Hello everybody! Today I wanted to share with you a page I created with Basically Bare and Pink Paislee. Working with the Prairie Hill collection was so much fun! They had a kite flying theme to their products and I just went with it J.  I made some kite embellishments for my page and yes, I might have gone a little off the deep end with them, but seriously, piling on the layers was so much fun! Let me show you…

For the larger kite I started with polka dot paper (love the blue and grey!) and layered with the felt scalloped circle from the Happy Little Trees set. I colored the edge yellow with the fabric markers from Kuretake. To that I added a cardboard heart. I was going for a shabby chic, whimsical look so I exposed the corrugation and dabbed with gesso.  Lastly I piled on some flowers, buttons, thread and tucked in a cute banner from the Small Pennants set.

For the second kite I layered with the same shapes but in different materials…canvas and chipboard (how nice is that to have all those options!). I topped this kite off with that very cute dimensional accolade sticker from Pink Paislee.

The Prairie Hill collection came with so many great patterns and elements. I hand cut some different shapes using the different patterened papers to frame my photo and used my Zig Writer pen to doodle their borders. I used the “Up up and away” stamp to add movement behind the kites. Lastly I added a subtitle to my layout with their adorable alphas.

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

Hi Everyone! Kristin here

I’m excited to share a layout that I had so much fun making. I pulled together a combination of Basically Bare goodies and Pink Paislee’s Spring Jubilee collection.

The bright colors of Spring Jubilee really pop on neutral backgrounds, so I grabbed the newspaper patterned sheet as my background and worked from there.  I added some Pink Paislee rub-ons (Spring Jubilee and She Art collections) to the neutral background, and matted the entire layout on bright green patterned paper.

I loved the idea of painting the Basically Bare chipboard Frames a stark black (using the amazing Zig black painty markers) and using them to frame the ultra bright pink and blue papers. The Zig painty markers really do make it super easy to paint chipboard. I keep them right on my desk at all times. I also used them to paint over the foam Thickers in my title, easily making my own coordinating alpha!

I used three separate frames: one for my photo (approx. 4×6) and then two more for the patterned papers.  After backing the frames, I played around with the arrangement a little until I was satisfied.

As you can see I stacked the center frame with the photo, on top of the two other frames. This gave the layout a lot of dimension right at the focal point.

One of my favorite parts of this layout is this little embellishment cluster to the bottom left of the photo.  The acrylic heart is a part of the LOVEly locket set, I trimmed off the lock piece at the top, and I was left with a clear acrylic heart. Also in the cluster are a chipboard star from the Celestial Shapes collection as well as a chipboard button from the Buttons collection; those are both covered with a coordinating patterned paper from the Spring Jubilee collection.

I added Pink Paislee ‘She Art’ rub-ons to the top of both the acrylic heart and the chipboard star, just to give it a little bit more of a artsy, textured feel.

Thank you so much for letting me share my layout with all of you today!

Lots of Love,

Kristin

Hey there, Tanisha here continuing the product swap week between Pink Paislee and Basically Bare.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big Pink Paislee fan, so getting to work with the Indigo Bleu line AND my favorite Basically Bare products made creating this layout extra fun!

I used Basically Bare Pennants (large), Dress Form, Blossoms & Leaves, Fanciful Frames, and Birds  as well as stamps and embossing powders from WOW.

These pennants are some of my new faves!!  I covered them with patterned paper, heat embossed using WOW’s neutral ultra shimmer embossing glitter and then layered with wood embellishments and flowers.  I used the same powder on the canvas leaf and then outlined with Zig Memory System Millennium pen.

I swear, I can’t get enough of the dress forms!!  I peeled the top layer of cardboard off of the bodice, swiped with white acrylic paint and then covered with patterned paper, lace, and a wooden button.

I like to add plain chipboard to a lot of my projects.  I think the neutral kraft color gives the viewer’s eye a break.

The Fanciful Frame is the perfect size for a 4×6 photo.  I coated the one here with WOW’s Black Glint Embossing Glitter — love that shine!

Last but certainly not least, is the acrylic birdie nestled among the flowers.  I use a stamp from WOW Call Me stamp set and staz-on ink to stamp the script writing.  I embossed the felt wing with embossing glittered and added a pearl to the eye.

I hope you leave here today with some ideas for different ways to use Basically Bare’s products!!

Until next time,

Tanisha

Love the window opening

Hi Everyone, Veronica here! This is my first post as a Basically Bare Design Team member and I am so thrilled. I first saw all the fabulousness that is Basically Bare a year ago at CHA in Chicago. Their booth stopped me in my tracks; I couldn’t believe all the mixed media albums and embellishments! I love making minis, and more than that, I love making mini’s with a mixture of chipboard, acrylic, canvas and envelopes. So when I was accepted into their talented design team I was and am so excited.

I chose to use the Mixed Media Wonky Windows Albums. I love all the different open “windows” in this book and thought it would be great to use it with my Pink Paislee Spring Jubilee collection. I had so much fun making this album, I stamped the canvas page, I embossed the acrylic page, I sanded the chipboard page – and I loved all the peek-a-boo windows.

I always get inspired by color and pattern and the Pink Paislee “Spring Jubilee” collection has all that in abundance. I love the turquoise, yellow and pinks in this collection and there were plenty of birds and butterflies to work with. I was in a creative mojo heaven.

I also used the following Basically Bare embellishments on my album, along with many techniques, one of which was painting and coloring.  I used the Kuretake Zig fabricolor and the Painty fx pens for that.

Canvass and Felt Pieces – Dress Me Up Clothes

Cardboard and Chipboard Pieces – Dress Me Up Dressforms

Stack-a-Bellies – Acrylic Chipboard and Felt Pieces – Birds
Bare Basics – Canvas Chipboard and Felt Pieces – Blossoms and Leaves

Signature Series – Chipboard and Felt Pieces – Fanciful Frames Set

I can’t say enough about my stash of Basically Bare albums and embellishments, I love playing with them and I hope I have inspired you to play with them too!

I ran the acrylic birdie through my embossing folder then I used alcohol ink to color it. Isnt she cute

Used chipboard frame around "window" and also used canvas leaf that I colored with the ZIG fabricolor pens

This is the "back" of the front of the album, notice the little birdie tail sticking out.

I used stazon ink and stamped on the canvas page

I used glimmer mist on the felt birdie then I outlined her with ZIG painty fx pens

On this canvas page I used the Kuretake Painty White pen to make circles as a pattern on the background.

I used glimmer mist on the birdie then I stamped her with stazon

The album came with an acrylic page, so I cut the page in half, cut into banner shape and ran it through my embossing folder

Here is the back side of that banner.  In order to for the embossed pattern to show I used a stazon pad to run lightly across the pattern.  Then I embellished the banner on both sides.  Look at my cute canvas leaf.  I love canvas

The Spring Jubilee paper is so pretty I didnt want to cover it up

Love this window page.  I love how you can see the other side

Since whatever you put on the window page in the front, you need to shadow the same embellishment on the back so it is cohesive

The Dress form is one of FAVORITE Basically Bare embellishments

The covers of the album were painted with both yellow and white Kuretake Painty FX pens.  Then I used a shiney finish to paint over the chipboard.  After it dried, I embossed it using a circle background stamp.  The finishing touch was the rub on from Pink Paislee.

Thank you so much for joining us today!!

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!