PAPER - STAMPS

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

New challenge at TIOT..

Come and join us! It's fun to use your new stuff, or a new technique!

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The stencil is new to me, from The Crafters Workshop...... the parrot...

and the texture paste I haven't used before. It was a cheap texture paste I bought last year at LIDL (which is a supermarket, hehe). It's amazing, doesn't swoop under the stencil at all!

(The color yellow should partly be more greenish tones...)

I started with adhering some music bookpaper to the page, then coloring it with watercolor crayons. Two layers of watered down gesso gives the toned down effect. The parrot is (also NEW!) from a book I bought recently on e flea market, it contains the most beautiful drawn images. As the branch was not wide enough to cover the page horizontally, I drew the rest of it on both sides on white paper, and then covered it allover with some texture paste. The shadows on the branch has been done with a pencil.

The saying of the bird, is a Dutch saying, and it means something like 'all birds are singing their song their own way'.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Pan Pastel and stencils

Voor mijn nederlandse volgers - zie de blogpost op het Pan Pastel BNL blog.

Pan Pastel and monoprinting.

1. I used (part of) a monoprint to start with. To color a monoprint with Pan Pastel is so nice, as the coloring can be done so subtle. Also, because of the use of acrylic paint on the monoprint, the paper is not smooth anymore, and it makes that the Pan Pastel 'sticks' well to the paper .

2. Stamp the script with versamark and color it with Pan Pastel. I used Ultramarine Blue 520.5 and Red Iron Oxide 380.5
3. Fixate the colors.

4. Accentuate the word ART with a white gel pen.
5. Adhere a few butterflies to the card. Color them with Red Iron Oxide 380.5

The leaf used in the monoprinting is a custom-made stencil.

Stamps are from Stampers Anonymus (script) and Unity Stamps (butterflies).

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Another way to combine Pan Pastel and stencils:

1. Color the background with Violet 470.5.

2. Put the poinsettia stencil on the cardstock, swipe versamark over it, and color it with Pan Pastel, colors Yellow Ochre 270.5, Phtalo Green 620.5, Permanent Green 640.5 and Red Iron Oxide 380.5.

3. Remove the stencil, stamp the script with versamark, and color the background with Pan Pastel.

I used the 3 greens mentioned in step 2.

4. Stamp the sentiment with a white ink. Use a white gel pen to accentuate the flower, and overwrite the sentiment with it also, to have the same white as the poinsettia.

5. Draw a doodle around the edges with the white gel pen, color it outside the edges with different colors Pan Pastel.
6. Fixate the colors.

The script stamp is from Stampers Anonymus.

The stencil is also custom-made. It has been designed by Yogi , and I asked whether I could use it; she was so kind to send the design to me, for personal use, how kind is that?!

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The two technique cards that are going into my technique box are:

To see what this technique box is for, have a look here:

http://elliecreahoekje.blogspot.nl/2013/12/panpastel-en-embossen.html

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Art Journaling workshop!

Make one art journal page a week, 52 weeks long.

An online workshop for free: http://artjournalist.com/journal52-free-year-long-art-journal-workshop/

I don't know what it's going to bring, but we'll know on Monday, when it starts officially.

I've made the cover for the journal already!

52 weken lang elke week een Art Journal pagina maken... dat kan!

Kijk hier: http://artjournalist.com/journal52-free-year-long-art-journal-workshop/

Het is een gratis workshop, wat het is weet ik niet, maar dat zien we dan wel...

Het begint Maandag officieel, we moesten vast wat voorbereidingen treffen, zoals natuurlijk de journal voorbereiden, Ik heb er de cover van klaar.

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ART JOURNALING 2014

I played with some texture paste and stencils, some mists on cardboard.

The stencils used are most from The Crafters Workshop. The terra is distress paint.

Ik speelde heerlijk met texture paste, stencils, spray mists op cardboard.

De stencils die ik heb gebruikt zijn het meest van The Crafters Workshop.

De terra is distress paint.

Monday, December 30, 2013

New challenge at FSC

The challenge is to use the colors Chocolate, raspberry and creme.

Don't forget, there is a $20 prize for one lucky winner from Flonzcraft, our sponsor for this challenge.

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STAMPS USED:

Flonzcraft

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Time is just flying...

I used ckear embossing here before sponging. After that I used a black permanent marker to highlight certain parts...

Hope you like it.

all stamps are from Katzelkraft.

Friday, December 27, 2013

Silhouettes...

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MAGENTA PRODUCTS USED: (click on picture)

https://www.magentastyle.ca/store/product_info.php?cPath=398_492&products_id=15556

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A blessed christmas to you ! / Gezegende Kerstdagen !

"Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord"

(Luke 2 vs 11)

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"U is heden de Heiland geboren,

namelijk Christus, de Here, in de stad

van David"

(Lukas 2 vers 11)

Toen de Heiland werd geboren,

was er weinig plaats voor Hem,

Alles vol, geen deur ging open,

't werd een stal in Bethlehem.

Onze handen, onze harten,

zijn ook boordevol, o Heer,

Leer ons toch steeds U verwachten,

plaats te maken, altijd weer.

"Eer zij God", en "Vreed" op aarde'

klonk het boven Efrata.

'In de mensen welbehagen'

God schenkt liefde en gena.

Ook wij mogen Jezus eren

in ons lied aan Hem gewijd

en eens samen met de eng'len

zingen tot in eeuwigheid.