Aussie Scrap Source :) :) :)

Hello Hello :)

I do hope you had a fabulous weekend :)

I would like to share with you today some of my recent Aussie Scrap Source fun creativity :)

For a Weekend Inspiration brief  I got to use the aaaawesome Crafters Workshop Templates. I got to choose one designed by the talent of Julie Fei-Fan Blazer. :) :) :)

Photo by LVB

Cheers for now and I hope you have a great start to the week :)

Lou xox

.....On the Road with Saint Motel!

Hello Hello Guys

I would love to share with you a fabulous arty/musical collaboration to celebrate the music of the wonderful Band Saint Motel

Take the time to listen to their music, it is food for your creative soul :) :) :)

The wonderful Vick Chrisman has organised a fabulous blog hop so we share with you our arty takes on the band Saint Motel and their fabulous music.

The Blog Hop Road to travel is:.....

Saint Motel news blog 

                                                                     Vicki Chrisman

Catherine Scanlon

Louise Nelson

Martha Richardson

Nathalie Kalbach

Ronda Palazzari

For my arty share I decided to take a combination approach of using both my scrapbooking skills and utilising a little bit of photography to help 'Tell the Story' :) 

I have used a title/line from a new song called Honest Feedback 

their album title 'Voyeur' and the album cover as my inspiration :)

That was such fun and just a bit different to what I am used to doing :) :) :)

Well now it is time for you to hop on over to the amazing Martha Richardson

Cheers and Happy Travels :)

Lou xoxo

...Warning.......Teaser post :) :) :)

Prima August Palette :) :) :)

Hello Hello :)

Today I would like to share with you my take on the Prima August Palette challenge

Materials used; grey board - Imaginarium Designs, flowers, bling, alphas - Prima, mist - Tattered Angels, gesso, indian ink, posca paint pen, staples.

Cheers for now and I hope you have had a great weekend :)

Lou xox

Imaginarium Designs :) :) :)

Hello Hello :)

I would like to share with you a couple of layouts that I have created using one of my own Imaginarium chipboard designs :) .....as blogged HERE :) :) :)

 I have used the cross hatch as a whole but I usually cut it up in to various odd pieces it is perfectly versatile for that LOL I like to get more bang for my buck LOL :)

Happiness

Imaginarium Designs product;

12 x 12 chipboard background

Cross Hatch

Wishing you Happiness

Other materials;

Tim Holtz; crackle paint, distress ink daubers

Prima Flowers

Gesso

Photo taken by Natalie May

From the close up you can see I have finished the cross hatch chipboard quite simply; I have applied random daubs of gesso with my finger first, allowed it to dry and then painted on the Distress ink.

IDDL0001 Cross Hatch by Louise Nelson

IDP0036 Wishing you Happiness

Small Pleasurez!!!

Imaginarium Designs product;

12 x 12 chipboard background

Cross Hatch

Other materials;

Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist & Glimmer Mist

Prima Alphas

Gesso

Posca paint pen

Photo taken by LVB

From the close ups you can see that all I have done is colour the cross hatch chipboard with Tattered Angels glimmer mist. To get the concentration of glimmer I dry it fast with the heat gun and reapply a couple of coats, quickly drying with heat gun in between.

IDDL0001 Cross Hatch by Louise Nelson

Well that is it from me for the moment I do hope you are loving the Imaginarium DT's inspirational creativity as much as I am :) :) :)

If you would like to see more of the Teams creative fun then CLIK HERE :)

Cheers and much Scrappy <3 nbsp="nbsp">

Louise :) xxx

Prima BAP August :) :) :)

Hello Hello :)

Just wanted to share with you my take on the Prima BAP for August [loosely based LOL] I spent about 2 hours on this layout LOL, that is about 3 times more than I usually do :) :) :)

Materials; grey board - Imaginaium Designs, flowers, metal trinket, metal leaves/flowers - Prima, mist - Tattered Angels, mask - Julie Fei-Fan Balzer for TCW, embossing powder - Stampendous, gesso, ink.

Photo by AM Cox :) xx

Well Im looking forward to a wet weekend so I will gladly stay in the studio haven creative fun :0

I hope you all have a safe and fabulous weekend!!

