~nature chunkies~

A couple of chunkies I made the other day.





And a matching ATC





Materials used:
text stamps by Hero Arts
texture stamps by ArtJourney
stickers by Zeeman ;)
distress inks by Ranger

balance harmony SOUL

After several months of hiatus, I've picked up stamps, ink, paper and siccors again :) And this is one of the cards I made recently.



materials used:
distress inks
text stamp by ClubScrap
textures stamps by ArtJourney

Book Page Backgrounds ~ the Sequel

One of the cards I made for the Book Page Backgrounds ~ the Sequel swap at ATCsforAll.com.

Kindness

Playing around with my new stampset (I love it!). Will add the brand/name of the stampset soon when I remember to check for it.

masking technique

This ATC has been made using a masking technique I spotted a little while ago over at the Hero Arts blog. I am too lazy to look up the tutorial video but if there's interest I'll go and dig it up. :)

I stamped the flower both on the card as well as a couple of scrap pieces of paper, then cut out the image from the scrappaper to use as a mask. I used a dabber and distress inks to color. Then once I heatset the ink (too impatient to wait until it dried on its own) I stamped the script over the flower, using another mask to keep it inside the flowerpetals. This is a fun technique, definately one to try more often with other stamps as well.

fun with ecoline inks

Stamping + ecoline = fun!

Music is in the Air swap

Three ATCs I made for a music-themed swap on ATCsforAll. I've seen some awesome cards posted on the forum but the swap hasn't closed yet, so am very much looking forward to my returns.

Wish upon a full moon

Cuppa anyone?

Here's 3 ATCs I made for the Tea Party for Two swap over at ATCsforAll.com earlier this January.




I liked the ducky tea cup so much that I was a little sad letting go of it. I didn't have time to make another ATC or I would have kept it! I mentioned this to the swaphost and she was so kind to stick a sticky note on my own tea cup and mail it back as one of my return cards! So the lil ducky is now in my personal collection of cards :)

Some oldies

A Room with a View.



The windows have "real" glass in them (gotte love acetate sheets.. however the acetate didn't like my heat gun too much when I was trying to make the ink dry faster.. hah!) and you can open them to "take a peak outside".

Happy Holidays



When you open the door of this cute little house, there's a piece of ribbon in there that reads "Happy Holidays". :)

I love this stamp btw. I've used it to create a handful of Christmas cards and will definitely be using it for more next year.

Stamping techniques swap

Thursdayevening I finished my cards for another swap over at ATCsforAll.com. I've already showed one of them, the Fassi Jewel card I posted 17 December. Here's the other two cards.

The background of this ATC is made with distress ink, spritzed water and perfect pearls mixed on my craftsheet then I dipped the cardstock in there. Once dry I stamped the background with a script blockstamp. Seal stamped with fired brick distress ink then embossed with clear powder to make it pop out some. Scriptstamp by Blockhead, other stamps by ClubScrap.


For this background I used a resist-technique using white ink for the flowers, then sponged on the other colors and wipped of with a tissue. Large dragonfly embossed with clear powder. All stamps are by ClubScrap (except for the lil red flower, I don't remember where I got that one from).

new goodies

Earlier this week I had finally put an order for some new colors distress inkpads, and a couple of new stamps. The package arrived this wednesday and while I should have been studying for my finals that start next week, instead I took the evening off to play with my new goodies. Fun!
I created a whole bunch of backgrounds for ATCs to finish at a later point and tried out some new techniques (with mixed results lol). Shown ATC was basically a try-out to learn how to position this stamp (can use some practise still hah), it's simple but I like it. Background was made with some sponged distress ink and spritzed water, then I brushed over with some gesso (which to me still just feels, smells and looks like real thick white paint lol), then I stamped on the image with walnut stain distress ink.
I have a couple of ideas for cards and ATCs and what not.. now I just need to be patient until after my exams are done (2nd week of January) so I can actually playwithout having to feel guilty I am not studying!

Merry ATC Christmas Cards

and another one

Day 27 AEDM

While I didn't at all manage to keep up with the Art Every Day Month challenge earlier this month, over the past days I've created multiple ATCs per day so I guess that counts as catching up, sorta, right? Hence why I still use the AEDM thing as a title.. though I might actually go back and change it since I don't feel like I really managed to keep the challenge...

Anyway, here's a few more ATCs I've worked on yesterdayevening and today. They for an ATCsized Christmascard swap.

Day 26 AEDM

Worked on 2 ATCs this evening and I have to admit: I am pretty pleased with the outcome! Especially the second ATC needs to be flattened, it's under a stack of books right now. Will try and make a proper pic of it tomorrow.

Day 25 AEDM

Happy Thanksgiving!

To all of my American friends&readers, Happy Thanksgiving!

Day 8 AEDM : Snowman ATCs

Today after dinner I sat down with my new set of (simple kiddie-) filt-tipped pens and worked on finishing the set of snowman ATCs I started yesterday. I am making them for a Snowman themed swap over at ATCsforAll.com.

They're really simple (I like simple:)) but cute nonetheless: basic white cardstock, one of my favorite winter stamps featuring a cute snowman holding up a star, colored in with pencil/marker and topped of with stickles (glitter glue like stuff, I do not like glittery stuff much at all on my crafties but this stuff does add a fun finishing touch at times).

Also went through a bunch of womans magazines (de Margriet!) that my MIL gave me and cut out the Marjolein Bastin pages for future use on ATCs. I like her drawings.

Day 7 AEDM : Postage ATC

Yay, I've actually got something to show in lieu of the AEDM challenge! Not 100% happy with the outcome of this ATC but at least I created something today. :)

This ATC will be part of a set of 3 ATCs created for a swap themed 'Postage Due' - the cards should feature at least one stamp (the postage type of stamp).
As a background I used part of an atlas page showing Spain (and half of Portugal heh), to go with some stamps from Espana I had in my stash. The two other cards that are in the make are of India and Australia.

Also worked on another set of ATCs with a snowman theme (winter/xmas coming up again after all!), but I will keep those for another day :) I like them though, they are simple, but cute.