Sunday 18 March 2018

Just Be You

Hello, I am here with you again today to share with you my LO for the beautiful March Mood Board challenge for Maja Design. http://majadesign.nu/blog/ Take a look at this months mood board isn't it just simply divine.




For my LO I have chosen to use a photo of myself which was taken a couple of years ago at my eldest sons wedding. Boy what a huge day that was. I had, had, a huge week leading up to the special event. Picking up my other sons  best man suit, my daughters bridesmaid dress, studying for my university exams, attending my second sons football grand final, celebrating my parents 50th wedding anniversary and only just finding a dress for myself to wear two days prior. My son who had not lived with me for many years decided to stay the night before.That turned into a very late night filled with laughter and frivolity. Pay back the next morning when I woke them all very early to eat there big cooked breakfast, before I raced off to the hairdressers. On the big day I was feeling very emotional and stressed, but the weather on the special day was perfect given it was middle of spring and where I live anything is possible. I was inspired by the beautiful colours, and the words of the mood board. Hope you enjoy my take on it.




For my LO I chose to use papers from the new celebration collection. Oh my I dont know about you but I love these papers. The whole collection is just beautiful. I actually used five different papers to create this LO and two from the monochromes celebration collection to match. I did some stenciling using texturez in spun sugar, I then added some flowers by 49 and market and to finish off I added some dusty attic chippies. Here are a few close ups.







Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x

Thursday 15 March 2018

All Smiles

Hello, I am here with you today to present to you my LO for this months mood board for Dusty Attic. Oh my gosh, the colour palette for this months mood board is just divine, so very pretty. The softness of the colours and all the beautiful flowers had me thinking of my daughter a few years back dressed in her fairy dress for her 5th birthday party which was held at a fairy shop. She is now nearly 15 and not very much a pink girl at all. The softness of the different tones of pinks in her dress along with the lemon and greens, had me thinking I wanted to create a LO depicting a fairy garden. Here is the gorgeous mood board for you.


 Here is my take on this beautiful mood board.




I started my LO by choosing a beautiful paper called looking through the vines. I then chose to use the DA chippie corner flourish to decorate two corners of my paper. These were first painted with DA acrylic paint in forest. I then embossed them with a lighter green embossing powder, then randomly rubbed with the forest acrylic paint and prima wax lucky emerald. This gave the vines a textured look. The flowers on the vine were treated the same way being painted first with dusty pink, then embossed with raspberry lemonade embossing powder, then lighty rubbed with dusty pink acrylic paint. The Elegant swirls were simply dressed with liquid pearls Blush. My title "All Smiles" was gessoed then wiped over with nuvo mousse Lemon sorbet, then sprinkled with sparkling dust (my take on fairy dust). What fairy garden isnt complete without the addition of fairy dust right............

A few close ups for you
 




 
 






 
 Dusty Attic products used:

DA Chippies:
Elegant Swirls #13
Corner Flourish #3
Mini Captions #9

DA Sparkling Dust

DA Acrylic Paints  
Forest
  Dusty Pink


Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x






















































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