Jacobi Creations

I have been very busy lately re-organsing my crafting area and bringing my Silhouette machines closer and hooking them up to a new machine.  Then my niece moved with her new babe and man to NSW and she is a tad bored and she likes to be creative and so I offered to put a pack together to send to her so she can amuse herself.  She was also after some recipes, so I have been putting together a cookbook for her as well, with some of my favourite recipes. I also started a few projects, but they are all under construction, a hot air balloon, which is a prototype for a FabScraps project that is coming my way.  A wooden mini album that is half finished, another mini album cut out on the Silhouette machines and then I have created about 3 layouts, one for Let's Get Sketchy June, one for a friend of my daughters and another just for fun.

Much fun to be had with this design - it is funny how designs for me just evolve.  I don't have things picked out beforehand.  I just wing it as I go along and take inspiration as it comes.  That is how I cook also - it all works out in the end! These are the papers that came in a new scrapbooking kit subscription I have and they are Kaisercraft papers, mostly with a water theme and so I ripped them and layered them up.  Then on went some wave stencilling with white modelling paste and then out came all the blue and green sprays I own.  I have Ranger and Kaisercraft sprays and though the Kaiser ones are not waterproof, they have a great depth of colour to them.  I also pulled out a white spray and did some gesso splatters.  It did take quite a bit of spraying to get the look I was after and even then I was not sure that I had it right.  But with the right amount of playing and splattering, drying and going again, it turned...