Magical Wings..

Hello fellow Crafters,

It's Wednesday and that means Stampotique Challenge day, yay !!! Today Tanja has set the theme and she wants us to make something monochromatic. Now for somebody like me who loves bright colours and lots of them, this was quite difficult. But I decided to go all the way and do black and white. I made this little ATC :

I used a plain white ATC card and started with doing some background stamping for which I used 'Fax toWolfgang' and grey StaZon ink, which I also used for distressing the edges of the card. I then stamped 'Seaweed' with black ink and coloured it in with different shades of grey. 'L'il Tatawea' was stamped on pattern paper with text and also coloured in with different shaded of grey. (No, not 50, lol).

The words came from 'Tall WordCollage', I stamped them on the same pattern paper and cut them out. I then glued everything on the card and that was that !

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How much is that doggy in the window ??

Hello fellow crafters,

Hello and happy Wednesday to you. This week it is my turn to host the Designers Challenge over at the Stampotique blog. Now if you are anything like me, you will keep all wrapping paper, cardboard and of course acetate (clear plastic). We all get lots of it : packaging. I particularly like acetate to use in my projects, whether it is to stamp on or use it in any other way. I just love it. So this week I would like YOU to use a bit of acetate. Let your imagination run wild and surprise me !!!  

Here is what I made :

I made this 'shop' out of a bit of packaging cardboard, I cut it to size, removed a rectangle in the 'front wall' for the window. I then made a box and glued it behind the window to make the 'shop window'. I then painted it, first with gesso and then with a grey acryllic paint. I drew the bricks on separate paper, coloured them and cut them out. I then glued them to the 'wall'. I rubbed the whole thing with some black soot Distress Ink to make it look a bit more weathered. I then glued some pattern paper in the shop window and made a cushion out of felt for Shoogy to sit on. Here's where the acetate comes in. I used the plastic that came with a clear stampset and cut a bit that was slightly bigger then the window. I used sticky letters to put the word 'petshop' on it. I then glued it over the 'shopwindow'. I used some woodgrain pattern paper for the 'windowframe' and glued it over the edge of the plastic. So now the dog is for sale in the petshop. I also used Carol's flower and stamped them on white paper, coloured them with colour pencils and clear embossed them. Lastly I printed the sentiment which is of course a song title and glued it on the panel underneath the shop. The whole thing was put together with chain and rings from my jewelry making days.

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ATC Swap

I made this ATC for the swap that has been organised by Nikki Woodward on the Stampotique FB page. This is the second swap she has organised so thank you Nikki. Mine went to the lovely Sam Read in the UK; she is one of my teammates on the Stampotique DT. She has received it now so I can post it:

The theme was 'out if the box'. I thought it would be very much out of the box if a bird really landed on a cat's tail. I've used acryllic paint, some background stamps and Stampotique's Chessy and one of the Stacked Birds. 

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Best buddies

Hello fellow Crafters,

It's Wednesday and that means another Challenge over at Stampotique. The theme was set by Kathi and she wants us to make perfect pairs. Now, did you know that every month there are two $ 30,-- vouchers to win. So why not give it a go and who knows, you might just be lucky ! You don't have to use Stampotique stamps but you have to use real stamps, no digi's allowed.

Here's what I made:

I used a Water colour Moleskine journal and started with water colours in yellow and orange. I then used a Doily stencil with similar colours Distress Ink. I used the following Stampotique stamps:

Sheep Monster

Bushes

Sheep monster was stamped twice, coloured, clear embossed and put on double sided tape. I coloured the cut edges with a black marker. I had to do some surgery on their arms to make sure they could hold hands. The Bushes were stamped on booktext, I reversed one of them to keep the symmetry. I coloured them with colour pencils. I glued everything on the page and drew a bit of a line to stand everything on. Lastly I used some sticky letters to form the words.

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Journal 52 - week 6 - the lost art of love letters

Hello fellow Crafters,

Today I made this art journal page for Journal 52. The prompt for this week is : The lost art of love letters.

I painted the background pink and used a stencil and Distress Ink to create a pattern. The big heart was cut out of an old magazine and gessoed. I very lightly stamped some hearts on it. Also I doodled the black and white border around it. I made the postcard from white card stock which I distressed and cut out some more hearts, one out of the same old magazine and two from pattern paper. I used one of these papers as well to put the kissing couple on. They came from a collage sheet from my stash. The flowers were ready to go as I made them for another project and didn't use them. Lastly I used sticky letters to put the F. Scott Fitzgerald quote onto the heart. That was it! 

ATC with attitude ..

Hello fellow Crafters,

Also today, I made this ATC:

I painted the background with some blue paint mixed with some yellow to make this greeny colour. I stamped a Tim Holtz stamp on it with white ink and clear embossed it. I then went round the circles with a white paint pen. I also used a text stamp and grey ink and used the same ink pad to go around the edges. I later repeated that with black. Little Smile (Stampotique) was stamped on white card stock and coloured and clear embossed. I also stamped him on the ATC with Stazon ink. This way you get all the little details when you put the cut image on top. The cut out image was placed on some washi tape. I found this sentiment somewhere on the internet I think I thought it was really fitting with this stamp.

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Girlpower

Hello fellow Crafters,

I made this art journal page today.

I bought some twinkling H2O's and glimmer mists to try when I was at the Craftorij last Saturday. So first I used my new sprays and H2O's to make the background. I can't say that I am very impressed with the 'glimmer factor'. I always buy 2 or 3 from a new article so I can try it out before deciding to buy a lot of them. In this case I don't think I will buy more.
I used a stencil and some white ink to put the letters on the background and also used a stamp with numbers and a bottle cap to make the rings. After stencilling and stamping I splattered some black ink on it and doodled a line around it. So that was the background. I also bought this Doll Stamp en stamped her on white card stock, coloured and clear embossed her. I glued her to some pattern paper with text to make her stand out a bit more. She is standing on some gessoed book page paper which I cut out by hand and stamped the word 'girl power' on.

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