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Thursday 1 September 2016

Crafts Galore Encore September 2016

I hope you've all had a lovely summer. I've been a very bad blogger lately. I do apologise for not visiting your blogs very often but I decided to put family first this summer and spend some quality time with my gorgeous grandchildren and other family members.
Now it's back to business, and the first order of the day is the new challenge on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog
Thank you to everyone who joined in with the August challenge. The winners are on the challenge blog's 'winner's page'. This is a month long challenge and you can enter up to three times. A full list of rules are on the challenge blog.
Our theme this month is everyone's favourite
"Anything Goes"
and our wonderful sponsor is
Beccy's Place
Beccy is offering one of her digi sets for the lucky winner.

Only some of the team were lucky enough to receive an image from Beccy to work with this time so I had free rein for my project and this is what I made.

I wanted a sea themed piece so I used mixed media card, linen card for layering and a wooden box frame.

I started by creating texture onto a 7"x 7" (18 x 18 cm) piece of mixed media card with stockinette and texture paste. Whilst it was still wet I added wooden beads, seed beads, micro beads and real shells. Once that was all dry I used acrylic paints in shades of blue to colour the whole piece of card. I dry brushed on some silver paint to create highlights.

I added die-cut birds to the sky while the paint was still wet and dabbed on white acrylic paint with my fingers until I was happy with the cloudy sky and tumbling waves effects.

I painted the wooden frame with a couple of coats of blue acrylic on the inside and white around the outside and front edges. I mounted the seascape onto white linen card and secured the finished piece inside the frame.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog to see the wonderful projects and cards created by the rest of the talented team and to enter your Anything Goes creations.
I've entered this project into the following challenges:
http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/septembers-challenge.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/septembers-challenge.html x
http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/challenge-18-anything-creativemixed.html x
http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/all-square-challenge.html x


19 comments:

  1. Wow amazing creations Andree lovely colours and detail, X so pleased you've had a lovely summer with your family.
    Hugs Julie xxx

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  2. Hi Andree, wow fabulous sea frame, love the texture and the different shades of blue.. Hugs Jennifer xx

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  3. Hi Andree this is stunning I love it. The texture you have achieved is amazing. Enjoy the rest of the week. Take care. Hugs Jackie

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  4. Wow this is amazing, loving the sea frame it just looks stunning xx

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  5. Hi Andree, this is absolutely stunning! I love the texture and gorgeous scene you have created.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  6. What a fabulous seascape! Love the texture and the seagulls. I can almost feel the sea breeze! x

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  7. Hi Andrée glad you have had some lovely family time this summer. I love this project, the colours and textures are stunning. Cathy x

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  8. Lovely work and i hope you had a wonderful summer

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  9. So much depth and dimension Andree. A wonderful project.
    Laine
    xx

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  10. Love the colour. I'm just getting into mixed media so it's nice to see other beautiful work x

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  11. I absolutely love the techniques you've used to accomplish your masterpiece Andrée. A stunning piece of artwork.
    I'm glad to hear family came first over the summer. I have mine visiting. Shabneez xxx

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  12. This is just amazing Andree and I love those colours. The beads and shells are a wonderful touch in the darker blue. Hugs to you Sue Pxxx Teamie

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  13. Oh I know my boss lady over at Rhedd's will love this as much as me - we love the seaside thing going on - Thank you for sharing with us over at Rhedd's Creative Spirit this month and hope to see you again in future challenges.

    Handcrafted by Ellapu
    Mother Hen for Altered Eclectics
    Mother Hen for Eclectic Ellapu
    DT Rhedd's Creative Spirit

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  14. Here I am with my Altered Eclectic hat on - am still loving your calming seaside theme - beautiful.
    Thank you for sharing with us over at Altered Eclectics this month and hope to see you again in future challenges.

    Handcrafted by Ellapu
    Mother Hen for Altered Eclectics
    Mother Hen for Eclectic Ellapu
    DT Rhedd's Creative Spirit

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  15. Wonderful, deep blue, amazing work !
    Greetings from Germany

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  16. I love this so much, I can really hear and smell the sea when I look at it, Love, Denyse x

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  17. Really love this one too. Just beautiful. Thank you for entering your project at Rhedd’s Creative Spirit. Sammy-x

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  18. Stunning Canvas. Very beautiful colours. Thank you for joining us at Altered Eclectics this month. Judy DT

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