Kaisercraft Cherry Blossom fusion

Good Morning, Rikki here today with a bit of a fusion piece.I love mixed media and I often try to use up the end of a range by blending it together with some artistic, messy fun.

You should pop into the store to see the fabulous range of mixed media goodies perfect to get you started on some messy fun.

For the background I have used the Tim Holtz Distress Stain Mists, I love, love, love these for there vibrancy and how they interact with water. When you bring yours home why dont you grab a piece of white cardstock, add some water to the page then your mist and see what you can create. 

If they are too bright add some Prima Art Basic Heavy Gesso to the page first, this will make the mist more pastel.

Dont forget to keep your little strips that have the barcode, they will help ''fuse'' your mixed media background with your range of papers.

Another important thing to remember is to give your eye a rest, somewhere that is white and help give contrast to the background. A great way to do this is to use chipboard, like the Your Creative Wings Scribbles, and also with diecut shapes. 

The Tim Holtz Distress Stain mist has Picket Fence a perfect white, it allows minimal bleed through to keep it close to white over colours.

The next thing to do is add your Prima Art Basic Texture Paste through a stencil, its all about adding layers to your background.

Add some fussy flowers over and under your layers to complete the ''fusion'', also another tip, flick the Tim Holtz Distress Stains white over all your layout. This will tie the pattern papers to your background.

12x12 Scrapbook Paper Fragrance

Prima Art Basic Modelling Paste 

Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain

Till next time have a creative day and dont forget to pop into store to grab some off these mixed media goodies.

Rikki

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Your Creative Wings

Good Morning... Rikki here with what I promised you the other day with something a little bit messy. Its fun to get messy and its a great way to have some fun and remember your childhood skills long forgotten. When you play like this is important to have some awesome chipboard pieces to add to your layout, like the Your Creative Wings.....

Have you ever through about using your templates with black gesso? With the right template just spounge it on through the template and your done. For this piece I used Tattered Angels mist, but just painted it on. 

Now it is all about your layering, when you have a huge coloured background, its nice to dull it down with pure white, like the beautiful doilies and flowers in store now. To add to your cluster add a couple of hat pins.

To colour the chipboard I used the Prima Art Basic - Heavy Gesso, which you can pick up at the store as well as the Your Creative Wings Chipboard Flourishes.

I always try to find another way to use my chipboard pieces and if that means cutting them up I will. these jars are apart of the Mason Jar Bunting Love Set.

                           

Your Creative Wings - Mason Jar Bunting  - love.

Tattered Angels mist - Dragonfly 

Tattered Angels mist - Sapphire

Tattered Angels mist - Graphite. 

 Prima Art Basic's - Heavy Gesso

Till next time hope you have felt inspired to play....

Have a creative day

Rikki 

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Beauty

Hi, Rikki here with my first post for you, as a new design team member..... nothing like a bit of nerves to get the mojo flowing and some fabulous new products as well. I was given the stunning new range from Kaisercraft - Rustic Harmony.

I just knew that I wanted to go a bit shabby chic with this layout as soon as I saw this charm...... perfect for the girls in our lives. To add that final touch to the charm, I just hit it with a dry brush of Prima Art Basics - Heavy Gesso, using a paper towel to take off the extra to showcase the details in the charm.

Why not grab some glass cabochons? They are in store now in different sizes, I love them because they give you a little hidden detail in your flower clusters, like little rain drops.....

My favourite thing to do when getting a new range is grab the Kaisercraft Rustic Harmony Collectables kit, they have the ''best'' bits to add layers and details to your layout (like the butterfly and other diecuts around the layout).

A tip when clustering your flowers start with the largest one you have in your stash and then work around that, it allows your to angle other flowers around it to give you height.

You cant go past a wood veneer title and if you pop into the store you wont be disappointed, its works so well with this range also to make it work with the layout, lightly brush it with some Prima Art Basics - Heavy Gesso.

When you finish your layout add Prima Art Basics - Heavy Gesso over all the flowers with a dry brush it allows every colour of the flowers to blend in.

Rustic Harmony 12x12 Scrapbooking Paper - Tranquil

Rustic Harmony 12x12 Scrapbooking Paper-  Delightful

Rustic Harmony - Collectables.

Prima Art Basics - Heavy Gesso

Well hopefully I have inspired you, why dont your pop into the store to see the new Kaisercraft Rustic Harmony range and the New Prima Art Basic range.

Till next time have a Creative Day

Rikki 

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