Oh shiny and exquisite rainbow color! Visitor artist Sarah Millerhouse is right here right this moment to share her rainbow-infused tackle scrapbooking mermaids and birthday celebrations. Sarah has included detailed notes on the provides she used, so these have affiliate hyperlinks for you if you happen to see one thing you’d like so as to add to your cart. I hope you’re having a artful and vibrant day! -Shimelle

For me, creating is about connection. I began scrapbooking once I was in highschool as a result of I needed to recollect the small print and the way I felt in regards to the world at the moment in my life. My work again then regarded very totally different, however the objective was the identical. I needed to go away one thing behind that advised my story. After I create a web page now, it’s normally all the time centered on ensuring my children and my husband keep in mind their story. I need them to know that they’re so very beloved and that I’ve cherished and relished in each minute we’ve spent collectively. As a result of I misplaced a dad or mum at a really younger age, I’ve a must doc my days. You will need to me that if I had been gone tomorrow, my household would have a legacy of affection and images and phrases to look by means of that would go away little doubt of their thoughts how I felt. I additionally consider that, by means of my pages, they can see who I’m. As tacky because it sounds, my pages are a mirrored image of my soul. The colours and layers and textures mirror who I’m. After I create, I work and work till my web page seems like me. I’ve a connection to the images I exploit and each positive element in each mission.

For this structure, I needed to mirror how I felt in regards to the day we celebrated my candy woman turning two. It was a day stuffed with enjoyable, laughter, the folks we love, and the colours of the ocean! I used Foundations blended media paper and began with the background utilizing a giant format stencil to create mermaid scales.

I added Misery Oxide Inks with an ink mixing software to mix the colours on the paper in rainbow order. Whereas the size stencil was nonetheless on the web page, I laid one other stencil, by Tim Holtz, excessive of that to a further layer of visible curiosity. I used the identical ink mixing software, however I utilized extra stress to get darker pigment by means of the highest stencil.

Throughout the underside third of the web page, I layered on Misery Inks in the identical colours because the oxides to imitate water and the reflection of a sundown on the water! As soon as these inks had been dry, I added splatters of white acrylic paint. By including this layer of shade throughout the web page, it supplied a spot for my images and gildings to relaxation on the web page. On high of the misery inks, I added just a few strips of patterned paper, from the All Lady assortment by Echo Park, in descending lengths. I distressed the perimeters of every strip and glued them solely on the high in order that I may bend them up so as to add much more texture.

I added two candy images from Ruby Jane’s occasion! One is of her in her valuable outfit, having fun with the sunshine! The opposite is with the attractive mermaid that got here to her occasion. She was mesmerized by her! I backed these images with extra patterned paper from the identical assortment and popped them up on foam to assist them stand out on the web page. I embellished throughout the images with an assemblage of fairly issues! I began with the three mermaid chipboard stickers from Shimelle’s Head within the Clouds assortment. I distressed them a bit of and added some glitter particulars. I added the rainbow chipboard piece from the identical assortment slightly below my images. I distressed and added glitter to this piece as properly. I added wood buttons from Shimelle’s By no means Develop Up assortment and some cardstock stickers from the All Lady assortment. I additionally added and popped up a tiny butterfly from the Go the Scenic Route assortment by Paige Evans.

Throughout the highest I popped up the title in reverse rainbow order utilizing eight totally different units of Thickers. I believed the title “2 Stunning” was a cute play on phrases and simply excellent for the structure! I added Jewelz by Buttons Galore and Extra and enamel dots from the By no means Develop Up assortment across the web page in tone-on-tone layers. As a closing contact, I added a strip of journaling beneath the final layer of patterned paper throughout the underside of the web page. I matched my ink colours to the colours of the structure and tried to seize the thrill of my first two years with my candy woman!

Sarah Millerhouse is an elementary college principal, owns a catering enterprise, is a spouse and mom and nonetheless finds time to scrapbook! She’s been scrapbooking for nearly twenty years and loves how her model evolves with time. Sarah misplaced her father at an early age and believes her must doc the element of life comes from that loss. He beloved to take images and doc reminiscences, so she is grateful for what he captured and hopeful the longer term generations of her household will be capable to treasure the legacy created by means of scrapbooks. You may see extra of Sarah’s work on Instagram.

17 Could 2022

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