DREAM - Word Art by Lynne

Hello there and happy Monday! Yeah I know, a lot of people think those two words don't belong together, but as long as you have a dream in your heart, every day can have at least a little bit of "happy" in it! I created this piece with word art by Gina to remind me of that on days when I need a little boost.

After painting the edges of the piece, I covered each letter with patterned paper from the beautiful Prima Royal Menagerie collection and then sanded the edges with Sandits before inking them. The base was also covered with coordinating paper.

The sand dollar from Gina's Beach Shape Set was covered with homemade texture paste (I spread it with my finger to keep it from going into the cutout parts-I love to get myself messy!) and the starfish was spread with sand paste made up of sand, white glue and acrylic paint.

 

I added tulle to the base behind the word to showcase the paper butterflies which were attached to  pearl sprays. The dragonfly and shells are Prima resin pieces which were dry-brushed with acrylic paint. Some ribbon roses and pearls completed the project.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hang onto your dreams. My wish for you is that all the very best ones come true!

Gina's Products Used

Beach Shape Set

Stand Up Sentiments-Dream 

Other Products Used

Prima Royal Menagerie papers

Prima resin pieces

Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden paper (butterflies)

The Fun Starts Here!

Hi everyone! Amylove here with a cheeky little altered canvas dedicated to my humorous brother-in-law. When I saw this picture of him taken on their summer vacation.... I just had to do it!

HAHA! I love it, and I am sure he will too! Please click the video link below to see how I made this piece: The Fun Starts Here Tutorial

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Beach Shape Set

Title The Fun Starts Here

From my stash:

burlap canvas

water color paper

sand texture

Twinkling H2Os

Gesso

flat back pearls

acrylic paint

hilarious picture of my brother-inlaw

Thanks for stopping by!

Fun in the Sun Wall Hanging

Hello chippie fans.  Barbara here, and I am so glad you stopped by today because I have a really "fun in the sun" related project for you.  I love this Beach Shape Set from Gina's Designs Lasercuts, and I just knew I had to make a wall hanging of some sort for summer.  Not interested in making a wall hanging?  Well, can you just see these in your summer vacation scrapbook pages?  They would be truly awesome!

After choosing my chipboard pieces, I painted them all with white gesso and let dry.  My final layout changed a bit, but this was a good start.

I painted the open circle piece with Vintage Mustard chalk ink and let dry.  Then I spritzed it with Pink Grapefruit Shimmering Mist and water to let it spread and blend. Set aside to dry.

Next, I began work on the anchor chipboard piece.  I added some dimensional designs to it with the Scribbles black 3D paint.  Any color can be used for this part because it will ultimately get covered up.

When that paint dried, I was able to gesso over the lines.  I painted the whole anchor with English Red Oxide acrylic paint.  Then, to make it really rusty, I brushed on gel medium and sprinkled the Stampendous Rust embossing powder over it, heat setting with my heat gun.  (See closeup below).

Lay mesh drywall tape over lighthouse chipboard and spread light molding paste over it. 

 Remove tape and let dry.

Paint lighthouse with white acrylic paint and add a very light wash of water and black acrylic paint.  Paint the tower and shed with Cadmium Red mixed with Burnt Umber.

The colors used on each chipboard piece are listed below.

Open circle chipboard - Vintage Mustard chalk paint, Pink Grapefruit Shimmering Mist, water

Large anchor chipboard - English Red Oxide, covered with Rust Embossing Powder and Elements

Starfish - Cadmium Red Hue acrylic paint & Pink Grapefruit Shimmer Mist

Clam Shells - Quinacridone Violet wash, Cadmium Red Hue & Pink Grapefruit Shimmer Mist

Lobsters - Cadmium Red Hue mixed with Burnt Umber

Adirondack chair - Burnt Umber wash

Life Preserver - Titanium white,  Cadmium Red Hue, Burnt Umber wash

Nautilus shells - Cerulean Blue

Sand Dollars - Namorado shimmer mist

Grass & Foilage - Yellow Ochre, Olive Pastel, and Chestnut Roan chalk ink

Relax - Cerulean Blue and Turquoise glass glitter

Turquoise glass glitter was added to the word "Relax" and as accents around the shells at the bottom.  I glued the netting to the back of the open circle, adding a few shells to the net to appear as if they were caught in it.  The sisal was added to the anchor, as shown.    

