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

Life's An Adventure Canvas with Deb Riddell

Hello and thank you for stopping by, it’s Deb here with you today.  I’d like to share with you a canvas I made for Creativation 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona that was displayed in Southern Ridge’s trade show booth in January.

I wanted to share my love of nature and the outdoors so used Southern Ridge’s Spruce Tree Cluster, Plump Spruce Tree, Adventure Word, Small Bird Mix and Friends Of Nature chipboard.  I don’t have any step out photos I’m afraid as I was making several projects at the same time when I made it in December but can share some close up photos with you and describe my process.  Hope you will enjoy seeing them!

I started out with a 6” x 8” flat artists canvas and primed it with gesso.  Stenciling came next with Ranger texture paste through several of Tim Holtz’s layering stencils, you can catch a glimpse of Tracks, Chevrons, Linen and Dot Fade in the picture below.

The canvas was then coloured with multiple washes of Distress stains in various shades of blue and once it had dried more stenciling was added through the mini Industrial Layering stencil with Old Paper Distress paint and some second generation stamping was done here and there with Tim Holtz’s Tree Line stamp and Ground Espresso Distress Archival ink.

The edges of the canvas were coloured with Ground Espresso Distress crayon and blended with my finger.

The Spruce Tree Cluster and Plump Spruce Tree chipboard pieces were coloured with multiple shades of green Distress Spray stains plus a bit of Picket Fence Distress spray stain to tone down the colour a bit.  They were adhered to the canvas with wet adhesive.

Three birds from the Small Bird Mix were coloured with Pitch Black alcohol ink and adhered to the top of the canvas.

The Adventure Word was painted with black acrylic paint and then heat embossed with multiple layers of clear embossing powder.   The word was mounted onto small pieces of black fun foam and adhered along the bottom edge of the canvas.

And finally, the grizzly bear from the Friends Of Nature set was embossed with Weathered Wood embossing powder from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies that I tinted slightly with some Ginger alcohol ink to tone down the white accents in the powder.  The bear was also mounted onto black fun foam and positioned on top of the Adventure Word.

As a final step, the back of the canvas was covered with a piece of scrapbook paper from my stash and I die cut a Small Easel die for displaying the finished canvas.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my Life’s An Adventure canvas, I love how it turned out and was thrilled to bits to have it displayed in Southern Ridge’s booth at Creativation, thank you for the opportunity Karen!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Spruce Tree Cluster

- Plump Spruce Tree

- Adventure Word

- Small Bird Mix

- Friends Of Nature

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink, Distress spray stain, Distress crayons, Distress paint, Matte Texture paste and Alcohol ink

- Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous: Layering Stencils (Tracks, Chevron, Dot Fade, Linen, Mini Industrial) and Tree Line stamps

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Weathered Wood embossing powder

- DecoArt: Americana Acrylic paint

- Miscellaneous: black fun foam and wet adhesive

Thanks again for stopping by today and as always, happy creating!

Deb xo

Adventure In The Back Country Scrapbook Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello everyone, Charlene here!

Thanks for joining me today on the blog! There is not much snow in southern Alberta in the winter so when we moved to Ontario the first thing that my son Hunter saved his money for was a sled! Last year he and his friend drove up to Pembroke with their sleds and rode the trails all day, loving every minute of it!

To create the tree I first stained it with Forest Green Distress Stain. I then added several different mediums to the tips to create the snow; most unsuccessfully as they all took on a green tinge from the stain. My end product was a textured sand medium and white acrylic paint.

I used my foam blending tool with Pumice Stone ink on the sled and then added some black soot ink around the edges.

The chains were simply stained with Black Soot Distress Stain and the stars with Fired Red Distress stain.

The Adventure word was another work in progress! I started with Crackle medium but I didn’t like the look of it when I added some colour, I tried making it red but it turned out looking pink! So I went with the old standby of black acrylic paint. I do like how the bumpy texture shows on the chipboard and I love how forgiving chipboard is to use. If you’re not happy with the look, simply paint over it! Voila!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Chipboard Used:

- Adventure Word

- Plump Spruce Tree

- Snowmobiles #1

- Chain Frames

- Small Primitive Stars

Other Products Used:

- KaiserCraft Paper and stickers

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Stain - Black Soot, Forest Moss and Fired Brick. Distress Ink - Pumice Stone

- Letter stickers

- Black and white acrylic paint

- Textured Sand medium

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! 

Thanks for joining me,

Happy Creating!

Charlene