mist pools in shimmery puddles on the vellum. She reports it makes the vellum curl when dried but its ok - make it a feature!!

 

Jane has once again cleared embossed an image on vellum then spray the New Glimmer Mist summer colours - Sun Sisters, Rum Punch, Marmalade and Bahama Blue over the top. This time she wiped the excess off with a tissue to create a subtle effect. The vellum will ripple but this adds a great effect, and Jane adhered the piece to her card with double-sided tape.

Make sure you back the vellum on white or light coloured cardstock to see the beautiful Glimmer Mist colours!

 

 

 

Though Suz is more committed to event scrapping and telling the story than ever, every now and then a photo comes along that’s just worthy of being showcased in beauty.  This is how she felt about this photo of her daughter who decided to dress herself up as ‘the nature fairy’ one day during the school holidays - in fact, her daughter so often presents herself in beautiful and surprising dress ups that Suz is considering an 8.5x11" album to devote just to them.

Suz covered white cardstock in texture paste to start with and once dry, sprayed with beautiful Gold Glimmer Mist.  She wanted to try to recreate the colours in Phoebe’s eye on plain cardstock, and so sprayed with a mixture of Riptide, Sunshine and Kiwi – with a heap more Gold and Irridescent Gold thrown in.  To get the inked effect on the edge of the page, Suz sprayed Olive Vine directly onto her craft mat and then dipped the edges of the cardstock in the puddles.  And finally – Suz got to have a play with the Glimmer Glaze – the beautiful new medium from Tattered Angels and painted Pink Lady directly onto the Webster’s metal trim to change to the silver colour to a a co-ordinating pink.

 

 

For this final Layout and card combination Louise has taken a softer arty approach. For the layout Louise has utilised the subtleness of the Glimmer glaze to decorate the Regal Alpha Frame to coordinate with and balance perfectly with the use of the soft and beautiful Chalkboard misted background pattern.

For the card Louise has used the brilliance of the Glimmer Glam on the Regal Alpha frame, to add a touch of festive bling, and give it a visual lift, in contrast to the subtle glimmer chalkboard misted background.

 

A Big thank you to Nathalie Kalbach for allowing us to share her fabulous Tattered Angels creativity! For this particular layout Nathalie used a Glimmer Screen on the background and sprayed with Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Chalkboard over it. She then brushed it with the Chandelier Glam here and there and sprayed again. The little textured and stamped areas are created with Heidi Swap Texture Stamps.

She has stamped tissue paper and glued it down with the Glam. For the tree Nathalie has used three of the beautiful new Fall colors - sprayed directly onto the Screen, then lifted and flipped it, to do a negative stamp on top of some paper. She has then stamped it with the haunted tree from the beautiful Halloween Stamp set and cut the tree out.

 

Nathalie has also shared with us some fabulous mini canvases that showcase a wonderful range of applications of the Glimmer Glam, Glaze and mists. Aren’t they just fabulous. Once again, thank you Nathalie.

cha winter 2011: tattered angels

Tattered Angels have consolidated their hold on the colour, glimmer and glaze market with this years releases.  Apart from expanding and improving their core products, they also bring us Colour Connections – teaming up with some of the leaders in the scrapbooking market to bring delightfully co-ordinated offerings.

 

wi: tattered angels

 

The new Chalkboard Glimmer Mists from Tattered Angels are the perfect medium to use with the new Parisian Anthology paper from Pink Paislee. The resist design that appears when covered with ink or chalks adds a new dimension to the papers, and with a huge range of Glimmer Mists to choose from, you can easily create and customise your own backgrounds.

Louise loved how easy it was to create a co-ordinating paper using the Chalkboard Glimmer Mists (a more opaque version of the usual ones). She also used it to quickly colour the chipboard and give it a dazzling finish.

 

 

This eye-catching layout from the very talented Leeann Pearce perfectly illustrates the masking effects you can achieve with Glimmer Mist. The pegasus look and background words and splatters she's created are the perfect subtle details to bring this fun, child themed page together.

