mini art journal | Girl

 Dear friends

I hope you all are doing great!

Staying home on this weird period of our life's made me feel very creative.

I'm about to fill all the pages of my mini journal, actually there is one last left which I'll try to shoot a video with the process.

For today's project I used acrylic paints and watercolor pencils.

The stickers are from 7Dots Studio collection.

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

Spread the hope - for Breast Cancer Awareness

Hello dear friends!

October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness, so I wanted to make a project for this sensitive and so important issue. Being healthy is the most significant value in our lives, as well being strong, having courage and being positive whenever difficulties enter our lives. 

So, I created a layout for ColouArte with a step by step Video. 

I hope you will enjoy watching the process :)

ColourArte Products for this project:

• Twinkling H2Os Watercolors: Think Pink set 6pc mini jar
• Primary Elements: Winter Ice
• Radiant Gels: Emperor's Gold  Metallic Dimensional Paint
• Silks: Plumeria
• Radiant Rain Mister: Percimmon

Other Supplies:

• 13arts paper
• flowers
• Prima stamps
• thread
• 2Crafty Chipboards
• Heidy Swapp alpha stickers
• pink ribbon 
• shiny flakes and glitter
• heart shape paper punch

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With this project I'm entering the Creative Club Simple Pleasures challenge with this beautiful sketch.

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 I hope you got some inspiration today,

I wish you all a happy life full of health!
If you are interested to do something nice about this important issue, you can send donations to National Breast Cancer Foundation - they provide health Services to women in need!!!

Stay positive, think pink <3

beauty in a frame

Μπήκε στα ροζ ο Οκτώβριος για το Scraps N Pieces με θέμα υπέροχο, λαμπερό και πολύ...ροζ. Υπέυθυνη για όλα αυτά η αγαπημένη scrapσυναδέλφισα Valia Katzaki που λατρεύει το ροζ και ό,τι έχει να κάνει με στρας :)

H δική μου σύνθεση είναι ένα πολύ μικρό layout 15x18 εκ. για μια κορνίζα που είχα, 

την οποία και έβαψα με μάυρο gesso.

Hello everyone!

Today starts a new challenge at  Scraps N Pieces.

Here is my project, a mini layout, only 15x18 cm. 

It's made for a small frame...

...and this is the absolutely beautiful moodboard made by my dear friend Valia Katzaki.

Pure Pink!

 Εμπνευστείτε από το moodboard, από πολλά του στοιχεία ή έστω από ένα. Αν δεν είναι προφανές τι σας ενέπνευσε στη δημιουργία σας, πείτε το στην ανάρτησή σας. 
Παίξτε με ombre, με ροζ, με γκλιτερ, με το quote... γενικά αφήστε τη φαντασία σας να οργιάσει :) 
O τίτλος ελεύθερος.

Φτιάχνετε ότι θέλετε όπως πάντα, είτε σύνθεση, κάρτα, art journal σελίδα,
mixed media καμβά, altered item...

You can create any kind of project, as long as you get inspired by this beautiful moodboard!

I painted the frame with black gesso and put the layout inside...

Λοιπόν , τι λέτε? Θα παίξετε μαζί μας?

Ένα πολύ ωραίο δωράκι από το Scraps & Pieces Emporium περιμένει μια τυχερή νικήτρια που θα βγει με κλήρωση!

So, what do you think?

Will you play with us at Scraps N Pieces?

This is our awesome prize from Scraps & Pieces Emporium for one lucky winner!

make a wish!

Hello! 

Today I'm sharing my second project this month for 2Crafty.

It is a birthday tag I made for my 6 years old daughter's friend.

It's like a card, but as it can't open like a regular card, I call it a tag :)

I love using photos on every kind of project I create even it's a tag or a card.

To create this small and cute project, I used this pretty girlish photo, a small piece of paper, some flowers, gold thread, gesso, spays and these beautiful chipboard pieces!  

I really love the fact that you can built so beautiful clusters and layers with such a small amount of chipboard pieces. It's the best way to make a small piece of art with such few material!

All of my chipboard pieces on this tag have also all been heat embossed.

It creates such a nice thick & lush look to the chippies.

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

***paper by Prima

2Crafty Chipboard products:

  

Thank you for visiting!

Have a lovely crafty day!

color your world #1

Happy April dear friends!

Today we have for you a new color challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang!

I created a mini canvas...

...with the April 2015 Color Challenge MEGA Set, 

based on this beautiful moodboard.

For this simple canvas I used all the sprays and embossing powders of the set.

This is actually the #1 of the trilogy 'Color Your World' projects I'm going to share - right now I'm working on the second one :)

I had really a lot of fun creating it and I really like the result!

I think I will use it to decorate my daughter's room - it's so cute!

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

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So, I hope I'll see your beautiful projects for our color challenge

and maybe you will be one of our 5 winners for a 50$gift to the Lindy's Stamp Gang online store!

To the moon and back!

Hello dear friends! 

Today I'm sharing a page I created for Lindy's Stamp Gang 

with the March 2015 Limited Edition Spray Set:

This time I used three colors of the set: C'est la vie Cerise, A Bit o'Bubbly and I'm Late, I'm Late Slate. I wanted blue and orange shades on my page and that's why I choose the first two colors. The third color was also a perfect match as it has the same shade with the paper I used. This helped a lot to blend the blue and orange mixed media background with the color of the paper. To create the background I made a lot of splashes with the sprays and also blended them with watercolors, watercolor pencils, a 3D paint and inks. 

I also sprayed the flowers in order to give the same shades of the background and create a balance to the project...

I altered some chipboard pieces with the  Cosmic Pink Blue embossing powder. This is really a fun way to use the chipboard leftovers on your project, it gives an awesome look on it!

The crescent moon has been designed by my 6 years old daughter. She was very happy watching me scrapping her picture and wanted a moon to match with the quote. I really liked her sketch, so I cut it with my scissors and glued it on the page. I also strapped on it some jewelry wire with some stars sequins :) 

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With this project I'm entering:

 The 7 Dots Studio "Hearts" challenge 

- I used the Messy Head collection, one of my favorites ever!

...and the Scrap Memory 'Step by Step' challenge.

That was all for today!

 I hope you got some ideas and I can't wait to see your projects for our March Color Challenge!

 Have a lovely Sunday!