A great start to the year with Sandi's Inspirational Designs



Hi everyone, it's great to be back to share some more of my art and to inspire you to try some new ideas. 

Over the Christmas break I looked at my beautiful family and realised how much my girls have grown up. With these thoughts in mind I went searching for some old and new photos. 

The chipboard pieces I used on this layout were painted with Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint 'Lime', 'Magenta' and 'Lemon' because of their vibrant colours and great coverage. The paper and die-cut elements  I used were from '7 Dots Studio: Peeled Paint' collection. The cheese cloth was dyed with Lindys Stamp Gang inks and the ephemera behind the photos were old Australian children's story magazines.




The chipboard I used on this layout were:

Chris small arrows and shapes board. IDDC0001

Circle border 8 inch IDB0008

All grown up IDP0027

My second share is a magical moment between an Auntie and her niece; my daughter and my beautiful grand daughter 6yrs ago. I just love the beach and sea, the colours on a summers day are glorious and one of my favourite shades of blue. 

The background was created by using a roller to spread Dina Wakley Turquoise and Sky acrylic paints over the white cardstock with a thinned white paint dripped down the centre of the colours. The chipboard was painted with matching colours from the photo with the heart being painted in Magenta and blue hemp cord to frame the photo. The square frame piece behind the photo is cut from the 'Travel shots' chipboard piece.

IDP0196 Sun sky sea sand

Lous heart shapes IDD0070

My favourite travel photos IDW0061

 The third and last piece I'd like to share is a little different where it doesn't physically have chipboard attached onto it's surface instead I used it as stencils and stamps. I needed another art pouch to hold my Dina Wakley paints so I thought I'd make it uniquely mine.



Using my Dina Wakley paints I rubbed different colours over the surface allowing each to dry so I didn't accidentally end up with brown instead of these vibrant colours. Using the cut out section of the heart, crosses and arrow chipboard I used a makeup sponge to add colours. Adding thinned black and white paint in a fine tipped squeezy bottle around the shapes and in scribble writing adds depth and definition to the finished pouch.

IDDL0015 Lous heart shapes

Loolabelles Freaky IDDOO50

Loolabelle's nested Arrows IDDL0018

Nats hearts 1 IDD0042

Loolobelle's nested hexagons IDD0017

It was great sharing my first creations for the year and I'm looking forward to seeing every ones creations this year with our amazing Imagination Designs.

Thanks

Sandi

Introducing The Mixed Media Master and Beautiful Designer that is Tanya Palamarchuk.

 

Hello Everyone

Today I am thrilled to be introducing to you all, our other International Design Team Member - the beautiful Tanya Palamarchuk.

 

 

Tanya has been on our design team for a few years now. I love her work, her projects are so different from the other ladies on our team.

Tanya's designs are clean and fresh and I love her layering, it is so clever. Again she is a Master Scrapbooker who can turn her hand to anything, as you will see from the projects I have chosen to share with you all.  She also uses lots of mixed media techniques, along with traditional scrapbooking on her projects. Her work shows her talent at making her layouts and projects look so simple and elegant whilst still adding lots of bits and pieces. It is all to do with the way Tanya balances everything on her work and her use of negative space.

 

Tanya lives in Zhytomyr in the Ukraine. So as you can imagine English is not Tanya's first language. I don't have a bio from her and the translation of her profile on her blog was quite interesting. This is what I found that translated ok.

 

My name is Tanya Palamarchuk.

I live in Zhytomir, Ukraine.

I am crafter, scrapbooker, cardmaker and blog designer.

I have two children, they are all my inspiration and life.

 

I googled where Tanya lives and here is what I discovered.

Situated on three rocky hills, and surrounded by ancient forests, Zhytmyr is considered to be the gem of Polesia. This old city with a boisterous history, interesting landmarks and unique landscapes attracts more and more travellers each year.

 

 

Zhytomyr is famous for its numerous parks and public gardens, It is one of the greenest cities in the Ukraine. But the city's best quality is the charming happiness with which it welcomes its guests. It is not by chance that hospitably open gates were the city's ancient logo. Until today, the peaceful and comfortable Zhytomyr is open to everyone who wishes to learn about it's rich past and no less interesting present day life.

I also goggled the weather and while we swelter with a 42 C day today, Tanya will be rugged up and in front of a heater with her temp being -3 C.



 I wish I could share more of Tanya's story with you all and if I can get any more information I will.  But for now I want to show you some of Tanya's lovely mixed media layouts and projects.

 Tanya has created a beautiful mixed media foundation for her layout.

I love all the bits and pieces Tanya has collected and layered together. You can see what I mean about the balance of Tanya's work. Whilst the layout has lots of elements it still looks simple and modern.

 

 You can see all the embellishments  Tanya has collected for her layout, just look at what she has chosen to use, flowers, chipboard sequins and more. I love the elegant look to her layout.

I love this one, Tanya has taken one of our chipboard clocks and used it as a frame for her photo. I really like the way she didn't trim her photo to fit on the clock but rather allows her photo to hang outside the clock frame.  It looks so simple and elegant but interesting and perfectly balance. the red bling are the perfect touch. 

 

 

you can see the detail here and the way the clock frames her photo. One of our chipboard titles inked black finishes this lovely layout.

