Sunday 23 September 2012

An experiment and a challenge

Today's page started out as an experiment, and since said experiment worked out so brilliantly I decided to use my worthy efforts in a layout. I had the two perfect pictures to use in this page and it also perfectly suited the September sketch challenge over at Creative Craft World, which you cann find at:http://creativecraftworld.blogspot.co.uk/  so here goes:

 DGD1 sat herself on my stairs one day and proudly told me ''Look Bubby I'm in prison''. I couldn't resist snapping a photo or three of her. BTW, Bubby is Yiddish for Grandma, just in case you haven't cottoned on. I used the Lilac House collection by Fancy Pants for this LO. I've had it in my stash for quite a while, but never really found a use for it. It jumped out at me when I was deciding which papers to use. The colours match perfectly and the stripes blend in really well with the picture. trimmed the stripey pp to 9x9, distressed and inked the edges and then tore it in swveral places to give it a slightly shabby feel. The title for this was obvious given what Tzivi had said to  me.
 These acetate flowers are the result of my experiment. It involves some acetate, a die cutting machine and dies, alcohol inks and a heat gun.
 First I diecut the acetate using my cuutlebug and the Spellbinders Rose Creations die. I had to run it through a few times and even then I still needed to use my scissors for some bits. Then I alcohol inked the blooms. I used a mixture of purples, blues and greens. Then the exciting experimental bit. Holding the petals with tweezers, I used my heat gun to curl them. You need to be really quick or they curl in on themselves or melt completely. While it is still hot you can manipulate the petals a bit, but I take no responsibility for burns so please be careful, and don't worry if the first couple are not perfect. I soon got the hang of it. I layered 2 or 3 at a time and used brads to secure them to my page. The little green berry branches are Petaloo. They were plain white, but I inked them up a bit.
 You could try using a candle.You probably have more control as it's not so hot and the petals will take slightly longer to curl
 I rubbed some lace with purple Stazon and stapled it on with my tiny attatcher. I sort of buried the lace under the torn bits.
I turned up the bottom right hand corner of the pp to reveal the other side and I finished off the LO with some bling. Wish me luck for the challenge.

13 comments:

  1. Gorgeous LO, Leah, the acetate flowers are truly amazing! Hope you didn't burn yourself.

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  2. e fun - must find my acetate :)
    Fab page - love the colours.

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  3. The flowers are amazing. I was seriously worried about what you were planning when you gave me the list of required ingredients - sounded like it was stolen off Christian Grey's shopping list

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  4. Just stunning! I love your interpretation of my sketch. Thanks for joining in with our challenge.
    Sue xx

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  5. It's a beautiful layout.The flowers have worked out really well-I have that die so may have a try myself.

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  6. Gorgeous and those flowers are amazing :)

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  7. hi thank you for your sweet comment and wow your page is beautiful!!

    xx carla

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  8. Your acetate flowers are fab. Thanks for joining in with us at Creative Craft World.

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  9. Such cute photos...love this LO especially yr flowers, they look fab...thanks for joining o a CCW...hugs Sarah x xx

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  10. Gorgeous LO :) the acetate looks fab, thank you for joining in with us over at CCW

    Lou x

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  11. Wow, this is lovely Leah. Your acetate flowers are fab and I love the lace too :) Thank you for joining in our challenge at Creative Craft World. Sarah x

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  12. Wow! I *love* your experimental acetate flowers! They're gorgeous! I may have to try that technique myself. :)

    Fantastic LO as well... I love the vintagey, shabby chic feel to this whole page.

    Thanks so much for sharing your work and for taking part in the Scrap Map challenge at CCW! :)

    Ali

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  13. Those flowers are brilliant - they look so effective. TFS !

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