Tutorial: Love You To The Moon & Back

Some of you may have seen this on my Facebook or Instagram. Now I am sharing the tutorial for making this canvas project. It's my first time using Mister Huey & modeling paste on an acrylic-gesso-based canvas. So that's a lot of trial and errors here. Do let me know if this method works for you. =)

Firstly I cut this negative using my Silhouette Cameo. I made up another cut file which you can try making your own here. Download here. I cut it on a piece of 8.5" x 11" card stock which is similar size to my canvas.

I trimmed down the card stock and stick it on the canvas with some washi tapes. normal masking tape does the job as well. Start spreading a thick layer of Modeling Paste with a used credit card. I realize I shouldn't have trimmed down the card stock as I have to spread the modeling paste carefully in order not to go over the edge of card stock. 

Once you are done spreading the paste evenly (or as even as possible), wait for 5-10 mins before removing the card stock. I didn't do a good job in spreading the paste ;P wait for 1-2 hours for the modeling paste to air dry, depends on how thick is your paste. 

p/s: do not use heat gun to dry the paste as it might crack and you would have ugly fonts here.

When the modeling paste is dry, then it's time to add some colors to your project!

To color the background of the canvas, i use various green, blue and yellow color Mister Huey. Spray it on the canvas generously and then follow by misting water to dilute it. 

I sprayed a lot of water hoping the modeling paste would resist the mist but it doesn't work. I even try cleaning up the font with some baby wipes. So when the mist is dry I painted each letters with white acrylic painstakingly. And luckily it turned out just fine. 

I learn this through the hard way. So now I am thinking of doing this the other way round. Mist the canvas and add modeling paste later on. You just need to pull out the card stock carefully after spreading the paste. 

This project took me about 3 hours include the drying time. And I have yet to decide if this is going up to the wall of my baby room. Let me know if this tutorial works for you and happy playing with mixed media! XoXo.

Love Love Love

.... my Silhoutte Cameo... I barely reach for my stash of Thickers for titles ever since I owned a Silhouette. Recently I am so in love with big & bold title (i.e. huge title with smaller photo(s)). For this layout, I used the cut-out letters from my previous layout after being inspired by Jen Gallacher's Seeing Double video tute in 2peas. I pushed myself to use up the cut out fonts left over from my previous layout.

Love Love Love is a special layout that the little photo speaks for itself! Photo was taken by my elder brother in Dec 2012, China Town Singapore. Mum and dad visited Chinatown during their honeymoon 30 years ago and now they re-visit the place again, with me+my husband, my brother and sister in law.  The 2 big potty people wood veneer are my mum and dad, the three little potty people are my brothers and me. 

Misted the L-O-V-E with different colors of Mister Huey to create a bright and bold title. Just love how the B&W photo popped out despite how colorful this layout is.

I have three little journalling tags tucked behind the flowers. 

Oh by the way, I have entered this layout for Studio Calico Sunday Sketch 06.01.2013 by following Kinsey Wilson's layout. For more info, read here. Thanks for looking and leaving me a comment! XoXo.

Think Out Of The Box

Happy new year people!! And here to share my first craft project of year 2013...

Let's do something out of the box. Yea... i really decorate outside of the shipping boxes with all my scrap papers, Thickers and washi tapes. 

I started decorating this scrap box with the leftover from June/July Studio Calico kit. I keep all my scrap papers from the kits & silhouette cut. I tone the colorful papers with a layer of white acrylic paint. Love how it turn out.

Gonna use this box to keep my latest Studio Calico kit. When new kit arrived, then I will swap the current content with the kit. Its easier to dig thru' the papers, embellies and stamps in a box than in the crop bag. 

This is the box to keep my Work-In-Progress projects. I might need another WIP box as I have too many abandoned projects.

and lastly, a box that I used for misting and splattering. I added a layer of gesso then splatter some Mister Huey on the box. Blow it with a straw and tadah! here's the outcome. I might try this for one of my layout after i practice yoga more. I was feeling dizzy half way through >_< 

Saw some pretty watercolor tags on Pinterest. I cut a few shipping tags with watercolor paper. Stamped and heat embossed with White Zing. Paint different colors with Mister Huey. Tadah! The ombre effect turn out super pretty!

Close-up of the tags. I just love those Amy Tangerine stamps from sketchbook collection. I found that White Zing works much better than clear embossing powder. 

And then, my washi-fied MacBook Pro keyboard. My keyboard was in plain black color. so I layer the keyboard with solid white washi tape then add another layer of colorful washi. End up it was too opaque and I can't read the letter on the keys. So I marked each of them with my trustable black Sharpie. 

Thanks for looking. I hope you have done something out of the box this year to!