A Painterlady's View

Creative Cards by ~ Nadia Cannizzo

Nadia Cannizzo here and today is my last post with the last of my creations for my Guest Designer spot here at Donna Salazar!

I have enjoyed sharing my projects here with you all and I LOVED working with Donna's products. 

Now here is a card and tag set I created. 

Now here is a quick tutorial on how I put the flowers  together the flowers you can see on my projects above...

Materials List for all the cards

Paper

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty 6"x6" paper pad, Fun & Funky 6"x 6" paper pad

Dies

Spellbinders Fancy Tags Three

Spellbinders Grommet Tags

Spellbinders Picot Edges

Punches

Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page- Swirling Lace

Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page - Cherish

Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch - Vintage Doily

E.k Success border punch - Double Crochet Doily

2" and 1.5" scalloped circle punch

Stamp

Bo Bunny Essentials - Sentiments

Trim

vintage trim from my stash

Webster's Pages blue trim

Kaisercraft lace

Other

Kaiseercraft resins

hemp twine

vintage button from my stash

liquid pearls

Prima Marketing Say It In Peals

Green Tara mini rose

(materials for handmade flowers listed on the image above)

Thank you Donna and Natasha once again for having me here. I enjoyed my time SO much :) 

Bye for now everyone!

More Than Just Beauty by ~ Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

Hi everyone!  Today I have a layout to share that I made with Donna Salazar's Natural Beauty collection.

These chipboard alpha stickers, also designed by Donna, coordinate with this gorgeous collection.  They are available in three colors - pink, white and blue.

I stamped Donna's chicken wire stamp onto random areas of my layout.

The smaller green flowers are handmade from Donna's Bitty Blossoms dies. 

To create this brick texture I used Donna's brick stencil by Want2Scrap and a mixture of Natural Sand medium and brown paint.

 

The white flower die cuts were cut from mulberry paper from Donna's Mix'd Media Stax 2.  I used her Rose Creations dies to cut the flowers and added a brad to the center.

 Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a lovely day!

Take a peek at the product list below to see which items can be purchased in my store.  :o)

 

(**Products can be purchased in my shop.)  

Paper:

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty - Flying Free

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty - Green Burlap

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty - Wall Vines

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty - Teal Burlap

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty - Soaring

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Mix’d Media Stax 2

Chipboard:

**GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Chipboard Alphas

Stamps:

Art Gone Wild: Donna Salazar Designs - Chicken Wire

Ink:

**Clearsnap: Mix’d Media Inx - Truffle

Masks/Stencils:

Want2Scrap: Donna Salazar Designs - Brick Wall

Dies:

**Spellbinders: Bitty Blossoms

**Spellbinders: Rose Creations

Tools/Machines:

Zutter: Distrezz-it-All

Spellbinders: Grand Calibur

Adhesive:

Art Glitter: Designer Dries Clear Adhesive

Beacon: 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue

BRAND NEW CLASS!!!

Brand NEW Class!!! Hello my peeps! I've got a BRAND NEW mixed media class for you. This is my very first time teaching for The Art Studio @ Scrapbook News & Review and I'm really excited. I started showing sneak peeks of this project last month because I couldn't wait to share it. I absolutely LOOOOOOVE this project. Now... I've heard through the grapevine that this project looks a bit scary to some people... but you don't have to be an advanced crafter to take this class. I hate to toot my own horn but "toot, toot" I'm pretty good at breaking techniques down and showing you step by step how to do these techniques. Not only do I give you a downloadable presentation with detailed written instructions and step by step photos, but you also get a narrated slide presentation with really big photos and I personally walk you through the instructions. BUT wait, that's not all... I also have 3 technique videos inside the classroom to show you some of the techniques that are much easier understood through video than step by step photos. This Faith Canvas class is a fun, texture filled 3-D mixed media canvas class. I'll show you how to create a textured canvas with a drippy, painty background using my Clearsnap products: Smooch Spritz, Mix'd Media Inx and embossing powders as well as my Want2Scrap stencils, bling, and cardboard swirls plus some denim embellishments from my daughter's Etsy shop Blue Gene Baby.     The regular price is going to be $24.99  but you can get the Early Bird Special  for just $19.99 for the first 2 weeks! And just to make this a proper celebration... The first 20 students to enroll in this class will be entered into a drawing to win THIS: Prize = 1- 6x6 pad of my Family Jeans line, 1- 6x6 pad of my Natural Beauty line, 1- 6x6 pad of my Fun & Funky line and 1- 8x10 pad of my Mix'd Media Stax 2.  SNR will choose the winner and I will personally send the winner their prize!   I hope that you can join me! This is going to be a great class!!!   Smooches ~D~ Visit the Girlie Grunge site for challenges, giveaways, tutorials, e-Classes, etc... HERE You can friend me on Facebook: HERE and follow me on Twitter: HERE You can Like the Donna Salazar Designs Facebook page: HERE and the Distrezz-it-All Facebook page: HERE You can find me on Pinterest: HERE and follow me on Instagram: HERE You can subscribe to my YouTube channel: HERE Purchase The Art Studio class HERE Purchase Inky Painty Clearsnap Stuff HERE Purchase Want2Scrap Stuff HERE Purchase Blue Gene Baby Stuff HERE

