Bookmarks

Here are some simple bookmarks for my girls' teachers.

SATW challenge Jul 2015

This is my first time entering a challenge over at Scrap Around the World and I am really excited.

Here is the moodboard for July 2015

and here is my take on it.

My eldest daughter learnt to cycle this summer (although there is technically no summer season here in SG) and she has been cycling everyday ever since. We lived next to a park and hence she has got ample space and time to practice and she has started to do stuff eg stand while cycling. This is an everyday routine in the evening just before dinner.

The colours were used to depict the time of day & location.

I used gelato for the background and sprinkled water on it. The droplets of water created a very subtle lightening effect, coupled with the white & yellow mist sprinkles.

There are "leaves on the pathway" as shown in the background (with stamps and emboss) followed by my paper layer. Trees & flowers (sparkles) & grass (glass glitter, mica flakes) to depict the environment. 

I misted the title with light blue and used a white-on-white emboss.

I had fun creating this and look forward to more challenges! :-)

HOME Made love

I completed this just before going to the hospital and after 4 days of brainstorming. 

that year, I made flowers for teachers' day using 3-d punches, straws, wires & papers. lots of work and lots of fun.. and I wanted to remember this effort of mine! in a layout..

here's what I did..

1.I used different shades of green paper and did a paper mache as the first layer. I sprayed some brown mists, added more gesso, more paper mache & some red mists too.. 

2. then I used a brick stencil.

3. I used ice-cream sticks to create the frame as I didn't have pretty chipboard frames. *cheapo*

4. initially, my photos were 100% coloured. however, no matter what i did for the layout, it looked weird and I finally decided to go for grayscale and it worked out fine. (i'm beginning to see a reason)

5. I altered the rose blooms using gesso to achieve the colour scheme I wanted. It was very fun and rewarding to it taking shape.I'm also beginning to see how others are able to achieve certain MM effects. 

6. I altered multi-colour mulberry leaves to green.

7.I dry-brushed small flowers to gesso to tone down its brightness.

8. ( altered my letterings too. as i didn't have it in the colour I wanted. 

then I assembled it altogether.

wasn't too bad .... :)

please feel free to leave your comments.

have a great day!

pink harmony

it was Racial Harmony Day and my girls were dressed up for the occasion.

not so obvious, I used matte-gel to adhere white tissue to form the background, with brown stenciling. with the same stencil, i did some pink embossing as well. 

I altered some chipboard using gesso, versa pink ink and gold emboss.

the Heart chipboard was coloured using gelatos.

from another angle

i like this photo a lot and thought that I would do another take on this. 

I used gelatos to have the green background. 

I have quite a fair bit of green stuff, so I thought i could make use of them, ribbons, washi, buttons.

I"m beginning to like mixed media a lot.... :)

First b&w layout

I have been wanting to try using a black & white photo and I took this "perfect" picture last Friday.

Paper: DCWM

With Gelato, I doodled in dark blue & light blue, then used a brush to blend up the colours

Randomly, I used a palette knife to spread texture paste around...

For contrast, I used Tattered Angels "Coffee shop" mist and allowed the excess to flow around..

then I sprinkled Mr Huey's yellow (I asked my younger girl to help me here :P)

for the photo mat, I used a MS Round-the-corner punch to create 2 mats and put it diagonally to follow the flow. I used VersaCraft blue to colour it

then I embellished accordingly.... 

I'm not really sure if the cloud&rainbow really fits in the picture but it will do for now. until I get better and have more inspiration :-)

mixed media venture

after I attended my first mixed media (MM) layout class with MWL, I decided to try it out. I had to prepare an anniversary present for a friend who is celebrating her 10th anniversary milestone as well as 1year bday of her 3rd kid. I've decided to do 2 layouts. but here's the first one.

i need to mount this on a 12x12 (like a mat) but otherwise it is completed.

I used Prima Bloom spray to make the 'cross', layered it with paper& paper strips, embellished it with some wood veneers & flairs.

I used gelatos to create the starburst effect.

for the 'frame' on the paper, I ramdomly stamped with brown ink, and I also used UT (Ultra thick powder) for the 2nd layer. since UT is transparent, I mixed with copper fine embossing powder to have colour.

it didn't turn out so bad. I'm pretty pleased with it, but it is a far cry from those 'expert' work.

MM is actually quite fun and there are a lot of possibilities, much more than with simply paper, in my opinion. Right now, I can't decide if die-cutting is a bigger investment or MM, or which has a better ROI. I suppose it is just a different style and really depends on which is your style.