 





I think this is my favourite Tanya layout. You can see what I mean about the way Tanya balances her work. She has used the negative piece of one of our chipboards and painted it gold. She has also cut one of our titles into three pieces and used them to frame her photo.  Adding a bit of doily and the string across her page is just the perfect touch. Some paint dots and gold chipboard hearts finish her layout beautifully. A Simply Elegant layout and a great example of Tanya's wonderful work.

 

This was another one of Tanya's projects I found on her blog. I wish I could tell you more about it. I think it is a shadow box. I know the titles is chipboard but the rest I am unsure of.  I just know that I really like it. Again a lot of little bits and pieces simply put together to create a perfect off the page  project.

 

 

 

I did go back through Tanya's blog and found some of her earlier projects. This one shows how Tanya layers everything to add interest to her layout. 

It looks like she has used embossing powder on her chipboard flourish. She is so clever at making everything come together.

 



Tanya has created a stunning back ground for her page. I like the way she has trimmed around her photo and tucked all her bits and pieces under it. I love the fact that she has placed everything along the right edge of her page leaving all the negative space to the left. With such a stunning background, Tanya needs this space to balance her photo and embellishments.  Again another lovely Tanya layout. 

 

Just look at the amazing centre piece Tanya has created for this layout, so many elements collected and layered together. I just love it - where do I start. I love the strong colours she has used and the fact that her photo is still the focus, even though there is heaps to look at. A wonderful example of

Tanya's use of colour on her layout.

 

 

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 Just look at this layout, Tanya has soften the background of her page by adding white paint. The splash of teal on her layout is just the right touch.

  Again Tanya has placed everything along the right edge of her page.  Don't you love all the elements she has added around her photo. One of our titles painted yellow really "pops" on the page. Tanya's confidant use of strong colour is show here.

 

To finish up, I have chosen another one of Tanya's white layouts. Tanya is so clever at this style of scrapbooking. Just look at how she has put her page together. You can see what I mean about clean lines and a modern feel to her work. She is so talented  and I am so delighted that we will be seeing more of her work on our blog this year.

Please feel free to leave a personal message for Tanya welcoming her back to our team for 2018.

See you all tomorrow with another design team member.

Thanks for looking

Jane



Good Bye to Another Friend

Hello Everyone
Today we get to say Good Bye to Alison Bevis.

Alison has been a friend of Imaginarium Designs for any years and a personal friend of mine. We met through our love of scrapbooking and share many of the same interests and values. I really enjoy her company. Alison has embarked on a new journey and this is taking up a lot of her time. She is now the proud owner of The Crafty Chain a new scrapbooking store in Brisbane. Due to her commitment to her store Alison has decided to stand down from our Design Team. I will miss her input, but I will still get to catch up with her from time to time. Hopefully she will find time to be a guest designer sometime this year.

 Alison is an all round scrap booker, she can turn her hand to anything. Whether its a  beautiful card like the one above or a stunning layout like the one below. Alison always has some special for us.

This was a layout Alison did on herself. I love the strong colours and the use of our chipboard inked black for effect.

 

Alison also does shabby so well, look at all the back ground detail on this layout, and the lovely layering.  A special layout for a special lady.

 

 

 

"Totally Love This" was another one of Alison's Layout. She drew a heart shape with a couple of co-ordinating Distress markers, and then adhered a bunch of embellishments around the shape. She inked most of 'Nat's Hearts'  in pink. The title "Love This" Alison inked and beaded, "Totally" was covered with pearlescent ink, 'Loolabelle's Piechart and Heart Embellishments' reminded her of roses so she inked and beaded them and used them to overlay on her paper embellishments.

This is a really lovely example of Alison's work.

I really do hate saying goodbye to the ladies on our design team but it has to happen.

Life goes on, change is good for us, new opportunities come our way, another door opens as one closes and so on.

 

We all wish Alison the best for her future endeavours and hope she has a wonderful and stress free 2018. We hope she will visit us and keep in touch time permitting.

Please feel free to leave Alison a personal messages of support, I know she would love to hear from you all.

 I will be back again in a day or two to say Good Bye to another Friend and Design Team Member.

thanks for looking

Jane

October Layouts with Belinda

Hello!

Belinda here today to share a trio of layouts I have created using lots of fabulous Imaginarium Designs chipboard.

'You Make Me Smile' Layout

All chipboard on this layout has been painted with white gesso.

IDW0097 You Make Me Happy Smile Laugh

IDD0077 Loolabelle's Chevrons # 2

IDD0078 Loolabelle's Love Arrows

IDD0046 Loolabelle's Callouts

'Capture The Moment' Layout

For this layout I have coloured all of the chipboard pieces using Jane Davenport Watercolour Paints from the Brights Palette.

IDD0077 Loolabelle's Chevrons # 2

IDS0076 21 Stars

IDW0076 Capture Moment Smile

IDP0123 Honouring The Past

'Create Art' Layout

I have painted the Loolabelle's Freaky Peep Crosses with Flutterby Designs Flutter Colour Paint in Grape Soda and coloured the words with a white Posca Pen.

IDD0050 Loolabelle's Freaky Peeps Crosses

IDW0079 Imagine Believe Happy

IDW0092 Inspire Create Seriously Art

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today and checking out my projects.

Cheers

Belinda