Showing posts with label Numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Numbers. Show all posts

Monday, February 10, 2014

My First Imaginarium Designs post!


Hello, Leonie Neal-Dawson here today with my very first post as part of the 
2014 Design Team here at Imaginarium Designs!
I'm so honoured to be given this opportunity to work with these chipboard designs and to
hopefully inspire you to get creative with the wonderful range that Imaginarium Designs chipboard has to offer.  I have two page layouts to share with you today.

This first page captures my four children on their way back from a swim at our local beach.
As the title suggests a special 'Moment In Time' as they are happily chatting and joking with none of the usual bickering!



I used this pretty scalloped shaped banner across the top of my photo.  This banner comes in a set of three different shaped banners (there's also a pennant and a flag shape).  All very cute and the perfect size for a 4x6" photographs.  
The banner was first painted with Gesso and then before the gesso dried 
completely I sprinkled some chunky white embossing enamel (by 
Stampendous) over the banner and heat set it. 
I stopped heating the enamel almost as soon as it melted but 
before it spread out over the whole surface of the banner.
This was the result, a white bubbled, textural banner!


Generally when I'm using more than one piece of Chipboard I like to use the 
same technique on some of them so that it ties different elements on the page together.  
So for the title, I used the same procedure with the embossing enamel.
The phrase piece I used here actually comes as 'Beautiful Moments In Time'.
However I cut the word beautiful off to suit my page.   


Here's a closer image of the title.


The third piece of Chipboard I used was a 'Clock and Compass' piece (pictured further down).
As you can see it comes as one piece but I cut the outer compass parts off so that I had three separate 
circular shapes - A great way to extend your chipboard a little farther.
I stuck the circles to my base page with Gel Medium and then painted them and the 
card stock with Gesso, before then spraying and splattering the page
with Hero Arts Neon Sprays.





Clock and Compass IDS006



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On to my second share for today, which as it's February I thought it would be fitting to use a 
back to school photo.  Children all head back to school late January-early February here in Australia after our long summer break.  Unfortunately as you can see by the date my photograph is from 2013! Yes, I'm a little behind on scrapping some pictures!!!



As I mentioned above I like to treat different chipboard pieces with the same technique
to tie everything together and I've done this again here with all three pieces of chipboard.  
First I painted the chipboard with 
a similar colour to the glitter I was going to use so that if there were any small gaps the
turquoise colour would show through and be less noticeable.


After painting the chipboard I coated it in glue; sprinkled 
glitter over it and set it aside to dry.  Nice and easy and very sparkly!


I love these chipboard numerals, they're a great size at about 1.5cm in height.
Perfect to add a date to your page.



The third piece of chipboard are these skeletal leaves which come in a set
of seven different sized leaves.


Thanks so much for stopping by to view my pages.  I hope
you've enjoyed my first post at Imaginarium Designs.

Please leave a comment to go into the draw to win a pack of chipboard!



Friday, February 15, 2013

Pastel Creations...

Hello Imaginarium Designs Fans!

You are with Sandrine today! And I am very excited to share 2 layouts for my first post!!!

The first layout is of my son on his 7th birthday, he let me take photos and even smiled for them lol!


"7"



I love soft shabby colours, it is me! And those colours also are a lot like my son too (everyone says we look alike) so the layout came quickly together, there are lots of layers, and a little tip is to create those layers with the chipboard at the bottom, it will create AMAZING dimension!



Here I attached my banner onto the chipboard fence, very easy and effective and you can still see the chipboard!!!
  


My chipboard treatment:
Fence, Mini Cogs and fence: I applied 2 coats of Picket Fence Distress Stain, inked edges with Walnut Ink Distress Ink.
The Fence was glued down with 3 layers of foam tape! The chipboard in this layout is used to create extra dimension. I kept the treatment simple on all the chipboard pieces, to keep with the soft shabby feel of my layout, this is one of the reason why I love chipboard so much, you can alter it to go with your mood and creativity







ID CHIPBOARD USED:
- HEART TOP PICKET FENCE IDB0005
- NUMBERS IDN0001
- 9 COGS ON BOARD IDT0004

OTHER PRODUCTS USED:
- PAPERS: PRIMA, PINK PAISLEE, FANCY PANTS
- FLOWERS: PRIMA
- TIM HOLTZ TISSUE TAPE
- PUNCHES: EK SUCCESS, MARTHA STEWART, FISKARS, CARL
- WE R MEMORY KEEPERS TWINE
- STAMPS: PINK PAISLEE, PRIMA, KAISERCRAFT
- OTHER: PICKET FENCE DISTRESS STAIN, WALNUT STAIN DISTRESS INK, STAMPIN UP SAGE SHADOW INK, PIN, GAUZE

My second layout is a little more experimental with the use of Glimmermists. It is of my two children posing on our last day at the beach last December, there again soft colours but different techniques!

"Treasured Memories"


 "Treasured Memories" title was first painted with a thin layer of Gesso, and then lightly sprayed with yellow and blue Glimmermist:


 The gorgeous Feather was also lightly painted with Gesso, then sprayed a bit more heavily with yellow Glimmermist, when dry I added some "Rock Candy" Distress Stickles to the middle area. I let it dry and then added the blue glimmermist with a paint brush, the rock candy gives gorgeous texture to the feather:


 The Fence was lightly painted with Gesso, I painted the Hearts with blue Glimmermist and lightly sprayed the bottom with yellow glimmermist:


 One more close-up of one of my favourite Imaginarium Designs Chipboard piece by Louise :)))








ID CHIPBOARD USED:

OTHER PRODUCTS USED:
- PAPER: PRIMA, ECHO PARK, BASIC GREY, BO BUNNY
- FLOWERS: PRIMA, MANOR HOUSE CREATIONS
- WE R MEMORY KEEPERS TWINE
- PUNCHES: MARTHA STEWART, CARL, FISKARS
- STAMPS: RACHELLE MINNETT DESIGNS, KAISERCRAFT, PINK PAISLEE
- OTHER: GESSO, WALNUT STAIN DISTRESS INK, "TWINKLE YELLOW" GLIMMERMIST, "TRUNK BAY" GLIMMERMIST, STAMPIN UP BARELY BANANA INK PAD, "ROCK CANDY" DISTRESS STICKLES, THE CRAFTER'S WORKSHOP "HARLEQUIN" TEMPLATE 6X6, GAUZE, COTTON THREAD

Well I really hope you enjoyed my first post!!! And that I inspired you to have a play with our chipboard!!!
Leave me a comment for your chance to win an amazing selection of Imaginarium Designs Chipboard.
Until next time, happy scrapping!