Monthly Challenge - GRATITUDE - Pinkfresh Studio

 

Hello there!

A new month is here!  that means it is time for a new challenge from Pinkfresh Studio.  This month we are focusing on Gratitude and a fun color palette.  I am already working on my Gratitude journal, so it was so easy to create for the challenge:

Let me start with an entry to on my Gratitude Journal:

Since we celebrated Thanksgiving a few weeks ago here in Canada, I have been working on a daily entry for over 2 weeks now.  This page is all about Family, especially my kids and littles.

Once the picture was enlarged to fit to the page of my album, my focus switched to the story,  For this, I cover the next page with the Grateful paper.  Then created a tag from the My Favorite paper, here I stamped the edge with brown ink and the Blushing Floral Cling Stamp set.  I used the dimensions of the tag to create my lines of journal on vellum and attached it to the tag.     

                                    
I just added a few embellishments and a simple titles complete the page.  Love how this turned out, and decided to also create a Scrapbook layout about the same topic.

FOr this page, I used the Ornate Floral Die to cut three panels.  Then used the same die to cut a few of the papers from the collection that have the colors in the challenge palette.  

I used the negative part of the flowers to create the background of the page.  This is possible, by first gluing the die cuts to a piece of vellum, then filling the images with the negative pieces of the die cuts.  This created the colorful floral piece.

The large stationery envelope from the collection as a way to frame the picture reel.   I used pieces from the chipboard, floral ephemera, stitched embellishments to finish decorating the page.

I used the collection alphas to complete the title work, and a few enamel dots to complete the page.   Remember to join in the challenge by linking your finished project to the Pinkfresh Studio challenge blog for  a change to win a $50 Gift certificate to the shop!

Good Luck!

xo

Always Grateful

Scrapbook Layout created for Vicki Boutin   - ALWAYS GRATEFUL -

Hello everyone!
Nathalie with you with the last post of Gratitude week here in the blog.   For this page,  I chose to go with a color combination that will create lots of contrast on the page thus bringing all the details and subject forward. 

The background of this page was created using navy cardstock and gesso.   I pulled the masking flower stencil from VIcki's latest release and used gesso and the stencil brush to create the large flowers in the background, then brought the flower stencil from the All The Good Things collection to add the smaller flowers. 

Next i mixed some iridescent glaze with art crayons ( in pink and blush tones) and a bit of water to create the colorful splatters that surround the flowers.   I made sure not to add too much water so that the splatters did not soak into the page, and stayed as a lose sphere on top of the paper.

While the background dried, I pulled papers in blush and pink tones from both Vicki's paper collections to back the cut out that forms the title.  Also, some matte acrylic gel was used to cover the word "always" followed by the fine gold glitter from Vicki's Mixology collection.





I kept the color scheme onto all the embellishments that create the clusters at the sides of the pictures.   Once again, i reached for stickers from both All the Good Things and Field Notes collections that had lots of pink and blush tones in it, as well as black and white watercolor stickers. 

I love how this page turned out, the contrast and color combo are perfect to document some of the most important people in my life, the following video will show you how this page came together:

As always do not hesitate to contact me, if you have questions on how this was put together, and remember to join the VIcki Boutin Mixed Media community on Facebook to find lots of inspiration.

For all our US friends, we hope you have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!   We are so grateful for you all!
XO

So Blessed

Scrapbook Layout created for JustNick Studio  -  SO BLESSED -

Hello everyone!
Nathalie with you today bringing you a new layout that uses a few of the beautiful JustNick Studio cut file designs to document my biggest blessings, my children!

To create the background i copy and welded the Fussy Foliage Background cut file a few times so  that it fit the 12x12 format, and then drew an oval to crop it from the center of the page.   The background was cut from white cardstock and then,   I used Pink Paislee's Auburn Lane collection to back the larger leaves.

Next, to frame the oval center,  the oval frame in the Gratitude cut file was copied and welded to form the frame in the page.  This was cut from white cardstock, and attached to the page with a bit of foam adhesive.

A few flowers were fussy cut from papers from the collection, and then layered behind the picture. To bring some of the white from the frame and background, i used the the Grateful cut file to cut some of the leaves and layered them between  the floral images.

A few small stickers and embellishments from the collection were added in small clusters around the picture.  A small title was then added so that the focus remains the picture of my babies.

This layout took less than an hour to put together and I love how it all turned out! Remember to check all the cut files and all the new designs used in this page at the Just Nick Studio store.  As always let me know if you have any questions on how this came together.

XO