Do What You Love

Hello everyone!

Today it´s time for my second project for Country View Challenges . This month´s theme was chosen by the lovely Monika and it is "Love".

I made this art journal page, that tells - do what you really love! 

I started by glueing down some pieces of old book pages and some vintage ephemera I received as a giveaway (thank you again, dear Monika =)).

When everything was dry, I started to sketch the face. I did two courses to learn how to draw/paint faces (Let´s Face It 2017 and 2018, find more about here). The courses are very informative and clear, I really enjoyed ..... but I still have to catch up with the classes.
Well, one of the artists, who teached in 2018, was Toni Burt and I was inspired by her amazing work. So I tried to create something in that mood.

I printed out some of that lovely roses I found on The Graphics Fairy, fuzzy cut them and glued them down. Then I slightly colored the face and the page with watercolors.

I stamped the sentiment, one from a PaperArtsy stamp set, with grey Ink. I didn´t want it to be too prominent, so I like how it turned out.

Under the face of my little lady I stamped this tinytiny stamp from Visible Image, it says: Be your own kind of beautiful. It is so, so tiny, that you have to know, that it is there ;-).

That´s it for today, I hope you feel inspired to participate in our challenge this month, you know, you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for you visit!
Have a wonderful week!

Layout "Special Moment" - DT-Work for ARTastic

Hallo zusammen, schön, dass ihr bei mir hereinschaut

Heute ist schon der erste März - Zeit für eine neue Herausforderung bei ARTastic!

Diesen Monat haben wir wieder einen tollen Künstler für euch, William Rose, und das ist eins seiner Bilder: An image of November

Wenn ihr auf dem Blog vorbeischaut, könnt ihr ein wenig mehr über ihn erfahren.

Aber nun zur Herausforderung. Diesmal müsst ihr eine Schablone benutzen! Einfach, was? 

Also versucht doch mal euer Glück und macht mit!

Hello everybody and a warm welcome to my blog!

Today it is the first of March - time for a new challenge over at ARTastic!

This month we have a wonderful artist for you, William Rose, and this is one of his pictures: An image of November.

 If you want to find out more about him and his artwork, hop over to the blog.

But now let´s come to our challenge. We ask you to use a stencil! Easy, huh?

So grab your stash and join in our challenge!

Hier ist mein layout:

This is my layout. 

Die Linien im Bild des Künstlers haben mich inspiriert. Also klebte ich zuerst einige Papierstreifen auf den Hintergrund und benutzte anschließend eine Schablone von 13arts, "shapes", um mit Modelliercreme weitere Linien zu schaffen. Danach habe ich den Hintergrund bestempelt - viele Stempel ;-). Danach kam Farbe ins Spiel (Lindy´s Stamp Gang Flat Fabios und Starburst). Danach noch einmal der Einnstatz von Schablonen, zwei ganz neue von Tim Holtz (Trellis Layering Stencil and Floral Layering Stencil), einmal mit Distress Ink und die andere mit weißem Gesso. Nun war der Mittelpunkt dran. Ich finde die Arbeiten von Monika Huculack ganz toll, so habe ich versucht mich ein wenig an ihrem Stil zu orientieren. Damit das Ganze noch ein wenig Schimmer bekommt, habe ich noch Inka Gold in gold und lila, etwas Goldflitter und Goldfaden hinzugefügt. Auch einige Metallverzierungen durften nicht fehlen. Zum Schluß noch ein paar Blümchen, eine Metallplakette und den Wortstreifen aufkleben, das wars.

I wanted to create some lines, inspired by the lines from the reference picture. So first I glued a couple of paperstripes to the background and used a stencil called "shapes" from 13arts and modeling paste. Then I did some stamping - a lot of stamping ;-). Then I added color (Lindy´s Stamp Gang flat fabios and Starburst sprays) and did some more stencilling with two of the brand new Tim Holtz stencils (TRELLIS and FLORAL) with DI and white Gesso. Now I built the vocal point, As I love the work of Monika Huculack, I tried to create my layout layering a bit like she does. For some brightness I painted some Inka Gold in gold and purple, added some golden threat, some gold flitter and metal embellishments. At last I added some small flowers, a metal planque and a word stripe.

Hier noch ein paar Nahaufnahmen:
Here some close ups:

An folgenden Herausforderungen möchte ich teilnehmen:

I want to join in following challenges:

http://mixedmediaandart.blogspot.de/2017/02/february-challenge.html

http://mixedmediawarriors.blogspot.de/2017/03/wyzwanie-14-mmw-wiosenny-moodboard.html

Inspiration from the middle and right pictures in the second row and the colors.







http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.de/2017/02/mmw22-anything-mixed-media-goes.html

Layout "Fabulous"

Hello all,

it´s the first of February and time for a new challenge at ARTastic challenge blog!

This is the inspiration picture, the artist is Karen Pierce. If you want to know more about her, please read it on the blog. Take your inspiration from the picture, may be the colors, the flowers, the horse, what ever you want! The only criteria is to use butterflies or any other insect on your project.

Here is my layout:

I was inspired by the colors and the easiness of the picture. I thought, the romantic photo of my daughter would be perfect for it!

Here are some close ups:

Here something to smile. When I took the photos, my little Lucy decided, that she wanted to be on them too (:o)

Now I hope you feel inspired and grab your stash and join in with our challenge! 

Thank you for stopping by today!

