More than Words and Lindy's Stamp gang June challenge

It's June, I am finding it hard to get crafty with the gorgeous weather we've been having in Canada. Today it's rainy and I have my crafty friends over so it's time to get messy and tackle the June challenges.   MORE THAN WORDS

 

    First one is the More than Words Challenge: http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/06/june-2016-main-challenge-imagine-get.html

For this challenge I used: Heavy Gesso, Clear Gesso (to cover my paper), Lindy's stamp gang sprays, Irresistible spray (black and white) and liquitex black ink.

 

I love giving texture to heavy gesso, I have to say that I am not very patient, so often I end up using my heat gun to get it dry, but I still love the texture.

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Link: Lindy's stamp gang June challenge

 

 

I did not have the featured color combo, but I did have nice pink and purple colors. The paper in my background covers the other colors.

 

I used the following products:

http://www.lindystampgang.com/products/salt-water-taffy.html

http://www.lindystampgang.com/products/hi-maintenance-magenta.html

http://www.lindystampgang.com/products/prima-donna-purple.html

 

   

Love You

Time for another challenge over at More than words blog.   Another beautiful challenge. The clocks inspired to me create a page with one of my favorite family pictures taken a few years ago during a fantastic summer vacation in Riviera-Maya. A moment in time that I will cherish for many years to come.   The clocks also inspired me to do a more vintage page. I had this ledger paper that i found brought out the colors of the background in the picture.  The clock on the right side is a chipboard from 2 Crafty. So here is my page for this months challenge.  

  The inspiration board:

If you want to play along, have a visit to the challenge blog: http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.ca/

 

 

Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!

 

Pasha Words & Paintery challenge

So you will have noticed that it's been a while since I have posted anything on my blog, well I had this most horrible flu over the last few weeks, so I've not been very crafty. Now that I am starting to feel better, it felt great yesterday to start playing in my craftroom.   No better way to get crafty than to join in on a blog challenge. I opted to join in the Words & Paintery April challenge that you can find here: http://wordspaintery.blogspot.se/2016/04/april-2016.html   I loved the color combo of the yellow and the copper. Subtil but impactful. The design team got really creative and were very inspirational.   For my page I opted to use a picture of our cat Pasha, unfortunatly she is no longer with us, we had her for over 15 years, so she was a big part of our family and we miss her dearly. I needed a nice page to remember her. I felt that it matched well the theme: Go with the Flow of Life. Pasha was such a beautiful calm natured cat, she just seemed to enjoy life. She was always very present on a day to day.  

 

Here is a closer look at the embelishments  

 

The color combo challenge:

 

 

Thanks for the inspiration ladies.  

I Love You

It's been 3 years since my dad has left us. So I always get a bit sentimental around this time of the year. I miss him so much. Since my teens are becoming cameraphobic, I am looking at alot of our old photos and found this one of my parents wedding.   I was inspired by the March challenge at Prima Marketing for this page: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2016/03/we-have-new-challenges.html   The inspiration came from the color scheme. My mother had her brides made wear Olive green dresses at her wedding. Green isn't the most frequenlty seen color for bridesmaids, but they looked beautiful. So I thought that the color combo would be great to represent my parents wedding. This is my favorite picture of the lot. They seem so happy.  

 

 

Prima Products used to build this page: Papers, flowers, Crochet Doily Die, Rub-Ons, Finnabair doily stencil, Say it in Crystals and my new favorite paints the ARTalchemy paint Metalique Green Olive.

 

I am loving the new paints from Finnabair. I used it to cover my chipboard title and I also mixed it with Modeling paste to use on my doily stencil. Just magical results. If you've not tried it you are missout out on a great product.

 

Here is the Prima Board for this challenge:

 

 

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I am also entering this page in the Pink Fresh Studio challenge. This month they are requesting 3D on the pages. On my part, I have cut out this stunning piece out of the Prima papers and created a 3D ornement, as well as many layers for my flowers. I added in monochrom one of my favorite die-cuts from Pink Fresh studios the word LOVE. It's one of my favorite dies, the size is perfect and I love that font.

 

 

The Pink Fresh Studio challenge can be found here:http://www.pinkfreshstudio.com/blogs/pinkfresh-studio/126956999-adding-dimension-sequins-tutorial

 

Thanks for the inspiration !

