Fussy cutting the new Altair Art papers

Hello All

Back again, with a post that is a little late.  Not good at all, however, check out this little piece of loveliness ... Altair Art has released some new papers - awesome, I know!!  The range is called Nightfall and it is full of some rather unusual layouts that should get your creativity churning.

For my first one, I selected the green as my base paper and then I fussy cut the flowers out of another piece and mounted them with double sided tape around the page.  I did spray a bit more green around the die cut elements just to give them a bit of shadow effect.  After that it is the usual layering process until it is finished.  That's it from me for this month, see you early next month.  See a couple of pictures below.

Don't forget to check out the challenge for this month too - lots of fun.

Take care, be good, be kind and most of all, find time to create.  Loads of love, Delia

My 2nd bit of Christmas for the month

Hello again,

As promised, my second Christmas layout for this month.  Completely different to the last one, with bright, blue colouring encompassing the snowflakes of Christmas.  I didn't actually use the specific AltairArt Christmas papers and picked up a lovely blue and white polka dot paper.  I think this comes from the Ever and Always II.  This was another pretty layout to work on, framed up by the lacy piece of Dusty Attic chipboard in the bottom left hand corner.  I actually had the 'sparkle and shine' theme for this month constantly on my mind and you can see that shines through in this layout too.

See you next month, have fun, Delia

Getting a wee bit Christmassy with AltairArt papers!

Hello All,

So, Altair Art have released their range of Christmas papers and ephemera and they are very lovely papers with some wonderful deep, rich colouring.  It is almost hard to cover them up with decorations.

I did two Christmas layouts for this month, so here is the first for your enjoyment.

This was a pretty layout to work on and I enjoyed my time working on it very much.  I fussy cut all the ephemera out supplied with the Altair Art papers and some I wet down and then scrunched up and dried as you can see to the top right of the white picture area.  Creating a base on the photo matt with cardboard and then mounting this upon 2 straws, I then built up around the outside with various pieces of ephemera, some also from Kaisercraft, plus a piece of Dusty Attic chipboard until finished.

I know it is Christmas early, but you need to get in and have your papers ready as it is not really that far away ...

I will be back on the 16th with a more of a blue layout, but still with the Christmas theme.

smiles, Delia

New papers mean more enjoyment

Altair Art have new papers, The Beautiful Moments Collection which is aimed towards being wedding papers, but the cream colouring lends itself to lots of other uses as well.  The other set is Christmas papers, but I have not delved into them for this month.

So, I pulled out a piece from The Beautiful Moments Collection and decided to go with the wedding theme.  I cut out some of the beautiful ephemera provided with the papers and ripped papers and got my base layout right and then it is just a simple matter of building up your photo area with flowers and string, cut out pieces of ephemera and so much more.  The word "Beautiful" is simply inked after painting it with Inka gold first to give it the beautiful shimmer that it now has.  I thought the sentiment was perfect to go with not only the layout, but the actual set of papers!

That is it for today, don't forget to check out the new challenge for this month as well and join in with your amazing artwork.  Have a lovely week all.

smiles, Delia

Layouts for new babies

So, these designs are in alignment with our theme to be announced on the 5th of this month, but no early info being given out here!

I have done a layout for a boy and one for a girl.  I shall show you the layout for the girl today and save the other one for my 17th post.  I used any of the Altair Art papers that were pink and cut them down into squares either 1 or 2 inches square.  I then inked the edges on some of them only as I did not want all of them to have a bit of extra texture.  I prepped my white page with the clear gesso and then laid out my squares gluing them down with Mod Podge.  A little bit of stencilling using some white modelling paste and then I grabbed my Lindy's Magicals "oom pah pah pink".  I selected a beautiful piece of Dusty Attic chipboard, embossing it with a couple of different pinks and some gold.  I chose some pieces of ephemera and laid them out along with various flowers and pulled it all together until it was finished.

All done, I hope you like it.  Take care all.  Some pictures below.

Crazy busy but still finding time to enjoy my papers

So, since my last post, I have now seen much more of New South Wales and I think I have seen most of it now in the last 8 months!  I had to do a flying trip back to my old state of Queensland to change my drivers licence name and 3300 kilometres later, we finally arrived back home.  Needless to say, I am completely done with travelling .. until next month anyway!  Ho Hum.

However, before I left, I got my creative groove on so I could at least be up to date with my artworks and this is a little piece I created, but it is not quite finished as I really want to find the right pieces of ephemera to put with it and I am just a tad undecided, so it will have to sit until I am inspired by the right wording and pieces. However, I love the grey backdrop of the Altair Art paper against the maroon reddiness of the layout.  My favourite bit however is the die cut pieces of the flower.  I do not know where I got the die from, but it is totes brilliant.

Anyway, I hope you are all having much fun with your own creativity and wherever that may take you.  I have some very cool pieces in my possession for doing some off the page projects or I should also get my Silhouette machines up and happening and create some groovy 3-D piece.  Just so many options and never enough time.

Pictures below of my creative piece.  Kids are on school holidays which means I get much more time to be in my craft space ....

My first canvas

Soooo, thought I would try something a bit different for me this month and out came a canvas.  I have been wanting to try doing one of these for some time and I must say I was most unsure as to what to do.  I am a little bit funny when I design as I love everything I have to be a bit meaningful and yet I looooove the designers work who do loads of layering with huge amounts of elements.  I struggle with doing that as I don't like to be wasteful or covering up elements that I really like.

As my first canvas, I love it, but it is my first and I am quite sure that I would do many things differently on the next one, but for now, here it is.  The chipboard elements are from Dusty Attic and they are absolutely gorgeous, however, the majority of the paper elements are from the gorgeous Altair Art papers with a few Kaisercraft ephemera elements.

Cheers, Delia

Papers used are from the truly beautiful EverDream collection

A bit of dark fun with the Altair Art Papers

I had been wondering what to play with next in the wonderful array of Altair Art papers that grace my desk and I settled on this lovely purple backdrop paper from the ?? paper set.  However, I wanted it all to be less purple and to grunge it up a bit - as I tend to like to do.

So a bit of stencilling went on and then I applied a few different Lindy's Magicals, starting with the black, then dark blue and light blue, plus some of the pink - it all mostly stayed blackish, but in different lights, it all really lifts up, thought it is mostly hidden now with all the layering around the photo matte.

Another very pretty layout using these amazing papers and different ephemera elements that are included across the various packs.  I must say that my purple flower stash is diminishing somewhat with these papers, but, as long as the end result is worth it, I don't mind so much.  I am currently waiting on some postage to our slightly remote location that should fill the creative coffers up nicely!

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