DIY Art Journal for CCB

Hello dear visitors, a warm welcome to my blog!

Today I want to share with you my new DIY Art Journal, made with the gorgeous "Compose your life Collection" by Aga Baraniak from Canvas Corp Brands.

If you want to see more, please hop to the Canvas Corp Brands blog!

I´ve made a process video, so if you want to see how I put it together, you can watch the video.

I would be happy, if you like and subscribe!

Thank you for your visit today!

Be Happy! - Wall Hanging for Country View Challenges

Hello my dear friends! And welcome to my new followers, I´m very happy to have you here on my blog 💖

Today I want to share my project for the June Challenge at Country View Challenges. My lovely teamy Teresa is the hostess of it this month and she has chosen the theme: "The written word".

And here are some steps:

I took a very thick cardboard from a left over packaging and cut it to size (20cm x 30cm; about 8" x 12").

I covered it with a thick layer of white Gesso glued some stripes of old book pages randomly on top and added crackle paste and clear crackle glaze here and there in different thickness. Then I left it to dry over night.

Look, what stunning crackles appeared! I really love it, it´s always such a lovely surprise.

Next I fuzzy cut some clock faces from LaBlanche and glued them down with DecoArt Matte Medium.

Now it was time for some color: I used different shades of brown DecoArt Fluid Acrylics (Burnt Umber, Yellow Oxide, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, Titan buff), some coffee and some black and white Fluid Acrylics.

Then I played with some other colors (Cobalt Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold, Antiquing cream Patina Green) until I was quite happy with it. After everything was dry, I added some modeling paste through the stencil #6 from AALL & CREATE (one of my new favourites) and left it to dry.

Meanwhile I prepared my vocal piece. I drew a heart on watercolor paper and cut it out. My desired look should be a kind of 3D, so I cut out another heart of thick cardboard, slightly smaller, glued it on the watercolor paper heart and squeezed the edges. Then I cut out another heart, way smaller than the others, and glued this one down in the middle, squeesing the edges of it too (I hope you understand, it´s hard to describe *lol*). The last step was to cut out another heart and paint it with two shades of red. The edges I distressed with black Archival ink.

Then I did some very light stamping and put it together with the bulky heart.

I went back to my cardboard and painted the modeling paste with cobalt teal hue, quinacridone gold and some Inka Gold Turquoise.

Some more stelciling with Archival Ink Jet Black,
Some background stamping with Archival Ink Potting Soil and Jet Black. I went around the edges with the black ink to frame it and added black and white splatters.

Now I prepared the background for my focal image. I took some gauze, cut it in a circle, distressed the edges and colored it with some Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide and some Quinacridone Gold combined with water.

For the next steps I don´t have pictures, sorry! But I´ll try to describe what I did.

I stamped the words with my new stamp set "Alphabetical" from Visible Image and Gabi´s Word Stamp Set from 49 Market. I cut it out, adherede it to the wall hanging with Matte Medium and when dry, I colored them with the same colors I used for the background. Then I took a fineline applicator, filled with 50:50 brown acrylic paint and airbrush medium and went over the letters. I also scribbled an uneven frame around.

To emphasize the saying even more against the pretty busy background, I surrounded the words with a black posca pen and spreat it with a nearly dry brush.

Now it was time to take care of my vocal point. I glued down my cut out gauze circle with matte medium and put some titan buff  fluid acrylic to the middle, to make sure, the heart will stand out later.
While the glue and paint are drying, I made a circle frame with some home rusted wire. I fixed it with some screw breads when the background was dry.
I glued the words "be happy" on top of the heart and glued it into the circle using matte gel.

As the final step I added some red sprinkles to the background - and that´s it!

Here are some close ups (yes, I´m in love with these crackles 😏)

So, now it´s enough for today! Thank you for your pacience!
I hope, you will find time to join in with our challenge "The Written Word" - the possibilities of use are nearly endless.
As always you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop.
Hope to see you!
Thank you for your visit!

Do you want some chocolate?

Hello dear friends, nice to have you here!

Today I want to share my second project for the challenge "humorous" at Country View Challenges.

I made another tag with a fun sentiment.

In English it means: Chocolate has few vitamins. That's why you have to eat a lot of it. =)

 This time I didn´t make step x step photos, so I try to subscribe what I did.

First I took a tag from CCB and drew lines for the chocolate. Then I painted the chocolate pieces with stabilo woody 3 in 1 in brown, black and white.

Next I took two stripes of foil tape, crumpled them up to crease wrinkles. Then I stamped the "torn hole" from Sheena Douglas and embossed it with black embossing powder.

I cut  it out, inside and the outlines.

Now I stamped the same stamp on a patternd paper, cut out the middle and glued it on the tag.

I added the foil piece and stamped the sentiment, cut it to stripes and glued it in the hole.

I distressed the edges with black ink, stamped some pattern on the paper and at last I added some ribbons.

