Sunday 15 May 2011

Counterfeit mess!

trying to get using my counterfeit kit today- I decided to use a technique I saw on the Studio Calico Blog last week- the Lo had a piece of patterned paper made by masking the paper with circles and and then misting over it to make a pattern.

I found a piece of paper that I thought I would never want to use and started punching circles out of it in three different sizes. As I started laying them out on the white card I suddenly realised that i liked the look of the effect I was creating and didn't really want to waste the circles by misting over them

So this LO was born ( not using my kit but hey)- the photo is from yesterday morning when my son played his first cricket match of the season. it s called freckles and fur- i think I need to work on lightening the photo a little
But back to the technique I wanted to try and my counterfeit kit- I punched out some more circles to attempt the effect I really wanted to try. I thought I'd use red mist to tie in with the papers in my kit but disaster- the mister bottle had seized up- it went everywhere apart from a few large blobs on the paper- just look at the picture of my hand below- I decided to work with it and use the cream mist I have- it couldn't get any worse and I thought it would be worth a practise- anyway you can see the result below

It worked out quite well- the red and cream mingled together nicely- I used some ( Portuguese-German ) dictionary pages from my kit along the bottom. and that gave me the idea for the title-" funny in any language"


My hand after the mini disaster

15 comments:

  1. I like happy accidents like that. Hope the mist washed off your hand OK.

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  2. This is an awesome technique! I love both of the layouts!

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  3. I like both layouts and best of all you used up a piece of paper you thought you would never use!
    I really love that...we are trying to scrap our stash here...

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  4. Love these! Especially the dictionary paper on both layouts!!! That banner on the first layout is great and the mist disaster on teh 2nd really turned out fantastic... well except for you hand :)!!!

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  5. i think both the layouts are fabulous. the misting looks awesome. =)

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  6. Both layouts turned out great! I have been wanting to try that technique from Studio Calico, also!

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  7. Karen, great job on both pages.

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  8. Love both LO's, I love happy accidents, it looks so cool.xxx

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  9. I love the look of the misted technique, how fun!!!! Very cool. xoxo

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  10. I love how you used the circles in both pages and that banner is so cute!

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  11. Great ideas, and I have had trouble with one of my mists also.

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  12. What a great idea to use your punched out paper as part of layout! I love the misted one, as well, and the blotches just give it character! My hands are often inky like that, so I can relate. Lovely work!

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  13. I love that misting technique, it turned out really well in the end. I like the title you chose for that page too.
    I quite like it when my hands end up covered in paint or some such - it makes me feel like a real artist! x

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  14. Two great LO's with the circular elements!! The misting turned out great. I love the creative titles on both of these!

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  15. I always come away with something on my hands, in my hair or on my clothes after scrapping. UGH. ;)

    Great LO's and great technique

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