Showing posts with label Lighthouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lighthouse. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Light House Canvas - DIY Home Decor with Creative Embellishments

 


Welcome to the ocean. The ocean is my happy place and I adore creating a variety of coastal projects to keep me as close as I can be to my favorite place.  

Creative Embellishments has a large selection coastal themed products to help with card making, home decor, traditional memory keeping,  scrapbooking, and any crafty idea you can imagine.

Today's feature is an easy  DIY home deco canvas made using Creative Embellishments Wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse and embellished with Creative Embellishments Seagull Set and Starfish and Sand Dollars


 


The wood wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse  piece is fairly large (4.2" wide and 12" tall ) so I selected an 8"x 10" canvas for the project.  The paper background is a sheet of patterned paper from Stamperia's Sea Land 12x12 collection. It's also the backing behind the wood light house.  

I think I am on my 4th reorder of this gorgeous collection.  

I used a sea sponge and dabbed the wood light house with white  and light blue acrylic paint - but did not cover the whole piece. I tried to achieve a weathered look - not full coverage.    Tip:  if you find you have "over painted", just take some sand paper to the wood and ruff it up a bit.  You'll get it back to sea worthy perfection in no time.  

 




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Sunday, November 4, 2018

Beach Passport Mini Album

Passbook to the Ocean
The ocean is my favorite place, my quiet retreat to peace and tranquility and a place to wash away the stress of life.  

Creative Embellishments has the most amazing assortment of chipboard pieces that are perfect for any beach or ocean themed project.  I created a mini-album (Passbook) for my recent ocean vacation and accented using the following Creative Embellishments chipboard pieces:

Creative Embellishments - Sea Horses

The mini-album/Pasbook was made using the following die:
Sizzix - Eileen Hull -Vintage Travel Collection Passbook die . The beautiful paper used on the book is from Stamperia  - Sea Land collection.

Most of the chipboard pieces used throughout the Passbook has been lightly dabbed with a whitewash (water added to paint) of acrylic paint and some blue ink for a weathered and worn look.  I absolutely love the effect for the sea.

The image above shows some decorative tags created for the inside the Passbook for journal entries or memories. Below are the chipboard pieces used on the tag:.
Creative Embellishments - Seashells


The Creative Embellishments - Dream Word Set was used for the front of the Passbook.  
The next set of tags and fold out pages for the book are accented using the following chipboard pieces:
Creative Embellishments - Sea Horses



These are fold out pages for the Passbook mini-album. They provide extra room within the album for small photos and such.  The chipboard is light weight so it doesn't hold down the pages like rocks.  Scroll down and I'll show you how I painted the lighthouse.    
The lighthouse is my favorite piece of chipboard in my album.  I adore it and will share how I made it in one easy image below.  Super easy and super effective for an old sea battered and weather worn lighthouse. 
This is the final fold out page within my book. I can add a little photo to the frame when the time comes.  


Where to shop? 
You can shop for Creative Embellishment chipboard and products right here .

Thanks for stopping here.  
Products Used on This:
Sizzix - Eileen Hull -Vintage Travel Collection Passbook die sz-660331
Stamperia paper  
Stamperia paper - Sea Land 12x12 collection


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