Autumnal ATCs

Hello friends!

Today I'm sharing a couple of ATCs I created for 

our October challenge at Scraps & Pieces.

The challenge is about 

Autumn

and we have this beautiful moodboard to inspire you.

You can create any kind of project you want, as long as it's relative to our subject.

For my ATCs I used ColourArte products to color them and 7Dots Studio stickers to embellish them.

 Here are some details.

Thank you for visiting

have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

hello snails!

      Hello everyone!

Today I'm hosting the 2Crafty blog with a layout I created about nature.

I found this super cute photo on Pinterest and went straight to my desk to scrap it!

I also made a step by step video with all the process and I hope you'll enjoy it :)

For this page I used a lot of 2Crafty chipboard pieces, not only leaves and flowers, but also some leftovers which always love to use on my projects!

In order to alter the chipboard pieces I used LSG embossing powders. They are so easy to use and give to the chippies this amazing and awesome look!

  I really like how they turned out! 

***Paper and stamps and stickers by 7Dots Studio

***embossing powders and sprays by Lindy's Stamp Gang

2Crafty Chipboard products:

 

   

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With this page I'm entering the 7 Dots Studio challenge' animals'

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Thank you for visiting!

Have a lovely crafty day!

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:

7 Dots Studio Nature challenge:

Scrapki Wyzwaniowo Scent challenge: 

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

Scrapogoliki sketch challenge with this beautiful sketch:

Scrappolis: Butterfly challenge

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I hope you got some inspiration by my Spring mood! 

Thank you for visiting,

Have a wonderful crafty day!

bloom

Hello friends!

This is a layout I made and inspired from this beautiful sketch from Scrap365 challenge blog... 

The paper I used is from 7Dots Studio Domestic Goddess collection incorporated with  Nature walk collection stickers.  I also used white gesso and mists for masking and did a lot of stamping as always... This is my second entry at 7 Dots Studio July's challenge, I just can't have enough :)

That's it for today, hope you like it!

'Piano love' for Scrap Africa

Hello!

This is my first post as a Design Team Member for 'Scrap Africa'. I'm very happy to be a part of this fabulous team and so excited that I will work with such talented ladies! 

 I created this page for May's challenge: I think that this is a quite beautiful and interesting sketch to work with. All these circles makes it a real challenge for me, as I usually don't work with circles.

To begin with, I didn't actually do any circles (I tried some at the beginning, but I found the result unsatisfactory). Instead, I have placed two flowers as their shape can be seen as a reference to the circle shape if you take a general look, don't you think?

I also put some gesso to create a  fade effect around the composition, again instead of the big circle.

I hope you liked my take on the sketch and you got some inspiration.

You can always visit 'Scrap Africa' to see more details of the challenge and the amazing prizes that are waiting for you!

Guest spots...

Γεια σας! Σήμερα είμαι 'φιλοξενούμενη' σε δύο challenge blogs μιας και είχα κερδίσει τον προηγούμενο μήνα στις προκλήσεις που είχα πάρει μέρος.

Η πρώτη σελίδα είναι για το Scrap Africa και βασίζεται στο sketch της πρόκλησης που 'τρέχει' από σήμερα:

Hello! I am really happy and proud to be a guest designer for two challenge blogs this month,  since I had won the previous month their respective challenges that I had taken part. 

The first layout is for Scrap Africa, based on April's challenge sketch that runs from today:

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Η δεύτερη σελίδα είναι για την πρόκληση του Scraps & Pieces  που ξεκινά από σήμερα με θέμα 'treasures'. Μπορείτε να φτιάξετε ό,τι θέλετε αρκεί να περιλαμβάνει αυτήν την λέξη. Εγώ έγραψα 'treasures' μέσα στην καρδιά κάτω δεξιά.

The second layout is for Scraps & Pieces' challenge named "treasures". You can create what ever you want as long as you include the word 'treasures'. I wrote 'treasures' in the heart at the bottom right.