Card with porthole and fish

I'm here with the second project for the September challenge of the Country View Challenges. The theme is Under the sea and the lovely Rachel is your hostess this month.

I created a submarine whose porthole you can peep through to see the fish.

I cut out a rectangle panel with a Sizzix Framelits die and made a round porthole using two different sizes Sizzix circle dies. The main panel and the window were painted dark grey with DecoArt chalky finish acrylic paint. 

Oh, the little circles were cut out with Gear 2 Bigz die, using a middle of one of the cogs.

Then I randomly tapped DecoArt Media Transparent Red Iron Oxide onto the surface with a sponge.

I cut out a circle from watercolour paper and stamped Tim's fish from the Sea Life stamp set with Ranger Potting Soil Archival ink on it.

I coloured them with Ranger Distress markers, then I added a layer of Resist Spray for protection. For applying the Resist Spray I always spritz to a plastic sheet from the Resist Spray bottle and after I add this medium with a piece of sponge and tapping movements.

The text is from the Crazy Talk stamp set and was heat embossed on a black strip of paper with Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Sea Life by Tim Holtz

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Framelits die, Rectangles (658610)

Sizzix Framelits die, Circles (657551)

Sizzix Bigz die, Gears 2 by Tim Holtz (661193)

Ranger Distress markers

Ranger Distress Resist Spray

Ranger, Liquid Platinum embossing powder

If you have a project with an underwater theme, please don't hesitate to join our September challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stamp it

Love card with blue and yellow seahorses

Hello everyone, I have just returned from my nearly 3 weeks holiday from Nice (France) so I can show you my new project that I created for the Country View Challenges.

In June I made a love card with seahorses that my friend liked very much so she asked it for her hubby. And since our September challenge is Under the sea, I decided to make another one, a little different version.

This is a little smaller and a little different than my earlier card. And now, it's time for a tutorial.

I took a white paper and I inked the top with Cracked Pistachio and the bottom with Broken China. Then I inked the whole surface with Antique Linen. After this, I decided to give it a pearl shine so I covered it with diluted White Pearl acrylic paint.

After I embossed it with an old Sizzix embossing folder, the Swirls from the Burlap&Swirls Texture Fades set by Tim Holtz. But silly me, I put my cardstock with the wrong side into the embossing folder but actually I like it. 

After I inked the edges with Ranger Archival ink, Coffee.

The next layer was a silver paper from Tim Holtz Metallic Paper Stash 8x8 that was inked with the same Archival ink.

I used the same metallic paper to cut out a strip and to make the text. For this, I used the Sentiment Words Thinlits dies.

The seahorses (Sand&Sea Bigz die) were painted with DecoArt Americana paints (Toffee Cream-Melon, Spa Blu-Primary Blue). The edges were inked with Coffee ink. Then I took my new favourite, the Resist spray and I covered the surface of the seahorses with this magic product. It gives everything a restrained shine and protection.

The flower was from the Tropical Thinlits die set and was coloured with Abandoned Coral and Squeezed Lemonade Distress markers, then covered with Resist spray.

Not to forget to tell you, I don't spray directly to the cutouts. I spray an amount of Resist liquid to a plastic sheet or tray, then I apply it with a sponge.

The seashell (Seashells Bigz die) was painted with Light Buttermilk paint. 

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz die, Sand&Sea by Tim Holtz (659576)

Sizzix Bigz die and Texture Fades, Seashells by Tim Holtz (662706)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tropical by Tim Holtz (661207)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Sentiment Words by Tim Holtz (661799)

Sizzix Texture Fades, Burlap&Swirls by Tim Holtz

Idea-Ology Kraft Stock, Metallic Paper Stash 8x8 by Tim Holtz

Idea-ology, Long Fasteners by Tim Holtz

DecoArt Americana paints

Ranger Distress ink pads (Cracked Pistachio, Antique Linen, Broken China)

Ranger Archival ink (Coffee)

Ranger Distress markers (Squeezed Lemonade, Abandoned Coral)

I hope you like it!

If you have a project with an Under the sea theme, please don't hesitate to join our September challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

With my card, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: "S" is for - seahorses and seashell

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes

I love seahorses - card with seahorse

Hello everyone, let me show you my latest make a card with a seahorse. This card was started with the metallic background which was a leftover from another project. 

So the metallic background was made in this way. I cut out a rectangle from cardstock and I adhered aluminium foil (from my kitchen) to this cardstock. I embossed it with the Swirls embossing folder. Then I blotted with light blue acrylic paint and wiped off the excess.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz die, Ornate Frame 1 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Movers&Shapers die, Mini Sand and Sea by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Texture Fades, Burlap&Swirls by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Garden Greens by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Alphanumeric Label by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Framelits die, Bird Crazy Things by Tim Holtz - the tiniest heart

Ranger Distress inks and Oxide inks

DecoArt Media, Crackle Glaze

Idea-Ology, Long Fasteners

Prima Marketing Art Pebbles (Mélange)

kraft paper

double-sided foam adhesive

etc.

With my card, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Frame it!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Summer scene with beach house

This is my second inspirational project for our August challenge. The theme was chosen by the lovely Corrie: Sun, sea and sand.

