Tam's Metals and Petals share...

Hi all

Tam here today to share my creation for the 'Metals and Petals' November Challenge.

Such a gorgeous combo, but I wanted to do something a little different.
When we think of petals, I guess we immediately think of flowers.......I decided to go elsewhere.

A butterfly wing reminds me of a petal. RIGHT?!? It was the first thought that popped into my head, so I decided to go with it.

 

 

Yep, you can see that a few flowers, mainly my favourite Aall & Create Stamp crept in there too....

 

 

Just love those metal butterflies, and how their wings (petals) just fly right off the page.

 

So let's have a look at how this page came together.

I began by selecting my background paper, and the paper that sparked the whole idea.....the latest 7Dots Studio Garden Party paper......

I began by cutting out some of the butterflies from the black and white photo.

I then created my background....

I love this stamp by Stampers Anonymous. I used the butterfly to stamp onto the background. I ensured I repeated the design and also ensured that some of the stamp was half on and half off.

This helps with the flow and movement across the layout.

I then stamped one of the sayings from that stamp by Stampers Anonymous to use for my title and my journaling.
I trimmed it down into segments.

Next I used my favourite AALL & Create stamp No 20. It definitely appears on all my layouts lately!
I stamped this onto white cardstock.
I find as it's such a large stamp, its difficult to get a perfect image - this does NOT worry me at all.
I like imperfection and I also always cut down the stamp into smaller pieces anyway so if there's one patch that's particularly faint, I just disregard it.

 

 

You can see here that this stamp image is a bit faint in sections. I used my Fudeball pen to draw over the top and fill in the gaps.

 

 

 

 



I pop these aside, ready for the tucking in part, once my layout has come together a little more.

Now onto the Metal.......

 

 

Love the shape of these metal butterflies.

I added black gesso to them.

They come up beautifully!

I love that this gives them a more modern feel, rather than vintage.

 

 

Time to start putting it altogether.

I reach for my 'go to' 7Dots tags, and also create a few of my own to poke out from behind the photos.

 

 

 

 

The photos are a sequence of 3....my gorgeous little niece in USA.

She is a pure delight, and her mama is just a beautiful earthy chick who inspires me in so many ways. She values homemade, real and nature. She embraces the outdoors, believes in fairies, and sees the planet as her little one's backyard.

 

 

 

 

I love that these photo's capture that joy, that absolute love, that wonder.

Just magic.

 

 

 

 

I printed two photos in black and white and one in colour.....I decided to go with the black and white theme with a few touches of green and yellow to highlight the flowers and grass.

 

 

 

 

So after lots of tucking of flowers and tags, I added butterflies....I wanted them to look like they were taking flight up the page.

I stuck everything down with this 3D Gloss Gel - so good for sticking metal, and great too if you want things to have some dimension - also great for poking flowers and bits into and around your photos.

The final step was to add a bit of water to some yellow paint (I used Dina Wakley) and flick it over the layout. There's my POP of yellow!

Let's take a closer look at those metal butterflies in flight.....

 

I hope that's inspired you to enter our challenge.

Vicki has a $30 voucher up for grabs, she also has lots of amazing new products, so what have you got to lose?  At the very least you will have completed a page, and had a chance to be creative.

You could even be asked to guest design for Scrap Matrix!!

 

Just be inspired by Metals and Petals....

 

 

 

 

Create something......a layout, a journal page, some cards, a few tags....the list is endless!!

 

Upload it to our Facebook Scrap Matrix Shares Group - in the appropriate folder and let us know which products you used from Scrap Matrix.

The more the merrier, but the minimum is only one!!

 

I look forward to seeing what you create....

 

Much love, I'll be back again soon, but if you'd like to see a bit more of my work just head to my blog

 

Tam

xx

 

 

Scrap Matrix Products used:

 

woodgrain paper

AALL & Create stamp no 20

Ranger Black Ink

7Dots Paper Garden Party - Born

7Dots Tags - Writer's Block

7Dots Tags - Northern Lights

Stampers Anonymous Stamp - Perspective

Metal Butterflies #1 filigree antique bronze

Dina Wakley paint - Lemon

3D Gloss Gel

Fudeball pen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tam's back with more ALL & CREATE inspiration

Hi there Scrap Matrix creatives!

 

Tam's turn again to share some ALL & CREATE inspiration....

