Charade....

Hello!

Right...take a deep breath and be brave! (that's me talking to myself btw.....but if it applies to you as well this morning, consider yourself told!)

Today I'm sharing a first for me.... I made a video tutorial! (well, I made three, but more about that in a minute!)

I created this page using loads of colourful paints... with a few background stamps thrown in too...

Lots and lots of layers...

and a quirky figure too!

I videoed the entire process, and then split it up into three separate tutorials. The smeared paint background, the secondary layers (stencilling/stamping etc), and lastly adding in the figure.

The whole process lasts less than an hour, but it's much more accessible in three 'chunks!'

The first video is below...the other two can be found today over on my blog HERE, or you can watch them all via Vimeo (just search for Trish Latimer!)

I really hope you like them...

I Love You To The Moon - GDT Riikka Kovasin

Happy Valentine's Day! Riikka here again with another guest design post and I have a little present for you - a video.

Who am I? My name is Riikka Kovasin, I'm a Finnish mixed media style scrapbooker with a passion to have my fingers inked on weekly basis. I'm happiest when I can get messy with different paint media and create a piece of memory keeping at the same time. What a perfect combination! My blog is called Paperiliitin. Please come and say hi!

For my second post I created a Valentine themed layout about my two daughters. The picture is an old one, but I really loved the topic and the angle of it. It shows them playing an afternoon tea party. 

The quote from the 7 Dots Studio "Messy Head" collection suited the layout perfectly as I love them both to moon and back. I also used other patterned papers from the collection. As one of the journaling style cards I wanted to use on the layout was purple, I added some purple details to the layout. If you want to see how the layout came to life, please watch the video underneath.

Thank you for looking! I hope I have inspired you! 

Supplies:

7 Dots Studio: Messy Head - Love Letter

Bazzill: Card Shoppe - Marshmallow, Chocolate Malt 

Prima Marketing: Chalk Fluid Edgers - Rusty Bucket

Ranger: Achival Ink - Sepia

Ranger: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Shaded Lilac

Ranger: Ink blending tool

Prima Marketing: Finnabair Clear Stamps - Triangles, 1008

7 Dots Studio: Domestic Goddess - White Apron, 12x12 Stickers Sheet

7 Dots Studio: Messy Head - What Wood U Say, Little Thoughts, Alpha Stickers, 12x12 Elements

Prima Marketing: Finnabair Vintage Mechanicals - Roman Numerals 

Prima Marketing: Finnabair stencil - Doily 6x6

Prima Marketing: Wood Icons In A Box - Flowers 

other: pencil, buttons, cord, stapler

Hello there! - video

Hello,

Today I have a video for you. It's my second video ever, I hope you will like it! You can see there how I've made my 'Hello there' project.

I used:

- chipboard
- Liquitex gel medium
- Darkroom Door Stamps Set: Carved Birds 1
- Glitz Designs Raven: Gray & Titles&Accents
- Claudine Hellmuth Black Gesso
- Ranger Liquid Pearls - Onyx Pearl
- Ranger Archival Ink
- Hero Arts Ink Dauber

Magda x