Supplies used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

  Beach Shape Set 

 Grass & Foliage

ColourArte:  

Radiant Rains Shimmering Mists:  Pink Grapefruit; Namorado

DecoArt fluid acrylic paints:  Titanium white,  Cadmium Red Hue, Burnt Umber, Cerulean Blue, Quinacridone Violet, Carbon Black

Anchor shaped chipboard

Open circle shaped chipboard

Relax wooden word

Light Molding Paste

Mesh drywall tape

Scribbles 3D Paint (any color)

Vintage Mustard Chalk Paint

Rust Embossing Powder and Elements (Stampendous)

Colorbox chalk ink pads:  Chestnut Roan, Yellow Ochre, Olive Pastel

Nautical netting

Natural Sisal rope

Turquoise glitter glass

And here are a few more closeups of each section.       

     

Thanks for stopping by today, and be sure to visit Gina's Designs Lasercuts for all of your chipboard needs.  She has such a wonderful collection, and each set is simply out of this world!!!  Okay, did I say I love chipboard?  {smiles}

Have a wonderful, crafty weekend everyone!  And be sure to stop by the blog for a constant supply of inspiration!

Barbara

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I used the Beach Shape Set to make my 10x10 canvas.

The recycled part? The soap box!

My beach hut was made from the soap box!  I will be doing a live Youtube class to show how it was made. (Date will be announced soon)

The background of the canvas was made with Twinkling H2Os from ColourArte

I cut shavings with an X-acto knife from the cake and then mixed it with water in a water mister to make a wash. It worked great!

To get the rust look on the roof, I used brown chalk paint and while the paint was wet I sprinkled it with allspice.  You could also use cinnamon as well or any type of powdered brown spice works great. When I dried it with my heat gun, my craftroom smelled like a bakery! The effect is fantastic it looks like an old rusty tin roof.

 Thanks for stopping by !

Gina's Designs products used

Beach Shape Set

Other Items Used

ColourArte Products

Silks Acrylic Glazes

Twinkling H20's

Summer Fun ATC's by Kim Fuller

Hi friends, today I have some fun summer ATC's to share with you.  I had Gina custom cut some ATC blanks. I was totally inspired by the fun and colour palette of summer when I created these.

Below is a little tutorial for the first ATC.  I created a fun background for this ATC using the Cardstock Doily Intricates.

I started off with one of the chipboard blanks and a watercolor blank. I got out some of Gina's Cardstock doilies next, and decided to use the doilies as a stencil this time. I used some of my favorite sprays in blues, teals, and white. I love these doilies, they are so versatile!

 I started off with a darker color first then layered on some of the lighter ones, moving the doily and changing up which one I used (because you get a lot of different ones in the package!). 

 Lastly, I used some white distress spray as the last spray to add more contrast. These doilies are so useful for stenciling and now that I have them colored from the sprays, they are ready to use on another project later

Here is my finished background. 

After the background was done, I used my dragonfly stamp from Prima and embossed the background with white embossing powder and used some blue ink to stamp the body of the dragonfly. I then used some Silks Acrylic Glazes on the chipboard dragonfly and added my sentiment to complete the ATC.

For the next ATC, I used the  String Along Shape Set Shells for this piece and cut it apart to make the bubbles.  I used some sticky back canvas for the background piece and played with my watercolors to make some bubbles in the background.

Once I was happy with the watercolor, I added some highlights with my white sharpie pen. For the corners of the ATC, I used some nail art, crushed shells, to add texture.

For the next ATC I used the Beach Shape Set. I used my Twinkling H20's to give a "beachy" type background.

 One of my favorite things to do, is to walk along the beach collecting shells and stones for my collection, so that was my inspiration for this ATC.

I embossed the chipboard with some gold embossing powder. After it was heated up, I sprinkled some Aged Ivory embossing powder from Stampendous on them. I love the texture and dimension that playing around with embossing powder gives to the chipboard pieces.

Lastly, I used some glitter and mica flakes which I adhered down with some clear glue and a little jute bow to top off the sand dollar.

I hope you have enjoyed my post today. Check out all these great items in Gina's Store.

