De Craftorij Zomerchallenge - CZC 2016 Day 16 - 20

Hello everyone,

Here are my cards for De Craftorij Zomerchallenge (postcard a day) Challenge, day 16 - 20...

Day 16 - Monochromatic. A gelli print with a butterfly that was stamped seperately and coloured with watercolours. The sentiment was stamped directly on the card. 

Day 17 - Board game. Naughts and crosses. Another gel print with collaged naughts & crosses. They were stamped on patterned paper, cut out and adhered. The black lines are thin strips of black card stock. 

Day 18 - Use markers with different points. 

Another gelli print. I fished this one out of the bin (pardon the pun) as I didn't like it originally but I saw the potential with these fish.... The fish were stamped on the gelli print with green ink, the sentiment with black ink and then added details with different markers... 

Day 19 - Bucketlist. Another gelli print.... yes  I know, I am addicted. Especially after doing the workshop with Birgit Koopsen, so wonderful ! Anyway, added some stamping to this one. Drew the circles and added the sentiment; sums life up I think ! 

Day 20 - men

You guessed it, another gelli print. I stamped the background a little, white embossing the circles. The man is a stamp from Carabelle Studio. I restamped the part of his chest where the heart is on white card stock, coloured the heart, cut it out and adhered to the one on this card. I then stamped the sentiment (same stamp set) , cut it apart and adhered it to the card as well. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today !! 

Follow your heart...

Hello everyone,

I have been accepted into the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Programm and I have made my first piece using mainly DecoArt Products and a few others.... I had lots of fun making this, experimenting along the way. I think the result is not bad !

This tag was painted with Cobalt Turquoise Hue acrylic paint. I then added some crackle paste through an Andy Skinner stencil and let that dry naturally. I you heat it with a heat gun, it won't crackle.. don't ask... haha..

Next I added a few antiquing creams, a bit of interference paint and some more antiquing cream to the crackled cornices, if you can call them that ! I really like the end result. 

Here are some close ups:

Doesn't that look yummy ! 

I also stitched around the edges with my sewing machine. 

Next I stamped the background. I used a stamp from a Mixed Media stamp set by Dina Wakley and white pigment ink for this. It dries back a little lighter which I really like in this tag. 

I then stamped the hearts (Unity Stamps) on the tag and onto some book text. 

I cut out the book text hearts and adhered them on top of the ones on the tag. 

The sentiment (which is only part of a sentiment by Carabelle Studio)  was stamped, like everything else with black Archival Ink and accentuated with a white paint pen. 

Lastly I added some whit and black splatters and a piece of ribbon coloured with the same Cobalt paint I used before. 

Thank you for stopping by today !