Happiness is not a destination, it's a way of life - a canvas for 13@rts

Winner at Scrap & Craft

May 2018 challenge

Happy Saturday dear crafty friends!

Today at 13@rts blog, I'm sharing my last project as a Guest Designer.

I've used my May Counterfeit kit for this canvas.

After I've finished the layout, I decided to place it on a canvas, to hang on the wall at my work, as a constant reminder of all the goods in my life, and how grateful I'm for them.

I started by priming the patterned paper with clear gesso. Then I used white gesso over a stencil. The next stage was adding the colors, all dilutted with water, to get the soft pastel look.

On top of the turqouise colors, I addes splashes of brown and gold, and when dried, I stamped around with verious stamps.

I matted the photo on another patterned paper, and backed it on a chipboard to get some dimension. I also adhered the inspiration phrase sticker on the photo.

I adhered the chipboards and the flowers using gell medium. For the final touch, I splatter again with gold and brown mists.

I took a canvas, just a little bigger than the patterned paper, and colored the edges with  pastel turqouise mist, diluted with water. I distressed the edges, both of the pattenred paper and the canvas, with some distress ink, and adhered the patterned paper on the canvas. 

13@rts products that I've used:

Patterned papers:

Alice in Candyland - Destination unknown

Until Dawn - Cold day

Gesso clear

Gesso white

Gel medium

stencil - Berries

Paints: 

Color glow Emerald

Splash! white ink

Mists:

Pearl olive green

Pastel turqouise

Pearl gold

Pearl brown light

Chalk turqoise

Here are close-ups on the details:

I've used Scrapiniec chipboards, Kaisercraft stamps, Lindy's Gang embossing powders, I am Roses flowers and TH distress ink.

I would like to enter it to the following challenges:

Art Playground - May chllenge 'all about the center'. my main element is the photo, so I've placed in in the center of the design, and adhered the inspiration phrase on the photo itself. I also placed the flower clusters to the photo to draw the attention toward it.

Scrap and Craft - use 3 chipboards. I have the title and bordsrs on both sides of the photo (park avenue borders 01 and borders 05)

Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo - blue sky. I was inspired by the sky and by the turqouise colors.

I am Roses - anything goes. All the flower on this canvas (9!) are IAR.

SimonSays Monday Challenge & SimonSays Wedensday challenge - stencil it!

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Treasure box for 13@rts

A new challenge is up at 13@rts - Pastels, and I've made an altered wooden box as my GD project.

Here's the beautiful moodboard:

I've applied white gesso and when it was dried, I colored the box with several diluted 13@rts mediums: 

For the decoration I used Scrapiniec's chipboards and the title is a chipboard from Creative Embellishments.

All the flowers are I am Roses', with a coat of gesso and splatters of Chalk Yellow Amber mist.

For the final touch, I've adhered some Silver Microsphers with Gel Medium.

Here're some close-ups on the details:

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Nature - Timeless Beauty

Winner at More Than words

one of the Top Picks at Words & Paintery 

Hello dear crafty friends,

I'm sharing a layout I've made with the inspiration of some challenges.

All papers are from 13@rts, and so are the different mediums (list of 13@rts products in the end of this post).

One challenge is at More Than Words, with asked for Nature and an aminal image. 

The photos I've used are from Paris, a little place of nature in the middle of the big city, with a beautiful tree next to the river Seine. I love water and trees, and I love little places with nature in the middle of an urban city. Butterflies are my ultimate image of freedom, so I've stamped lots of butterflies on my layout.

Onother challenge is at Words & Paintery, with this wonderful image:

I was inspired both by the colors and the encourgement phrases, and I've use one on my layout: "A flower blooms more than once".

The 3rd challenge I was inspired by is from Mixed Media Place, with this beautiful mood board:

I love the colors of blue/aqua with kind of orange in the sky with the clouds photo, and also by the white flowers photo.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

13@rts products I've used:
Untill Dawn collection - paper -Sending Flowers, A4 element #2, stencil - Berries, A4 stickers.
Stencil - Strip mesh.
Alice in Candyland - paper - Destination Unknown.
Mediums - gesso clear, gesso black, gesso white, modeling paste, gel medium.
Color Glow - Emerald, Amber.
Mists - Pastel Antique Cream, Pastel Blue, Pastel Turqouise, Chalk Turqouise Light, Pearl Old Gold.
Splash! ink white. 
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A mini album for a sweet girl - Altair Art DT assignment

Hello dear crafty friends,

Today it's my turn on the Altair Art blog, and I share a mini album I've made for a very sweet girl, who turned 12 years lately.

All the patterned papers I've used are from Altair Art (full list is in the end of this post).

The mini album measurements are 4.5" X 6.5" X 2.5", it has 5 pages and can hold more than 30 photos.

I have lots of flaps, inserts, mini booklets and a pocket.

I've use my Feb Counterfeit Kit for this album.

For the decoration I've used Lindy's Gang sprays, magical shaker and embossing powder (Alpine Ice Rose Pink spray and shaker, Chateau Rose, Wild Honeysuckle Coral, Aloha Avocado, Cotton Candy Pink, Oom Pah Pah Pink ep and Whale Watch Blue).

I also used some Robin's Nest dew drops, and DIY enamel dots, wood veneers, I am Roses flowers (7 different flowers on the front cover), foam die-cuts and fussy cut butterflies from Altair Art papers.

Here are the spreads and some close-ups:

I would like to enter this mini album to the flollowing challenges:

Lindy's Gang Feb mood board

Summer studio moodboard no. 41:

I was inspired by the soft pastel colors and the flowers.
Pile it on - 3D embellishments

Mini Album Makers Feb challenge

I am Roses Feb challenge anything goes

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