Throwback Thursday

With the holidays fast approaching some of us are revisiting previous posts.  This project was one of my favorites featuring Summer of  '32 which is from a photograph of my husband's mother.  You can find the original post of the vintage inspired pin cushion here.  Perhaps you have time to make a similar one for a gift?

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

It's Bling week at the Design Team Challenge .  Our lovely and talented France Papillon has asked us to "Bring on the Bling." 
My "Lucy" is Magda's Agatha's Moon.  Also in this card is Daniel's circle cube and France's essential Design Cube. 
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Snowman Spotlight

As you may already know, Arwen is hostess to SDC172 calling for "Spotlighting detail."   I must admit, I was unfamiliar with the technique and idea intrigued me.  I took a different approach and incorporated the "spotlight" with the mixed media background.

The stamp is snow family. 
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Happy Halloween

Here is a fast and easy color, cut and paste card using little SkullBoy, Frankie, and a portion (:-) of Pepper.
I rearranged the words to "This is Halloween" for my copy.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween everyone!

Janet

brusho ink in my journal

I have been playing ...

... with my latest toys - the brusho inks that everyone is using!  Who knew that this stock item in every primary school art cupboard could be so much fun!!

Whenever I use something new I start with my favourite colours - just lovin' that turquoise!!  Because it's an ink powder, splashing spots of water on the page and dabbing it off (one of my favourite techniques of the moment) doesn't work once the ink is dry, but I managed to catch it before it dried and got a lovely effect.  I'm happier splashing water on my pages than bleach!

I think Nina looks right at home on this double spread journal page, and Daniel's circles give lots of choice for a sun!

Stampotique stamps used

Nina  #5824  by Magda Polakow

When I grow up  #8993  from Carol's Collection

Circles cube  #6184 by Daniel Torrente

Daisy daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon

romantic text  #10028  by France Papillon

2 nuages (Fr)  #9248  by Janet Klein

40 stars

A friend of mine is forty at the weekend so I set too to make a birthday card.

I am much more suited to art journally, splodgy tags or pages though, than cards.  This one had to have stars

i) because I got a smudge of ink on the clean white card

ii) because I smudged pritt stick on a clean white space on the card

iii) because it turns out I no longer have '40' confetti in my confetti drawer!!

There are 40 of them though ;)

Stampotique stamps used:

birthday cake cube with candles #9148  by Janet Klein

happy, happy  #9007  by Janet Klein

dreaming on a tag

Just fancied making a tag featuring Midge and some stars!

Love how it came together :)

Stampotique stamps used:

Grow your Dreams  #7321  by Maria Sabina Raita

Small Moon  #3045  by Jo Capper-Sandon

Daisy, Daisy  #3082  by Jo Capper-Sandon

Midge  #9190  by Janet Klein

Barcode  #10019  by France Papillon

Row of Numbers  #7213  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Early Halloween

I was in a gift shop in Ann Arbor a while back  and burst out laughing over this quote, "I love your stupid face."

Carol's SDC 166 is calling to "get your spook on" with an early Halloween entry.   I had to link this funny quote to my little Corie  and Frankie images.

Husband's Halloween card made. Check. 

Janet

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Stampotique Sunflowers

Really enjoyed making this little postcard :)  After using a stencil with spray inks I added colour with ink on a sponge and some background stamping.

The flowers were stamped in grey and added to the postcard (I just love that black and white contrast with colour!) before finishing it off with a suitable quote.

Stampotique stamps used:

text block #3    by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

sunflower large  by Janet Klein

sunflower medium  by  Janet Klein

living is not enough   by Carol's Collection

back to my art journal

Been playing in my journal again :)

I used some 'scratch paper' as the background for my page then played with my Stampotique stamps.

This is in my 'paperback book' sized journal which I got from Paperchase aaaaaages ago but love for it's different size.

Stampotique stamps used:

2 nuages (fr)  #9248 by Janet Klein

row of numbers  #7213  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

barcode  #10019  by France Papillon

raindrops  #5820  by Magda Polakow

dog  #2433  by Roc Nicholas

rain text  #12022   by Linda Peterson

daisy, daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon

Have a little fun

That's just what Kaz had in mind.  Kaz is hostess this week over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge (SDC163).  We are taking older stamps and giving them a refresher!

Large Fleurfly is from my first collection with Stampotique. I give her new life with a funky background ready to mail out with the message, "Have a little fun."



Janet
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stencilled tag

I got some new stencils the other day and really enjoyed playing with them alongside my Stampotique stamps.

