Helt ny - for Inkido

This weekend I was at a lovely crop in the swedish city Karlstad and met up with a large group of lovely ladies and a few men to scrap.  The layout I am showing you today was made for a challenge at the crop. 

I started preparing the background with clear gesso and then I used a waterbrush to spread drops of mist. When dried I sprayed different tones of brown mist to the background and added some drops of mist.

Supplies

Special Guest Designer Inkido

Jeg er så heldig å være gjest hos Inkido nå i høst og her er min presentasjon og første inlegg for høsten. 

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My presentation at Inkido. 

Who am I ? My name is Christin Grønnslett. 39 years old, lives in Norway with husband and two kids (6 and almost 4)  My blog: http://umenorskan.blogspot.com. I am one of those night owl scrappers. Every evening when the kids are asleep, I sneak down to my scrapcave way in the basement and scrap. If you look at my pages there are a few things that easily points to me. I mostly scrap using a white cardstock, I use stencils and stamps with distress inks, doilies are present and I use several layers, but most important - I am allergic to using up a whole page  so you will always se a lot of white space.  I am no documentation scrapper, allthough I often use my own handwriting. I love just capture different facial expressions as the kids grow older. 

If you want to know more about my creative process, you can go back to my May post 

"Huske" is the name of this project - with a picture of my 3 year old in the swing the garden. She is not happy - I am not giving her a push - I am just photographing her - not very popular....

If you see the two projects in the other post you can see that I first used color products, stamps, stencils and THEN added my layers of paper, well, here I have done a mix of those two layering techniques.  Here is my thoughts on the different techniques: If you prefer a rather flat layering style and no big flowers and want to have room for a lot of pages in your albums I would recommend using this approach which goes as follows.  Glue down every layer on top of each other, leaving not much air between the layers, stamps, stencil and add gesso ON TOP of all the layers, and then add the picture and decorations.  This style is very common in Eastern Europe and if you are familiar with especially polish scrappers you would see this style.   Then there is the style in which I am most familiar. You do all the color work on the page before you start adding layers, and then staple the layers giving the papers a lot of air to tuck things in between. 3d adhesive is commonly used too. 







Products used

 

GD Inkido

For noen uker siden gjestet jeg Inkido og her er mine prosjekt.

In these layouts I want to somehow show you a little of my creative process and see the different layers on my pages.

Moody

I usually start with a white canvas as a base.

For the background I have used distress ink with stencils, different stamps and glimmers mist as droplets and adding some water to let it drip down the page. 

Here is the final result with several layers of paterned paper and some lace. 

Some closeups

Pink Project

Even though I prefer to start with a white cardstock as a base for my layouts I also enjoy working with papers that are neutral with not so much patterns on as here - with lovely pink stars.  For the background here I have used a stencils, super heavy gesso and a spatula. 

After I covered the paper with gesso I also added some stamped areas, and more areas with pink or brown distress ink together with stencils.   

If you see in the bottom right corner you will also see that I have added some more stamps to area - including a Inkido swirl stamp.  The same stamps can also bee seen up the the top left corner of my layers. 

Here are som close ups. You can see that I have colored the  flowers using mists, gesso and different acrylic paints. 

Products used on these two layouts 
White lace
Beautiful Pink (Beautiful Memories)
Pink Butterflies (Beautiful Memories)
Pink Babies (Beautiful Memories)
Pink Memories  (Beautiful Memories)
Blue Angels   (Beautiful Memories)
Blue Butterflies   (Beautiful Memories)
Beautiful Blue  (Beautiful Memories)
Whatever...: Corner 1 stamp
Fashion Flowers
Bling