Thursday, 27 December 2018
Layout catch up
Hi guys, I have done a few layouts recently and I haven’t been posting them here because I have been making process videos and posting on my YouTube channel for some of them. Here are a selection of recent layouts and you can find my YouTube channel here. I'd love you to subscribe and you will be able to see them as I post. I'll keep this blog going though, so you'll see posts here from time to time too. All of these layouts use the Hip Kit December and November kits.
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Beauty
Just a quick post to show you a recent layout done for a GoGo Getaway challenge.
I gessoed the background and using a text effect Vicki Boutin stencil, added some texture to the background which I then covered with some Jane Davenport watercolours in coordinating colours. Then I sewed a circle by hand on the background.
I mostly used a pack of Bo Bunny ephemera to layer the photo, but I also added some buttons from my stash and some thread beneath the butterfly. I finished with a gold Thickers title and that was it. There are also some close ups below, I hope it gives you some inspiration.
I gessoed the background and using a text effect Vicki Boutin stencil, added some texture to the background which I then covered with some Jane Davenport watercolours in coordinating colours. Then I sewed a circle by hand on the background.
I mostly used a pack of Bo Bunny ephemera to layer the photo, but I also added some buttons from my stash and some thread beneath the butterfly. I finished with a gold Thickers title and that was it. There are also some close ups below, I hope it gives you some inspiration.
Monday, 26 November 2018
XOXO
I have a new layout done just for fun! I challenged myself to use a whole pack of die cut ephemera as I have so many in my stash and really need to start using them 😂 The pack I used was a fairly new one from Cocoa Vanilla Midnight collection. I didn’t manage to use it all, but I did use 47 out of 57 pieces!!
As there is so much ephemera, I didn’t need to do much else to the layout - I just tore a piece of patterned paper and put down the right hand edge and I added some hearts with texture paste along with some watercolours in the matching colours to the die cuts. Then I layered everything up on the page with the photo. I’m happy with how it turned out - you can see some close ups below the main image too. Thanks for looking!
As there is so much ephemera, I didn’t need to do much else to the layout - I just tore a piece of patterned paper and put down the right hand edge and I added some hearts with texture paste along with some watercolours in the matching colours to the die cuts. Then I layered everything up on the page with the photo. I’m happy with how it turned out - you can see some close ups below the main image too. Thanks for looking!
Monday, 19 November 2018
You bring me sunshine
Here's my latest layout for Hip Kit Club using the October 2018 kit. My assignment was to create a layout inspired by the monthly moodboard from the wonderfully talented Irit - which looked like this.
My eye was immediately drawn to the image at the bottom in the middle with the colourful tiles. I knew I wanted to replicate it and so I took a sheet of white cardstock and filled it with a few of the Shimmerz paints and sprays from recent kits until it was covered. I then set about cutting 1 inch square tiles and cutting off two corners and rounding a third - all by hand! Then I laid them out on the page in the same way as the image, but turned it horizontally rather than vertically. It was a labour of love, but I was happy with how it turned out.
Finally, I added some painted embellishments from the Paige Evans Whimsical collection plus some Jen Hadfield word stickers and it was finished - I wanted to let the background speak for itself, so the decoration was minimal. I hope you like it and it inspires you in some way - thanks for looking!
My eye was immediately drawn to the image at the bottom in the middle with the colourful tiles. I knew I wanted to replicate it and so I took a sheet of white cardstock and filled it with a few of the Shimmerz paints and sprays from recent kits until it was covered. I then set about cutting 1 inch square tiles and cutting off two corners and rounding a third - all by hand! Then I laid them out on the page in the same way as the image, but turned it horizontally rather than vertically. It was a labour of love, but I was happy with how it turned out.
Finally, I added some painted embellishments from the Paige Evans Whimsical collection plus some Jen Hadfield word stickers and it was finished - I wanted to let the background speak for itself, so the decoration was minimal. I hope you like it and it inspires you in some way - thanks for looking!
Sunday, 18 November 2018
Your Happy Life
I have the November Hip Kit already - yay! I couldn’t wait to have a play, so I grabbed the main kit and made this layout. I was challenging myself to just use the main kit so that if I just had that, I could still love the kit and it was so easy!
