Inspirational mini-canvas set

Hi there! Lynne here sending greetings from beautiful, warm, sunny southwestern Ontario along with a sunny, happy set of canvases I created with lots of awesome goodies from Gina's store. The sentiments are from Teresa Collins' Nine & Co papers and are on 8x8 canvases.

                                 

 

I ran the border strip through an embossing folder, attached all the elements to the canvas, stenciled with texture paste, then coated the entire project (except for the sentiment) with gesso. I then used Twinkling H20s to add patches of various colours all over, covering the entire gessoed area. When those were dry I then applied another coat of gesso to blend and soften the colours. When that was completely dry I covered the sentiment with a piece of cardboard and misted the entire surface with a variety of colours until I achieved the intensity and blend I wanted. Splotches of black acrylic paint added contrast and tied the black elements of the sentiment pieces in with the rest of the project.

I know it sounds like a lot of steps were involved but they were all simple steps and the most time-consuming part of the project was allowing the layers to dry, although I did use the heat tool when I wanted to get to the next step a little sooner!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful, happy, sunny week!

Gina's Items Used

Cardstock Doily set 1

Banner Border Strips

Flourish Miniatures

Other Items Used

Teresa Collins Nine & Co paper-cards

Colourarte Twinkling H20s

Prima and Crafter's Workshop stencils

"Not Your Everyday" Composition Book with Guest Designer Pam Bray

 Good morning!!!! Don't you love back to school sales? I sure do!!!! I always stock up on school supplies...the prices are always to good to pass up.

  Like these 50 cent composition books....oh my!!!! 

BUT....

how boring are the covers of composition books.

 SO.......

lets make a fabulous mixed media composition book to write notes, favorite verses or other timeless memories in. Begin by first applying DecoArt White Gesso over the top, give a light first coat, allow it to dry and re-apply. Allow to dry completely.

 Once dry....tape of book binding with washi tape.  Place Gina's Lasercut Designs Chipboard and flowers down using a Scotch Quick Dry Glue, allow it to dry. 

Randomly place washi tape on book cover.

Spray with the DecoArt Media Red and Yellow Shimmer Misters, allow them to dry.

 Make a mix of two parts DecoArt Media Quincridone Gold, one part of Media Paynes Grey and some Ultra Matte Varnish together and apply to front of composition book and over all of the wonderful Chipboard pieces from Gina's. Allow to dry between coats.

(I applied several coats to achieve the depth I wanted, going darker here and there with the mixture)

Using DecoArt Media Antiquing Cream and a round brush apply to the top of Gina's Chipboard words, numbers and flowers. Mix Antiquing Cream Patina Green with varnish, apply lightly over entire book.

Apply Mixed Media Sand Paste randomly to the top of composition book with circle stencil and palette knife, allow to dry. Spatter book with Everlasting and Black Chalkboard Paint using and old tooth brush. Allow it to dry.

Add random metals to top of the "Not Your Everyday" Composition Book to give it a bit more texture.

WOW....you have just transformed a boring composition book into and EXCITING MIXED MEDIA BOOK!!!!

 I hope you have enjoyed my altered composition book project and try making one for yourself.

 They would also be fun to do a few up as gifts. 

Thanks for stopping by Gina's Lasercuts Blog today!!!

 Don't forget to check out all the fabulous products in Gina's Lasercuts Store!!!!

 Hugs Pammejo
  

Gina's Lasercut Designs
 Words & Phrases 1
 Mixed Media Fragments 1
Banner Border Strips

Other supplies used

DecoArt Media White Gesso

DecoArt White Paste

DecoArt Sand Paste

DecoArt Ultra Matte Varnish

DecoArt Antiquing Cream: Patina Green 

DecoArt Quinacridone Gold

DecoArt Paynes Grey

DecoArt Media Misters: Red and Yellow Shimmer

DecoArt Mixed Media Doily Stencil

Circle Stencil 

Washi Tape 

Composition Book

Random Metals

Quick Dry Glue

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Dream Of Butterflies by Guest Designer Pam Bray

 I am so excited to share with you that I am the August Guest Designer
for Gina's Designs Lasercuts.
If you love chipboard, all I can say is Gina's Designs is the place to go!

 I decided to take the House Shrine House and create a Dream of Butterflies House using lots of Gina's Designs chipboard and Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe Collection.

 Paint the scallop borders from the Banner Border Strip Lasercuts using DecoArt Inc Media Patina Green Antique Cream, dry. Paint over the top with DecoArt Inc Media Quinacidone Gold, dry... this will give you that antique look.

 Spray pieces with DecoArt Inc White Shimmer Spray, dry.

 While the pieces are drying, prepare the House Shrine Box with Olde Curiosity Shoppe papers.

Fussy cut butterfly frame from two pieces of paper from the Olde Curiosity Shoppe, place on pop dots and place to inside of prepared House Shrine Box.

