Shadowbox

I took a different approach this month to the Swirlydoos Kit club sketch challenge! Instead of a 12x12 layout, I used an 8x10 artists canvas. I flipped it over to the backside and used it like a shadowbox! I had seen this technique done before and you know when you have one of those aha! moments. I'd been turning around in my brain what I would do with this months sketch and then it came to me. :)

I used Decembers Swirlydoos kit "Divine Noel" . These papers are Iron Orchid Designs- Night Divine collection! I wanted to do something a little whimisical but still keep it elegant to go with these papers. I am very inspired by Larissas work. She has a very whimiscal, magical, inventive style. That's where I got the inspiration to cut my daughter out of the photos and use her on this shadowbox in this way!
I am really happy with how it turned out.

I used gesso first all over the canvas. The next thing I did was to paint the sides and back. I used a red acrylic paint first on the back, then went over the canvas in metallic gold. From there I covered the front and inside the front edges with layers of paper.

I made some spiral roses and distressed them to make them shabby. I also took apart the prima cluster flower that came in our kit. I do that a lot. I use them how they work on my layout and don't feel I need to stick within the boundry of how they are packaged! I added that gorgeous crystal we received in our
kit to my bow!

I have to tell you this was REALLY fun!!!!! I encourage you to try it. My motto is "think outside the box" but this time I "went inside the box" so to speak. hee hee. Okay sorry for the bad pun!

Thanks for the blog visit! Many hugs to you all!
~Lisa

Metamorphosis

I am running a challenge over at Swirlydoos! Oh it's a good one for my Swirly Sista's! First off you have to think outside the box. I want them to scrap a summer photo on a winter page.  Those girls love them some color and pattern and you never see them scrap plain old WHITE! AND I am forcing them to layer and layer and layer.  And mention the word "acrylic" and they run for their lives!  So I cannot wait to see what those ladies do with this. Come on over to Swirlydoos and check out the Dec Challenge - Winter... White + 1!!!!!
Here is my layout as an example for the challenge:

This is a photo of my dd. Photography credit to Gina Coppolino Photography. All my supplies were from past Swirlydoos kits. I used chipboard snowflakes and filled them in with flowers and circles. I used a lot of stickles and diamond dust. The silver butterflies were stamped with an embossing pad on white paper then I used silver embossing powder on them. The title is Tim Holtz die that I cut on my cuttlebug on silver paper. I did some stitching around the page edge and the circles. I used a piece of acrylic over the butterfly in the photo. I know the title is long and maybe odd, but I couldn't get it out of my head. Sometimes, the title comes to me before the page and I work backwards!

I had really been wanting to do a white layout with a limited amount of color so this was a challenge for me as well. The photo really does not do this lo justice. In real life it is really striking with the shimmer of the silver and the crispness of the white!