What is an Ornithopter with DT Guest Daphna Barbalat

Hi! Daphna Barbalat here and I’m so excited to be a Guest Designer for Leaky Shed Studio today.

 

There are so many great chipboard shapes to choose from at Leaky Shed Studio, it was so fun looking through all of them but when I saw the Ornithopter I just knew I had to make a layout.

 

The LSS chipboard Ornithopter reminded me of a design by Da Vinci and I thought it would look perfect on a layout to document our recent trip to France.  While in France we visited Amboise, the village that Da Vinci Spent the last years of his life and where he is buried.

 

I stared by painting the Ornithopter then I glued some painted tissue paper to the back. I used clear Tim Holtz Crackle paint, giving it a aged antique look. I also used the watch parts, which I painted in metallic gold and copper paint.

 

 

For my base layout I chose antique looking script paper that I tore on the bottom edge, I  layered three pieces that I edged without paint. These were again layered on red script paper. I added gesso, glimmer mist and stenciling with Distress ink.

 

 

 

I found some great images of Da Vinci and his amazing sketches online and printed them out to use on my layout. Everything was layered with vellum and book paper, I tucked some gears into the layers of paper giving lots of texture and interest to the page.

 

 

I enjoyed sharing my trip to France with you and Leaky Shed Studio, thank you for stopping by.

 

Daphna (justintimedesign)

 

Leaky Shed Studio Product Used:

Ornithopter
Watch Parts

Jolly Halloween Home Decor by September Guest Designer Gloria Stengel

We are so delighted to have the talented Gloria Stengel designing with us this month.

September Guest Designer 
Gloria Stengel

My name is Gloria Stengel and I live in beautiful, southern California. I am a wife of 27 years, and the mom of three kids, and the owner of two cats. 

 I have been hooked on paper crafts all of my life. I have always loved to color, play with paper dolls, and create "projects"! In 1990, I discovered rubber stamping and in 1996, I stumbled across "modern" scrapbooking. I love all aspects of paper crafting: card making, scrapbooking, mini albums, altered art, up-cycling, you name it! I am happiest when I am making a mess! It's the cleaning up part that I don't care for! My newest passion is designing stamps and other digital paper crafting items. I design stamps for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (clear/cling) and Hampton Art Stamps (wood mount). I also design digital stamps for myself and my blog readers. My dream is to have my own paper line someday!  I have been on a number of design teams over the past few years, including three terms with Graphic 45. I also accept various guest design spots and work with online stores from time to time. I have recently started my own challenge blog, Craft Hoarders Anonymous. I think the name says it all. I have a blog (Scraps of Life), a Facebook Fan Page, and a YouTube channel in order to share my creative work. 

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I am very excited to be the September guest designer here at Leaky Shed Studio! I love chipboard, and Leaky Shed has some of the BEST! I created a 9 x 7 inch, Halloween home decor piece to share with you.

"Jolly Halloween"

I love Halloween colors. The oranges and greens are just so lovely. When I saw the Julie Nutting Designs Spooky doll in my chipboard pack, I knew what I wanted to do with her! I wanted to really deck her out! However, once I got going, I decided to keep her rather plain, and deck out the rest of the project! I started by cutting a piece of chipboard to 9 x 7 inches, and inking the edges with black ink. I added decorative paper (Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale) as the background. I trimmed out the pumpkin border (Graphic 45 A Place in Time October) to span the top of the project.

I colored the 8-inch Spooky doll with a white pencil, just to give her that pale, spooky glow. I colored her hair and mask with Copic markers. I added some glitter to her hair with a glitter pen. I added glitter to her mask and to the little spider webs with glue and loose glitter. I created her dress out of paper, edged with black ink. (Graphic 45 Happy Haunting)

I nestled the Clock #1 next to the doll. It fit perfectly into the curve next to her hip! I inked the clock chipboard with black ink and then dabbed it with Delicata Silvery Shimmer pigment ink. This brand of ink dries very quickly and is a beautiful color. I used the same ink for the clock hands and the Watch Parts.