 Cut prepared Banner Border Strip and place on edge of prepared roof.

 Add prepared Victoria Layered Banner to bottom of House Shrine Box.  

Paint Dream Word from the 10 Words Set with DecoArt Lace Chalky Finish, dry and apply DecoArt Inc Quinacidone Gold over top. Add to front of House Shrine Box. 

Paint one of the Leafy Branch with Birds using DecoArt Inc New Life Chalky Finish, dry. Highlight edges of pieces using Patina Green Antiquing Cream, dry. ***Here you can see how I did the roof with a piece from the Banner Border Strip.

Fussy Cut lots of the butterflies from the Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe Paper Collections, adhere together at the body leaving the wings to bend up.

Glue Moss on the roof and inside of House Shrine Box.

 Add a metal lantern to the front.

 Here is a closer look at this side of my Dream of Butterflies House.

I hope you have enjoyed my first Guest Design project for Gina's Designs Lasercuts.

Hope you stop by to check out more fabulous Gina's Designs at the STORE and don't forget to look at the BLOG for more fabulous inspiration from Gina's Designers.

Supplies:

Gina Designs House Shrine Box

Gina Designs Lasercuts: Victorian Layered Banner

Gina's Designs Lasercuts: Leafy Branch with Birds

Gina's Designs Lasercuts: Banner Border Stripes

Gina's Design Lasercuts: 10 Words

Graphic 45: Olde Curiosity Shoppe

DecoArt Inc: New Leaf and Lace Chalky Finish Paint

DecoArt Inc Media Paint: Patina Green Antique Cream, Quinacidone Gold

DecoArt Inc: White Shimmer Mister

Moss 

Metal Lantern

QuickDry Scotch Glue

Hot Glue Gun

Gina’s Designs Lasercuts Guest Designer

I'm so happy to be a Guest Designer for Gina’s
Designs Lasercuts and help promote  their
wonderful products. They so generously supplied me with so many fabulous
chipboard piece to work with like those that I'm using today.

True Colours layout

Hi-Lynne here! I absolutely love the song "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper; I know I'm dating myself here-yes, I'm THAT old!! So I decided to create a page inspired by the lyrics:

The border piece echoed the damask pattern in the background paper and the butterflies added a nice variation to the fussy-cut clip art butterflies I used that a lovely fellow scrapper sent me a while back.

 I dry-embossed the border pieces, then painted them with gesso then with pearlized acrylic paint. I dabbed them lightly with a yellow spray mist, then gently rubbed them with light pink ink to create a subtle rainbow effect.

The butterflies were dry-embossed as well, then primed with gesso.  I brushed them with Lindy's Magical powder, then heat-embossed the raised areas with a pearlized embossing powder.





I love the effects you can create on these chipboard pieces with both dry and heat embossing and with different mediums; they're so versatile!

Have a terrific week and be sure to show YOUR true colours! hugs!

Gina's Products Used
Banner Border Strips
                Spring Shape Set (butterflies)
Butterflies and Dragonflies

Other Products Used
Ombre Dreams papers
Darice embossing folder
Balzer Designs stencil
Martha Stewart and Fiskars punches

"A Taste of Summer" - Layout

Hi! Lynne here with a beach-themed layout. I don't know about you, but I'm definitely ready for summer now that Christmas has passed! I had so much fun altering the chipboard pieces from the Beach Shape Set and the banner I chose from the Banner Border Strips set.

                          

 I used homemade texture paste (baby powder recipe) to give the sand dollar a realistic finish.

For the starfish, I mixed salt and acrylic paint to get the rough effect I wanted-love the way it came out!

The banner was painted, then stamped with Versamark and heat-embossed to give a lacy effect to echo the patterns in the paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope this summery page warms up those of you in chilly snowy spots at least a little.

Gina's Designs Product Used 

Beach Shape Set

Banner Border Strip

                                                                 Other Products Used

 7 Dots paper

 Donna Salazar Mixed Media Inks embossing powder-Jasmine

Versamark Ink

Nautical Shrine by Shanna and Mixed Media Canvas by Brigitte

Hi Everyone!  We have two amazing designers on the blog today sharing very different types of projects.  First up is Shanna.

Hi everyone. Shanna here today to share an ATC Shrine I decorated.

I painted my shrine with red acrylic paint and distressed the surface a bit, then lined the inside with Graphic 45 papers.

I fussy cut some of the images from the papers and placed sand underneath them!

Items Used:

Gina's Designs - Nautical Shrine

Next up today is Brigitte with a mixed media canvas.

Hello crafty friends!  I have a burlap canvas to share with you today featuring my daughter's first grade class photo, beautifully highlighted with Gina's laser cuts.

