Jiving...

Hello fellow Crafters,

Well this is it, my first post as part of the Design Team of VivaLasVegaStamps! I can't tell you how excited I was when I was invited to join this group of very talented ladies. Anyway here is my first project. It is an Art Journal which is an inspiration piece for this month's Challenge.

I started with colouring a piece of white cardstock with Distress Ink and a blending tool, I used Faded jeans and a bit of Black Soot around the edges. Next I randomly stamped the background and also used some punchinella to create the polka dots. The circles were made using a set of dies and I used some Tim Holtz paper with music notes on it. I inked the edges and adhered them to the page. With different bottle tops I stamps white and black rings around the circles. The jiving couple was stamped with Memento Black tuxedo ink and coloured with markers. I cut them out and adhered them on top of one of the circles. Lastly I splattered some white ink on the page carefully avoiding the dancing couple. I used the following stamps:

Grungy 8 - 19459

Flower pot - 18923

Number Strip - 18924

Waybill/Invoice background - 19416

Jive Couple - 4838

Here is a reminder of the Inspiration board :

I used the following elements : Patterns, circles, dots, music notes, weeds, nature, sky, blue, tan, aged.

I hope I gave you some inspiration too ! Thank you for stopping by ! 

Corrie 

Happy New Year

Hello fellow Crafters,

Today is the first of January, so first of all I want to wish you all a very happy, creative but above all healthy New Year !!
I did make something for Roc's DT today and it is a postcard:

This card was coloured with Brusho's. I am not entirely sure whether I like working with them but I do like this card. I glued some pattern paper at the bottom and then used my sewing machine to sew around the edges. I used a piece of punchinella to stencil the polkadots with white ink. Next I stamped 'Screaming Bunny' on white card stock, coloured him with Copics and cut him out. I then stamped the tail feathers of 'Flying Bird' in some painted paper and cut them out. The sentiment was made using the 'Unleash Yourself' stamp. I had to make a 'w' as there isn't one in this sentiment. I made up de New Year with these. The 'happy' was made with sticky letters. Lastly I stamped the little bird from 'Just be U' stamp. I coloured him also and cut him out. 

All the bits were then adhered to the card. 

All Roc's lovely stamps are for sale via the online Stampotique shop HERE.

Thanks for stopping by ! 

Hope you like it .....

Bob's in..... danger !!

Hello fellow Crafters,

It's Wednesday,  Christmas is over,  and it is the 5th and final day of the Stampotique month-long challenge set by Kim. This is what she said:

"This our last challenge of the year and it will run the whole month of December.  Our theme is an easy one so show us your best work using Anything Goes.

 For this month only, you will have the opportunity to enter the challenge 5 times (one for each week)- 5 chances to win the random $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.We hope we see a lot of you entering!".

I made a card:

I painted a piece of card stock with blue and white acrylic paint. I shaded the edges with Big Brush Pitt pens also in blue. Next I did some background stamping. 

The firework was hand drawn and coloured with Copics. Bob, his hat and the flags were all stamped on white card stock and also coloured with Copics. I then cut them out and went around the edges with a black marker to colour any white edges that were left after cutting them out. I did stamp just the top of the flags on the card so that I could see where to adhere them and to have the string on the card as that would be very difficult to cut out. Next I adhered everything to the card. The 'new year' was made with sticky letters. I used the following stamps for this card:

Bob's in time out

Happy, happy, happy

Happy head appliances

Ticket for Paris

Circles cube 

Thanks for stopping by ! Have a great New Years eve and a very happy and healthy New Year ! 

A new adventure !

Hello fellow Crafters,

Finally I can share my great news with you. I have been invited to join the VivaLasVegaStamps! Designteam. Yay ! I am very excited about this as I think their stamps are wonderful and quirky and original ! To celebrate I made a little tag:

I think this little girl is adorable ! Anyway I started with a white tag that I die cut.  I stamped the flourish at the bottom with Versamark and white embossed it. I then used a blending tool and Distress Inks in the colours Shaded Lilac and Dusty Concord. I dripped some water over the top to get some lighter spots. 