 

 

 

Hilde Janbroers has used the Glimmer Mist to add a soft accent colour to a piece of printed paper, showing you don't have to start with a completely blank canvas to utilise these spray inks to beautiful, dramatic effect.

countdown to christmas day 5: tattered angels

 

 

 

For this layout Louise got 'down and dirty', LOL, and took a grungey approach. To achieve this effect she has used templates and impasto gel to first create the pattern of a gift box and christmas tree. When the Impasto gel was nearly touch dry on the layout she painted it with the glimmer glaze and then literally drenched it with the gold Glimmer Mist. To get the wonderful random marbled like pattern of colour she dried it quickly with a heat gun.

Then using the glimmer glaze again Louise painted the inside squares of the gift box pattern. When this was dry she added her photo and journaling.

countdown to christmas day 6 - twiddleybitz

 

 

 

 

 

There’s still time to make a beautiful centrepiece for your christmas table, or just to adorn a shelf at christmas time.  This Twiddleybitz tree stands just on 12” high and has plenty of curls and flourishes on which to hang embellishments if you choose.

Suz decided to keep hers simple, although the decorating process still took some time. She covered the entire tree in white gesso to start to give it a light base, and then glimmer misted in graduating degrees of colour.  Suz used the Chalkboard Glimmer Mist for a more opaque coverage – white at the top of the tree working down to a strong coverage of Strawberry Shortcake at the base.  Once dry she sprayed the tree with spray adhesive and sprinkled the entire thing in Martha Stewart Crystal Glitter.  Placing bling and half pearls randomly around the branches was the finishing touch.

countdown to christmas day 16: tattered angels

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louise is excited and amazed at the creative potential for the new range of Glimmer Glam and Glazes! They are a wonderful addition to the range of Glimmer Mists and Chalkboard Mists! Together this range provides you with an endless range of creative possibilities for all of your creative and paper projects.

Louise has created a range of layouts and accompanying cards to show the versatility of the Glimmer Glam and Glaze, just from a style perspective. For this first Layout and card she has used the Glimmer Glam to add simple but effective festive bling to the regal Alpha frame, and for the card she has used a festive red glaze to decorate the frame which has a subtler sheen.

countdown to christmas day 27: prima/tattered angels

 

 

Janine updated her Christmas decorations to turquoise and pink last year and wanted to add a couple of hand made baubles to the tree this year. She used lots of Prima flowers coloured with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Patina and Pink Taffy) and then hot glued them all over the polystyrene balls. Janine punched a lot of snowflakes out of white cardstock and then used the Tattered Angels Glaze to colour them silver.

The glaze was perfect for this as it comes with it's own little brush which was perfect for the fine detail painting and adds a gorgeous fine glitter appearance to the snowflakes. She then proceeded to adhere rhinestones (the extras you get on the ends of Prima stamps) onto the flowers and also Prima flower Centres (SIIS, Rajas and Sultans) into the snowflakes to glitz it all up more.

Janine also used the glaze to re-colour her white velvet Prima leaves a glittery silver for a gorgeous effect. She used the glam on the accent flowers at the top of the baubles for extra sparkle and shine as you can never have too much sparkle at Christmas time. As a final touch to the Turquoise bauble, Janine dipped some Prima lace in the Tide Pool Glam and used her heat gun to dry it off.

This causes the lace to stiffen and you can then mould it into a shape and ensure it can sit "upright" on your project as well as having a lovely glittery appearance.

weekend inspiration: tattered angels

 

One of the most obvious bonuses of using Glimmer Mists on a layout is that you can co-ordinate your papers and embellishments with the colours you require.  Here Suz didn’t want any particular colour scheme but did want to blend lots of bits so that they worked together harmoniously.  She has used Glimmer Chips and Chipboard tiles with the Foil Chips from the Heidi Swapp collection and sprayed them with various shades of Glimmer Mist.  Her layout is arranged so that even though there are disparate elements they all fit together as one on the page.

 

 

 

 

 

When Wendy Senger and Heidi Swapp came to Australia earlier this year for their ‘Mistyfied’ tour, Suz had the opportunity to help out in their classes both here and Melbourne and in Sydney.  She must have assisted in Wendy’s ‘Glimmer Mist 101’ class nearly half a dozen times, and yet when she returned home, exhausted, one of the first things she did was create her own 101 folder!   This folder is a priceless collection of different techniques and tricks for using Glimmer Mist and all the Tattered Angels embellishments. 

