"Hand in Hand" Mixed Media Layout for Leaky Shed Studio and SATW Challenge

I can hardly believe another month has passed and March is here. I welcome this new month and the warmer weather it's sure to bring our way. I have some very exciting news I'll be sharing later this month as well.

If you missed it on my Facebook page, I created my first video tutorial ~ how to create sweet Organza Open Roses with Donna Salazar products. Thanks for watching my video HERE. I also appreciate you subscribing to my channel. There will be more videos to follow.

Today I'm sharing a wedding layout featuring lots of Leaky Shed Studio chipboard. I've also used inspiration from the beautiful March Scrap Around the World mood board.

We recently took a trip to Florida. One of the travel papers at our hotel spotlighted the Jacksonville MOCA Art Museum's "White" exhibition featuring iconic white art. I've also noticed a growing trend of white on white paper arts and thought I'd give it a try. Our daughter's good friend married last summer, and I created this layout for her and her husband. I thought the white background would be the perfect backdrop to complement her gorgeous dress. 

"Hand in Hand"

Tips and Techniques

Here's a full view of the bottom cluster including the Leaky Shed Studio Willow Flower, loads of soft white flowers, feathers, bow, and subtle textures. 

Don't you just adore this grungy crackle effect on the chipboard?

I used spray Gesso as a base coat, then brushed here and there with Viva white crackle paint, then dabbed with Lindy's Stamp Gang mists. I know from past experience, that the crackle really cracks and pulls off of the spray gesso which is the grungy feel I wanted to achieve. I also know that "ALL" of the crackle would easily be chipped off, so I dabbed the piece gently with Donna Salazar's Clearsnap Emboss Gloss and sprinkled with clear embossing powder. While the embossing powder was still hot from the embossing, I sprinkled on more powder and heated again. I repeated several times until there was a nice thick coat of clear embossing to hold the grungy crackle in place. Finally, I dabbed and rubbed with white gesso to lighten the color and bring out more of the crackled texture.

**I did end up with bits of crackle in my Emboss Gloss, which is fine with me since I usually use it in grungy applications; however, if you want to keep it clean, I suggest pouring out a little on a craft mat, and brush it very gently onto the chipboard with a soft brush. That way you won't contaminate the rest of your Emboss Gloss. **

It looks like bits of the crackle paint chipped off onto the background. This is actually Golden White Opaque Flakes brushed onto the background paper. It dries clear, allowing the white flakes in the gel to show up against the background. 

Another view of this lower cluster. The background is dry brushed with gesso in two directions for added texture. I then spread molding paste over a leafy flower stencil with molding paste, then heat embossed with white embossing powder. 

In this side view you can see I added some pearls and used a metal flower from my stash of jewelry findings.

Here's the smaller top cluster. I layered texture under the photo with a delicate crochet doily, die cut doily, then more grungy chipboard. I've just adore the amazing design at the bottom of the Leaky Shed Studio Bird Cage and snipped it off to tuck into these layers. I've treated all of my chipboard pieces the same as described above for the Willow Flower piece. 

I painted this large metal leaf charm to tuck into the flower cluster as well. While still wet, I wiped off paint from the raised ares to let some of the gold show through.

Leaky Shed Studio dragonfly from the Garden Bugs collection.

This is a darling set of insects!!

Leaky Shed Studio - Swirl Vine Corner

I've cut this piece in two and used half of it.

Here's a close up of more of the background textures.

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I was inspired by the textured, flowing shades of white and grey

in the horse photo from the SATW March Mood Board.

Be sure to hop on over to check out this month's fabulous challenge at

Scrap Around The World.

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Willow Flower

Swirl Vine Corner, Medium

Garden Bugs

Bird Cage

Other Products

GCD Studio by Donna Salazar - Natural Beauty 12x12” Pad

Tim Holtz ~ Tissue Tape - Sketchbook

Petaloo ~ Botanica Blooms, white

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ Sweetheart Blossoms, white

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ Tulip Flowers, white

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ Tuscany Rosebuds, white

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ 25mm Cottage Roses, white

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ 30mm Wild Roses, white 

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ Magnolias, white

Martha Stewart ~ Findings Collection, white & silver

Touch of Nature ~ Feathers, white

Leaf Charm ~ Stash

Flower charms ~ Stash

Berry Sprig ~ Stash

Doily ~ Stash

Hug Snug ~ Rayon Seam Binding, white (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

