Archive for October, 2013

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October 22, 2013

An Autumn Card

This weekend I created a card … it actually started as a thought for an art journal page, but in the end I thought it would make a lovely card to give to a friend!

Here it is:

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I’m playing along in two challenges:

Born to Crop – they have asked to make an autumn coloured card

Cheerful Stamp pad – Let’s stencil -  use a stencil in your ATC, card, art journal page

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I love making easel cards, I’ve used an stellar artisan stencil, stamped leaves that I’ve fussy cut and coloured in with distress paint, wood veneers again painted …

Here are some more photos:

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I added glossy accent to some of the leaves & the birdies to give it more dimension and to make them pop!

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Well, I hope you have a great day, and find some time to be creative!

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October 21, 2013

L is for landscape

Well, we are almost coming to an end with the Alpha Challenges over at the Craft Barn blog, just 5 more letters to go!

This week, apart for the ‘L” we had a twist, we had to incorporate a window!!

Once I saw, the word landscape in my dictionary I knew exactly what I wanted to do:

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I created a city view, from within a house! :)  I drew the window with a black Sakura micron pen, I used a Crafter’s Workshop mask to create my scene ….

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A close up of the definition highlighted with water colour paints.

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The city scene is created with distress inks, but the window is water colours … I wanted a more ‘mute’ effect for the scene, like you were looking thru glass ….

 

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I used a stamp to create a background wallpaper effect, and even added a small painted over the definition, as if it’s hanging on the wall of the house!

 

Thank you for dropping by, and I hope you like this entry!!

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October 20, 2013

Totally Awesome

I have another layout to share with you … I really love it when I have time to play!

Here is a photo of Micaelia and Katerina!

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I misted on another piece of paper, and then cut it up to use as a mat. Added rubons to top and bottom and used white pen to doodle.

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Close up of the doodling!

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Pattern paper, and die cut.  Words are wood veneers by Kaisercraft, painted read, and doodled on with a white pen.

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Another close up.

Thank you for dropping by, and hope you have a lovely Sunday!

Posted in doodling, masking, minibooks, painting | 2 Comments »

October 19, 2013

Art Journal Daily # 30

 

Another double  page …

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…. and some close ups!

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Gelli arted deli paper, collage, 3 d paste, and lots of stamping!

 

Thank you for dropping by!

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October 18, 2013

Sweet happy moments – AAG Challenge

Currently the Boy Meets Girl challenge is:

For our first AAG challenge, we challenge you to use texture on your pages/projects.  It doesn’t matter the type of texture you use.

My take on this is:

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Myself and my niece Sofia!

For texture I’ve used 3D paste which I’m mixed with pink paint, some gold paint, and some dry embossing with my Martha stewart scoring pad, to give some texture …

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Close up of 3d paste and mask!!!

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Close up of rubons, paint, and scoring!

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More close ups.

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Chipboard elements to add highlights.

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Another view of texture!

Thank you for dropping by!

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October 15, 2013

Friends Forever

I feel truly blessed for having people in my life.  Each one of us is so different and each friend is such a unique spirit that adds another shade a colour to my days and being!

I appreciate each person for being there, and bringing joy to my life! Just needed to say that!!!! 🙂

I have made it my goal to scrap more photos, to remember moments,  so that we can look back in our old age and say …. Ahhhhhh do you remember that????

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When I scrap for pleasure I like to play with the details, and try to add as much as I can …. I started off trying to see what the gold colour shine mist would do with a mask [bottom corner], then I started cutting it out, added paper and photo, added more of the same mask with distress ink  this time to balance it out …. and voila, a layout was born!!!

In the photo left to right:  My friend Zeffy, Elvira & I, at the Mall Marousi, back in April 2013.

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Used white pen, and glitter pen to highlight elements in the mask.

 

 

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Played with mist, and stamping with black archival to give more depth.

 

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With ink, I redid part of the mask and popped it up with 3d dots.

 

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A bit of doodling around the pattern papers!