This is Love by ~ Nadia Cannizzo

Hi there everyone. Nadia here again showing you one more project I have created with the gorgeous Natural Beauty collection.

I also wanted to show you some new found techniques on applying art medium on your projects, and I am having a lot of fun with these. I will admit, up to recent times I didn't know where to start and what I needed etc so I became quite overwhelmed. But after some recent exposure to these techniques and some of my own experimenting I am SO excited to steer my style in a different direction! So why not share my humble little ways of how I add art mediums to my work? 

SO here is my layout..

"This Is Love"

Here is a quick guide to show you where I have used all the Donna Salazar Designs products. 

And here are my ways of adding texture, detail and layers to this layout using different art mediums. I have tried to show you step by step what I did with the background.

And here are some close ups of my layout..

OK I admit.. I am not a "tough love" type of mum. I am strict don't get me wrong, but I do spoil my girls with too much love. Yeah, I say too much because .. IT IS too much. Its the only way I know how to love them. My mum has always said "No one ever died from too much love".. and this quote by Mother Teresa has been sitting on my iPhone for a while , waiting to be used on a layout.  

Just above, you can see some flowers I made with the Spellbinders Donna Salazar Rose Creations die. Super easy to make look great I think! 

Materials List

Paper

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty, Teal Burlap

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty 6"x6" paper pad

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs Mix'd Media Stax 2

Chipboard

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs , Fun & Funky chipboard alphas

Imaginarium Designs - clock and compass

Die

Spellbinders Donna Salazar Rose Creations

Ink

Clearsnap: Donna Salazar Designs Mix'd Media Inx - chiffon

Stencil

Want2Scrap: Donna Salazar Designs - Leaves Stencil

Punches

Fiskars Borer Punch - notebook

Martha Stewart - doily

Stamp

Kaisercraft Textured Stamp - Grid

Other

Melissa Frances Resin - Lock & Key

Prima Marketing alpha stickers

Green Tara mini roses

gesso

modelling paste

white and black acrylic paint

masking tape

mesh tape

puffy paint

mixed metal findings

I hope you like my creation today and I HOPE I have made it easy for you to try some new techniques. 

For more of my work, please see my blog HERE 

'Till next time, its goodbye for now :) 

Sweet Lily by ~ Mistra Hoolahan

Hi everyone!  Today I have a sweet girly layout to share with you of my niece Lily.  She's a social butterfly this one, always the chatterbox... I simply adore her!

[click on the image for a larger view] 

I've used a whole pile of Donna's Natural Beauty papers for this one... all those lovely pinky tones, perfect for a feminine page.

I even tackled the Bitty Blossoms, yes 'tackled'... we don't get along so well, likely because they are sweet and neat and I'm a messy grungy girl LOL!  But, really... they are such an easy peasy die to use, and this page needed those flowers to smooth off my grungy Rose Creations ones.  I have to admit, I'm pretty pleased with them, especially with the sweet Pearl centers!    

I still made my smooshed Wild Roses as well... I really got the layers soaked this time and they are a little more tattered than usual, love it!!   

I made a double ruffle with some of the paper offcuts... love all the handmade elements on this page!

