Novita Ferris

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

More Than Words - October Mini Challenge "BOO"

Hi Friends,

Hope you've all had a great start to the week.
Today I want to share with you a tag I made for the More Than Words October Mini Challenge and this months inspiration word is "BOO"

So, here's my take on spooky tag. I'm not usually much on making Halloween tag so this is first time for me but it has been so many fun playing with stamp, dies, images and colouring.

"BOO"

A little close up
I have a used some colours to colour the background
I embossed the wood fence and the edges of tags

I hope you love it and it does not scare you lol :)

Thanks for stopping by and see you next time.

Products Used

Ranger Manila Tags

Tim Holtz - Stamper Anonymous | Mini cats & dogs CMS272

Tim Holtz - Sizzix Dies | Mini crazy cats & dogs

Tim Holtz - Distress Ink Pad | Spiced mermalade - Mowed lawn - Seedless preserves - Black shoot -Hicktory smoke

Kaisercraft - Wooden Flourishes | Iron Fence FL329

Stampendous Embossing Enamel - Aged Black

White Gesso

Halloween Buttons

Halloween Leaf Garland

Happy Crafting!

Friday, 30 September 2016

"Treasure From The Sea" Mixed Media Canvas - Couture Creations

Hi again!

Novita Ferris here, I'm back with another project for my last Guest DT post for the Couture Creations blog for this month and I hope you have all been well.
Today I would like to share my mixed media canvas I have been working on with the Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection and the Sea Breeze Collection. What can I say, I really had a lots fun playing with these wonderful products.

Treasure From The Sea

Okay! Let's get started!
With a 8x10" canvas I coated the canvas area with some white gesso.

Once the canvas was dried, I used a palette knife to added some matte texture paste with the stencil to add some texture on the canvas.

I used a heat gun to dry the canvas before colouring.

I have chosen blue, pink and brown pigment powders to paint the canvas. Using the tip of brush I pick up some gloss paste and the colours and then painted it on the canvas.

First I painted all over the canvas with blue colour to make background and then I painted with pink and brown colours randomly to give a more aged effect on the canvas.

While the paint dried, I chose some patterned papers from the Sea Breeze Collection Pack (CO724664, CO724669, CO724652) which I will use for creating my canvas.

I started off by trimming the patterned paper "The Sea Breeze" to 7.5 x 5.5" and then glue it on the canvas to make a background.

Next up I fussy cut out the shells and light house from the paper in collection pack called "Navigating At Sea" and "A Day Fishing" then distressed all the edges of the pieces. Ink them afterwards with dark brown and you will already start having lovely embellishments.

Now comes some die-cutting, I chose the "Figure 8 Knot" in dark brown and the "Oil Paint" in light blue cardstock.

One of my favourite things to do and I can't stop making them!
Yes, I made my own pearls from hot glue using the glue gun. Hold the glue gun and squeeze slowly on the non stick craft mat to make a little water drop and while the glue is still wet I sprinkle blue fine glitter on top.

You can make your own pearls with any colours that you want with the "Fine glitter set".

Finally it is all about layering of the background canvas, once you have put the netting across the corner of the canvas. Add your matted photo and then add dies cuts, shells, charms, fussy cut seashells and light house, metal trinkets and title from the Sea Breeze sticker sheet.

Use the photo as a guide for embellishment placement.

As a finishing touch, with my finger I applied white gesso in all of the edges of the embellishments to give a softer effect.

Here are some close up photos

I really hope you enjoyed this canvas tutorial.

Products Used:

CO724871 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Acrylic Gesso - White Finish
CO724867 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Texture Paste - Matte Finish
CO724868 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Texture Paste - Gloss Finish
CO724886 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Arabesque Stencil - Creeping Fine
CO74864 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Fine Glitter Collection
CO724866 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Mix and Match Pigment

CO724905 Sea Breeze Collection Pack
CO724678 Sea Breeze Collection | Metal Trinkets
CO724733 Sea Breeze Collection | White Netting
CO724732 Sea Breeze Collection | Metal Charms Set
CO724693 Sea Breeze Collection | Decorative Cutting Dies - Figure 8 Knot
ULT157548 The Background 2 Collection | Background Gallery Dies - Oil Paint

CO723828 - Non-Stick Craft Mat
CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats
CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Thank you so much for looking and happy crafting x

Novita

Thursday, 29 September 2016

More Than Words Mini September Challenge - "ENJOY"

Hi everyone!

