Monochromatic Cards - Three Of A Kind

 Hello and welcome to my second inspiration for the August Challenge "monochromatic" over at Country View Challenges!

This time I made not only one card - I made three, three of a kind. Well, to be honest - there will be much more, I´m doing the birthday cards for my collegues for the next school year, and they will be all of a kind, only the colors will be different.

Well, I decided to show you the red ones.

I have made a process video, so if you want to watch you can watch it here:

Here are some more pictures:

And here you can see some more cards, these are the ones I made so far...

Now it´s your turn to make some monochromatic art for our challenge, I am looking forward to seeing your projects!

Thank you for your visit today and have a great week!

BOOH!

 Hello all, nice to have you here!

For the November Challenge over at Country View Challenges the theme this month is

Halloween!

Well, for me it is not an easy theme - I am not a Halloween person. Therefor I made a quite simple postcard.

This is what I did:

I cut a piece of watercolor paper to size and primed it with white Gesso. Then I took a TCW stencil and stenciled kind of spiderweb on the top of the page. After that I took a Halloween napkin, cut out some of the motives and glued them down with matte medium to build a scene.

After drying the surface, I took my watercolors and colored in my postcard. I used light yellow for a moon and a deep purple for the rest of the background. I loved, how the colors bleeded into each other!

Last step was to glue down the pretty witches and to write the word BOOH! with a black Stabilo All pencil. The word was activated with some water.

I hope you like my postcard and feel inspired to join in with our challenge at CVC this month!

As always, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit today and happy October!

Art Journal Page #3 for Rubber Dance

Hello all!

Nice to have you here today. I want to show you a little sneak peek of my next art journal pages in my Happy Journal for Rubber Dance.

If you want to see more, please hop over to the Rubber Dance Blog

Spring! - Art Journal Page for Country View Challenges

Hello all, 

nice to have you here today! I want to share with you my second project for the April challenge Easter and/or Spring over at Country View Challenges!

This time I made an art journal page with handpainted flowers, using watercolors.

Maybe the little girl is waiting for the Easter bunny to come?

This is what I did:

I prepared my page with white Gesso and sketched the tulip, the daffodil and the grape hyacinths slightly onto my page. I painted them with watercolors, and when they were dry I colored the background  with very watery blue watercolors. Then I shaded the flowers with a charcoal pencil, added some highlights and doodling with posca pens in brown and white and surrounded my page with black charcoal. I was missing a little something, so I stamped some butterflies and colored them with watercolors.

Now I only had to stamp some background stamps onto my page for more interest and glue down the little girl, a paper doll from Tim Holtz. I really love these paper dolls, they always give your work something special!

Here are some close ups:

That little girl looks so cute, doesn´t she?!

Now it´s your turn to make something Easter or Spring related and share with us at Country View Challenges! You have plenty of time left! And remember - you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop! So I hope you will hippedi-hop in 😋.

Thank you for your visit today and happy Easter!

Perfect Peace - Art Journal Page for CVC

Hello dear visitors, nice to have you here! 💗

The New Year is gets moving on and we are all back to normal life I think.

Today I want to share with you my second inspiration peace piece for the January challenge cityscape/landscape over at Country View Challenges.

I must admit, landscapes are not something I do very often and it´s totally out of my comfort zone. So I was sitting here thinking round and round, what I could do. I do not have stamps for cityscape or landscape, so it was not easy for me!

But then I looked out the window and watched the falling snow - then I knew what I wanted to do - a wintery landscape! As you might know, I live here near the Alpes, surrounded by mountains. I remembered a walk through the wood and it was snowing. And when I looked to the landscape, standing at the edge of the wood, I thought: "Wow, how peaceful the world looks!"

Having this in mind, I created my art journal page:

I made a process video, so enjoy watching!

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today!

Now I hope, you will join in with our January challenge, I am curious, what you will show us! And of course, just like the years before, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful day!

I want to join in with the following challenges:

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-year-new-creative-challenge.html

https://mixedmediaandart.blogspot.com/2018/12/december-challenge-winter-melody.html I was inspired by the blue color, the wintery mood, the little lit houses and the texture on the sketch.

https://nightshiftstamping.blogspot.com/2019/01/brrr-wie-kalt-ist-das-denn.html

http://www.vintagejourney.com/2019/01/put-your-stamp-on-it-challenge.html

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

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