Published again !

Hello everyone,

I am so very pleased to be published yet again in the Stampers' Sampler ! I keep sending them stuff, hoping they like it... and apparently they do ! Yay !

It is the Jan-Feb-March 2015 edition and this is what it looks like :

And here are my pages; the cards were all made with Stampotique stamps... 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! 

A bit of love

Hello everyone,

I had some fun today making a postcard for the swap over at Roc Nicholas' FB page. The theme is Valentine's Day and I couldn't resist using 'Horse' again... It must be my favourite 'Roc stamp' !

This card started out as a piece of Gelli Print. First I cut it to size 6"x4" and used a heart die set to cut out one big and two small hearts. I chose a piece of design paper to put behind the hearts and to put my horses and sentiment on. Next I stamped Horse; once in it's original form and once I masked off the hat, stamped it on a piece of blank rubber (a piece cut off a set of unmounted stamps) and then stamped the blank rubber on my paper and voila : a reversed image... 

Next I coloured them both using Copic markers. I gave the grey version a bow and eyelashes to change him into a her...  I then stamped Heart Vine on the gelli print and coloured in the hearts and the stems with coloured pencils. I also used coloured pencils and some Gamsol to add the shading around the hearts and around the edges. Lastly it was a case of putting it all together.. I glued the horses behind the gelliprint and then adhered the whole thing on the pattern paper. Next I added the sentiment which are Tim Holtz ChitChat stickers and doodled around them.. 

I then added a piece of white card stock on the back of the card and that finished it off. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Fragile

Hello everyone,

This post is about the online Wanderlust Mixed Media art journaling course. It started on January the 1st and I was really looking forward to it. When I saw the first video and Kasia told us what to do I was horrified... Journaling where I actually had to journal on the page. Using a word that describes you at this moment.... I do not like that at all. I create art journals because I like pretty pictures and I like to combine certain images with certain quotes; sometime with some humor.
I don't journal from emotions or feelings and I never will as that is not my thing. So after being in a strop about this all week, ready to give up before I started I decided to give it a go after all...
And here it is.. not sure I like it.... but at least I tried... Hopefully the next instalments will be more my cup of tea !

Thank you for stopping by today and listening to my woes ! 

Walkies ?

Hello everyone,

and happy New Year to you all...

For my first Katzelkraft post for 2016 I had to use one of the new dog stamps. Aren't they fantastic !
I made an art journal page.

The base is Mixed Media paper which I painted with my fingers and acrylic paints. After it dried I stamped the background,  splattered some white ink and used a stencil with some white paint too. There is a list of all the stamps I used at the bottom of this post; with links to the shop. 

I then stamped the dog and the bones. I coloured them with Copic Markers, cut them out and adhered them on my page. I used a turquoise pencil to colour the 'ground' underneath the dog and the bones so they don't appear to be floating.

I then took my old typewriter and made the sentiment which I thought fitted this dog perfectly ! Lastly I doodled a few lines around the page and that was it ! 

I used the following stamps:

KTZ 142 for the script in the background

KTZ 161 for the dog and the bone

KTZ 130 for the checked background stamp

KTZ160 for the circle background stamps

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Little seeds..

Hello everyone,

and happy New Year to you ! On this first Wednesday of 2016 it is Captain Claudine's turn to set the new challenge over at the Stampotique blog. Her theme: Trees,  and this is what she said :

'Trees have always been such a source of life for many living creatures, I just love them. I challenge you to create something with a tree incorporated somehow." 

I have made a postcard as I really enjoy making them.

I used a brayer and acrylic paint to colour the background of this postcard. I also used my finger and some white paint around the edges. I randomly stamped it after it dried and then stamped the trees and the bird on white card stock. I coloured them with Copic Markers, cut them out and adhered them to the card. I also added a few scraps of pattern paper by 7 Dots Studio; from the 'Destination unknown' pack designed by DeeDee Catron. I machine stitched this onto the card. I got the sentiment from the internet and I typed it with my old typewriter, cut it into strips and adhered it to the card. I doodled around the strips with a black pen. 

I used the following stamps:

Birch tree

Circles cube

Vintage Bill

Agatha's parrot 

I hope you'll join us this week. You could win one of two $30 vouchers to spend in the online shop HERE. Just remember, no Digi's and only one entry per person per challenge... 

Good Luck !! 

Thank you for stopping by ! 

More mail art....

Hello everyone,

and happy New Year to you !

Over at VivaLasVegaStamps! we are totally smitten with mail art. So I thought I'd share this envelope with you. I made this for a swap with a friend. I hope she has got it by now and this doesn't spoil the surprise !

Here's the front and the back.

I coloured the envelope by brayering it with blue, green and white acrylic paint until I was happy with the result. I then stamped it with a great variety of VLVS! Stamps using different colours (similar to the paint colours and grey and black) of Archival Ink. And that was it, really. 

I used the following stamps: 

19562 - Deliver to

19568 - Double coffee rings

19566 - Bubble wrap texture

19567 - Writing circles background

19569 - Mesh Texture

19565 - Measuring tape section

19571 - Writing triangles

19575 - Stitching

19659 - Numbers set

19642 - Stitching lines

19418 - Business Man silhouette

19414 - Toy airplane

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Friends

Hello everyone,

I have an art journal to share today. It is made with the lovely Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda Stamps. A lot of these stamps are available in the Netherlands at Inkadinkadutchies. You'll find the online store HERE.

Here's my journal :

This is done on a piece of watercolour paper. I started with stamping the 'Grunge Black Swirl' background stamp twice with grey Archival ink. I then rubbed yellow, orange and red Brusho's into the paper and stamped with two shapes of the 'Shadow Frames Set' and water into the Brusho's. I didn't think it was bright enough though, so I spritzed some water over it and after it dried I used the same stamps and Distress Inks to accentuate the circles... I liked that better. I then used white acrylic paint and the 'Love' stamp from the 'Dream, Magic, Love' set. Next I stamped the 'Cat & Bird' on the page and on white paper. I coloured them with pencils and cut them out. Before I adhered them I did some collaging with music paper and an old comic which was coloured with the same Distress ink colours. I also doodled and splattered with a white paint pen. 

Lastly I adhered 'Cat & Bird' and used some chit chat stickers by Tim Holtz for the sentiment. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today !