Imaginarium Designs January inspiration share.

Hi everyone, it's great to be back this year with more inspirational ideas on how you can use Imaginarium Design chipboard to enhance your own creations.

This year I thought I'd start an inspiration journal and would like to share my journey with you all.

I glued the Imaginarium chipboard hearts, vine flourish and frame onto my white gesso painted double page also giving them a coating of gesso too. I then glued book pages onto the a section of the frame, gently massaging the glue covered paper over the chipboard before adding the background colours to both the paper and chipboard. The 'Gates' were painted with Finnabair's rust paste; 3 pastes layered over the chipboard until I was happy with the effect. To complete the page I added cheese cloth, flowers and embellishments.

The items I used in constructing this project included: 

• An old book; I glued groups of 8 pages together then ripping out 8 (repeating til the end of book) before giving the finished pages a rough coat of white gesso.
•  Finnabair's rust paste set of 3 colour pastes.
• Lindy's Stamp Gang 'Magicals'- Mad Hatter collection (mix of flats and shimmers inks)
• Brass keys, butterfly and clock face
• Script stamp Kaisercraft
• Kaisercraft collection 6 1/2" x 6 1/2" ''
• Using torn up pages from the book as background sections
• white cheese cloth
• Prima flowers and leaves
• Glass bottle
• Black sharp for border.
• Dylusions stamp set 'Quintessential Quotes'
• Imaginarium Designs Chipboard:

IDDL0015 Lous heart shapes

IDFR0031 Oval Swirly Edge frame

IDS0075 Madison Gates

IDT0027 vine flourish

 My second piece to share is a card that I made for my beautiful daughter whose celebrating her birthday this month. I used a mix of story time ephemera and ID chipboard cogs to represent her 25yrs; growing up from a young child to a beautiful  women who inspires to be a mechanic in the future.

 

 After spraying the background with the 'circles circles' stencil, I glued down torn sections from an old story time magazine and painted it with gesso to soften it. The chipboard 'Believe' was coated with white gesso with the 'Happy' and '25' being splatted with 3 different Lindy's Stamp Gang ink sprays, I then coated them with a thin layer of glossy accents and sprinkled with Metallic Melts 'Glistening snow' before using a heat gun to melt the Melts. The cogs were covered with 'Pinecone' Versa Color ink and embossed with 'Bronze' Metallic Melts and then glued onto the 'Pinecone' inked 'Piechart' chipboard.

Items I used putting this card together included:

• Old  children's magazines.
• White gesso
• Card stock
• Kaisercraft 'Letter' stamp
• White string coloured with LSG ink.
• Lindy's Stamp Gang ink sprays; Mango mania, Rizzo's rowdy red, Merci Beaucorp Mint
• Stencilgirl 'circles, circles' stencil
• White string
• Black fine Sharpie pen
• Metallic melts from Tinby 'Bronze', ' Glistening Snow'
• 'Versa Color' Ink pads 'Silver',' Pinecone'
• Imaginarium Designs chipboard:

9 clogs on board IDS0018 13x11cm

9 Cogs on board small 6x5cm IDT0004

IDN0001 Numbers 38 per page

IDW0048 Believe

IDD0036 Nat's Piecharts 5 in a board

 IDW0073 You make me happy smile laugh in a board

 My third share is a layout of my Nan and I at my Aunties wedding..a very long time ago..lol.

 

Using an eyedropper I added Lindy's Stamp Gang ink along the edge and let it drip/moved it around with a well water loaded brush. The butterfly chipboard was simply covered with Silver Versa Color Ink, The birdcage was inked with silver also with embossed with Silver Metallic Melts. The chipboard doily and flourishes were covered with white 'Crackle paint'. Flowers and embellishments were added around the white resin frame with a black inked 'hello' chipboard word extended to go across the page by adding black wire thread.

The items I used on this layout include:

• Prima Vintage Emporium collection 12" x 12".
• Kaisercraft, Prima and assorted flowers
• White and black gesso
• Silver embellishments
• Prima resin frame
• Lindy's Stamp Gang ink- magnolia magenta gold
• White 'Crackle' medium
• Versa Color ink pads 'Silver', 'Green Tea', 'Patina'
• Metallic melts- 'Silver' '
• White cotton
• Black wire thread
• Imaginarium Designs Chipboard:

IDDD0008 Denises Trellis with flourish 1 tiny 2 per board

IDS0009 Bird cage 2 in board.

IDT0014 4 small butterflies

IDT0035 Katie doily 2 in board

IDDD0010 Denise art deco, 2 in board

Thanks for dropping by to check out my latest Imaginarium designs inspiration, I would love to see your creations you make, maybe in some of the wonderful scrapbooking challenges that are in the diverse scrapbooking wide world web in which we are connected in.

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'Be You #happy'- Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia January Quote Challenge.