I hope you liked my tag and will find time to join our challenge!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful day!

Tag with a fun sentiment for Country View Challenges

Hello dear visitors, nice to have you here!

Today it is the first of May - wow, how time flies - and we have a new challenge for you at Country View Challenges. This time my lovely team mate Monika has chosen the theme "Be humorous".

I took a fun sentiment and made a tag.

And here are some steps:

First I took a Bulk Kraft Market Tag from Canvas Corp Brands and glued it onto some leftover cardboard from a packaging to make it a little bit sturdier. 

After this I glued scraps from old book pages randomly on the surface to add texture.

Now I applied Pentart modeling paste through a stencil from 13@rts.

Now I painted the tag with a light wash of white Gesso.

Time for some color: I used PaperArtsy Infusions Olive Green and Green Man.

Then I added Lindy´s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder Luminous Lemon for some contrast.

I stamped some texture background stamps with white Gesso and VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne, with this I also distressed the edges of the tag to frame it.

Next I stamped the sentiment from LaBlanche on cardstock and embossed it with Lindy´s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder Obviously Black. Then I cut out the cardstock and colored it with Distress Oxide squeezed lemonade. To frame it I distressed the edges with the black versafine ink.

In English this means: A man must do what he has to do. And a woman must tell him, what it is.

I took one of the Tim Holtz Paper Dolls, added some washi tape and glued them down with Matte Medium from DecoArt. The sentiment I glued down with foam tape.

I surrounded the paper dolls with a white gel pen, stamped some rings with white acrylic paint with the lid of a spray bottle and a waterbrush and last I put a ribbon on top of the tag.

Here are some close ups:

Well, I hope you liked my tag and feel inspired, to join in with our challenge this month!

As always you have the chance to win a 20£ voucher for the shop!

So thank you for stopping by today!

I want to participate in the following challenges:

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.de/2018/05/mays-creative-challenge-backgrounds.html

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.de/2018/05/stencils-die-cuts-or-both-at-tiots.html
http://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.de/2018/04/323-vintage.html

Enjoy today - Tag for Canvas Corp Brands

Hello my dear friend, nice to have you here today!

Some days before Spring start the winter came back here with low temperatures and snow!

I was longing for Spring so much, I wanted sun, colors, climbing temperatures.

Well, I thought, if there is no chance to get Spring outside, I´ll bring in some Spring to my craftroom! -  and so Imade a colorful tag  =)!

Here is a little sneak peek.

If you want to see more, you can find more on the CCB blog here.

I also made a process video:

So thank you for your visit today!

Altered Drawer for Country View Challenges

Hello dear friends and visitors!

Today I want to share my second project for the "Pimp it up!" challenge, on which I am the hostess of this month at Country View Challenges.

If you want to know more about the challenge, please hop over to the blog.

Recently in my school the cellar was decluttered to get more space and I saved this little drawer from landing in the trash (I had to hold back not to jump into the trashcan to search for more treasures *lol*).

Hallo ihr Lieben!

Heute möchte ich euch mein zweites Projekt für die von mir gestellte Challenge "Pimp it up!" bei Country View Challenges zeigen.

Wenn ihr mehr dazu erfahren möchtet, hüpft doch einfach mal rüber auf den Blog.

I you want to see, how this came together, please feel free to hop to my YouTube channel to watch the process video. I´d be happy if you give me a like and subscribe =)!

Wenn ihr sehen wollt, wie´s gemacht wurde, würde ich mich freuen, wenn ihr auf meinem YouTube Kanal vorbeischaut. Dort findet ihr ein Video dazu. Über ein Daumen hoch und wenn ihr meinen Kanal vielleicht sogar abonniert wäre ich super erfreut =) 

 I think, I will use it for my finished cards and ATCs or for leftover papers.

Ich denke, ich werde das Schublädchen für meine fertigen Karten und ATCs benutzen, oder vielleicht für Papierreste.

Here are some views and close ups:

Hier noch ein paar Ansichten und Nahaufnahmen:

Now I hope you feel a little bit inspired to "Pimp up" something too. You can reuse, alter, upcyle or recycle something, what ever you desire. I hope to see many intersting projects from you!

So, ich hoffe, ich konnte euch dazu inspirieren auf etwas "Aufzupimpen". Ihr könnt etwas wiederverwenden, verzieren, aufhübschen, was immer ihr mögt. Ich freue mich auf eure Projekte!

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderwul week.

Vielen Dank für euren Besuch und habt eine schöne Woche.

I want to join in the following challenges:

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.de/2018/04/april-challenge.html

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.de/2018/04/april-challenge.html

http://www.vintagejourney.com/2018/03/its-our-4th-birthday-come-celebrate.html the treasure here: I saved the drawer from the bin!
https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2018/04/recycle-something-at-tiots-3rd-april.html