Male Card made in 30 Minutes

Hello all, nice to have you here!

It´s the first day of February and that means: Time for a new challenge over at Country View Challenges!

This month the theme is a hard one - well, not for everybody, but for me it is ;-):

30 minutes or less time challenge

It is hosted by my lovely team mate Sue.

I decided to make a card for a man. I also made a video, unfortunately you can´t see the stopwatch all the time and my camera stopped before I ended and I didn´t recognize it in my rush. But I promise, I got ready exactly in time!

Here is my card:

Here you can find my video, so sit back and enjoy!

Here are some close ups:

Now I hope you´ll jump in the fun and join our February Time Challenge! You can win a £20 gift voucher!

Thank you for your visit!

Lazy Summer Days

Hallo zusammen, schön, dass ihr bei mir vorbeischaut!

Heute habe ich eine Doppelseite in meinem großen Art Journal, das ich mir unlängst gekauft habe, für euch.

Ich habe sie für Country View Challenge gestaltet, um euch eine weitere Inspiration für  unsere Challenge "Hot Summer Days" zu geben. Unten findet ihr auch eine Schritt für Schritt Anleitung, wie ich die Seiten aufgebaut habe. Also viel Spaß beim Anschauen und vielleicht habt ihr ja Lust teilzunehmen, ihr könnt einen £ 20 Gutschein gewinnen! Ein paar Tage habt ihr noch Zeit!

Hello all and a warm welcome to my blog!

Today I want to share with you a double spreat page in my new big Art Journal.

I made it for Country View Challenges to give you another inspiration for our Challenge "Hot Summer Days". Below you find some step x step tutorial to show you, how I made it.

So have fun watching it and may be you´ll find time to join in, you can win a £ 20 voucher! There are some days left!

 Here some step x step pictures:

I started with a page, on which I had brayered some left over paints from a project, I did short time ago (you will see this next month ;-) ).

I prepared the pages with some white Gesso first.

For the right summer feeling I think there must be some roses. So I took the upper layer of a napkin, tore it apart and glued the parts down.

Now I painted the white space with the same colors, I used at the beginning......

 .... followed by some stenciling with Archival Inks.

I prepared some parts for stamping with white Gesso and stamped two images from LaBlanche on top. Later I decided, I want only to use one of them and painted over the other one. Being not that happy with, I also stamped the one, I wanted to stay, later onto an extra paper to make it more visible. The stamped image I colored with Distress Inks.

Now I did some background stamping with Archival Ink in olive. The stamp is from LaBlanche too.









To get even more into this summer feeling, I wrote a poem, called "summer", on the background. Well, later it will not be very much visible, but I liked it very much. Sorry, I didn´t translate it, so, my English speaking friends, you might try to translate it with the help of "Aunt Google". ;-)

The poem I found here

  Im Sommer

Dünnbesiedelt das Land.

Trotz riesigen Feldern und Maschinen

liegen die Dörfer schläfrig

in Buchsbaumgärten; 

die Katzen trifft selten ein Steinwurf.

Im August fallen Sterne.

Im September bläst man die Jagd an.

Noch fliegt die Graugans, spaziert der Storch

durch unvergiftete Wiesen. 

Ach, die Wolken -

wie Berge fliegen sie über die Wälder. 

Wenn man hier keine Zeitung hält

ist die Welt in Ordnung.

In Pflaumenmuskesseln

spiegelt sich schön das eigne Gesicht und

feuerrot leuchten die Felder.  

(Sarah Kirsch)   

In the next step I used a brick wall stencil with Archival Ink Potting Soil....

...and some stone paste, I have for ages in my stash

Then I die cut leaves with the "spring greenery" die from Tim Holtz, grabed several of my green mists to color them and left them to dry.

Meanwhile I wrote my words with a black marker, surrounded them with a white one, cut them out and distressed the edges. To make them fit better, I colored the white background with DI spun sugar.
Then I put everything in place and glued all down.




Some final steps later (setting highlights with acrylic paint, spritzing deluted white Gesso, painting the middle of the leaves) my page was ready!

 Here are some close ups:

I want to join in following challenges:
http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.de/2016/08/challenge-16-shabby-garden-mood-board_5.html
http://craftstamper.blogspot.de/2016/08/take-it-make-it-challlenge-august.html
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.de/2016/08/august-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.de/2016/08/august-creative-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.de/2016/08/welcome-to-creative-artistes-challenge.html
http://thingstoalter.blogspot.de/2016/08/things-to-alter-august-challenge.html
http://www.vintagejourney.com/2016/08/stencil-it_5.html

Zum Schluss möchte ich euch noch ein paar Eindrücke von meinem (zugegeben etwas verwilderten) kleinen Garten geben. Es war so ein wunderbarer Sommertag mit einem blitzblauen Himmel, das wollte ich euch einfach zeigen.

Last I want to show you some garden impressions of my little (I admit a little wild) garden. It was such a wonderful sunny day with a lighning blue sky, I wanted to show you.

Eine der unzähligen Blüten eines meiner Eibisch Sträucher. Ich liebe sie, sie blühen so wunderbar!

One blossom of one of my hibiscus bushes. They are blooming so wonderful!

So, das wars für heute. Vielen Dank, dass ihr bei mir hereingeschaut habt und ich freue mich sehr über eure Kommentare!

That´s it for today. Thank you for stopping by here and your lovely comments are always appreciated!