Boots – Travelers Notebook

March 15, 2019Leave a comment

Hi all,

Cynthia back today with a TN layout using my stash!! Its always good to get into your stash and rediscover some goodies.

If you haven’t already you can check out the process video here.

As always I used the monthly inspiration piece as my starting point. From this months piece I’ve drawn inspiration from the vivid greens, purples, the circle element and the animal reference.

I started with a cut file as it reminded me of the circle. I pulled out my stash of scrap papers, selected a mixture of colours and backed the file. I ended up settling on a bright green for the leaves and a mixture of purples for the flowers.

I used two different pattern papers for the background but both had the same “feel” to them and also stayed within the colours from the inspiration piece.

I added a circle element to the left hand page which helped balance the layout and I also added a chipboard ephemera to bring the purple across to the left side.

To finish the layout off I added my title with fresh green alpha stickers and ensure I repeated these on the other page as well.

Thanks you for reading and I hope you all have a wonderful day.

You Are Enough – Art Journal Page

February 12, 2019March 20, 20262 Comments

Hello fellow Crafty Mavens,

You can watch the full process video of this page coming together here

I had so much fun with this months inspiration piece. I totally love the purple, red and blue tones!! I also manged to included some yellow and stamped/drew some circular elements too.

To start with I took my Distress Oxide inks and smooshed three colours onto my pre- gessoed page. I didn’t want the whole page covered in colour so I love how the wrinkles in the paper prevented the ink colouring the page where the dips occurred.

Once I had my background sorted I flipped through a Daphne’s Diary magazine to find a page with colours I thought would work well as leaves/branches. I grabbed a die from my stash and cut a whole stack out. I wanted these to represent leaf litter on a forest floor.

I think I cut the girls from a old Frankie magazine sometime ago and had them in my stash just waiting for the right page to come along. I placed the figures on the leaves holding hands as if standing strong together.

I finished with lots of outlining, shading and white highlights to add details.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you pop on over to watch the process video.

Good To be Unique – Art party

January 21, 2019March 20, 2026Leave a comment

Hello one and all,

I do enjoy playing in my art journal for my Crafty Maven Getaway posts. I always find something in the inspiration piece to get me going.

you can watch the process video here

This moth it was the colours, the paint swatches and the painting that looked like confetti .

I started off by add the soft yellows, greens and pinks layers to the back ground using Gelatos.

During this stage I noticed a shape that looked like a tree truck, so I went with it. I used torn strips of paper as they reminded me of the paint swatches.

Once I relised there was going to be a tree on the page I knew the leaves would be small hearts made to look like confetti.

All in all I love how this page turned out.

As always thank you for reading. – Cynthia x

Everything Connects

October 21, 2018November 28, 2018Leave a comment

Hello all,

I love playing in my art journal so when this months theme was to use a cut file along with the inspiration piece I knew I would have fun.

I don’t have a machine that cuts file but I do receive one each month as a part of the kit I received from The Wild Hare Kits so I grabbed my October file and set to work.

My first thoughts when I saw the file was science and green!! I then looked at the inspiration piece to see how I could make it work. I was pleased to see reds, oranges and yellows, which I knew would be good contrasting colours for green.

I started by added modeling paste through a stencil that would complemented the cut file I planned to use. Then using a number of sprays and gelatos in red, orange and yellow to created the background colour.

I then used the cut file as a stencil and added more modeling paste through it. However this time I tinted the paste with some green spray, but I felt the green wasn’t vibrant enough so I sprayed directly on top of the modeling pastes which made the green really pop.

I also added some of the file it self which keeps the same shape but at the same time create a visual interest.

I finished off by adding some white highlights and shading to my hexagons and adding a simple quote.

The full video process can be found here

Yay Yummy Dessert – Scraplift Saturday

May 18, 2018November 21, 2018Leave a comment

Hello all,

Cynthia from NB Pretty Papers here today with this colourful page for Scraplift Saturday. I used a my stash and pulled from a lot different designer.

Here is the link if you would like to see how this page came together – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87NbAG8HHIg&feature=youtu.be

I pulled the colours pink and blue and the candy and ice cream feel from the inspiration piece.

I choose to lifted this gorgeous page from Cassie Box of Paper issues. I liked the block cross the middle of the page and the colourful layers behind the photo.

In Your Pocket Tuesday: Nurse Lisa

September 21, 2015September 21, 2015Leave a comment

Aloha Crafty Mavens!! I hope your week has been going well so far! Things are still really busy over at our Facebook group. If you are looking for inspiration, you really should head over there and look at all the beautiful layouts everyone is making!! Seeing all those layouts, really makes me want to scrap bad!! Hopefully I will have time to tonight!

Today over on our Youtube Channel, Nurse Lisa is sharing her process video with us. She is working on a Project Life Spread and let me just say, it is gorgeous!!

I love how her pictures are in black and white with pops of color throughout the photos and Project Life style cards!! The colors from the inspiration pieces make their appearance on Lisa’s spread!! Here is a look at what she created!