Sharm brings us a gorgeous canvas

Hello there my crafty friends! I feel like I've been bitten by the mixed media bug! LOL! I'm not a big fan of messy work..only cause it requires lots of cleanup after I'm done and quite honestly, I'm just too lazy :) 

 

But Prima has a way with making you push those thoughts away and now that I've discovered my new found love for mixed media, I'm guessing messy craft room ahead! 

 

Here's an altered canvas I made for The PaperHaus Magazine; using their Fairy Belle collection together with some chippies by Dusty Attic and Memory Maze

 

How I put this together

 

1) Using the brick wall stencil, I created some texture using texture paste

2) I gesso-ed the chippies and began to adhere the flowers, resin
embellishment, lace and fussy cut patterned papers

3) I spray misted the entire block with various spray mists

Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Prima Marketing Inc

Chipboard: Memory Maze, Dusty Attic, Studio Calico;

Flowers: Prima Marketing Inc, Craft Supply

Lace: Craft Supply

Resin Embellishment: Prima Marketing Inc

Do you have any questions for us?

At paperHaus, we are a bunch of scrapbookers who love our craft.

 

We're not perfect, but between us have got quite a bit of experience in using different products, mediums, making off the page projects, layouts, cards or any number of things.

 

We would love to help out and try to answer any questions you may have.

 

If you have anything you'd like to know, please just leave a comment here and next week we'll try and answer as best as we can. You'll get a variety of answers from a variety of the DT ladies. So feel free to ask away.

 

We have one question which we'd like to start with.....

 

One of our commenters a little while back asked what do we do with our scraps? Here's what some of the team came up with.....

 

Emilia makes confetti or uses it for her next layout with lots of fussy cutting and small details.

 

Lyn loves to use her scraps for banners. Just cut little triangles from your scraps and you're done.

 

Trina loves to keep hers around for her next layout/project. She'll often just pop them aside and grab bits and pieces to use in the next project. Alternatively, she will make cards straight after she finishes something, ready to give to the next person who needs one.

 

Frank our editor and chief, keeps his scraps in a ziploc bag. When he needs to punch a small circle or similar, he reaches for his scraps and uses them.

 

Hopefully this will give you some cool ideas on what you could do with your scraps!

 

We look forward to seeing if you have any other questions for us.

 

Bring it on!

Featured Friend - Pamela Young

I am excited to share our newest 'friend' on the paperHaus blog today.  I found Pamela while I was blog hopping one day, looking at the sketches people had entered in our monthly sketch competition. She hadn't entered, but on one of the blogs I was on, I noticed a link to Pamela's blog and before you know it, I'm reading it and thinking, wow, this lady is amazing! It didn't take much thinking to think she would be FANTASTIC to showcase on our 'Featured Friends' Friday posts.

Please make sure you take a better look at all the gorgeous scrapping Pamela does on her blog.

And here she is. THANKS so much for sharing with us today! 

Hi everyone! My name is Pamela Young and I am thrilled to be guest blogging today. I share sketches on my blog, and I do things a little different than most sketch sites. I post three sketches at one time based on the same sketch. I have a sketch for 12 x 12 layouts, a sketch for a two page layout, and a sketch for cards all based on the same design. So today I am sharing my latest sketches with you as well as an art journal page I created based on the sketches. :)

This is sketch 235 that I recently posted on my blog. Here are the three versions, so you can see what I am talking about.

12x12 layout version:

Two page version:

Card version:

And I wanted to share a project with you that I made based on the above sketch. It's actually an art journal that I've been doing, so you can see that you can modify the sketches and use them for all sorts of projects. :)

Notice that it doesn't follow the sketch exactly...I view sketches as starting points. 

I started my page with gesso, paint and ink and just built on it. I used the fabulous Trendsetter collection from Fancy Pants Designs, along with some of their art stencils.

Here are some close up's of my work:



It's important to have fun and just play sometimes, which is what my art journal is. :)

To see all of my previous sketches, you can go here to my sketchbook.

I'd love to have you stop by my blog and play along with me.

Thanks so much for having me today!!!

Pamela