Pumpkin Layout by Donna & Organizer by Kathi

Today we have two designers up, Donna and Kathi, with their very creative takes on their projects, first up is Donna with her gorgeous layout!

I thought it would be nice to do one more fall project before starting Christmas projects! Yes, I said Christmas projects! And I wanted another opportunity to use Gina's Grape Vines! I think they work great for pumpkin vines! The curly tails are so cute!

The vines were all primed with gesso, then painted with distress paint, and covered with embossing powders while still wet. 

Chipboard shapes are great to use to create layers!

 

I also used the windmill in the Build a Layout - Country Living set. There are a few other Items I would love to add to this project from the cool Country Living set, but I had to stop somewhere!

For the final touch I added 2 cute birds from Craftsupplies1!

Thank you so much for stopping by Gina's Designs!

Gina's Designs

Grape Vines
Build a Layout -  Country Living

 Craftsupplies1
Etsy Store


Other Products

Embossing powders
Distress paint dabbers
 Fall Floral Items From My Stash

Hello, Kathi here today to share my first project for November.  I have altered the Memory Keeping Organizer from Gina's Store.

 I really love this storage item and the paper I used was "Time Traveler" by Kitty Scrap Post.

Beautiful roses and metal filigree from Craftsupplies1.

Side View

There is lots of room for storage for your Project Life items, ATC's or other storage needs with this piece.

Thanks for dropping by today to take a peek.

Supplies Used:
Gina's Designs:
Memory Keepers Organizer 

Craftsupplies1
Roses
Butterflies

Other Supplies Used:
Paper - Time Traveler by Kitty Scrap Post.
Embellishments - Tim Holtz Ideology

Country Girls a Layout by Donna

Hi friends! This is Donna here today to share a layout using some of Gina's chipboard shapes! I was inspired by the Build a Layout - Country Living collection. There are 5 really cute items in this pack. I did not use three of the items, the windmill, an old water pump, and a wooden window that you would find on a farm or in the country. All of the items are great designs and I cant wait to use the other items in a new layout! When I saw this collection I immediately thought of a photo of my granddaughters, in their sun hats, in the country in Virginia!

  I tried something a little different with the paper. After putting down the first couple papers to frame the page, I added torn sections of  paper to create the background for the country scene. I added two borders to the page before adding the embellishments. I think the red gingham paper enhanced the "country" look. I then fussy cut the two girls from the photo. I used pop dots on the back of one of the girls to give the scene some dimension.  I painted the chipboard pieces with gesso, with the exception of the chicken wire and birds nest. I wanted the natural look for those pieces. I embossed the words, Country Living, with fired brick embossing powder, then decided to add a clear medium over the top to smooth it out a bit. It's fun to try different mediums on the chipboard. I used several different shades of chalk ink and stamping ink on the fence, the wagon wheel, and the blue bird.  I outlined the fence and the bird with a marker to make them stand out, and I secured a few of the chipboard pieces with pop dots for dimension, the fence, the bird, and the birds nest on a branch.

Gina's Designs products

Build a layout-Country Living

Bird Watching Shape Set

Chicken Wire

Other products

Graphic 45 French Country collection

Misc flowers, twigs, eggs from my stash

Thank you so much for stopping by Gina's today! Have a great week!

Altered Canvas in a garden theme by Nancy and Sketch Challenge Layout by Marfa

Hi everyone, we have two posts on the blog today.  First up is Nancy with an altered inverted canvas.  

Hi everybody, Nancy here!  Today I'm sharing one of my favorite themes again.  Nature!  Somehow for me, it's the theme that comes most easily, and gives me the most pleasure in creating.  I began with a simple application of gesso to the frame, then streaked it with some various colors of Folk Art acrylic paints.  When the paint was dry I added some Kroma Crackle.  This crackle product can take a couple of days to "cure" and finish crackling, so I just leave it and move on to other projects.  When it fully "cured", I rubbed on some Prima chalk inks in various colors to bring out the crackled finish.  I found a nature collage style of design paper in my stash that I'd picked up at Michael's, and I secured it to the back of the canvas with mod podge.  Now comes the fun part.  I began to gather my chippies and to ink, emboss and crackle them.  I looked through my "nature" stash and found nests, birds, eggs and mosses.  After that it only took an hour or so to decide on my final arrangement and to adhere the pieces to the canvas.

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Chipboard pieces have been colored with Prima Chalk Inks.  These are a great tool for coloring.  If you buy the big set you will have plenty of colors in the same family to use for shading.

Feather Shape Set

Tree 3 ( a portion of the tree can be seen on the inside)

Topiary Trees (basic instructions are below the post on how I colored it)

Grass and Foliage

Postage Frames

Build-a-Layout Country Living (the wagon wheel) crackled with TH distress rock candy crackle paint

Ornate Corners (inner corner top right)

Fall Shape Set (the rake) colored with chalk ink then TH distrees embossing powder to look like rust

Coloring the Topiary:

I began with a light dry brushing of gesso followed by Prima Chalk Ink.  I "shaded" the pot by leaving the thinly coated white gesso uncolored in the center to give it a rounded look.  For the topiary, after I colored with shades of green chalk ink, I added some clear glass bead gel and left it to dry.  It will dry clear.  At that point you will have lots of texture from the beads that will be stuck to the chipboard.  I then rubbed on some Gilders Paste in Vertigris over the beads and along the edges.  Done!

Next up is Marfa,  who has followed our  March sketch challenge with a 12 x 12 layout titled "You'll Always Have My Heart".  Enter in our gallery for a chance at winning a $10 gift certificate for Gina's Designs online store.

Happy Saturday!!!  This is Crafting Marfa today.  I want to share a layout that I made recently.  I'm using a sketch by Gina's Designs.  The sketch is for this month's challenge,  So I invite you to check it out and participate!  These are vintage photos of my mom, my aunt and my uncle.  I matched the paper to my mom's shirt and my aunt's trousers.  I colored the chipboard with Gelly Roll pens and then with a glitter pen.  I followed the sketch and simply added a couple of tags, some die cuts and a few flowers.   This layout was very easy to put together.  The sketch is easy to follow.  I love the simplicity of this layout.  It is eye catching, but I didn't have to spend a whole day putting it together.  Scroll down for a list of supplies.

Gina's Designs Chipboard Supplies:

Sweet Summer Shape Set

Say Cheese Shape Set

Other Supplies:

Roses by Craftsupplies1

Paper by Lilybee Designs and Webster's Pages

Tags by Elle's Studio

Die Cuts by Lilybee Designs