Suz decorated her cover in (of course) a rainbow of Glimmer Mist colours, and then glazed it with Glimmer Glam, one of the new Tattered Angels products.  Above is just a taster of the range of pages that you can create using Glimmer Mist, and the folder that results is a brilliant reference point when creating projects.

 

 

 

Nic was also lucky enough to assist Heidi Swapp and Wendy Senger on their "Mistified" tour, and also at SIA back in May.  Whilst there, Nic was able to take Heidi Swapp's Fastenation Folder class where Heidi showed the versatility of the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist products.

This album showcases many different misting techniques both with and without Tattered Angels Glimmer Screens and perhaps the most exciting new technique of all was learning how to use Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam.

Both the Glaze and the Glam are essentially the same base product however the Glam has the added bonus of having fine glitter suspended through it.  Looking at the photos here of Nic's project you can see how the fine glitter gives the album cover a delicious "lift" and sense of glamour.  Nic sprayed several colours of Glimmer Mist onto the cover, allowing to dry before buffing to a shine.  She was left with a matte finish which was then given a huge burst of contrast and glam by first applying Glimmer Glaze all over and then highlighting with Glimmer Glam!"

 

If you know Louise's style of scrapbooking then you know that she loves to combine upcycled/recycled, vintage and traditional scrapbooking products. These Tattered Angels Inspired projects are no exception.  Here Louise has created  projects that show how fabulously Tattered Angels Products can be used with every day items, with wonderful creative effect.

For her first layout, 'So So', Louise has used the card back from a patterned cardstock paper pad. She has then covered it with tissue gift wrap. It has been applied using a simple method, just using a glue stick adhesive. This has then been covered with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist. This has been allowed to pool and dribble in some areas, to add to the creative effect. For this particular layout Louise has put the protective paper backing from the adhesive side of a Regal Alpha Chip Frame on the background before applying the tissue paper. This adds a nice subtle dimensional effect, especially when the regal chip frame is added over the top. Louise has used a combination of Regal Chip Alpha Frames and Pocket Watch Alphas, coated in Cosmos Glimmer mist to embellish her layout. To add that special touch she has also used a Tattered Angels shaker box bubble. It holds some gorgeous silver and pink bling. You can also see from the close up that Louise has sprayed and dribbled the Marshmallow and Cosmos Glimmer Mist around and over it to subtly blend it to the layout.

 

 

 

 

For this layout Louise has kept it very simple. She has used the butterfly stamp from the Graceful Journey Clear Stamp Range to create a wonderful effect, that not only showcases the photo, but also indicates the joy of the occasion being scrapped. Louise once again has used tissue paper on her white background cardstock. A simple but effective method of, random splats of Black Magic and Oriental Poppy Glimmer Mist have been used to add extra visual interest and balance to the layout.

 

 

 

For this off the page project Louise has created a very simple but quirky necklace, utilising a butterfly from the Nature Butterfly Framed Font Alpha Chip range. This has been embossed with a beautiful and bright silver embossing powder. To get the wonderful white dappled effect you can see from the close up, Louise has generously coated it with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist and then dried it quickly with a heat gun. This actually reheats the embossing and sets the pooled glimmer mist into the embossing. The effect is them permanent.

cha 2010: tattered angels

New Glimmer Screens, Screen Prints, Glimmer Mist colours and an Exclusive Heidi Swapp range…  click on the images to see them in more detail.

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: glimmer mist

Janine loves the way Glimmer Mist can be used to colour a page without taking away from the design, she especially likes it with text paper. Janine also decided to use a Tattered Angels mask in a different way, and used it as a stencil to trace around on white cardstock and carefully cut out using a craft knife. This way the effect of the intricate is bolder on the page.

To finish off this page Janine chose to alter Prima Innocence flowers, which have been designed to be altered! With a good spray of Glimmer Mist to the flowers they now match the papers perfectly.

