Smile & enjoy today - a card

A card I've made, inspired by some challenges and inspiration moodboards. It's all in pastel colors, with some nautical elements.

Lindy's Gang challenge for August gave this beautiful pastel palette:

From Lindy's products I've used:

Sprays: Cotton Candy Pink, Opal Sea Oats, Azure Sea Asters, South Shore Sand, Cafe' ou Lait, Tilt-a-Wheel Teal, Tawny Turquoise Vintage.

Shakers - Oom Pah Pah Pink, Alpine Ice Rose.

Magical - Caribbean Blue from the Caribbean Cruise magical flat set.

Another inspiration came from More Than Words mini challenge:

The last challenge was a local one, held by the talented Sharon Burla-Ziv, which is 'Under the Sea'.

Here're some close-ups:

Other materials I've used:

Prima/Finnabair - heave gesso white, 3D gloss gel, acrylic paint metallique light patina, patina effect paste blue, snowflake paste, mega art stones, mini art stones.

Tim Holtz- mini stecnil set 30, Ideology words stickers.

Creative Embellisments - fishnet stamp.

Versafine - mini ink cube toffee.

Molds and real seashells - from my stash.

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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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Happy Dreams - a beach inspired card

Happy Saturday dear crafty friends,

Today I'd like to share with you a beach inspired card, all full with summer vibes, I've made using beautiful Lemoncraft's papers.

I love to add more and more layers to my projects, and this card is no exception:

I had some stamped and heat embossed seashells from a previous project (you can see it HERE), and I used them in this card:

I really love the one that is stamped and heat embossed on a vellum (Lindy's Gang Orange Creamsicle embossing powder)!

The sentiment is also stamped and heat embossed (Lindy's Gang Desert Moon Turquoise).

I used pieces of gauze, a twine and Finnabair's mini art stones, all adhered with Finnabair's soft gel medium:

I would like to enter this card to 2 challenges:

Lemoncraft - Pastel Summer:

Scrap and Craft - Summer:

I've used Lemoncraft's Gossamer Blue 6x6 pad.

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Follow Your Heart - case file no. 258 at CSI

At CSI blog we have a new case file, with a beach theme inspiration. Here's the inspiration photo:

I made a layout full of sea and nautical treasures, and lots of mixed media. 

one of the Runners Up at

More Than Words July challenge

I used my counterfeit mini kit for this layout.
To 'solve the case' I went the old school way: used all 5 colors from the scheme, from the evidence I used stripes, beach/nautical elements, animal (the seahorse on the bottom), circles, wet medium, grainy things (embossing powder, texture paste and mini art stones), and shells (real and stampped and heat embossed). In my journaling I documented one of our visits to the Red Sea.
The chipboard title is from Creative Embellishments and it was coverd with white gesso, and then heat embossed with four different embossing powders. I love how it came out.
Here are some close-ups on the details:

some real seashells, with mini artstones

Some wooden ship wheels, along with a compass chipboard, heat embossed with Lindy's ep (Angel Wings Gold):

You can see how the compass simply shines with this ep! I added a sticker with "8", as it was my boy's age at that time.

Along with real seashells, I alos added some stampped seashells over vellum, which I then heat embossed with Lindy's ep (Orange Creamsicle). It got a lovely sandy look:

I also stamped and heat embossed seashells directly on the paper. Adding some dew drops in matching colors, gave a feeling of treasures from under the sea: 

To get even more of the seaside look, I added lots of Prima/Finnabair mini art stones:

Using texture paste over a stencil, along with some Blue Fern's stamps, and 7Dots' stamps:

As for the title, after covering it with Finnabair heavy white gesso, I used 4 Lindy's ep! ( C'est la vie Cerise, Twilight Bloue Slate, Midnight Sapphire and Orange Creamsicle):

I stamped this cute seahorse and tucked it between the wavy borders on the bottom:

I also made a 'start to finish' video:

I would like to enter this layout to the following challenges:
More Than Words: beach +seashells:

As there's a limit to combining challenges at the MTW blog, I've removed my entry from the other challenges.

Creative Embellishments - 

I was inspired by the colors of blue, red and white, the way the graphic is splitted between the colors, and ths splatters.

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