Good morning, Marilyn here.  Today, I have a neat little page I created for your viewing pleasure.  This time of year reminds me of falling leaves, acorns, and cardinals.  The time when the heat of summer leaves but just before the cold of winter arrives.

First, I covered an extra chipboard page I had from a Basically Bare Tilly’s Tabs album with a piece of Bella Blvd Homey paper (the backside), then followed with a house from the Basically Bare Happy Little Houses set (which I’m already in love with!).  To get the brick effect I wanted, I ran a piece of acrylic through a TH checkerboard texture fade and then inked it up with alcohol ink in Cranberry.  Glossy Accents was the perfect clear glue since the acrylic is still fairly transparent.  I left the chipboard unpainted underneath the acrylic which adds to the brick effect.

Wanting to make a cardinal, I grabbed one of my Basically Bare chipboard Birds and gave it a good spraying with Dylusions Postbox Red mist.  I left it soaking in the excess mist until it air dried.  I’ve learned that you will sometimes have a “fade-out” of color if you try hurrying the drying along with a heat gun.

Next I glued my bird onto a wood branch, adding foam leaves and a few acorns from my backyard.  The “fall” is from the Bella Blvd Thankful sticker sheet.

Hope you enjoyed my little project.  Until later……Smiles~

Are you ready for another layout using the Fanciful Frames II set?  Jamie here with you today to share a layout chock full of new Basically Bare items!

Let’s start with the background first.  I used Glimmer Mist in French Vanilla, Rolling Tide, Tarnished Silver, and Crocheted Doily to spritz and splatter the white cardstock.  I wanted lots of shimmer, but only hints of color.

Next, I used a canvas page from the Oh So Mini collection and colored it solidly with Glimmer Glaze in Mellow Yellow.  Once it was dry, I stamped a few random butterflies on the canvas page.

On the two chipboard frames, I painted them with Glimmer Glaze in Coconut Shell.  With a thick layer of Glimmer Glaze, they look just look old wooden frames!

Now, on to the acrylic frame.  To start, I ran it through my Cuttlebug for a bit of texture.  Then, I inked the edges and raised areas with white StazOn.  Lastly, I added a bit of ribbon and trim around the inside edges.

To finish the page, I used alcohol ink on an acrylic bird and heat embossed a chipboard bird.  And, tucked under the large bird is a felt vine that was also heat embossed.  Then, I just layered the frames and added in a few flowers and a butterfly.

Basically Bare items used:

*Oh So Mini canvas album page

*Fanciful Frames II – chipboard and acrylic

*Birds - chipboard and acrylic

*Climbing Ivy – felt

Tattered Angels items used:

*Glimmer Glaze in Mellow Yellow and Coconut Shell

*Glimmer Mist in French Vanilla, Rolling Tide, Tarnished Silver, and Crocheted Doily

Kuretake items used:

*Zig Calligraphy pen in Blue Jay

WOW items used:

*Gummy Bear Green embossing powder

Welcome back to another day of Basically Bare and Momenta goodness!  Jamie here, and boy do I have a lot to show you today.

I have so many friends and family members with birthdays coming up that I wanted to make a fun set of items that I could use.  So hold onto your hats, I have three items that will spruce up the birthday party.

To start with, I have a super adorable gift canister and birthday card.  The canister features the Fanciful Frames Set and Basically Embellie Bird.  The card also has a piece from the Fanciful Frames Set  and also uses the Celestial Shapes.   Now, let me show you how the gift canister was created.

1. To start, I upcycled a plastic canister I was no longer using.

2. Cut your patterned paper to the size of the canister, then adhere to the  canister.

3. Add a pom-pom trim to the top of the canister.

4. Wrap a piece of contrasting paper around the middle of the canister.  Next, paint the smallest piece from the Fanciful Frames set with a Zig Painty FX pen in black and let dry.  Once dry, add a thin layer of glue around the edges of the frame and then add black glitter.  Must not forget to add a bit of glitter

5. Cover a chipboard bird with patterned paper and add a small dot of black Enamel Accents for the eye. Then adhere the bird to the frame.

6. Lastly, adhere the frame to the cylinder and then tuck in a small vine behind the frame.

Next up is bright birthday card.  How cute is this?  Lots of layers of Momenta patterned paper and Basically Bare chipboard.  I used the same technique on the chipboard frame on the card as I did on the canister, just to tie the two pieces together.  The chipboard sun was heat embossed with WOW Sierra Sunrise Embossing Glitter.