For the beach hut, I used the Village Dwelling XL die by Tim Holtz but I used only the side part of the house because I didn't want to make it 3 dimensional. So I just cut off the tabs from my house and painted white the corrugated cardboard.


The sandy beach is a torn paper covered with Grit-Paste. When the paste was dry I coloured with DecoArt Multi-Surface Buff Beige. The edge was inked with Distress Brushed Corduroy ink.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Village Dwelling by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Bigz Die, Village Surf Shack by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Handwritten Vacation by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Scarecrow by Tim Holtz

Kraft paper

Watercolour paper

Tim Holtz Idea-Ology, Textured Surfaces (TH93204)

acrylic paints

Ranger Distress inks and DOX inks by Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress Grit-Paste by Tim Holtz

tiny real shell

So if you have a summer project with sun, sea and/or sand, please join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher.

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Card - Underwater scene

For our August challenge - Sun, sea and sand - I created a card with Tim Holtz Sea Life stamps.

Before creating the background I looked many underwater photos and I liked most where the sunbeams penetrated the water.  

My other inspiration was my earlier card with the Sea Life stamp set where I put a crown on the head of one of the fish.

Here, in this picture below, you can see how I created the background. I used DecoArt colours (Sea Aqua, Wedgewood Blue) and then Amsterdam white paint to make the sunrays. For this, I used Tim Holtz Rays layering stencil.

I cut out the seaweeds from green cardstocks, using Sizzix Thinlits dies by Tim Holtz: Garden Greens, Funky Florals 1. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink.

After glueing the seaweeds, I put Ranger Distress Grit-Paste to the bottom with a palette knife.

When the paste was dry, I coloured it with DecoArt Americana Multi-Surface Buff Beige paint.

I inked the card edges with Vintage Photo.

I put a layer of Schmincke Fluid Medium. It gave a silky shine finish for the surface.

I stamped the fish (Sea Life) onto watercolour paper with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and coloured with Distress markers. In the end, I put a layer of Schmincke Fluid Medium on the fish.

The text (Hashtags by Tim Holtz) was stamped with Ranger Archival Potting Soil ink.

And although I had lots of art pebbles, pearls, tiny shells... I decided to put only one mini pearl to only one corner because sometimes less is more!

If you have any project which fits our challenge, please don't hesitate to link it here!


With my card, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Wild things

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Canvas with a huge real shell

I was looking for the ideas how to keep our summer treasures - especially our huge (more than 12cm) seashell - where they are not hidden in a box, where we can see them in their full beauty, where they can be emphasized. 

So I made this 20x20 cm canvas.

Thank so much for stopping by!!!

Vintage Cote D'Azur poster by me

I love the Cote D'Azur! I love the sea, the forever blue sky (without any cloud on the horizon), the hot weather with cooling wind from the sea, I love the French culture, food, wine etc. Every year when I was somewhere on the Riviera I bumped into the vintage Cote D'Azur posters advertising this area for the tourists in the early 1900s. Most of them were made by very famous painters and illustrators like Picasso, Hervé Baille,  Jean-Gabriel Domergue...

But unfortunately this year we can't go there during the summer, instead we will stay long in Hungary because our family is there, because my daughter prefers the Balaton to the Cote D'Azur and because I have a lot of things to arrange there. 

But I will miss this region so I prepared a canvas (18x24cm) in the style of those vintage posters. 

I will show you some posters which inspired me but on my Pinterest board you can find more:

Like on the posters I used bold colours and strong contours. Although I had a primed canvas I put one layer of gesso on it.

For the background I used the following DecoArt Americana colours: Buttermilk, Desert Turquoise, Whispering Turquoise.

The palm trees were coloured by Light Cinnamon and Mistletoe.

The sun was stencilled and I used Pineapple.

For my project Tim's new Alphabet die with its Art Deco letters was just perfect for my project, also it was better to make with cutouts than stamps.

What I used:

Sizzix Big die, Village Surf Shack by Tim Holtz (661208)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tropical by Tim Holtz (661207)

Sizzix Bigz XL die, Alphabet, Deco by Tim Holtz (661815)

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil, Rays (THS003)

Signature dies, Seagulls (SD232)

Signature dies, Yacht with Sails (SD180)

DecoArt Americana paints

With my canvas I would like to join the following challenges:

- Monday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp blog: Stencil It!

- Stamps and Stencils blog Words with Meaning because Cote D'Azur means a lot to me

And because of the art deco feel I would like to join the Canvas challenge of A Vintage Journey. 

I hope you like it! Happy crafting!

Art Impressions: Beach babe

I made this card especially for the challenge of the Art Impressions blog: Let's distress.

For this I used the Beach Babes stamp set. I love the images with the fun texts. 

I coloured the card with watercolour technique using Ranger Distress markers and then inked the edges of the card with Ranger Distress inks (Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo).

Tim Holtz Sea Life - Wooden box with sea fish

Here is another version of my vintage sea fish box. This is a smaller box so I could put less fish from Tim's Sea Life set onto the top.

The other difference between my earlier box and this is that I didn't make crackles here.

Normally I'm not infatuated with my works but I really love my sea life boxes.