Swirlydoo May sketch challenge

Gotta love the sketch challenge for May at Swirlydoos - 

Using the May kit I completed by page:

Each layer was distressed and inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  The leaf flourishes were cut from a brown paper bag.  The circles were painted with Silk Acrylic Glaze - Bolivian Blue.

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About A Boy May Challenge

So I stumbled across a site - About A Boy and thought I would have a go at their mid-month Challenge - White + one colour.

Here is my take on the challenge:

For the first time I took a couple of pictures as I went:

I started with a 12x12 piece of white cardstock and using a brick stencil I used vaseline to cover the stencil.  I then painted the entire cardstock in black paint:

Once the paint was dry I wiped off the vaseline and was left with the white brickwork.  Although I was going for a black and white theme it seems a little bright, so I added some crinkled tissue paper over the top with modpodge.

I made the tag using a 6x6 brick stencil and white distress stain on black cardstock. Once dry I went around the edges of the bricks with a white pen to highlight it more.  The ribbon I stamped with a brickwork stamp and wet and crinkled it to dry.

I made the clock with a die and the large gear is a Dusty Attic chipboard which I painted black and attached a piece of white cardstock behind.

While I was looking around the About a Boy blog I noticed they had a DT call.  Check it out:

http://itsabouttheboys.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/design-team-call.html

Thanks for looking

SCRAP THE BOYS - MAY CHALLENGE

This months challenge with Scrap the Boys was:

TO CREATE A GRUNGY/ARTY MESSY LAYOUT:

and this is my entry

I started with white card stock and I used Texture magic and stenciled the brick walls, chicken wire and dots.  I then sprayed with glimmer mist - gundrop and walnut gold.  With distress ink - black soot I added the reverse chicken wire.  I then chose assorted embelishments which i glued onto the page and covered the gesso (about 4 times to get complete coverage).  I then sprayed these with the glimmer mists, some black and then painted some distress stain - tarnished brass over the top and randomly around the page.  I inked the edges with Distress Ink - walnut Stain and added a metal worded tag "possibility begins with imagination.

Thanks for looking and dont forget to pop over to scraptheboys.blogspot.com.au and see the other entries.

SWIRLYDOO'S HELLO BEAUTIFUL SKETCH CHALLENGE

We were given the following sketch to create a layout using the April Kit:

and here is my take

and a couple of close ups:

BLUE FERN STUDIOS APRIL SKETCH CHALLENGE

I created the following page based on the sketch provided at Blue Fern Studios:



Here is my take on the sketch.  It is an old photo I found of my parents on one of their trips to the UK.  Based on the clothes, I would say around the early 1980's

I cut the strip design behind the clock on my cricket from the Paper Lace range and the brick wall stencil on the side.  These both were coloured with Tim Holtz distress inks - vintage photo, bundled sage, broken china, fired brick and frayed burlap.  I then used dimensional magic to highlight the bricks.  The tag was created with the same colours but in the distress stain range and added antique bronze and tarnished brass.  On the clock I first applied gesso and then painted it with antique bronze and tarnished brass distress stain.  I then used some bundled sage and black soot distress stains around the edges.  The flowers are highlighted with Viva precious metal Gold and Bronze colours.  Here are some close ups:

SWIRLYDOO APRIL ROUND ROBIN CARD CHALLENGE

Well, winter appears to have arrived here in Tasmania, and I cant complain - more time to scrap with the guilt that I should be outside doing things!!!

I have completed the following card for the Swirlydoo's Round Robin Card Challenge - April -

The twists we had were:

use "YIN AND YANG" (you know like a card with two sides, black vs white, good vs bad and so on).. that is the first twist... 

For the second twist I would like to see some letters on your card, any kind of letters ...
and for the last twist I would love it if you dug into your old kits and found out all those kit leftovers (or other leftovers)... use your scraps.... 

I used all scrap paper to make the background and rolls. The doilees are cut from a stencil, the chipboard i paint and embossed with sparkle glitter - which did not shine as much as i liked so added some Ice Stickles.

The flower was cut from the Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die Cut and edged with puff paint.  I then added some Viva Precious Metal Silver paint on the edges.

A close up of the flower: