Pieces of the Past

Hi everyone, Melissa here with a page using the beautiful August Scraps of Elegance Kit, Mallika's Whimsy.

I started by putting gesso on with a credit card.   I stamped all over but then covered most of it up by sponging on more gesso, I didn't like all the contrast of the black and white, and it was kind of busy.

I put texture paste on with a stencil.

I made flowers using sizzlits and papers from the kit, and plain white paper. I painted the plain flowers by placing them in a puddle of yellow watercolor on my craft sheet.  When dry I brushed on some green.

I layered on pieces of paper from the kit, and painted them.  

I painted the background, originally I was only going to stick to yellow and green on the whole page.  I tried some lavender micro beads around the green bling in the center of the flowers and was so happy with the way it looked, I started putting purple all over. I put gesso on the flowers, and painted on purple,and later a little gold Viva Decor. I also added some platinum stickles, and some dark purple Lindy's on the tips.

 I couldn't decide on a title until the very end. I wanted to put on a little tulle, and thought well, maybe a little piece. I held it against the page, then noticed the scissors.  I had my title, and glued on some snipped tulle.

 I drew the face on the upper right, then erased it, but not entirely.  I thought it looked a little weird to put it there, but then kind of liked the erased version.  I had traced some lines of the face with tracing paper, then transferred it to the page by using a piece of carbon paper. I put the carbon between the tracing paper and the page, and drew over the traced lines with a pencil.  

Thanks for looking!

Materials used:

August Scraps of Elegance Kit, Mallika's Whimsy

Lindy's Stamp Gang

Twinkling H20s

Winsor and Newton Watercolors

Dylusions Ink

Splash of Colour - Viva Colour - Inka Gold Metallic Rub - Gold

Mica Powders in white, yellow, grey

Sizzlits, Tattered Flower Garland

TCW Stencil, Cherry Blossoms

Blue Eyes

Hi everyone, Melissa here. I made this with the beautiful August Scraps of Elegance kit, Mallika's Whimsy. A friend of mine let me use a photo of her daughter.  

 I started this by putting on a thin layer of gesso with a credit card. I then put a paintbrush into gesso and flung it on the page, and repeated this several times.I like the the way the thin squiggly lines look. It did take awhile to dry, even with using a heat gun. I put on some texture paste, and then painted and flicked on colors.  I used some crackle accent, and topped it with purple chalk and distress ink. The painted sizzlit leaves and flowers are from older projects.

Thanks for looking!

 

Products used:

August Scraps of Elegance kit, Mallika's Whimsy

Twinkling H20s

Lindy's Stamp Gang, Victorian Bouquet

Winsor and Newton Watercolors

Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Peeled Paint

Spring Greenery and Tattered Floral Garland Sizzlit Dies by Tim Holtz

The Crafters Workshop Template Mini Cut Circles ,6 x 6

Perfect Pearls

Sequins, microbeads,and wire from my stash

Purple Card

I made this using the beautiful Scraps of Elegance August kit Mallika's Whimsy.

I painted some areas with a combination of green and brown watercolors. I took a purple gelato and rubbed it on some of the texture paste letters, after they were dry.  I wasnt happy with the hard edges of the gelatos, so I misted lightly all over with water.  Things were looking a little muddy, so I dried everything, and sponged on some gesso. I put the flowers on and kept working on the background. I rubbed on gold, and silver mica powders on the stenciled words.

A Moment In Time

 I made this with the beautiful August Scraps of Elegance kit, Mallika's Whimsy.
I cut up pieces of paper from the July kit, and glued them on the background.  I used pieces of cardboard between  some of the layers to create dimension. I sponged gesso on with cosmetic sponges on the bg, then put on some texture paste with stencils. I put a paintbrush into a container of clear rock candy distress paint and scooped out about half a tsp of it, and poured it on the bg. I let it air dry.  As far as I know, it doesn't dry well with a heat gun.  I painted the bg with Lindy's Stamp Gang, Twinkling H20s,Viva Decor Inka Gold, and Winsor and Newton watercolors.  I inked the bg ppr around the edges, with Ranger Distress Ink in brown.

