Colorful ATCs

Hello dear friends!

This is my second share for 2Crafty Chipboard for this month.

I love making small art pieces and ATCs, they are always a perfect choice.

Even they measure only  2¹⁄₂ by 3¹⁄₂ inches, 

they provide sufficient space for many small embellishments,  believe me :)

And what would be most appropriate than chipboard pieces to use on them!

It was really a fun and quick project and I really enjoyed the process.

First I created a mixed media background with Primary Elements by ColourArte  and let it dry.

In the meantime I fuzzy cut the Circular Panel and Painted it with brown acrylic paint and a little bit of blue. I stuck them together using staplers.

Last thing to do was to glue the word stickers and the tiny Star and Heart.

 I decided to leave those two little fellows natural - I don't know why, I just liked the way they looked on there as they were, with no paint at all :)

2Crafty Chipboards Used:

Circular Panel

 ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars

 
Thank you for visiting, have a lovely crafty day! xxx Athanasia

Moment - small canvas

Hello dear friends!

This is my new project for 2Crafty Chipboard.

I found this cute photo on pinterest and decided to create a small canvas this time.
Even the project is too small, I managed to use 7 chipboard pieces in there :)

I used different media to alter the chipboard pieces.

The word 'Moment' is painted with black and white gesso.

I also used white gesso to paint the Medallion Flower . 

For the tiny Hearts I used H2O Twinkling Watercolor by ColourArte in red shade, 

because I wanted to achieve a shiny and juicy look. 

I also used a small  paintbrush with white gesso to highlight them.

I altered the Leaves and the Polaroid Frame with green and brown shades of  Primary Elements by ColourArte  in order to give them a natural look. 

I just spread some powder of all colors here and there with a dry paintbrush 

and sprayed some water.

2Crafty Chipboards Used:

Polaroid Assortment Frames, Flower Medallions, ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars, 

Moment Loopy Font, Leafy Silhouettes, Wildflower Set

           

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To create this canvas I used this beautiful sketch by Kiev Skrapklub


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Thank you for visiting, have a lovely crafty day! xxx Athanasia

Trust - art journal page #8

My second project this month for 2 Crafty Chipboard is a journal page.

This journal page turned to be one of my favorites in my journal 

because of this amazing Aidan's Arrow.

As I was looking in my stash I saw it and that was it!

It was like a vision with this arrow standing on some big circles, don't ask why and how ...

I created this page immediately after the layout -yeap, that was a really creative day for me :)

I used the same color shades I used on the layout above, as well one more Polaroid Assortment Frame. These frames are so cute that I just can't have enough!

In order to alter the chipboard pieces I used  warm grey Silk and primary elements to create more texture on them.

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 The ATC Tiny Heart is like the icing on the cake: cute and delicious! 

I love how it looks on my beloved arrow :)

I painted it with H2Os watercolors purple and spiced pumpkin.

2Crafty Chipboards Used:

Polaroid Assortment FramesAidan's Arrows
ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars

   

 

Thank you for visiting Have a lovely crafty day! xxx Athanasia

You+Me=Big Love

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! 

Today I'm hosting the 2Crafty Chipboard blog, so I wanted to make something with a LOVE mood :)

This layout represents a big love, indestructible in time.

First thing I do to start building a layout is to place the photo and the basic elements and these are the chipboard pieces.

Here is how my page looked before adding more embellishments and painting...

 I used three Polaroid Assortment Frames which I absolutely adore! They look so beautiful in the clusters and they come in different sizes, how cool is that?. 

All chipboard pieces where inspiration of this layout, even the small Asst Arrow. I love how it stands there and points to the main composition.

To paint all the chipboard pieces I used silks and H2Os Twinkling watercolors.

It is really a quick process to paint all these before gluing them down - the chipboard sucks the color and they dry in no time!

For the cluster in the picture bellow I used four different chipboard pieces: two Polaroid Assortment Frames, the word Precious and a small Hedgehog (how cute is that??? ) 

I love how they look one above the other!

2Crafty Chipboards Used:

Polaroid Assortment Frames

Flower Medallions

Ribbon Ties

Hedgehogs

Precious

  Loopy FontAsst Arrows

        

     

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With this project I'm entering the challenge at ScrapMemory with this beautiful sketch


....and the 'Hearts' challenge at Art Sandbox

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Thank you for visiting

Have a lovely crafty day! 

xxx

Athanasia 

Walk Alone In Darkness

Hello everyone!

This is one more page on the black journal I created for 2 Crafty Chipboard.

I like making pages with quotes I love in my black journal.

For this one I used some small butterflies of the Butterflies set to represent the crowd and one big Marianne's Butterfly to be main character of the quote.

I also used some pieces of the Circle Lace Panel - I think it matches so beautifully with the butterflies.

First I glued all the chipboard pieces on the page and then I painted them with black and white Gesso to create a light and dark shading all over the page...

For the small butterflies I used ColourArte sprays to color them and Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powders with stamps on them and also on the background to embody them on it.

For the big butterfly I used iridescent silks to color it. They really make the perfect paint for black surface. I also used a White UniBall pen to make some doodling on it and also write the quote.

2Crafty chipboard Used

Butterflies

Marianne's Butterflies

Circle Lace Panel

     

Thank you for visiting!
Have a lovely crafty day!
xxx
Athanasia

Tiny canvas 'LOVE'

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm sharing a tiny canvas I created for 2 Crafty Chipboard

for a friend of mine as a present.

It only measures 8x7 cm and I really love how small and cute it looks.

Even thought it is so small I managed to use 7 chipboard pieces and 2 metal pieces  to create a dimensional cluster like a pyramid!

This is how it looked before I altered the chipboards and paint it all.

In order to alter the chipboard pieces I used H2Os watercolors and silks by ColourArte and black embossing powder by Lindy's Stamp Gang.

First I created a mixed media background and then I started gluing all the embellishments with 3D Gloss Gel.

I really love how this tine mixed media pyramid looks!

Here are some closeups with details...

2Crafty chipboard Used

ATC Tiny Hearts and Stars

ATC Words 1

Spiral Snowflakes
Fluer Arrows

Hearts

Card Word Circles (I used only the circle)

6'' Circle Revolution Frames ( I used the center of the frame)

   
 

      

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With project I'm entering the 13 Arts 'Shine' challenge.
I used Shimmering H2O watercolors, Glitter and Glass Glitter on the chipboard pieces and also on the background.


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Thank you for visiting!
Have a lovely crafty day!
xxx
Athanasia