I have used one of Donna's fabulous new Stencils from Want2Scrap... the little hearts were so so sweet I couldn't resist!  I have used texture paste over the stencil and once dried sprayed with TeaParty Smooch Spritz which I also tinted with a little Chiffon Mix'd Media Inx ReInker.

And finally finished the layout off with Donna's chipboard alphas, which I left just as is!

Thanks for stopping by today... until next time, take care of you!

www.mistrabutterfly.blogspot.com

Products used:

Patterned Paper:

GCD Studios Natural Beauty - Rosey, Twiggy, Nancy's Mushrooms

GCD Studios Natural Beauty - 6x6 Paper Pad

Chipboard:

GCD Studios Alphabet Chipboard Stickers - Natural Beauty

Colour:

Clearsnap Smooch Spritz - TeaParty

Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx ReInker - Chiffon

Dies:

Spellbinders Dies - Rose Creations, Bitty Blossoms, Romantic Rectangles

Stencils:

Want2Scrap Heart Stencil

Other:

GCD Studios Natural Beauty Cardstock Diecut Shapes

Want2Scrap 8x10 Corrugated Board

Want2Scrap Self Adhesive Pearls - LeCreme

Kaiser Mini Paper Blooms

Handmade Halo Trinket & Resin

Self Adhesive Epoxy Pebbles

White Self Adhesive Crochet Trim

Alacraft White Crochet Trim

DMC Perle Embroidery Cotton

Tuesday Tutorials Tonight

I had to cancel the first show of this month because I was overwhelmed with baby shower activities and painting the house. I pushed myself so hard I had the worse flare up ever with my carpal tunnel. I got me some anti-inflammatories, been eating lots of pineapple (to naturally reduce swelling), wore my brace lots, dosed up on supplements and even used some gem therapy. I'm happy to report that the pain is almost completely gone and I have just a bit of tingling left. It was all worth it... The shower was great and I've got some awesome photos that you will see popping up on my layouts. I made one that might be one of my most favorite yet (you'll see it soon). 

We are having a show tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific Time. 

 Here is a link to a time converter in case you need it

You need to have 2 windows open if you want a chance to win a prize. One window is my Youtube Channel where you will watch the live feed and the other is the Girlie Grunge site where you can participate in the chat (this is where you answer questions for a chance to win a prize). You can find all the important info in a note on my Facebook page HERE.

Tonight I'll be playing with my Mix'd Media Stax 2 from GCD Studios and all my inky painty goodness from Clearsnap/Colorbox. You can purchase the Stax and my Inky painty goodness from Tasha's shop HERE.

Hope you can come and play...

Smooches ~D~

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Angelic Girl by ~ Helena Johansson

Hi everybody! Today I have a layout to share, I've been playing with papers from Donna's Botanique line. I fell in love with this collection when I first saw it, and still love it! I have cut the papers using a diecut-paper as a template. Then I used Zutter Distress-it-all on the edges and finally painted with some gesso and texture paste.

The photo is of my darling daughter on her 7th birthday. I can't believe she's 7 already - time passes so quickly, doesn't it? She is such a sweet little angel, most of the time *LOL*

I have used Want2Scrap's and Donna's Brick stencil, which I totally adore - can't live without it!

I also used Spellbinder's Wonderful Wings dies and Want2Scrap's and Donna's beautiful Wonderful Wings bling. I love butterflies, so I had to use all the dies. I have painted some of the butterflies with white paint, layered some and used the bling on some. I love how this flower&butterfly cluster came out!

The Natural Beauty chipboard alpha was inked with Mix'd Media Inx, colors chiffon and schoolhouse. I used these inx on the edges of my papers too.


A couple of more close-ups for you:

Product list

Papers

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Design's - Botanique Line

Stencil

Want2Scrap: Donna Salazar Design's - Bricks

Dies

Spellbinders - Wonderful Wings

Bling

Want2Scrap: Donna Salazar Design's - Wonderful Wings

Ink

Clearsnap: Mix'd Media Inx - Schoolhouse

Clearsnap: Mix'd Media Inx - Chiffon

Chipboard

GCD Studios: Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty Chipboard Alpha

Title "angelic" from Dusty Attic

Other

Zutter Distress-it-all

Flowers from Prima and Petaloo

Felt border from Prima

Gesso

Texture Paste

Helena's Blog

Happy Mother's Day & Class Info by ~ Donna

Happy Mother's Day to all my crafty peeps! Did you remember to send your Mommy a card? If not... send her a digital card from MiDesign @ Michaels! You can make something like the card below and it is super easy and fun.

