Thursday, June 30, 2011

Getting Braver!

We all have our own scrapping style and tend to scrap within our comfort zone, using paint and ink directly on a layout has always freaked me out a bit. What if it looked awful?! I am coming to realise that I have been missing so much fun!
Looking through on line galleries some of my favourite backgrounds have been created using mists, inks and stamps and although I have been getting bit braver using the odd stamp directly onto a page I had never attempted anything very adventurous.....until now!
I have never been very successful with mists but over on My Creative Scrapbook they have a great section on the forum and links on their blog to tips and advice on how the design team created certain elements of their pages. One of these tips was to water down some acrylic paint, dip a tooth brush into in and then run your nail across the brush to spray the paint across your page. It worked a treat and I will definitely be doing it again!  So here is the page that I created, using more Websters Spring Market.






Hope you like it I had great fun putting it together!
I will be back with more pages to share over the weekend :)
TFL
xx

12 comments:

Tracee said...

Love the colours and that websters paper is on my want list! Love how you have used the different techniques (great tip on the paint)
Love it! Tracee x

Gems said...

It is beautiful Rach :) And love the tip too, will have to give that a try xx

Craftyangel said...

gorgeous you do things so well, i'm scared of paint, ink and mists..

Carol said...

Another stunning page, think you have inspired me to get my paints out too.

Carol x

Rachael Funnell said...

Another Gorgeous Creation Rachael!!!
& LOL! I thought the same thing about finding another Rachael spells her name the same way.......
xx

Lou said...

even using paints & mists you still produce such stunning pages. Gorgeous Rachael love the layered cluster across the bottom too xx

Katherine said...

Beautiful page - I love using paints (not so good at misting) - love the papers and all the cutting you've done it looks gorgeous.

Bubbles said...

Amazing! Love it! Those papers have really been used well on this layout... it's gorgeous!
Or as me and my daughter say...
it's G-O-R-G-U-S-YES!!!

Nat said...

It's beautiful - love the honey-comb effect stamp too :) Thanks for the Liquid Pearls info ;) xxx

Cathy C said...

Another fabulous layout!! I love all the little details and your stamping is great!

MiniOwner said...

That's totally gorgeous! And fab news about the DT, too.
Sue x

Shirley said...

Huge congratulations Rachael it is so well deserved, will miss you at SC but look forward to seeing your designs in the new place :)
Shirley
xx