Change is Beautiful!

 Hello and welcome to April!

As always on the first of a month, there is a new challenge over at Country View Challenges, this time the theme is "Things with Wings", hosted by the lovely Rachel.

I made a card with a beautiful butterfly.

I cut a piece of white watercolour paper to size and smeared 4 different colours acrylic paint with my fingers on it´s top. When paint was still wet, I used a stencil from finnabair and a dump baby wipe to wipe off some paint to create texture. For even more texture, I took another stencil from finnabair and black paint and stenciled some words here and there.

When dry, I used white acrylic paint to push down the colour at the part, I wanted to stamp the butterfly. I dried it again and then I stamped the butterfly with versafine Fine detail ink. I stamped it 3 times for a crisp image. I also stamped the sentiment on a leftover piece of paper.  After this I made some dots with a big white Posca pen and some smaller black ones to break the pattern. I glued the panel to the card.

Next I coloured the butterfly with my Polycromos. I used the colours from the background, just a little more intens. Then I glued down the sentiment with foam tape and last I made some 3D dots with a glitter perl pen.

Here are some more pictures:

That´s it for today!

Now it´s your turn to make something with "Things with Wings", I am curious, what you will make!

Have a wonderful April and see you at Easter sunday with my second make.

Thank you for your visit today.

xxx

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!

First Christmas Card 2022

Hello and happy December!

Unbelievable - last month of the year already! Where has time gone bye?

For the December challenge at Country View Challenges I made a card in traditional red colour.

I used a kraft cardstock for the cardbase and the topper.

I diecut the trees with tree dies from Charlie & Paulchen from glittercardstock and mirror cardstock. I cut out some trees from the cardtopper as well as the German "Merry Christmas" and matted it on a patterned cardstock in a matching red colour. The diecut trees I arranged in a row, some glued down directly, some rised with foam squares.

The edges of the topper I distressed with DI vintage photo. Then I glued the topper down to the cardbase.

Here are some more photos:

Now I hope, you will share your christmas makes with us!

You can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Have a wonderful December!

 

Just for You!

 Hello lovelies!

Welcome to my second post for the March Challenge "Mother´s Day" at Country View Challenges!

I made another card. As I liked the first one very much, I wanted to make a second one with slightly different supplies.

This time I used again a layering stencil from Tim Holtz, floral THS077 and used modeling paste to bring the pattern on the paper.

When it was dry, I took infusions, magenta and bit jaded. I mixed a small amount with water and brushed the colours on my page. This way I had some more control where the colour would go. I added some layers and dried between. Lastly I sprinkled some colour to the clean right side..

I wanted to seal the surface and tried out the Transparent Wax from Stamperia. I smeared it on the surface with a dry cloth - and it worked very well! ...and the card smells very good now =).

I stamped the text with a very old stamp, coloured the cardstock with the leftover infusions, cut it out, matted it and adhered it with foam tape to the card.

To make it even more elegant, I  brushed some golden metallic acrylic paint (DecoArt Extreme Sheen 24KGold, my favourite golden metallic paint) and added some spritzes at last. Then I glued it to a gold matallic card.

I hope, you liked my cards and feel inspired to make something beautiful for your mum too!

Thank you for your visit today!

Mother´s Day

 Hello and welcome to March!

This month in the UK Mother´s Day will be celebrated - so the theme for the challenge this month over at Country View Challenge is "Mother´s Day" - and I am hosting it.

You can make whatever you want, it don´t have to be a card, but of course we must be able to see, that it meets the theme Mother´s Day. But please follow the rules of the challenge, you can enter no more than 5 times and you are allowed to enter your project in other challenges, up to a total of 10, including ours. 

I made this card for the challenge.

I was inspired by the wonderful work of the talented ladies Nuneka and Asia Marquet.

This is what I did:

I prepared a piece of cardstock with Gesso and when dry, I took a layering stencil from Tim Holtz, called Rosette and spreat modeling paste through it. Not over the whole surface, only partially.

When dry, I took the wonderful PaperArtsy infusions lemoncello, magenta and black knight. I sprinkled them onto the preweted paper. Some spritzes of water made them flow. Then I dried all with a heat tool.

Next I did some stamping with different background stamps. I stamped them with black and brown Archival ink.

The sentiment is a stamp from france papillon - perfect words. I stamped and heat embossed it with nuvo fine detail embossing powder.

I diecut some leaves from a white cardstock with a very old Magnolia die from my stash, glued them down together with a wooden embelishment flower, and adhered the panel on a cardbase.

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today, I will be back with another card in the same style soon!

I hope to see your makes for the challenge!

Thank you for your visit today and have a good time!