I painted parts of the  flowers lightly with gesso, then went back and painted them with Lindy's Stamp Gang,and  Viva Decor Inka Gold.

Beautiful

This photo of my son's girlfriend was taken with an underwater camera,the dots on it are air bubbles.

 She has a great sense of humor, and so does my son. They're really cute together, goofing around, and making jokes.  

I made this page using the beautiful Scraps of Elegance August kit,Mallika's Whimsy.

I took a metal cookie tin, and wrapped floral wire around it three times, then took it off, and tied it with more wire, to keep it a circle. I wrapped floral tape around it.  I did this three times, then cut each circle, and wrapped the 3 pieces around each other.

I painted the wreath shape with gesso, then applied glitter glue, flowers, blue and gold lumieres, and frosted mica flakes from Prima.

The photo is on a piece of watercolor paper, painted with a mix of Twinkling H20s and Lindy's Stamp Gang. The blue flowers are made with tracing paper and a Sizzlits die, tattered flower garland.  I put them in a puddle of lindy's stamp gang, then heat dried them.

I strung the beads with a fine needle and black thread.  With the needle I poked through a big pile of the beads held in the palm of my hand.  It goes pretty quickly.

I painted the chipboard by Blue Fern with Lindy's Stamp Gang.

I brushed the tiny Vintaj metal word pieces with some gold mica powder, however, it doesn't show up well in the photos.

Thanks for looking!

Other items used besides the Scraps of Elegance kit:

Lindy's Stamp Gang

Butterfly Frenzy Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die

Tattered Flower Garland Design

Stickles Glitter Glue

Swarovski Crystals

The Crafter's Workshop Doodling Template - 6 x 6 - Birds of a Feather

Perfect Pearls

Petaloo feather

From my stash:

Floral wire, floral tape, silver beads,glass glitter,sequins,crystals, chain, pearl and wire jewelry.

"Where's My Horse?"

For the August Inspiration Board Challenge at Scraps of Darkness, Scraps of Elegance Mixed Media Community.

 I used the beautiful July Scraps of Elegance kit, Patricia's Memoirs, and some things from the June SOE kit too. For the design I used a sketch from SOE,  from 2014.

I was inspired by the forest theme of the board, and took the colors of the tiered cake for my page.

I asked my husband for some ideas about what to title this, he usually has a silly one that I like. I got the usual "I don't know!" I said, well how about "Funny Hat Day?"  He said "sure", and when I was walking away he said, "Where's my horse?" For a second I had no idea what he was talking about, and then I started laughing, and said  "That is so funny, thank you!"

Other items used besides the SOE kits:

Lindy's Stamp Gang

Windsor and Newton Watercolors

A few pieces of metal by Vintaj

A few Swarovski crystals

Stickles Glitter Glue

Crafter's Workshop - 6 x 6 Doodling Templates - Mini Art is

White Perfect Pearls

Tim Holtz - Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy

Dried flowers and lichen from my yard

Tiny pink flowers on borders are old Prima

Lace,  glass glitter, beads, and sequins from my stash

Tim Holtz Chit Chat Words

Some more photos:

Purple Shine

I used the beautiful Scraps of Elegance July kit Patricia's Memoirs with this photo of me, from a long time ago. I'm standing in the backyard of a small house my husband and I rented for awhile, he was working nearby. That house you see wasn't mine. It was one street over on the Pacific Ocean, at Channel Islands, Oxnard, California.

This was one of the best times of my life.

The piece with the purple flower is canvas. I painted it with oil paint and gelatos, then brushed on some mica powder,and finally I brushed on puddles of a mix of blue and purple  Lindy's Stamp Gang colors.

I put a paintbrush into a container of gesso, then literally flung it onto the paper, I'de say half a teaspoon.I repeated this in three or four areas of the page. I  then painted with layers of Twinkling H20s, thin layers of gesso, and more paint. In some areas its obvious I left the top layer just gesso.  I rubbed in some grey mica powder on the left side of the page. I covered the whole page with white mica powder, it makes everything look better, and takes the dull look off the gesso. 

The sun kind of bleaches out the color, but you can see all the shine from the mica.  I find direct light shows every single detail, but on the negative side, you get a lot of shadows that also cover up things.