It’s hard for me to draw the line and say when a layout is done …. I think sometimes I need to say enough or else I’d still be at it!!! 🙂

 

Thank you so much for dropping by, I enjoy your lovely comments!  I should make more of an effort to respond to them, but I never seem to have the time!!!

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October 13, 2013

Mr Cool – AAB challenge

This is the first time that I’m taking part in the Boy Meets Girl challenge.

Our first challenge is the Grunge look.  We would like you to create a grunge or “messy” layout.

Well I had a photo of my nephew Dimitri that was crying out for a grungy look to it, so here is my take:

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I just love the cute hat that he’s wearing, he loved head accessories and loved being photographed with them … I think that’s so cool!!!! LOL The photo was taken this past Easter!

Top right corner of the layout … I’ve used some gears diecuts [thanks Zeffy], and I’ve made them grungy, using water colours and then a mask with archival ink.

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A close up of the gears … the background is a white paper that I’ve misted with the new Heidi swap colour shine mists [thanks Voula] using a new stencil and then stamping with archival ink!

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This little ‘face’ gear, is the favourite part of the layout … [thanks Nectar for your COOL advice], a but of washi tape, and rubons … and a bit of a gelli art tag peeking out to add a bit of colour!

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The title!

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Left side top corner, with two wood veneer arrows, painted and using a stencil to add dots!

Thanks for dropping by, and I hope like my layout!

Have a great week ahead everyone!!!

Posted in Bigshot, challenge, family, GelliArt, masking, misting, painting, scrapbook, stamping, Tim Holtz dies, washi tape | 11 Comments »

October 13, 2013

My Get Creative card challenge!!!!

Good morning everyone!!

Sunday today, and hopefully this will go live as scheduled and I am still in bed sleeping and resting after a full week!!!

 

My challenge is to:

Create a card using a mask or stencil.

 

Here are some cards that I made:

A new baby card, made using distress inks and a stencil.

 

 

A birthday card, made using 3 different stencils, acrylic paints & my gelli plate.

 

A christmas card using a stencil with distress inks.

 

 

 

The lucky winner of my challenge will get this  prize:

 

For your card to be valid in this challenge please read the rules.

The rules for the month of card challenges are…..

Your card must be new and made for the challenge.

You may enter one card per challenge.

You may enter as many challenges as you like.

Don’t forget all card entries this month will be entered into a random generator and the winner will win a fabulous prize from our sponsor this month

Scraps n Pieces

You have until

Sunday 10th of November

to upload your card to the side bar

on the GET CREATIVE BLOG !

Posted in card-making, Christmas, CraftyCroppersGR, GelliArt, masking, stamping, Unity stamps | 3 Comments »

October 12, 2013

J is for Jump

Just a very quick post as today is the last day to upload my ‘J’ word over at the Craft barn Alpha Challenge, and I have a very full program ….

 

Here is my take:

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I have used the joy stencil that I had won a while back … I thought that it would be most suitable …. distress inks this time ….

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Here is a close up of the definition ….

 

Thank you so much for dropping by, and enjoy your Saturday.

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October 11, 2013

Art Journal Daily # 27, 28, 29

It’s been a while again since I’ve shown you by art journal dailys and they have piled up!

 

 

First one:

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Do the images look familiar??? I decided to try a technique of printing off my own art work and reusing it!!!! 

 

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Close up

 

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Gelli art paper under the houses!

 

The second one:

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This was lots of fun to do, dylusions, masks, and more masks.

 

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Love this quote!

 

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Heavy gesso, and mask!

 

 

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Gold paint, heavy gesso.

 

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This one is just 3 days … but I wanted to play with distress inks and the stencil …. as well as doing another face!

 

 

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I drew this with watercolours … directly with a paintbrush … no pencil, no marker … 🙂

 

Well I hope you have enjoyed my pages … Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Posted in AJ BK 3, Art Journal, DailyJournaling, GelliArt, masking, painting, stamping, watersolubles | 1 Comment »

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