Misting and Whimsy

Hi Hi Everyone! 

Today I'm sharing this awesome layout I made last week for Basically Bare, and a step-by-step tutorial to go along with it. 

Because my style is generally colorful and graphic -- I tend to be sparse with my bigger/bulkier embellishments; but when I first saw the new faniciful frames, I knew they would make perfect masks to mist with.

 Today I'm going to show you step-by-step how to use basically bare chipboard and/or acrylic to make your own masks for misting.  This technique can be used with any of the chipboard or acrylic embellishments and is a great way to get a bunch of uses out of your product before gluing it down on a final project!

**Warning: VERY photo heavy** 

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Be Awesome Today: A Fanciful Frames Layout

Hi hi Everyone!


I'm so excited to finally share this layout with you -- I've been working on it for quite some time. It was one of those projects where I would just add a couple of things here and there every couple of days. And I wound up with one of my favorite layouts of all time. 


This layout was originally see on the Basically Bare blog: http://basicallybareonline.com/wordpress/?p=3500

The bright colors of Pink Paislee's Spring Jubilee really pop on neutral backgrounds, so I grabbed the newspaper patterned sheet as my background and worked from there.  I added some Pink Paislee rub-ons (Spring Jubilee and She Art collections) to the neutral background, and matted the entire layout on bright green patterned paper.

I loved the idea of painting the Basically Bare chipboard Frames a stark black (using the amazing Zig black painty markers) and using them to frame the ultra bright pink and blue papers. The Zig painty markers really do make it super easy to paint chipboard. I keep them right on my desk at all times. I also used them to paint over the foam Thickers in my title, easily making my own coordinating alpha -- I've used this trick about seven or eight times now! 

I used three separate Basically Bare Fanciful frames: one for my photo (approx. 4×6) and then two more for the patterned papers.  After backing the frames, I played around with the arrangement a little until I was satisfied. 

As you can see I stacked the center frame with the photo, on top of the two other frames. This gave the layout a lot of dimension right at the focal point. 

One of my favorite parts of this layout is this little embellishment cluster to the bottom left of the photo.  The acrylic heart is a part of the LOVEly locket set, I trimmed off the lock piece at the top, and I was left with a clear acrylic heart. Also in the cluster are a chipboard star from the Celestial Shapes collection as well as a chipboard button from the Buttons collection; those are both covered with a coordinating patterned paper from the Spring Jubilee collection. 

I added Pink Paislee ‘She Art’ rub-ons to the top of both the acrylic heart and the chipboard star, just to give it a little bit more of a artsy, textured feel.

Thank you so much for letting me share this with you!

--Kristin

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Layout: Frames

Happy Thursday Everyone!

Today I'm sharing a fun layout I created for a ScrapFreak Freaky Friday challenge. The 'Trends & Design' challenge for this month was to work frames into your layout. I loved how this came out, even if the pictures aren't great. Sorry for the terrible photo quality -- I didn't realize how dirty my lens filter was until I uploaded the photos. Oops :)

After typing up some journaling on my cardstock, I cut out some of the frames from a sheet of Studio Calico/Sassafras paper, ran them straight across the page, and stuck a little polaroid-type picture in with them.

I continued the horizontal theme with the banner at the bottom of the page with a misted canvas trim as well as some washi and a sticker at the top.

This was such a fun spring layout. I really love that frames are making a comeback.

Thanks for stopping by :)
Kristin

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