Yvonne Blairs Art Girls Design Team. Believe in Yourslf.

The power of positive thinking is a wonderful thing. I often think of the story The Little Train That Could. So strong, so determined...So magical. It goes to show, that if you believe in yourself, the magic WILL happen. You just have to believe... I created a 12x12 layout to showcase the photo of my granddaughter. I altered the photo to make her appear as if she were a fairy among glowing fireflies deep in a forest. I started by mounting my Prima papers onto a piece of 12x12 corrugated cardboard using ModPodge. Then I dry brushed a very light coat of white and clear gesso all over the background. This gave me a base similar to a piece of canvas.

I just knew the Yvonne Blair Design Stamp "Believe in Yourself" was perfect for this layout.

My one weakness in creating layouts, is the title or journaling. Yvonne's wonderful stamps eliminates  that problem for me. I just pick a stamp, and go with it. Title or journaling done. 

 I painted a piece of cream card stock with Prima Art Alchemy paint for shimmer. Then I stamped the quote onto the painted card stock using black ink, and cut each word out. I used the black ink on the edges of each word and mounted them onto my layout.

 I layered some painted Dusty Attic chipboard, a painted Sizzix diecut frame, Prima flowers, diecut leaves and butterflies on the background. They were all colored with Prima Color Bloom sprays and Alchemy paints. Once my composition was done, I added Prima Art Stones in 3D Gel and using a spatula, added them randomly around the layout. Once it was dry, I sprayed them and the background with Prima Color Bloom 2 sprays in Pink Crocus and Black Tulip.

 To get a runny watercolor look, I sprayed the layout with some water, then Color Bloom sprays right over it and let the colors run and settle in the stones.

Just a close up of the water color look you can achieve, by spraying your primed papers with a fine mist of water, then your color sprays right over that immediately and let the colors run.

Dusty Attic has the most fabulous chipboard designs. This one is Damask#2. After priming them with white gesso, I used Prima's Violet Green Art Alchemy paint over them. I used 2 of them on this layout.

Thank you for joining me this week and letting me share the details to my creation.

Products used:

Impression Obsession Yvonne Blair design stamp:

Believe In Yourself  stamp

Prima Marketing:

paper

Art Stones

 Alchemy Paint

flowers

 3D Gel medium

 Clear Gesso

 white gesso

 die (leaves)

 Color Bloom sprays

Sizzix Die cut frame

Recollections Flowers

Dusty Attic chipboard

butterflies