Spring Design Seeds

A colour challenge

Quite often when buying new supplies and designing new pieces, I often find myself being drawn to the same colour palettes and although that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's fun to mix it up every now and again!

Design Seeds are a great way of pushing designers out of their comfort zone. They present a range of tones pulled from an inspirational images - see what I've managed to make using 'beach hut' and 'orchids'.

                                        

Instagram Scrapping

A new twist on scrapbooks!

I will confess, I have never really properly scrapbooked before but I have been steadily collecting papers and embellishments for my California travel photos from last summer.

Now that bit I find easy! But I was severely procrastinating over how to order my photo prints. I didn't think I really wanted all of them the traditional 4x6 so I realised I would probably need to resize them - maybe I could print 2 pictures on a 4x6 print?

Then, out of the blue, my favourite scrapbook supply shops started taking deliveries of the new We R Memory Keepers Instagram albums. Let's just say, I'm in love!

Mint Leather Insta Album includes Plastic Photo Wallets

Just look at how cute the mini albums are?! Included inside are plastic wallets in 4x4 (fits one photo) and 2x2 (so fits 4 photos).

Then I found the perfect set of journal cards:

100 die cuts and journal cards in 4x4 and 2x2

I also had no shortage of Instagram photos from my trip and I used Fotobox for my 4x4 prints and Inkifi for the 2x2 ones although the latter were expensive in comparison and took over a week to arrive (yes, I am very impatient!).

4x4 Instagram Prints

2x2 Instagram Prints

So, now it's time to play and get everything organised! I can't wait to show you some of the finished article!

Ellen x

New Graceful Deviant Designs

Sterling Silver Latin Affirmation Tag Charms on Leather Wrap Bracelets

It's taken me a while to get back into the studio due to personal circumstance but I've had ideas for using Latin phrases in my designs for quite a while.

I got doodling in the car on long journeys and came up with the concept of pairing up little word tags with some artisan charms from Cath Dailey.

Stamped, cut, filed and sanded by hand.

Plus I took a delivery of gorgeous braided leathers the week before:

Earthy tones.

And here's the end result!

PER ASPERA AD ASTRA - Through difficulties to the stars

AMOR VINCIT OMNIA - Love conquers all

CONSILIO ET AMIMIS - By wisdom and courage

There are plenty more combos that will be added to my Etsy store over the week and fingers crossed they will be on my newly published website soon!

Hope you like :)

Ellen