Mindcleaning... - journal page.

Hi there my friends... as I have tons of "backstage" work to do now and I'm not able to catch up with all the latest things...may I propose a journal page today?
Simple. Fast. Fun.
Mind cleaning - my way.

Sending you all warm hugs and crawling back to my dragon's lair...

Hidden in their private world - altered Prima metal frame

How can you show the love and appreciation better than creating something for these special people with your own hands? Personally - I love handmade gifts - and I love giving handmade gifts to my family and friends!

This altered frame was made to honor and show the love I have for my parents, Hanna and Krzysiek.
I've chosen one o my favorite photos of them: young couple celebrating time together during one of the family gatherings. I love their happy faces, I adore the hairstyles and matching shirts :) It was a begging of their journey through life and I wanted to show them hidden in their little private world, focused just on the conversation with each other. I honestly have to say - I'm happy with the final result!

A frame with decorated photo of your family can be a great gift for the coming celebrations of Mother's Day and Father's Day... if you'd like to see more of the ideas (breathtaking projects by Prima DT, I promise!) with my collections included you will find them in this post on Prima Blog!

Of course I had to put my personal touch on it! I used loads of found objects to fill the beautiful vintage frame designed by Ingvild: wooden sticks found on the beach, stones, clock and mechanical parts from my "rubbish boxes" and of course my Prima Mechanicals combined with Ingvild's Junkyard Findings.

Colors I've chosen are matching the beautiful color of the frame I used a bit of gesso and sprayed the inside of the frame with Color Bloom Sprays in shades of green, teal, blue, gold and gray.

Here is the product list for you - all the supplies are available in our Mixed Media Place Store:)

And now the last thing to do is to wrap it and send it...

Hugs to you all - have a great creative weekend!

Hopeless Backyard Makeover - part 2

I'm in process of changing our Hopeless Backyard (mentioned in this post a couple of weeks ago) into something a bit more pleasant. I really want to have a look through my window and have a chance not to get depressed for the rest of the day just because the only things I can see are gloomy corner of the backyard, weathered gray, painfully sad garden shed and matching pessimistic garden wall.
On this point we've got our pallet decking done and I'm in process of planting, adding some garden furniture and decorations. I can see the light in the tunnel ;) But today I want to share the makeover of our wall and garden shed - I can't say they are beautiful, but surely they look better, weathered and distressed in a bit more controlled way ;)

Ok, let's start! Here is the victim - the most ugly shed in the universe...

I've decided to add touches of white paint and then decide what to do next with it. As you can see weather on that day was typically Irish...

Touches of vintage blue and green were a natural decision - we've already had blue because of the decking... (sigh). I've added 2 shades of blue in the corners, around the windows and later - on the door.

The effect was ok :) I was so excited about the final look I used the leftover white paint to add some color to the gray wall behind it - of course!

And here it is - better light, more optimistic setting, my "new" vintage shed with distressed effect in the great company of the white(ish) backyard wall. Not bad for a bucket of paint and a couple of hours of work!

I'm going to share some more photos when the plants and furniture will be more-less in place. So far, I'm still in progress...
Sending warm hugs from wet, windy Ireland!

Colors, exploding...

... and it all happens during "Colorology" Class, one of my new classes ideas.
How can I describe it?
Layers, texture, ink, paint. Lots of fun. (At least for the teacher, hee hee).
The effects you can judge yourselves - one of the examples below:

Here is a selection of products used to create this project:

Wishing you all a great, creative week!