Life Is Beautiful canvas

 Hi there everyone! 

Don't you just love the new Lindy's colour combo for April?

 

Here's my latest creation, a reverse canvas using Lindy's products along with a few stencils and Couture Creations dies and flowers.

 

 

These colours are fun, and remind me of spring, so naturally I had to use a butterfly, and some flowers.

 

So .....would you like to know how I created it?  Here's my tutorial!

 

1. Apply gesso through a variety of stencils, and allow to dry.  Repeat the process using texture paste.

2. Mix a very small amount of Magnolia Magenta Gold Magicals into some gel medium and mix well.  Add more Magicals if required. Check out the colour change as the magicals are mixed, the intensity of colour is fantastic!  Apply using a stencil and allow to dry.

3. Mist canvas slightly with water and spray patches of  Pink Ladies Pink, Tilt-a-wheel Teal, and Magnolia Magenta Gold.  Allow to dry before spraying Summer Loving Sun so you don't get too much colour mixing.

4. Spray Greased Lightning Green through a leafy stencil and allow to dry.

5. Colour your flowers using a variety of techniques.  I altered these ones from Couture Creations by spraying directly (top left),  painting the centre and transferring colour to the petals using a baby wipe with a small amount of mist on it  (bottom left), spray centre and use baby wipe on outer petals (top right), and just using the baby wipe on raised edges (bottom right).

6. Ink dragonfly, apply Aurora Amethyst embossing powder to the outer wings, and shake off excess.

 7. Cover the rest of the dragonfly with Sunset Yellow Orange embossing powder and melt using heat gun. Emboss diecut leaves using Oakleaf Olive.    Layer your flowers and embellishments on your canvas.

My butterfly was embossed using the technique described above. The quote was embossed with Oakleaf Olive, and the scalloped piece with Tilt-a-wheel Teal embossing powder.

I hope I've inspired you to get creative today.

Happy scrapping,

Tina

A colour challenge and some really cool news!

Hi everyone, my really exciting news (for those of you who haven't heard already) is that I was chosen to be part of the Couture Creations 2014 Design team.  You can follow the links to the blogs of all the talented ladies that have been chosen. 

 

Adriana Bolzon

Amanda-Jayne Baldwin

Joanne Piccirilli

Jowilna Nolte

Lauren Tomecek

Lesa Bird

Mel Connell

Patricia Basson

Sue Smyth

Tina Connolly 

Tracey Cooley (Special Projects)

Kerrie Gurney (Design Team Coordinator)

 And now I'd like to share with you my colour challenge entry for Lindy's Stamp Gang for March.

I started with two sheets of Core'dinations cardstock, and built up layers using stamps, washi tape, and various other mixed media items.

I used LSG embossing powders on the Twiddleybitz butterfly and frame, then rubbed some Inka Gold on the edges.  I used Couture Creations Glitzn'Glamour on the title to give a nice glittery effect after I'd painted it with Lindys Stamp Gang sprays.

The Lindy's Stamp Gang products I used were:

Embossing powders - Razzleberry Plum and Silver Moon Mistletoe 

Starburst two-toned sprays- Bachelor Button Blue, Alpine Ice Rose, Ramblin Rose Pink, Frozen Jack Frost

Moon Shadow Mist - Tawny Turquoise

Flat Fabios - 'I'm Late, I'm Late' Slate

Magicals - Bachelor Button Blue

Twiddleybitz chipboard - title, oval frame, butterfly

Thanks for dropping by!
Happy scrapping, Tina

Up for a challenge???

Are you up for a challenge?

I had to set the challenge criteria at Scrapping Outback this month so here it is....

"Use chipboard, texture, layers and masking on your project, it can be a layout, a card or OTP"

Here's my Design Team example...

I've used Lindy's Stamp gang Starburst sprays,The Crafters Workshop stencil, Viva Décor modeling paste, and the "Live, Love, Dance" chipboard is from Scrapping outback

 

Rules: After you have created a LO/card or OTP  for the challenge please upload it to your blog, online gallery or Facebook page then link and add your info into the correct Mister Linky on the right hand side of the Scrapping Outback BLOG.
Once you have done that just pop over to the SO FaceBook page and let us know you have entered our challenge - you can then link back to your own blog or FB page as well so we can all go and check out your creation.
Out of courtesy, please link your challenge entries back to the Scrapping Outback BLOG challenge or be sure to give credit to the Scrapping Outback challenge and if there is a sketch to follow please give credit to the sketch artist as well.
Please use your creation for our challenge only - it is not to be used in other challenges.
If you are winner be sure to grab your Challenge Winners Blinkie to add to your blog.Thank you.
Due Date: 31st of August 2013 11.59pm
Prize:  $15 shop voucher to spend in the Scrapping Outback store for the winning layout chosen at RANDOM by Mr Linky. 
Don't forget to check out the gorgeous examples by the rest of the DT at the  Scrapping Outback BLOG.