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

Creative Embellishments Wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse

Creative Embellishments Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments Seagull Set

 

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.  

 

Thanks for stopping here today.  Happy Crafting.

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Creative Embellishments Wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse

Creative Embellishments Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments Seagull Set

Buttons Galore - Doo Dadz - Yankee Doodle DD110	Creative Embellishments United States - Wood Home Decor	Sea Land - Stamperia Double-Sided Paper Pad 12"X12" 10/Pkg - Stamperia Intl - Paper Pads

Summer Beach Cards and Shakers -Creative Embellishments and Buttons Galore

Traditional and Shaker Style Summer Cards

Hi friends.  I'd like to share some cards with a warm beach theme featuring products from Creative Embellishments and Buttons Galore and More.  

Sunshine in a card. 

   Creative Embellishments has some fabulous shells and beach related chipboard designs to help make summer card creating super easy.  

Here are the chipboard pieces I used on the cards featured today:

Starfish and Sand Dollars

Sea Shells

Frames - Fancy Rectangle Set 

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Creative Embellishments Frames - Fancy Rectangle Set

Creative Embellishments  -Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments -Sea Shells

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My first card is a shaker.  

When creating a card, I am always envisioning the person who will receive the card.  When the card is a shaker, I know the reaction is going to be one of joy and amusement. 

It's impossible to have a shaker card without the shaker mix, right?  While doing some on-line shopping, I came across a very unique company that specializes in blending the perfect shaker mix. 

yep, true.  

As far as  shaker mixes, Buttons Galore and More  has a rainbow of colors and a variety of options to make you smile from ear to ear.  The magic is in the mix.  

The product I used on this shaker is called Sparkletz - with some gems, beads, unique sequins, acrylic droplets and more.  

Sparkletz - Tropical Delight SPK127

My chipboard treatments are minimal - meaning I kept things easy and didn't spend too much time altering the chipboard.  I dabbed the chipboard, Starfish and Sand Dollars

Sea Shells and Fancy Rectangle Frame with white acrylic paint, making sure to leave some of the natural chipboard color showing.

Here are the papers I used on the cards today.  

The papers used on this collection are from Ciao Bella - Summer Tales collection.  

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Ciao Bella Summer Tales 6x6 paper

Alexandra Renke - Flamingo Circles 12x12

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The second card features some of my favorite sun loving birds - the flamingo.  I recently saw some flamingos in person and was captivated by their grace.  
I was equally captivated by the watercolor effect papers by Alexandra Renke.
               

Thanks for stopping here.  

Where to Shop?

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Creative Embellishments Frames - Fancy Rectangle Set

Creative Embellishments  -Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments -Sea Shells

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Buttons Galore and More -Sparkletz -         Tropical   Delight SPK127

Creative Embellishments - Shaker Set

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Ciao Bella Summer Tales 6x6 paper

Alexandra Renke - Flamingo Circles 12x12

Happy By the Sea - with Spellbinders Card Kits

  

Spellbinders Card Club Kit for September

Did you know Spellbinders has monthly card kits?  

Yes it's true.  They are packed with absolutely everything you need to start creating, including adhesive.  

I am playing with Spellbinders Card Club for Sept 18 and I'd love to share  the two cards I made with Sept18's kit.   

This is my first card.  I was thrilled that Spellbinders included an adorable starfish die in the kit because I love all things about the sea.  Look how absolutely perfect that starfish is with the silver paper from the kit.  In real life, it shines and adds a bit of pop to the card.  

Included in the Sept 18 Card kit box was a pack of die cuts - some of which I used on the cards today; the boat, lighthouse and the whale seen in the second card.  I also added a stamped border using a sentiment stamp included in the kit. 

YES!  The sea makes me happy.  It's indeed my happy place.

 Here is the second card - still keeping with the ocean theme.  

My inspiration for this particular card started with the paper pad from Spellbinders Card kit for Sept.   It had the coolest beautiful piece of scalloped paper - a small shade of purple/pink...a shade of blue to match the whale diecut.  

The paper made me envision a sunset at the beach  - a sky filled with blues and pinks blending perfectly together.  A heavenly sunset that adds peace to your evening and makes you believe the world is a perfect place -even if but for a moment. 

And that's the feeling that I wanted to capture for this card.  The small sentiment stamps were the perfect finishing touch. 

A little more about the kit

Spellbinders really has assembled a great versatile kit.  It's doesn't have just one theme so you are not stuck on one theme all month long.  It's got cars, and feminine flowers, sea creatures and bold stripes.  Masculine or feminine - child or adult, they have thought of it all.   

Samples from this kit
Here are some cards I made  with this very SAME kit.  See how versatile this is? 
You can see these cards on my post found here.

Below is a photo showing the contents of Spellbinders Card Club for Sept 18.

If you need/want additional supplies, Spellbinders even sells card kit extras/add-ons including the stamp set, inspirational silver foil stickers, paper pad, etc.  

You can find information on the card club right here:  Spellbinders Card Club information

Spellbinders also offers previous card club kits 

based on availability.

Samples from Prior Kits  That Are Still Available

These are a few samples I created from I made using Spellbinders  Mint, Teal, Pink & Yellow Happy Themed 2016 Card Kit - KOM-DEC16.  
You can find more samples of cards from this kit on my blog post here. 

Here are some samples of Christmas cards found on my blog post here
 created using  Spellbinders Holiday Christmas 2015 card kit

Spellbinders even invites you to share your creations with them on Instagram ( #SpellbindersClubKits)

or by uploading them to the Spellbinders club gallery

Thanks for stopping here today.  

Where to shop? 

You can shop for all your Spellbinders dies right here .

You can shop for previous card club kits right here  .

You can shop for Spellbinders card kit extras right here.