Spring is in the air

For today i play with a mixed media blog called

Stamp & Stencil

and they have Spring around the corner.

This is my Spring card with another fun stencil technique

I picked up at my Club Scrap friend Roni's Blog.

A technique with stencils and gelatos.

Thanks for the inspiration Roni!

The stencil and papers I use for this card are from 

Club Scraps Woven Strand kit.

So for this technique you rub some of the colors

of your choice onto the stencil.

Then i took the texture paste and rubbed it over the 

stencil. Now it takes the color of the gelatos into the

paste and colors it randomly.

This is how it looks with the stencil stil there in place.

and this is how it looks when the stencil is out.

I wanted to give it a little more color

and added some orange dylusion spray

and some gold glimmer mist for the bling.

Now onto the stamping: I got my new distress crayons and 

wanted to try stamping with them. You wet the stamp and color

the stamp with it and stamp.

Here are a few of the images I  stamped, because 

I am going tolayer the flower on the card.

I cut out 3 flowers for this and some foam tape in between.

Here another  close up of the center of the card.

The flower and the sentiment are from the

Weathered Floral rubber stamps by Club Scrap.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap February Artist Challenge

Here is the Club Scrap Artist Team again.

This time we have some stamping fun for you

with a wonderful stampset called:

Weathered Florals.

We have created a blog hop to give you ideas as what to

do with these stamps. So I hope you have seen 

Roni's Blog

with her wonderful projects for you.

Here you see all the stamps of the UM Weathered Florals

and I came up with a scrapbook page and a card for you.

and a creative idea to use your scraps! Don'tyou have 

a box fulof left over papers from different kits?

Well I used them to make this scrap page:

You want to know how?

Welli started with picking up a few papers and lay them on the table.

Puzzeled them together to make a 12x12 inch scrap page.

Then took some washi tape to tape all the pieces together.

As you never have exactly a 12 x 12 inch page

there was a little cutting needed.

Now to make it all come together I first used

some gesso all over the page. Not to heavy,just a light touch.

When the gesso was dry, I used shabby shutter distress in

on top of it.Let it dry (this dries very quick!).

Next I took some stencils out and chrushed olive distress spray

and used this stencilin several spots.

and another stencilwith vintage photo distress spray..

Take the heat gun and dry.

And now some stamping with the largest stamp and 

black ink on top of everything I stamped a few times.

Here is the result.

Now to find some pictures and decorate the page.

(The woodsie word is from the Crewel & Unusual kit).

For this I had made a few little cards with stamps and stencils,

just like I did with the scrap page.

SoI played around with the photo'sand cards until

I was satisfied with the lay out.

The banners on the page are also the scaps that I had

cut of to make the 12 x 12 inch page. So today: no scraps left!

And here is my card:

I used a piece of left over Crewel & Unusual paper

in combination with the Weathered Flower stamps.

I cut the front of the card in an angle like this.

Then from some green left over paper I cut a few leaves.

Glued the leaves right up to the topof the slanted

line of the front of the card.

Next  I stamped the large flower in the gelato technique:

wet your stamp a little with water and color your

stamp with gelatos and stamp. It gives the image

a wonderful shimmer.

Here a close up of the flower border. For this birthday 

card I added a few blingy gemstones in the heart of the flower.

Well,this is what I have for you,but thereis more.

For this you have to hop on to

Josette's Blog

and see what wonderful things she has for you.

You find all the members of the Artist Team

on the

Club Scrap Blog

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative leap day!

Sundaystamps Challenge SSC113

Yes I found another challenge!

It is a color challenge on 

the Sunday Stamps  Blog

and here is my card:

I went fo the color challenge

and changed the tea into coffee (no surprise, right?!)

I used this Batik Girl digital image from

Java Card Line Art

There are some fun coffee images there for

only a few $$.I hope you will have a look too.

My frined Monika has also made a card with

the same image for more inspiration.

You find her card here.

And the sentiment inside the card is by

Create with Tlc

and the coffee ring by Club Scrap.

A litte about the technique:

First the girl. I am not very good in coloring.

I used watercolor crayons first to do the background and then

I filled the details with pencil.

For the background,i wanted to create a kind of 

batik look. So first I used some gelatos in the

background, rubbing the colors and then I embossed

it with the paisley folder. The raised parts

I colored with vintage photo sistress ink.

The ribbons are tight around the card before adding 

the girl image with foamtape to the card.

Thank you very much for looking.

Have a creative day!

Happy World Card Making Day 2!

What would WCMD be without a card

from my favourite CLUB SCRAP?

So here is my card and as a treat

I have a tutorialfor you as well!

The background to this card is done with a stencil from

the CS Blueprint October kit.

Club Scrp has lots of stencils and you might want to

know what to do with these stencils. Well the Technique Junkies

have just come up with a CD with 40 tutorials on

what to do with stencils:

~Sensational Stencil CD~

For this technique you need:

cardstock

gelatos

baby wipes

Use the gelatos to color your paper randomly.

Use your finger or a finger sponge to rub the 

crayon color together over the card.

Lay down the stencilon top of the card

you colored with gelatos.

Take the baby wipe and rub over the stencil

to take away some of the color.

This is the finished background when

you take of the stencil.

Beautiful, right?! Harly need toadd anything else.

More of these easy and wonderful tutorials 

are on the Sensational Stencil CD.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!