You don't have to get as extravagant as I did and there are templates that let you just drag and drop photos (which makes it SUPER FAST). I used some of my digi products that are available to VIP members. There is lots that you can do as a free member too. I'll actually be creating a video tutorial for freebie projects later this month so I hope you come back by to check it out.

Need a present for mom... or want one for yourself?

If your mom likes taking classes online, my Grungy Girl Technique Series is really affordable, self paced, and loads of fun. We have had such a great response to these classes that My Creative Classroom has opened up the first 3 classes one more time. You can see all of my classes that are open for enrollment HERE. 

You can sign up for these classes even after the class has started. The classroom usually stays open for 5-6 weeks so you have plenty of time to download the lessons, watch the presentations and check out the technique videos. 

Grungy Girl Technique Series #4 - Make Your Own Wood Sign Class starts May 14th

This is the first run of this new class. There are only 2 of the sayings that are available for this class shown in the photo below bu you can also choose from these:

"Creativity is messy, and I'm very Creative"

"Welcome... to my loose interpretation of clean"

"I am your mom... Your argument is invalid"

"Sometimes I pretend to be Normal but it gets Boring so I go back to being me"

 

Below are the Re-Released Classes. You can click on the links that will take you to the information pages where you can find out all about each class. By the way... these classes are all JUST $17 each!

Grungy Girl Technique Series #1 Make Your Own Paint Class starts May 13th

Grungy Girl Technique Series #3 - Make Your Own Topiary Class starts May 17th

Grungy Girl Technique Series #2 - Make Your Own Mixed Media Boxes Class starts May 26th

I hope you can join me for some of these classes!

Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~

Visit the Girlie Grunge site for challenges, giveaways, tutorials, e-Classes, etc... HERE

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Snug As A Bug by ~ Mandy Harrell

Hi again!! It's Mandy!!  Today I am posting a layout I created that features my little grandbaby!!  He's growing so fast :(

Some close ups!

Thanks for stopping by!! Below is a list of products I used for this layout!!

 

 

Paper:

GCD Studios Family Jeans

GCD Studios Natural Beauty

 

Alphas:

GCD Studios Family Jeans

 

Ink:

Mix'd Media Inx CHOX - Sparrow

 

Cardboard:

 Want 2 Scrap - Swirls

 

Stencil:

Want 2 Scrap - Arrows

 

Tools:

Clearsnap Colorbox Stylus Handles and Tips

Zutter Distrezz it All

 

Miscellaneous:

Flowers

Cheesecloth

 

 

Baby Marley ~by Donna

Hello my peeps! I've got baby on the brain as I anxiously await the arrival of my first granbaby. We just had the baby shower this past weekend so I'm starting to get back to my normal level of chaos... but I'm still playing catch up. I posted some of the pictures from the shower on my personal facebook page HERE if you are interested.

This layout is of my friend's daughter. She is such a beautiful baby, I loved creating pages with her photos.

I used the Family Jeans paper line for this layout. I think that this is my favorite paper line from this last release. The stars and clouds are from the die cut pack and the words are from the bonus image sheet that comes in the paper pads.

I loooove little denim bows. I add these to almost all of my projects. If you like them too, my daughter is selling packs of them in her Etsy shop HERE. 

The bird was die cut and embossed using my Mix'd Media Elements die set and the flowers were made using my Bitty Blossoms dies.

I distressed all of the edges with my Distrezz-it-All (even the photo edges). The text paper background is actually a vintagey cream color but I wanted to add some color to it. I spritzed it in several different colors and added some Mix'd Media Inx to the wet Spritz to give it a watercolory look.

Products:

GCD Studios - Family Jeans: "Houndstooth (back)", "Pages", "Pink Polkas", Die Cuts pack, Image sheet

Spellbinders Paper Arts - "Mix'd Media Elements", "Creative Page Tabs", "Bitty Blossoms"

Clearsnap/Colorbox - Smooch Spritz, Mix'd Media Inx

Zutter - Distrezz-it-All

Blue Gene Baby - Denim Bows

Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~

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