Playing with cardboard

Hi you all! Today I am sharing a cardboard piece, made with a stamped image from Crafty Individuals; I got the stamp  as a present. The cardboard was partly peeled, sprayed with my homemade red ink, and sprinkled with perfect pearls before being heat dried. I did a bit of random background stamping using my fave love-script and diamond stamps. The image has been stamped with archival black, distressed with fired brick DI and matted with black and red papers. I added some scraps of DP in red, brown and black tones to the cardboard, before adding my focal image. I finished off with some brown lace - from my old dressing gown! And some red and brown flowers. The sentiment was in my stash.

I am linking to the red, brown and black challenge at Fashionable Stamping, and the the Friends challenge at Out of a Hat Creations, as these two dancers look like they are good friends at the very least....And this will also be a present for a good friend of mine!

Have a good weekend, take care and thanks a lot for coming by!

Friday again!

Hi you all! It's Friday again, so it's time for Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Kristin and Eva. Today I am sharing another of the water-colours I made in Israel many years back, and a mixed media piece made for another challenge.

The next piece has been made with mixed media techniques.

It is for the Alpha Challenge at the Craft Barn. This time we had to choose a word between ma & me! I chose Mezuza. I painted the page with gesso, and then gave it a thin coat of yellow and blue acrylics before spraying with some home made inks in green and blue and letting it drip. I printed the text of the Mezuzah and some of the pics onto tissue, and added them to the page. Other pics were cut out and fixed with foam pads. The little rolled up parchment is how the parchment goes into the casing. I added some random Hebrew alphas and some background stamping. The handwriting is a bit hard to decipher, sorry! I wrote Mezuzah in Hebrew with gold lettering for the title.

Here's wishing you all a relaxing weekend. 

Take care, have fun, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Creation

Hi you all! Greetings from SUNNY Rhineland, it's almost warm today, so lovely! BUT - we have Arctic winds waiting to swoop down to us at the weekend, so I'm trying to enjoy it as long as I can!

This journal page sort of evolved. I started by painting with gesso and some thinned down acrylics, and then sprayed with home made inks in blue, purple and green and let drip. This was followed by some doodle dripping or drip doodling whilst watching TV last night. Somehow it all reminded me of something not yet formed, so I hit on the idea of creation. I drew a semicircle with pencil - using a tray as template - and wrote the Hebrew words for  'At the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' ( B'reshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve et ha'aretz) I had a space at the end, so I added two words - 'Baruch Huh' - May he be blessed. I filled the space underneath with stars, swirls, sun, moon and planets, using some home made stencils, and added numerals with a CWS stencil. I added more Hebrew letters and numerals from a sheet of stickers, to represent all the words and numbers not yet formulated. I found the little blue flowers in my stash, and used some of them. Then I added the animals and fish, all in peaceful harmony with each other. I added some random stamping, dusted off with some perfect pearls, in the corners. I had great fun making this one - no plans, just letting it happen!

I am linking to Simon Says Stamp and Show, where the theme this week is 'numbers',

and Dawn's Journal Journeys  'animals'

Have a great day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Precious Memories Journal Page/ Tag Tuesday

Hi you all, hope your week has started well. We had sunshine today - at last - and it was great to see a blue sky again. I went for a little walk, but the wind was very strong and cold and I came back home quickly. Tomorrow should be sunny too, what a treat!

The journal pages have been made for the challenge at Art Journal Journey, where the theme this time is 'precious moments'. I started off with a layer of gesso, and then some watered down metallic paint in green and blue. Then I had fun spraying with my home made inks, turning the page this way and that and letting it drip and run. I sprinkled some perfect pearls onto the wet pages, and then heat dried them. The perfect pearls bubbles and gives a nice texture. I have used a photo of my sister Cynthia with her youngest son Michael. She died some years back, far too young, which was very sad, but this photo is one of my precious moments in time. I printed it onto tissue, cut it out, and glued it to the page. I did a bit of drip-doodling, added some lace, and a rose, stamped with Archival black and coloured with sparkling H2Os. (Stamp is from LaBlanche) The rose has been fussy cut and glued to the page to give more depth. I also added some floral rub ons, which are hard to see here, as they are almost the same shade of blue as I have used for the background. The text has been added with a template in a dark greeny-blue and edged with gold.

I am also linking to the Challenge at Just add water silly.