 

This time I scrapped myself!! I know, I know something we all forget to do, or dislike doing. BUT I urge you to get on the other side of the camera and include YOU in your beautiful creations.

 

Love the bold colours on the black background.

 

 

Let's have a look at how this layout came together. 

 

I basically used the same technique for the background as I did last time for my teen boy layout.  If you missed it you can find it HERE.

 

This time around I decided to use my Tracy Scott Paper Artsy paints....... perfect timing as we have the fabulous Tracy Scott coming to teach at Scrap Matrix later in August!!! Woohooo!!

How cool is that!! As I'm feeling all Tracy inspired, I grabbed her beautiful paints. Oh those colours!!!

 

Just love them!!! 

I didn't use the Peacoat (navy) on this layout as I had black as my base instead.

So I painted them quite randomly on my background paper. 

 

This time I didn't prepare the bazzill first. As I wasn't using a lot of water, I just decided to add the paint directly.

 

I forgot to take a photo at this point!! Whoops.

Once dry I used AAll & Create Stencil No 4 by the fabulous Fiona Paltridge.

I love that this has two options - for this layout I used the top section and some black gesso.

 

I love that using this technique kind of looks like the background is part of the painted section. A very cool effect.

 

Next I stamped onto white cardstock using one of my favourite AAll & Create Stamps - No 20 using an Archival Black Ink.

 

I didn't worry too much if they didn't come out perfect, as I planned to cut them down anyway.

 

 

Next I cut them out.

Love the black and white - reckon it's gonna look pretty striking amongst the bold colours.

I then began layering behind my photos. I used lots of tags and paper from 7Dots Studio.

I also added in some 7Dots word stickers, cause really it wouldn't be a Tam page without them.

 

I stuck this down using foam tape as I knew I wanted to tuck my stamps in and around the layers.

I used foam tape on some of these too, just to give it a more layered look.

I really love how layering these stamps around the photo draws your eye to that point.

To finish it off, I added my title - I used Mambi Chips for this - I see Vicki has just restocked on them so I'm off to go shopping!!  I need more in my stash.

 

I hope this has inspired you AALL to go and CREATE!! (groan)

 

What do you plan to create with the Aall & Create produts - some tags? A layout? A few cards? A journal page?  Well whatever it is, I can't wait to see it.

 

Just head to our Scrap Matrix Shares Facebook Group and load it into the 'Aall & Create' Album, and let us know what Scrap Matrix Product/s you used.

That's it from me today. Here's a list of the Scrap Matrix Products I used:

 

Black Bazzill

Tracy Scott Paper Artsy Paints

Black Gesso

AAll & Create Stencil No 4

AAll & Create Stamp No 20

7Dots Tags - Writer's Block

7Dots Stickers - Cotton Candy

7Dots Word Stickers

7Dots Paper - Verano Azul - Green Time

7Dots Paint Chips 6x6 Paper Pad

Ranger Archival Ink - black
Mambi Chips - Sweet Memories

 

 

 

 

Helen's second Tic Tac Toe page - Pretty in pink

Hello there, welcome back to my blog where today I'm sharing another layout for the

 Scrap Matrix Team.

The challenge is to create a project using a tic tac toe monochromatic theme.

For those of you who have not come across this before, the idea is to use any three objects from the grid, but they must be in a straight line horizontally, vertically or even diagonally. You may use any monochromatic colours you like.

Here is the grid for you to choose from.

This time I'm creating with different shades of pink with black and white as neutrals.

I followed the top grid line using 

Brads, flairs or buttons, a Stamp, & Pretty patterned paper. 

The gorgeous pink paper is from 13@rts, the Art Journey collection, "Travel."

I began with the background, creating texture with Prima stencils,

Wildflower and Checker and Modelling Paste.

Then using Ranger black archival ink, I stamped three sets of the AALL #20 Flower stamp

which I coloured with various Distress Oxide inks, before fussy cutting them out.

The title is by 13@rts - I painted it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink and added some faux stitched lines with a black pen.

I added some beads and bling to the middle of the flowers.

Because this little Girl's first word was "Birdie", I added a little Bird button to the cluster.

Thanks for your visit today. 

I hope you've found something to inspire you. 

You still have a few days left to play along

 at the Scrap Matrix Tic Tac Toe challenge and be in the running for 

a gorgeous prize from the uber generous Vicki Christensen.