Mixed Media Cover with Ava Gavloski

We want to start this post off by thanking Ava for a wonderful year with us. This is her last post with us and we have enjoyed all of her projects over this year. We look forward to seeing what you create out in blog land. Make sure to continue stopping by Ava's blog, http://cottagerca.blogspot.ca/, to see all her wonderful creations.

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Hello and Welcome to Southern Ridge Trading Co.  Ava here today to share a mixed media cover that I created for my sister who has a cottage on a tiny lake called “Otter Lake”.

How cute is this little otter stamp by Unity Stamp Co. ? Here is the link to Unity.

Well lets dive in, as an otter would do along a lake shore and play with all of these wonderful pieces of chipboard by Southern Ridge Trading Co.

Notice the shaded sunshine on all of my elements on my studio table… This is what it’s like lakeside with nature…..so inspiring.  Played with all kinds of mixed mediums for this special layout page.  Once I was happy with my design, it was stencil and modeling paste time.

The fishnet stencil has been retired, so your alternative is a wonderful Fibers Stencil.  I believe you will see lots of designs with  this fibers stencil.. Both stencils the feel of fishing nets.

After drying the modeling paste overnight I started to assemble and adhere all the mixed media elements with gel medium by DecoArt.  Allow this to dry by using a heat tool and letting it rest for a bit.  Then I got out my Tattered Angels mist and gave the page a couple of layers of mist.

Southern Ridge Trading Co. really has a wonderful selection of nature themed chipboard for all of us nature lovers.  Be sure to grab your favourite beverage and surf the store you will be so happy to see all the inspirational chipboard pieces.

The texture on this album page is wonderful. The chipboard elements take you lakeside for sure.  

All of nature’s creatures live in harmony on this layout.

Can you hear this happy otter playing with his family along the lakeshore?  I sure can.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Fibers Stencil

- Explore Fun Word

- Plump Spruce Tree

- Frogs

- Cattail Bushes

Other Supplies Used:

- Canvas Corp: Burlap

- Tattered Angels Simply Sheer Matte Mist Watercolour-Rose Leaf

- Muslin material

- DecoArt: Modeling Paste and Gel Medium

- Unity Stamp Co.: Little Otter

- Seed Beads

Ava

Mixed Media Art Journal Beach Page with Karen Bearse

Karen Bearse here today with a mixed media art journal beach page. I just came back from Spring Break with my daughter. We went to Amelia Island, FL for the first time, followed by Myrtle Beach, SC to break the trip up as far as the driving went. It was nice to just sit on the beach and recharge my batteries!

Here is the page I did to document the trip.  I decided to break out my Prima Watercolour paints and pretty much everything is coloured with them. I started with the backside of an art journal page made out of a folder.

The reeds were painted with gesso & coloured with the watercolours. The cattail ends were embossed with Charred Gold.

On the retro TV I had to do a few coats to get good colour. I used less water to get the darker colours. The antennas and feet were embossed with silver. The seagull (another chippie that I can’t stop using) was gesso-ed in white & the tips of the wings coloured.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Cattail Bushes

- Retro TV

- Small Bird Mix

Other Supplies Used:

- Prima Marketing: Watercolour Set - Tropicals

- Tombow USA: Aqua Liquid Glue

- Tim Holtz Stamp

- Photo App: Rhonna/Designs

Added a little doodling. You can see some of the fun texture layers here. The square #’s are from the packaging of the individual paint cubes. Thanks for joining me today. I hope you get the chance to check out the new releases!

- Karen

Fall Scrapbook Layout with Ava Gavloski

Living in the World where one gets to savor 4 Seasons this green earth has to offer is truly a lucky place to live.  I wish to share the colors of the Fall season with you.

Ava here to share a few chipboard pieces from

Southern Ridge Trading Co. on my colorful Fall layout.

That blue vintage bicycle truly captures the simplicity and beauty of stepping back, slowing down and soaking in the color palette of Fall.

Lets get started preparing the chipboard for this mother earth layout.

Paint your chipboard with your paint of choice, allow to dry.

Next, apply some Glue Gloss to the cat tails and pour on some seed beads.  Allow to dry.

Now that the chipboard is all prep’d , layer and distress your cardstock.  Add some burlap to give your layout lots of texture.

Emboss some card stock with an embossing folder, sand and die cut some leaves.

Some close-up’s.  Great accent embellishments for this Fall layout.  Be sure to buy extra’s from the shop, as you will be wanting to add these embellishments to many layouts.

The cattails truly showcase this photo of my son on his vintage blue bicycle

on this perfect fall day.

Enjoy the season upon us and feel the colors of Fall.

Southern Ridge Trading Co. Products Used:

- Cedar Trees

- Cattail Bushes

Other Supplies Used:

- Canvas Corp Brands

- Core'dinations

- Clearsnap Colorbox: Glue Gloss

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for visiting.

Ava

You're A Keeper Canvas with Deb Riddell

Hello, Deb here again to share another project for our June challenge, Anything Masculine.  With summer soon to be upon us I decided to make a fishing themed reverse canvas, using Southern Ridge Trading Company’s Fish 1 and Cattail Bushes chipboard pieces.

