Colorchart book for ColourArte - making the cover

Happy Sunday dear friends!

Time for some inspiration with video tutorial for ColourArte!

I created this cute little book with file folders. 

You will see at my video how to add more pages using a file folder, scissors and a cropadile,

as well how I created the cover of the book.

I'm already using this book as a colorchart with all my ColourArte products.

The file folders were perfect for this project, because they have these cute labels overhanging and help me find the categories of the color products in no time!

I hope you will enjoy the video and get inspired!

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

ColourArte supplies list for this project:

Primary Elements

Teal Zirgon
Blue Grass
Pink Azalea
Sumflower
Pear Blossom
Coral Berry
Rose Gold

Radiant Gels
 Blue Pearls
Celedon
Vavoom Red

H2Os
Siam White

Vivid Ultra Metallic
True Silver

The Solution

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some details

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

Enjoy every moment

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm sharing a fun and colorful layout I created for 2Crafty Chipboard.

I had this cute photo with my daughter playing and painting at school, 

so I wanted to make a cute and playful page.

I chose from the Word Circles Set 1 the words 'smile', 'happy' and 'today' - they are so cute for this page and I love how they look in the composition!

I also used a butterfly and a doodle frame.

I order to alter my chipboard pieces, I used watercolor paints H2Os and I painted them with a paintbrush.

For the circle words I also spread some embossing powder here and there to make it look even more interesting. I really love the result!

For the doodle frame I used the same colors I used on the rest of the chipboard pieces.

I cut it in half and placed the two parts in different spots to make the page look more funky. 

2Crafty chipboards on this project:

Word Circles Set 1

Doodled Frames

Marianne's Butterflies

    

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With this page I'm entering the challenge at My-Scrap.Ru  with this beautiful sketch:

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I hope you got some inspiration  and ideas on how to alter your chipboards with watercolors!
For more inspiration, you can visit the 2 Crafty blog  and the 2Crafty store if you are interested to buy their beautiful chipboards.
Thank you for visiting, have a lovely crafty day!
xxx Athanasia

making beautiful thoughts

Hello everyone!

Today I have a new challenge for you at Mixed Media Place!

DRAWING !

Whether you're already addicted to drawing or a complete beginner - join us this month!

Don't feel obliged or pressured to create a masterpiece, your sketches or simple exercises are most welcome, too! Simply feel the joy of holding a crayon in your hand. :)

I love drawing on my projects! I do it every time I make a layout or a canvas and that's how I got the idea to make a challenge with this theme. In this project I wanted to show you some ideas how to draw on your pages in a very easy way.

I wanted to make sure that my focus is on the drawing work, I decided to use only my permanent black pen, some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays, the  'Blue Grass' from Primary Elements, Copper Mica Powder with the Light Paste, two stamps, some wire and chipboard letters for the tittle. So, no embellishments at all and I like it!

First I did some doodling on a photo of mine and wrote some words on my blouse. I also made a few simple lines on the paper to expand the photo. Then I started stamping with the Peeled Paint stamp on top and over my head (because that's the spot where my thoughts come of :)

To create my flowers, firstly I made some splashes with the sprays and then I drew the lines with the permanent pen abstractedly, without much thinking. The stalks of the flowers are drawn with the plastic hose of the sprays - that's pretty easy and fun thing to do! Finally I made some doodling with the same pen, not complex things, just some sloppy circles.

I hope I have encouraged you to do some drawing :)
I can't wait to see your projects for the drawing challenge! 

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With this page I'm entering the 13arts challenge 'Let's take a selfie'

create art

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm sharing my page for our watercolor challenge at Scraps N Pieces with a start to finish VIDEO - I hope you will enjoy my work :)

 This month's mood board is absolutely gorgeous, made by Melenia Agapides.

The challenge is about water colors - you can use on your project any water based color, like mists, inks and of course water colors. Get inspired by the moodboard in any way you like, use the colors, the pictures, or the quote...

I'm not going to say much for my project today.

You can watch the video and learn how I created it!

Here are some details...

...and here is the VIDEO as I promised :)

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With this page I'm entering the following challenges:

Scrappolis challenge: I used a pin on the butterfly

Volga-Scrapbook: spitfire-thorns

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I hope I'll see your watercolor creations at Scraps N Pieces !!!

Until next time,

Have fun!

Color your world #2

 Hello dear friends!

Today I'm sharsharing the second project for the April color challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang. I decided for this month to create three projects with the same title 'color your world', because of the pallet with all these beautiful and bright colors!
 So this is my #2 (you can see #1 project here).

For this project I used a very colorful photo I found on Web and the April 2015 Color Challenge MEGA Set.

First I applied some light paste with a mask and spread some Sunset Yellow embossing powder directly on it - believe me, it works perfectly that way! After heating it with the heat gun, I repeated the same process with another mask and the Tilt A Wheel Teal embossing powder and heated it again. Then, I made some splashes with all the sprays, I stamped a few stamps and that was all for the background!

I also used one of the sprays, the Magnolia Magneta Gold,  to watercolor the stamped flowers with a paint brush. It is really a pretty easy and fun way to use the sprays and believe me, you will love the result!

One other fun thing I did, was to draw with a permanent pen some funky flowers around the tiny spots of the splashes. I love how they turned!

I also draw some leaves on the top and the bottom of the page, which I panted with the Oakleaf Olive spray...

 Now let me tell you how I created the tittle. I used all the embossing powders of the set on the chipboard letters: while I was holding the chipboard letter with a nipper I poured some powder on the upper half and another color on the lower half. I dried it with the heat gun and at the end I did some doodling with the permanent pen. Really fun process, don't you think?

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With this project I'm entering the
 'Color Your World' challenge at Our Creative Corner.

And My-Scrap.Ru sketch challenge:

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That was all for today. I hope you got some inspiration from my 'Color your world' #2 project.

Thank you for visiting, have a wonderful crafty time!