At Tag Tuesday we have arrived at the letter 'I'. So I chose Ice-cream. The little girl is a paper dress up doll. She is holding a giant ice. I made the cone from cardboard, and cut four circles for the ice, which I coated with glitter flocking. I hope that we will sooner or later get some weather where it will be fun to eat ice!

Have a great day you all, take care, and thanks for visiting!

Hang about!

The current challenge at Out of a Hat Creations is 'Hang about'. I made my hanging (24x11cms) using cardboard. It was, as usual, partly peeled, painted, sprayed and then embossed with Utee gold. The tag itself has been cut from my old calendar, which gave me a lovely supply of shiny, black paper.  I stamped the background using my fave stamps and my new Fresco chalk ink from Gaby. Leonardo's lovely lady is a stamp from lost coast designs, and has been stamped with archival black onto the back of a biscuit packet. After fussy cutting, I distressed her with Victorian Velvet DI. I added some scraps of ancient book paper and dp, and a strip of lace. I used string to tie it all together, and added 2 black eyelets at the top to thread the ribbon through. I used some flowers, seam binding, a butterfly charm and some beads as embellishments.

We are still waiting for the spring here. Other places in Germany have already had sunshine, we just got grey skies - but the weather man have promised that tomorrow spring will be here - I wonder!

Have a great day you all, take care and thanks for coming by!

The lion, the horse and the clock

Hi you all, hope you are enjoying your weekend, and finding time to relax and be creative. I am still waiting for spring here, the weather men keep telling us that it's gonna get warm, but we are waiting for the sun to come out and stay out!

My prize from Gaby's giveaway arrived in my mailbox today - a lovely card and tag, and two  beautiful packages, which were filled with goodies.

Lots of embellishments, charms, beads and lace....

And some little stamps, and a fresco ink pad. Thanks Gaby, your goodies have a good new home with me, and will be well used!

The challenge over at Try it on Tuesday is 'Time flies', so once again, I decided to make a clock. This time I used a box, covered with paper strips, gessoed, and then with bands of tape. I also used the tape that Gaby had used on the package she sent me, as I wanted to make a Paris themed clock - time flies especially quickly there! I bored a hole for the clock, put the battery into the work, and it is ticking merrily away on my desk right now. I added some wings, some roses, and a little skull as a symbol of mortality. On the right side I hung some of the charms that Gaby sent, as one of them is an Eiffel Tower. I now have so many clocks in my apartment that I sometimes wonder if I tick properly!

The second piece is for the challenge at Fashionable Stamping, where we have to use the colours brown, red and black. I stamped the horse scene and the lion onto speciality stamping paper with Adirondack Espresso. a rich brown. I cut the horse scene into 9 equal pieces and mounted them onto a piece of red miri card. I fussy cut  the lion and placed him at the front with foam squares.  I added a triangle at the top of the 'window' with a stamped angel. The red roses are a glitter rub on. The stamps are from LaBlanche. I mounted it all onto black card shaped like a house. Then I decided to use it as my May calendar page, so I used some red ribbon and cord and  fixed it to the page. Miri card is always hard to photograph because of the reflections.

Well, I think that is enough for today. Have a good day, have fun and thanks for coming by!

Moo, Moo, Moo

Hi you all! I had a fun day yesterday and the day before mooing. No, not mooing like a cow, just making moo cards - little cards sized  1.1x2.8". The challenge at Moo Mania is asking for something made with three moos, or a set of 3 this time. I love making these little things, and it is rather addictive. Getting started was easy; stopping was very hard!

The first 3 sets have been made with some scraps of marbled paper. Marbling is also something that is good, messy fun, and I had lots of narrow strips left from my last action. For this set, I have doodled round some of the splodges, and added a stamped image to the middle one. And believe me, believing in yourself is important, especially when you don't manage to get the stamp straight!

Here I have stamped the images on another piece of card, cut them out and stuck them on, more or less straight. I added a bit of colour to the stamped images with gel pens, and coloured in a few patches in the splodges to match.

Here I have stamped once onto the card and once separately, and put them on at different angles. This time intentionally!

And then I felt mooved by the word moo....this was really moovellous fun, udderly delightful.

Black and white is dominant here. The eyes have been emphasized with a drop of glossy accents.

I had great fun with these, and don't groan - there are more to come soon.

I am linking again to Simon Says stamp and show.

Have a good weekend, take care, and have fun.

Thanks for visiting, too!