Sweet - Round Robin Week 3

Week 3 Round Robin challenge at Swirlydoos.  I was inspired by so many things from the two pages I got to follow.  The design was beautiful.  There were two background papers layered and distressed, there was misting and masking and gorgeous florals.  As usual I did move things around and added my fingerprint to this week's lift. 

I used up the last bit of paper from Swirlydoo's May kit.  I really wanted to try and create depth and dimension to this page.  Rather than layering two backgrounds papers I decided to use this beautiful scalloped chipboard frame from Dusty Attic and cut a second background paper to go most of the way around it.  I used pop dots to glue them down so that they came off of the page and created a shallow shadow box.

I really wanted to stay with soft, warm colors that come from similar pallets.  I decided to paint my chipboard with a base of brown paint.  I went over it in Picket Fence Distress Paint.  Then, I went over it in Vintage Photo Distress ink.  I let that dry for a few minutes then lightly misted it with water and again, let it sit a minute before I wiped it off.  This gave the ink time to sink in to the cracks.  I decided to dry bush the edges with some white paint.

I used a garden gate mask from Tattered Angels and misted it into place.  Camilla Ekman made the first page for our team and she used this.  I really loved the way it looked so I kept it on my lift.

I used my favorite Martha Stewart deep edge punch and added some vintage trim down the center.  I pleated the bottom lace to give it some dimension.

I love this chipboard vine from Dusty Attic.  I misted it in two shades of green then took some smooch paint and painted the stems and highlighted the leaves.  

I really love these flowers from Petaloo.  They are from the Mulberry Street collection.  They were also originally white.  I painted magical mica on them and then highlighted them with Fairy Dust glitter in a few places.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

XO,

Lisa