And being me, that play involved a tag.  After laying down a colourful background I went for clean and simple imagery (I just love these sunflowers and am so glad I have both, they work so well together).

I'm thinking it'll work well mounted on an art journal page made from some of the papers I made yesterday.

Stampotique stamps used:

sunflower large  #9256  by Janet Klein

sunflower medium  #9257  by Janet Klein

paris postcard  #8964  Carol's collection

Flowers galore!

It's flowers galore at Stampotique this week with Kirsten's challenging us to use flowers in our project.  Let me introduce you to Cinth, who would love you to say 'Hiya' to her!!

Although she's a touch un-seasonal she's a jolly, good-natured little person who lives very happily, just the kind of person you want to be around!

Stampotique stamps used:

Dotted Line  #7107  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Antique Description  #7228  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Design Cube  #10012  by France Papillon

Hiya Cinth  #9174  by Janet Klein

Sunflower large  #9256  by Janet Klein

Large Sunflower

Kristen is hosting at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week and the theme is flowers.  I took it as an opportunity to make a card that could be used for birthdays, a thank you, or a general greeting.

My  Sunflower (large) sits as a single image on my sprayed and splattered background.

Janet
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Flowers and a Bookmark - Wednesday with Claudine

Happy Wednesday to ya, thanks again for coming by and spending this time with me once again

 

I hope your having a great week.. Today marks another new challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and this week our wonderful hostess is Kristin and she has chosen the challenge "Flowers" 

Even though it's the end of August we still have a few flowers here in Colorado. It's sad though because soon it will become colder and our flowers will go dormant for another winter.

I decided to make a bookmark for this project and I wanted it to have the flower by artist 

Janet Klein called - Sunflower Left

I had originally created something else for this project and didn't like it so I cut this flower out of my original project so I could still use it. No waste! haha!

I also used one of my favorite stamps by artist 

Linda Peterson called Hazel Jester

All of the Hazel stamps are so cute but this one is my favorite, Hazel Jester definitely has that cuteness factor

I created an "arm" and "hand" for my Hazel so it would look like she was standing there holding this flower, although I'm not so great at drawing I though it turned out ok. LOL

Thanks for coming by and have a great day.

dreaming on a journal page

Still working in my little passport sized Moleskine journal but with only two pages left it's very nearly complete.  I switch between working in different sized journals depending on my mood, so I must be going through a small journal phase at the moment!!

This isn't want I originally intended for this image but that's the great thing about journaling, ideas flow as you work with the imagery (and I still have my original idea to work on!!).

It makes me think of the story of 'Where the wild things are' for some reason!!

Stampotique stamps used:

Dreamer  #12003  Linda Peterson

2 Nuages (Fr)  #9248  Janet Klein

Grow your dreams  #7231  Maria Sabina Raita

Sunflower medium  #9257  Janet Klein

Baroque background  #7109  Amy Wilson Wellenstein

art journaling with Stampotique

I love these little quails of Janet Klein's and use them quite a bit in my journals.

It's the busiest time of year for me at the minute, but that'll finish today when school finishes for the Summer.  So I'm sharing a journal page I made a while ago using my Stampotique stamps - I've loved this company's images for a long, long time.

I rarely write in my journals but I do enjoy using snippets from book; old books often have the most fantastic phrases.

Stampotique stamps used:

Quails cube  #9211   by Janet Klein

Daisy Daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon 

Modern Woman

Going clean and simple today. 

So simple, that I am only using parts of the stamps!  Cropping your rubber images is a way of expanding your collection in that it offers a new way to look at things.

Stamps used are:

 Modern woman - Janet Klein
Splattered Mug - France Papillon

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my goodness, Sarah's made another card!

My little girl was 17 this week and as she's just finished a dance show Hazel dancing was the perfect image!

I used one of my new stamps 'Baroque background' for the grass, and Janet's lovely clouds cover up all the black smudges I can't help but add to my cards!!!

A few sparkles in the daisies and I was happy with my card.  Sorry for the short post, it's sheer madness at work at the moment!

Stampotique Stamps Used:

Dance  #12024  by Linda Peterson

Baroque Background  #7109  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Daisy, Daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon

2 Nuages (Fr)  #9248  by Janet Klein

Summer Love

Daniel Torrente's Mela and Josie  Cirincione's Little bird are featured in my "Summer Love" journal page.  The heat is on and Mela's expression says it all!

I love that Josie's little bird stamp is two-sided for either direction.  It's really a must-have stamp that fits in to any composition.

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