Merry Christmas for Creative Embellishments

 It's that time of the year when we get into the festive mood. Every year I try to make a mini canvas for my mom, she is a huge fan of Christmas and loves decorating her home. This year I was inspired to make a 5 x 7 canvas with our December challenge image.

The starting point was to chose my colors for the background, I selected 3 tones of blue and one purple from my Dina Wakley acrylics.

I heat embossed the star tree and the Merry Christmas title. I chose to leave the deer natural.

Flowers are always nice to add to the artwork

The final touches are hints of Stickles for a shine effect.

Here is the challenge image:

Merry Christmas

Spiral Tree

Jumping Deer

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Guest designer project for Lindy's Gang

Hi everyone, I recently had the opportunity to create a special project for the Lindy's gang blog. What and honor this has been. I am a huge fan of my Lindy's products and have been lucky to have won several time the monthly challenges.

This project is one close to my heart because I made this one for a special person. My best friend's daughter is battling Osteosarcoma. She's gone thru several rounds of chemo and underwent her knee surgery. She still has many more rounds of chemo to go thru and I thought that this would bring her comfort for the upcoming roads ahead.

If you want more pictures, and my step-by-step, please visit the Lindy's blog post here:  France

Thanks for stopping by !

France

Combo project for Cuts2luv

Have you ever had a project that you started and did not like? Well this is the case for this upcoming project. My friend Caroline started this Mixed-Media canvas and once she had everything set-up and gessoed, she wanted to trash it. 
So if you love the foundation of the project, well, I had nothing to do with this one. My only  input was adding the shading and the finishing touches, but I love how it turned out.

Don't you just love the Tom Holtz quote set ? 

I started the foundation with Caribbean blue Lindy's spray, then for shading I used Tweedle Dee Denim and touches of Blazing Black. 

Here are a few more detailed pictures

Now this butterfly on the dark blue is just WOW !

This beautiful badge are made with hand painted water color images by our friend Valerie. They are AMAZING !

I hope I've inspired you to go shopping, so head on over to the Etsy store, you'll find this one and many more: STORE

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June Creative Embellishments challenge

It's June challenge time at Creative Embellishments, and this time it's a Steampunk inspired image, just so fun. I was inspired by the colors and the underwater image, I opted to play with the Steampunk Mermaid for this challenge:

Here is the challenge image:

 I played again wuth the Finnabair waxes for the chipboard, but also used some of the new paints to paint her hair:

Products used are:

-Glitter form 13 Arts

-Donna Downey Stencil

-Finnabair Wax & Paint

-Flower from Petaloo & Wild Orchid Craft

Chipboard pieces are:

Large Gear Ste Black (2 pieces): I love these because you don't need to gesso 1st.

Steampunk Mermaid

Ahoy Matey French Word Set:

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will join in on the fun !

Creative Embellishments Canvas & Video

I am soooooo excited, really happy to share with you my very first YouTube video.  

 

Here is the link to my video: France's YouTube CE canvas

 

Feel free to leave me any comments or questions.

 

 

On my canvas I used this stunning chipboard piece FEATHERS AND BEADS FRAME & the CIRCLE BOKEH STENCIL :  

 

If you want to have a few more pictures, please free to follow the link below:

  Creative Embellishment blog