Cherish every day

Lindy's Gang gave a beautiful color combo this month (as always...):

These colors give room to so many options, and this time I went on a soft feminine version. I love the contrast between the soft, pale colors to the bold tera cotta color of the leaves.

I started by stamping here and there on the background. Next I used embossing ink with a stencil and heat embossed it with a white ep.

I stamped two flowers with a gray ink, and one with embossing ink and heat embossed with a pale pink ep. For all the 3 flowers I outlined the petals with a black pen and adhered micro beads in the center.

I stamped and heat embossed leaves with a dark red-brown ep and cut them out.

The others leaves were cut with a die and colored with a Lindy's spray.

The edges of the paper were distressed, using a distressing tool and distress ink

I glued the lace petals with a gel medium and then gathered all the elements.

Splatters here and there, using Lindy's shaker and adding the sentiment.

Lindy's products I've used:

Spray - Bodacious Blush Shimmer

Shaker - Aged Copper

Embossing powders - Oom Pah Pah Pink, Puerly White and Gilded Burgundy Brass.

Other products:

Paper - Piatek 13 Love in Bloom 6x6 paper pad.

Inks - Ranger's Emboss It clear ink; Ranger's shadow grey archival ink; VersaFine Smokey Gray; Ranger's TH tattered rose distress ink.

Stencil - Stampersannonymous TH layering stencil mini set no. 30.

Stamp - 49 and Market Pascale's Gramer.
Medium gel - Prima Finnabair soft matte gel.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - anything goes with punches/dies.

SimonSays Stamp monday challenge - make your own background.

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A golden purple mixed media tag

A winner at Lindy's Gang

for May challenge

Here's a mixed media tag I've made for May challenge at Lindy's Gang blog, with this majestic pallete:

I was also inspired by the April challenge at Mixedmedia Place blog, with this beautiful moodboard:

I started by cutting a tag from a thin chipboard, then covered it with a good layer of Finnabair white gesso.

Next I wet the tag with water and applied Magnolia Magenta Gold Magical shaker, and let it run all over the tag.

I used 49 and Market stamp 1787 with embossing ink and heat embossed with King Midas Gold ep.

Look how beautiful it looks:

I've made some embellies - for the flower I colored a watercolor paper with Summer Lovin Sun flat spray 

Then I stampped a flower in layers, using embossing ink. I used Purely White ep on all of them, but tried several combinations with Sunrise Salmon Gold  ep and Caesar's Gold ep:

I colored watercolor paper one with Hi Maintenance Magenta spray, and the other one with a combination of Raspbery Lemonade flat spray with Oom Pah Pah Pink shaker and Alpine Ice Rose shaker:

On the purple one I stamped leaves and heat embossed them with Tannenbaum Green Gold ep:

From the pink one I die cut some leaves:

I also die cut more shapes of leaves, and colored some with Antique Gold shaker:

The others with Grab a Guy Gold spray and heat embossed them with Sunrise Salmon Gold:

I glued all the elements on the tag, using Finnabair Soft Matt Gel, added some sissal and gold glass beads:

 For the final touch I brushed with white gesso and also sprinkled it here and there:

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Parisian Chic - CSI case file no. 265

I'm a little late with my lo for the new case file at CSI - case file no. 265, which has this beautiful inspiration photo:

This time I went free style, and not 'old school' as usual.

I was inspired by the colors in the inspiration photo and fashionable look on the whole, so I decided to use a photo (one of many) of a street lamp on one of the bridges over the Seinne in Paris.

Street lamps are one of my fav things, and I can take hundreds of photos of a single one LOL.

I did use some to the clues from the case file: checker pattern, frames, text print (hardly can be seen, but it is on the pale gray pp under the photo), arrows, metal, triangles, something ahiny and gold/silver accents.

I used Sketchabilities sketch no. 154:

All pp are Lemoncraft's from the Heart Painted collection.

I used Lindy's Gang products:

ep: Oom Pah Pah Pink, Angel Wings Gold, Black Forest Black;

Magical Shakers: Frozen Jack Frost, Oom Pah Pah Pink;

Sprays: Cotton Candy Pink, Bombshell Black, Cream Brulee Cream.

Chipboards are Creative Embellishments and Scrapiniec. I also used a Creative Embellishments' flair button (the other one is from StudioFourteen40). 

For the final touch I splatter some mists and added enamel dots

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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A journal notebook cover

Here's a journal notebook cover I've made, inspired by three challenges.

The first challenge - Mixed Media & Art:

I was inspired by the colors, the vintage atmosphere and the theme of books.

The 2nd challenge is Lindy's Gang October challenge:

Lindy's products I've used:

Sprays: South Shore Sand, Steampunk Sepia, Grab a Guy Gold, Buccaneer Bronze Vintage.

Embossing powders: Byzantaine Bronze, King Midas Gold.

The 3rd challenge is from Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo, which is 'Leaves'.

This is what I've started with, the plain notebook:

And here're some close-ups on the details:

The flowers were stamped with distress inks and then heat embossed with LG embossing powder.

Other products I've used:

13@rts stencil, Finnabair clear and white gesso, Finnabair texture paste platinum crackle, Ranger's archival inks, Versa Fine inks, Tim Holtz distress inks, Ranger's embossing ink, microbeeds, Carta Bella papers.

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Time not wasted - art journal

Happy Sunday to you all,

I'm sharing an art journal I've made, inspired by the July challenge at Mixed Media Place, with this awesome moodboard:

I was inspired by the old envelopes, with the vintage atmosphere. I was also drawn to the brown shades and the blue colors, so these are the main colors in my art journal.

The envelopes made me think about time, old time, past etc., and how important it is not to waste time blaming ourselved for mistakes we make, rather learn the lesson and keep on mooving.

I love this quote by August Rodin: "Nothing is a waste of time, if you use the experience wisely", and The Thinker photo was the natural choise.

I used some 7 Dots papers from several collection to mat the photo and also the clock (which is a part of the bigger die cut clock behind the photo). 

I also did a lot of stamping on the background (7 Dots Studio stamps, TH stamps and Kaisercraft stamps). 

The clock die cut was painted with Finnabair metalic paint, and when dried, I covered it partly with two Lindy's Gang embossing powders.

The street lamps were colored by Ranger's archival gray ink, heat embossed with Lindy's Midnight Sapphire blue embossing powder, and finally I rubbed some Finnabair patina effect paste.

To give some more texture to the background, I also used washi tape and Finnabair modeling paste over TH stencil, and added microbeads here and there.

Lindy's sprays were also added (Buccaneer Bay  Blue

Vintage and Tainted Love Teal Shimmer spray).

I adhered the quote, and added splatters with white gesso and Lindy's Bombshel Black Shimmer spray, and my art journal is done.

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