Etwas Langsamer by Barb Black

Etwas Langsamer

 Mixed Media 10 x 14

I actually did the clock and hands of this piece months ago. But then I couldn't figure out where I wanted to go with them. Happens more often than I care to admit! Sometimes a thing is just waiting for opportunity. That opportunity came a couple of days ago when I was sorting through old sheet music and manuals and books that I use for backgrounds -- trying to organize my chaos just a tiny bit. (As if!)

I spotted the note on some German sheet music: it read, "Etwas langsamer." Those years of high school German from decades ago made themselves useful. I knew immediately that it translated to, "A little slower." Aha! A background for my clock piece! 

I decoupaged the sheet music to a canvas board and then splattered it with alcohol ink. As I worked I thought about the ridiculous speed at which time seems to be going by, and my autodidactic Latin lessons came in handy with "tempus fugit" (time flies).

To get the effect I wanted on the clock and steampunk man, I embossed them with Stampendous Frantage. Then I swiped over them with StazOn Jet Black ink. I stamped the woman and "tempus fugit" with StazOn Jet Black ink as well.

The only thing left was to glue everything together.

I love how this piece turned out. Time flies... a little slower, please.

Gina's Products Used

Skeleton Clocks

Steampunk Gentleman

Rubber Stamps by Blue Luna Press

Other Products Used

Canvas board

Imagine Crafts Creative Medium

Alcohol Ink

StazOn Jet Black Ink

Stampendous Frantage Embossing Powder

Black acrylic paint

Liquid Pearls

"Timeless Memories" Folio by Kim C.

This week I have made a mini album or folio for a benefit for someone that lost their home to a very major fire.  I used the tutorial from My Sisters Scrapper on youtube.  This was very quick to make.  I love the way it came out.

The front cover I used words from Words & Phrases #1 which I painted with snowtex to give them some dimension.  I cut a clock from Skeleton Clocks Set; half was used on the cover and the other half on the inside.  I used snowtex on them and then I used distress ink on it also.  I added flowers and twine from my stash.  I also added dew drops from The Robin's Nest.

I then used a key and keyhole from the Keys & Plates set.  I used snowtex on them, then I used distress inks to give them an aged look.  I used on the edge of the folio hinges from the Hinges Set.  Again I used snowtex and distress inks to give them an aged look.

The inside of the folio will hold 15 photos in the waterfall section.  On the opposite side is a pocket with tags with the other half of the skeleton clock. Flowers and twine from my stash. were also added.

I hope you like what I have created this week.

Thanks for stopping!!

Kim :)

Gina's Designs Items Used:

Skeleton Clocks

Keys & Plates

Word & Phrases

Hinges

The Robin's Nest Item Used:

Dew Drops

Other Items Used:

Wild Orchid Craft Flowers

Twine

Stamins

Distress Inks: Vintage Photo/Black Soot

Bo Bunny Paper: Timepiece Collection

Snowtex

Gina's Designs and ColourArte Collaboration

Hello friends!  Debbie with you on a beautiful Sunday morning to share a layout using some fabulous products!  After all, what can be better than Gina's Laser Cuts and ColourArte products to make them look awesome!!  I'm sharing a layout today of my daughters wedding...they are such a gorgeous couple and deserve great product to highlight their special day!

To begin this project I started off with my background.  Starting with Gina's Designs Laser cuts, I gessoed all my pieces and then added coordinating colors with H2O's.

I created my background by adding texture paste to my patterned paper.

Next step was to pencil in the area that my center of my photo and the focus of my layout would be.

I highlighted the area with color around the area where the large circle would be placed. I used Twinkling H2o's and a paintbush.

To make my textured patterns stand out I embossed them in random areas with gold embossing powder.

Add the background matting and photo and embellish with your favorite embellishments. I added some lines with an ink pen to highlight the petals. The petals were all painted with Twinkling H2o's.

Thank you for stopping by Gina's blog today!  Hope you will give these simple techniques a try!!

Debbie

Gina's Designs products

Daisies

Skeleton Clocks

Curly Word: Happy

Thanks so much for the products by

ColourArte!

These are amazing products and loved working with them!!

Debbie

"Steampunk Box" and ColourArte Collaboration by Kim C.

Welcome everyone!

This month we are doing a collaboration with ColourArte.  I have created this beautiful steampunk box and used some amazing H2O's and Silks from ColourArte.  I created the box out of lightweight chipboard and added some design paper from my stash.

I then chose several steampunk pieces from different collections for the top of the box.

I painted all the chipboard pieces with gesso first, since I wanted these beautiful ColourArte products to stand out.

For the clock and gear pieces I used Silks Acrylic Glaze in Ginger Peach as a base for the gears.  I used Olive Vine as a base for the skeleton clock.  I then added Twinkling H2O's in the following colors:

Rain Forest, Teal Zircon, Mandarin Citrine, Ginger Peach, Meridian, Periwinkle and Orange Peel.  I just kept adding and spritzing with water and dabbing the excess off to get the colors I wanted.  On the key I used just Ginger Peach Silks Acrylic Glaze and then I inked it with black distress ink.

