Thursday, April 18, 2013

"Flower Girl" details for ScrapThat!

You may remember another flower girl page with my sweet niece, Abby. She was the flower girl in Joseph's wedding and again here for Elizabeth. It is obvious by her charming smile that she greatly enjoyed the honor!!

I used the April ScrapThat! Kit featuring Donna Salazar's Natural Beauty Collection and add-on kits to created this page.

"Flower Girl"
MK, EAO, FAO

Tips and Techniques:

Handcrafted Flowers ~ The two flowers in the top left of cluster were created using thick mulberry paper and Donna Salazar's Grand Peony and Bitty Blossoms dies. It's hard to see here, but the larger of the two also is edged with white puffy paint for added texture and dimension.

Kit flowers ~ The FAO is loaded with gorgeous flowers. The large focal flower is by Petaloo and the canvas flower is Prima. The tiny white roses are in the main kit. The main kit leaves were gold and green which didn't quite work with the colors on this page, so I painted them with gesso, stamped with a large font script, then inked the veins and edges. I also tucked in one of the EAO metal roses. The flourish is from my stash.


Fussy Cutting ~ I fussy cut the bird and cage to tuck into my cluster.

Flowers ~ More of my Bitty Blossoms mulberry paper flowers and little white MK roses. The larger rose here is by Zva and in the MK. 


Chipboard ~ This gorgeous Fabscrap sign is included in the MK. The post was painted with a thick coat of antique gold metallic paint. While still wet, I used my heat tool to bubble the paint to achieve this lovely texture. I also rubbed on a little black soot distress ink to highlight the texture. The sign piece was painted. When dry, I inked the edges then covered with Crackle Accents. (Crackle Accents acts as a resist, so ink first, then cover with this medium.) I allowed the sign to dry overnight, allowing these lovely cracks to form. The title letters were cut using my Tim Holtz Typeset die and a scrap of kit paper. I inked the edges to help them pop.

Distressing ~ I used my all time favorite scrapbooking tool, my Donna Salazar Distrezz-It-All. I love how quick it is to get this lovely distressing on my straight edges!! 

Stenciling ~ I stenciled this flower using my Plaid Summer Floral stencil and Golden Light Molding Paste. I have found that my local craft stores carry quite a selection of beautiful stencils in their paint department, so if this is a technique you've been wanting to try check out your paint department for stencils. When using molding or texture paste, it is important to used "flexible" texture paste or "light molding paste. Paper has a lot of give and the regular versions of these mediums can crack on paper. (Ask me how I know. lol) I also used my Donna Salazar Houndstooth stencil along the bottom of the page. After the molding paste dried, I spritzed with Tattered Angels Moonlight Glimmer Mist and just a little water, then held the paper up and tapped it to achieve the drips. 

Corded frame ~ I just adore the cording in the MK. It is not regular Jute, but covered in a soft, natural wrapping and it looks solid rather than twisted. It looped beautifully for my photo frame. I got a little happy with the glue and it was visible in a couple places, so I added a few of the little MK white roses in strategic places. 

Punched Doily ~ It was so easy to create my blue punched doily. I cut a circle from the kit paper, then used my Martha Stewart French Scroll punch on the edges. Leave the side wings closed for this technique and turn the punch upside down so you can see the design as you are punching. Make your first punch, then line up the next cut with the edge of the punch just barely touching the previous cut and make sure the top of the punch is even with the edge of your circle. Most likely your punches with not match up when you get back to the first punch, but that is OK since part of the doily edge is under the flower clusters. I put one of the tiny MK pearls in the center of each visible scallop. The layered white doilies are from my personal stash. 


Peek-A-Boo ~ I wet the edge of the paper and pushed it up. Once dry, I decorated it with more of these sweet MK roses and the EAO Maya Road Metal Roses. Some of the metal roses were a little squished in the package, but easily reshaped to form these little beauties. 

I am hosting the ScrapThat! DT Challenge this month to use fibers other than lace and ribbon on your project such as cording, thread, fabric . . . Stop by the ScrapThat! Forum to check out the details and enter your project. 

While you are there be sure to check out Amy's Sketch Challenge as well. 

If you are looking to purchase high quality scrapbook kits, stop by the ScrapThat! Store to do some shopping. 

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16 comments:

  1. wow.. this is gorgeous. you did a fabulous job. I am in love with this page. Thank you for sharing so much detail. That is quite helpful. Have a wonderful day. Mon

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  2. Just beautiful! She is a real beauty! Love the use of the texture paste!

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  3. What a gorgeous layout!! She is so beautiful and the flowers you framed her with are fabulous!! This is amazing!! Have a great day :)

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  4. Totally gorgeous Tracey! I love the distressing and texture. You are one of my favorite artist. TFS!
    Huggies
    Rachelle
    xxx

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  5. beautiful lovely details greetings janneke

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  6. Great flowers and stenciling. Love all the different techniques you used.

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  7. This is gorgeous! I loveeeeeeeee that photo and love love love love the flowers!!!

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  8. this is so beautiful and feminine!! I love this layout a lot !!!

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  9. What a gorgeous girly, and beautiful page to go along with that photo, Tracey!! Love the mix of Blue, Brown, and Neutrals on your page!!

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  10. sooooo pretty!!! the details are fabulous on the page!!!

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  11. Oh my. Pure eye candy. Love the way you layer the doilies. And how you laid out the blooms too. Just gorgeous Tracey!

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  12. Such a lovely layout and what a pretty little girl.

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  13. I can see that she makes such a pretty flower girl! and this layout looks so beautiful.. all the flowers are stunning, love the mask behind the doiley too..

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  14. Stunning Tracey, this is a definite favourite of mine! It's so elegant and the coluoring so perfect for that sweet photo! Beautiful work!

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  15. Love the repeated circles you've used on this one & that cording is SUPER yum...you are such a meat scrapper...I'm always adding embellies to cover up glue glugs!!!!!

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  16. Such a pretty flower girl! And you scrapped her photo beautifully with this kit!!! LOVE it!

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