The Phantom of the Opera - art journal

An art journal I've made, inspired by two challenges:

The 1st from More Than Words, which asked for a costume and a black background:

My inspiration was the musical The Phantom of the Opera, the first musical I've ever seen, years ago.

I was facinated to the act, could hardly breath, and the music! a fantastic show.

The lyrics of the theme song, captured me- evil and good, combined in one, it's here, it's there, inside my mind....

The 2nd challenge was from SnipArt, with this beautiful moodboard:

Once again - the contradiction between darkness and light, evil and good.

I started by covering a piece of watercolor paper with Finnabair's balck gesso, then I applyed Finnabair's soft matte gel through TH mini stencil. While the gel was still wet, I sprinkled Lindy's Ceasar's Gold ep and heat embossed it.

I die cut geometric shapes and heat embossed it with Lindy's Terra Cotta Rust ep. 

I die cut some leaves in two shapes and heat embossed them with LIndy's Tannenbaum Green Gold ep and Starbright Gold Green ep.

I glued everything with the soft matte gell and added the sentiments.

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Treasures from the sea - an altered frame for Art and Soul Challenge Blog

Today I would like to share with you an altered frame I've made for Art & Soul Studio challenge blog.

I was inspired by the current moodboard:

The frame looked like this:

I took the back out and covered it with Finnabair's black gesso, then I worked with a modeling paste and a stencil to give some texture. 

The next step was to color with Lindy's Gang sprays (Tainted Love Teal, Tibetan Poppy Teal, C'est la vie Cerise). Then I adhered trinkets, sea shells and molds, and colored them with Finnabair's acrylic paint - metalic light patina and mermaid sparkle.

The same way I worked with the frame itself, only this time the basis was Finnabair's white gesso.

After all was dry, I added more colros and depth with more Lindy's Gang sprays, this time adding some brownish hues (Shabby Turbine Teal, Afternoon Delight Denim, Clam Bake Beige, Fuzzy Navel Peach, Tawny Turquoise Vintage, Treasure Iland Aqua Vintage).

For the final touch, I added some Finnabair's mini art stones, to get the look of the sand, and some white gesso splatters, here and there.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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This is Love - a mixed media canvas for 13@rts

Hello again, dear crafty friends!

At 13@rts blog we have a new challenge with a fabulous mood board:

I was really inspired by the colors and by the theme of love beyond measure, the kind of love I feel for my boys.

I've created a mixed media canvas, with lots of 13@rts products:

And here some close-ups:

For the title I used color glow Amber over Creative Embellishment chipboard, and then I embossed it with 3 layers of UTEE. I just love the way it turned out:

List of 13@rts products that I've used:

stencil - strip mesh

gesso - black, clear

paste modeling 

gel medium transparent

color glow - rubby & amber

Aeeyda chalk mist 

Aeeda pearl old gold

Aeeda paint - metalic! pink

So give it a try and let yourself be inspired by this beautiful moodboard!

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Keep calm and make art - mixed media notebook cover

This is side one of an altered notebook cover I've made, with lots of mixed media techniques and mediums.

Here are some close-ups:

I would like to enter it to the August challenge at Mixed Media & Art blog, with this fab moodboard:

I was inspired by the colors of green, brown, black and some touches of gold. I was also inspired by the mystic atmosphere of the photos on the moodboard.

I would also like to enter it to September challenge at Off The Rails Scrapbooking, which is a steampunk moodboard:

Another challenge I would like to enter this altered notebook cover, is 'Anything mixed media goes', at Mixed Media World.
I loved the rustic style and the clocks on the moodboard.

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