Ranger ~ Archival Ink, Jet Black

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar - Mix’d Media Inx Embossing Powder, jasmine

Clearsnap ~ Embossing Powder, clear

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Emboss Gloss

Lindy’s Stamp Gang ~ Starburst, Black Orchid Silver

Lindy’s Stamp Gang ~ Moon Shadow Mist, Silhouette Silver

Golden ~ Light Molding Paste

Golden ~ White Opaque Flakes

Golden ~ Soft Gel (Matte)

Liquitex ~ Gesso, white, clear

Viva ~ Crackle Paint, white

Higgins ~ Drawing Ink, white

Prima ~ Doily Die  #572792

Americana Classic ~ Stencil - Jacobean Floral

TWC Zenspirations Stencil 6x6 Mini Specimens

Cloud9 Design ~ 8x6 Mem Phrase Stamp Set

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Zap Dots - Round 1/2”, white

Zutter by Donna Salazar ~ Distrezz-it-All

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Bounder for Leaky Shed Studio, SATW, Prima BAP

It's a cold, but sunny day here in Ohio, in contrast to the sad day last week when we lost out Australian Shepherd, Bounder. We have so many happy memories!! He was 13 1/2 years old and was our daughter, Elizabeth's, dog. She had many fun times with him at 4-H and UKC obedience shows. They were one of the top ranked junior obedience teams for several years. When Elizabeth moved out, Bounder remained with us and he was quite a buddy to us, especially for my husband who took him on walks every day. Bounder loved to accompany us on any outdoor work we did around the house. 

I've featured Leaky Shed Studio chipboard along with lots of Prima goodies. I haven't participated in a challenge in quite a while, so I went to the Prima Build a Page Sketch and Scrap Around The World mood board to find inspiration for my Leaky Shed design team layout. Below I share how I was inspired by the lovely SATW board.

"Bounder"

Tips and Techniques

Prima creates the most gorgeous flowers. I've clustered flowers from several collections. In order to get the patina color from the SATW mood board, I mixed Prima's Summer Sky and Sorbet Color Bloom mists, then brushed some of the flowers with the mist, then spritzed with water to get the natural variation of color I find in real blossoms. Some of the larger blossoms were also brushed with glue and sprinkled with chunky glass glitter. 

I tucked buttons from the Sunrise Sunset collection into my clusters.

Here you can see a snippet of the Leaky Shed Studio Victorian Oval Frame, which was heat embossed with a mix of embossing powders. The clock was fussy cut from a page of Prima Printery paper.

I also tucked in one of Prima's oh so adorable Typo bulbs, so the sentiment Sunrise to Sunset would travel across the page through the buttons and bulb. In several places I've added brown sewing thread for texture. 

The Leaky Shed Studio Harja Flourish Zwei fit perfectly to highlight my title framed by the Metal Lady Bird Prima Frame. I tucked in some flowers and below Bounder's name and added microbeads, chunky glass glitter and mica flakes.

There are so many sweet sentiments about remembering special moments in Prima paper collections. I've fussy cut these sweet words from several different paper collections. The doily is cut with a Prima die. I used the little Prima script stamp to edge my paper and add texture to open areas.

I just fell in love with Prima's Stamp-N-Add sets, and this is from the Butterfly Wings set. I stamped it, heat embossed, and fussy cut, shaping the wings.

More of the Leaky Shed Studio Victorian Oval Frame and Prima sentiments. For the grungy texture, I used the Prima Stone Wall #3 Stencil with crackle medium as a base, then spritzed and splattered with Color Bloom and more splatter with drawing ink. Then I topped it all with microbeads, glass glitter, and mica flakes. 

My Inspiration:

Prima's January Build-A-Page Sketch

Scrap Around The World Mood Board

There was a ton of inspiration in this month’s Mood Board at SATW. 

First of all I was inspired by the quote. Yes – life IS a balance of holding on and letting go. I hand wrote this quote to include on my layout. 

I was also inspired by the colors and textures. The weathered wood is used in my background paper, and I’ve used the patina color in my flowers as well. 

Since this page is about the passing of time with our dear friend I included a vintage clock image in the photo cluster similar to the clock on the board. The snippet of lace on the clock inspired my use of textiles used to create the dog collar and the printed twill tucked next to my sentiment cluster. 

