Showing posts with label sea shell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea shell. Show all posts

August 19, 2016

Summer snow

Hello dear friends!
Today I'm hosting the Finnabair blog with a Summer/Wintery layout.


 I'm not happy that Summer is coming soon in the end and I'm not champ at the bit for Winter.
The fact is that I love both Summer and snow and I'm happy that I managed to put them together.
Despite the fact that they are two completely different things and they never exist at the same time , I wanted to incorporate them together in one composition and give them the chance to be together, even for once :)

On my page you can find seashells and summer colors, snowflakes and wintery feeling...
All these are well combined together with beautiful mechanicals, Micro Beads and Glitter, flowers and chipboard pieces.

The Mechanical stars made the perfect link between summer and winter as they falling down from the snowing sky into the sea to become one with the starfish.  


The White Crackle Paste, as well the White Gesso constituted a beautiful base for the summer and winter colors and made all the different elements of the composition come together and incorporate in one piece.

This beautiful mechanical flower is one of my favorite elements of the project because it looks like a snowflake and a flower at the same time and so lovely  matches my theme. 
I glued inside with the 3D Gloss Gel a beautiful ring which was in the Mechanical set and inside a screw brand. 
I love how the Mechanical pieces complement each other and make new unique pieces. The combinations are endless! 

When I painted everything white for the Winter scene, I painted with different colors the Summer one. I used soft tones of Primary Elements in teal, brown and grey and the Silver Spoon Acrylic Paint to make splashes all over the page.

In the video I made especially for you, you can watch how I put together this page.
I hope you like it and get some Summery/Wintery inspiration.


*** Scroll down here to see a supplies list

*Chipboard pieces by 2 Crafty
*Colors by ColourArte
*Paper 'Summer snow' by 13arts

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Thank you for visiting,
have a lovely crafty day!

xxx
Athanasia

August 7, 2016

Summer tag - upcycle and create

Dear friends

Today I'm sharing a mixed media summer tag I created for ColourArte.


I used the cardboard and the plastic cover from the package I had from a Mechanical set by Finnabair.I had so much fun upcycling and altering them and I really love the result!

I hope you will enjoy my video with the process and get inspired! Don't forget to leave me a comment, as well give me thumbs up on my You Tube channel  :)


ColourArte products I used for this project

Vivid Ultra Metallic-Blue Bayou

Vivid Ultra Metallic-African Jade

Vivid Ultra Metallic - Teal Zircon

Primary Elements - "Mermaid" France Papillon Series

H2O - Summer Breeze

some details...













Thank you for visiting,
have a lovely crafty day!


xxx
Athanasia

July 17, 2016

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:


"Mermaid" France Papillon Series: 

Nutmeg

 Ocean Wave

 Guatamalan Green 

 Copper Pearl



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



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Thank you for visiting!


Have a lovely crafty Summer day :)

xxx
Athanasia