Saturday 2 July 2011

Scrapology July Layout Challenge - M is for Masks

The July layout challenge on Scrapology has now been revealed. This months challenge is all about using masks and the design team choose to scraplift a layout by Liz Qualman.

This is my layout of my gorgeous puddy tat - Tux (Tuxie).

























To create my layout I used two different shades of Cosmic Shimmer Mist - Golden Mint and Aqua Lagoon...........


......... a sheet of yellow and a sheet of black card stock ................


........ some die cut flowers ..............


......... and some scraps of patterned paper from Echo Park, October Afternoon (I think) and Fancy Pant, ribbon, a fancy metal brad, Flower Spacer, Thickers from American Crafts and some other very, very old alphabet stickers which I recoloured with ProMarkers.

I started by placing my yellow card stock in a pizza box to act as a spray studio and arranged the die cut flowers randomly on the yellow card stock to act as a mask.


I then sprayed both shades of Shimmer Mist over the yellow card stock. Obviously where the flowers were laid the mist didn't colour the card stock leaving yellow flowers on a green/blue misted background.


When putting together my layout I decided to use the previously white die cuts (now a nice green/blue colour) as embelishments on my layout and fixed them to the page with a fancy metal brad and Extra Large Flower Spacer from The Hobby House.


This was the first time I had used masks and mists and I was a little nervous about using them but I actually quite enjoyed putting this layout together and was pleased with how it turned out.

Here is Liz's original layout..............


......... and the sketch.


Do pop over to Scrapology and see all the layout and perhaps join in with the challenge too.

2 comments:

Anita said...

Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL layout Karen and a fab photo too. Cannot believe that was your first time with mists, they look fantastic and I just really love how your handmade background blends so well with the photo background.....brilliant!..xx

Linda said...

Such a vibrant page, love it!