I also adore the vintage frames and used a Leaky Shed Studio French Oval Frame around my photo. The bucket of gorgeous roses inspired my use of flowers and roses to surround the photo. 

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Harja Flourish Zwei

Victorian Oval Frame

Prima Products

Prima ~ Cartographer – Boussoule #990046

Prima ~ Cartographer – Carte 990008

Prima ~ Romance Novel – Dear John #844936

Prima ~ Romance Novel – Bookplate #844943

Prima ~ Printery – Pressman #843496

Prima ~ Everyday Vintage – Paintables, Pocket Cards Set One #813383

Prima ~ Wood Embellishments #563882

Prima ~ Sunrise Sunset – Wood Buttons #564957

Prima ~ Junkyard Findings – Vintage Trinkets, Small Typo Bulbs #891541

Prima ~ Tiny Junkyard Findings – Vintage Trinkets Clock Parts #891664

Prima ~ Lady Bird – Decorative Frames #563424

Prima ~ Printed Twill Ribbon

Prima ~ Resist Chalk Edger –Prima Resist Chalk Edger Set, Black Coal #892340

Prima ~ Quick Dry Fluid Chalk Ink – Old Road #891077

Prima ~ Color Bloom – Precious Stone

Prima ~ Color Bloom – Gold Foil

Prima ~ Color Bloom – Summer Sky

Prima ~ Color Bloom – Sorbet

Prima ~ Medal Die – Doily 2 #572792

Prima ~ Stamp-N-Add – Butterfly Wings #892500

Prima ~ Clear Stamp #545055

Prima ~ Stencil 6x6” Stone Wall 3 #575953

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Beautiful for Scrap Around The World with Donna Salazar Designs

Donna Salazar is the October prize sponsor for Scrap Around The World and her design team has joined up to offer inspiration for this month's SATW challenge. When I saw the mood board, I was immediately drawn to these wedding photos of Elizabeth.

"Beautiful"

Here's the inspiration designed by SATW DT Jesse Christopher:

I used the gorgeous sketch and was inspired by several aspects of the mood board. The shoes and bag placed on the bed reminded me of Elizabeth's wedding day preparations. The small photo is her perfume and flowers while the focal photos show her getting ready for her big moment. I pulled my colors from the board as well as inspiration from the doily wrapped vase of flowers.

Tips and Techniques

I used Donna's Spellbinders Grand Peony and Bitty Blossoms dies for this handcrafted flower. My Crushed Voile Peony Tutorial can be found here. I just used fewer fabric layers for this one. On the background you can see Donna's Dear Sir Art Gone Wild Stamp and Clearsnap Smooch Spritz. 

The frame was bright baby pink. I painted it, then touched the raised portions with Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx and heat embossed with Jasmine Mixed Media Embossing Powder. 

I think we all have old supplies in our stash. I transformed this old brad into shabby chic goodness with more inking and heat embossing. Donna's products are perfect for updating those out of date embellishments in my stash. 

Gorgeous Bitty Blossoms flowers atop strips of gessoed, spritzed Natural Beauty papers. 

I love to add dimension with layers of mixed media. Here I stamped and spritzed the background, then spread molding paste over Donna's Want2Scrap Heart Stencil. I inked and sprinkled on two colors of embossing powder which I heat embossed, then spritzed again. 

A tutorial for my Shabby Layered Rose can be found here. It's created with Donna's Grand Peony and Bitty Blossoms Dies. 

Another View of the Shabby Layered Rose.

Donna's Want2Scrap Canvas cut with her Spellbinders Wonderful Wings and topped with Want2Scrap Wonderful Wings Bling. To color the background, I rubbed the canvas with Mix'd Media Inx. 

Paper

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans, Family Eyelet A & B
GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans, Houndstooth B

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Soaring A

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Blue Fence A

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Twiggy A & B

Inks/Mists/Embossing

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx - Jasmine, chiffon, Patina, Truffle

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder - Jasmine, Leather

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx CHOX - Sparrow, DriftwoodClearsnap ~ 

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Smooch Spritz, Sea Breeze

Clearsnap ~ Top Boss Embossing Powder, Clear

Dies/Embossing Folders

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Grand Peony

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Carnation Creations

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Wonderful Wings

Spellbinders - M-Bossabilities, Flora

Stamps

Art Gone Wild ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Dear Sir

Stencils

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Small Heart Stencil

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Build Your Own Bling
Recollections ~ Adhesive Rhinestone Hearts

