Something New

My card today is for the

Die Cut Diva's Blog,

where the challenge is 

Do or Use Something New.

Well, I did both.

I became a member of a new group

for Oriental stamp art

and because of that I bought this

paper lantern die.

Here you see the die, it is not too large, so easy to use

on cards and wonderful to combine (here on the

sleeve of my coffee cup).

So those of you who visit my blog more often,

know my love for coffee, so here my first

oriental coffee card.

The backgroud is made in resist technique

with an Art Neko flower stamp.

The coffee cut is cut with the Stampin'Up!

coffee thinlits. The stamped sentiment

is by Stampin'Funn. The "hello"die cut

is from a Tim Holtz die.

The girl is an image I found on internet

and colored with zig markers.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day.

Art Neko: 3 Geishas

Today I am posting for Art Neko with

a card with 3 geishas. In my stash of stencils

I found this one that i think looks like parasols

and found it a great background for the stamp I wanted to use.

So I laid the stencil on top of the card

and fastened it with washi tape to my craft mat.

I also used washi tape to block of parts of the stencil to color

it with different colors of distress ink. I used: worn lipstick, fossilized

amber, wild honey and rusty hinges.

After i finished coloring I splashed some hickory smoke spots

on the background with a pencil.

The 3 geishas are colored with the same colors

as I used for the background by using a pencil and adding the color 

direct to my craft mat with a little drop of water.

In the heart of the flowers I added tiny sticky pink pearls.

You find the 3 geishas stamp HERE

and the sentiment of peache and harmony HERE.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Dragonfly Pocketletter

I was making some atc's (cards of 2,5 inch by 3,5 inch) for trayinding and had so much fun that 3 cards suddenley were 9 cards and I had enough to make a pocketletter. You see them quite a lot these days. All the stamps I used are by Art Neko.  The main stamp I used on all the cards is the dragonfly background stamp. All other stamps I used are the large winged dragonfly pair, dragonfly medallion, dragonfly triplets, flower and sentiment.

Here a little close up of the first 3 cards. I started with stamping the dragonfly background stamp on different surfaces in the blue color (salty ocean distress ink). Next I stamped the dragonfly medaillion on yellow paper with black ink and colored the wings with light blue glitter glue. On the middle one I sponged yellow ink as the moon through a piech of a 1 inch punched out circle. On top of the blue I stamped the set of 3 dragonflies with black ink. On the left card I used a left over gold embossed piece of the dragonfly stamped background. On all the 3 cards I added tiny red sticky pearls.

For the center cards I first used two pieces of black paper and embossed the background stamp with white embossing powder. The center piece of these cards are a stamped flower and paper cut out with a honeycomb dye. The middle card is totally different. Here I stamped and gold embossed the background stamp on brown paper. Then cut out a circle with a die and used a crumpler. With the black strips on top and bottom it looks like a chinese lantern. The dragonfly on top is punched out with one of those handheld punches.Top and bottom of this card are glittery washi tape.

And the bottom cards are different again. Stamping the background stamp on various papers. Left to right: regular cardstock colored in blue ink and dragonflies stamped in black, middle watercolor paper, first backgroundstamp in blue and next larg winged dragonfly pair in black and right the background stamp on top of a piece of bookpaper. On all these cards i used the dragonfly sentiment.

Hope you get some ideas. For more info about what  exactly is a pocket letter go HERE.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day.

Tim Holtz August tag: Dragon Fly

After all the Creative Chemistry

it is now time to make mAugust tag for 

the 12 tags of 2016 on Tim's Blog.

This is also the place were you can find all 

the technique tips on making this tag.

Here is my tag and this time I used stamps 

from ART NEKO.

I love the more brighter colors that I chose this time.

For the background of this tag, 

festive berries and mustered seed 

distress stains are the colored.

On top a Asian text stamp with archival black.

Then with vintage photo and

waterdrops the background is finished.

After die cutting the honeycomb from a piece of 

bookboard (and colored with festive berries stain)

these Asian papers were also die cut with the honeycomb

die. This time the insides are used and distressed with

vintage photo distress ink.

On top you see the dragonflies.

They are embossed with Judy Kinns Chamaleon

embossing powder. This gives a blue glow and

that is exactly what you see when they fly around you.

As a text i used a poem that you can find here.

Stamped with archival black and  cut into lines.

Finished of with a little sewing after punching some holes.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!