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Pretty Patterned Paper Playground

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Welcome back to Katty and my series with Pretty Patterned Paper Playground. We are having so much fun scrapping together for this series since we both live in South Florida together. Our challenge this month is to use negative space, aka, leave white showing. If you know me and my style you know this never happens. I cover my layouts with color. I was up for the challenge this month though. I think for my first attempt at negative space I did do pretty well. I see plenty of white space left untouched.

I began with my mix media and used Distress stains in Wilted Violet and Cracked Pistachio and Shimmerz mists in Cotton Candy and Sweet Heart. I went through my collection of 6x6 paper pads and pulled anything that had pink, purple or teal. I cut them all up into random sizes and just started layering them up under my photo. This part took the longest amount of time.

I added tangled thread in the same colors and then a few black and white Mambi chipboard stickers for some contrast. The flair is from an old Clique kits. The tiny word stickers are from Tim Holtz small chatter booklets and the 'Whatever' title is from the Documentary collection by Dear Lizzy.

I have attached my process video for your viewing pleasure.

Thank you for stopping by,
Evi

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Pretty Patterned Paper Playground// Beautiful Smiles

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Hello lovely ladies of scrapbook land! Katty and I have our second episode of Pretty Patterned Paper Playground for you today. For our challenge this week, we wanted to scrap-lift a lovely Missy Whidden layout. It was a great layout to do "controlled" mix media". I would encourage anyone who want to try mix media out, to begin like this. I started off with two random scrap pieces of paper that I primed with white gesso. I then went randomly in with mists galore; layer upon layer. I did one with all the pinks, reds and oranges and the other with the blues and greens.

Of course no mix media is complete without some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in gold. I then used a 1.5" circle punch and randomly laid them out with 4 rows of 7 circles. So I made sure I had 14 of the pink ones and 14 of the green ones. For this portion I am a stickler for, even parts.

I am scrapping a recent picture of my mother and I at a Broadway musical "Kinky Boots" that came to Fort Lauderdale. It was a great show and of course I bought along my selfie stick for a moment like this. The title "beautiful" is from the Maggie Holmes Shine collection sticker sheet and the other letters are from my stash.

I added a few black circle stickers from a MAMBI sticker sheet and Heidi Swapp. I am loving the tiny word stickers from Tim Holtz as well. Missy is a true inspiration and in her layout as well she did her journaling along the left vertical side which is a nice detail. Missy also stitched through her circles with black thread. I do not have a sewing machine but I do have clear stamps that have a stitching design to them, so I stamped stitches with Black Staz-on ink on my circles. I always like adding black ink splatters at the end of my design.

We took over each others YouTube channel, so my video is linked above on her channel and her version is on my channel. Please watch both if you have the time. I hope you enjoy the challenge and join us on our Facebook group: Pretty Patterned Paper Playground.

Thank you,
Evi

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Pretty Patterned Paper Playground Challenge #1

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Hello crafty ladies! We are together for some creative goodness with our new series. Katty Miranda, of +Katty Miranda and @kattymiranda on IG, lives in south Florida as well and somehow we eventually figured out we live close to each other. So what do scrappers do as a meet and greet...we went to a crop together. We spent all day talking and scrapping and thought we should get together and do a fun series for our subscribers. So that is exactly what we did. We decided we wanted our series to be interactive and made a coordinating Facebook group to play along with us in our Playground. We will post our mood board for the month on the FB group page and we limited our supplies to 5 items. We choose the Hello Love collection from Crate Paper, mists, paints, stencils and ephemera. The ongoing challenge will always be to create our own pretty patterned background and we have set the chanllenge to 15 minutes.