Sew Sweet collage

 

An easy collage card from me today.
Background was created by applying textured shiny paste through a stencil from Art Anthology. 

I think the pictures speak for themselves; if you have any questions please ask! 

 See you next time!

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Art Stamps Shop

Sew Sweet

SCS technique cards - Graphite Transfer Paper Deboss

This technique was featured in the Splitcoast Stampers newsletter this week;

a technique by Lydia Fiedler

It is called: Graphite Transfer Paper Deboss   

I tried it, and decided to also experiment with other ways of coloring

and ended up with 4 ATC's and 3 cards.. 

Today the 3 cards! 

Vintagy.. something I do not make often.. 

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Hope you  like them! 

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! 

The Original Documented Life Project - week 28

  I am doing the Original Documented life project, the July theme was : 

Ephemera

 Art challenge for July 11 : Focal Point vs. Layering

The Journal Prompt:  Time keeps on ticking

So, this is another Art journal page of 18 x 25 centimeters!

I used ripped parts of an old newspaper as the base, and covered that with gesso.

I used paper napkins as ephemera also,

The clocks have been done with a TCW stencil and structure paste.

Stamp is from Magenta!

The Original Documented Life Project - week 27

  I am doing the Original Documented life project, the July theme was : 

Ephemera

 Art challenge for July 4 : Use old maps, tickets + more

The Journal Prompt:  Life .... with a history 

So, this is another Art journal page of 18 x 25 centimeters!

I used ripped parts of an old newspaper as the base, and covered that with gesso.
I used paper napkins as ephemera also,

The music notes have been done with a TCW stencil and structure paste.
Stamps are from Magenta!

12 tags of 2015 - May

Just in time for the May tag from Tim Holtz!

I didn't think I would enjoy this month's tag, but actually I did, 

This really isn't a copy of Tim's tag, but I like the softness of the colors here, and chose to not add more text, and embellishments. 

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

2. Mixed media world - vintage

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I used one of the new TCW stencils to add the structure paste: a nice textural and very versatile stencil. 

Time to let go...

White heat embossing on a rather colorful background can be a little dramatic, 

but I like it; suits the nice sunny weather we have at the moment.

The clocks reminds me of 'time', there is a time to hold and a time to let go:  Our daughter got married this week :).... 

 I distressed the edges with sanding paper, then added some gesso and scribbling to accentuate it. 

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STAMPS USED: (click on picture)

and/or

A vintage tag ...

For the ones that would like to translate the contents of my posts to another language, I've added a gadget to do so, on the right hand side!
I would also like to say thank you to all the followers that leave me a comment so  now and then, I really appreciate it.
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For my Katzelkraft DT piece I only put a sneak-peak today, go have a look on the blog from Katzelkraft if you want to see more! 

On the blog there is also a vintage tag freebie you can download, a dutch one, from Scheepjeswol, the one I used to start off this project. 

Have a good day!

First challenge at Katzelkraft - come join us in the fun!

YES, the first challenge has gone live!

How exciting!

Only rule this time is that you use Katzelkraft products! How easy is that! 

The prize is a voucher of 15 euro that you can spend in the Katzelkraft shop.

See for further details the Katzelkraft blog!!!!

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. Simon says stamp - anything goes.
2. TIOT - springtime

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STAMPS USED: 

(click on picture)

It's a special time...

The tag was a tag attached to a new pair of jeans. Recycling it's called LOL.

I sanded the edges after adding gesso randomly with a creditcard.
I sprayed with blue custom-made pearl spray, stamped the image twice with brown memeto ink, and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. The fern on the card itself has been stamped with a stamp-positioner to get it stamped in the exact right place. The script in the background has been stamped with the same ink as the ferns, just not heat-embossed.

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 I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. Hero Arts - sketch - I used #2
2. The Artistic Stamper - embossing and texture.

STAMPS USED:
Hero Arts

12 tags of 2014 – March…

I am entering this in the challenge on:

1. Stampers Anonymus - 12 tags of 2014 - March 

Travel...

... is always a nice challenge theme...

 It's the new theme at TIOT

STAMPS USED: 

Katzelkraft

PARIS!

Unfortunately the "tea dye" dsitress ink shows up as orange, grrr... . It should be more brownish....

I am entering this in the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge

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STAMPS USED :

Katzelkraft :

Two other ways to travel…

Apart from travelling by train and by car, there were two other ways to

travel in the olden days: by plane and by bicycle.

(It's just a pity that the terra-brown shows up as orange…)

 

 

 

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STAMPS USED: (click on picture to see larger image)

Challenge Fashionable Stamping challenges - new stash...

   

A new year - a new challenge at Fashionable Stamping challenges.

We have an easy peasy challenge to start off the New Year – it’s  … Anything goes with your new stash.

Just be sure to add some stamping on your creation!

 

I bought this set from Crafty Individuals a few weeks ago, so I decided to use it for this challenge. 

This was a real challenge for me, because I do like to use colors.

I made this tag on a Make and Take at ART JOURNEY, with Liesbeth. 

- I am also entering this in the challenge on The Artistic Stamper, which is vintage

- and the Simon Says Stamp and Show - something old, something new (the theme is old 'vintage', and the stamps are new LOL).

- and on Papersundaes which is something old, something new!

STAMPS USED:  Crafty Individuals 

Katzelkraft's got beautiful postal stamps..

I LOVE this travel set from Katzelkraft...
I'm going to be using these stamps a lot, especially the text ones...

I LOVE texts.....
and the postage ones are also gorgeous!

 

(It looks a bit yellowish here, in real life it's more greenish!)

Apart from this being my DT post for Katzelkraft (also on the Katzelkraft blog today!), I am entering this card in the Stampman challenges also, with theme a technique you've not used before. 

I used a technique I wanted to try for some time now, and I am sure I will be using it a lot in future. It's FUN! It's about using plastic foil over wet inks to get a very unique background. On this background it shows more with the blues than with the green. It might be because I did not use a glossy cardstock, too absorbant maybe...

and... I am also entering it as DT piece in the Fashionable Stamping Challenges, for the new challenge which will be posted tomorrow, the theme is..... no, I am not going to tell you... it's a secret until tomorrow. Come join us!

HOW TO:

Spray the background with two colors (home-made) pearl spays, and immediataly cover it with plastic foil. Leave it to air dry; this is the hard part LOL

Stamp the eiffel tower with a solvent ink. Stamp the text with Versamark and heat emboss with white embossing powder. Stamp the other stamps, also with a dark brwn solvent ink. 

Distress the edges with a paper distresser, and sponge it with a dark brown dye ink.

Tear the edge in some places and accentuate it with a darkbrown marker.

(As you can see here, I used the stamp with the postage stamp and address in two stages, by inking it twice, leaving the top or bottom part without ink.)

Go stamp - ENJOY!

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STAMPS USED:

The Paris-Postal stampset

 

Design Team piece for Fashionable Stamping Challenges

which is 'vintage'. I can’t believe it’s the fifth challenge already!
  

... and it's also my entry for Inkurable Stampers - eyelets....
and I am entering this on the Sarah Hurley challenges which is also vintage.

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ADDED LATER: Go have a look on Mariëtte's . blog!!!  I admire her work so much, and now she used this card as inspiration... it's an honor.... thanks Mariëtte!

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Do you see that little insect on the left... that was where I touched the CS with some ink on my finger - oops - so I made it to be an insect.... 

STAMPS USED:
Plant - Sirius Hobby
Text from Paper Artsy, Stampers Anonymus, Rajastamps, and some I don't know