Beautiful Poppy Flowers!

 Hello and welcome to June!

As always there is a new challenge over at Country View Challenges and  the theme is "Summer Fields".I made a art journal double page with poppies in my own colors.

Summer is coming soon now and you can seewonderful flowers everywhere. One of my favourite flowers are poppies. They are so aery, light and bright with wonderful vibrant colors. The smaller ones are blooming in the fields now, the bigger ones are not blooming yet, but I look every day in my garden, when they start blooming.

I used the beautiful flower stamp from StudioLight, the Signature Collection art by Marlene, and stamped the poppy flowers onto my pages and added the stems and leaves. I colored everything with my Derwent Inktense pencils and activated them with water. When I was done with it, I added some shading and highlights with a white posca pen and a stabilo all pencil.

The background is simply painted with watery blue watercolor and when dry I took some stencils from Shawn Petite, using Distress Ink mermaid lagoon and black Archival Ink and added some texture to the background.

Now I only had to put on some words from the Tim Holtz Big Chat and that´s it!

I hope you liked my poppies and feel inspire to make your own summer fields for our challenge! You can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful week!

Another Birthday Card

Hello my friends, 

welcome to my second inspiration post for the May challenge at Country View Challenges, the theme is Tea Party/Birthday Party.

This time I made a card for a man.

For this card I used a precolored paper, I guess I used watercolors, spritzed with water.

I stamped some marks with a PaperArtsy Mini stamp EM 47 with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide for some interest.

Now I used the Manuscript Stencil from finnabair with modeling paste to bring more texture to the background.

Last I layered some old book pages, kraft paper scraps, a part of a paper doily and arranged on top a paper doll from Tim Holtz.  Some flowers and a stamped congratulation finished my male card.

That´s it from me for today. 

Now it´s your turn, I hope, you will find some time to make something for our Tea Party theme!

Thank you for your visit and take care!

Birthday Card with a Butterfly

Hello lovelies,

First of May already - unbelievable!

And of course - new challenge at Country View Challenges!

This time my talented teamy Miriam hosts the challenge and it´s called "Tea party". It can be a birthday theme too.

I made a birthday card this time.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper and glued some leftover strips in different sizes to the left side, vertical and horizontal. Now I took a TCW stencil and put modeling paste through it and let it dry. Then I gave the page a good coat of Gesso.

Now I took my beloved PaperArtsy infusions, this time  "A Bit Jaded", sprinkled it on top of the surface and sprayed water on top. for more drama I used some black ink here and there. 

After drying I took a script stamp, also from PaperArtsy, and stamped randomly with black Archival ink.

Now I took some gilding wax and spreat it with my fingers over the rised areas of the card. I also gilded the edges. Then I did some shading with a black Stabilo All pencil and activated it with some water on a brush.

Now I only had to stamp my congrats and a cut out butterfly (Shawn Petite collage pack) and glue both in place.

Here are some close ups:

here you can see a little bit better the gilding. Hard to get a good picture of it!

Thank you for your visit today and I hope, you will find time to play with our challenge, as you know, you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop.

Have a good time, stay healthy and take care!

Two cards for Shawn Petite

Hello!

I want to share my "Two of a kind" cards I made for Shawn Petite with you.

Find more on Shawn´s blog and the video you can find here.

Have a wonderful day and take care!

Another Card with Silhouette Stamps

Hello dear friends, and happy Easter weekend everyone!

Today it´s my turn to share my second project for the April challenge at Country View Challenges.

As I promised in my previous post, I want to show you another card with silhouette stamps today.

This time no bunnies, this time a cat and a bird.

These are again stamps from LaBlanche. For the background I used Distress Oxides in squeezed lemonade, broken china and picked raspberry, and for stamping Archival Inks in Jet Black, Watering can and Cobalt blue.

This time I used a brayer to get the Distress Oxides on my card. I watched some videos from Lavinia Stamps (you can find them here) and tried this technique. I must say, I am pretty pleased with the result 😊.

Now I hope, you like my cute cat and join in with our challenge!

Easter Card

Hello dears, welcome to April!

As usual on the first of a month, there is a brandnew challenge for you at Country View Challenges.

This time the lovely Corrie hostes the theme - Animal Magic!

Easter is just around the corner and I wanted to use my silhouette stamps from LaBlanche, I bought some time ago. So here is a little card

 I started with a precut specialty stamping paper and some Distress Oxides for my background.
I spreat the inks on my crafting mat, spritzed some water on top and dipped in my paper. then I dried it with my heating tool.

I added some more green to the bottom of the card and dried it again.

Now I started to stamp my little scene. First I stamped some grass with Archival Ink in peat moss and black and dried the stamped image.

Now I added some leaves with Archival Ink in watering can and black on top of the card.

Time for some little bunnies and daffodils and a tiny butterfly. They were stamped black.

 To complete the scene, I added a sun, going down behind the little hills. For that I cut out a circle from acetate with my 2 1/2 " circle punch, positioned it on top and went around it with DI spun sugar.

Because it was not visible enough, I repeated it with Distres Oxide worn lipstick.

To finish it off, I smeared some vaseline over the surface and polished it with a cloth.

I thought, some words would be nice. I realised, that I don´t have a "Happy Easter" stamp, so I added the words "Happy holiday" and I was fine.

It´s not the usual way of cardmaking, so I felt a little bit uncomfortable and recognised, I need some practise 😉😏😋. So stay tuned for the second project this month!

Now hop to the Country View Challenge blog to see what my teamies made - I promise, they did an animal-good job!

I hope you want to play with us this month, grab out your animal stamps and make something beautiful! As you know, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop! 

Thank you for your visit and stay save!

Time To Fly

Hello friends, I hope you are all healthy and doing well in this crazy times!

Today I want to show you my second project for the March challenge at Country View challenges with the theme `The Eyes Have It´.

I made a square page (one more in a row).

When I was looking around at Pinterest, I stumbled over some pictures with faces, drawn on newspaper. I liked them very much and decided to give it a trial.

I started with a white square page and covered it with an old Bazzill Basics Paper called Antique Newsprint. I glued it down with Matte Medium.

Then I sketched the face with a black water soluble pencil, went over it with black ecoline ink, using a pen nip. then I took a brush with water and made the ink run a little bit. The iris of the eye I colored with some turquoise blue ink and watered it also. Some highlights I put there with a white posca pen.

After this I tore a napkin, took the top layer and glued it on the surface. 

The words are from a PaperArtsy stencil, I brushed Versafine Clair warm breeze through the stencil and surrounded the words with a black fineliner.

 Now I only had to color the edges with some ink and glue it on top of a black cardstock.

I am really happy with this page!

Here are some close ups: 

 That´s it for today. I hope, you will find some time to play with our challenge, you can win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit!