Summer Time!

Hello everyone and thank you for dropping in today!! It's been rather quiet here for the last few weeks, I have been to Australia to visit my grand children. Wonderful, but busy days, and I have fallen badly behind with visiting your lovely blogs. However, I will try to catch up with you all in the days to come.

It being the first of the month today, it's time for a new challenge at Our Creative Corner, and the lovely Laura has chosen the theme of Summer Time!

I love to make projects that can turn into useful gifts, that's why I decided to make a little folder out of two hand made envelopes. You can tuck a gift card or tag inside or it could even hold photos or whatever you like. If you want to know how to make the folder, you can find a tutorial on a previous post HERE

For this particular project I made two 5 x 7" envelopes out of Cored'nations Kraft core. Next I made the front and back covers. I cut two pieces of card to slightly smaller than my envelopes, painted them with various colours of acrylic paints in red and browns and ran them through an embossing folder, this one is by Darice.

Next I high lighted the raised bits by dry brushing with Gesso.

I love how this brings out the pattern of the embossing and tones down the colours.

I then created a collage on the front with various ephemera pieces from my box of scraps

Below you can see a bit better how I layered them. Some bits are from various Graphics 45 papers and some Tim Holtz ephemera pieces.

The sentiment was stamped with alphabet stamps from the Madame Perauds collection on one of the Tim Holtz tattered banners.

I also added a pen nib and a strip from an Tim Holtz Industrious sticker.

Below you can see the back, another collage put together from scraps from my scrap box.

 The key etc is a stamp from a  Heartfelt Creations floral key collection, coloured with Distress Markers and a water brush.,

I lined the inside of the folder with papers from the Graphics 45 French Country collection

Well, there you have it, hope you like it, - I have tried to represent the summer theme mainly through the colours and sort of summery elements I have used.

Thank you so much for visiting today, make sure to check out the amazing projects my teamies have created, I promise you will not be disappointed, and of course we all hope you will join in our challenge!

See you next time and have a creative month of August!!