Shabby Chic Cards with Little birdie crafts flowers

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 Sharing some handmade cards today....these are very dimensional in my fav style...shabby chic. I also made some very dimensional envelopes to hold these cards.....super fun to look at. 

These cards are 6" by 6" in size and the envelopes are same size with 1" thickness. I used beautiful flowers from Little birdie crafts along with the laces and glitter papers.

The shaker window is filled with sequins, glitter dots, pearls and glitter all from ItsyBitsy along with the die used to diecut the glittery golden wreath.

Hope you all like it.

Life is Beautiful - Art Journal Page

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I am here to share my new art journal spread....Life is Beautiful. It has been really long since I did an art journal page...I want to do this art form atleast once a month but I get caught up in work and custom orders and land up postponing this. I think art journal gives me complete freedom to express myself....sometimes its difficult to put in words but art is a language that need no syllables.

 I made this page keeping the Lindy's Monthly Challenge in mind....they have a really challenging color combo this month...using all pastel shades of pinks, beige, coral and lilac/lavender. I have never gone all pastel in the similar shades and it was like a challenge for me personally to see if I can work with them....and I came up with this art journal page.

 I started with prepping my surface with gesso and adding texture with Finnabair Manuscript stencil. Then I added some squirts and sprays in multiple layers to add depth and dimension to the background. I wanted a subtle background as the elements I was planning to add were in contrast. Once  everything was dry, I distressed the edges with Black and Grey archival ink and stamped the background in random places with grey archival ink and Finnabair stamp.

Then, I started to arrange my elements and then stamped and gold heat embossed at a random places. This helped me to frame my elements and bring the focus on them. I used some chipboard elements from Little Birdie crafts, cheesecloth and old book page to create interest around my picture. Once everything was arranged, I added more stamping with a script stamp and sepia archival ink. I made a few filler flowers to dress my page...was so happy to make my own flowers...its so fulfilling. Glued everything down and added a fussy cut butterfly that I stamped and white heat embossed on vellum. The finishing touches came from Tim Holtz small chat sentiment stickers,white and black splatters and sprinkle of glitter and sparkle.

I hope you all like it as much as I do. Here is a list of supplies used:-

1. Finnabair stencil - Manuscript
2. Finnabair White Gesso, Paper Texture Paste and 3D Matt Gel
3. Finnabair stamps - Chequered and Script
4. Archival Ink - Shadow Grey and Jet Black
5. Little Birdie Crafts Cheesecloth
6. Little Birdie Crafts  chipboard shapes - Life is Beautiful, Ornate flourish, Brick wall and Grass
7. Ranger embossing powder - White and Gold.
8. Old book page
9. Lindy's Stamp Gang Squirts - Canadian Bacon Blush, Hockey Puck Black
10. Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays - Cotton Candy Pink, Frenchy's Pink Pouf
11. Tim Holtz Small chat stickers
12. Handmade flowers - white and gold
13. Sparkle and glitter - pink, violet,gold and white.

I am putting this art upa the following blog challenges:-

1. Lindy's Color Challenge - February 2020 Moodboard
2. Mix it up challenge #34 - anything goes + optional twist Stencilling

Thank you for stopping by...have a fab week ahead.

Moments in Time - Mixed Media Canvas layout

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Today I have a colorful and happy mixed media canvas to share with you all. I have used a lot of my old stash to make this canvas and it includes atleast 3 year old flowers, stencils and more. I am a hoarded when it comes to flowers and I recently came across this massive box of old flowers and I thought to use them to make this canvas.

I have so much left that I am planning to make a floral scrapbook and use this layout as the cover for the scrapbook...and keeping that in mind I have used chipboard cover as the base for this artwork. To make the layout more fun...I decided to use a rainbow color palatte.....it was getting difficult to choose. 

I started with a plain white background and layers a lot of pattern paper strips in the center which is visible at a few place. I primed the surface with clear gesso and then stencilled at a few places using an old prima stencil. Once completely dry, I layered all my flowers and embellishments.

Then came the fun part of adding colors...I used Lindy's Magical Shakers in so many colors and then highlighted a few places with gesso. To add more interest to the layout, I did a little stamping using finnabair stamps using Grey and Black Archival inks. To finish it all, I did a  little splattering and added some bling and sentiments...and the canvas was done.

I am putting this up at the following challenges:-

1. More Than Words July Challenge - Discover and Old Stash - I have used a lot of stuff from my old stash and while I was digging I also found these acrylic bling drops which I bought an year back...so its a win win situation for me.
2. More Mixed Media challenge - Anything Goes Optional Pastel