 

When it comes to using Glimmer Mist, Sue was a little scared at first. Sue chose Iridescent Gold and Viva Pink Glimmer Mist to experiment with. Sue found that Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist has become her favourite medium to add shine to her layouts. It is perfect for spraying over the top of patterned papers used to create layered flowers. The Viva Pink Glimmer mist was lovely sprayed over the top of white Prima flowers. How fantastic that you can custom colour them to suit your layout.

Sue also used the Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist to spray over the Jenni Bowlin Red Embellished butterfly. The result was a lovely gold flecked butterfly that looked more pink and therefore suited her layout wonderfully.

 

Suz was lucky enough to help out on the recent Mistifed tour with Heidi Swapp and Wendy Senger, owner of Tattered Angels.  In a quiet moment she had a chance to photograph a heap of Heidi’s amazing samples, some of which we share here.  Heidi has used Glimmer Mist on a range of mediums, including Tattered Angels Tattered Tags and her own line of Foil Chips and Mistable Paper Elements with stunning results.

Leeann Pearce has created the sensationally funky LO using Glimmer Mist to accentuate her chipboard elements. Not only giving colour to the background but also adding colour to the chipboard. What a fantastic way to draw attention to a chipboard element on your page.

Iris Babao Uy is a master at feminine whimsical pages and here she has used a Tattered Angels Mask with Glimmermist to create a striking element beneath her picture adding such an artistic element to her page.

trends of 2010: mixed media

This week the Lovely Louise Nelson demistifies a little of the marvellous mixed media trend for us…

One of the many mixed media trends influencing scrapbooking styles are those used by art journalers. Often they will use a variety of pens, pencils paints and gel mediums to create their backgrounds, alter photos and/or collaged/stamped images. With this in mind Louise has printed her photo-shopped photo straight onto the cardstock. Using the Hero Arts Water Colour Paints she has highlighted the black areas of the image to make them stand out and create vibrant and interesting contrasts.

Using the Luxe alpha stamps, another 'go-to' technique for art journalers, Louise has created her title in a 'white space' of her image, and then hand journalled the subtitle in a smaller white space area of her background image.
To embellish her layout Louise hand cut out hearts from cardstock adhered them to the layout and then artistically blended them into her layout by outlining them with black water colour paint and gel pen.

Perhaps the simplest definition for Mixed Media is the use of multiple mediums; for example, paints and gels, various types of papers, found objects, ephemera, pencils, crayons, charcoals, materials, fibers, etc etc. I think you’re getting the idea! Whereas scrapbooking traditionally has been recognised as primarily a papercraft with some use of alternative mediums for embellishment, mixed media depends on the use of so much more.

Increasingly, scrapbookers are introducing other mediums used by artists into their creative process; to not only satisfy their own creative desires but also to add that extra 'something' to their layouts. More recently, scrapbookers are also using more 'artistic' and 'freestyle' methods when incorporating these mediums into their layouts.

For this particular layout Louise has adopted very much a free style method. She has used several layers of glimmer mist and masks/stamps to create a subtle then bold artistic effect for her background. To enhance her design she has used water colour paint, machine stitching, and gel pen to highlight the masked images, create her title, and further embellish the layout. To add visual interest she has also cut out the center of one of the hand painted butterflies.

Louise has no doubt that there is a very strong influence of other artforms and mixed media when search through the online galleries and forums. Until recently, what has been referred to as 'arty' scrappers or the 'arty' style of scrapbooking remained a small and often fringe genre of scrapbooking. Increasingly scrapbookers have started to incorporate what is considered to be arty/mixed mediums and styles into their scrapbooking with the most wonderful artistic and freestyle look.

To demonstrate this, Louise is sharing one of her favourite international scrapbooker/crafters Caroline Rondel [thank you Caroline] from the north east of France. From the examples provided here of a gorgeous mini album and layouts you can see how Caroline utilizes a variety of mediums and techniques, to create her album and layouts. They are a wonderful combination of both art and memory documentation

For this particular layout Caroline has continued to use a variety of techniques and mediums; Paints, and collage, to create a layout of her 'dream home'.

Caroline has created just the most gorgeous layout of her newborn daughter using gel and paint mediums in a wonderful freestyle and artistic manner. She has embellished her layout with machine stitching and loose threads, and material whichs adds a wonderful textural effect.

