A little birdie told me....

Hello everybody,

Just saw the Guest Designers Call on the 'Create a smile' Blog. As I am going on holiday and do not have any time to make something new, I am posting this card I made when the lovely Christine gave us this birdie as a  freebie :

Normally I don't do cute, but when I saw this birdie I couldn't resist it. I might be going soft !!  Anyway I would love to make some projects as a guest designer, so fingers crossed ! 

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Craftorij Zomer Challenge day 21 - 25

Hello fellow Crafters,

Another 5 days have passed and so there are another 5 postcards to add to my collection. I don't know how it is going to go from now as I will be away on holiday soon. I will take some crafty supplies but internet access is always the problem !

Day 21 - Recycle (I recycled some gift wrap )

Day 22 - Your front door. (I drew mine, I have no bugs looking out the window though! )

Day 23 - Your favourite song lyrics. ( I have many fave's bit when I thought of Dancing Queen, I thought of Marci !) 

Day 24 : Monochromatic 

Day 25 : Block letters 

That was it for the postcards again ! 

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All roads lead to the ocean !

Hello fellow Crafters,

I got some new Stampotique stamps and decided to do an art journal page with Hazel. She is disguised as a mermaid on this occasion !

I started with painting my page with turquoise paint. I then dry brushed it with white here and there. Next I tore some patterned paper for the sand and glued it down; I also drew and cut out some more stones and added some colour with copics, I then glued this down. I forgot to mention that I stamped the stone and the tail from the mermaid onto the patterned paper. Next I stamped the leaves onto the page and onto white card stock, also the mermaid and the sentiment, both on white card stock. I coloured everything, clear embossed it and cut it out. I glued the mermaid to her stone, the leaves onto their counterparts on the page and the sentiment in-between. I doodled around the sentiment with black and white and created the bubbles with black and white pens as well. I used a big brush Pitt Pen to add some shading to everything. That was it ! 

I used the following Stampotique Stamps:

Ocean

All roads lead to the ocean

Funky striped leaves

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Love birds

Hello fellow Crafters,

Today's hostess is Kim and her theme is : Anniversary/love..... Why not have a look at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge blog and have a go as well. There is $30,- worth of Stampotique stamps to win at the end of the month. Only rules : No digi's and only one entry per person. Of course we love to see some Stampotique stamps in your project !
Here's mine :

I made a postcard. I started with glueing some pattern paper to a postcard base and then did a bit of background stamping and stencilling. I also dripped some white ink on it. Next I doodled the lines around the outside.  I then stamped the Love Stamp and decided to keep it simple with only 3 colours, black, white and a bit of red. I cut the individual letters out and placed them horizontally. The original stamp is a stack of letters. Next I stamped the birds and I only used two of this stamp. I coloured them, cut them out, clear embossed them and glued them in place. I then glued the "Love" underneath. I drew their legs and had to redesign their eyeballs as they are looking up in the original stamp. I also re-stamped Daniels Hearts because I wanted one single heart to sit above the birds' heads. I suppose that was it !

I used the following Stampotique stamps : 

Stacked Love 

Typewriter Alpha

Fax to Wolfgang

Stack of birds

Daniel's Hearts

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A horse is a horse....

Hello fellow Crafters,

I couldn't resist to play with my new stamps today. So here is the first of (hopefully) lots of projects with them. For this postcard I used Roc's fabulous 'horse'.  Isn't he cute ??

I painted the background turquoise and glued some pattern paper on it. I stamped the 'scalloped lace border' on some painted watercolour paper and cut it out. Next I glued some bits of it on the card. I stamped 'horse' on white card, coloured him, clear embossed him and cut him out. I adhered him to the card. Lastly I handwrote the sentiment which is of course from Mr. Ed which I used to watch as a child....

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Craftorij Zomer Challenge - Day 16 - 20

Hello fellow Crafters,

I am still keeping up with the challenge which I am really enjoying. Not sure how it will go on as I will be away on holiday soon....

For now I thought I share the next 5 postcards with you :

Day 16 - Chandelier 

Day 17 - Beautiful writing

Day 18 : What are you proud of?

Day 19 - the sun

Day 20 - repeat an image

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Don't look back... and life is a circus

Hello fellow Crafters,

Today I did two art journals for the Round Robin via de Craftorij. The first one is for Petra de Kok and this is what I made :

The background is a gelli print and I started with my brand new stamps from Stampotique : Journey collage for the background and Rear View Mirror, which is the lady. I stamped her on book text and glued her on the page on top of some washi tape. I used my bottle top for the rings, splattered some ink on the page and used some rub ons. The sentiment was made with sticky letters on the margin of the book text I used. Lastly I drew a line around the page. That was it ! 

The second on I made today is for Anne Veldhuijzen. It is called : Life is a circus and here it is :

I started this with painting the pages a light yellow and then I cut circles out of a gelli print. I glued the circles on my page and then took my water-soluble crayons and shaded the edges of the circles and the edges of the page. I did some random stamping and then stamped the dogs (Lost Coast Designs)  on book text and cut them out. I adhered them to the circles. Lastly I stamped the tickets and stapled them to the left hand side of the page and used a stamp which resembles stitches to the edges of the page. 

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