my black journal - Hearts (Hurts) To Remember

Hello dear friends!

Today it is my turn to host the Finnabair blog :)

I love making pages in my black journal and today I want to share my newest one.

I think this is my first page themed with hearts in this journal. I usually enjoy making and painting butterflies and dragonflies...

I'm not really a 'hearts' or 'flowers' person and that's why I think I didn't like this page at first.

But I really wanted to try to save the page, so my good friend Heavy Black Gesso helped me to fix everything and turned this page to be one of my favorites.

I started by covering the page with Black Gesso as I always do in my black journal.

I used a plastic sheet to cut some hearts and glued them on the page as masks. Then I started working on my page.

I picked the Cobblestone stencil and one of the Stone Effect Pastes to create texture on the background. I love that it dries very quickly and you can work on it immediately after that.

You can still see the amazing texture these pastes give to the project, even that now they are covered with Black Gesso!

My idea was to paint inside the pattern of the stencil with different colors of the Sparks acrylic paints. I took my favorite shades and used a heatgun to dry them.

When the page was dry, I removed the mask hearts and... then was the point I started to not like the page so much... I tried to work a little bit more with white pens but nothing happened. I still didn't like it.

So, without a second thought I grabbed the Black Gesso and painted everything black.

I had nothing on my page but the texture of the Stone Effect Pastes and that was good enough to start creating a new page.

I also had aside the hearts I had removed off the page before. Thank God I didn't put them in the trash. ;)

They had on them all the beautiful colors of the Sparks I used before, so I glued them down and voila! The half of the work was done!

To decorate the page a little more, I added Art Stones and Mini Art Stones with the 3D Gloss Gel, some thread and made splashes with the Sparks here and there. 

I also used two chipboard words I had in my stash to title the project.

You can see in my video below how I built two pages into one. :)

I really love how this page turned out even if I had to make it twice.

I think the most important thing is to trust yourself and not to give up even when you think that you have reached a very dissapointing point.

There is always a way to fix things in life, especially a page in your journal - this is the easy part, right? :)

I wish you all a happy crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

My vintage heart *video

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm hosting the Finnabair
blog with a new page at my black journal.

I hadn't played in my black journal for a while, so I thought it was the right time to create a new page and share with you the process in a video I made especially for you.

I used some acrylic paints as well the White Crackle Paste and had so much fun playing with Modeling Paste and the new texture brushes creating patterns and textures over and over again.

To add even more interest to the textures on my page I added Art Stones and Mini Art stones, which turned to be my favorite supply -  they are so perfect for every kind of mixed media art!

When I was done with the background, I decided to add something metal on my project and I used one of the Mechanical Hearts. I really love it because it looks already vintage and rusted, so I kept it as it was! I only added some of the Rust Pastes here and there to  give to the page a more vintage look.

I hope you will enjoy my process and get some new ideas on how to play with Texture Pastes and Texture Brushes.

*** full list of supplies here

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

Altered heart tag

Happy Sunday dear friends!

Today I'm sharing a Valentine's Day project, an altered heart tag I created for ColourArte.

For this project I used: 

ColourArte products:

• H2Os Shimmering Watercolors: Guatemalan Green, Pink Crocus, Jasmine , Periwinkle
• Radiant Gel: Vavoom Red

Other products:

• heart tag
• 7 Dots Studio tags
• 2Crafty chipboard flower
• arrow stencil
• flowers
• White Gesso
• 3D Gloss Gel
• glass beads and glitter
• wire
• black grass

First I applied the 3D Radiant Gel with a pallet knife on the stencil. It dries pretty quickly, but if you are impatient like me you can speed the process with a heat gun.

 Then I sprayed some water on the Twinkling H2Os to activate them - that takes about 5 minutes, so I had the time to glue everything down with the 3D Gloss Gel.

When the H2Os where ready, I used a paintbrush and colored some spots here and there...

Last step was to glue the glass glitter with the 3D Gloss Gel and make some splashes with white gesso.

That was pretty easy and quick, don't you think? :)

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With this project I'm entering the 'Hearts' challenge at Studio 75

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I hope you got some ideas on how to make a Valentine's Day protect.

If you are interested to win some ColourArte products you can enter my GIVEAWAY here :)

Have a lovely crafty day!

xxx

Athanasia

need you around

 Hello dear friends! 

Today I'm guest designing for Berry 71 Blue!

Kay Fatula created an amazing moodboard as a tribute to motherhood...

I have to admit that I fell in love with this amazing moodboard. I got inspired not only by the neutral earth colors but also by the motherhood theme which touched me deeply as being a mum of two children is the most important thing in my life.

So I decided to make a canvas:

For this project I used three shades of Lindy's Gang Stamp sprays and embossing powders (on the chipboard pieces): grey, beige and gold to match the color combo of the photo and the moodboard. I also used black watercolor on some spots to create a little bit of contrast. I chose only a few embellishments because I wanted to focus on the photo and the background, which is created with stamps, a stencil and the above colors. The paper, sticker and chipboard I used are from 7 Dots Studio 'Soulmates' collection.

You can see more detail at Berry 71 Blue's post :)

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty time!