Stash Buster Challenge 3 and Sneak Peak to Super Stash Busters!

Hello all!

I have not been updating my blog for awhile

Some recent encounters made me motivated to start blogging about my scrapping adventures again!

First off here is a sequel to my takes on the great class Stash*Busters Anonymous

This time round I'm sharing my take on the challenge of using Metal accents on our pages

However I have recently just destashed alllllll of my metal accents,

But i'm not going to buy anymore

What's great about this class is that, if you dont have the specific item , you can still be inspired by the sketch of the challenge ! The sketch shows the accents being lined up in a straight line vertically. Hence I took the challenge of "Lining up my embellishments in a vertical line parallel to my photos" And guess what? I use the embellishment which I have the most abundance of and have yet to start digging into it.

BARE CHIPBOARDS!

I was inspired by Wilna Fusternberg and her famous Art Class which was once on Twopeasinabucket but have unfortunately closed down. You can still check out her youtube videos which are equally inspiring! She loved bare chipboards. I love them too, but I always have a hard time using them. So following the Stashbuster sketch, and wilna's technique of treating the bare chipboards, I came up with THIS!

 I was having so much fun creating a mixed media background

It's a mix of prima and heidi swapp spray mist 

I used plastic wraps and also bubble wrap to create the textures and layers 

I'm in love with GOLD accents recently :)

Aly Dosdall is the instructor/teacher for the Stash Buster Anonymous class

Now she has a brand new class coming up! 

SUPER STASH BUSTER

The new class starts on July 31,

You can register for now at Big Picture Classes

I'm very honoured to be able to contribute to the class

Here is a sneak peak to my layout(s) 

Stay tune for more awesomeness coming up next week!

Cheers!

My favourite technique :)

Hello!

Hope you're having a great weekend so far

While making the guestbook/scrapbook 

I was tempted to use my favourite technique for card making

It's something to do with stamping

colourful and water

And time, i added some shine too :)

Here is one card that i made during valentines using this technique

and i though i could share how i made it :)

LOVe the colours :)

Here is how the finished page looks like

on my guestbook project

Close ups

See the shine and the water colour look

and the mix of fabulous colours!
LOVE IT!

Here is the supplies

You would need 

1. a few colours of dye ink

(I'm using distress inks cause I really lovee the colours)

2. A bottle that spray water

(i usually use tap water, this time I though of adding some shine

Hence i'm using the studio calico mister huey in the shine colour

it's just a glimmer water, add a glittery touch to your project. 

Quite subtle but nice in real life )

3. Your favourite stamp!

( I'm using the tim holtz cling stamp 

from the nature moment collection )

Mount ur stamp onto an acrylic block

Add the darkest colour onto your image first

I just smear direct ink pad to stamp

just be a little careful 

then add the other lighter colours,

also in ascending order or the colour tone

( from darkest to lightest)

this prevent yourself getting the ink pad stained 

i usually have no problem with that :)

then i come back in with the darker colours

to add some touches at the edges of some parts of the flowers

this add a little dimension to the stamped image

now u can see our image is all inked up

take the bottle of spray mist

Mist it about 2-3 times dependng on the size of the image

u can see the ink darkens

and become more watery looking then before

then we are good to stamp

now stamp :)

and you have ur pretty image

i thought could do one that just use all greens in different shades

Hehe this is an example of me misting too much 

becareful if you mist too much water, 

some parts of the ink might flow to other parts

and parts of the image might not stamp clearly

and it might even drip onto your project before you stamp!

(that has happen before to me >< )

well here you go the final product

fun right?

I love mixing the colours up 

and trying different colour combination

Hope you have enjoy this little tutorial

and hope you give it a try

share with me if you do ! 

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Also want to add

I have signed up for shimelle's neew class called Scrapbook Remix

And so I though I could share my recent paper stash

I was buying so much given that my LSS is having moving out sales

and follow by ware house sales

and all the CHA goodies

I cant resist

So it's time for me to sort out my paper stash before it gets out of control!

I used the cropper hopper divider 

and added some washi tape 

and label by company

Here is part one, some papers sits in between my albums

and somehow 

the comb and hairband just find their way into the hole

haha, kind of a good way to store them too :)

makes me happy when i comb my hair and look at the pretty paper lol

Here is part 2

This rack is from goodwill

a friend of mine RAK it to me

It's really nice of her!

It sits some of my favourite collections 

Beside it sits the container that house all my thickers

and alpha stickers

Love it :) 

And the class starts coming monday.

It's about mixing the pattern papers

and all the fun stuff.

I can't wait :)

Join in if you can :)

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Thanks for stopping by today :)

then next time!