Love, Love, Love

Hello lovelies! 

I am back with my second project for our challenge at Country View Challenges with the theme "Splatters, Splashes and Drips" and, although Valentines day is over, I made a trio of ATCs with a love theme.

I took some cardboard in ATC size and glued some vintage paper scraps on top, using Matte Medium.

Afte that I went over with some DecoArt white crackle paint and left it to dry.

I gave the surface a wash with dark umbra acrylic paint and enhanced the cracks even more with some antiquing cream.

Now I took some crackle paste in white and clear and spreat it through the new Shawn Petite Valentines stencils and left it to dry.

Now I enhanced again the cracks with black antiquing cream.

Now I made some drips and splatters with Ecoline liquid watercolor in carmine.

Last I adhered the Tim Holtz paperdolls with foam tape squares and glued down the word love, these are Tim Holtz small talk stickers.

Now I only framed the ATCs with black Archival ink.

Here they are, one after the other:

Now I hope you like my little cuties and feel inspired to join in with our challenge this month! You can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop.

Thank you for your visit today!

Seek - Art Journal Page for Country View Challenges

Hello all, nice to have you here today!

I want to show you my second project for the August challenge "Texture" at Country View Challenges. This time I made an Art Journal Page with yummy texture 😊.

If you want to know how I made this, you can watch the process video I made. You can find it here:

https://youtu.be/5A3DeKsFOHA

If you like what you see, don´t forget to like and subscribe to my channel!

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today, I hope you feel inspired!

Now it´s your turn to make something textured! There is time enough to play with our challenge!

Don´t forget, you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit today!

I want to join in with the following challenges:

https://bleedingartchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-challenge-anything-goes.html

https://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2019/08/take-it-make-it-challenge-august.html

https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2019/08/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-52.html

https://sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.com/2019/07/sandee-2019-steampunk-summer-special.html

"Little Things" - Notebook Cover for Country View Challenges

Hello dear visitors, welcome to my blog!

Today it´s the first of March - time for a new challenge over at Country View Challenges, and this month it´s my turn to host the challenge! I have chosen the theme: Letters &/or Numbers!

I want to be the letters and/or numbers a little bit prominent on your project.

The possibilities are nearly endless - think of birthday cards, sayings, anniversaries,... -  or simply

use them only for being pretty! 😉

This is what I did here. I altered the cover of a little notebook, decorated with many numbers.

Front:

back:

And this is what I did:
I first covered my little notebook with a layer of crackle medium. After it was dry, I painted it with acrylic paint. To enhence the crackles I rubbed antiquing creme white over the surface and wiped away the excess.
Then I stamped a numbers stamp with black staz on ink, added several numbers with black Gesso through a stencil and rubbed some very old rub-on numbers randomly on top.

The front I decorated with tinted gauze, stamped words and some butterflies, I colored with distress inks. Lastly I distressed the edges of the notebook with some red archival ink - and that´s it!

I hope I could inspire you with my little notebook and you will join in with our challenge this month! As usual you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!
I am curious, what you will share!

Thanks for you visit and have a wonderful weekend!

I want to join in following challenges:

https://scrapsnpiecesgr.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-challenge-aj-spread-by-julia.html

https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2019/03/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-47.html

http://minialbummakers.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-mini-album-tutorials-challenge.html

http://moremixedmediachallenge.blogspot.com/2019/02/more-mixed-media-challenge-anything.html

Artist Trading Coins for Country View Challenges

Hello dear visitors and a special welcome to my 100th follower! I am very happy to see you here!

November already and time for a new challenge over at Country View Challenges.

This month the theme is: Artist Trading Coins!

I love to make this little treasure coins, they are so cute and a great opportunity to use your scraps or parts of a not very well accomplished backgroundpaper.

Here are my ATCoins:

And this is what I did:

I used this paper, on which I cleaned my brayer 

and tried some new stamps.

Well - never throw away something! 😉

I punched out some 2 1/2" circles.

I matted them with cardboard to make them sturdier....

sealed the surface with transparent Gesso...

 on some parts I brushed crackle glaze for more interest.

 I took some stencils and Distress Oxides in matching colors to add some texture, ...

 and framed the coins with black soot Distress Oxide.