I’ve a few step by step photos to show you how I made it, read on for the how to!

I started out with a 6” x 8” stretched artist’s canvas and covered it front and back with a coat of gesso and then painted the inner recess on the back of the canvas with a couple of shades of blue acrylic paint and added some ‘rings’ on the surface of the water with a Dylusions white paint pen.

I then covered the edges of the reverse canvas with scrapbooking paper that had a fish motif (from an ancient Provo Craft ‘Fish All Day’ Scrap Pad that I had in my stash) and stamped some marsh grass here and there using Potting Soil Archival ink and a stamp from Artistic Outpost’s Keeper stamp set.

The Fish 1 chipboard piece was coloured with Distress Crayons (I used Peeled Paint, Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade and Picket Fence) and then I embossed the belly of the trout with some Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Iridescent Shimmer embossing powder.

The Cattail Bushes chipboard pieces were also both coloured with Distress Crayons; Peeled Paint, Twisted Citron, Vintage Photo and Walnut Ink.

I then stamped more images from the Artistic Outpost Keeper stamp set, using either Vintage Photo Distress ink or Potting Soil Archival ink onto cardstock, and clear embossed the stamped images.  The stamp of the young fellow holding his prize catch was water coloured with Distress markers as was the fish from the same stamp set.

The fishing lure, ruler and sentiment were stamped onto cardstock coloured with Old Paper Distress paint and then the sentiment was die cut with a Sizzix Ornate Labels #3 die.  All of the stamped images were edged with Vintage Photo Distress ink after being fussy cut or die cut.

And then it was time to assemble the reverse canvas.  The cattail bushes were glued in place with E6000 glue and the fish was glued over top of the cattails with a couple of pieces of black fun foam underneath to give some dimension. You can see that I also stamped a few dragonflies here and there on the painted background, using a stamp from an old Crafty Secrets Wildflowers stamp set I had in my stash and Potting Soil Archival ink.

I love the sparkle from the Iridescent Shimmer embossing powder, it really looks like the belly of a trout as it flashes in the sun!

To add a bit more interest to the stamped photograph of the young man holding his prize catch, I mounted the stamped fish on some tiny pieces of black fun foam and adhered it overtop of the fish in the photo.

Both the stamped photograph and the die cut sentiment were mounted onto some thin chipboard packaging to give them stability before adhering them to the frame of the reverse canvas.

The fishing lure and ruler were given a bit more presence on the edges of the reverse canvas by elevating them slightly with pieces of black fun foam.

And that completes my reverse canvas, I had a lot of fun making this and hope that you have enjoyed this quick little tutorial.

Although I’ve made this for our Anything Masculine challenge, I think any fisher person would enjoy receiving it as a gift and you could substitute a real photograph of your fisherman or fisherwoman in place of the stamped photo that I used.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Chipboard Used:

- Fish 1

- Cattail Bushes

Other Supplies Used:

- 6" x 8" Artist's Canvas

- Gesso 

- Acrylic Paint

- Paint Brush

- Ranger Ink/ Dylusions: Dylusions White Paint Pen

- Ranger Ink: Clear Embossing Pen & Glue 'n Seal

- Ranger Ink/ Tim Holtz: Distress Crayons, Distress Ink, Distress Markers, Distress Paint & Distress Collage Medium

- Provo Craft: Fish All Day Scrap Pad

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder

- Heat gun

- Water brush

- Artistic Outpost: Keeper stamp set

- Crafty Secrets: Wildflowers stamp set

- Sizzix: Ornate Label #3 die & Big Shot

- Scissors

- White Cardstock

- Chipboard packaging

- Black fun foam

- E6000 glue

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope that you have been inspired to join in our Anything Masculine challenge.  You have a chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca - a $20.00 (before tax) retail value OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING!  Have fun, I can’t wait to see what you create!

Deb xo

Clean and Simple Card by Ava Gavloski

Hello, Ava here, to share a Clean and Simple (CAS) card with you that lets the fine details of Southern Ridge Trading Co. Chipboard shine brightly.

Check out the detail in the fine detail cuts of this chipboard. 

My card base has been painted with a watercolour wash treatment using Deco Art Paints.  I wanted a sunset sky type of back ground for my card and the easel bottom of the card has some green incorporated to give it the presence of landscape.  I distressed the edges of the card front panel to give some rough texture to enhance the barbed wire circle chipboard.

The chipboard was covered with the Deco Art Paint wash blending 2 colours together and the cattails were treated with embossing powder.

This CAS card truly allowed Southern Ridge chipboard to shine brightly on this masculine card.  Get some chipboard and create a CAS card, you'll love the WOW factor.

Souther Ridge Chippies:

Cattail Bushes

Barbed Wire Circle

Other supplies:

Deco Art Media Fluid Acrylics

Sweet 'n Sassey Stamps

Clearsnap Colorbox Ink

Wow Embossing Powder

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

- Ava