My ugly buttons

Hello dear friends!

I'm very excited and thankful to be invited back in Finnabair CT!

I'm looking forward to share my new projects and ideas with Finn's amazing products and I'm sure that it will be a fantastic journey for all of us!
Today I want to share an assemblage I created for Finn's blog with buttons and Art Alchemy Acrylic Paints.

I love collecting cute stuff like keys, coins, gems and alll kinds of
interesting little objects that come my way.
I've been collecting all these buttons for years, some of them are very old and I got them from my grandmother... So, I decided to create something with them.
Even I wasn' t sure how it would turn out, I knew from the beginning that I was going to cover them completely with paints, so I decided to chose all my ugly buttons and kept my favorite ones in the box.

Although it took me ages to find the right place for each one of them, I had so much fun playing - it was really like the 'TETRIS" game! You can watch the whole fun part in my video below :)

I used the 3D Gloss Gel to glue them down to a wooden base and covered everything with Heavy Black Gesso.

The most fun part of the whole process was to paint all these buttons with the Art Alchemy Acrylic Paints!

I really love how all these colors highlight the textures and different designs of the buttons.

I liked the result so much that I decided to add nothing more, even one single embellishment, but the tittle.

I used a chipboard word 'CREATE' and painted it with the White Crackle Texture Paste to add more texture and the Emerald Green Acrylic Paint, my favorite color shade.

To add even more texture to the assemblage I used again the White Crackle Texture Paste on several spots...

As my final touches I made splashes with all the colors shades I used before to color the buttons.

Here is my video with all the fun process. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did :)

***for supplies list and links visit this post

Thank you for visiting!

Have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

Summer Inspiration *with video

Happy Sunday dear friends!

Today I want to share a little bit of Summer inspiration!

During Summer vacation and between swimming in the dreamy sea

 I found the time to alter this cute small spatula I found in the beach house.

Of course what would be more perfect for this project

 than the ColourArte products? :)

I won't share much of the process, you can see everything in my video.
I hope you will enjoy it and get inspired! 
Don't forget to leave me a comment, as well give me thumbs up on my You Tube channel  :)

Some details...

ColourArte supplies list for this project:

Primary Elements

"Mermaid" France Papillon Series: 

Nutmeg

 Ocean Wave

 Guatamalan Green 

 Copper Pearl

All Purpose Clear Glaze Medium 

Other supplies

spatula

seashell

charm boat

white twine

gauze

Prima - Finnabair art stones

Prima - Finnabair Black Gesso
Prima - Finnabair Texture Paste - White Sand

Prima - Finnabair 3D Gloss Gel

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With this project I'm entering

 The 'Sail your dreams' challenge at Scrap Kafe 'International'




and the Nautical/By the sea challenge at Simon Says Stamp



...

Thank you for visiting!

Have a lovely crafty Summer day :)

xxx

Athanasia

'Lucky 13' - tiny canvas with video

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm hosting the Finnabair blog with a small project,

my third tiny canvas, with a video tutorial.

They say that 13 is an unlucky number. But what if we could define our own luck, stop being superstitious (I never was or will be, that's for sure) and decide to take chances even from things we never believed we could and even more at the end number 13 would be a lucky number? 

Well, today's project is not about number 13, it's about being optimistic, take risks and create our own luck!

I was really in a pleasant mood when I was creating this project and I think this mood shows up in the final result. I wanted to use bright colors that make me happy and what would fit better than the beautiful combinations of blue, pink, yellow and green of the Alchemy Acrylic Paints?

I painted everything with all these beautiful colors, even the metallic embellishments like this cute Mechanical Butterfly and the frond part of an old hand-watch I  had in my stash.

Before I glue down the watch I filled it with different Art Ingredients like the Art Stones and Mini Art Stones (I so love these stuff!) and Bronze Micro Beads. Then I used 3D Gloss Gel to glue it on the canvas and make sure it won't go anywhere!

I used my Silicon Brush to apply different texture pastes and create an interesting textured background...

