Thoughts of a day | art journaling

 Hello dear friends!

Today I'm sharing an art journal page I created last night.

I was playing with my watercolors creating abstract shapes and shades.

It was so fun and relaxing not thinking what to do... just painting.

When my page was dry I looked at the shapes and let my imagination fly.

I started doodling with only a black pen and here is the result!

All these beautiful designs appeared in front of me, coming of nowhere.

What an unexpected surprise really!

At the end I added a piece of thread to connect the mother with daughter.

List of supplies (really short:)

watercolors

black pen

watercolor paper

a piece of thread

*watercolors H2Os by ColourArte

Thank you for visiting

Have a lovely crafty day!

 

xxx

Athanasia

'Escape' canvas *with video

Hello scrappy friends!

I feel very honored to be a guest designer at More Than Words challenge blog!

Thank you so much for the invitation, I really appreciate it!

I created a canvas inspired by the lovely April moodboard and used the word 'escape' as the challenge required...

I got inspired not only by the beautiful colors of the moodboard, but also the flowers and the black and white tree and tried to incorporate all these elements on my project.

 I therefor used flowers in many colors, a chipboard tree which I painted black and white, wooded sticks, as well a keyhole, out of which all the flowers 'Escape'...  I love how they peek through the rusty metal keyhole, as to represent the beauty of  nature escaping from an enclosed secret garden.

...and of course I made especially for MTW fans a video
on how I used many mixed media techniques on my canvas to make the background crackle and shimmer, layers upon layers of different colors and products to add depth and texture.

I hope you will enjoy it :)

Here are some details

Products

Finnabair  - White Crackle Texture Paste 

Finnabair - White Sand Texture Paste

Finnabair - Graphite Texture Paste

Finnabair - Art Stones and Mini Art Stones

Finnabair - White Heavy Gesso

Finnabair - Heavy Black Gesso

Finnabair - 3D Matte Gel

Finnabair - Melange Art Pebbles

ColourArte - Primary Elements 

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Black Embossing powder and Sprays

2 Crafty Chipboard - 'Escape', Skeleton Tree, Corner Rachel's, Turkish Lattice Panel

Thank you for visiting,

have a lovely crafty day!

Go ECO!

Hello dear friends!

Today I'm guest designing for Fashionable Hobbies.

I created a tiny project, an altered cover of sticky notes booklet. 

This small project is based on this amazing challenge, 

which I think is perfect for the Fall season!

Formula №16. Brown + Wood = Eco style

You have to use a lot brown color, natural tones and a tree in any form you like and all these in ecological style.

For my project, Ι altered the back cover so as to peel off the papers from the frond side. I used quite a few material as I had to work on such small area and made a simple wire tree to decorate it. I also made some splashes with gesso and kept myself away from inks in order to give a clean eco style.

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With this project I'm entering the No28 Herbarium challenge at Stamps with Love.
I used a lavender twig I got from my garden. I just love the smell so much :)



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I hope you enjoyed my little project and play along with us in eco style!

Have a lovely crafty day!