ePlay Fabric - The Best Things in Life Aren't Things

Hi Everyone!  It's Sue L. here today to show you a layout I made of my son for his 23rd Birthday on June 18th.

I'm playing along with our ePlay Fabric Challenge and used more of his beloved jeans!  OOPS!

Here you can see an up close of the border I made with a frayed hem and the seam of the jeans.  I tucked the seam behind th lighter jean fabric for another layer.  I used a piece of the Tim Holtz Trellis Die to add some color and interest.  You can also see some Tim Holtz gears and a banner from Prima.

His name is behind a metal frame that I swiped with gesso and sanded off for a manly look.  I made his name with a dymo gun.

The compass detail is to remind Kevin to take the right direction.  I put private journaling on this tag and only Kevin will be able to pull it out from behind the photo and see what it says.

  I added the idea-ology transparent film strip because it is just one of my FAV embellies!

More metal gears, a TH clock hand as an arrow pointing to the journaling, and a Prima flower

I added a secret photo behind the original photo.  You unfasten the paper clip and bend the first photo down to see it.

In this photo, I took the secret journaling tag out so you could see more of his face.

 

Process photo:

I took a photo of the base so you could see how I started with a sheet of green (his FAV color!) woodgrain paper, applying  Wendy Vecchi white embossing paste through a Prima 12 x 12 Harlequin stencil.  I took Adirondack black paint and made splatters on some of the elements before I glued them down.  Then I kept adding and adding elements until I thought it was done!

 

I hope you like my Fabric inspired layout!

Now come play with us at the ePlay Fabric Challenge for a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to the eclectic Paperie Shop!



Embossing paste, grunge board and pan pastels! Oh my!!!

Hi there!  It's Erin here with you today with a quick little project that I created to showcase some different products that came out a whole ago, but they got buried under all the new and cool stuff!

We're bringing back the end and splashing it up with a bit of the new!

This is the entire project.

Here's how it started:

I took the Liquitex acrylic gloss fluid medium and painted a thin coat over the grunge board.  I let it dry and then want to town with Tim Holtz's new lace stencil and Wendy Vecchi's white embossing paste!  That stuff is the bomb!!!!!  LOVE IT!!!!!  There's substance in it and it doesn't fall apart on you or act like you're working with jello.  

Then I added some teal and lime green pan pastels (I'm sure they have real names, but at the moment, their names escape me!); and just sponged it on with the large makeup looking sponge.  

I did add paper from G45's Botanical Garden, but then I sprayed the whole thing with my 3 Blue Dylusions sprays, and it turned incomprehensible.  I tried to peel it off and it left a cool rip, so that became part of the background!

I sprayed the large lace section on the right with White Linen Dylusions spray and then patted it dry with a paper towel.  It acted almost like water because it cleared up a lot of the blues and cleaned it up!  It was a little too messy!!!

This is the finished product!  I apologize for the grossness of my pictures!  I am waiting for my computer to be fixed and returned!  So for now, I have no photo editing on my phone!!!

Find all of the goodies that I used here:

www.eclecticpaperie.com.

But, I'm a huge flower and embellishment hoarder!  So I used a couple flowers and resin pieces and a butterfly from my stash to dress it up!

I hope that you have a wonderful day!!!

Erin