Happy Valentines Day!

 Hello!

Welcome to my second post for the "Hearts and Flowers"-challenge over at Country View Challenges

Tomorrow it´s Valentines Day and so I made a Velentines Day Card.

I used some stamp sets from PaperArtsy for the heart and garlands and the script. The tiny flowers are another stamp set from PaperArtsy.

I made a picture from all the supplies I used, you can see them here:

I made a video and if you want to watch the process, click play and have fun!

Now I hope I could inspire you a little bit and you will join in with our challenge this month!

You have got plenty of time left to make something beautiful. You know, you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Have a week full of love!

Thank you for your visit!

Monochromatic - A Fun Card

Hello and welcome to August!

For our new challenge "Monochromatic" over at Country View Challenges I made a fun card, using the palette of many brown tones.

For the background I went over a piece of Bristol paper with Distress Ink Antique Linen, spreat the ink with a foam pad and put a stencil from finnabair called "Mind Games" on top. Then I sprayed some water and let it sit for a while. I dabbed the excess with a cloth and dried everything. 

Now I took the same DI and a make up brush and accented the letters inside of the squares - unfortunately you can´t see too much of it, but it looked very cool!

To tone down the color, I used a brayer with white Gesso and rolled over the background.

The picture from the vocal point is a sticker from finnabair´s "Words you need" sticker set. I matted it on dark brown and beige cardstock, glued some cardboard underneath and glued some threat behind.

The frame I built with lace from my stash, then I glued everything onto the card.

Only some embellishing was left to do: I glued some metallic stickers from my stash around the vocal point and a redish-brown flower and my card was finished!

Here are some close ups:

I hope you like it and feel inspired to make some monochromatic art for our challenge! As you know, you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Birthday Card

 Hello all!

Here is my secind project for the "Use A Stencil (Or Two)"-challenge for July at Country View Challenges.

I made another card this time. 

This card is one of a series I made for my collegues at school. I decided, to make all of them the same way. I used a masterboard for the background I made. I photocopied it and cut it to size.

To tone down the background a little bit, I used a stencil from Tim Holtz and white acrylic paint.

For some color, fitting to my vocal point, I used a second stencil (TCW) and acrylic spray paint.

I prepared all of my vocal points the same way: I layered the picture on top of several papers and corrugated cardboard, which I cut or teared to size and distressed the edges with DI walnut stain. Then I stapeled them and glued the picture to the middle.

At last I added the stamped words and a little rose - that´s it!

Some close ups:

When I have all the cards ready, I will post a picture here - I have to make 23 more ;-).

Now it´s your turn to use your stencils and make something pretty for our challenge!

As always you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful week!

Card for a Man

 Hello all, nice to have you here!

For the new month we have a new challenge over at Country View Challenges. This time the theme is "Use a stencil or two...".

I love to use stencils very much and I guess I use them in nearly all my artwork.

To add texture with a stencil changes the whole look of a piece and they are so very versatile in their use.

For my first piece I decided to make a card for a man.

This is what I did:

I took a piece of watercolor paper and sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in a light grey.

I put the stencil Lattice Work form Tim on top of the wet paint, sprayed a little bit more and left it to dry.

When it was dry, I removed the stencil and it looked like this.

The stencil was still wet, so i placed it on another piece of paper. I will use it for a second card.

To get rid of the "frame" I spreat Distress Inks ground espresso and black soot around it with a distressing tool and a sponge.

Time for a second stencil. I used the Numeric stencil from Tim, also one of my favourites, with Distress Oxide mermaid lagoon.

To make the numbers stand out more, I surrounded some of them with a white posca pen.

For some more marks I used the third stencil, again a Tim one, called Stitched Layering, with Distress Oxide crackling campfire. It´s not visible very much, but it adds a subtile texture and a hint of color.

To finish the background, I sprinkled some white paint on top.

I stamped my image and the sign, colored all, layered them and glued them on top of my background. Last I glued everything on top of a card and embellished the card with some flowers and a bow.

Now it´s ypir turn to make something with a stencil! As always you can win a 20£ voucher for the shop.

Thank you for your visit today!

Ballet de Paris

Hello all, happy first of May!

As always at the first of the month, it´s time for a new challenge at Country View Challenges.

This month the theme is: "We will always have Paris".

I made a card with vintage french themed papers.

I made it quite simple, cut out the papers, distressed the edges, colored the edges with vintage phote Distress Ink, layered the scraps, added some cloth, diecuts and homemade flowers - that´s it!

Here are some close ups:

I hope you liked it and feel inspired to make something for our challenge! You know, you can win a voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have sunny days!