Can you believe it is almost the end of September and today I have played along with the More Than Words September Mini Challenge....
This month the word is "ENJOY"..... I am just getting this is on time...

Here is the tag I created..

" ENJOY"

I really enjoy making this mini tag, playing with watercolour to make a background and a little bit of mixed media.

Some close up photos

Thanks for stopping by to have a look.

Products used

Ranger Craft Tag - #8 Size black

Imaginarium - Chipboard

Prima Watercolour Confection - Pastel Dreams

Finnabair Art ingredients - Micro beads| Silver

Couture Creations - Intricutz dies | CO724526 Enjoy the Little Things

Couture Creations Stencil - CO724928 Christmas Treads

Modeling Paste

White Gesso

Happy Scrapin!

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Heart Tag - September 2016

Hallo semuanya,

Hari ini saya kembali lagi untuk berbagi dengan anda sebuah tag yang saya buat untuk September Swap Tag dan untuk bulan ini temanya adalah Heart.

HEART TAG

Hal pertama yang aku lakukan adalah mewarnai tag dengan distress crayon dan distress ink, Saya memilih beberapa warna yang cerah.

Dan ini adalah bagian yang paling aku suka yaitu menjahit. Jadi Saya menjahit background tag yang sudah di lem dengan beberapa kertas yang di sobek dan dies cut dari patterned paper. Saya menjahit secara acak kesana kemari sehingga terlihat sangat bagus pada background tag.

Setelah itu saya menempel dan menghias tag dengan bunga kertas, renda yang berbentuk bunga dan embellishments lainya.

Dan ini beberapa foto close up

Terima kasih sudah mengunjungi blog saya.

Saya berharap apa yang saya buat ini dapat memberikan inspirasi kepada anda.

Produk yang digunakan

Rangers Craft Tags - #8 manila tags

Distress crayons - twisted citron| picked raspberry| mustard seed| black soot

Distress ink - evergreen boust| rusty hinge

Tim Holtz Stencil - THS006

Tim Holtz Sizzix Dies - 660222 Scribbles & Splat| 661185 Mixed Media #2

Happy Crafting!

Friday, 23 September 2016

Sea Breeze Altered Bottle - Guest DT Couture Creations

Hi everyone!

I was very excited and honoured to have been asked to be a Guest Design Team on the Couture Creations blog for the month of September.

My name is Novita Ferris, I live in Brisbane with my lovely husband who really supports my passion for craft and I am a mother to a teenage boy who really loves playing basketball.
I started scrapbooking in 2015 so really I am just a newbie, but I am already totally addicted!! I don't have a spesific style but I really love doing mixed media projects.

I can't describe how happy I am, it's one of my dreams come true and especially to create a mixed media project using the new Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection. I could not pass up the opportunity of creating for Couture Creations. Oh so heavenly, I had lots fun playing with these quality mixed media products.

So here is my first altered bottle I've ever made.

Sea Breeze Altered Bottle

With my first step I cover the bottle with the Anna Griffin acrylic white gesso,

I added a couple of layers to get a nice coverage on the bottle, then let it dry and then I've just dabbed the gesso with a brush to make more texture on the bottle.

When the gesso was really dry I started painting.

For the colours I chose blue, brown and purple pigment powders

(Anna Griffin Pigment Set).

I put a little bit of gloss paste in the aluminium foil and added a little bit of coloured pigment powder. Then I dry brushed some glossy paste in pigment powder to provide a bit of depth and some ageing. When you drybrush, you use very little paint on the tips of the brush, and lightly brush the paint here and there randomly all over the bottle. First I painted with the blue colour then brown and purple. I really enjoy this part playing with the colours.

The background colours on the bottle looks so good.
To create some texture I used the Anna Griffin Daisy Batik stencil and matte texture paste. I added green pigment powder and mixed with texture paste and then spread them over the stencil. I also used my finger to apply texture paste in some places.

Once the paint and stencil texture were dried, I wrapped half of the bottle with Sea Breeze cream netting.

The next step I added some flowers and I fussy cut some of the pictures in the patterned paper from collection pack (CO724669) and inked the edges after, then glued all of them together on the bottle.

I added real shells which I painted with gloss paste and pigment powder to give more colour and glued on the bottle

For my finishing touches I mixed the Anna Griffin fine glitters and some gloss paste then I applied it randomly to give more texture and colour.

With my finger I applied some white gesso in the edges of all the embellishments. Then I mixed water and some black pigment powder, mix with a paintbrush and use this to add some splatters to flowers and randomly.