Next the butterflies were stamped half on the edge of the tag with Archival Ink and I used a water brush to lighten the wings; as they didn't get light enough to my liking I also used a white gel pen to accentuate the lighter spots a bit more. All over the background I also stamped a script stamp with grey ink; it is very subtle..

I stamped the girl on white card stock and coloured her with Copic Markers, cut her out and adhered her to the tag. The last thing was the sentiment which I think is quite appropriate and was made using Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers. 

I used the following stamps :

19417 - Victorian Flourish 

19415 - Butterfly Specimens

5210 - Collage writing

19536 - Girl in princess costume

Thanks for stopping by ! 

Hope you like it and I hope I gave you some inspiration ! 

Beauty

Hello fellow Crafters,

Today for my DT post for Lost Coast Designs I made a card. If you love these stamps too and live in the Netherlands or Europe you can get them at www.Inkadinkadutchies.nl.

This card was started with a card blank of 5" x 7".  Next I cut a piece of Designer Paper and a black mat to go on top of the card. The edges of the DP were aged with Distress Inks. First I used 'Tattered Rose' and then 'Black Soot'. 

I tore a piece of fabric and made a bow out of it which was adhered to the DP. Next I stamped one of the 'Gibson Girls' and coloured her with Copic Markers. She was die cut with a circle die and edged with 'Tattered Rose' Distress Ink. I die cut another circle, slightly bigger, from black card stock as a mat. These were adhered together and then adhered to the DP. 

Next I stamped the word 'Beauty' using the 'License Plate Alphabet' set. To finish this card off I used some small sequins that were adhered with tacky glue.. 

Next I adhered the DP to the black mat and the whole thing to the card blank. 

Thanks for stopping by ! 

Hope you like it...

A bottle marked 'poison'..

Hello fellow Crafters,

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with lots of family, great food and lovely pressies. I did.. I got this :

I was very happy to find this under the tree and today I have been playing with them. I must say it is not as easy as it looks. Copics are much easier but I am impatient and I think I will probably learn if I persevere and practise..

I did an art journal today and I used the pencils for colouring Alice and the background of the signpost.

I painted the pages with blue, green, yellow and orange acrylic paint. I then painted over the top with white gesso which I dabbed with a baby wipe. You get a bit of a faded background that way. Next I used a Crafter's Workshop flower stencil and some Distress Inks in the same colours to create a border around the pages. 

The background was stamped randomly with white, grey and black ink. (A complete list of all the stamps I used is at the bottom of this post). Next I stamped Alice and coloured her with my new pencils. I really enjoyed the process. The sentiment is from Alice in Wonderland and I hand wrote this on a piece of white card stock which I coloured also with colour pencils.  The frame and pole of the sign were made from a scrap of dark brown card stock. Alice was glued on the page on top of some washi tape to ground her. The little spider webs were drawn by me. Lastly I stamped some crows, cut them out and adhered them too. 

I used the following stamps (all from Stampotique): 

French Journal page

Folded tags

Fax to Wolfgang

Alice

Crow Line

I hope you like it and I gave you some inspiration....

Thanks for stopping by !

Naughty or nice..

Hello fellow Crafters,

It's Wednesday again and the 4th week of Kim's Challenge 'Anything goes'. This is what she said:

"This our last challenge of the year and it will run the whole month of December.  Our theme is an easy one so show us your best work using Anything Goes.

 For this month only, you will have the opportunity to enter the challenge 5 times (one for each week)- 5 chances to win the random $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.We hope we see a lot of you entering!".

For this week I made a card:

I used one of my finger painted circles for this to make a bauble... There seem to be a lot of baubles in my December projects... Anyway, I used a piece of white card stock and coloured it using Distress Inks. I used three shades of green and a tiny bit of blue at the bottom. Next I used a stencil to make the stars with a white pigment ink and I dripped some water on it. Now it was time to glue the 'bauble' down. I used a piece of silver card stock for the top of the bauble and drew the little hook and the string.  Next I stamped little 'Smile', coloured him and cut him out. I made his arm slightly bigger to make it fit. I also drew some antlers for him. This was all adhered to the card and lastly I made the sentiment with my label maker and adhered it to the card too. I only used one stamp which is 'Smile' and you will find him HERE.

Thanks for stopping by !

Hope you like it...