Wednesday 28 September 2016

Weekend Getaway Projects

Hello again everyone, it's been a bit long-winded between blog posts I'm sorry. However I'm just back from a wonderful weekend in the Blue Mountains with my scrapping kindred spirits. I just want to quickly share with you a couple of the projects that I made over the weekend. The first is my entry for the challenge at More Than Words .  For my "recipe" I used Die cuts (skeleton leaves), Flair, Flowers and Mist and of course the word "Delight".


Here is how I cooked it up:


I love an Aqua and White colour combo. The flowers, sequined bow & arrow are from D-lish Scraps. The photo is a one of my DD & her partner on their recent trip to Thailand. The photo isn't perfect, but it captures their "delight" at travelling to foreign shores once again. 


Again I've included a pretty cluster using my die cut skeleton leaves - one of my favourite dies.


The other project I achieved over the weekend was a canvas that I've been wanting to do for a very long time.



The paint brush is an old one of my Dad's which I grabbed from him before he threw it out. It has some lovely bits of rust and calcium build-up on it so I've tried to reproduce that on the canvas. Thank you to Mary Bennetts for the Title inspiration, Lizzy Hill for her colour and texture guidance and Cheryl O'Brien for coming to the rescue with the perfect Mist. It was a real team effort :)
The background is stenciled with texure paste and coated with a thick layer of Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint.


I had so much fun creating this and I can't wait to do another.  I'll be back in the next few days with a few of the other projects from our weekend away.  Thanks for calling in xx

12 comments:

  1. Such wonderful projects Jo and a fab interpretation of our art recipe. Thanks for playing along with us again at More Than Words. 😄😄

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  2. Fabulous ! But you already knew I thought that.... Your canvas is AMAZAGOBS... Was really FUN watching you bring it to life & that title is just perfect!!!!! Finally got my post up on camp! Took aaaaages;)!!!!!!

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  3. I am just loving how your projects turned out Jo, especially the canvas. I so enjoyed your company over the weekend, it's been way too long "between drinks" xx

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  4. It was a lovely few days away , great to all get together again, been to long. I am in awe watching you girls create, all so talented
    Mary x

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  5. Lucky friends to have a weekend creating together in such a gorgeous place. Balm for the spirit. Love the clean, classy look of the MTW challenge and the canvas is truly inspirational. Love it when everyone chips in with ideas or product. TFS

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  6. Both are FANTASTIC Jo!!
    Thanks for joining in over @ More Than Words!!! :)

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  7. Oh I love both of these! The layout is perfect - clean and beautiful. The canvas is awesome as well! So glad you could join in at More Than Words.

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  8. Very beautiful! Thank you for playing with us at MTW Challenge.

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  9. So so SO pretty! Love all that white space and the style of title you chose! Thank you for playing along with us at More Than Words!

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  10. Oh wow two extremes here and both amazing. I love the clean look of the layout and the colours are gorgeous. The canvas is just so beautiful and I just love the colours. Gorgeous projects.

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  11. Brilliant work Jo !! I love the aqua and white colour combo too, it looks fantastic !Thank you so much for joining us at More than Words !!

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  12. Great interpretation of our Art Recipe!! You have this covered!! All the best from MTW! :)

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