Merry Christmas!

Hello and welcome to my blog!

Today I want to share with you my second project for the Christmas Challenge at Country View Challenges. I made a sparkley card with the beloved Holiday Greens dies from Tim Holtz.

I cut white cardstock to size and matted it with some super sparkly glitter cardstock. Next I dipped DI festive berries on my glass mat, spritzed some water on top and used a fan brush to create some splatters.

I stamped the Merry Christmas with festive berries DI and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I cut it out and colored the edges.

The Holiday Greens I diecut from glitter cardstock in two different gold tones.

I put three diecut greenery together, glued it on the card and added a little red bow. Then I put the card together and - that´s it!

Here are some close ups:

Now I hope you will find some time to share your christmas makes with us.

You can wind a 20 £ voucher for the shop as always.

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful christmas time!

Autumn - Art Journal Page

 Hello and happy September!

Unbelievable - it´s the first of September, where has the summer gone?

As always at the first of a month, it is time for a new challenge over at Country View Challenges. This month the theme is: Leaves begin to fall, hosted by the lovely Jane. She says:  Use leaves as background or the main focal of your project.

 Leaves must be the main feature, no "token" leaf added!!

So I made an art journal page.

This is what I did:

First I sprayed a watercolor paper with various mists in autumnal colors. 

I used Glimmer Mists and Glimmer Mists from Lindy´s Stamp Gang.

My background I prepared with Gesso and then I used a stencil and heavy Gesso to create some texture. When dry, I colored it with grey Ecoline liquid watercolor and added a hint of turquoise blue and light green Ecoline liquid watercolor. For some shine I dabbed some Extreme Sheen metalic paint 24K Gold from DecoArt.

For more interest I did some stamping. I used an old BoBunny stamp called It´s Written with Versa Fine Clair Morning Mist and some subtile stamping with an old border stamp, I guess it´s from Kaiserkraft, with DI speckled egg here and there.

Next I did some die cutting with the beautiful sizzix thinlits called fall foliage by Tim Holtz. I used the colored watercolor paper. I used some squeezed lemonade DO on some of the leaves and distressed the edges with DI walnut stain. Then I glued them all down, some with foam squares for some hight.

...oh, and did you discover the little elves? They were a freebe from Astrid McLean in 2020. They are absolutely lovely. 

Here are some more pictures:

I wrote the word "Herbst" (autumn) into one of the bigger leaves.

Here the first elve.

....and here the second one, hidden between the leaves.

Now it´s your turn to make something beautiful with falling leaves! You can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit today.

Autumn ATCs for Country View Challenges

Hello and welcome to my second post for the October Challenge "Plantastic" at Country View Challenges, hosted by my lovely fellow team Rachel!

The wonderful weather here keeps staying and the leaves are turning into an autumnal rainbow.

Inspired by nature´s wonder, I grabbed my fall foliage dies and diecut a whole bunch of lieaves. I colored thme with watercolors and made  a set of Autumn ATCs.

I made a video tutorial, so enjoy watching!

Here are the ATCs one after another.

That´s it for today!

Now I hope you will grab out your plantastic items and join in with our challenge this month! You have lots of time left and as always, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful autumn time!

I want to join in with the following challenges:

http://www.vintagejourney.com/2018/10/october-challenge-autumn-splendor.html

http://stampsandstencils.blogspot.com/2018/10/spooky-fun-with-autumnal-twist.html

http://moremixedmediachallenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/more-mixed-media-challenge-anything.html

http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2018/10/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-43.html

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/miucb-18-anything-goes-monochrome.html

Funny Santa

Hello all,

today I want to show you my second project for the December Challenge over at Country View Challenges!

Do you know this - you need a few of christmas cards, you can send by mail. So they can not be decorated too bulky and shouldn´t be too heavy weight, you don´t want to pay too much.

I made a fun card, you can easily send and which is good to make in series.

And this is what I did:

 First I cut out circles from specialty stamping paper.

 Then I cut out slightly bigger circles in colors fitting to the cards to mat the white circles.

 I chose the background papers.

 Now I stamped the funny Santa in the middle of the circles with Archival Ink.

 Now I colored the Santa. First the hat.....

 .....the nose.....