On the dressform and wings I used the following Silks colors: Stargazer and Iridescent Green.  I also used the following H2O's color: Meridian.  I made the wings darker so the dressform would stand out more.  I love the color!!

I added metal pieces and flowers from my stash to give it a more girlie feel to it.  I inked all the edges of the box and paper with black distress ink. 

I just loved working with these products from ColourArte, they are amazing.  They work so well with Gina's products!  I hope you like my girlie steampunk box.

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Dressforms & Wings

Steampunk 2 Shape Set

Skeleton Clocks

ColourArte Products Used:

Silks Acrylic Glaze Colors: Ginger Peach, Iridescent Green, Stargazer and Olive Vine

Twinkling H2O's Colors: Rain Forest, Teal Zircon, Mandarin Citrine, Ginger Peach, Meridian, Periwinkle and Orange Peel

Other Items Used:

Metal Gears, Wing and Key

Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante Collection

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Black Soot Distress Ink

Lightweight Chipboard

Kim C. :)

"The Best is Yet to Be" Mixed Media Canvas

Hello there crafty people! Lynne here with a 12 x 12 mixed media canvas (Finnabair style, or at least my version!) I'm really happy with the way this came out and love the clock piece as a frame.

I mod-podged crumpled tissue paper onto the canvas, primed all the pieces separately with gesso, then attached the clock, flowers, letters and butterflies before sponge painting the surface with gold acrylic paint. (Since everything is painted over, projects like this are a great way to use up the ugly or weird-colored flowers and other embellishments in your stash!) Gold and blue spray mists finished the main area, then the words were rubbed with gold and brown Gelatos and brushed with blue mist to make them stand out more. The dragonfly and butterfly wings were folded up for dimension and they were brushed with the blue mist as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look at my latest creation!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Skeleton clocks

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Other Products Used

misc. flowers and leaves

gesso

acrylic paint

spray mists

mod podge

tissue paper

misc. letters

It's 5 O'clock Somewhere

Hi Everyone! Barb here, keeping the birthday party rolling. No doubt you've heard the old joke - early in the day someone says they want a drink and someone else replies, "Well, it's always 5 o'clock somewhere!" That's what inspired me for this week's project. 

I began with a 5 x 7" canvas panel and simply slopped some paint on it that I had left over from a bigger project. Never waste paint, or ink, or any artsy gooey stuff! I free-handed the martini glass and phrase, and added some Stickles to the inside of the glass to give it a liquidy, bubbly look. The flowers were punch-outs left over from another project, and all I did was add a dab of Liquid Pearls in the center of each.

For all of the pieces of the clock, I began by sponging on fuchsia colored acrylic paint.

Once the paint was dry, I coated the outer bezel with Gothic Purple StazOn Studio Glaze. For the dial part of the clock, I spritzed it with neon yellow and neon pink irRESISTibles sprays. I put dots of Liquid Pearls on the hands and used bright pink Stickles on the arrows. I capped it all off with another one of the flower punch-outs.

Thanks for coming to the party - happy crafting!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Arrows Shape Set

Skeleton Clocks

Other Products Used

Acrylic paints

irRESISTibles sprays

StazOn Studio Glaze

Liquid Pearls

Stickles

Framing Photos and Gina's

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing a special layout of a vintage photo that is very special to me.  I chose to use a couple of different pieces of Gina's chipboard frames that seemed to fit the photo perfectly.

 

To achieve the rusty patina look of the chipboard pieces, paint the chipboard two coats of gesso.

 Paint each piece with a metallic paint in an aqua color.  

Ink all pieces with Versa Mark.

Cover with Utee embossing powder and heat set.

Spray your pieces with a brown shade of glimmer mist or mist of your choice.

Rub with Inka Gold in Copper.

Gina's Designs products used:
 Page Frame Flourished. 

10 Words: Cherish

Skeleton Clocks

Thanks for stopping by Gina's Blog today!

Cards to Make People Smile!

Hi! Lynne here with some happy cards inspired by the Valentine-themed pieces in my latest goody box from Gina, as well as some of the other great items.

