Post 586: Sea Themed Art Journal Spread (Inspiration for Lindy's Gang Color Challenge, August 2019)

Hi friends!

Hope you are doing well :) 

Lindy's Gang August Color Challenge is live now.

We have a beautiful mood board for you. 

There are generous prizes on offer, so please do join the challenge. 

All the details about the Challenge can be found on the Lindy's Gang Blog.

Lindy's Gang has gorgeous sprays, pigment powders, squirts & embossing powders, they ship worldwide, to check out their store, please click HERE. 

Also, to get product updates & lots of inspiration, we have a vibrant Lindy's Creative Gang Facebook Group.

Lindy's Gang August 2019 Challenge

Color Palette Guidelines: Sand – Pastel Pink – Aqua Blue

To enter the Color Challenge you MUST use at least 2 colors from the monthly color palette and as always you may also use black, white, neutrals or metallic colors as well! We are finding that there are so many amazing artists who are joining our challenge, that we can’t keep up with choosing winners! So, we’ll still have 5 winners of $50 gift certificates to Lindy’s, (sometimes more if we get tons of participants), and of those, 3 projects will be picked by Lindy’s for style, linking, etc, (the details are below) and 2 will be randomly drawn. Hopefully more people are encouraged to enter and we’ll get even more gorgeous projects! We just love sharing the Lindy love & thought this would be a great way to do it without anyone feeling intimidated.

For the challenge inspiration, I've created A Sea Themed Art Journal Spread.

Lindy's Products Used:

Sprays- Opal Sea Oats Shimmer Spray, Cafe Au Lait Flat Spray

Magicals- Ocean Breeze Blue, Sassy Sapphire, Salt Water Taffy 

EP- Oom Pah Pah Pink, Magical Moon Pearls, Tilt-a-Wheel Teal

Sea Themed Art Journal Spread:

I've also used Fantasy Dies, Stickers by Tim Holtz, Crafters Workshop Stencil, Finnabair Stamps, Heavy White Gesso & Modelling Paste, Distress Inks- Vintage Photo & Black Soot. 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti 

Post 466: 2 Clean & Simple Cards (Inspiration for SDC305- Under the Sea)

Hi friends!

Stampotique Designer's Challenge (SDC) #305- "Under the Sea" is currently on, it is open worldwide & there are lovely prizes on offer, so please do read the rules & play along! 

For the inspiration, I created 2 Clean & Simple (CAS) Style cards using snarky, funny & cute sentiments by Stampotique. Since I didn't have any sea themed stamps, I used some cute fish buttons I had in my stash for a long time :) Did some ink smooshing to add color to the background, distressed the edges of the die cut panels, foam mounted the panels on A2 sized white card bases & added enamel dots to finish the cards. 

CAS Card 1

(Used Stampotique's Quotes #1 Stamp, Item 8995)

CAS Card 2

(Used Stampotique's Phrase Cube 4, Item 13038)

All the details for the Stampotique Designer's Challenges can be found HERE. 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Post 300: CAS Diwali Card (fish)

Hi friends!!

I'd like to share a Clean & Simple Diwali Card. This was part of my DT work for Peek-a-boo designs, all the details are here. This is an A2 sized, top folding card.

Process:

- Die cut white cardstock using the stitched scalloped rectangle die. Then colored the scalloped frame with Fossilized Amber & Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxides
- On the card base, masked off the edges and applied distress oxides through the Dimensional Stencil
- Stamped the beautiful fish from the new Madhubani Stamp on Canson Watercolor paper & watercolored it in with zig markers, then fussy cut it.
- Stamped the sentiment from the Diwali Greetings Stamp set onto a strip of watercolor paper & then colored in the strip with zigs and an aqua brush.
- To assemble the card, adhered the frame at a tilted angle onto the cardbase, also adhered the sentiment strip within the frame and then foam mounted the fish in the center, to add texture added a few gold strings under the fish to make it pop.
- In the end, adhered a few gold colored sequins for some sparkle

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS #121- The PABD Madhubani Stamp is my new favourite and I've stamped the fish from it

Addicted to stamps & more #262

Stamplorations October CAS Challenge

HLS October Watercolor Challenge

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 117: Mixed Media Tag: Under Water

Hi Friends!

I'd like to share a tag with you today. I'm also excited to share that I am having a small crafty giveaway which is open to anyone worldwide (international folks are most welcome). All the details can be found here -- I'd be super thrilled and honored if you play along :) the prize is a 25 USD gift certificate to any store you like. 

Now onto the tag, this is a mixed media underwater scene tag. I created it while I was trying out some new supplies and experimenting :) it was fun! 

Synopsis of the Process :-

The base of the tag is the cardboard cover in which my faber castell watercolor pencils came in, so it is an upcycled supply. I applied white gesso to it and then some snippets of paper which had interesting shapes on them (these were left over from earlier punch craft projects- circles design and edge desgin). These papers were added to give dimension and also for added interest. In the finished piece, they look like ripples, if you see the close up pictures. Then the water drop rubber stamp from the designs by ryn- texture stamps was stamped in the background with jet black archival ink. Colors were added using color sprays and I wanted it to look like sun rays are entering through the water, so that effect was achieved by working first on the left side and adding the sunny side on the right. I am happy with the way the colors merged and the way the background looks :) The fish stamp from the Taylored Expressions Cling Stamp set- Mama & Me was stamped and colored with zig markers. Some details were added with a white gel pen. These images were fussy cut with scissors. Then the green, weed like sea floor was drawn in with distress markers and then stamped images were adhered with Tombow glue. The title "imagine something different" is from the Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers set. 

Supplies Used :-

1. Taylored Expressions Cling Stamps- Mama & Me

2. Designs by Ryn- Textures (rubber stamps)- water droplet

3. Distress crayons set 1

4. Sprays by heidi swapp (pink, blue, yellow) and color splash by little birdie (lemon zing, lime splash, ocean mist)

6. Snippets of white cardstock

7. Ranger's achival jet black ink

8. Uniball Signo white gel pen

9. Aqua brush

10. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

11. Tombow mono multi glue

12. Camlin White Gesso

13. Paint brushes, palette knife, water spray bottel and scissors 

14. Upcycled Cardboard box (for the base)

Here are a few pictures of the finished tag :--

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Rubber Dance Stamps Colour Challenge- March (stamping has been done to create the fishes and in the background for the water bubbles/drop and all the colors of the moodboard have been included) 

March Customer Creation Challenge- Designs by Ryn ( The water drop design from the designs by ryn texture stamps has been used here in the background)

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Make your own background

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #272-273 (the fishes are from the Taylored Expressions- Mama & Me Cling stamp set)

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.