An altered notebook cover

Hi everyone,
Saadia here:
I want to share with you an altered notebook cover.

This is how I made it:

I glued cheese cloth on the cover with gel medium  Next, I applied modeling paste through a stencil.

After that, I arranged and glued my composition with 3d gel medium and covered everything with heavy black gesso.

Colored my project with Art alchemy paints and waxes. Added microbeads and glass glitter.

Thank you for visiting
Take care

                 Saadia Nawaz

Products used:
Art and Soul studio Australia's resin frame and resin embellishments - soldout
Art and Soul studio trellis chipboard - soldout
Art alchemy metallique paint Plum preserves
Art Alchemy metallique paint crocous field 
Art Alchemy waxes Red Amber, Rich copper
Prima Marketing Glass glitter midnight blue
Prima marketing microbeads
Prima marketing's heavy black gesso
Prima Marketing's 3d gel medium matte

Moment in Time by Kristy Abela - September Mood Board Challenge

Welcome back to another mood board challenge. My personal favourite colours are coppers and teals when crafting... My collections dominates my shelves. 

This is the regular crew at my place, my sons and their best mates... can you pick who are mine and who's not???

Please forgive me for bending the rules... I used a Dragonfly! 

Check our some process shots below..

Some texture for the background

Some Lindy's sprays and a bit of dry brushing with White Gesso.

Highlighting the depth with a charcoal pencil. 

Lots of embossing with Lindy's of Scrap FX chipboards and a bit of a highlight with some Prima Waxes.

I used some rust pastes on some of the pieces as well to give it the rustic look. I finished off the patina with some blue waxes. 

Added some stones and some beads and a couple of metal charms from my stash.

My favourite part of the whole project is the way this dragonfly turned out... 

The way the wings took on the graduation of colour was perfection!

Thanks for looking Soul Sisters!

Abela Artistry

Mood Board Challenge Rules

Please use our mood board as inspiration to create an art journal page, a card or a scrapbook layout. Use the mood board however you want but you must add a butterfly on your project.

As these challenges are sponsored by Art and Soul Studio please make sure that you use at least one product that is available from the store.

There are 3 x $50 vouchers up for grabs!! One will be awarded for scrapbook layouts, one for cards and one for mixed media/art journaling.

You can enter an art journal page, a card and a layout but you cannot win all three.

You have until the 11:59pm on the 30th September to enter and then the design team will vote to determine the lucky winners.

Please note that the vouchers can only be won by residents of Australia but if you are from overseas and win the challenge you will be offered a guest design team spot.