....shading to the beard.

 With the same colors of the hat I colored the sentiment stamp, cut it out and matted it.

 Now I cut out some Tim Holtz Greenery and then I put everything together.

Here are my cards:

I really love that fun stamp!

Now I hope you will share you christmas makes with us and join in with our challenge!

You have muuuuuuuch time left! =)

Now I want to thank you for your visit and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Have a good time and we will hopfully meet again next year!

Canvas "Falling Leaves" - DT Project for Country View Challenges

Hello dear visitors,

 welcome to my second project for the October challenge over at Country View Challenges!

Autumn is showing it´s most wonderful side here in Bavaria with nice sunny weather and all it´s glowing colors. Last weekend we had a little autumnly visitor here.

Hallo liebe Besucher,

willkommen zu meinem zweiten Projekt für die Oktober Herausforderung bei Country View Challenges! Der Herbst zeigt sich hier in Bayern von seiner schönsten Seite mit sonnigem Wetter und all seinen glühenden Farben. Letztes Wochenende hatten wir auch einen kleinen herbstlichen Besucher.

Cute, isn´t he?

Putzig oder?

But now to my take on the challenge:

Aber nun zu meinem Beitrag für die Challenge:

I made a little canvas with colorful leaves. The leaves are made from modeling clay and I used the Tim Holtz Alterations "Layering Leaf" die and embossing folder from Sizzix. I made a little video, where you can see how I made it. Enjoy watching!

Ich habe einen kleinen Keilrahmen mit bunten Blätter gemacht. Die Blätter sind aus Modelliermasse geformt. Dazu habe ich dieTim Holtz Alterations "Layering Leaf" Stanzschablone und Embossingfolder von Sizzix benutzt. Wenn ihr sehen wollt, wie ich das gemacht habe, schaut euch gerne mein kleines Video an. Viel Spaß!

Now to the canvas:
Nun zum Keilrahmen:

I prepared my canvas with one coat of Gesso and added Texture Crackle Paste (DecoArt) and Structur Paste (Pentart) for texture. I left it to dry.

Zuerst kam eine Schicht Gesso auf den Keilrahmen. Danach habe ich Texture Crackle Paste (DecoArt) and Structur Paste (Pentart) für einen texturierten Hintergrund aufgetragen.

When dry, I sprayed the whole surface with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist "Stone" to break the white - it´s such a cool Mist! Look!

Nach dem Trocknen habe ich alles mit Tattered Angels Glimmermist "Stone" eingesprüht - das ist soo eine coole Farbe, schaut mal!

I added some spritzes of water and let the color run down for even more interest.

Ich habe ein paar Spritzer Wasser darauf gegeben und die Farbe fließen gelassen um den Hintergrund noch lebhafter zu gestalten.

I also added some sprinkles of PaperArtsy Infusions "The sage" and activated it with water. When dry, I glued down my leaves, some 3D Balls and colored them with watercolor. Then only some words (Big Chat) with foam squares and some shading around the leaves and I was ready.
Hinzu kamen noch ein paar Stäubchen PaperArtsy Infusions "The sage", die ich mit Wasser aktiviert habe. Nachdem alles getrocknet war, habe ich die Blätter  ein paar 3D Kugeln, die ich mit Wasserfarbe eingefärbt habe, aufgeklebt, ein paar Schattierungen rund um die Blätter noch und fertig!

That´s it for today! Now I hope, you will join in with our challenge, there is plenty of time left.
As always you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop.
Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful weekend!

Das war´s für heute! Ich hoffe, ihr macht bei unserer Challenge mit, es ist noch reichlich Zeit. Wie immer könnt ihr einen Gutschein über 20 £ für den shop gewinnen.
Vielen Dank für euren Besuch und ein wunderschönes Wochenende!

I want to join in following challenges:
http://mixedmediawarriors.blogspot.de/2017/10/wyzwanie-kreatywne-mmw-21-usciski.html

http://mixedmediaplace.blogspot.de/2017/09/september-challenge.html

http://scrapki-wyzwaniowo.blogspot.de/2017/10/october-2017-watercolours-1st-reveal.html
http://www.vintagejourney.com/2017/10/crazy-for-autumn-colour.html