Month: February 2016

Hero | The Studio Challenges

ewelinkag February 28, 2016

Today, I want to share with you page I made as a DT member for The Studio Challenges blog. The new challenge has a HERO theme so as long as you focus your work around a hero of yours, you’re in.

I decided to give a little twist and focused on a group of people rather than one person – MOTHERS; what a great timing with Mother’s Day just around the corner. Every mother is a hero in its own right…so why not give them the recognition they deserve?

I wanted to make the page fresh and bright so I used green and yellow Brusho powders; I overlaid them with stamp inks and a stencil from Rebecca Baer as well as a negative of the title, which I designed and cut out on my Silhouette Portrait. Texture paste and sprinkles of mists from 13arts added even more layers to the background. To finish, I mounted the photo on a scrap of green card, added the title and decorated with some Prima flowers.

Here are some close-ups of the layout.

Thank you for stopping by.

February Moodboard | Scrap Africa

ewelinkag February 15, 2016

Today’s page is based on the below Scrap Africa February mood board challenge – all the details are here. It gives off a vintage feel with all the washed off greens and oranges and old wallpaper and photos. It’s not really my style but…that’s what a good challenge is all about.

I used two different stencils, Kaiserkraft stamp and pastel mists from 13arts. To build the paper cluster I used tags from 7Dots and pages from an old copy of Pride and Prejudice. As details: piece of cloth from 13arts, Prima flowers and white grit from 13arts.

Here are some close-ups.

And the whole page.

Hope to see you again.

Valentine’s Day layout |The Studio Challenges

ewelinkag February 14, 2016

I wanted to share with you my first page as a member of The Studio Challenges design team member. It is such a privilege to have been chosen to join this team of very talented ladies so I wanted to make sure that my first contribution would confirm it was the right choice.

The layout is based is on the below sketch + use of a heart, since it’s a Valentine’s Day page. You can find all the details here.

I used a 12×12 teal card from 7Dots and painted it with irregular strokes of white gesso to create first layer of texture and break the dark background colour. I used Tim Holtz doily stencil with black and then white gesso randomly all over the page. Once that dried, I used various blue, teal and white mists and inks and sprinkled them all over. While the colour was drying, I made the paper cluster using scraps of crafting card. I used my typewriter to type random lettering on some of the papers; mainly to get away with not using a title as I didn’t think it would work well with the page. As embellishments I used two chipboard hears which I painted white with acrylic ink, and a bunch of prima flowers in colours complimenting the papers used in the cluster.

Here are some close-ups of the page.

Here’s the whole page.

Thank you for visiting. See you soon.

shades of grey | Scrap Africa

ewelinkag February 2, 2016

Today, I wanted to share with you a page I made for the February sketch challenge as part of the Scrap Africa DT. It was inspired by the sketch below.

I wanted to move away from the bright and colourful and have a go at the black and white. I really enjoyed the limitation – having to come up with shades that work and keep the textures popping out from under one another. So much fun.

Here are some close-ups of the work.

Thank you for visiting.