September Guest Designer - Anguree Jansen van Rensburg 'Don't Give Up Be Awesome'

Hello everyone, today is my last day on the Flutterby Blog and
I really enjoyed playing along this month. 

Today’s post is a little more close to home. In fact I really avoided this theme, despite the obvious theme of the NO EXCUSES - FILLER CARDS. I started running or more like jogging a few years ago. At first, I never thought I could do it, after all I’ve never participated in any sports except Hockey at school. Even then it was not like I ever played A-league or anything. However I had friends doing it and every Saturday we set out to do our 10km run and have a fruit smoothie at the markets after we are done. I became really good, for me that is. So in 2013 I run my best race ever. I finished the 12km in 1 hour  7 minutes and 29 seconds. I was over the moon. I had dreams of doing a half marathon, but then I got injured. Too much too fast… bummer. It took me a year before I really started running actively again and I did try other forms of exercise and strength training.  Trouble is I have never got back to that sort of dedication, so yes this is a personal reminder and my current motivation. A weekend ago I managed to do 8km on the Saturday again, so we are getting there, slowly but surely. Not as fast as I wanted it, but

my shorter distances have improved in time, so it’s progress.    

'DON'T GIVE UP BE AWESOME'

 

I started this layout just making random patterns with the paint onto the black cardstock.  I don’t have a specific pattern in mind when I start, I just drizzle the paint on and try to stay on the left of the page, if that’s where I’d like to put my photo. 

I punched out coordinating circles from the filler cards and started to arrange them with little clusters of embellishments. As you can see, I used another little tab from the pack and a leftover piece of card to partly matt my photo. I chose not to matt the whole photo as I liked the contrast with the black background.  Matching the photo colours, I used the purple alphabet stickers to add a little journaling to each embellishment cluster. You will see that I arranged it to form a visual triangle to lead the eyes across the page. Last but not least, I also added some purple enamel dots.

I hope you enjoyed this time with me and would like to thank every one of you who commented and came to visit the blog. I’d also like to say thank you to Anita, for this wonderful opportunity to play along.

Anguree xxx

September Guest Designer - Anguree Jansen van Rensburg 'Fabulous'

Anguree here - I’m back on the blog today with another layout using the Flutter Colour Paints and the NO EXCUSES -FILLER CARDS, so I hope you like it.

'FABULOUS'

As mentioned in my earlier first post for this month I was really inspired by all the paint splats in this new release, so I decided to create some splatters myself using my favourite paint and black cardstock.  Tip: When you use as much paint as I did, it really takes quite a while to dry, especially if you live in a humid environment like I do. If you do want to try this, I’d suggest you have a play and then go out the house for a coffee, work or go and do some shopping so it can dry properly before you play more.  Once it was dry I added some white twine and pink enamel dots.

Next I matted my photo onto one of the cards and placed it on the card I used for the journaling in my first guest design. Remember how I said not to chuck it in the bin? Well, as you can see here, I carefully added some pink card to fill the gap I created by cutting out the phrase and added some handwritten journaling onto a tiny strip of white cardstock. This way it looks like it’s meant to be and part of the original card. Cool hey? One of the other cards in the stack has the word “Awesome” printed on it, so again cut out one of the words to form part of my journaling.

Popped on a DIY flair button & I also punched out a tab from one of the coordinating cards and added more journaling. Last but not least I used one of the cards to cut out my title using a Kaisercraft die.

Voila it was done.

Till next time, enjoy your paints. If you don’t have them yet, do make sure to
order some of the Boss Lady. They are yummy – really ( I have already purchased
2 sets because I simply can’t get enough…

Anguree :)

I've got one more share from Anguree - so be on the lookout for that ;)