'Live, Laugh, Love Always' Layout by Helen Tilbury

Hello everyone - Helen here again today with another layout share.

I recently received the new 'Happy Christmas'papers from Inkido 

& used them to create a non-Christmas layout.

For my background I used 'Happy Christmas'Winter Fence paper

& for my layers I used 'Happy Christmas' Happy Mix, Happy Music

& Vintage Ornament, all of which are double-sided & I used both sides

of 2 of them, so all in all I used 6 different Inkido prints on my layout.

To embellish my layout I used Fashion Flowers in Pink, but I sprayed them 

with mist to darken them to a rust colour.  I also used Cherry Blossoms

in Natural White, & white Inkido lace which I also misted to match. 

 I also used half a pack of Parlor Pearls in Champagne, also from Inkido.

I used a butterfly stamp from Inkido, which I dipped into mist sprayed

 onto my craft mat, so that the image would be hazy & ethereal.

I punched some butterflies out of patterned paper & dotted them around my layout,

using Inkido pearls for the centres.I used some fine silver thread, some mesh tape

& some chipboard to enhance the Inkido product & add some additional textures.

The Parlor pearls work well as anchors to hold down the thread in places.

The Winter Fence print on the background is a very beautiful textural-looking print,

which I enhanced with various different mists lightly sprinkled on it to tie all the 

different colours together.  I also tore, sanded, distressed & punched the papers.

I layered everything up lightly & also used the negative pieces of printed paper

that I punched the butterflies out of, adding in a central pearl to the negative shape.

I hope I have successfully shown you today how to use the beautiful new

Happy Christmas collection for your non-Christmas photos too.

See you again next month.  Helen

Do not open until Christmas by SGD Christin G

I am in a Christmas mood lately, and I can honestly say that is has never happened this early. This weekend I started Christmas shopping - well, that is Christin window shopping. I went around the stores with my Iphone and took a lot of pictures to put on our Christmas wish list.  No gifts, put I did buy new Christmas decorations. Last year I started a new job a month before Christmas and Christmas decorating wasn't part of my priorities, so this year I have started early.   So while in Christmas spirit, I have made a Christmas layout with pictures from last year - from Christmas Eve morning where the kids in their PJs were allowed to open one big present each.

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An Altered Box by Helen Tilbury using Beautiful Inkido Blooms!

Hello again Inkido fans :)

I know I cannot be the ONLY one to love these Inkido flowers?

Aaah!  I didn't think so!!

They are simply GORGEOUS - too gorgeous to keep for only Inkido projects - 

one must use them EVERYWHERE!!

Which brings me to this box I made a while back...

I used the beautiful Harmony flowers - I am ashamed

to say I may have used a whole pack!!  Hmmmmm....

I couldn't help myself...they make for the most decadent embellishing!

In fact, one pack just wasn't enough!!  I even added some Tiffany Jewels!

The thing with Inkido embellishments...

You can create a simple project then make it look FANCY really quickly!!

{That is my sneaky tip for the day!}

If this box interest you you can see more of it HERE on my blog.

I hope I have inspired you today to be free with Inkido blooms :)

'Paris was Pure Bliss' Layout by Helen Tilbury

Hello Dear Inkido Folk!  How are you all today?!

Well it's HELEN here with you again today, sharing

a layout full of beautiful Inkido products.

I cut my background paper down slightly {then lightly distressed it} to give me the opportunity to use 2 beautiful Inkido papers for my background!  For the under page {that shows on the border only} I used 'Mathea' Croissant & for the top piece {that I cut down 1cm all around - or 2cm off the length & 2cm off the width} I used 'Beautiful Memories' Beige Flowers.  

I cut strips from the 'Beautiful Memories- Sage Blossom' blue floral print, which I tore down to size, inked up with brown, adhered vertically & horizontally then sponged over with a light layer of gesso & misted with brown & gold mist to blend it in with the background.  

I embellished my page with some Inkido lace, which also got the mist & gesso treatment, a chipboard window frame & a couple of lovely Inkido Pink Fashion Flowers.

Inkido papers are lovely & thick, firm & strong - perfect for 

adding a touch of mixed media to your pages if you like!

I added some pretty bling & used stickers for my title.

I hope you enjoyed my page today & that I provided 

some inspiration for you & your Inkido products.

See you again next month :)

               

 

Special Guest Designer - Helen Tilbury - '20 & 21' Mixed Media Layout

Hello again everyone :)  It's HELEN here - back again this

 month with another project especially prepared  for Inkido!

I decided this month to see how much
 colourful fun I could have with Inkido
 products & am quite happy with the outcome :)

As well as Inkido papers I used the butterfly stamp & flowers

 from Inkido too. The papers I have used are Sage Flowers, 

Sage Memories,{both sides of each} plus "Is this Love?"{Hope}.

I distressed all the papers then inked them with dark brown ink

& bent, tore, scrunched & stapled them.  Inkido papers are just 

perfect for this kind of treatment as they are vintage-looking

 & strong so can withstand mists & water treatments too.

I used two Pink Fashion Flowers & added some touches of black
 in the way of bling,feathers & netting to enhance the dramatic photos used.

I tied the colours together through the use of mists in black,

 pink, brown & yellow by spraying & splattering.

I added some old book paper for a romantic touch.  The photos

 I used are very 'young & funky' which one may not automatically

 imagine using with Inkido papers but I suggest you try it! 

 Adding touches of black through Inkido stamps really helps

 make them work with the softer papers, they just 'pop!'

 Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed my page :)

Special Guest Designer - Christin Grønnslett aka Umenorskan

Hello, I am back !! For those of you that don't remember me, I popped into the blog for a little visit back in May (2013), but now I am back for a liiitle longer time. You will see me once a month until Christmas as a Special Guest Designer.  I will do a briefer intro to myself this time...

Who am I ? My name is Christin Grønnslett. 39 years old, lives in Norway with husband and two kids (6 and almost 4)  My blog: http://umenorskan.blogspot.com. I am one of those night owl scrappers. Every evening when the kids are asleep, I sneak down to my scrapcave way in the basement and scrap. If you look at my pages there are a few things that easily points to me. I mostly scrap using a white cardstock, I use stencils and stamps with distress inks, doilies are present and I use several layers, but most important - I am allergic to using up a whole page  so you will always se a lot of white space.  I am no documentation scrapper, allthough I often use my own handwriting. I love just capture different facial expressions as the kids grow older.

If you want to know more about my creative process, you can go back to my May post (linked above).

"Huske" is the name of this project - with a picture of my 3 year old in the swing the garden. She is not happy - I am not giving her a push - I am just photographing her - not very popular....

If you see the two projects in the other post you can see that I first used color products, stamps, stencils and THEN added my layers of paper, well, here I have done a mix of those two layering techniques.  Here is my thoughts on the different techniques: If you prefer a rather flat layering style and no big flowers and want to have room for a lot of pages in your albums I would recommend using this approach which goes as follows.  Glue down every layer on top of each other, leaving not much air between the layers, stamps, stencil and add gesso ON TOP of all the layers, and then add the picture and decorations.  This style is very common in Eastern Europe and if you are familiar with especially polish scrappers you would see this style.   Then there is the style in which I am most familiar. You do all the color work on the page before you start adding layers, and then staple the layers giving the papers a lot of air to tuck things in between. 3d adhesive is commonly used too.







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