Bloom and Grow

Hello everyone!

Today I'm hosting the ColourArte blog with a small canvas I created for my art wall.

After quite a few Christmas projects, today I'm sharing a small canvas I created for my art wall.

For this project I used:

ColourArte products:

H2Os Shimmering Watercolors: Black Emerald, Vanilla Bean, Playful Peony, Summer Breeze, Lemondrop, Apple Blossom, Midori Melon, African Jade, Mistique

Radiant Rains Misters: Sunburst, Ocean Wave, Apple Blossom, Teal Zirgon

Primary Elements: Blue Grass

Other Products:

• 2Crafty Chipboard sentence 
• butter embossing powder
• Finnabair Glass Glitter
• 3D Gloss Gel
• Heavy White Gesso
• Vintage Photo distress ink
• glue

First I applied White Gesso all over the surface. Before it was dry, I made some splashes with all the H2Os and blended them with the White Gesso with my paintbrush to create a soft pastel background. I let it dry.

Then I spread some butter embossing powder here and there and melted it with the heat gun.

Next step was to glue the chipboard sentence. I spread some water and with the paintbrush I applied the Apple Blossom H2O. I really love this watercolor effect! I also spread some Blue Grass Primary Element and sprayed water to liquefy it.

 To create the flower I sprayed with the Radiant Rain Misters and made a lot of splashes with all the colors of H2Os I listed above. I also glued with the 3D Gloss Gel some glass glitter in the middle of the flower.

In order to create the stalk of the flower I used the Black Emerald with a fine brush. I also made some splashes with it.

My final step was to distress the edges with the Vintage Photo distress ink.

I hope you got some inspiration and ideas on how to create a watercolor look on your project.

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

Trust your own madness

Καλή χρονιά σε όλους!

Εύχομαι το 2016 να είναι μια υπέροχη και δημιουργική χρονιά γεμάτη χαρά και υγεία!

Όπως κάθε μήνα, στο Scraps N pieces σας έχουμε μία ολοκαίνουρια προκληση:

We are all mad here

 Βρείτε μία τρελή, αστεία, παλαβή φωτογραφία! Θυμηθείτε μια τρελή στιγμή, κάτι παλαβό που κάνατε... Journal a quote για την τρέλα... ή εμπνευστείτε από την Αλίκη στη χώρα των θαυμάτων... τραπουλόχαρτα, τρελές γάτες... τσαγιέρες... ;)
O τίτλος ελεύθερος 

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

Για τη σελίδα μου στο Μαύρο Journal χρησιμοποίησα:

 2Crafty Chipboard για τη λέξη MAD, Finnabair βίδες - διπλόκαρφα, και πλαστικό χόρτο.

Αφού το κόλλησα πρώτα, τα έβαψα με ιριδίζοντα silks της ColourArte.

Επίσης χρησιμοποίησα μάυρη Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder και Finnabair Glass Glitter τα οποία κόλλησα με  3D Gloss Gel. 

Για να γράψω τον τίτλο χρησιμοποίησα το Uni-ball άσπρο στυλό, με το οποίο έκανα και μερικά doodles (πώς είναι αυτό βρε παιδιά στα ελληνικά; χαχα) γύρω από τις βίδες
-οι βιδες ειναι συμβολικές όπως ελπίζω να καταλάβατε, χαχα- 

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Hello dear friends and Happy New Year!

This is our brand new challenge at Scraps N pieces.

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I made a page at my black journal about the madness some of us have in our personality.

Of course I mean the good madness, the kind of madness all artists have :)

If you can trust your own madness, you can do amazing things while you creating, don't you think?

For my project I used 2Crafty Chipboard letters, some Finnabair screw brads and plastic grass.

I painted all with Iridescent silks by ColourArte.

I also used a little bit of Lindy's Stamp Gang black embossing powder here and there, as well some Finnabair Glass Glitter with 3D Gloss Gel. 

For the tittle and the doodling I used the Uni-ball white pen. 

Here are some details...

***Μπορείτε να βρείτε όλα τα υλικά στο Scraps&Pieces Emporium

***You can find all supplies of this project at Scraps&Pieces Emporium

I hope you will play at our MAD challenge!

I can;t wait to see your mad projects :)

Λοιπόν, τι λέτε? Θα παίξετε στην τρελή πρόκλησή μας?

Περιμένω να δω τις όμορφες δημιουργίες σας!

xxx

Athanasia

Christmas wishes from Finnabair CT

Merry Christmas everyone!

Τhe whole Finnabair Creative Team created their personal artistic Christmas wishes for all of you...

My wish to all of you is LOVE!

You can visit Finnabair's blog to see all the amazing projects team created.

We hope all these wishes will come true for you. Enjoy and feel inspired! 

Here are some details of my project. It's full of Finnabair products: White Heavy Gesso, 3D Gloss Gel, Glass beads, glitter, 'love' button, a piece of resist canvas with which I made a pocket on the bear's belly, star brads. 

The word LOVE is by 2Crafty Chipboard.

Sending warmest hugs for the Christmas Time!

xxx

Athanasia