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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Full of Wonder Mixed Media Layout

Hi everyone, I hope you're having an awesome week so far. Today I'm sharing a mixed media layout of my niece Emily. I recently took this photo at Easter and the expression on her face is so precious. She's just oozing with sweetness. I thought that the tag on the right from Marion's Mad Tea Party Collection said it all "Wonder, For the Curious At Heart the Wanderous Mind, and the Adventurous Soul"

I decided on Marion's Motley Collection & Junque & Gems, because there are so many elements that can be fussy cut from this collection. The festive color palette was perfect for my sweet Emily!

I used scraps from recent projects, and took this opportunity to fussy cut the elements that could be used as stand alone pieces then cut banners from the rest. This is a great way to eliminate scraps. Individually these small elements seem insignificant, but when clustered together, they really make a statement.

I used a neutral baby blue paper for the background, and then applied a few mixed media techniques to give it texture and depth. I stuck with the hot pink tones so that my photo would really pop.

I'm seriously in LOVE with Gold right now, and decided to spray paint some generic paper doilies with Krylon's Metalic Gold Spray Paint. I love how they look inside my embellishment clusters, and the gold matches this collection perfectly!

I placed my title in the bottom left hand corner inside another embellishment cluster. Her eyes were so bright in the photo I decided to include that reference in my title "Blue Eyes Full of Wonder". The title card was part of Mairon's Scarlet Digital collection.

We would love to see what you have created with Marion's gorgeous lines. Don't forget to #MarionSmithDesigns when you share your Marion Smith Designs Projects in Social Media.

Thanks for stopping in today.

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomoms.com

DESIGN TEAM CALL REMINDER: - deadline for submissions is May 30, 2014. Here is the link with all the details!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Embellishment Tutorial Part 2 by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is off to a great start. A few weeks ago I shared with you a project on making wooden ticket embellishments that coordinate with your paper collections. Today I want to share with you another idea for embellishing your projects.

Remember playing with Shrink plastic when you were kid? I think I made charms in Vacation Bible School for 5 straight years (LOL). Well here is a grown up project you can make using Marion's super awesome Curious Stamp Set.

I started with Poly Shrink Plastic by the Lucky Squirrel. You can use any brand just make sure it is clear if you want your roses to appear like glass.

I used the rose & butterfly stamps from the from the Curios set. Stamp them using a permanent ink like Staz-on, or Archival Jet Black Ink from Ranger.

On the OPPOSITE side that you stamped, color the image with a permanent marker. Don't color on the side that you stamped or it will ruin your marker nib. I used my Copic markers, but no need to worry about shading. The color becomes concentrated when they shrink, so the shading disappears.

Cut out your Shape. Remove all negative space, but make sure you keep a thick border in the delicate stem area. Here is what my Rose looks like when I cut it out. Notice that I colored outside the lines and made my stems a bit thicker.

Now grab a pair of tweezers, a heat source and start shrinking. (The plastic will curl as it shrinks, but no worries, keep shrinking it will straighten out).

The image shrinks to a 1/3 of the original size. Once the image is cool enough to touch, I molded the leaves to give them some interest.

Use Glossy Accents or E6000 to adhere the charms to your projects.

To show you how beautiful they are on a project, I created this layout of my amazing parents using Marion's Garment District collection. I love how tiny the butterflies turned out, and think the roses appear like glass and offer a nice touch of elegance to the layout.