Beside The Sea

Hello and happy weekend!

Today I want to share with you my first project for the August challenge at Country View Challenges. This month the theme is "I Do Like To Be At The Seaside", hosted by the lovely Christine aka Craftyfield.

I pulled out my beachy stamp set from Creative Expressions (you can find it in the shop) and made a fun summer card!

This is what I did:

 

I took some stuff and went outside to my terrace, it´s very warm and sunny here, and started with my background paper. I cut it to size and distressed the edges. Then I took some DI vintage photo and made a aged border.

From the stampset "Beside The Seaside" I used first the fishnet stamps and stamped them randomly to the edges with VersaFine Clair Pinecone.

With the help of my stamping platform I stamped the image and the words onto white Bristol paper. I used VersaFine Clair pinecone and nocturne.

After I cut out the image and the words I colored the picture with my FaberCastell Polycromos. First I took several skin tones (I didn´t forget to use some red, you always can find British people at the beach because of their red skin *lol* - sorry friend, I couldn´t resist 😉😋)

Look, what a fun picture this is! I love that stamp!

Now I took some paper, a netting, some corrugated cardboard and arranged everything to a vocal point.

I glued all down and decorated with some flowers, seashells I found somewhen on a beach, glued down the words and added a few perfect pearls in glitter blue.

Here are some close ups:

Oh, I really would like to go to the sea! Not this year, but hopefully next year.

Now it´s your turn to make something for our challenge!

Thank you for your visit today and have a sunny August!

Sunflower Card

Hello all,

this is my second project for the "Do more what makes you happy" challenge at Country View Challenges.

I love stamping and I like cardmaking. So I did this simple card with the sunflower, a stamp from LaBlanche.

I made this card not only once, I made it 13 times - for our pupils, how gonna leave the school next week. I matted the cards with blue vellum paper, stamped the sunflower with Bersafine Clair nocturne and colored it with the wonderful paperArtsy Infusions. I used Lemoncello, mixed with a little bit yellow ecoline watercolor and Olive Tree. I like, how it turned out!

I stamped "best wishes" on top, before I matted the card onto black cardstock. Then I glued the picture to the middle of the card.

Now I hope you will find time to add a project to our challenge to win a voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful weekend!

Love is the answer!

Hello again my friends!

I want to share with you my wooden panel I made for the Shawn Petite creative team.

It´s called "Love is the answer"

If you want to know more about it, please hop to Shawn Petite´s blog!

There is a video to, you can find it here.

Thank you for your visit today!

How the time flies - Wie die Zeit vergeht!

Hello all,

half the year is gone - unbelievable! 

As usual on 1st of the month there is a new challenge over at Country View Challenges. This time it´s called "Do more of what makes you happy", hosted by the lovely Sue.

I love to make canvases in mixed media style with lots of different materials, mediums, layers.

Here is my canvas.

I made this canvas for my mom to her 80th birthday, she wished me to make a layout for her - well, of course I made one.

First I put modeling paste through a stencil from finnabair on top of the canvas. painted everything with Gesso and colored the background with acrylic paints.

For the layers I used a small chipboard panel, I painted with white crackle paint, resin pieces, made with moulds, chipboard gears, a chipboard clock face, a piece of lace, also made with a mould and light modeling paste and pink flowers.

The gears I painted with rust effect paste, the clock face I painted with black Gesso and aged it with white Gesso.

 The flowers are decorated with some glitter for more interest.

And last but not least I glued down a sentiment which says: "How the time flies". I found it fits to a 80th birthday and to the photo with the pretty pocket watch from the internet.

Now I am curious, what you will show us and what makes you happy!

Have a sunny July!

Was machst du? - What do you do? - Canvas for Shawn Petite

I missed posting my canvas I made for Shawn Petite!

Find the video on my channel or on Shawn Petite´s channel!

Smile

Hello and welcome to my second post for the Summer Fields challenge over at Country View Challenges!

This time I made a card with one of the cute Scribbly Small Birdies from Dina Wakley sitting in a summer field.

I first created the background with the wrinkle free distress technique from Tim Holtz.

While it dried, I stamped the little bird on white copy paper to create a mask. Then I pulled out my stamping platform and stamped the bird on my card. I stamped it several times to get a crisp, black image.

Next I painted in the body of the bird with white acrylic paint, to get a neutral background for my coloring. Then I stamped the bird on top again.

For the summer field I used 3 stampsets: Artemio (don´t find the name), Joy!crafts 6410/0017 and one stamp from the Creative Expressions Portraits Rubber Stamp Set. I stamped them in the same green tones I used for the background. The little bird I covered with the mask. I also added a butterfly, a tiny bee and an ant.

The word "Smile" I stamped and heat embossed. The stampset is from 49 and Market and is called Gabi´s Word Stamp Set.

Now I used my Faber Castell Pastel Pencils to color in my little sparrow, the butterfly and a flower stem. 

Now I added a little wood flower and some scribbly lines. I inked the edges with DI peeled paint, matted it on black cardstock and adhered it on my card.

I like how it turned out and I hope you do so too!

In my first post I told you of my poppies I am awaiting to bloom - now they do! This year there are only two blossoms - but look! They are so gorgeous, aren´t they!

Now on to you! I hope you join in with our challenge, I look forward to seeing your creations!

Thank you for your visit and have a good week!

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!