My Creative Monday for Magenta - tag collage

Good day to you!  
This tag (on the second background) is a beautiful example of sponging (dark green) over a colored background with a mask.  

The bottom background is part of a torn book page colored in a lighter green. 

Stamping and splattering with an orange ink gives extra dimension. 

I added embellishments and white accents too. 

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

MC65combo

95.250.N

24.015.E

Textured Bird booklet

 At the moment I rather give a person a little booklet as a gift than a card. 

An easy book with all the edges torn along a ruler. 

You might guess that the cover has been made with a gelliprint. 

I added some stamped script to it, a fussycut bird and a sentiment. 

The shell-pieces finish it off, knotted with the thread from binding the pages. 

Enjoy crafting! 
Ellie Knol 

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Webshop 

Textured Birds

Mix A Sentiment 1

Grungy Swirls

My Creative Monday for Magenta - gelliprinted ..

 Using some gelliprints to make two one-of-a-kind cards... enjoy... 

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Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

TM284 Meadow Flowers - Large

Irish Blessing Quote [07.476.L]

95.250.N

Flowery Heart Shape for Rubber Dance..

I have a blogpost on the Rubber Dance blog again today, with 2 cards with some colorful heart shaped yumminess.. Have a look for more pictures on thir blog please.  

A sneak peek to tease you: 

2019 #15 Coral: Midori Tags Notebook with Hot Picks {by Ellie Knol}

YES.. another post from me on the Paper Artsy blog..
2019 Topic 15: Coral

a sneek peak of the project: a Midori Book....
go check it out on the link above..  you'd want to see it... 😀

This is also a book in my series of bookmaking for series 52:
For further info on this series : see this post

 book 25 

This time a midori type of book with two inserts and tags to fit inside. 

2019 Topic 12: Eyes for Paper Artsy

My EYES themed
Chalky Vintagy Booklet with HP {by Ellie Knol
blogpost is on the blog for Paper Artsy tonight; go have a look.. and enter the challenge

...way more details and photo's over there.
A sneek peak to tease you: 

This is also a book in my series of bookmaking for series 52:

For further info on this series : see this post

 book 24 

This time a hard cover book with 5 punched holes and binded with some thread.  

It measures about 16 x 16 centimeters. 

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2019 #9 Arty Wood Blocks: ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS with EKC {by Ellie Knol}

2019 Topic 9: Arty Wood Blocks

My blogpost with the above theme for Paper Artsy can be found on their blog.
A lot of notes and pictures !! 

2018 #19 Tissue Paper: Happy Tulips with ECF {by Ellie Knol}

2018 Topic 17: Tissue Paper

I am up on the Paper Artsy blog tonight..
go check and find all the info on how I did this.

Every fortnight Paper Artsy has a theme on their blog
 and several DT members show their take on the theme during the fortnight;
what's more, there is a challenge too, and a prize to be won of course! 

The embellishments were made with clay, and some of them stamped into while still wet.

This fortnight the theme is TISSUE PAPER!!
LOVE to work with it!!

2018 #18 Stamping Platforms: Vintagy booklet with Hot Picks {by Ellie Knoll}

 2018 Topic 18: Stamp Platform Techniques

and BOOK 21 in SERIES52

I'm up on the Paper Arty blog today: go check it out,

and more important.. enter the challenge..

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I'd like to enter this album into the Mini Album Makers challenge!! 

It's also my book 21 for my series-52 books! 

Craftsheet.nl voor molds maken !!

Lekker kliederen op een crafsheet van Craftsheet.nl?

Natuurlijk!!

Kun je zien dat ik erg heb geknoeit op mijn craftsheet? Ik heb zelf mallen gemaakt van embellishments die ik al in mijn bezit had. Sleutels vooral, en een vlinder bv.

De werkbeschrijving vond ik op het blog van Darcy, maar er zijn nog heel veel meer te vinden op You Tube.

