Mixed Media Swing Tags

Hello Everyone,

The inspiration for these tags comes from Prima Marketing Inc's Live with Prima - called "Mixed Media Tags with Anna Dabrowska on Live with Prima". It a very long video, but I really enjoyed watching it and then creating the tags.

I have a few Tim Holtz tags, but for me the Color was not right so in the end I used a tag as a template and crated my own tags from pieces of American Crafts cardstock that I have leftover from when I create pages.

Here are some close-ups:

The Turquoise Tag:

The Pink Tag:

The Brown Tag:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Absent Me

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I have absent recently, I have been through a patch of bad health and I am finally coming out the other side.

I have had a good weekend (and Monday), I'm losing track of the days now the kids are on holidays, and I hope to put up a post tomorrow about what I have created.

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Texture Tuesday @ Scrap Matrix - 09/12/14

Hello Everyone,

This week we used Blue Fern Studio's December Challenge as our inspiration. Here's the sketch:

With this challenge you have to use either their paper or chipboard. So I decided to use both. Here's a picture of my starting point:

This was the DT page that inspired me:

I really love the White and the black with the touches of red.

I started off by cutting my papers down to size. I then created the background. To create the background I started by embossing with the "Tiles" stencil from Crafters Workshop, I then tried to add lined of gesso but it didn't work very well. while this dried I cut out the birds from the B-side of the papers that I had saved to use. 

I then decided that my elements were lost on the background and I needed something behind to make them stand out more. I used a Tattered Angels mask with Prima Art Basics Heavy Gesso. By this time it was time to head out to my afternoon appointments.

I was not very happy with the way it looked, but I figured I would take it home and keep working on it there.

In the end I am very happy with the page. By adding some scraps of paper from my collection I was about to create a page I really love. It took me about two days of fiddling with it to be happy.  Here it is:

Here are some close-ups, I especially love how the title ended up:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle