mini art journal |Staying Home

Dear friends

I hope you are all safe and creative in your homes!

I'm sharing a spread I created in my mini art journal 

with watercolor pencils and black jesso. 

Bear design is inspired by Magda Polakow 's work I found on Pinterest.

If you are interested to see more pages and videos of my mini journal click on the right side menu bar the "mini art journal' tag in the Tags list. 

xxx

Athanasia

Christmas wishes from Finnabair CT

Merry Christmas everyone!

Τhe whole Finnabair Creative Team created their personal artistic Christmas wishes for all of you...

My wish to all of you is LOVE!

You can visit Finnabair's blog to see all the amazing projects team created.

We hope all these wishes will come true for you. Enjoy and feel inspired! 

Here are some details of my project. It's full of Finnabair products: White Heavy Gesso, 3D Gloss Gel, Glass beads, glitter, 'love' button, a piece of resist canvas with which I made a pocket on the bear's belly, star brads. 

The word LOVE is by 2Crafty Chipboard.

Sending warmest hugs for the Christmas Time!

xxx

Athanasia

be your kind of beautiful

Hello Lindy's Stamp Gang friends! 

Today I'm sharing a canvas about beauty...

I would like to show you one favorite technique: Lindy's Embossed Crackle. 

It's pretty easy and, trust me, you will love the result!

1. Choose a chipboard piece, or any kind of paper you like.
2. Put a thin coat of gesso. You need a white surface so that it will show the actual color of the embossing powder after melting it.
3. Spread the embossing powder (I used Bonjour Butter) on your chipboard piece. Remove some of it with your finger and heat it with the heat gun.
4. That's it! Your chipboard is ready to use on your projects. The fact you removed some of the embossing powder with your fingers, influences the finished look of the melted embossing powder.

Let's alter now some alpha stickers with Midnight Pewter embossing powder...

1. Take some alpha stickers and an embossing powder of your choice.
2. Spread the embossing powder (I used Midnight Pewter) and heat it! The embossing powder completely changes the piece and it's ready to use!

Crackle finish on stickers:

1. Use the back side of the stickers. Spread ONLY SOME GRAINS of embossing powder. It is very important to leave some spots white! Heat it. It's ready to use! pic#3
2. I glued the altered alpha stickers on the first chipboard piece I altered and put a couple of brads. pic #4

Here is my altered chipboard on the finished project...

I also altered a chipboard word with two shades of embossing powders: Midnight Pewter and Orbit Olive Gold. 

To finish my project I used the July 2015 Limited Edition Spray Set in order to create a mixed media background.

Thank you for visiting!

Have a lovely crafty day!