Michael Strong Zoom Class: Animals

 

Welcome Crafty Friends,

Last night (for me, but morning in San Diego California)

tere was the monthly wonderful zoom class by 

Michael Strong.

You find all the stamps I used for this class here:

Stongstamps Catalogue.

Remember, I do not get a package of cards, but digital 

files with measurements and pictures. I use what i have in my stash.

This class was about 5 different animal stamps designed by

Michael strong himself.

Card #1 Giraffe

I stamped the giraf on white paper and scanned it.

This way I could manipulate the image in photoshop

(with the help of a collegue). Then I printed the

image on orange paper. The border is a picture I found

on internet.

The leaf is a stamp that comes with the giraffe stamp set.

Here the inside of the card.

Card #2 Seahorse

Here I stamped the seahorse on blue paper and colored them 

with pencils. The border is made with 2 different sizes of

punches, hologram stickers and blue gemstones.

Inside the card there is a piece of light blue paper.

Card #3 Pony

This stamp with black ink on white paper and colored with pencils.

Next I scanned the pony before cutting out.

I used a piece of a horizontal rectale and enlarged this to make

up the border.  The tiny beads are on a piece of wax thread with

nots to hold the beads in place.

I printed the border twice and used it also on the inside of the card.

Card #4 Panda

The size of this card is 4 x 7 inch.

The background panel si stamped with the bamboo stamp

from the panda set with red ink.

5 Pand's are glued to a accordeon folded strip

and are hidden behind this flap. The tssel pulls out the 

strip of panda's. I made the tassel with embroidery floss.

The decoration on the flap is 3 punched out flowers

and a circle stamp with chineese characters (embossed

in gold and by Club Scrap).

For the inside I used another stamp from the set.

A row of tiny panda's. Also great to use on the

envelop.

Card #5 Elephant

Of couse again started this card with stamping the elephant and

used pencils to color the image. After cutting out, I put it asside to

make the card. The size of the card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch.

Embossed pannel on the front with punched out flowers and a 

tiny golden gemstone.

Inside a small panel decorated with the flower that comes

with the stamp set and also colored with pencil.

Finishing the card with 3 flowers in the same colors as

on the front side of the card.

Thank you so much for looking and the next zoom class

will be purple cards on Saturday September 24th.

If you are interrested to take part in the class feel free

to email Michael Strong: stamper.strong@gmail.com

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Lagoon

Welcome to the montly Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month the theme of the kit is Lagoon

and is such fabulous blues papers and

great stamps for wonderful pages, cards and projects.

I hope you have come over here from 

Pam's blog

and seen her wonderful inspiration.

I had a totally different project in mind and then we went to

the Sealife aquarium in The Hague/ The Netherlands.

So perfect to scrap with these papers!

I used two of the ALSB pages for it and added my own touches.

The left page is a general page with the entry

of the aquarium, the fishes and owen getting

his pirate diploma.

I added some silver embossed sea stars to the page

and teal jewel stickers from the kit.

Also on the cut out fishes strip I added some jewel stickers.

I love using the cut aparts, they look perfect in place.

And here the righ page. My daughter took this awseome picture of

Owen kissing the seahorse lamp in the aquarium. 

On the ALSB discription there are 3 coins on the squares, 

but I needed those for something else, so I used

the small sea star stamp to take the place of the coins.

I just love looking at this picture and the sentiment is just 

made for my page!

So here is the project that I wanted to make and 

couldn't resit making it anyway.

After googling Lagoon projects on Pinterest, I had many

ideas and made a lot of them come true in this

garden light/decoration project.

I wanted to paint a glas pot, but when I looked in t garage 

for a fitting pot, I came across this perfectly colored jar.

With hemp and my macramé skills from some early days

I covered the pot. When arriving at the bottom, I took

all the ropes together and bound it with an extra piece.

To make the pot hang  adding 2x4 ropes and made some knotting

the other way so I could tie the jar to a hook in our

gazebo and added a candle inside.

For decorating I stamped, embossed and colored

the sea star, the sea horse, and printed the mermaids tail.

All were cut out and glued to the jar in between

the netting. 

On pinterest I saw all these wooden beach signs

and i wanted those as well. I made it out of  paint

stir bars. Fist a layer of gesso and next some acylic paint.

When all was dry I stamped the sentiments on top.

As I did not want too many pictures on my blog post

so i made some collages so you can see the jar from

all sides. I added alse some stickers on the pot.

When the light is on in the dark it has a wonderuleffect.

Sorry, I could not make a good picture in the dark.

Underneath the jar the ropes are also decorated.