And now to the last pieces, three pinwheels.  Every birthday party needs pinwheels, right?

These pinwheels make the perfect party favor!  And tucked tight in the middle of each one is a Basically Embellies Button that has been inked with alcohol based ink.

Bring on the next birthday, I’m ready to go!

Supplies Used:

Basically Bare – Fanciful Frames, Buttons, Birds, Celestial Set

Momenta – Animal Print Paper Pack, Peace Mini Puffy Icon Sticker, Zebra Print Sticker Pack

Kuretake – Zig Painty FX in Black, Kurecolor Ink in Orange

Welcome back for another cute project!  Jamie here with you today with a couple of super cute cards. I wanted to show how, just by changing the colors used, the look and feel of a card could be easily altered.

For both cards, I used the same embellishments and design.  However, the pink card has a softer Springtime feel, whereas the yellow card has more of a Summery feel.

To start, I inked and distressed the layers of patterned paper.  Then using the  Holiday Ornaments acrylic pieces, I used white StazOn to give them a frosted look.

Next, I just inked around the edges in either pink or green, depending on the card.  I used the same technique on both cards.

My next step was to layer on a bare felt flower and simply adhere a button in the center.

Lastly, I used the Stack-a-Bellies Birds.  The two chipboard birds I covered with patterned paper and then spritzed with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist.  The felt bird was saturated with Glimmer Mist, then I just ever so lightly inked the edges with Distress Ink.

Supplies used:

*Basically Embellies Birds

*Basically Embellies Holiday Ornaments

*Glimmer Mist in Yellow Daisy

*Chalkboard Glimmer Mist in French Vanilla

Hi there Basically Bare fans!  It’s Erin here again at the wheel today, and I had so much fun making this canvas with products from Basically Bare and Pink Paislee!

Don’t you just love those little birdies?  Each one is made of different Basically Bare materials….felt, chipboard, and acrylic.

Made out of the felt bird

Made out of the chipboard bird

Made out of the acrylic bird

I also took a canvas heart, embroidered my our initials on it and some edge stitching, and added that to the tree trunk.  That’s my favorite part of this canvas!

Embroidered canvas heart

I also frayed the heart edges…like I do on just about any fabric I get my hands on.  ;)  To keep it from fraying too much I like to put some Fray Check along the fray so it doesn’t get out of control.  Once it’s dry you can’t even see it.

Close up!

This turned out to be such a spring-y project!! Perfect timing!

Hello BB Fans!! DeeDee here again, for my 2nd post already as a member of the Art Assembly team.. I can’t believe how fast time goes by.

I’m still enamored by the glorious Basically Bare and Kuretake products that we get to play with, and now we’ve been given the opportunity to pair up with The Paper Loft!!

I was generously sent the “Gentler Times” Collection.. a pack of 12×12 double sided paper, a pack of matching 12×12 distressed cardstock, and a slew of cardstock accessory sheets.

To accompany my Paper Loft goodness I pulled out my  Basically Bare Birds embellishment set and my Black Kuretake Paint Pen… which is SO AMAZING! It’s basically spraypaint in a pen form.. and it’s wonderful! I also acquired Distress stain in rusty hinge, distress ink in spiced marmalade, mustard seed, vintage photo and walnut ink, as well as alcohol ink in espresso and brads in various metal finishes.

The tag is two tags layered.. both were cut from the distressed cardstock by The Paper Loft — I inked the lighter color with my distress ink and splattered with distress stain. The bottom layer of the tag only uses the walnut distress stain. I also gave the birdie some body with a bit of vintage photo distress ink. His crown is via a stamp and black memento ink.

The bird’s eye started out as a silver brad and a silver gear shaped piece from the hardware store. I colored the brad with some alcohol ink and the gear with my black kuretake paint pen! It went on so smooth and the finish is so fun!!

I love the 3D Effect that layering the BB Embellishments gives.. nice depth without being too bulky, you can really see the layers to this tag in this photo. The bird chipboard is so thick and sturdy, it’s super high quality stuff with a fabulous shape!!

And here is a closeup of the inking, the speckling, and the splattering — plus that gorgeous Paper Loft clock from one of their cardstock accessory sheets!!

Thanks so much for stopping by to see what I had to share this week. -DeeDee

Stop by and see the Paper Loft and all their great cardstocks at the link below!

Hello everyone! My name is Miae and I’m so very excited to be sharing my first official post as part of the Basically Bare design team! I’m a painting, inking, misting kinda gal so I’m a huge fan of all of the Basically Bare products…the altering possibilities are endless! And with that I just wanted to give a big “THANK YOU!” to Angela and Beth for having me as part of this awesome group!

Now for the project… I made this layout about my wonderful mom. I’ll admit, I’m usually scrapping my kids but when I saw the super cute Basically Bare trees, this photo came to mind and the rest, as they say, is history!  This page is about my mom’s first time zip lining. Now I don’t know about you, but there is no way, no how that I could ever try zipping across the tops of tall trees, hanging from a rope…NO WAY! Well my mom did at the age of 61 (!) on our trip to Thailand and for that I’m so proud of her!

 I started with papers from The Paper Loft’s HuckIeberry Pond collection. They were great to work with!…so many cute patterns in these beautiful neutral earth tones (think: swinging through trees in Thailand!). I applied gesso to the background cardstock followed by droplets of blue india ink and liquid acrylic. Next I used my Silhouette to die cut patterned paper hexagons then distressed the edges.

Now it was time to play with Basically Bare goodies! I wanted to give those oh so cute trees a lot of texture so I painted the chipboard trunks brown, then embossed them with my cuttlebug. I also did a bit of sanding to the raised area..loved the look!  For the tree tops I chose canvas. I painted them one shade of green and then mixed paint (in a different green) and molding paste then applied the mixture over a flower stencil on that canvas. More texture, yay!

My chipboard birdie was to have the important job of holding a scroll which contains the hidden journaling so I gessoed then painted her a blue to make her stand out among the neutrals. Her little acrylic wing got the embossing treatment for a little extra something! Lastly I took a Kuretake millennium pen and did some doodling around the bird, the photo, drew some hexagons and wrote my journaling.

Well that’s my page for now! Hope you enjoyed it!

Cheers,

Miae

You can visit the Paper Loft and see all their great papers by clicking below!

This book had me at hello. The perfect size to get creative, show lot’s of pictures and have enough room to journal. I covered it with Core’dinations cardstock. It has a such great dimension and offers fabulous texture and neat designs. Then I decorated it with Fancy Pants papers and Jillibean Soup alphabet letters.

Here’s a closeup. I did extend the cardstock to cover my tabs. I used an exacto knife to follow the tabs for a more precise cut, then I sanded the edges and inked the. This helps define them more.

The inside page, I covered again with Core’dinations cardstock. Love it. Because I knew that the front and back pages would take a lot of beating, I did cover them with Decopage. It is a clear, satin finish glue that seals everything in. Works great, however, didn’t leave me showing you the crisp photo, a tad blurred. my apologies.

The next page is a canvas sheet. You can leave and use it in its raw state like below.

But I knew I wanted to brighten it up a bit, so I painted it with a white acrylic paint, and then started doodling and colouring with my Copic markers.

When I stuck the title letters to this page, I did use a liquid adhesive like Beacon’s Fabritak because I wanted it to stick well, knowing it would absorb some into the fabric.

The next page I wrote down all of the kids school friends. Great mementos to look back on. On the back side of this page, I will cover it with pics from school of the kids hanging out.

I used 2 of the Basically Bare birds on this page. I painted them with Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze and Glam. Added a little white paint for the eyes, and a little marker work around the white. Sparkly creatures.

Check back tomorrow to see a few more pages from this book.

Leica Forrest

Hello Basically Bare fans!  Jan here to share one of my favorite projects.  As a collector of vintage photo’s, this sweet baby really spoke to me.  Isn’t she the sweetest?  Notice the chipboard bird tucked in among the flowers?  The bird has been painted with Gesso, brushed with Glimmer Glam, stamped and then heat embossed with embossing powder.

This season I spent a lot of time making ornaments with the kids. When I was trying to think of what to do with Basically Bare products, I knew right away when I saw the birds that they were going to become my 2 Turtle Doves, like in the song.

I thought the birds were perfect in their natural white, so I didn’t alter them at all, instead we just added googly eyes (the kids LOVE these).

I wrapped a dollar store wreath with tulle and jute. Then I covered a Basically Bare heart with Core’dinations Cardstock, did a little inking and adhered. At first I was going to put Christmas greenery behind the birds, but green on green didn’t seem to pop. Instead I put some Fall coloured stems behind and I was much happier with the outcome. Then it was fun to layer the birds on the wreath.

Here’s some more views:

Hope everyone has a super awesome Holiday season full of love. Enjoy your time with family & friends, and I hope you get a few minutes to create art!

Take Care,

Leica Forrest

(Basically Bare hearts & birds)