Casing a Designer with Hero Arts Feathers

September 13, 2017 by deliagos 5 Comments

Happy September all. Delia again, with another take on using digital files, while also keeping it in the theme of “Case a Designer”. Well, I have a few favourite designers, but at the very, very top is a most amazing lady called Ola Khomenok, she is from the Ukraine and her work is amazing, lots of layers, colours and just bits and pieces. She uses loads of stencils initially when building up her page and then she makes what she does look sooo easy and it truly does my head in. I watch her videos over and over again and am always left in awe of her talent. I am trying very hard to emulate her style at the moment which I call “collage style”, but it really is just “Ola style” as she has a truly beautiful talent that I am actually very jelly of. Aaaagh, but it is always good to have those that push us to be better. I am not sure what my issue is in my difficulty in trying to emulate her style, but I think it has a lot to do with wastage. I am frugal when it comes to using my large collection of flowers, chipboard, ephemera and bits and pieces as it all costs lots of money and I just don’t want to waste it – even though it isn’t really wasting it. I know that Ola is on some major design teams and would be showered with product and deservedly so, but that is not reality for most of us and so I am very considered when I put my layouts together. I also am just not yet as talented as she!

So, here is my layout using the Hero Arts Feather Digital Cut file, which has the most awesome feather shape ever! Clearly that was my hero in the layout, but I had lots of fun with this layout. Firstly, I put the feathers through my Silhouette machine and then out came the Nuvo wax pastes in various colours and painted them and then I foiled them and sealed the foil off. May I say how tedious foiling is…. those fiddly things and me are not the greatest of friends. I truly did hide behind the door when patience was handed out. So, I had a bit of fun with colouring and things, building up the layers, adding more and more bits and pieces, until all finished.

That’s all from me until another week passes when I shall return with another ‘Case a Designer’ layout, which will probably be all about Ola. She is my current challenge and I am not giving up until I can learn her skill and put it in my repertoire. So, be kind, be good and enjoy your inner creative. Please visit me at my website www.jacobicreations.com or my blog at jacobicreations.blogspot.com.au

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