Here I added the coins, glued the shiny sea stars that

came with the kit, added more stamed woodsies,

a few real shells and a mermaids tail.

Well, that was it for this month. Hope you will go on

the see what 

Jennifer

has come up with on her blog.

If you loose your way, you can always go to the

Club Scrap Blog

where all the participants are linked

and where you can also link your own project.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Create with TLC Vintage Summer Blog Hop

Welcome to the

CREATE WITH TLC VINTAGE SUMMER BLOG HOP.

I hope you arrived here from

Faith's Blog

and see what awesome art she made.

If you happen to loose your way,

you can always go back to the Create with TLC Blog,

where you find all 14 paricipants.

You don't want to miss any blog,

for on all blogs you can find FREEBIE images.

Now let's show you what I came up with:

When i started making mycards, I had a slight

printer problem.....everything came out sepia!

Needed to order new color refills, but that took time,

so as this is a Vintage Summer hop, I thought it

was just a fun coincidence and I decided to use them

for my cards.

This card is build up in layers. I was thinking

of the old fashioned photograpers, where one

poses for a picture and then it is behind

a cut out shape. 

Here is the colored image for you to grab and make your own 

cards with. Just click with your right mouse button

and save it to your computer.

I cut out the shape from kraft colored cardstock

and embossed it with a wavy shape, that I colored 

with vintage photo distress ink. The sentiment is also from 

Create with TLC and you find it as another freebie below.

So I decorated the card with paper flowers, a ribbon

and some cut out shells. I colored the shells with 

glitter glue.

For my second card I wanted a little more color and 

for this I  used a few stencils and distress oxides inks.

The sun is a die and the sentiment is one I found in my

Create with TLC sentiment folder and perfect for this card.

At the bottom of the card some raffia is tied around

and a flower added. Love the powder pink color for

vintage cards.

Yeah!! my cartidges arrived yesterday and now I can print the 

Summer image in color. I decided to make some ATC's with it.

So I printed the image small size (that is the advantage of

digital images, you can use them anysize!)

This is card 1:

atc's are 3,5x2,5 inch, so it is small

even though you do not see this on the picture.

The sentiment is another oldie from

Create with TLC, the seahorse is by

Michael Strong.

For card 2 I used the shell stamp by

Michael Strong and added cute little 

sticky pearls. I cut up the sentiment

for a more decorative look.

Here - on card 3 - I used the complete sentiment.

Blue baker's twine because of the sea

and the fish stamp from Michael Strong

is stamped on shrinky dink, so now it

is small enough for the atc.

Well enough ideas I think for you to use the

great image and sentiments from Create with TLC.

Not enough? Go to 

Ileana's Blog

and see what she has come up with

and what freebies she has for you.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch Card: FMS273: seahorse

Today my sketch card is for the 

Freshly Made Sketches Blog

and I used stamps by Michael Strong.

This is the sketch

and you find all the details HERE.

For the waves in the background I used the steam

stamp of michael Strong's coffee set. The stamp is used 

right and left to have the waves from all sides. I used

3 colors of blue for stamping and added some metallic

dots as the water bubbles.

The seahorse is the smaller one of the seahorse set

and stamped in brown. Then I used the blending tool

and an orange marker for coloring.

The sentiment is by Javajoanne.com.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday card: seahorse

This week on the Michael Strong stampgroup

we had a card captain (that is one of the members

who shares a card from Monday to Friday)

who showed a card each day with  a theme:

a Michael Strong stamp in combination  with the

Stampin'Up! set Work of Art.

As I have this set too, I decided to follow her

idea and here is my card. The background for this

card is made with bistre/ bister (a fun powder

that is used in combination with water for coloring).

The sentiment is a stamp by JavaJoanne

The seahorse is also colored with bistre.

When the colored powder is on a palet

and you add water,you can use this to color

your image with a brush.

Hope you will come back again tomorrow

when we have a Michael Strong Blog Hop

with 11 blogs participating and stamps to win!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a creative day!

Saturday card: Seahorse

Summer is here!

Nice warm weather,so time for summer cards.

Summer makes me thing of the sea and so I got out 

Michae Strong's seahorses 

and stamped them on kraft paper.

I stamped themwith black archival ink and

colored them with pencils. On kraft paper this 

gives a nice soft look.

The white piece of paper is torn and decorated with

two sizes of punchinella that I used as masks

with light and dark blue ink and a blending tool

The seaweed in the background is stamped with versamark

and embossed with silver embossing powder.

Some ribbon and sticky silver gemstones

are used to finish of the card.

Thanks for looking!

Have a creative day!