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Hi everyone Monica here again with my next post as a Guest Designer for eclectic Paperie.  Today I am sharing a canvas piece I made with an older picture of my daughter and dog Jake.

I used some gesso, glimmer mist, molding paste and 7 Dots Studio papers to dress everything up

A closer look I stamped the chipboard piece and sprayed with a bunch of different colors.

EP Supplies Used:

Gesso

Glimmer Mist

Distress Ink Walnut

7 Dots Studio

Other:

Crafters Workshop Brick

Scrapbook layout with Domestic Goddess

I am STILL head over heals for these 7DOTS papers! I just adore them and want to use them for each and every layout I do.

I won't...but I wanna.

Sooooo....I decided to get my mojo flowing I would look into some online sketch challenges. Considering it's February and that means Valentine's day, I thought a valentine LO would be quite appropriate.

Are you as impressed with me as I was of me? ;)

This is a photo of my daughter Aubrey and me this summer when my girlfriend came in from Chicago for a long weekend. 

For the paper layers behind the photo I decided to do some fussy cutting from the Raspberry Pudding sheet of the Domestic Goddess line

After fussy cutting I went over all the edges with a nail file to smooth the edges and then inked with Walnut Stain distress ink.

Remember not to overlook your packaging. Prima has gorgeous packaging that can be used as embellies on your page. I cut this clock from the packaging that housed the vine in my flower cluster at the bottom of the page. 

Speaking of Prima, I used the adorable little wood clocks here and in my cluster at the bottom of the page. For the background I used the TH layering stencil  in Harlequin and walnut stain distress ink.  I stamped over it with a script stamp in tea dye distress ink.

The large damask chipboard piece was painted with multiple layers of the Art Anthology dimensional velvet  and OH MY WORD...this stuff is like buttuh!!! It's too die for! Trust me on this...treat yourself to some from the eP store. The adorable Maya Road stick pin was the perfect touch to my little edge cluster don't you think? Check out the eP store for a plethora of Maya road goodies for your projects and layouts.

And here is a closeup of the large chipboard piece on the bottom of the cluster. Again I used the Art Anthology dimensional velvet to paint the piece and give texture, but then I sprayed red mist from the left lower corner to give it a faded effect and then finished it with some walnut stain Distress Ink down on the lower portion so it blended with the papers better. I love the way the mist nestled into the grooves from the dimensional velvet. Be sure to check out all the gorgeous Dylusions and Art Anthology mists available in the eP store.

Finally I wanted to show a close up of the sweet little metal trinket that I used. 

I also used another clock in my lower cluster and another stick pin to mimic the cluster at the top and give my layout some congruency.

I hope you enjoyed my layout as much I enjoyed making it. 

Don't forget to check out our get altered challenge this Thursday and join in for a chance to win.

Til next time

{{hugs}}

Andiepants

Lets get Messy with a Mixed Media layout . . .

 Hi everyone, Tracy here today with a Mixed Media layout using some yummy goodness from the eP Shop along with a little of this and a bit of that.

Soooo, hands up if you looove to get all messy!

Yeah, I can see you all and guess what?

Eclectic Paperie has a challenge going on right now hosted by the lovely Mary Ann and the theme she has chosen is . . .
" Bringing it on "
Yep, Mary Ann is challenging all you mixed media fans to bring it to a layout, check it out HERE!

A list of materials with links can be found at the end of this post.

I started with a sheet of 12x12 Tim Holtz Kraft-Core and gave it a light sand before applying a
white Pan Pastel to give a more muted look to the background . . .

. . . see the difference it makes.

 Time to crack open the big guns -
Tim Holtz Distress Stains and Paints
  just splat and splodge, then spritz with water to get some nice runs...

 . . . once I started I couldn`t stop . . .
splidge, splodge, splitter, splatter then spritz and spray with Ranger perfect pearl Mists, followed by some
 Tim Holtz Remnant rubs 
and
that beautiful Script Heart stamp by Dina Wakley { looove!}

Still I wasn`t finished yet . . . out came my sewing machine for some wonky tonky stitches, roughed up all the edges and added embossing powder for more texture.

Time to pop the background to one side and layer up a focal point!
I used yummy yummy stash . . .the tissue paper that comes all wrapped around my goodies from the
eP Store { thank you Kim xx}
along with -
Tim Holtz Remnant Rub ons, Tim Holtz dies,

Look how I popped the rub ons inside the die cut windows and see the shine... that`s more embossing powder,
some bits and bobs from
7 Gypsies Travel paper pack ... swooooon moment ... yes Kim has products from7 Gypsies in the store!
Along with some odds and ends I came across in my stash.

 Here`s a closer look at the remnant rubs on the materials and the tissue paper ... love the eye rub on.
It`s so easy to get this look-
I rooted around my stash for pink, black and neutral tones, made up into layer after layer until I was happy with how it all looked, then I fixed it all together with staples and a hot glue gun.

Fixed it onto the background, added a little Walnut Stain Distress ink with a blending tool all around the edges to age it even more.

 Finished and my hands could tell you a story seeing as they are now all ink and paint splattered!

A shout out again to Mary Ann for such a great challenge and I hope you enjoyed my post.
It would be great to see you all join in . . .go on, go get MESSY!!!
Till next time
Tracy
xoxox
Materials from the eP Store, just click on the links -

Pan Pastels
Tim Holtz Distress Stains -Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Picket Fence, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads - Black Soot, Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Distress Re- Inker - Tattered Rose
Inkssentials Blending Tool
Ranger Perfect Pearl Mist - Perfect Pearl
Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs - Words, Elements
Tim Holtz Bigz Die - Picture Wheel
Tim Holtz Alterations Die - Torn Notebook
Stampington & Company - Script Heart Stamp
7 Gypsies - Gypsy Travels Paperpack
Kim also has Tim Holtz  Kraft Core in stock in 6x6 paper pad here.