March 24, 2015

Be adventurous

Hello dear friends! 
Spring is here and I'm in a great mood these days - I want to make colorful projects and paint a lot of flowers and butterflies!  As I was looking in my photo files, I found a beautiful one with my daughter we took about 2 years ago at the summer house. So, I decided that it was the perfect photo to make a layout about Spring time and today that I'm hosting the Mixed Media Place blog I can share it.


For this project I used two shades of colors: greens and purples. I tried to match the colors of the mediums with the colors of the photo and I think I found the perfect shades in the Lindy's Gang Stamp sprays. I used the Starbursts Salt Water Taffy and Jazzy Jivin' Purple to color all the flowers (paper and stamped ones) and the Starbursts Frolic in the Forest and Ponderosa Pines Olive  to make the background.


In order to make the background, I used a flourish stencil with white gesso. After it was dry, I made A LOT of splashes with the LSG sprays. I also used the Deep Green Ecoline on some spots and a few stamps with the black Staz On. I really enjoy doing such techniques, especially the splashing is my favorite one!
If you want to see how I created the background, you can watch this video of mine - it's a similar project with the same techniques!

The next thing to do, was to deal with the photo. Because of Maria's pose, I got excited by this idea to put her hold something like a kite. She actually didn't hold anything, I don't even remember what she was doing at that moment. Anyway, at first I was going for a kite, but then I found these big butterflies in my stash and that was it! To make it more realistic I made two tiny holes on and under her hand and put the thread through them. It's like she is holding the thread for real, don't you think?
I also made a loop around the head of the butterfly, because she caught it with her lasso :)

To give more depth to the background I glued a few embellishments and some flowers under the photo. I painted them in the same shades with the flowers of the photo with the sprays, but that wasn't enough for me. So, I decided to make a small fence with some wooden sticks and green wire. I really like how it turned. This fence was the perfect place to put the title of the composition "Be Adventurous' - it's a sticker I got from the 7 Dots Studio Nature Walk collection.



***You can find all the supplies used on this project at Mixed Media Place store
and their links on this post.

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With this project I'm entering the following challenges:



I wish they would be real all these beautiful flowers, so I could smell them :)



Scrapogoliki sketch challenge with this beautiful sketch:


ScrappolisButterfly challenge

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I hope you got some inspiration by my Spring mood! 
Thank you for visiting,
Have a wonderful crafty day!

29 comments :

  1. Wow - so beautiful, so creative! Love how this turned out!

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  2. Υπέροχη, φανταστική, εξαιρετική!!! Ευχαριστούμε που έπαιξες μαζί μας στο Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo!

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  3. Amazing project!!! Congrats my friend!!!!

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  4. Φανταστική! !!!!!! Μπράβο βρε Αθανασία! !!!! Κ πάλι διέπρεψες! !!!

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  5. Athanasia you are an artist! Awesome layout!

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  6. Just beautiful! The colours are stunning :)

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  7. Absolutely beautiful - such a wonderful layout - full of pretty colors and Spring. Your daughter is just lovely and is the perfect focal point for your wonderful work. Thanks for sharing,

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  8. Καταπληκτική !!!! Εχω μείνει άφωνη, φοβερή σελίδα Αθανασία !!!!!! Και ναι, είναι όντως λες και κρατάει πραγματικά κάτι η μικρή, τρομερή επιτυχία η φωτογραφία στα σίγουρα !!! <3 <3

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  9. So beautiful ! Your use of colour is brilliant.

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  10. Absolutely gorgeous! Love the colors, especially the vibrant green.

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  11. oh this is so delightful, perfect photo and superb background ..Spectacular piece of scrap art.

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  12. amazing layout! so cute idea with a butterfly on a rope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ))) and the blossom of nature is just inspiring!!!!!!!!

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  13. Fantastic layout! Perfect connection between the photo and the background. Really secret garden :)
    Thank you for joining us at scrapki-wyzwaniowo challenge :)

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  14. Amazing idea, great watercolor background <3 I love the composition! Thank you for playing with us at scrapki-wyzwaniowo!

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  15. I am enthusiastic!)) Gorgeous layout!!! Thank you for joining the Scrapki-wyzwaniowo!

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  16. Honey it's so so so beautiful!!!! amazing colors and his pic!!! cool idea!!! thanks for playing along with us at 7Dots Studio and scrapki-wyzwaniowo!

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  17. The project you created is my fav project I have seen in last few weeks. It is amazing!! Thank you for playing along with us at scrapki-wyzwaniowo, 7 Dots Studio and Mixed Media Place.

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  18. Stunning! I love all the details you have on your page, fantastic background work too! Thank you for joining the 7 Dots Studio challenge!

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  19. Wonderful layout! I could look at it for hours :-)
    Thank You for joining us at 7 Dots Studio challenge this month :-)

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  20. It`s amazing!!! Thank you from DT Scrapogoliki:))

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  21. wow this is spectacular!! thanks for joining us at 7 Dots Studio challenge.

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  22. It's just gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Thanks for joining us at 7 Dots Studio challenge.

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  23. It's amazing!! I adore this... Hugs, Merry

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  24. Stunning layout! Thank you for joining the 7 Dots Studio challenge!

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  25. Gorgeous page!! Thank you for joining the 7 Dots Studio challenge! x

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  26. Just beautiful! Thank you for joining the 7 Dots Studio challenge!

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  27. Stunning layout!! Thanks for joining us at 7 Dots Studio Blog!!

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