Positive vibes

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my blog where today I have a triptych to show you that I have made with the mad Llama stamp from AALL & Create ! He is so much fun !

Here it is and here is how I made it :

I started off with colouring the Llama three times. I stamped him on Neenah card stock which is ideal for Copics. There is a stamp of a tiny pair of glasses in the set and I stamped it over his eyes. 

Here they are all ready ! I did use some coloured pencil over the bodies as I couldn't seem to get the colour right with  just my Copics. Maybe I have not enough of them... lol 

Here you can see the pieces of grey board I cut with my craft knife/scissors for the triptych. 

A layer of gesso and some collage with book pages and they are ready to go ! 

I chose paints in the same colours as the Llamas' hair. I did add a darker shade of each afterwards...

Here is how that is looking. Next I am stamping and stencilling the background. 

So, I got very carried away and forgot to snap any more photos... sorry

This is the blue Llama. 

the pink....

and lastly, the green. 

I think it came out super cute. The stencilling I did was on the back, you can see it in the photo at the bottom. 

If you are interested in the stamps and stencils, please visit : 

www.aallandcreate.com/boutique

you'll find a list of stockists worldwide. 

I used the following stamps:

#102 - Positive vibes

#71 - Natures garden

#92 - Brinley (just the sentiment)

#56 - Vintage Grafitti 

and 

#28 stencil

If you live in the Netherlands and want some of the AALL & Create stuff,  have a look here :

Hobbycompleet De Duif

Thank you so much for stopping by today. 

If you rest, you rust !

Hello everyone,

It is the first of April already, time goes so fast !

Over at Country View Challenges we start a new challenge today and the theme, which was chosen by the lovely Evelyn, is rust ! I love rust... and for this project I made my rust with Finnabairs rust pastes... so much fun.

I have made a little wall hanger:

This is the finished result and here is how I made it :

I cut a piece of grey board to size and added gesso. 

These are the pastes I used, a mixture of the two works best. 

And there it is rust... 

I cut a piece of watercolour paper to go on the cardboard base. It is a little smaller and I distressed the edges. I used the Distress Oxide Inks. 

The are amazing.  They go much brighter when you spritz water on them. 

I smooshed my card into this lovely puddle of ink and dried it. I repeated the process until I was happy with the result. 

And here it is. Isn't that cool ! 

I used a PaperArtsy stamp with the same inks for more interest. It is from the Eclectica Range by Lin Brown. (ELB34)

Here's how that looks. 

Next I stamped this little Zinski critter, also by PaperArtsy. (Zini ZN04) I can't get enough of them, they are sooooo cute ! I stamped him twice; once on white card stock to colour with Copic Markers and once on the coloured panel. I do this so when I cut him out of the white paper I can just cut off little bits like his hair. When I layer him on the one on the panel, he is whole again. 

Here he is coloured, cut out and adhered. I added a piece of metal that I treated with the same rust paste. I cut it in half and glued it on my panel with gel medium. 

And here it is all put together.. 

Some details of all the yummy rust...

And here he is in all his rusty glory. I found the sentiment on the internet and typed it on a scrap of pattern paper of which I inked the edges with the Walnut Stain Oxide ink. 

We hope you will play along with us this month and have fun with rust. You could win a voucher for the shop of GBP 20,--. Jus make sure to read the rules before entering. 

You will find them HERE.