“Always be yourself…” Mixed media layout

When you scrapbook do you start with a photo and choose your papers and embellishments or do you have a paper and embellishments in mind and find a photo to fit them?  Everyone approaches their craft their own way and that is what makes scrapbooking such a cool craft.  Gone are the days of a piece of paper and a few stickers, now you can “dress” your photo up with amazing detail and touches.  Crew Member Mandy Leever-Koel shows us how fun you can take a photo of a little one in a pirate hat and dress it up.  Thinking outside of the box you can dress your page, like you dress yourself.  Choose the clothes, the makeup and then the accessories to really accent everything and together they look great.  A great outfit has that special piece of jewelry, a pair of funky shows or a crazy print that is chilled out with a simple necklace.  You can do the same with our layouts and decide what is going to stand out.  

Step 2: Mix modeling paste with Glimmer mist “Boardwalk” and apply through damask stencil. When done don’t remove stencil but spray some more glimmer mist. Remove stencil and sprinkled gold glitter.

Step 3:  Stamp a compass and map using black ink.

Step 4: To give the (Tim Holtz grungeboard) skull this look first apply white gesso. Then add white crackle paste. Once dry (always allow this to *air dry!) spray some Glimmer Mist ‘Boardwalk’ and wipe excess off. Add a little glimmer glam ‘Golden Godess’. The crown is a Tattered Angels foil chips, sprayed with Glimmer mist ‘Olive Green’.

Step 6:  These chipboard words are from 13Arts and simply treated with a golden colored embossing powder.

Step 7:  The ‘Carpe Diem’ banner is also from the foil chips package. I treated it with white crackle paste, one step crackle medium, glimmer mist ‘Boardwalk’ and black ink. To make the text stand out more I outlined the letters with black pen. The word ‘pirate’ is made up out of Tattered Angels irresist-ables. They were colored with red and the letters were colored with black pen. Then I added a one step crackle medium. The ship’s sails were sprayed with ‘boardwalk’ glimmermist, then covered in one step crackle. The boat itself was painted with Viva Decor Rusty Paper. But any brown paint with a little added structure will do. The rest of the text was stamped on snippets of Mixed Media Origins Paper ‘mermaid’, which I sprayed with ‘Rusty red’ glimmer mist first.

Step 8:  To the sides of the picture I added flowers, leaves, bamboo like straws and some metal embellishments.  The palm trees were simply sprayed with ‘Olive vine’ glimmer mist. The golden beadstring is wrapped around the ship and skull.