You Mean the World to Me ~ May Arts/Helmar September Challenge - Ink It!

I hope each of you is having a lovely week. It is fall here in Ohio, and I am enjoying the lovely trees as the leaves turn brilliant hues of yellow, red, and orange. Gary and I took a drive this afternoon to take in the gorgeous colors. 

I had such a wonderful time working with my May Arts ribbons and Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. I started out with an assortment of gorgeous May Arts ribbons all in white/ivory. The challenge was to color them to use in a project. Their products take color beautifully!! Here is my take on the challenge with a layout featuring a photo of Elizabeth and Andrew in front of the church where their reception was held on their wedding day. I used the remainder of my October ScrapThat! Kit with some additional Prima flowers and architectural metal frame. 

The May Arts products I selected to use include: Frayed Flowers - white, Faux Suede Leaves - ivory, Solid Canvas Ribbon - ivory, and Net Ribbon - ivory. And of course I used the Helmar 450 glue. I have always preferred tape over glue for most of my scrapbooking, but in this project I used mostly the glue. I also used some Helmar V2 Vellum Adhesive to adhere the Net Ribbon and Helmar Scrap Dots under some of the flowers where part of the flower was on the raised cardboard and I needed some extra height under the rest of the flower.

When I saw this sketch posted on Sketches With A Twist, I knew it would be perfect for the Ink It Challenge with all the flowers and ribbons. The twist is to include stars in one way or another. Mine are stamped below the long grey paper strip. 

Techniques:

Frayed Flowers ~ I fussy cut the flowers which came stitched to a length of sheer ribbon. I then misted the pink with Tattered Angels glimmer mist and the blue with some home made glimmer mist I had in my stash. I then went back with a darker mist for the centers, but rather than spritzing it on, I put a few drops into a small bowl and painted the flower centers to darken them up. When dry, I brushed on some gesso to give a more shabby feel. Finally I added some jeweled flower brads to the center of each Frayed Flower. I alcohol inked the gem centers to coordinate with the misted flowers.  

Canvas Ribbon ~ For the title ribbon, I cut a piece long enough for my title and misted with Tattered Angels glimmer mist. I crinkled it into a ball and let it sit until dry to get the wrinkled, distressed look. Once dry, I laid my template across the ribbon and smoothed flexible modeling paste over the stencil. The brown ribbons were colored and crinkled in the same manner, but no modeling paste. 

Faux Suede Leaves ~ These leaves took the misted color so beautifully. I then went back with distress ink to darken the edges and center of each leaf for added visual interest. 

Net Ribbon ~ I dyed this ribbon by spritzing with a color mist. Using a piece of scalloped edge paper as a template, I fussy cut the net ribbon into scallops. 

Hand Stitching ~ done around the center mat.

Distressing ~ I distressed all the edges using my Donna Salazar Distrezz-It-All. 

Modeling Paste ~ In addition to using modeling paste for the title, I used a stencil and modeling paste on the top mat. 

Corrugated Board ~ I tore a scrap from a cardboard box for my photo mat. I used a foam brush to apply gesso to the board. 

Fussy Cutting ~ The Prima paper had a lovely corner that I cut and tucked the photo into.

Stamping ~ I used the lighter Pumice Stone Distress Ink to stamp the words Hand in Hand at the bottom corner and for the strip of stars. 

Glue ~ This Helmar 450 glue was amazing. I used it to glue everything from paper and flowers to ribbon. The only thing that wasn't quite successful was using the glue on the doily which was a bit delicate for the glue. Where the glue showed through the doily paper, I placed the title ribbon over top. Problem averted!! This glue worked perfectly to adhere the metal frame to the photo!!

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~ Blessings ~