Sunny flowers and butterflies...

 

STAMPS USED:

Silhouette - Unity stamps

Text - Sirius hobby

Butterfly - Clear Choice

Just another background

 

STAMPS USED:

Dragonfly collage - Stamping Up

Challenge Crafts & Me - Flowers

  

Crafts and Me challenges

  

 

I love the acrylic paint resist technique.  It's so easy peasy.. 

STAMPS USED: 

Flower - Penny Black

Text - Hero Arts

Katzelkraft day for me again...

I used the stampset Physalis kzt5302 from Katzelkraft for this background.

I actually liked how the background turned out, so I decided not to cover it up with something big - that's when I started thinking of making some buttons...

This card has got a little sister, an ATC, which I made from a leftover from the background. Yes, you're right, I always make my backgrounds bigger than I need, so I can make some embellishments, and if possible, an ATC. 

HOW TO:

Stamp the swirls and butterflies on white cardstock with Versamark and heat emboss with clear embossingpowder.

Sponge the background with Adirondack Brights #Citrus and #Sunshine Yellow.

Stamp swirls and butterflies randomly with the same colors.

Paint the background with white acrylic paint (with a stubborn paintbrush). When it's nearly dry, cover it with a scrap piece of paper and rub over it. Remove the paper - it will cause that beautiful vintage effect, the lines in the acrylic paint. Leave it to dry thoroughly.

Put a clean piece of paper over the whole background, and iron off the embossing. It will reveal the background colors.

Sponge the background - with Distress ink #Rusty hinge, Adirondack Brights #Butterscotch and #Meadow-  to accentuate the butterflies and swirls.To whiten the parts covered with the acrylic paint, wipe it with a damp cloth.

Distress the edges with a paper distresser, and distress with Distress ink #rusty hinge.

Make three buttons from a leftover piece of the background,  (I used cardboard). To get the buttons glossy, put some glossy accents on it. Leave to dry.

Attach the buttons to the background with some coordinating colors of ribbon. Attach the background to a card.

I hope you can use this technique - I love to use it!

Have a nice weekend, with a lot of stamping pleasure!

Published in Art Specially for you ....

.... on p. 26/27 and 64/65. ..

 

I am so 'proud'! ..... Maybe thankful is a better word! Thanks Angela!!


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ISBN: 975-90-744610-0-2, 72 blz., September 2011
Formaat: 22.5 (h) x 22.5 (b) x 0.7 (d) cm. Gewicht: 400 gram.
 
Uitgever: Libra & Libris, uitgeverij
trefwoorden: kissing technique inkttechniek inkt eenvoudig stempelen ARTSpecially 13 Art Specially encaustic wax distress stains tykol zentangle Viva Decor

Lekker dik met 8 extra pagina's

Over stempels en vooral de gebruikte technieken blijf je je verbazen. 3 x per jaar verschijnt ARTSpecially magazine en iedere keer weer staat het vol met leerzame technieken om nog meer toepassingen voor je stempels te krijgen. Met in dit extra dikke nummer - naast een uitklapbare stempelwoordenlijst - prachtig werk van o.a. Hermine Koster, Ellie Knol, Marga Dounen, Geralda Jansen, Charry Wijers, Jolande Oosterhout, Judith van Leverink, Marja de Visser, Liesbeth Fidder, Tineke Koedam, Christa Halbesma en vele anderen. Laat je inspireren en laat je veroveren door deze prachtige veelzijdige hobby die stempelen heet.

My first -yes, very first - art journal pages

On a dutch journalgroup we had some real workshops from Willy Anderson -

so I HAD to try this!

 

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STAMPS USED:
circle and flowerheads- Art Journey
Owl Collage- La Blanche
Time stamps - Paper Artsy
line with circles - ?
text 'owl' - Club Scrap 'tiny creatures 2003'
other text - ?
dots stamp - ?

Challenge Simon Says Stamp and show...

... MENcards only!

 

STAMPS USED :
La Blanche

Guest Design Team Member ....

........for Try it on Tuesday. This week is altered week which is sponsored by The Craft Barn. They are giving one very lucky winner a £15.00 voucher to spend in the shop. How fab is that! Go join in !

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I used a hard cover childhood book to make this photo frame.
PS - This is my daughter, Karlien, when she was 5 years old (16 years ago now) - don't tell her, she doesn't like this photograph! LOL

HOW TO:

Cut out the top 4 pages to create the frame part. Tear off the plastified top layer of all pages, so the gesso will hold onto it. Glue all the pages together, except for the two the photograph has to be attached to. Paint the frame with a layer of gesso. Allow to dry. Add a layer of Viva Terra, and stamp into it with some (Katzelkraft) stamps to get a texture. Leave it to dry. Paint it with black acrylic paint, and while wet wipe off most of it with a damp cloth. Allow to dry. Paint with white acrylic paint, wipe off most of it with a damp cloth. Allow to dry. Buff with Pearl-ex. Mask the photograph and stamp the text (Katzelkraft) over it several times with StazOn timber brown. Use the same text and ink to stamp on the frame as well. Attach the photograph in the frame, and glue these two pages together as well with doublesided tape. To seal it all, spray it with hairspray.  

I am also entering this in the challenge on Make My Monday - anything but a card. 

STAMPS USED: 

Katzelkraft

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

Katzelkraft day for me today!

A DRAGONFLY... 
Your delicate wings rapidly beat the air
The sleekness of your weightless body hovers
Curiously observing as though you care
Steadily searching for lifelong endeavors.

Do you bring a message of a tranquil destiny?
Does your evolving maturity convey wisdom?
If I follow, will I find harmony or perplexity?
As you disappear… I am serenely lonesome....

by Theresa Ann Moore 

My turn on the Katzelkraft blog today!

This card just happened, that blue invited me to use this dragonfly! The - wings stamp set -  is such a versatile and beautiful stamp set!

I am entering this in the Stampman challenge  - A Perfect pear/pair...