Mixed Media Card Challenge - February Challenge

 

My second post for the day. You can check out my mini album and tutorial posted earlier today here.

 

This month, the theme at the Mixed Media Card Challenge is

 

 

Here is my card. I wanted a much softer look, but I guess the new paints I tried gave a much stronger contrast than expected.

 

The base is Prima Princess pattern paper with clear and white gesso, texture paste and paints then a layer of chipboard, also guessed and painted on with teal.

Final layer is just the flowers, resin frame and sentiment

 

 

Thank you for stopping by.

Love,

Kripa

 

Another CSI case solved :)

This time again with less than an hour to go, I uploaded my page into the CSI gallery. Case #117, another very interesting set of prompts from the CSI team and what lovely colours too. Everytime I see a CSI case, my mind starts building a page but I almost never complete my layout in reality,  on time to enter it.

Its the time I take, dilly dallying to decide on how to layer and what embellis to use, that takes forever. So, this time I decided to 'let go' and started sticking all the papers right away, so I didnt have the option to change my mind.
My background has been made with layers of stamps, paint and texture paste. Ive used both masks and stencils playing alongwith the criteria at offtherailsscrapbooking. For evidence, Ive used circles, rub-ons, arrows and numbers and Testimony my topic is something mind boggling.

As always the layout is about my lil bundle of mischief my son who can go blah, blah, blah nonstop from the minute he wakes up and even through his sleep! Isnt it truly amazing how kids pick up language. My bubba has picked up words from 4 languages and knows exactly who understands which language, so uses them appropriately and along the way he has made up words too which we all understand so have started using in our everyday talk. Years from now, hopefully this layout brings back a smile.

Also entering this into Anything but cards - Color Conceptions

Look alikes.....

 

Well..... afterall they are brothers. My second try at adding glitter to a project uses the color palette from kreative koncepts previously (Scrapfriends) colour challenge #23.  These are some of my favourite colours and are also the same colours in the Crate paper Love Notes collection which I just am not able to put down after my last layout.

The subject of the layout is my kids.... no surprise :) I found these two snaps of my lil ones where they look so much like each other. Unfortunately, I don't have the dates the photos were taken but they looks like they were a couple months new. So, this is my second entry to Itsy Bitsy Precious baby challenge.

Again, like the glitter card, Ive thinned down glue with water and used a brush to make splatters before adding glitter. Adding this to the Glam with Glitter challenge at Color Conceptions

Pink - a boy layout???

This months mood board over at Scrap Around the World is all pink, gorgeous lovely baby pink and I really wanted to play along. So, I chose this photo of my two boys - the first time they met each other and enveloped them in luscious shades of pink taken from the mood board. The sketch is inspired from the one over at purple pumpkin.               





A little about how I made my layout. The base is 12x12 card stock. I've pasted tissue paper on it, applied gel medium using a chevron stencil. On drying the gel medium acted as a resist and allowed for the print on the tissue to be seen through when painted with watercolours to create an ombré effect.  More layers of paint through stencils and splatters before matting the photo on several layers of crate paper love notes collection.

Also playing along with,
Offtherailscrapbooking - Anything goes
Kraftzone - mixed media

Little Darlings - Mini Album

It was with a very heavy heart that I pulled out the G45 Little Darlings paper pad. If I were to cut up these papers, that project had to be really good, afterall these have been my fav papers ever since I set eyes on them.

Well... I am very happy with the outcome - a mini album to record first year milestones of my little baby boy :))

Sunehra is so right when she says how time deprived a new mom is to create a full scrapbook album to record all those precious baby moments. Click here to see her exploding box for the nursery and more about the Precious Baby Challenge running at Itsy Bitsy. 

I missed out on making an album for my first one, so this time decided a mini is better than nothing.

Warning: Picture heavy post. Next time Ill post a video instead. Grab yourself a cuppa,site back and enjoy d beauty of G45 lil darlings.

The outer cover of the album is made from one 12x12 sheet and Ive used a very simple accordion fold for the spine. The album measures 7.5 inches by 3.5 inches a rather odd size, but very convenient to slip into your handbag. There are 8 pages excluding the inside of the cover for tags / photographs all created with only 3 pieces of paper. Can you spy on the cover a doily, lace, bling, a prima bulb among the layers? Yes, I fussy cut the butterflies so they didnt look trapped in the paper,lol, but their centres are still part of the paper strip. 

Here is the inside of the cover and first page. The papers offer so many options to cut out and use as tags, borders, I didn't really feel the need for any additional em bellies like chipboard or stickers. Through the mini, Ive made bands out of the papers to slide tags behind. One side of the tag has been painted with white acrylic just enough to tone down the background to enable journalling.

Kaisercraft rub on and scrap from a border punch used to frame the left side page. The right side is a big sheet of paper folded in half. Both pages have a band to slide in tags.

My Fav page.. its one sheet folded into two......aren't those sleeping beauties dripping with cuteness. On the right side page, a page border and rocking girl make another band to tuck in tags.

On the left, you can see the border punched paper whose scrap was used to frame the  Treasured page.

The right hand page is a fold out page. Inside is the most beautiful graphic (according to me) of the collection. Ive fussy cut coordinating frames to make another band and tags

Finally, onto the last page - a simple pocket on the left. The left is the inside of the cover and the tage has been tucked under fussy cut cabbage babies.

A big heartfelt thank you for making it this far down 

my post, hope you enjoyed. I would love to hear your thoughts, your comments mean a lot to me.

Also playing alongwith 

Lulupu The Craft Lounge is celebrating its 2nd birthday with a lovely challenge and giveaway (click the link on the right side to view more details)

L - leaves, layers, light bulb,lace

P = pattern paper, paint, punches, prima flowers

T - Tags

Offtherailsscrapbooking have a blog hop with some truly amazing inspiration from their DT. After hop hop hopping around their blogs, I chose these four embellishments to use in my project: 

Flowers - Felicity

Doily - Sue

Bling - Gayle

Tags - Rose

The Shabby Tea Room - Anything goes