Happy New Year - Let It Sparkle and Shine!

 Happy New Year everyone!

2022 - wow, where time has gone!

The first challenge of the year at Country View Challenges, which is called "A Year to Sparkle and Shine", is hosted by my teamy Jo. She says:

 We would like to see LOTS of sparkle and shine on your projects, no "token" gems or sequins please; you really need to sprinkle that sparkle! This means that you can use lots of different sparkly and shiny products (like metallics, sparkly embossing powders, glitters, lustres, foil, glazes, mirror cardstock, mica sprays or paints etc) as part of your designs.

I look forward to seeing what you make and you never know, you might even win a £20 voucher for the shop! Before you enter your project though, please read the Rules!

I made an art journal page with a lot of glitter and shine.

And this is what I did:

I started by lightly coloring my pages with very watery pearl watercolors in blue-green and silver. I spreat it over the pages with a paintbrush. After it was dry, I added some splatters in the same colours.

Look at that gorgeous shimmer!

Next I did some randomly stamping with a stamp from Art by Marlene (you can find a lot of Art by Marlene here in the shop!) with VersaFine Clair Morning Mist.

Next I stamped the little stars from the Rubber Dance Merry Magpie stamp set with a glue stamp pad onto my pages and sprinkled silver fine glitter on them. It´s beautifully glittery!

Now I took a double sided adhesive foil in black, drew a moon shape and cut it out.

I pulled off the foil on one side and sprinkled different glitter, from super fine to gritty in silver and black onto the moon.

And look! Wow! Such a gorgeous twinkling moon!

I adhered the moon to my page, put a paper doll on it and drew a fishing rod. On it´s string is hanging a quote from Eleanor Roosewelt, a stamp from PaperArtsy.

Then I only did some shading and some doodling with a white Posca Pen, stamped here and there lightly the word dream and - that´s it!

Here are some close ups:

I hope you like my page and feel inspired to join in our challenge!

Happy New Year again and thank you for your visit!

BOOH!

 Hello all, nice to have you here!

For the November Challenge over at Country View Challenges the theme this month is

Halloween!

Well, for me it is not an easy theme - I am not a Halloween person. Therefor I made a quite simple postcard.

This is what I did:

I cut a piece of watercolor paper to size and primed it with white Gesso. Then I took a TCW stencil and stenciled kind of spiderweb on the top of the page. After that I took a Halloween napkin, cut out some of the motives and glued them down with matte medium to build a scene.

After drying the surface, I took my watercolors and colored in my postcard. I used light yellow for a moon and a deep purple for the rest of the background. I loved, how the colors bleeded into each other!

Last step was to glue down the pretty witches and to write the word BOOH! with a black Stabilo All pencil. The word was activated with some water.

I hope you like my postcard and feel inspired to join in with our challenge at CVC this month!

As always, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit today and happy October!

Another Birthday Card

Hello my friends, 

welcome to my second inspiration post for the May challenge at Country View Challenges, the theme is Tea Party/Birthday Party.

This time I made a card for a man.

For this card I used a precolored paper, I guess I used watercolors, spritzed with water.

I stamped some marks with a PaperArtsy Mini stamp EM 47 with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide for some interest.

Now I used the Manuscript Stencil from finnabair with modeling paste to bring more texture to the background.

Last I layered some old book pages, kraft paper scraps, a part of a paper doily and arranged on top a paper doll from Tim Holtz.  Some flowers and a stamped congratulation finished my male card.

That´s it from me for today. 

Now it´s your turn, I hope, you will find some time to make something for our Tea Party theme!

Thank you for your visit and take care!

Blue-Green Card for a Man

Hello all, nice to see you back here!

It´s time for my second inspiration for this month´s challenge at Country View Challenges with the theme Blues and Greens.

I decided to make a card for a man. I like these color for male cards, I use them very often.

Here is what I did:

I cut some watercolor paper to size and spreat Gesso over the surface. Then I took a stencil and Archival Ink in Coffee and started to build up a background.

Next I took some Lindy´s Starburst and Flat Fabio Mists in different shades of blue and green to color my background.

