'take flight' a new lo for Scraps of Elegance

Hello girls....I hope everyone has had some good crafty time this weekend....

I have a question for you....does anyone scrap late at night? I stayed up Saturday night creating this layout and was loving all the gritty texture and messy colors I had achieved ....but it was late, the light in my little studio is not great....and I literally gasped when I went to go look at my creation in the morning light...
it was so crazy and dark with mediums, splashes of color....
so......I can't decide if I love it? or if it's terrible!!?! ?

'take flight'

I started with the Prima paper in March's Scraps of Elegance kit called 'Forever' from the 'Timeless Memories' collection which already has a dark ancient stone looking pattern to it and decided I was going to go with the feel of the paper and try something with a lot of texture, like an old peeling plaster wall, and a really masculine theme. I decided to use a Blue Fern Studios chipboard piece that looks like a round medallion so I used that first as a stencil with some heavy gesso to create some patterns around the page , and then embossed it in copper and used it to add interest underneath my flowers.

Here is the amazing March kit full of new Prima and 7 Dots Studio 'Thoughts Keeper' papers...

This kit is named after my team mate Anna Rogalska...I am such a huge fan of her elegant, 

ultra-feminine work, please visit her blog here.

For more info on how to buy Scraps of Elegance kits please go here....

I used a sketch I found on a gorgeous Russian blog I just recently found called Scrapogoliki...

Here is the sketch....

Please go here to see this sketch challenge and great blog for inspiration.

I used some of my favourite Lindy's Stamp Gang mists in blue, bronze, brown, and black with a paintbrush, and the Prima 'Two' and 'Dot Grunge' stamp that came with the kit. 

This is one of those layouts that kind of had a mind of it's own...lol.

This is the first time I have tried Finnabair's Gold Mica Powder 

and I love how it shimmers in the sunlight.

This is a photograph of my Grandfather George (second from left) with his fellow RAF servicemen during World War II, and the inspiration behind this grungy mixed media explosion...

Thanks for taking a look....I think next I'm on to a light and airy lo...something with pink perhaps? 

Hugs, Lisa xo