     

Carpe Diem

Lately I've been having fun trying to put together more pages of family vacations that we've done over the year. I really love the moments that we share with our boys when we are away from home, partly because we are with them 100% of the time. I am lucky, the boys ate now 17 & 18 and still willing to follow along on family activities and vacation.   I created this page with a picture taken in 2014 when we went to Tampa Forida. We visited Bush Gardens for the 1st time. Wow, what an amzing park, I fell in love with the vegetation and also the mini zoo included in the park. I love this picture because my eldest who has autisme wanted to do this ride, and my yougest decided to go with him. It was the one ride they did just as brothers. As a mom, that was pure bliss to see them together and having the opportunity to snap such a great picture. I am so proud of my boys.   I am entering this challenge in the 3 following blog challenges: 1-Cuts2Luv 2-Lindy's stamp gang 3-More than Words  

 

For the 1st challenge Cuts2Luv March moodboard

 

My elements inspired by the moodboard are:

Wood, Fox, Kids Pictures (ok mine are teens) and the sketch

 

 

Here is a closer look to the beautiful fox flair badge. I just love it !

 

It's part of this beautiful kit:

 

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Now for the second challenge, Lindy's stamp gang had a beautiful color palet. I love my Lindy's products, they just work so well and are fun to use. 

http://blog.lindystampgang.com/color-challenge-info/

 

Here are the store links for the products I used:

Salt Water Taffy spray

Cattail copper brown Magical powder

Mad Hatter Mint Green Magicals

The other colors in the challenge are included via the paper selection or other drops of inks

 

Here is the beautiful color combo:

 

 

Here is a closer look at my background with the mix of colors, just Yummy:

 

 

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For the 3rd challenge, More Than Words:

http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.com/

 

I used 2 types of Gesso on my page:

Clear and Heavy Gesso

I love to cover my pages with the clear before I start applying my watercolors, magicals or Inks. I jet feel it's easier to work over clear Gesso than directly to the paper.

The Heavy Gesso I used to get the paperned paper connected to the white paper. This give the page a more blended look and also serves as a background for the inks and colors.

 

For Bliss: Not only is it under the picture, but really for me seeing my boys having fun together when we travel is a blissful moment. There is nothing more magical or brings me more hapiness than seeing them enjoy each others company. I am a lucky mom...

 

I love the wood background chosen in the picture. Lately there ahev been so many wood inspired backgrounds and accessories in the market, it is just really fun to work off of that type of paper.

 

So... Thanks to the 3 teams for the inpiration...

 

USA with Stephanie Bryan

Here is the last task for the Around the World challenge at Scrap aux Puces.   On the last stop, we visit an amazing artist in the USA, Stephanie Bryan. WOW... How amazing is her work. Just love the softness in her pages. Her blog:
http://stephaniemakes.blogspot.ca/   The challenge given was to use only pastel colors, no black or any dark colors allowed. Here is my page for this challenge:  

 

And one of my favorites from Stephanie:

 

 

I want to say a special thanks to the Scrap Aux Puce design team, it was a great activity to play along with all the different challenges.

 

Have a great day ! Hope you enjoyed seeing my many pages throughout the tour.

Words & Paintery February challenge -Gabriel's B-Day Card

Ok so I am posting this a bit early, Gabriel's 17th Birthday is in 2 days, so shhhhh don't let hime know I am already showing off his card...   I was inspired by the color board at Words & Paintery. Unfortunatly my purple paper is a bit on the dark side and my blue bird looks purple.. LOL. It's such a challenge even with good lighting to get the picture to be accurate to the true colors, but all 3 colors are there.  The watercolor paints I used have shimmer inside, trust when I say that the picture does not give it justice. I always get compliments on that watercolor when I use it with my friends.  

  Can't believe my baby is turning 17 on friday. He's already asking to drive alone... trust when I say, I am so not ready to let him go yet. I might not have a choice, he's a fine young responsable teen, but I am still a mom and heart who wants to keep him close as long as I can.   I hope he'll like his Tim Holtz crazy birds card...   Here is the color challenge for Words & Paintery  

  http://www.wordspaintery.blogspot.ca/2016/02/february-2016.html   Thanks for the inspiration to the Words & Paintery design team !