When everything was dry, I matted the paper to some black cardstock and started with some background stamping. I used the brand new Seth Apter Mini stamps from PaperArtsy with blue and green Archival Inks. All this gorgeous stamps are available at the shop!

For my vocal point I stamped the big circle from a big Seth Apter stamp set from PaperArtsy, this is available in the shop too! I first stamped it with Archival Ink Library Green and then slightly moved with Jet Black Archival Ink.

I toned down the middle of the circle with white Gesso. Because the Mists are water soluble, it mixed to a beautiful light blue. With a palett knife I added more Gesso to grunge everything up. Then I watered the white Gesso down and added some splatters.

I only had to glue down one of the Tim Holtz paper dolls, give him a diecut wildflower into his hand and a stamped wish. I colored the flower with red pearl pen and when everything was dry, I glued it to a card.

Here are some close ups:

Now it´s your turn to make something with blues and greens! As always you have the chance to win a 20£ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful sunny weekend!

Spring! - Art Journal Page for Country View Challenges

Hello all, 

nice to have you here today! I want to share with you my second project for the April challenge Easter and/or Spring over at Country View Challenges!

This time I made an art journal page with handpainted flowers, using watercolors.

Maybe the little girl is waiting for the Easter bunny to come?

This is what I did:

I prepared my page with white Gesso and sketched the tulip, the daffodil and the grape hyacinths slightly onto my page. I painted them with watercolors, and when they were dry I colored the background  with very watery blue watercolors. Then I shaded the flowers with a charcoal pencil, added some highlights and doodling with posca pens in brown and white and surrounded my page with black charcoal. I was missing a little something, so I stamped some butterflies and colored them with watercolors.

Now I only had to stamp some background stamps onto my page for more interest and glue down the little girl, a paper doll from Tim Holtz. I really love these paper dolls, they always give your work something special!

Here are some close ups:

That little girl looks so cute, doesn´t she?!

Now it´s your turn to make something Easter or Spring related and share with us at Country View Challenges! You have plenty of time left! And remember - you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop! So I hope you will hippedi-hop in 😋.

Thank you for your visit today and happy Easter!

Tag with a fun sentiment for Country View Challenges

Hello dear visitors, nice to have you here!

Today it is the first of May - wow, how time flies - and we have a new challenge for you at Country View Challenges. This time my lovely team mate Monika has chosen the theme "Be humorous".

I took a fun sentiment and made a tag.

And here are some steps:

First I took a Bulk Kraft Market Tag from Canvas Corp Brands and glued it onto some leftover cardboard from a packaging to make it a little bit sturdier. 

After this I glued scraps from old book pages randomly on the surface to add texture.

Now I applied Pentart modeling paste through a stencil from 13@rts.

Now I painted the tag with a light wash of white Gesso.

Time for some color: I used PaperArtsy Infusions Olive Green and Green Man.

Then I added Lindy´s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder Luminous Lemon for some contrast.

I stamped some texture background stamps with white Gesso and VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne, with this I also distressed the edges of the tag to frame it.

Next I stamped the sentiment from LaBlanche on cardstock and embossed it with Lindy´s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder Obviously Black. Then I cut out the cardstock and colored it with Distress Oxide squeezed lemonade. To frame it I distressed the edges with the black versafine ink.

In English this means: A man must do what he has to do. And a woman must tell him, what it is.

I took one of the Tim Holtz Paper Dolls, added some washi tape and glued them down with Matte Medium from DecoArt. The sentiment I glued down with foam tape.

I surrounded the paper dolls with a white gel pen, stamped some rings with white acrylic paint with the lid of a spray bottle and a waterbrush and last I put a ribbon on top of the tag.

Here are some close ups:

Well, I hope you liked my tag and feel inspired, to join in with our challenge this month!

As always you have the chance to win a 20£ voucher for the shop!

So thank you for stopping by today!

I want to participate in the following challenges:

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.de/2018/05/mays-creative-challenge-backgrounds.html

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.de/2018/05/stencils-die-cuts-or-both-at-tiots.html
http://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.de/2018/04/323-vintage.html