I started with a patterned paper from the Heidi Swapp Emerson Lane collection and splattered some watercolour paint in a rusty brown to match some of the exclusive acetate leaves in the kit. Then I laid out the acetate leaves vertically on the page below the photo. My niece is on a swing and I thought it looked like she was hanging from the leaves! I then fussy cut a few flowers from the Jen Hadfield Along the Way collection and teamed them with the exclusive acetate leaves and gold foiled wood veneer pieces.
I used the Thickers gold foam word along with the exclusive alpha for the title. I also used the wood veneer 'Life' which I cut apart and made an ombre effect with the same watercolour paint that I used on the background. Here are some close ups - I hope you like the layout!
I started with a patterned paper from the Heidi Swapp Emerson Lane collection and splattered some watercolour paint in a rusty brown to match some of the exclusive acetate leaves in the kit. Then I laid out the acetate leaves vertically on the page below the photo. My niece is on a swing and I thought it looked like she was hanging from the leaves! I then fussy cut a few flowers from the Jen Hadfield Along the Way collection and teamed them with the exclusive acetate leaves and gold foiled wood veneer pieces.
I used the Thickers gold foam word along with the exclusive alpha for the title. I also used the wood veneer 'Life' which I cut apart and made an ombre effect with the same watercolour paint that I used on the background. Here are some close ups - I hope you like the layout!
Sunday, 11 November 2018
Love Today
Last night I made a kit for fun! I am up to date with my design team work and so I thought I'd have a play with the October kit (I still want to get 10 layouts out of it, even though I don't have to do that many for the team).
I started off with inspiration from Missy Whidden who recently did a grid layout (you can see it here on the Hip Kit blog). I wanted to use some papers up and I don't have a full piece of any paper anymore, so I have to be creative! I cut four rectangles from the papers (two with torn edges) and laid them on the page so that I could see where the edges would be. I then went to town with the Shimmerz sprays and put some colour around the edges in four colours. I also put some in the middle so that there wouldn't be white areas between the grid sections.
I did some stitching on a couple of the segments which you can see in the closes ups here:
Then I stamped some circles from a Vicki Boutin stamp set I have in my stash and painted some darker blue Shimmerz in them to look like bubbles which I thought was appropriate with the adorable photo of my niece in her swimsuit! I also flickered some very fine gold spritz over those bubbles to give a bit of extra sparkle which you can (kind of) see here:
I added some Paige Evans Whimsical collection flowers between the grid sections along with some stamped and painted leaves from the Prima stamp collection that came with the Colour Kit in October. I also cut a heart, flower and tags from one of the 2x2 papers in the Whimsical collection and used a die cut from the Vicki Boutin Field Notes collection which I sewed down. I finished off with a Bramble Fox Perspextive which gave me my title. Here's the finished layout - I hope you like it. Thanks for looking.
I started off with inspiration from Missy Whidden who recently did a grid layout (you can see it here on the Hip Kit blog). I wanted to use some papers up and I don't have a full piece of any paper anymore, so I have to be creative! I cut four rectangles from the papers (two with torn edges) and laid them on the page so that I could see where the edges would be. I then went to town with the Shimmerz sprays and put some colour around the edges in four colours. I also put some in the middle so that there wouldn't be white areas between the grid sections.
I did some stitching on a couple of the segments which you can see in the closes ups here:
Then I stamped some circles from a Vicki Boutin stamp set I have in my stash and painted some darker blue Shimmerz in them to look like bubbles which I thought was appropriate with the adorable photo of my niece in her swimsuit! I also flickered some very fine gold spritz over those bubbles to give a bit of extra sparkle which you can (kind of) see here:
I added some Paige Evans Whimsical collection flowers between the grid sections along with some stamped and painted leaves from the Prima stamp collection that came with the Colour Kit in October. I also cut a heart, flower and tags from one of the 2x2 papers in the Whimsical collection and used a die cut from the Vicki Boutin Field Notes collection which I sewed down. I finished off with a Bramble Fox Perspextive which gave me my title. Here's the finished layout - I hope you like it. Thanks for looking.
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