Time to go.. .. on... !

 3 and a half years, some 190 blogposts later, I decided to move on. ... Sad, but happy to have been with Katzelkraft, my first ever DT! 

(You can click on the pictures to go to the original post.)

The stamps from Katzele...

....brought me in a whole new sunny garden.. 

... where I was fluttering around ... 

... for a long time... 

...but now it's time...

...to get on the train...

 ...and fly away.. ..

...travel... 

...open up new pages in life... 

...and sail to new harbours... 

...to find new gardens, and root there !!!!  

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THE END. 

THANKS BEATRICE!!

The Original Documented Life Project: - 4

 I am doing the Original Documented life project, the January theme being: 

The Blank Page and How to Face It!

 Art challenge for the 4th week:  WRITING

The prompt is: Words with Friends

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Stamping and structure paste in the background.

 Beautiful clock stencil from TCW.

Beautiful heart stencil/mask from Magenta.

Stamps in background are from Hero Arts and Darkroom Door. 

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I am entering this in the challenge on

1. A Vintage Journey - love is in the air

NB!

You can always see what supplies I used in the labels at the bottom of the blogpost, I always try to label my blogposts with everything I used. 

Guest designer at Rubber Dance stamps III

Today I am guest designer for Rubber Dance stamps again!

 SO HAPPY!! 

(Third post in row, unfortunately the last one!)

I only show some sneak peeks here, for the full cards and decriptions
you'll have to hop over to the post on the Rubber Dance Art stamps blog!,

There's 4 of them, themed ... beautiful leaves from Rubberdance!

I would LOVE it if you leave me some love there, Bibi from Rubber Dance stamps won't mind either! LOL

There is also a monthly challenge, with prizes!

Hope to see you on the Rubber Dance Blog!

All stamps I've used are from Rubber Dance of course!

The Original Documented Life Project: - 3

 I am doing the Original Documented life project, the January theme being: 

The Blank Page and How to Face It!

 Art challenge for the 3rd week:  The Color Wheel

The prompt is:  "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way . . . “    - Georgia O’Keeffe


about the prompt, I let the page speak for itself... I did not add the prompt to the page itself. 
I am saying how much I love my Creator for all the beauty in nature.. not just for that though!

All the colors of the colorwheel are here.. 

 LOVE how this turned out, and it was super easy. 

NOTE: My camera does not like all those colors; the heart of the flower: it looks as if there is a yellow ring over the petals, IRL it's not that yellow. 

HOW TO: 

1. Start by scribbling color onto the page with watercolorcrayons. 

2. Add watered-down gesso to blend the colors, cleaning the brush between the colors (otherwise you get muddy colors). 

3, To even more knock down the colors, add white acrylic paint, and scribble into that to give some interest. 

4. Leave to dry. (difficult!)

5. Adhere a paper napkin (parts of it) with decoupage glue. Leave to dry. 

6. Add color to the outer parts of the petals and dilute with a waterbrush. 

7. Add shadow with a black pen. 

8. Stamp a script in the background.

 I SO love that you can see through the paper napkin, and the layers of the underlaying layers are visible. 

That effect LOOKS GREAT, as far as I am concerned. 

What do you think, ....will you give this a try??? 

STAMPS USED: 

Script - PSX

The Original Documented Life Project: - 2

 I am doing the Original Documented life project, the January theme being: 

The Blank Page and How to Face It!

 Art challenge for this second week:  gesso, 

the prompt is:  The beginnimg is always today

I SO enjoyed making this one!

I am entering this in the challenge on

1. Artist Trading post - flower power

2. Visual journey pages # 3 on Bumblebees ans Butterflies

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STAMPS USED: 

Script - Hero Arts

Paint... ...another bird in your dreams

Scrapbookpaper, stencils, stamps and inks.. that's all you need to make this. 

The Scrapbookpaper is from ME228 Winter Notes (love these!)

STAMPS/ PRODUCTS USED: 

(click on the images to go to the shop!)