I love painting my chipboard, then stamping and heat-embossing it for  an ornate effect, like I did on the clock and large heart here:

For this one, I trimmed a birdhouse piece to become the jail cell (my friend and I call each other our partner in crime!) and added the lovely heart flourish piece as well:

This card is for a bird-lover's birthday, so the cage and the bird on the branch were perfect accents! I first dry-embossed the birdcage. I then covered it with crackle finish before heat embossing it. Texture paste was applied to the branch before I heat embossed that piece:

I placed the inside sentiments next to the cards to give you a better idea of the finished items (and the first two really wouldn't have made much sense without them!)
Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a wonderfully creative week!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Build a Layout-lovebirds
Ornamental Birdcages Shape Set
Bird on Branch Assortment
Skeleton Clocks
Clock Hands Shape Set

Other Items Used
BoBunny Avenues papers
Graphic 45 Raining Cats and Dogs papers
Marion Smith Posh papers

Christmas Layout by Lynne

 Hi! Lynne here hoping you're all well and enjoying this busy but happy time of year. This week I created a layout with a photo of my son just before his third birthday (he's almost 23 now!). The Skeleton Clock and hands seemed so appropriate since I was thinking about how time has flown by and how much has changed     in our lives since then.

I painted the chipboard pieces with acrylic paint and they looked nice like that, but then decided to add gold heat embossing for a tone-on-tone textured finish and was so much happier with the finished look.

I had this page finished and waiting on my worktable to be photographed when my two kittens decided it would be fun and exciting to pull everything off! Fortunately they didn't damage anything, but believe me, they're definitely on Santa's naughty list right about now!! Think I'll be finding microbeads in my scraproom for months...sigh!!

Oh well, I wouldn't trade those fur-babies for anything! Have a terrific day and capture those memories; time really does fly by!!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Skeleton Clocks

Fall House Shrine Box by Deann and a Layout by Veronica

Hello Friends!  Today we have two amazing projects to share.  First up is Deann with a project celebrating the beginning of the Autumn season.

Its Fall ya-all!!!

I used the House Shrine Box for this project and the awesome Fall Shape Set.

I did lots of layers on this project with the chip board and the Distress ink.

 The Scarecrow is the piece that started this project, I knew that I wanted to make it stand out. I went directly onto the raw chip board with the Distress Ink, Scattered Straw then Rusty Hinge and finished off with Gathered Twig. I used the same colors on the pumpkins with the addition of Forest Moss.   

(((HUGS)))

Deann

Gina's Designs products used:

House Shrine Box

Fall Shape Set

other products used-

Flowers from craftsupplies1

Next up is Veronica with a gorgeous layout to share.

Hello Everyone! Veronica here once again to share one of my projects using wonderful Lazer cut chipboard pieces from Gina's Designs!

Today I created a lovely Scrapbook page.

I love to layer, and Gina's Designs  gives you so many shapes to choose from!

Here I used a variety of pieces. 

Feathery Flourishes, Arched Window Set, and the Photo Reel Small.

              I love how adding a simple Doily adds a touch of femininity to a layout.

The Skeleton Clock also adds a touch of Nostalgia.

  

Thank you so much for taking a look. I hope you enjoyed this Layout as much as I enjoyed putting it all together.

Gina's Designs

Doily Set 8 inch

Arched Window Set

Feathery Flourishes

Photo Reel Small

Skeleton Clocks Set

Art Storage Cabinet by Kathi and Composition Box by Debbie

Hi Crafters!  Today we have two talented Design Team members on the blog.  Both team members are sharing their cross-promotional projects, part of our August cross promotional with Kitty's Scrap Post.  First up is Kathi.

Hi Everyone, it's Kathi here!  This is my project for the Kitty's Scrap Post cross promotional with Gina's Designs. I chose to work with the Time Traveler Kit.

This is the first time I have used digital design paper.  The really great part about printing it yourself is that I only had to print just what I needed for this project, and I could choose the size of the paper.

Video of Art Storage Cabinet

Products Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

Art Storage Cabinet

Skeleton Clocks

Gears Shape Set

Sreampunk Heart

Butterfly of Gears

Dressform & Wings Shape Set

Antique Bike Set

Alarm Clock Frame Ups

Design Paper by Kitty's Scrap Post
Time Traveler

embellishments from my stash

Tim Holtz

Kaiser crafts

Thanks tor stopping by!

Next up is Debbie sharing our Composition Box in a fun and different way.  You will be seeing all sorts of fun ways to decorate these boxes by the team throughout the month of August.

Hello everyone!  Debbie with you today to share my August cross promotion project with Gina's Designs and Kitty's Scrap Post.  I'll tell you a little about  my composition box..I did something different with it.  I love jewelry and when I get home from work I tend to just leave it on my bathroom vanity so I decided my composition box would make a great place to keep the jewelry on my counter contained. To begin this project I painted everything in a pale pink I also added a little embossing powder to some of the chipboard. and then added the gorgeous Kitty Scrap Post French Seamstress digital papers.

I wanted to make this more like a tray so I added some metal handles to the sides and also added some metal pedestal corners so that it sits up off the counter.

Gina's Designs Laser Cuts Used:

 Composition Box - 25

 Butterflies & Dragonflies

Wrought Iron Set

Design paper by Kitty's Scrap Post

French Seamstress Kit

Thanks for stopping by the Gina's Designs blog today!!

Be sure to check back in for more inspiration from our amazing design team!!

Debbie