I primed the canvas in spots with Gesso and sprayed the colors I chose as a base for the canvas and began applying all the pieces in my vision :)  I primed all of the laser cuts with Gesso and used sprays and embossing powders until I got the desired results for each piece.

Here I embossed the smallest Skeleton Clock in this set and layered the clock hands from the shapes set followed by a butterfly from the Butterflies and Dragonflies set.  The Leafy Cluster is the base layer and was sprayed with two different colors to coordinate perfectly :)

And finally on the right side of the canvas I showcase the banner border which I cut to fit and the "Beautiful" phrase from the Words and Phrases 1 set.  I am so happy with how this came out and would not have been able to make it happen without Gina's designs!

Thank you for taking a peek, I hope you like it!  xo, Brigitte

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Skeleton Clocks

Leafy Cluster Base

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Words and Phrases 1

Banner Border Strips

Clock Hands Shape Set

Artist Trading Blocks by Deann and a Banner by Brigette

First up is Deann with more Artist Trading Blocks.  You will be seeing these from all of team members throughout the month.  So much fun!

Good morning, Deann here with a project for Gina's Designs. I had so much fun making the beach themed 

Artist Trading Blocks, I will definitely make more of these! The possibilities are endless.

You get 3 sizes of blocks in a pack, they are so easy to put together, I painted both sides of the blocks with gesso before putting them together. The light house is from the Beach Shape Set

I made a base out of chipboard and covered it with burlap. I then painted 4 mini wood spools white and glued to the bottom of the block then attached the block to the base. 

I glued the medium and small blocks together, left the top block open and added mini spools to the bottom block. I then attached the blocks to the base. The sea horse is from the Sea Horse Shape Set . I covered it with 3 shades of blue glitter. 

 The paper cut outs are from K&Company-Travel Die cuts.

I put a glob of hot glue on the base and covered the glue with seed beads, which made it look a bit like sea glass.

Gina Designs Product used:

Beach Shape Set

Sea Horse Shapes

Artist Trading Blocks

 Other products used:

Prima paper-Seashore

K&Company cardstock die cuts-Travel

Have an Awesome day!

(((HUGS)))

Deann

Next up is Brigette, another of our talented new members, with a gorgeous banner to share!

Hello crafty friends! I am here to share with you a project I created for my new spot on Gina's Designs creative team! Gina's shop is full of beautiful, versatile laser cut chip pieces for any occasion you can think possible! All the seasons are covered, the styles from shabby to steampunk shapes are offered as well as organizational pieces you can easily put together and so much more!

Today I altered these large pennants to create a banner for an art room or crafty space. I used borders, flourishes, phrases, and of course the fishtail banner pieces in this kit! The chipboard takes so well to simple spraying without prep work and they work well with embossing too.

Simple embellishments like die cut flowers and dangling trims finish off the banner.

 Gina's designs really shine with simple embellishing and enhance further a project embellished to the nines :)

Thank you so much for stopping by, I really appreciate the support!

Brigitte xo

Gina's Designs Items Used

Banner Builder Dove Tail Set

Banner Border Strips

Delicate Frame & Ornamental Shape Set

Word Stackers 1

Word Stackers 2

Vintage Beach Layout by Nancy

Hi everyone, Nancy here sharing a layout I created with one of the vintage family photos that my Mother recently shared with me.  That's Me and Mom on the right.  I love using the beachy teals, greens, and vintage photo colors.  This layout was pretty quick and easy because I built it around one of our botanical journaling blocks.  The shapes are available in a package containing 3 shapes and sizes.  The intricate detailing around the edges is amazing!  I painted mine with gesso, used a script stamp with Perfect Medium, then brushed it with Perfect Pearls Powders.  I used distress inks around the edges, and colored the intricate areas with Prima Chalk Ink.  The chipboard border and element pieces were coated with gesso, then painted with Silks paints.

Botanical Journaling Blocks

Elements Shapes

Cardstock Doily Set 1

Banner Borders Strips

A Sparkly Layout by Marfa

Happy Friday everybody, it's Marfa here with a sparkly layout to share.   This is a vintage photo of me on my 15th birthday.  I  am using the Parisian Shape Set and the Banner Border Strip from Gina's Designs.  I especially love the Parisian Shape Set.  It has a lot of lovely chipboard shapes and it was perfect for this layout.  I also used a reflective material to give the mirror a more realistic look.  That was a lot of fun.  I covered the chippies with glitter acrylic paint and with another acrylic paint that has a satin finish.  The awesome, glittery paper is by Robin's Nest.  This layout is me through and through.  Scroll down for a short video and have a great weekend!

Gina's Designs Supplies:

Banner Border Strips

Parisian Shape Set

Other Supplies:

Robin's Nest Paper

Flowers from Craftsupplies1

Prima Say It In Pearls

Tim Holtz Mirrored Adhesive-Back Sheets of Reflective Material

Recollections Glitter Shapes