Friday 5 October 2018

"Take Note" By Monique

Good morning all, Monique here.  I am popping by the blog today to share with you my first layout for this month's "You've Got Mail" challenge.

This is another fantastic challenge - the choice for interpretation is endless!

For this one, I decided to use this really cool chipboard from the 7 Dots Studio Airmail collection.  The postage stamp frames, envelopes and other little chippy shapes are really cute!!

I wanted to create a layout about this photo I took of my son recently.  He is growing up so fast - literally changing into a young man before my eyes.  I wanted to tell him how proud I was of the young man he was becoming.

Anyway, this is what I did:

I also took the opportunity to use some new awesome Paper Artsy Star Stamps.  I coloured them with a technique I picked up from the lovely Tammy Klingner.  I just sprayed some Dylusions Ink Spray in Postbox Red onto the stamp packaging and splodged it onto some white cardstock.  I then dried it with a heat tool and did the same with some Dylusions Ink Spray in London Blue.  Once it was dry I stamped on my stars using archival ink, cut them out and backed them with some black cardstock to make them "pop" a bit more.  Here is a close up of how they turned out:


Next I got out the 7 Dots Studio Airmail - Chipboard and painted it in some Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Black.  Once it was dry, I doodled an outline on them using a white gel pen.
Finally, I got out some new MAMBI chips I was itching to use and added them to my layout as well. These chips are amazing - I use them on so many projects.  They can be used for titles to, which I love.  This particular pack is currently sold out in the shop, but there are so many different packs to try - and they are all equally amazing. They can be found here.
 I also drew around the stars and the MAMBI chips with a white gel pen to tie all my embellishments together.

Here are some more close ups of my embellishments:




Thank you for popping by today, I am so looking forward to seeing all your fabulous "You've Got Mail" creations.  Don't forget if you want to enter, simply upload your work - mentioning at least two Scrap Matrix products you've used - to the "You've Got Mail" folder at the Scrap Matrix Shares Facebook page.

The products I've used that are available in the Scrap Matrix Shop are linked below.



Bye for now, and happing creating!








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