'You still give me butterflies'....a layout by Tam

Hi lovely ones!

Tam here to share my first take on the current challenge.

You know how much I adore colour, so when our challenges are colour based, I am totally in my happy place.

All those shades of pink, orange and yellow make me so giddy.....they are not my 'go to' colours, in fact I rarely use pinks and oranges but hey I love all colour!

I love the movement that those butterflies created up the page.

Let's take a look at how this came together....

I began by grabbing some butterfly stamps...

I bought this Tracy Stamp when she came to Victor last year, and shame on me, I hadn't used it yet.....that's what gave me the idea for the page.

I am so looking forward to her new stamps, she has that gorgeous new butterfly stamp coming - I'm too impatient to wait, especially once I get an idea in my head, so I dug out this Stampers Anonymous one as it is kinda similar......

GOOD NEWS!! The Tracy Stamp arrived since I've wrote this original post (I've just popped in with an update). HERE is where you'll find it.

I went to town stamping them onto white cardstock.

Time to colour them in.

I'm loving my Art by Marlene watercolours in 'Bold and Bright' - so bright, so me, so I used those.

Initially I began being ultra perfect - staying inside the lines - but it didn't last long and I got messy and broke the rules! I prefer those butterflies so much more.....don't be too much of a perfectionist...being creative is about experimenting and discovering.

Time to sit in front of some Netflix whilst I cut them out.

Love those pops of colour!

I then cut out a few odd butterflies from some leftover 7Dots paper.

Of course I had to colour them.

Next I decided to make some of my own paper....

I just grabbed some black paint and a brush and painted some lines.

Quick and easy and again, imperfect.

So now it's time to work on the background...

I grabbed some TCW Modelling paste and  a 13Arts Stencil - xoxo.

Once dry, I again added watercolour paint...

Now time to add in that striped paper I created....

I also added strip from a leftover piece of Pink Paislee

Before adding the strips.....I added a strip of Washi Tape....

Now I add the strips, ensuring they are curled and torn along the edges....

Time to add the photos, and add a few tags, cut from scraps...

I also added in my title and journaling first.....I used some of the alpha stickers from the Art by Marlene Whimsy Sticker pack.

I added a few bits and pieces in, just to give me a guide for the butterflies....you see I was worried that once I added the butterflies, I wouldn't know when to stop and I'd have nowhere for anything else.

I also added a few flicks of black paint, just to tie in those bold stripes.

Ok time to go nuts with those butterflies!!

The best way to stick them on is to use matte gel.

Just a bit down the centre of each butterfly is all you need, and that enables the wings to sit up and have some dimension.

To finish it off, I tucked some guaze around the photos.

That's it today!!

Another bright, happy layout.

If you'd like to join in this month, all you need to do is create something based on our colour moodboard and then upload it to the corresponding album over on the Facebook Scrap Matrix Shares Page. Just let us know in the comments what Scrap Matrix products you used!

So simple!!

See you over on my Blog!

Scrap Matrix Products used:

TCW Light and Fluffy Modelling Paste

Finnabair Soft Matte Gel
13Arts Stencil xoxo

Art by Marlene Watercolours - Bold and Bright

Paper Artsy Stamp - Eclectica ETS21 by Tracy Scott

Stampers Anonymous Stamp
Tracy Scott Stamp Set 26

Art by Marlene Whimsy Stickers

Dylusions Washi Tape

Fudeball pen

Black Dina Wakley Paint

Black Ranger Ink

Pink Paislee Paper - Citrus Bliss Seeds

7Dots Paper - Nature's Garden

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