Back again!

 Hello my Crafty Friends,

You must have noticed I haven´t been blogging 

much these past few weeks.

Well, I had an operation and I am healing now, 

stamping was just to much.

Instead I have done some crochet 

and did some watercoloring.

I love my Funky Fossil Design stamps and

 one of the designers also gives

online classes: Ann Corbiere Scott. 

So by watching and playing along, I opened a new art journal and

this is my first page:

The background circles are painted with watercolor

and inspired by Wasilly Kandinsky.

The sentiment is printed with the computer,

but the brush and the paint tubes are clear stamps

designed by Ann Corbiere Scott: Artsy stamp set.

And here is a birthday card I did with 

a printable flower sheet by Ann.

It was supposed to be a tag, but I used

it for a 5 x 7 inch card.

Here the inside of the card with a

strip left over from the background paper 

of the front of the card.

Here a close up of the flowers and the sentiment.

All is colored with watercolor paint.

I will try blogging a little more,

but I am still recovering, so it won't be every day.

Thank you for looking today,

stay safe and keep crafting.

Bugaboo digital stamps: New Release

Here I am with the

Bugaboo Digital Stamps

new release: a cutie for Easter.

You can see all the various cards

by the Design Team on the

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.

The new image is called:

 Wee One - Easter Bunny Boy.

I colored the image with Stampin'Blends and cut

the image out before gluing it to the background.

Two design papers matching the image. The grass is 

punched out and the sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

I stappled the sentiment on the design paper

before adding it to the card. 

Some of the left over pieces

 I added inside the card.

Don´t let them go to waste.

Thank you for looking

and stay safe,

stay healthy

and keep crafting.

Club Scrap Shibori Linky Party

Welcome to the Club Scrap Linky Party

sharing with you projects with the

April Shibori kit.

My project this month is a travel journal

made into a diary.

For this I cut a piece of the white paper 8.5 x 11 inch

and folded it with a 1/2 inch book back.

Then i used some of the printed paper to cover

the front and the back. I haven't really finished

the album, because I think that happens along

the way using it, but this is sort of the base.

Here you see all of the cover.

On the back I made a whole in the center

and i added some elastic ribbon as a closure.

For adding the pages I made some holes in

the bookback with eyelets and added more

elastic siver ribbon.

Here a view of the inside:

pocket on the left, the stamped pages.

Here a close up on the pocket, that I made with the

stencil from the kit.

I added white gesso over the blue paper.

Next I added blue and brown ink

and let it drie completely.

Inside the pocket I added one of the cut aparts from the kit

for some journaling. Now I am going to show you how 

i made the diary pages.

More use of the stencil, for I used it to decorate all

the inside pages. For this I used some regular copy paper

and blue and brown ink.

After the stenceling I used the Shibori rubber stamps

to make spaces for the days of the week.

With a black pen I wrote the days of the week.

The left part is done and the right part I leave for

some new ideas.

Here some finished pages with a little more stamping.

This is the back page. In the middle you see the

knot of the elastic silver ribbon from the closure.

Again use of the stencil and also a sentiment from the

cut apart. The border is a piece of washi tape

that also came with this kit.

I hope you also look on the

  Club Scrap Blog

to see all the other wonderful artwork.

Thanks for looking at my project

and have a creative day!

Journal52 week 12: A day in the life of me

Here I am with another fnished page for my

Journal52,

weekly art journal. The theme for this weekis: 

A day in the life of me.

After some thinking,I wanted to share with you

something like a perfect normal day:

running in the morning,of to the gym and

some crafting in the afternoon and

a movie with my darling in the evening.

So I started to paint my page in three colors

 to make the morning, afternoon and evening.

This page is first painted with gesso and

the colors are distress paint.

Then I used the same colors on a piece of paper

without gesso underneath. Defenitely  brighter color.

I tore up the second piece to do

some weaving with it on the first piece

of paper.

I added the bird with a stencil, for I do the

runing early in the morning and love to

hear the sounds of the birds around me.

With the use of some stencils and pens,

I finished this page.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

Journal52 wk 11: Stars

This wwe the theme on 

Journal 52 is

***STARS***

So I looked for quotes

and ideas and what kind of

star stuff I had in templates and stamps.

 Then I got the idea to use 

all and take the quote

"Reach for the stars" literally.

So I started with my Tim Holtz star stencil

and used white acrylic paint.

Then I colored the paper with distess stain broken china

and used some faded jeans for the smaller stars

of the stencil.

I used my TimHoltz star stamps and a SU! star stamp

that I colored in lemonade squeeze acrylic paint.

I also used some washi star tape that I found.

In the middle I stamped the wired circle stamp

that is by Nathalie Kalbach and carried by 

Stampendous.

I finished of the page by using a few alphabet stamps

to stamp the quote in the middle of the circle

with archival jet black ink.

Thanks for looking!

Have a creative day!

Journal52 wk 10: Art for a Cause

So here is the next page in my art journal.

The promt is: "Art for a cause".

As I donate money to the 

Make-a-wish foundation

that is what this page is allabout.

Make-A-Wish® grants the wish of a child diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition in the United States and its territories, on average, every 38 minutes. We believe that a wish experience can be a game-changer. This one belief guides us. It inspires us to grant wishes that change the lives of the kids we serve.

I give money to this foundation, because I think children should be happy

and laugh and live. Hope this way I can make a difference.

I started to paint the page in my book sky blue

with a touch of white.

As the symbol of the foundation holds a star,

I used Michael Strong's larger star

stamp and embossed it with dark glitter blue

embossing powder.

Then I took this cloud template and

white paint.I covered the star,so it

wouln't get paint on it.

This is how the page looked when i took 

the template off.

Then I took this Stampotique stamp to symbolize

one of the children.I stamped with archival blach

and colored the child with distress paints.

I was tempted to leave the page like this,

for it shows the helplessnes of the child.

Then I added some small stars and thought

of those kids who had their wishes granted and are 

now up there among the stars.

I found this beautiful sentiment

by Stampers anonymous and just had to

add it with a little doodling around.

Of course the name of the foundation 

had tobe added on the page too.

Here you see the final page

Below you see the trademark of the foundation

that inspired this page.

Have a creative day!