I  backed the center of the clock with decorative paper (Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale). And then I added fussy cut images all around the bottom of the clock. Once I had all the images placed where I wanted, I decided to add dimensional pieces. I used olive pigment ink to ink up the Small Flower Corner, which I trimmed in half in order to use it in two locations.

I added paper flowers and the Watch Parts chipboard, plus a few other fussy cut images to the display. I wanted this to look full and dimensional.

I used some foam squares to pop some items. I also added some "vines" by curling the flower stems that I cut off the flowers. Nothing goes to waste in my studio!

I finished off the piece with a polka dotted bow and a "button" that I cut from some of the paper. To give the "button" more dimension, I stacked it on top of 3 cardstock circles.

Thanks for reading! I enjoyed my guest spot today!

Gloria Stengel - Scraps of Life

Leaky Shed Studio Supplies:

Clock #1

Flower Corner Small

Spooky 8-inch

Watch Parts

Other: Designer paper: Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale, Happy Haunting, A Place in Time Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon September Ribbon Club Markers: Copic, Sakura, Zig Pencil: Prismacolor Ink: Tsukineko Delicata Silvery Shimmer, Memento Tuxedo Black; Clearsnap Colorbox Pigment Olive Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts Chipboard tag: Graphic 45 Happy Haunting Brad: Tim Holtz Idea-ology long fastener Glitter: Hampton Art Circle punches: Stampin' Up! Scissors: Fiskars Adhesive: Scotch 3M ATG tape; Aleene's Tacky Glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares; Glue Dots

Hunting Layout by April Guest Designer Wendy Reaux

We are delighted to introduce our

April Guest Designer

Wendy Reaux!

I have always enjoyed scrapbooking, even before it was cool.  I grew up in a small town in South Texas, where I remember being part of the dance team and making signs for the doors at camp.  We would decorate them with cute little dancing girls . . . pleated skirts and all.  Those were the days before cool die-cuts, embellishments and really cool chipboard!  

I have taught scrapbook classes for the past 6 years, and most recently I am teaching classes through Create 365 in Lafayette, LA.  I teach camps to tweens' and teens during the holidays and summers, and in my spare time I enjoy scrapbooking for clients.  I have made books for Mardi Gras queens, boys, girls, teens, vacations and so much more.  I also make scrapbook kits to sell and have been asked to design kits for cropping events.  

I'm a mother of 2 active boys.  I have a super supportive husband; he gets my hobby and the love that I have for it.  I now call south Louisiana my home.  I have a degree in Hospitality Management and my second degree was in Elementary Education. I also own a small business where I teach preschool computer lessons at privately owned schools, preschools, and mothers' day out programs.  I teach from the little bitty's to grown adults, and I love every minute of it!

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Hi there all you scrapbookers. My name is Wendy Reaux.  I’ll never forget my first conversation with Wendy. We had the most fun conversation about her wonderful chipboard! I just love the pieces that she sells. Here's a two-page layout I've created with some of her gorgeous chipboard pieces.

"Hunting"

We have lots of duck hunting down in south Louisiana, so I just knew that her ducks were a must have.  I have done everything possible to chipboard to change its appearance…such as heat embossing, crackle painting, Crackle Accents to name a few.  

I wanted to make this look like a real duck.  So think about products that can help your chipboard come to life.  All I have done here is use a very “juicy” (brand new) Jumbo Java VersaMagic ink pad.  This is a scrapbooking necessity.  I keep them until they're dead.  I use the new ones to cover chipboard and the old ones to ink edges of layouts, for a more subtle look.  I then adhered a small duck feather right where the wing would be.  It’s as easy as that.  

I have recently used the cute cooking utensils in a scrapbook class taught at Create 365 in Lafayette, LA.  Details for this layout can be seen on my blog at www.wendyroo.blogspot.com. I heat embossed the wire whisk with WOW embossing powder and I painted the rolling pen with Claudine Hellmuth acrylic paint. When dry, I took my Jumbo Java and inked the handles of the rolling pen to add a dimensional look.

Leaky Shed Studio Product

Duck

Thanks for stopping by today!! I hope you've been inspired to created a chipboard embellished layout!

Check out Wendy's Blog
Wendy's World of Scrapbooking

and online store
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