For this particular layout Caroline has used multiple mediums to create a colourful collaged patchwork background effect; using paint, different types of papers, a variety of stamps and ink, stickers and images. She has used different modes of application with the paint; dry scraping, and circular implements for stamping the paint. Overlying this are the collaged and mosaiced pieces and strips of paper, then on the final layer various shaped stamps.

inspired by: art

 

Anyone who knows Nicole well or reads her blog regularly would know that she has a slight obsession with the work of iconic Australian artist Charles Blackman. She has been maybe his biggest fan since her early teens and never tires or stops being inspired by his works on so many levels.

Out of more than 3600 recorded pieces by Charles Blackman, Nic chose to be inspired for this challenge by this etching simply titled "Web".

At first it was the earthy and dull colour palette of the background that appealed to Nic, the texture reminded her of some of her favourite styles of paper. The beautiful bright colours of the butterfly "pop" out from the muted background and draw the viewers eye straight to the high contrast and vivid colours.

The journalling on Nic's layout came straight to her when she looked at this piece so knew she had to scrap it right away. She painted the background in similar style using a combination of Glimmer Mists and watercolour paints.

She then drew the spider's web by hand loosely mimicking the one on the painting. Once she worked out her photo placement, she sketched a butterfly as closely as possible to the one in the painting, outlined with a journal pen and then coloured with watercolour paints. She added her journalling freely and casually and finished by adding some favourite embellishments - lace, button and a new Jenni Bowlin pin!

 

 

 

When Suz was looking for an art piece to be inspired by, it was from more of a design point of view than an illustrative one, and her search ended with some of the beautifully stylised pieces by Paul Klee.  This particular piece, called Flora on the Sand, was right up her alley in terms of colour palette and light, and she set about attempting to reinterpret it onto a scrapbooking page.

Suz created her page by Glimmer Misting tissue paper, cutting and tearing it up into randomly sized squares, and then layering it onto plain white cardstock, incorporating and layering her photos in the centre of the page.  After title and journalling she felt it needed something to bring it together and so departed from Paul Klee by adding a Hambly Screen Print right over the top!

 

 

cha winter 2010: tattered angels

       

countdown to christmas: tim holtz

Suz fell in love with Tim Holtz’s Tree of Life the minute she saw it, and it’s now the first touch of christmas in her home so far this year.  It stands around 28” high but is lovely and narrow so can make a stunning statement with out taking up too much bench/table space, and would be a wonderful centrepiece for a Christmas table.  Obviously Suz had to have the beautiful light white one, but the tree is also available in bronze.   All the ornaments are decorated, by herself and her daughter (Phoebe’s are the glittery ones)!

Little Yellow Bicycle’s 25 Days of Christmas range include these beautiful reindeer, as well as snowflakes and trees shown below.  Here Suz has inked the reindeer with Tim Holtz distress inks, leaving the beautiful pattern on the chipboard to resist the ink.

 

Twiddleybitz Christmas release includes perfectly sized embellishments including doves, presents, boots and a sleigh.  Suz painted each of these with Luminarte Twinkling H2O’s and inked the edges for a shabby aged feel.  She then stamped them with Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co stamps and embellished with Heidi Swapp jewels.  The tree in the background is a Pink Paislee rubon transferred onto Hambly Transparency.

Here Suz layered two or three different sizes and patterns of the Little Yellow Bicycle snowflakes to create stunning decorations.  These were sprayed with Glimmer Mist and again embellished with jewelled brads and Pink Paislee Glitter.

Twiddleybitz Chipboard shapes, here Glimmer Misted, inked, stamped and embellished with Tim Holtz Metal Foliage.  The dove sports a beautiful Heidi Swapp Chandelier Crystal as well as bling.

Suz’s daughter Phoebe went to town with the Pink Paislee Pixee Stix on the LYB Chipboard, covering them in glue and different shades of gold and silver glitter, and she had to add a touch of red for Rudolph’s nose.

Finally the Tim Holtz Ornate Plates make beautiful photo frames to adorn your tree.  As they are meant to be used the other way round, Suz hung a chandelier crystal from the bottom hole.