Cre8time with Donna

Hello my peeps! I have been making sure to carve out some time for creating blog posts, creating new e-Classes for the Girlie Grunge site and even to Cre8time for ME! Taking time for yourself is soooo important. My Bestie has her masters in Clinical Psycology and even she forgets that she needs to make sure to do some "self care" each week. So my "Me" time this week was to do an art journal page and I used the new journal that I made for my True Scrap 6 class. It kinda ended up looking like a scrapbook page but I really like it anyway. 

I have some pics for you below as well as some step by step photos... ENJOY!!! 

I practice my techniques on bits of vintage book pages cut into circles and I keep them on hand in case I can use them on something cool. In this case, I painted the pages with white acrylic paint then adhered the circles to the wet paint. I then "blobbed" (that is my "technical term"... LOL) some decoupage medium onto the page and blended it with a brush.

You will want to make sure that anything that covers where the pages connect is pressed into the groove to make the pages easier to turn. 

I "dribbled" (again another of my "technical terms"... LOL) some of my Sea Breeze Smooch Spritz over the wet paint and decoupage medium.

I misted the page with a generous amount of water...

Then I tilted the page so it was sitting vertically on my table and the drips could run freely down the page.

Again... while the mediums were still wet I used a heat gun to dry the drips to create a crackle where the different mediums were blending. This is one of my FAVORITE things about creating mixed media pieces.

This is a close up of the Smooch Spritz crackling over the paint.

Here is another close up of the crackling Smooch Spritz.

I added a Silhouette die cut, UmWow Studio chippies, and 3L Scrapbook Adhesives kraft photo corners around my photo.

I stapled some paper flowers to the edges that were made using my Spellbinders Carnation Creation and Grand Peonies dies and Graphic 45 papers. 

I spritzed some Wood Stain Smooch Spritz into a bowl and used the cap to the large glass Spritz bottles from Clearsnap as my applicator.

I added circles randomly across the page.

I did the same with the Caramel Latte Smooch Spritz.

I dried the circles with my heat gun.

I added bits of torn paper, tags, book pages, etc... A lot of these bits were extras left over from other projects that were still sitting on my table and they had glitter, decoupage medium, Inx or CHOX already on them.

And here is the finished page in good lighting.

Here is a close up of some of the detail... UmWow chippies, Smooch Spritz circles, crackled background, 3L Scrapbook Adhesives photo corner...

Here is a close up of more of the background showing the torn papers, Spellbinder's flower, and a teeny tiny UmWow Studio heart.

This is a good close up of the crackled background, Silhouette die cut, and one of my technique practice circles.

And here is the bottom right corner showing more crackle, the Spritz circles, more torn paper bits, the Spellbinder's flower, and another UmWow Studio chippie.

Product used:

Clearsnap

Smooch Spritz - Sea Breeze, Wood Stain, Caramel Latte

Spellbinders

Carnation Creations, Grand Peony Creations

3L Scrapbook Adhesives

Kraft Photo Corners

Liquitex

Basics Paint - Titanium White

UmWowStudio

Tiny House Mash

Silhouette

Love You To The Moon & Back

**REMINDER**

I'm going to be doing a LIVE interview on Spreecast with Lain Ehmann on Thursday, October 9th at 12:00 PM Pacific to talk about our upcoming True Scrap 6 event later this month. It is a totally interactive video interview so you will get to see my dorky facial expressions and hear my unedited answers to your questions. It will be totally FUN and I hope that you can join us!!!

Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~

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"San Diego" Layout by ~ Donna

Hello my peeps! I'm sharing a quick layout I made using some "Couture" papers from my friends at Graphic 45 with some of my DSD products from Colorbox, Spellbinders and Zutter.
This layout is of a trip from a few years ago when my hubby and I were able to go to San Diego for a work function of his. The view from our room was AMAZING and the trip itself was so much fun!

In the photo below I used dies from Spellbinders to create some gorgeous flowers (even if I do say so myself... LOL). Flower dies used: Bitty Blossoms, Carnation Creations, Rose Creations.

I distressed all the edges with my Distrezz-it-All from Zutter.

I LOOOVE using kraft paper on my layouts and these cute little photo corners from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L match perfectly and give a vintagey look to my layout.

I designed and cut my own jumbo damask stencil using my Silhouette Cameo. I used my Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx with the matching embossing powder to add it to this layout. You can also see my Spellbinders Shadow Flowers dies peeking out from behind the photo. The photo itself is popped up using 3D Foam Squares.

I added some of the embellies from the Graphic45 "Couture" paper set with one of the swirls from my Pockets & Swirls set from Spellbinders and a little flower made with my Bitty Blossoms and Carnation Creations sets.

Product used

Spellbinders:

Shadow Flowers, Carnation Creations, Bitty Blossoms, Rose Creations, Pockets & Swirls 

Clearsnap/Colorbox: 

Mix'd Media Inx - Jasmine

Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder - Jasmine

3L Scrapbook Adhesives:

3D Foam Squares

Crafty Power Tape

Zutter:

Distrezz-it-All

Well that's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~

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Quick Craft Tips - Anniversary Layout Background

Hello my peeps! This is a very special layout to me. Normally I take the photo and the design of the layout into consideration but for this one, it was ALL about the photos. I made this layout for my husband for our 25th Wedding Anniversary. I chose 25 of my FAVE photos of the two of us. It would have been awesome if I had one for each year but it didn't work out. :(  Picking the photos was one of the most fun parts about creating this layout. It was kinda like I was documenting our love story in teeny tiny photos.

You can watch the video of me making the background by clicking HERE.

Below is a photo of the finished layout. It isn't my most amazing design... but It makes my heart full anyway!!!

And here are some close ups:

I used 3D Foam Squares to pop up the words

 I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the sentiment and stamped the "I" using tiny alpha stamps from Michael's. 

 I used 3 different alpha sets to create this part of the title.

I used 3D Foam Squares to pop up random photos.

Product used

Clearsnap/Colorbox: 

Mix'd Media Inx CHOX - Sparrow

Smooch Spritz - Wood Stain, Sea Breeze, River Mossy

3L Scrapbook Adhesives:

3D Foam Squares

Zutter:

Distrezz-it-All

Pound-it-All

Rivets

Silhouette Cameo:

Heart You - House of 3

Download the Damask cut file I used in the video HERE 

(I haven't offered downloads before... I hope it works!)

Liquitex:

Natural Sand texture paste

Beacon:

Fast Finish Decoupage

Well that's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~

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