Hi, welcome to a new year and new challenge over here at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia. We have some fantastic challenges scheduled for this year and I hope you find the time to join us.

January Quote Challenge- Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia

 Children are amazing.. Just being themselves and sharing the joy in the simple things. This is my grand daughter a couple of years ago the day she discovered we had a swing in the backyard at last.

 This layout was created with the following items:

• Lindy's Stamp Gang Star burst Color Shot 'Azure Sea Asters' , 'Sea Mint Green' and 'Glory of the Seas Gold'- I sprayed the white 12"x 12" paper with water, sprinkled the powder onto the paper and then resprayed with water. Moving the paper in different directions created the dripples.

• Using StazOn Black ink I stamped with a Kaisercraft 'Script' stamp.

• The Imaginarium Designs Chipboard letters that made up the title "Be You" were covered with Multi Matte Medium and Indigo-Blue Mega Flakes 'Autumn'. The Imaginarium Designs Chipboard #Happy was coated with StazOn Black ink.

• I tied White wire thread into a bundle and dropped some black cotton under the backed photo (Kaisercraft papers and black card) and some Bella diecuts under and on top of the photo as well.

 

 Here are some closeups:

Thanks for popping over to see my latest creation for Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia and hope I have inspired you to try some new techniques and maybe even join us in our challenges this month and the future.

3 Imaginarium Christmas Creations

Hi Sandi here its hard to believe another year is gone and it's that magical time of the year again. So this month I'd love to share with you with some Christmas creations I've made with the wonderful Imaginarium Designs Chipboard.

The first of my creations is the card I've made for a very special friend of mine. 

 Using white card stock I used Lindy Stamp Gang ink to dribble down to make a background pattern, I added a piece of distressed hessian and then added the some red dyed hessian threads, chipboard, flowers, gold/white thread and cheese cloth. The reindeer was inked with pinecone Versa Color ink, the branches were firstly covered with white sprayed gesso then Lindy Stamp Gang ink sprayed onto it, (one branch was reversed so the ink absorbed into the untreated side of the chippie. The Trees were inked with silver Versa Ink and then the trees were embossed with Metallic Melts.

Two reindeers IDS0073

4 Christmas trees IDT0009

branches and leaves IDDN0013

Christmas words IDW0024

IDFL0013 twigs

Christmas words IDW0024

 

 My next creation was a Christmas tag for one of my scrappy friends. Tags make presents that little bit more special and personal so maybe you could make one for that special gift.

The tag was made from a cardboard box and covered by hessian before being painted with black gesso. A white resin pinecone was covered with matte gel medium and then covered with Autumn Mega Flakes. I cut a reindeer from my new diecut I'd purchased from Seriously Scrapbooking in Adelaide and then inked my chipboard reindeer a deep red. I covered the chippie stars with Lindy Stamp Gang ink and then added some Metallic melts. The bauble was painted black and then using a watered down white gesso mixed with a small amount of Matte gel medium traced the pattern on the chippie. I added white sprayed gesso to the word peace. The extra pieces added to the tag included flowers, paper doily, white cheesecloth, white whipped spackle, white/gold thread and a metal star.

Two reindeers IDS0073

21 stars in a board EDS0076

Christmas baubles on board IDT0007

Christmas words IDW0024

 My third and final creation for this year for Imaginaruium Designs is something I have challenged myself with. I was inspired by my great friend Fiona who has been experimenting with Ecodyes and hangings and thought I would give it a try. I'm rapped with how it turned out, hope you like it too.

 

 I placed mint onto a piece of hessian and piece of calico and after rolling and tying the roll up boiled it for a few minutes in salted boiling water. The material smelt nice but the colour wasn't very successful so I used Lindy Stamp Gangs ink to add green to the calico. A stitch stamp was used down one side of the hanging as well as some hand sewing. The resin frame was painted with Lindy's Stamp Gang spray ink and then dry brushed with Bronze water colour paint.The 'Magic' and '25' chipboard was coated in glossy accents and then I added Autumn Mega flakes onto the glue and left to dry then brushed off the excess. Many items were either sown, glued or stapled onto the material. Some of the elements I added included crochet doilies, old lace, old zipper, cardboard, hessian threads, flowers, metal keys and embellishments and string dyed with Lindy's Stamp Gang ink sprays. The tree was inked with Versa ink and then embossed with Metallic Melts. The large flourish at the back and word Christmas were inked with Pinecone Versa ink and then along with the resin frame brushed with Bronze water colour palette paint. To finish off the wall hanging I sewed the hessian to the stick and then placed a string hanging handle.

4 Christmas trees IDT0009

4 Presents on board IDT0008

Christmas words IDW0024

IDD0033 Denises George flourish 2

IDN0001 Numbers 38 per page

Magic IDW0041

I'd like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and wonderful new year filled with lots of good times and of course scrapbooking and craft. Hope to see you all again next year.