Class 7 with Debs

Good Afternoon and welcome to the last class of the weekend using the gorgeous papers from the Dear Lizzy She's Magic collection.  The layouts from this class require no hugely complicated technique to complete,  they are quick and easy to do with a little fussy cutting and a whole lot of layering.  A great way to wind down after a busy weekend scrapping.

 

Instructions on how to put these together can be found here. 

Please pop into the ATDML # Create facebook group to have a natter and show us what you've done.

Next up is Challenge number 9 at 4pm.

Have a blissful afternoon.

Debs x

Dear Lizzy, Tando chipboard and mess with Katherine

Hi everyone!  I was trawling the internet for some inspiration and have sometimes watched a little Vicki Boutin over on her Facebook channel and found some of the videos from her Facebook live.  I love the mess that she creates and beautiful backgrounds....and it inspired me to get my gesso out, my mists and have a go at a technique that I haven't used in a long while...some of you my remember a class using this technique several years ago!

Essentially I gesso my cardstock so that the watery mist doesn't seep in...I use a credit card and just get a really thin layer of paint.  Now it does curl when it dries - I have known people to iron out the curls...but they do flatten in an album and a bit like the end result you have to just go with it!  I added some spritz of just water first and then had 3 mists - a pink tattered angel, blue and gold Bobunny mist - all colours taken from the Hear and Now papers .  I spritzed, added some water - the fold has something in it that seems to repel the other mists a little too which is lovely.  In some places I took off a bit of the pile of colour with a gauze which I then used behind my photo.  So lots of fun and then drying with my drying tool which creates all the little trails of colour around the page as you can push it around.  Next the chipboard - I did base coat it with some gesso, then for the Tando clouds I added clumps of texture paste and for the ship a couple of watercolours in broken china and abandoned coral.  The title is from a super Thicker holiday set...a little bit of distressed Hear and Now paper layers.

Here you can see the texture paste and white paint on the Tando clouds.

As you heat dry the mists you tend to get dots of white if you have used a metallic mist which I really love and went well with the watery background.

Dear Lizzy with Mel

I had a lovely time at Ann's crop on Saturday playing with the new Dear Lizzy Here and Now collection, I was particularly in love with the gorgeous gold Thickers. (Find the collection including the Thickers Here)

I used them on two layouts, a title for one and a whole lot of them on the other page.

The first layout features a photo which I have wanted to scrap for ages but struggled to find the right colours for. The pinks, purples and blues in the papers worked just perfectly the photo. I opted for a clean and unfussy design to let the photo do the talking.

For the second layout I had a real "aha" moment as this paper could have been made for this photo, I needed the pop of green from the header strip and so cut the equivalent off the bottom edge which gave me the gorgeous strip with all the colours. I was playing about trying to decide which of the Thickers to use when Antonia came up with the idea to use "all of them" - well as many as would fit on the pink section!

I'm a bit disappointed that the gold on some of the thickers hasn't photographed so well but I can assure you that in real life they are lovely.

Do take a look at this months Design Team Inspiration Gallery as the ladies have all been playing wth this collection and the gallery is gaining new additions often!