To make it even more cute I used Jump Rings to hang some trinkets like this cute tassel, Roman Numbers (which actually is number 10 and number 3:), a gear and the title I made from a 7Dots Studio sticker.

Here is my video with all the process. I hope you will enjoy it and get some ideas on how to create your own lucky piece of art.

***You can find a list of supplies in this post - Just scroll down ;)

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty weekend!

xxx

Athanasia

Tiny roof tiles *video

Hello :)

My new tutorial for ColourArte is here:

I altered these cute tiny roof tiles in order to give them as a gift appreciation to my daughter's teachers. They already have them and both loved them :)

The ColourArte products I used to paint them are:

Primary Elements

Summer Breeze

Mystique

Sunflower

Spiced Pumpkin

Autumn Leaf

All Purpose Clear Glaze Medium 4oz Bottle

I mixed the Primary Elements with the Glaze Medium and made custom waterproof paints.

You can see all the process in my video, I hope you will enjoy it!

Don't forget to leave me a comment, as well give me thumbs up on my You Tube channel!

Thank you for visiting!

Have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

Bunny in a hat *with video

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm sharing my new project I created for Finnabair Creative Team!

This is the second card I'm altering from a card set I got from Ikea a long time ago.

I had so much fun painting and decorating this cute bunny and I'm happy to share the whole process in a video with you.

I started with covering the background with Heavy White Gesso in order to mute it a little bit and used some Art Alchemy acrylic colors in shades that matched the card's colors: Fresh Orange, Royal Red, Steampunk Copper and Black Berry. 

I also used all these beautiful colors to paint the chipboard pieces and all the metal embellishments...

I love doodling on my projects and this time I used a black permanent pen, as well a white pen.

The several stamps I used created a really messy and interesting background and helped me create even more texture with a fun technique I did on White Heavy Gesso - you can watch all these tricks in the video below.

I hope you will enjoy my video and maybe get some ideas to create your altered card!

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

wooden houses

  Happy Sunday dear friends!

Today I'm sharing a fun project I created to decorate my leaving room.

I had so much fun 'building' these cute houses and painting them with ColourArte pigments.

Here are the supplies I used to create them:

ColourArte products

• Primary Elements: Blue Grass, Summer Breeze, Teal Zirgon, Fuzzy Peach
• All Purpose Clear Glaze Medium 

Other products:

• White Heavy Gesso
• Black Gesso
• paintbrush
• pyrographer
• sandpaper
• wood blocks (I used the legs from an old cheap ikea table)
• jigsaw

The whole idea came when I saw the wooden legs of an old cheap ikea table standing at the corner of our warehouse. They had the perfect size to create some houses. I knew that we weren't going to use this table never again, so with no second thought I cut them in pieces with the jigsaw. I didn't do any measuring, just started cutting in different sizes.

Next thing to do was to use the sand paper to soften the edges and make them look old. 

After that, I used the pyrographer to create the doors and windows. That took a lot of time but it really worth it! If you don't have a pyrographer you can simply use paints to draw doors and windows. 

Then I started painting the houses.

I made my own Glaze paints by mixing in the Clear Glaze Medium my favorite arte-pigment colors. 

Again, no measuring at all, just keep in mind that the more color you add, the more opaque look you get or add more Glaze for Extra Transparency. Just play with the paints and have fun!

I didn't use any container to blend the paints, I just added some Clear Glaze on the corner of the house and spread the pigment in there. It's pretty easy to apply it, the paint is so smooth, I just love it! I kept adding some more pigment here and there and just blending with the paintbrush and when I was happy with the result I let it dry naturally and kept going with the next house and so on...

I used on three of the five houses blue/green shades of Primary Elements pigments and on one house the Fuzzy Peach shade. I also painted two houses with White Heavy Gesso and all the roofs with Black Gesso.

Last and very important step for me was to sand all the edges of the houses with sandpaper, to create an aged look. I also used it on all the sides of the houses to remove most of the gloss of the paints.

I really love the result, they are already standing on my shelf :)

***you can find all ColourArte products here 

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia