Jacobi Creations

I am very much so a freewheeling designer, I do not plan or pick out things I wish to use beforehand, it all just happens very organically and evolves.  I did know that I wished to use purple and orange with a touch of green as my colour mix and I had just bought this piece of Imaginarium designs chipboard frame.  I love layers and never do flat designs and lots of texture.  I went on a spending spree and got some new leaf dies as well, so I got to use them throughout as well. These colours are traditionally used for Halloween, but that is not what this design is for particularly, though the end owner may like to use it for that, I just like the colours mixed together.  There are many flowers throughout from a variety of sources, a few ribbons here and there and then loads more.  I very much enjoyed creating this layout.  I realise alot of people create a layout within a day, but that is not really my style, I take about 3 days to fully complete it...

The green ribbon with its cute green leaves is what inspired this entire design.  I just thought it was cute and so I let that take me wherever.  It started with playing around with the background where I allowed the inks to flow in both directions after some modelling paste through a stencil.  I then saw these old incense sticks I have kept (because crafting makes you save everything, just in case!)  So I managed to use a few of those up and then I rummaged through my wooden Kaisercraft embellishment stash and found a few things and then we started with the paper.  Built it up, wove the ribbon around and stuck it down in a few places to ensure it stays but does not interfere with the photo area.   I then went out and walked around the yard as I needed some white feathers and I just know that one of my chickens or the visiting cockatoos would have left me some somewhere.  Found, glued and a few other bits and pieces.  A little birdy in th...

If you asked me to pick my top 10 favourite colours, pink would not be one of them!  However, it constantly manages to creep into my artwork.  Weird.  This layout was done for the More than Words challenge for the month of April, which is black and white, plus one and using the word "Dream".  I forgot about the Dream part as you will see, so perhaps it won't get entered after all. This candy floss pink is such a pretty colour and coupled with black and white, it is just so elegant and classy.  I had alot of fun with this design, playing with the ribbon initially to see if I liked it curving along, but it worked brilliantly and the left over ribbon then got threaded through the cut panel that sits behind the image panel.  I had a little play with Lindy's Magical Shakers using it in my modelling paste to create pink.  The variance of colour in these shaker colours is truly extraordinary, yesterday, I used it to make red modelling paste and it...

Okay, so I am really getting into the April More than Words Challenge of black and white, plus one, utilising the word "Dream" ... and yes, forgot about the word here too!!  It was after I had done two that someone awesome mentioned on facebook about the word and I honestly felt like they were saying it just for me.  I was like, ohhhhh.  Never mind.  Anyway, back to red and the reality is that for a bold statement, black, white and red is surely a definite way to go! I really wanted to start with a black base and then found out that is my last black piece until I go buy more ... sad.  Onwards and upwards and after quite a few hours, out popped this little number.  I really like so many little things on this page, firstly, there are the red dot like stencil patterns, then the doilies made this magic.  The little black and red heart layered is also just a lovely touch, followed by the cascading butterflies and last, but not least, using Glossy Accen...