Our photo challenge this month at Get it Scrapped turned into a photo/poetry challenge this month. Doris challenged us to take 4 photos and write 4 haiku poems to go along with them. She provided us with some information and inspiration HERE if you would like to play along 🙂 In the meantime here is my second attempt!
glorious red
canopy overhead
Mother Natures masterpiece
I will be sharing some scrappy photos from my weekend later this week so stay tuned.
Happy Monday!
Instead of a full month of photo-a-day challenges for October Doris challenged us to do 4 photos and to write a Haiku to accompany each. She left wonderful links to some of her poems and an article about writing Haiku poems in the Get It Scrapped forums, if you want to see and/or join in check HERE
This is my first one for this month 🙂
kissed by Autumn
tips on fire
crispness closing in
Happy Wednesday!
I have another layout up at Get It Scrapped today. The inspiration is “Selfies” the fun trend of taking photos of yourself. Those of uswho are the memory keepers and photograpers in our families are often missing in the photos so it is a nice trend to catch yourself on occasion. Here is my layout:
I’m a Gonzo by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock and letters; American Crafts, watercolor paper; Strathmore, pearls; Prima and Want 2 Scrap, ink; Copic; color on photos; Prismacolor, background color; Gelatos by Faber Castell, trims and tag; unknown
I had a great time creating this background with my new found medium Gelatos by Faber Castell. Here is how I created it:
Step #1 – On heavy water color paper I used a white crayon, just a regular Crayola crayon, and wrote words all over the page.
Step #2 – I used 3 shades of Gelatos to color over the entire page lightly.
Step #3 – I used a brush and water to go over the entire page. I cleaned the brush regularly, I wanted the colors to blend but not mix completely.
Step #4 – I let my paper dry, distressed the edges, adhered it to a navy cardstock and added all my elements on top to finish my layout.
I also printed my images on matte photo paper so I could hand color my eyes. I used Prismacolor colored pencils to do the coloring here.
Thanks for stopping by, I will have another busy blog week this week so stop back by! Oh! And HERE is a link to the fun article at Get It Scrapped!
Happy Tuesday!
I am starting a new series of tutorials over at Get It Scrapped! It is all about how to use different mediums on your layouts. I am going to do one tutorial a month and cover a wide range of materials. This month I am taking a look at Faber Castell Gelatos and using them as water colors. Next month we will stick with Gelatos and explore some of the other things they can do.
You can see the steps I have used to create a water color look on my layouts HERE and here is the layout I created using one of the water color techniques I talk about in the tutorial:
North Shore by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock and twine; American Crafts, die cut, patterned paper and sticker letters; SEI, flowers; Gueen and CO., Stickles; Ranger, Gelatos; Faber Castell
Some of my Creative Team members at Get It Scrapped contributed their art work as well. Both Christy Strickler and Marcia Fortunato created beautiful layouts using Gelatos, thank you ladies for sharing your work! Please check the tutorial to see their wonderful layouts HERE
Goodness! When it rains it pours! I have two more layouts to share from Get It Scrapped this week AND my next installment of guest designer work is up at JBS Mercantile. Tomorrow I have an article posting at GIS that I have written so I better get caught up!
Here is my art that I am sharing at the JBS Mercantile:
This is a crazy little mini album that I created with the mini album kit and some additions from the Papercrafting kit. (I cheated and did not follow the instructions but I love my little monster!) If you would like to see the inside, it is filled with A LOT of doodling and Copic love, head over to the inspiration page at JBS and check out the pages.
I also added 4 more layouts to the inspiration page! Here is one of the pages, I will let you click HERE and go peek at the other pages at JBS Mercantile.
JBS…check! On to Get It Scrapped! On Monday or Tuesday Debbie posted a fun article with TONS of inspiration for adding chalkboard elements onto your scrapbook layouts. Here is my contribution:
Back to School by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; Kraft and Core’dinations, patterned paper and chalkboard tape; Fancy Pants, chalkboard paint; Americana, chalk; General’s, ink; Ranger and Sharpie, brads; Stemma, trims and stick pins; unknown
I have to say this is one of my very favorite layouts as of late. I LOVE this photo of the girls and the layout turned out just perfect, at least I love it 🙂 The chalkboard element on my page is done by painting on chalkboard paint then transferring my hand lettering with tracing paper and chalk and going over my letters with a Sharpie paint pen. I used the exact same steps on another layout that I gave step by step instructions for HERE. Check out more amazing chalkboard inspiration HERE.
Then on Wednesday Debbie posted a fun article about adding hand crafted elements onto your layouts. Here is my contribution:
Snuggle by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; Kraft, ink; Copic, doilies; Bo Bunny, chipboard letters and twine; American Crafts, stick pin; Tim Holtz, metal charm, yarn; unknown
This was such a fun page to complete and really once I added the section of crochet work there was not a lot more to do. I added the title, added doilies that I colored lightly with Copic, the bright white was a little too stark for the warm layout. I searched a little for the charm to add the touch of journaling, I knew what I wanted but had to do a little shopping to find it, OH DARN! This little metal charm is just right, I added cream cardstock, my note and then filled it in with Glossy Accents to hopefully make it look a little like an antique broach.Make sure to go look at the other wonderful had crafted elements HERE
OK deep breath, I think I am caught up for about 8 hours he he! I am having so much fun and getting a lot of scrapping done. I will have another post tomorrow so if you are checking in keep checking back, I even have a few fun posts next week with layouts from my lovely scrapping weekend with Brenda!
Happy Thursday all!