Waarvan heb ik de mallen gemaakt? Met (een gedeelte van) een tube siliconenkit, en babypoeder/bloem.
Je weet wel hoe plakkerig siliconenkit is, toch?
En dat heeft mijn craftsheet geweten.
Ik kleurde de massa met alcoholinkt, dus ook dat resulteerde in vlekken op de craftsheet.

Na een poosje was het ingehard en heb ik de embellishments eruit gehaald... spannend. ...

.. en om van het resultaat te kunnen genieten, veeg je je craftsheet gewoon schoon met een vochtige doek. Kijk maar!

Schoon! 

Ik wilde de nieuwe mallen (en 2 oudere) direct gaan uitproberen, dus er zelfdrogende klei ingedrukt. 

Ik maak de achterkant altijd een beetje vochtig zodat ik het mooi glad kan afwerken. Weer heb je de Craftsheet om alle viezigheid van het klei en water goed te hanteren. 

De klei overnacht laten drogen en wow! Een beetje de randjes bij schuren .. de craftsheet weer afvegen met een iets vochtige doek en... 

....genieten van het resultaat, leuk he??!! 

2018 #12 Transfers: Treasures {by Ellie Knol} for Paper Artsy

I am up on the Paper Artsy blog today, so have a look there for all info how I've done this transfer onto fabric.

It's a bookbox.. 

2018 #3 Watercolours with EEA {by Ellie Knol}

2018 Topic 3: Watercolour

This also a book in my own series 52, a book a week! Week 8 - Book 8

 I'd like to share with you how to use  your beautiful watercolored paper. I LOVE how watercolor always make for beautiful backgrounds... 

I've altered a hard board baby book into a colorful booklet.. a feast for the eye. 

A picture I grabbed from the internet, to show you what it looks like: it has rather thick boards, which I liked for this purpose. 

These books (I have more) have been in my stash for quite a while, waiting for me to get the moment of light to create something with it. 

I removed all of the top (glossy) paper of the booklet, which leaves you with a blank booklet; you will now have to reinforce the spine with a piece of fabric.  

Before doing anything to change the booklet, I painted the outsides with Snowflake Fresco Finish paint, also the outside of the pages; closing it tightly first will help not getting any paint on the pages itself. Also make sure you add paint to the fabric on the spine.  

I've added pieces of shells which hang down with some knotted thread. The shells were colored with a bit of alcohol ink.

I've added structure paste randomly to the spine to cover the fabric partially. It gives it some structure and covers the part where I attached the threads with knots; makes it look as if it's supposed to look like this, hehe.  

The stencil with numbers PS021 and structure paste was used to make the no 1 on the spine.. you never know, I might want to create a second book in near future. 

I painted the number and spine yellowish (just here and there) with Yellow Submarine Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic paint to match the yellow color in the background. 

OK.. this post was about watercolors.. right? 

I've created a larger piece of a background on watercolor paper with a technique where you use white glue to create a resist. Any pattern will do, and I experimented with stampiing with white glue, I used a stencil to create patterns, and splattered the glue as well... the sky is the limit here. 

Let the glue dry properly before adding color. I've used Ecoline in spraybottles, but any watercolor spray will do the job, or water-diluted transluscent Fresco Finish paints or even the normal watercolors. 

As you can see here, I've used salt in the wet watercolors to create little dots of color. 

Cut the background up to fit the pages and front and back cover of the booklet. 

I adhered it to the book with bookbinding glue. 

AND.. yes I had to use some stamping!! 

These beautiful and versatile stamps from Everything Art EEA01 are great for this. They're really great to add as background stamping. 

I've stamped it all with Archival black ink. 

I've added white highlights with a white acrylic marker around the stamping, and also in the background ! To me that adds the final touch!! 

A picture of the overall of the booklet. I would've liked to be able to photograph all sides at once, as I really LOVE how this has turned out.  

I especially like how the back cover has turned out.. the contrast between lighter and darker colors, but also the stamping around the edges. Guess what stamp I've used for that? Yes, part of the collaged stamp in set EEA01

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I will teach 2 workshops early March at my home; 

... you can find details on my workshop blog: Kom spelen met papier, kleur en stempels!