"Today my forest is dark..." Mixed media origins layout

Hi everyone! 

Today I want to show you my mixed media  layout that's featured upon the 

Canvas Corp Brands blog,

"Today my forest is dark..."

In their post you will find a step by step with pictures, a List of supplies and a wonderful intro to the art therapy I've allowed myself to do so with this layout. 

I simply had to scrap the sad feelings that overcame me when my little boy had to have his first surgery. Sadly it only took a little over 2 months for his second surgery to happen because his wound wasn't healing well. (Past Monday.)

(I'm sure one of those pictures will be scrapped as well...)

Luckily we had a great week of vacation before that, involving sunshine, sea and swimming!

This wonderful new 'Mixed media origins' paper from Canvas Corp Brands called 'Grace' was the perfect basis for my layout. The wings suited my quote perfectly, as did the real butterfly wings I found during our week-long Vacation. 

Used various shades of #Tattered Angels glimmermist as well. 

So if you want to read more about the background, process or supplies, please hop over to the Canvas Corp Brands blog.

You can also find me on Facebook: lessisbore 

And Instagram: 

mandylessisbore 

Comments and questions are always welcome! 

Happy scrapping!

 (Or sad, whatever makes you happy...)

"Butterfly Kisses" Mixed Media layout

Hey all,

As promised im back to show you my latest layout. It's called "Butterfly Kisses". On the picture my boy Connor is 3 weeks old and being kissed by his nephew.

I didn't take step by step pictures because I didn't have my phone with me. Also, it's a good thing I didn't because my initial idea went horribly wrong. 

The paper is by 7Dots, Nature Walk. For some time already I had sought out the backside of this particular paper to scrap with this picture. The backside was black with a sandy coloured swirl. Very pretty. I wanted to use the Prima Finnabair doilie stencil with black gesso to begin with. 

So I tried. Upon removing the stencil I had one big, black blob :'( I decided to smear out the black gesso but that was horrendous. So I decided to flip the paper over and work from there. Strange enough it all came together rather quickly after this debacle! 

I glued some strips of old sheet music to the paper with gel medium and dried them. Afterwards I  wiped some white gesso over them because they were too yellow.

I stenciled my doilie with black PAINT instead of GESSO :P

I stamped the border swirls and parts of a text stamp with black ink. 

Tried out my glass beads texture gel and crackle paint and crackle paste on the wooden chalk tags. And later on almost every other surface ;)

Layered the picture on a piece of blue patterned paper and some cardstock. Added the blue denim rose ribbon, which I coloured partially with black mist. 

I guess that's about it! The picture above shows some of the materials I've used. If you have any questions or comments, please dont hesitate to leave me a reply.

Happy scrapping!