A moment captured

Hello dear friends!

This month I'm guest designing for 7Dots Studio

 and I'm very happy and honored!

For my first post I wanted to make a boyish layout and I found the perfect paper in Verano Azul collection.

I left almost the half of the paper free from embellishments and paints because I wanted the beautiful pattern to be conspicuous. I also used some die cuts from the Lost and Found collection.

7Dots Studio products I used:

7 Dots Studio - Verano Azul - Celadon

7 Dots Studio - Verano Azul - Green Time

7 Dots Studio - Lost and Found - Die-cut Elements 6x12

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Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

Just breathe forever *with video tutorial

Happy Monday dear friends!

How many of you happened to be so charmed by a single vintage photo that it inspired a whole art piece?

When I saw this beautiful vintage photo from Finnabair's Ephemera Vintage Collectibles I knew exactly what I wanted to make: a vintage canvas.

This photo evokes so many emotions for me, like nostalgia, romanticism and melancholy in a beautiful way and I wanted to include all these feelings in my canvas.

So, here is my project for Finnabair Creative Team:

I started creating the background by doodling with a soft drawing pencil and used Clear Gesso in order to seal it and make sure that it wouldn't go away no matter what.

Then I made custom paints with Soft Matte Gel and Mica Powders and used them with a beautiful Lace stencil.
I also used stamps, Crackle Texture Paste and a few Art Ingredients to create various textures and dimension to the project. 

The Mechanical Flowers  were the perfect embellishment for my canvas, I really love how they look there!

I also made a couple of paper embellishments with stamps and embossing powders.

You can watch the hole process step by step in my video.

***You can find full supplies list in this post

***You can buy all supplies in Mixed Media Place store

I had a really great time creating this project, based on just one beautiful photo!

Maybe you will find your inspirational photo and create a romantic vintage project too :)

xxx

Athanasia

make it happen - simple art journal page

Happy November everyone!

Today I'm sharing a super simple art journal page for ColourArte.

I had this cute small label 'make it happen' and found the perfect match colors in Twinkling H2Os.  So I used:

ColourArte products:

• Twinkling H2Os Watercolors: Icicles, Pale Porcelain, Warm Grey, Pearl Gold, Black Emerald, Summer Breeze
• Primary Elements: Oyster, Blue Grass, Pear Blossom

Other Supplies:

• Finnabair stencil
• Finnabair White heavy gesso
• Finnabair Modeling Paste
• Finnabair Stamp
• StazOn ink jet black
• 7Dots Studio label
• washi tape
• thread

First I found the right colors to match with the colors of the label and sprayed some water to activate them. I covered the hole page with white gesso and used the stencil with the modeling paste to create texture on the background.

When the modeling paste was dry, I glued the thread with the washi tape in order to create two different sections on the page. I sprayed some water and painted here and there with the H2Os watercolors with a paintbrush. I also made some splashes with the darker color 'Black Emerald'.

 When it was dry, I spread some powder of the three PE colors here and there and sprayed them with water. I let it dry.

 Last thing to do was to stamp the sentence and glue the label.

***buy a journal like this at The Journal Shop

If you need more inspiration you can visit ColourArte blog to find even more tutorials and techniques and ColourArte Store for amazing products!

Have a lovely crafty day!