This stamp/stencil is from the new release at Magenta!

from older releases: 

Scrapbookpaper ME228 Winter Notes

LAUGH - Project for Katzelkraft - second last one

 Yes, next Saturday will be my last project as DT for Katzelkraft. 

I decided to step down, after 3 and a half years!

 Looking for new adventures! Art Journeys... 

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STAMPS USED:

A bird collage ...

 Yes! Another collage with this bird stamp! 

LOVE it! 

The frame and the white stamping in the background has been done with white acrylic paint.

Distress inks have been used to sponge the background. 

The branch is from another stamp as you can see below. 

(stretch your stamps this is called?!) 

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STAMPS USED: (click on picture)

bird

 script

for branch

Use a portrait

 Something very different for me... 

In the background you see - yes eggshells

The cheesecloth I received from Alison a while ago, thanks again Alison!

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I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. Vintage journey - Use a portrait 

Paint... a bird in your dreams....

 A scrap of sprayed pearl spray over a stencil (punchinella) is the base for this card. 

I also LOVE this bird stamp! It's from the new release at Magenta! 

It's beautiful all by itself, no color needed!

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I am entering this in the challenge on
1. Craft stamper - take a stamp

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STAMPS USED: (click on picture)

A grid with leaves ....

on 3 ATC's...

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I am entering this in the challenge on
1. Simon says stampblog Wednesday - It's a guy thing
2. Simonsaysstamp Monday - inky background
3. Country view challenges - new

STAMPS USED:

all from Katzelkraft

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new CATALOG at Magenta, ENJOY!

Magenta is welcoming the New Year with a brand new catalog,

we hope you will enjoy it!

Guest designer at Rubber Dance stamps II

Today I am guest designer for Rubber Dance stamps again!

 SO HAPPY!! 

(second post in row, more to come!)

I only show some sneak peeks here, for the full cards and decriptions
you'll have to hop over to the post on the Rubber Dance Art stamps blog!,

There's 4 of them, themed ... hummingbird on greeting cards.

I would LOVE it if you leave me some love (=comment) there, Bibi from Rubber Dance stamps won't mind either! LOL

There is also a monthly challenge, with prizes!

Hope to see you on the Rubber Dance Blog!

All stamps I've used are from Rubber Dance of course!

The Original Documented Life Project: - 1

 I am doing the Original Documented life project, the January theme being: 

The Blank Page and How to Face It!

 Art challenge for this week:  Book Paper, the prompt is:  Be Your Own Goal Keeper

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What I hope to learn this year? 

"I will have to loosen up my style , grin..." is what I left as a comment on Roben-Marie's blog. 

This is what she answered me: "I used to be very structured in my approach and it is so nice to just be "free" and not worry about perfection!"

I am going to enjoy this process, I knew I needed to do this, so DLP's timing is just right! HAPPY!

 I decided to work in an empty photograph album, I dissembled all the pages, and will re-bind it once 2015's DLP has been done (yes, I am going for it!)

The size of the pages are real big, and I decided to journal on part of the page by masking the outsides of the page... This creates the edges, which I accentuated with shadowing techniques during the process. It gives the journal page a frame all by itself. LIKE it!

I think you can see that I got inspired by Roben-Marie's video most. 

My creative goals (= DOELEN in dutch) for 2015 are written at the back of the tag. 

Uitstellen helpt (niet) is a quote I found in a magazine, which I like for this page.

 It means that postponing things(doesn't) help. Both ways are true in itself, sometimes it is good to postpone (I think that's called patience, LOL )

When you flip up the tag, you see the second part of whether postponing does (not) help!

 If I would start this page again, I would change a few things, ( ....sigh.... SEE, told you, I am a control freak, hehe... )....

...but, hey, this is the process... 52 weeks long... and it's a process of learning by experimenting... 

LOVE that anyway!

Hope you like it!

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I am entering this in the challenge on
1. Craft stamper - take a stamp

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STAMPS USED:

flower - Stampinback 

script in background - Magenta (own design)