Sail With Me Altered Canvas

Hello fellow scrappers,

Today I want to share an altered canvas that shows my daughter's

favorite past time, the beach.  She loves anything that has to do 

with beach and lucky for us we live only five minutes away to the closest one.  

I had taken this photo of her and I knew that I wanted to

place it on a canvas.  I had put off working on it for awhile

because I really didn't want to just place the photo on paper and glue

it down on the canvas.  As I was walking by the frames section at Walmart I came

across the perfect solution for my photo, a 4 x 6 frame.

I was so excited to start working on my canvas that I completely

forgot to video tape each step I took in creating it, so sorry about that.

On the YouTube video I explained what I did but if

you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment and I will gladly answer.

Here is my YouTube video.  I show you all the products I
used in making my canvas.

Here are some close up photos showing some of the textures of

the stencils, cheesecloth, inks, etc.

Products used:

Acrylic white gesso

Color Bloom Sprays from Prime - cobalt, soft teal, worn leather, tea stain

Modeling paste - Teresa Collins

Distress Ink  -  Walnut Stain

Liquid Pearls Ranger  -  Juniper, Royal Blue, Dark Chocolate, Platinum Pearl

Mod Podge Matte

Ranger Glossy Accent

Paper, tags, journal cards  -  Seashore Prima

Gems  -  Prima, BoBunny

Honey Comb Chipboard  -  Dusty Attic

Cheesecloth, ribbon, pearl string, photo frame  -  Walmart

Small glass jar  -  Tim Holtz

Bakers twine  -  My Mind's Eye

Sea shells, sea glass

I hope you enjoyed my project, please leave any comments down below

and don't forget to follow me on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

until next time,

Ana

xoxo

Graphic45 Contest

Hello,

Graphic45 is having a contest and they are giving away $75 worth of their
goodies to one lucky winner, keeping my fingers crossed :)
Here is the layout I created.

For this layout I used the collection Couture, love the design 

and colors this paper line has and the embellishments are simply beautiful.  

Here are some photos of my layout.

I so enjoyed making this layout and love how everything came
together.  I'm going to display it up on one of my shadow box frames I have
in my living room.  I hope you like my work of art and please leave a comment below.
Be sure to follow me on my blog and my YouTube channel for more of my creations.

Don't forget to check out the details about the contest on the link below.

Graphic45 May Challenge

Until next time,

Ana
xoxo

Nautical Mini Folio Album

Hi all,

Valentine's Day is coming up and my daughter asked me

if I can make a mini album that she can give her boyfriend. Lucky

for her she let me know what she wanted at the beginning of the

year so I had plenty of time to start on it and be able to

find the right papers since she wanted the album to have a nautical theme.

I knew this was going to be a challenge for me

because in order to create I have to find a paper

collection that makes me happy just looking at them lol.  Let's just say that

if I love the paper I'm using on an album my creativity

sparks and I'm able to come up with lots of ideas in

decorating my pages.

As it turned out I found the perfect paper collection from Carta Bella

called Ahoy There.  It's all nautical just like she wanted

and the colors are vibrant as well as the stickers.

I also picked up a couple of different papers from

different companies that went well back with the paper pack.

The end result is a fabulous mini folio album that my

daughter loved as I'm sure her boyfriend will too.

Here are a couple of photos and my YouTube video.

This mini album hold up to 85 photos can you believe it!!  I so enjoyed making
it, hope you like it so please leave some comments below and
follow my blog as well as subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Thanks for watching.


Until next time,
Ana
xoxo

Friend

Hi all,

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I just can't believe 

how quickly time goes by.  I want to share with you 

a card I had made a couple of months ago

(the truth is I forgot to post it on my blog :/ and to top it off

I just snapped one photo of the card 

before giving it to my friend).

Oh well, in an effort to show you my card at different angles I opened it on picture 

manager on my computer and crop it down to give you a closer look.

I mixed and matched different papers to create my card.

The bottom portion is an older collection from Prima, sorry I can't recall 

the name.  

The large flower and the friend stickers (Lyric collection) is also from Prima.

The banner I cut out from the sheet of paper (Love Me - My Mind's Eye)

and pop it up with 3D foam dots.  The banner with the brad is 

also from My Mind's Eye and the brad is from Prima.

The top portion of the card and brad is from My Mind's 

Eye - Lost & Found 3.

I placed a doilie at the top part of my card as well as my tag.

The top of the card has an opening where I inserted the tag.

I placed the small flowers at the corners, I bought them from a local craft 

store as well as the butterfly.

All my edges are distress with walnut stain ink.

I hope you enjoyed my card and please feel free to 

leave some comments.

Until next time,

Ana

xoxo