Gina's Designs Items Used

Beach Shape Set

 String Alongs - Shells

Cardstock Doilies Intricate

Dragonflies Fancy

Custom Cut ATCs (Available upon request)

Other Products Used

Twinkling H2o's

Stampendous Embossing Powder

Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powder

Silks Acrylic Glazes

Prima Twine

Stampendous Mica Flakes

At the Beach with Barb

Happy June!

Here in my area of the Pacific NW we often experience what is referred to as the marine layer - dense, almost foggy, cloud cover. We're just a few miles inland from Puget Sound, so with that brooding gray, we often get the scent of the sea. Sipping coffee on one such morning, I was inspired to play with the Beach Shape Set from Gina's Designs and this above collage piece is what happened.

I wanted it to have a slightly gloomier feel, not bright beachy. I'm not a bright beachy type of person. Too much hot stand and sun and screaming kids and bright color actually kind of makes me crabby. I know... I'm strange, but I own it. So, to begin, I tore pages from an old 1930's nautical almanac and glued them to my 12 x 16" canvas board with a matte gel. 

I coated the lighthouse with white embossing powder and heat-set it. Then I stamped on it to give it some texture. I adhered yellow cardstock to the back of it to make it look like the lights are on.

For the fence, I first coated it with gesso. After the gesso had dried, I distressed it with brown and gray inks and blobbed a little more white acrylic paint on it.

For the chairs, I also began with gesso. Once that had dried, I coated them with StazOn Studio Gel in Cactus Green. When the gel was dry, I stamped on them using matching StazOn Ink.

For the sand dollars, I first coated them with gesso and let it dry. Then I smeared white craft ink all over them and coated them in an iridized embossing powder. I heat set the powder and they were done!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Beach Shape Set

Other Products Used

Matte Gel

StazOn Studio Gel

Stickles

Gesso

StazOn Inks

Embossing powder

Liquid Pearls

White Craft Ink

Compass Mask by Tim Holtz 

Tree and Arrowheads stamps by RubberMoon

Nautical Log stamp by Stampin' Up!

View From Tintagel

Hi everyone! Melissa here with a 12 x 12 layout for Gina's Designs.  I remember when I took this photo I was thinking how beautiful the view was.  According to legend, this is where King Arthur built his castle.

There are also a lot of stories about mermaids in the ocean around Cornwall. Gina's Designs has a variety of pieces you can use in your beachy creations. I thought the shells and mermaid fit the theme of the page.

All the chipboard is coated with gesso. I layered modeling paste on the mermaid with a palette knife before using my finger to give the paste a streaky look.. I wanted it to look as if streams of water were going by. I painted her with a mix of Lindys Stamp Gang, Twinkling H20's, and regular watercolors. I dry brushed on layers of silver, gold, and blue Lumiere acrylic paint to pick up the texture.  Perfect Pearls were patted on top. 

The sand dollar on the upper right has on gold mica powder mixed with a drop of water.

The rest of the items have modeling paste on them.

The sand dollar to the left of the photo is painted the same way as the other one.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

Gina's Products Used:

Mermaids Shape Set

Beach Shape Set

Other:

Papers by My Mind's Eye, Prima,and Graphic 45

Luminarte Twinkling H20s

Perfect Pearls

Lindy's Stamp Gang

Winsor and Newton Watercolors

Prima Pearl Flourishes

Distress Crackle Paint

Swarovski crystals

Stampendous Embossing Powder in Jeweled Gold

Distress Glitter

Ranger Distress Embossing Powder in Linen

Mixed Media Mermaid Canvas

Hi all! Amylove here with a beautiful mixed media canvas using Gina's amazing chip board pieces. I had never tried a canvas this large before, so I was a bit intimidated, but I was excited to use the mermaids so I just went for it!!!

It really turned out to be a stunning piece! I have made a video tutorial of how I altered the chip board pieces and assembled the canvas. Please follow this link to view the tutorial:  

 Mixed Media Mermaid Canvas

Items used from Gina's Designs:

Beach Shape Set

Mermaids Shape Set

Mixed Media Fragments 1

Other items used:

Acrylic Paint

Sprays

Gesso

Texture Paste

Prima Stencil

Gauze

Metal Pieces

Jewelry

E6000

Glossy Accent