Enjoy every moment...

Hello everyone,

For the January challenge over at Art Journey where the theme is stencils I made this card. I used three different stencils in three different ways.

First I coloured the panel with Distress Inks; Peeled Paint, Mermaid Lagoon and Dusty Concord. I then put the first stencil on which has big numbers and sprayed water through it. I let is sit for a little while and mopped the water up with a paper towel. Next I used a chevron stencil, a blending tool and some more of the same inks which gives a totally different effect. Lastly, the third stencils with the little dots was used with a palet knife and some modelling paste. 

That was the stencilling done; next I stamped the background and also splattered a bit of water on it to get some more interest. I then stamped the boy and used a water brush to light up his legs and face. Lastly I stamped the sentiment, cut it into strips and added it to the panel. I also doodled around the strips with a black pen. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Happy new year !

Hello everyone,

and happy New Year ! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas time. Can't believe the year has gone already...

For my DT post for Roc Nicholas rubber stamps,  I have made a journal page :

First I took a piece of MM paper and used a Tim Holtz die to create the top; it looks like it was torn from a book. 

I then used a brayer and 3 different colours (PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Honey Dew, Sage and Limelight)  of acrylic paint to colour my background. I also found a piece of card that was already coloured with the same colours so I used that to stamp the flowers on. I cut them out, coloured the centres white and set them aside. Next I stamped the background with 'Heart Vine' and coloured the 'vines' with a coloured pencil on a sage colour. I adhered the flowers on top of the hearts. Next I stamped the head of Scooter girl and the body of Blessed Skellie, coloured them with a mixture of coloured pencils and Copic Markers and cut them out. I adhered my 'new girl' to the page. 

Lastly  I used the 'Unleash Yourself' stamp to create my "happy new year" message. I did have to draw my own 'w' ! I coloured the letters I needed, cut them out and adhered them to the page. 

I used the following stamps:

Unleash yourself

Blessed Skellie

Scooter girl

Daisy Head

Heart Vine

You'll find Roc's fab blog HERE...

Her stamps HERE...

Thanks you so much for stopping by today ! 

Staying young

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my last blogpost for 2015... I have been busy in my craft room again and produced another art journal using Stampotique Stamps. I actually only wanted to practise my colouring with pencils but once she was finished I decided to put her on a journal page.

She's the lovely Mary by Stampotique Originals and she was coloured with Polychromos  and Pablo coloured pencils. As I said before, this is much more difficult than it looks and it also takes a lot of time. When she was done, I cut her out and set her aside to do the background. 

The background is a piece of pattern paper by Tim Holtz and I just brayered some paint over it using turquioses and grey. With a stencil and Versamark ink I created the swirls using an embossing powder by Lindy's Stampgang. I also stamped the background here and there. 

I adhered her to the page and 'grounded' her by putting some colour under her shoes. 

The quote is by Lucille Ball and I used my old typewriter to create it. 

Her are 2 more photos:

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Together

Hello everyone,

I can't believe it is almost 2016 ! Hasn't this year flown by ? I think it has gone really quickly.
Today, besides about pondering about the year going by, I managed to make an art journal page and I would like to share it here:

This was great fun to make. I started out with a piece of white card stock on which I glued a few bits of printed tissue paper. I then used a stencil and some model paste to add the circles. 

When this had dried I painted the whole page with white gesso. 

Next I dried it again using my heat tool. Yes, I am very impatient... 

I then used two Lindy's sprays (Baby Blue Eyes Aqua and Afternoon Delight Denim) to colour the page. I dried this with the heat tool too. I like that you can still see some of the tissue paper underneath. I stamped the background with 'Fax to Wolfgang' but only sparingly and then stamped 'Giorgio' and the little 'chick' from the 'Starbird with chick' on white card stock. I reversed the chick as it was looking in the wrong direction. I coloured them with my Copic Markers and cut them out, removing the seashell that Giorgio is normally holding so I could place the chick in his hand instead. I adhered them both to the page and then found this quote in my 'quote book' (a lot of pieces of A4 paper full of scribbled quotes that I found on Internet and stapled together) that I thought would go really well with this scene. I typed it on my old typewriter, adhered it to the page and doodled around the strips.

I used only three Stampotique stamps for this page: 

Giorgio

Star Bird with chick

Fax to Wolfgang

Thank you for stopping by ! 

Merry Christmas

Hello everyone,

For today's blogpost for Katzelkraft, I have made some Christmas cards to say "Merry Christmas" to you all and thank you for your ongoing support ! I really appreciate the visits and comments...
So here are my cards:

Here they are in a bit more detail.

I started out with a piece of 12 x 12 card stock and used a brayer and 3 shades of turquoise acrylic paints to colour it. 

I really love the effect this gives... After it dried I cut the sheet into 4 card fronts and I had still some left to cut some ATC's for another time.

I then used the circles with the stars and stamped it randomly over the cards with VersaMark ink. I heat embossed the images with white embossing powder. 

I then drew a black line all around all the cards. I think this finished them off nicely. I then stamped all the images, coloured them with Copic Markers and cut them out. 

The last thing was to arrange everything on the card fronts, glue it and then glue the card fronts onto the white cards. 

I used stamps of the following sets:

Solo 24 - Reindeer 

Solo 25 - Tree

KTZ 159 - circles with stars & sentiment

KTZ 152 - Cats 

KTZ 119 - Accessoiries for the Cats and Birds

KTZ 151 - Birds 

Click on the links and they will take you straight to the online store... 

Thank you for stopping by today and Merry Christmas !! 

Masculin.

Hello everyone,

After I do DT work I always like to play a little. And today I played with an already coloured ATC, an already stamped Katzelkraft bird and a stamped and coloured bowler hat and made this :

The background of this ATC was made with a brayer. I make so called 'master boards' and then cut them up into different size pieces. Usually some postcards, some ATC's and also some bases for Art Journals. I liked this pretty green and stamped another Katzelkraft stamp on it to create a little more interest. I also took the ink pad and dragged it around the edges. Some of the lines of the stamp were highlighted with a white pen. The bird was coloured with coloured pencils and this time I blended them with a blending solution. I don't usually do this but is is a lot quicker than trying to blend with just the pencils. When he was finished I cut him out, placed him half on the ATC and cut off what was overhanging. I attached his hat and lastly I stamped the "masculin" which is from another Katzelkraft stamp set.....

I used stamps from the following sets:

KTZ151 for the birds

KTZ119 for the hat

KTZ86 for the wall

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Blue yonder...

Hello everyone,

I did another postcard with pattern paper today. Just to show that it doesn't have to cost much time to make a background. I took a piece of pattern paper from a paper pack by 7Dots Studio called 'Destination Unknown', designed by DeeDee Catron. I love this paper pack...
I cut it to size (6x4) and brayered some paint on it. I used two shades of turquoise and some white making sure not to cover everything up. The paper is all over greyish with a darker print....

I left the middel of the paper as it was. Also in the top right corner you can still see some of the print on this paper. Anyway, next I stamped the background with the trees and the dictionary text. 

I then stamped the boys and coloured them with coloured pencils... I also used the pencils to 'ground' the trees and the boys.  Lastly I stamped the sentiment. And that was it... 

I used stamps from the latest new release:

Plate 1469 for the sentiment and the trees

Plate 1468 for the boys

19015 - Dictionary Page 

Thank you so much for stopping by today !