My Happy Family// The Crafty Maven

Good afternoon everyone.  Thank you for stopping by.  I have a very bright and colorful layout for you today.  My grandma turned 86 years old and we had a huge family party with a Mariachi band and all.  We managed to get a majority of us together for this photo.  I think it was an absolute priceless moment.  This layout was made for Art Party Friday on The Crafty Maven Getaway channel on YouTube.  I love being on Art Party Friday's because sky's the limit with my mixed media on the background.  So.... I added tons of paint colors with a one inch flat brush and had some of the colors blend together.  

My title came easily once I choose the gold foil script phrase thickers called Wildflower.  I added the second gold font to add more interest to the layout.  Those were Desktop by Dear Lizzy.  The strip of washi tape with the gold foil hearts is from my stash.  

The large ephemera with all the hearts is from Wilna's shop and was  included in a recent online workshop I took with her.  I was able to enhance the hearts by adding more from the Hello Love chipboard sheet. 

I finished off the layout with black paint splatters and some light journaling.  I also matted the layout on a colorful patterned paper from The It Factory paper pad from We are Memory Keepers.  You can watch my process here:

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Hello// The Crafty Maven Getaway

Hello scrappy friends!  I am on Scrap Lift Saturday for the Crafty Maven Getaway.  I came across this wonderful layout by Paige Evans on Instagram and thought it was worthy to scrap lift.  It reminded me of my lift from Missy except using hearts instead of circles.  So I thought I would give it a whirl.  

I cut all the hearts our first on my Cameo.  Once they were off the cutting mat I counted out 40.  That is the number needed to re create this layout.  Then using this weeks mood board, I painted them randomly with a few different sized paint brushes.  I let this layer dry before adding the gold splatters.  

I added black outlines, dots and doodles on some of the hearts for an added details.  Now I did try to add these multi colored hearts to a white piece of card stock and embrace the negative space but, I just thought it was so plain to me.  I did not like all the negative space so with the left over paint used to brush the hearts I added to the background.  What can I say, I love color.  

I have attached my process video so that you may watch the process.  

Thank you for stopping by,
Evi

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Good afternoon everyone.  Thank you for stopping by.  I have a very bright and colorful layout for you today.  My grandma turned 86 years old and we had a huge family party with a Mariachi band and all.  We managed to get a majority of us together for this photo.  I think it was an absolute priceless moment.  This layout was made for Art Party Friday on The Crafty Maven Getaway channel on YouTube.  I love being on Art Party Friday's because sky's the limit with my mixed media on the background.  So.... I added tons of paint colors with a one inch flat brush and had some of the colors blend together.  

 The large ephemera with all the hearts is from Wilna's shop and was  included in a recent online workshop I took with her.  I was able to enhance the hearts by adding more from the Hello Love chipboard sheet.  

My title came easily once I choose the gold foil script phrase thickers called Wildflower.  I added the second gold font to add more interest to the layout.  Those were Desktop by Dear Lizzy.  The strip of washi tape with the gold foil hearts is from my stash.  

Finished off the layout with black paint splatters and some light journaling.  I also matted the layout on a colorful patterned paper from The It Factory paper pad from We are Memory Keepers.  You can watch my process here:

Thank you for stopping by,

Evi

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Hello scrappy friends!  I am on the Crafty Maven Getaway for Mix it up Monday.  Today's project encourages us to think outside the box when it comes to our paper crafts.  Our inspiration board has gorgeous corals, navies, and neutrals.  I did originally start with all the corals, and then I quickly added more and more colors I love.  

I started off with Strathmore, 140 pound Mixed Media paper.  I used Dina Wakley Gel Medium in order to smoothly apply Tim Holtz tissue paper called Malange.  The gel medium from Dina Wakley is the best to get tissue paper down the smoothest.  I then started with the acrylic paints.  I began with Watermelon, Sunkissed Coral, Coral, Eraser Pink and Crimson Red and then I started adding in more colors that I like in the blue and mint family.  I did not want to add the dark navies because I knew I was going to add my text in black and it would not have stood out on navy.  I finished it with some gold Color Shine from Heidi Swapp.

The word Love was added with a round paint brush and the print was done with a Zig Vellum writer.  The frame, I was lucky enough to find at Goodwill for $3.  I have every intention of hanging this in my craft room on my gallery art wall.  It will fit in just nicely.   Here is my process video for this fun DIY project.  

Thank you for stopping by,
Evi

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Adorable// The Crafty Maven Getaway

Hello lovely ladies!! This is my first layout for the Crafty Maven Getaway and I am super thrilled to be apart of a dynamic group of talented and creative women.  I am scrapping a photo that I quicker took while my little Zoe looked up into the light from her nap.  The light hit her perfectly in the face and immediately went to print it.  

We were given a mood board for the vision of where our project can be inspired from.  The vivid rich blues, navy and beiges are dominant and wanted to someone incorporate these colors in my layout.  I do not work usually with browns in my layouts but I was ok with the beige element.  So I started off working on a kraft patterened paper called Monroe from the Rise and Shine collection by Amy Tangerine.  It also had a small tiny triangle doodle in the paper which picked up the light doodle marks on the tea cups in the mood board.  

I then started with a 1" flat paint brush and used craft acyclic paint and did large brush strokes across the whole page.  I mixed real navy, admiral blue, english navy, carolina blue, baby blue and mediterranean blue randomly in my strokes.  The overall initial outcome was beautiful, but I thought it was a bit much to be the entire background.  So, the layers of other patterned papers entered in the beige family with a lovely large polka dot and one with gold foiled hash marks.  

I also played around with cut files from the silhouette design store.  So the bone shape, the "ruff" word, the paw print and the infinite sign with the paw print were cut and sprayed with Heidi Swapp Color shine. They were just a few embellishments that I wanted to add to my Zoe layout.  The rest of the bit and pieces are from my stash from different collections.  The paw print flair button is from a Feed Your Craft on Etsy.  

In order to add a few more of the bold vivid blue paint strokes I added a few pieces along the edges to bring the blue to other areas of the page.  I finished off the layout with beige sequins in sets of three in a few places and navy Color Shine.  Here is the process video on the Crafty Maven to watch how this layout came together.

Thank you,
Evi

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