Lou :) xox

Some Creative Me Fun between DT stuff :) :) :)

Materials; grey board - Imaginarium Designs, mist - Tattered Angels, alpha and leaves - Prima, florist vine staples, gesso, posca paint pen, indian ink.

Looking forward to a creative weekend :) are you???

Lou xox

Anatomy of a page :) :) :)

Hello Hello :)

Back again :) I thought I would start doing a little bit of a layout highlight as I have this fabulous online friend who is always asking me to share and or do videos/online classes etc, but Im terribly time poor as a full time shift worker. So my friend Faygie, these are in honour of you and your amazing and generous friendship/feedback :) Oh and I stole the idea from Somerset Memories Magazine :) :) :)

Background

I have used 12 x 12 1.2mm grey board from Imaginarium Designs. I masked of half of the background just with a piece of paper and then using a misting bottle with watered down gesso sprayed along the edge of the paper [to get a sort of straight line lol] and allowed the gesso to run down the board to the bottom edge, and then dryer with a heat gun.

The top half I sprayed with Chalk Chalkboard Glimmermist from Tattered Angels.

Embossed Circles behind photo

I have used Stampendous - aged ivory to adhere it I just sprayed a circle pattern of the watered down gesso, dabbed it with a paper towel but not to much so that it was still damp and then sprinkled on the embossing powder. Shoo off the excess and then heat set with the heat gun.

Embellishing

I have just randomly twirled up some florists vine and attached using staples and a long arm stapler. and then artfully [LOL :P] adhered the feathers in amongst the vine with clear drying gel glue. The Prima leaves and nest were also adhered using the same glue.

The extra little splats of black are watered down Indian ink and I put them on last. I shield my photo and nest with scrap card and then applied the splats with a soft bristle paint bush :)

Well I think thats about it :) there really isn't too much that goes into my layouts LOL :)

Cheers and I hope your having a creative week :)

Lou xox

Paperdvizhnik :) :) :)

Hello Hello :)

I want to share with you a fabulous opportunity that i got to guest for an amazing inspiration and challenge site, Paperdvizhnik! it blows my mind very time I go there!!!!! I was so very excited and honoured to be selected :) :) :)

I was asked to contribute a project based on a sketch and this is my take :) I have flipped it sideways :)

Materials; grey board - Imaginarium Designs, nest and leaves - Prima, mist - Tattered Angels, alpha Bo Bunny, embossing powder - Stampendous, staples, feathers, florists vine, gesso, sakura pen, indian ink.

Photo by LVB

Heyyyyy why don't you have a go?! the sketch [below is pretty cool :) :) :)

Haaaaappy Happy Scrapping :) :) :)

Lou xox

Jenni Bowlin Studio Summer Games :) :) :)

Did you all see the closing ceremonies last night?  WOW!  Many thanks to those in Great Britain and Londoners especially for all your sacrifices and hard work. It was just WOW!  Amazing! Now here at JBS Mercantile closing ceremonies aren't for another three weeks, so you still have plenty of time to get in on the action.  The Gold, Silver, and Bronze prize packages are still up for grabs! Currently we're in the middle of our Swim Medley Relay Event.  Today is the last lap, freestyle!  Of course that means anything goes!  Just make it fun! To recap: 1. Butterfly - add at least one butterfly to the page 2. Backstroke - add a messy medium to your background 3. Breaststroke - button it up!  add some buttons and/or something that ties 4. Freestyle - anything goes!  just make it fun! And for the prize package anything goes as well, so before we close up the box to ship it to our lucky winner we'll throw in a big surprise to make it extra exciting. The prize package: 1. 20 packs of butterflies 2. a set of Jenni Bowlin for Ranger products in a lovely shade of blue 3. 10 packs of buttons 4. a SURPRISE! Remember!  All entries to the Swim Medley Relay Challenge need to be added to this post:  http://www.jennibowlinstudioinspiration.blogspot.com/2012/08/swim-medley-relay-challenge.html Happy swimming!  I mean scrapping!  We're cheering you on! JBS Inspiration Blog JBS Mercantile Forum The Mercantile Store

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Here is a little of my Jenni Bowlin creative fun :)

Cheers and Happy Scrapping :) :) :)