Always dream - SDC271 guest post

It's my third week as guest designer for Stampotique Originals and the 2nd week for their "bling it on" challenge. This time I chose to do a inspirational layout with Frida as focal point combined with these whimsical elements of Kassa's Bloom. This is done on a 6x6 inch piece of scrap book paper which was gelli printed and matted onto a 6,5 x 6,5 piece of scrapbook paper with a "Fleur de lis" Romantic Paris themed paper.

I stamped the flowers on my spray box excess paper's which had a ton of glitter on it through spraying glimmer mist over it. The flowers were embossed and then I colored the flowers with ecoline and ZIG wink of stella for more color and shimmer. The edges were colored with a black marker to give it some dimension. The white accents were done with a white gel marker. I spattered a lot of liquitex inks in gold over it (that is how I usually get my "bling"). The sentiment "always dream" was cut out with my Making Memories slice. Frida was stamped in sticker paper and colored with Letraset promarkers.

I have the piece framed and put up on my inspiration shelf next to my other inspiration pieces and Cheetara toy collection :) I added some seashells which we got at different beaches and that dragonfly pin I got as a gift from my husband. Really love how it looks on my self here :)

Hope this inspires you to join in the challenge this week at Stampotique Designer's Challenge and link up your project. 

I would love to enter this piece in the following challenges:

Moo mania- faces (thanks again for the invite Susi)
Craft Stamper Take it Make it April challenge
Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media April Challenge


Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - showers and or flowers

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Take note when your heart speaks

This week at Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog the theme is Bling it On and it's encouraged that you use a lot of bling aka glitter/sparkles in your work. It's honestly a difficult challenge for me as I don't use much glitter at all in my work. But I have made the page above in my mini black spiral journal and used LOTS of glitter and I hope I did the theme justice!

I used Art Basics soft matte gel to adhere sparkly see through foil on the background, added another later of gel medium and poured the glitter and stars over it. Made sure that dried before adhering Stitch, small bee and the When Heart Speaks sentiment (which I cut out and rearranged). The images are colored with promarkers and scribbled around the edges with a glitter Sakura Gelly Roll.

 

Close up of all the glitter and stars. 

By the way, I used the petal in this flower cube to create wings for Stitch. And those are colored with ZIG wink of Stella sparkle brush pens. Obviously I adhered those first before the other image elements. 

While it was a HUGE step out of my comfort zone I'm quite pleased with the result. Hope this inspires you to play along with this fortnight's challenge. Be sure to link up your project to the LinkzIn Page for a change on the monthly prize to win some SO rubber stamps! This month Stampotique have teamed up with Lindy's Stamp Gang and it's the perfect theme to combine challenges! Be sure to check the rules when entering in each challenge :)

I would also like to enter this piece in the following challenges
Try it on tuesday - add a quote

STAMPlorations - things with wings 

Thanks for stopping by and have a sparkly day!