 I wanted to have some white space, so I took white acrylic paint and spreaded it with my fingers.

 I tinted tiny distressed pieces of cloth, ...

...gathered some small and tiny flowers...

and glued them down

Next I mixed Mini Art Stones with golden splash paint and added some white glue before I decorated the coins.

Now I sprinkled some glitter on top and when everything was dry, I added word stickers and some white highlights with a gelpen here and there.

Last step was to glue some scrap paer in black to the back and stamp the date.

Well, I fear I have overdone them a little bit - but, it is what it is.

Here are the coins one after another:

That´s it for today!

I hope, you will jump in to the fun and show us your little Artist Trading Coins! You know, you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful day!

Be Happy! - Wall Hanging for Country View Challenges

Hello my dear friends! And welcome to my new followers, I´m very happy to have you here on my blog 💖

Today I want to share my project for the June Challenge at Country View Challenges. My lovely teamy Teresa is the hostess of it this month and she has chosen the theme: "The written word".

And here are some steps:

I took a very thick cardboard from a left over packaging and cut it to size (20cm x 30cm; about 8" x 12").

I covered it with a thick layer of white Gesso glued some stripes of old book pages randomly on top and added crackle paste and clear crackle glaze here and there in different thickness. Then I left it to dry over night.

Look, what stunning crackles appeared! I really love it, it´s always such a lovely surprise.

Next I fuzzy cut some clock faces from LaBlanche and glued them down with DecoArt Matte Medium.

Now it was time for some color: I used different shades of brown DecoArt Fluid Acrylics (Burnt Umber, Yellow Oxide, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, Titan buff), some coffee and some black and white Fluid Acrylics.

Then I played with some other colors (Cobalt Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold, Antiquing cream Patina Green) until I was quite happy with it. After everything was dry, I added some modeling paste through the stencil #6 from AALL & CREATE (one of my new favourites) and left it to dry.

Meanwhile I prepared my vocal piece. I drew a heart on watercolor paper and cut it out. My desired look should be a kind of 3D, so I cut out another heart of thick cardboard, slightly smaller, glued it on the watercolor paper heart and squeezed the edges. Then I cut out another heart, way smaller than the others, and glued this one down in the middle, squeesing the edges of it too (I hope you understand, it´s hard to describe *lol*). The last step was to cut out another heart and paint it with two shades of red. The edges I distressed with black Archival ink.

Then I did some very light stamping and put it together with the bulky heart.

I went back to my cardboard and painted the modeling paste with cobalt teal hue, quinacridone gold and some Inka Gold Turquoise.

Some more stelciling with Archival Ink Jet Black,
Some background stamping with Archival Ink Potting Soil and Jet Black. I went around the edges with the black ink to frame it and added black and white splatters.

Now I prepared the background for my focal image. I took some gauze, cut it in a circle, distressed the edges and colored it with some Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide and some Quinacridone Gold combined with water.

For the next steps I don´t have pictures, sorry! But I´ll try to describe what I did.

I stamped the words with my new stamp set "Alphabetical" from Visible Image and Gabi´s Word Stamp Set from 49 Market. I cut it out, adherede it to the wall hanging with Matte Medium and when dry, I colored them with the same colors I used for the background. Then I took a fineline applicator, filled with 50:50 brown acrylic paint and airbrush medium and went over the letters. I also scribbled an uneven frame around.

To emphasize the saying even more against the pretty busy background, I surrounded the words with a black posca pen and spreat it with a nearly dry brush.

Now it was time to take care of my vocal point. I glued down my cut out gauze circle with matte medium and put some titan buff  fluid acrylic to the middle, to make sure, the heart will stand out later.
While the glue and paint are drying, I made a circle frame with some home rusted wire. I fixed it with some screw breads when the background was dry.
I glued the words "be happy" on top of the heart and glued it into the circle using matte gel.

As the final step I added some red sprinkles to the background - and that´s it!

Here are some close ups (yes, I´m in love with these crackles 😏)

So, now it´s enough for today! Thank you for your pacience!
I hope, you will find time to join in with our challenge "The Written Word" - the possibilities of use are nearly endless.
As always you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop.
Hope to see you!
Thank you for your visit!