Bling

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Nestabling, Wonderful Wings

Embellishments

Prima ~ Junkyard Findings - Industrial Lamps
Prima ~ Shabby Chic Treasures - Resin Corner and Window
Around the Block Flair ~ Big Metal Brads
Pink Frame - Stash
Tim Holtz ~ Tissue Tape
Darice ~ Washi - Newspaper Headline
Doily - Stash

Fabrics
Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Canvas
Crushed Voile, Ivory

Mixed Media

Liquitex ~ Gesso
Golden ~ Light Molding Paste
DecoArt Americana ~ Driftwood
DecoArt Crafter's Acrylic ~ Yellow
Folk Art Enamels ~ Butler Magenta
Drywall Mesh ~ Stash

Tools

Zutter ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Distrezz-it-All
Spellbinders ~ Artisan X-plorer

Adhesives

Helmar - 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Helmar - Fabric Glue
Helmar - Tape Runner
Helmar - Zap Dots

I hope you've been inspired to hop on over to Scrap Around The World and link up your project.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"Remember" for SEM July Main Challenge

Our Lord delights when we persevere to develop the talents and gifts He gives us. Our daughter, Maria, discovered a love and ability for music at a young age. She started piano lessons with Mrs. Henning when she was 8 and had her final recital this spring after 10 years of playing under her instruction. What a special accomplishment. 

The August Main Challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles is:

"I Can Do All Things Through Christ"

With a twist:

Use something metal or metallic on your page.

Here's my example for you:

"Remember"

Cara created this lovely challenge for us this month and here are her thoughts:

"I Can Do All Things Through Christ".

For I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13

God created us to do great things and gives us the strength, courage and perseverance to do them!  He also delights in us and with us when we do---isn't that cool? So this month I want to you to create a project about an accomplishment...it can be your own or a loved ones.

The LORD your God is with you, 
He is mighty to save.

He will take great delight in you,

He will quiet you with his love, 

He will rejoice over you with singing.

Zephaniah 3:17

I chose to create a layout about my daughter Ellie's Kindergarten graduation (back in spring 2012). She is in the Dual-Language program and many times felt overwhelmed not understanding very much of the Spanish language, but she has stuck with it despite her fears, and is on her way to becoming a fluent Spanish speaker (she will be going into the 2nd grade in the program this Fall). I know God is so very proud of her...just like I am!

So, you can choose anything that you consider an accomplishment---completing a degree, finishing a race, beating an illness, weight loss, etc. Can't wait to see what God is doing in your lives.

Oh, and don't forget the Scrap Twist...use metal or something metallic on your project.

Our generous sponsor this month is 

Daysigns 

The prize is a Gift Certificate for $35 to the store. Also, they are offering a 15% discount code for readers. The code is PRETTY15. 

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**NOTE: You may submit the project you create for Scrapping Everyday Miracles to other challenge blogs but your project must be mainly created for the Scrapping Everyday Miracles challenge in order to win the sponsor prize and/or be one of Top 3**

All entries must be linked on the SEM Blog by August 31, 11:55pm PST.

Winners will be announced on Saturday, September 7th.

Tips and Techniques:

Guilded Flowers ~ I used several items to fit this month's twist. Here you can see that I dry brushed metallic paint on these lovely Petaloo flowers. I also added metal flowers centers and chicken wire. 

Here's a view from another angle.

Splatter ~ I flicked teal and cranberry mists across the background.

Altered Chipboard ~ I mixed several metallic embossing powders together to get this lovely texture and color. I also added metallic bronze paint at the edges to highlight. Another Metallic item. I cut apart the Dusty Attic Corner Flourish #1 to adjust it to fit the space and tucked one of the pieces into the bottom corner of my flower cluster. 

Mixed Media ~ I used molding paste and a stencil to create this lovely flourish next to the sweet medallion, my final metallic twist. I then painted it with white glimmer paint. 

Edging ~ I tucked painted corrugated board and ink dabbed lace into the edge next to the medallion. 

I also used the sketch and mood board over at Scrap Around the World for inspiration.

Inspiration:

sketch

feathers

yellow color

bling

powder - embossing powder

gathers (flower)

hair accessory ~ flower hair pin tucked onto photo mat

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~