Silently Correcting your Grammar - VLVS!

Hi all, it's my turn at the VLVS! blog today and I am sharing this postcard I made. If you have been following me for a while, you know I like to take the "tongue in cheek" approach to conventional celebrations (and really almost everything else in life ;) . With Halloween coming up, I thought about the most horrifying thing to "dress up as", and that would be a "belittling know it all" - far more annoyingly terrifying than any monster in my book! ;) 

VLVS! has these AMAZING text stamps and the "I am silently correcting your grammar" is one of my favorites. To see which other stamps I used and know how I made this card, I cordially invite you to check out my post on the VLVS! blog :) 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

SDC284 - Anything goes

It's wednesday and that means for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge is live with the second week of the Anything Goes challenge. I've recently bought a moleskine Watercolor pocket book and decided to make a little water coloring book out of it. I have stamped several rubber stamp images in it and this is the first page. I quite like how it turned out!

The quality of the pocket book is great I must say! Minimal warping and buckling, doesn't bleed through and a great pocket size! I have used watercolors from different manufacturers to create this pallet. I esp. enjoy using the shimmery colors from Cloves and Honey.  

By the way I embossed the #stampotique so that acted as a resist. The rest was stamped with Memento dew drop inks, and they are water proof. Everything was colored with the pentel waterbrush. This page was really great to practice my shading and have an image pop out to the front.

Here you can see the amazing shimmery goodness as I turned on the over head light to take this picture. Hope you like the idea of making your own pocket water coloring book :) 

Come and join the challenge and link your project with us HERE and for a chance to win some rubber stamps :) 

Stamps used: 

Floating 

Texture Cube 1 

Script background

Hashtags 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

TGIF! the 13th - VLVS!

Hi all, it's my turn over at the VLVS! blog and I made this fun card for Friday the 13th- TGIF! it's happy hour for Nosferatu and he's looking for brains - a detour from his usual diet :) Hope on over to see more pictures and see what materials and stamps I used.

I would like to enter this piece in the following challenge:
Try it on Tuesday Halloween theme 

Wishing you all a wonderful creepy and happy Friday the 13th!

Art Journal: Soular Eclipse

Today  am sharing an art journal page I had started during the Solar Eclipse in August and recently finished. This was a page that I had added random papers and imagery to that resulted into this finished journal page.

I used various gelli prints with stencils combined to the background collage to emulate a galaxy. Ecoline and Neocolor Crayons to pop some color off it, Moon stamp from VLVS!, text stamp from Stampotique, face stamp from Carabelle and written text with Wink of Luna pen and white gel pen.

Sharing this desk shot at my friends at WOYWW this week - glad to finally have the time to share again with Julia and the rest :)

And of course the complete journal page must be shown in full glory.

It says "we are spiritual beings on a human journey" a quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and is also a stamp by Stampotique Originals.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

Art Journal Journey - October theme : Landscapes of the soul 

Beautiful theme by Elke!

Craft Stamper Take it make it Challenge for october 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Mail Art Monday: Soulmate

Hey all, it's time to start up my Mail Art Monday segment again after a little break for the summer. Today I am sharing a note card I made with Stampotique stamps. The background is a piece of origami paper I have rolled on some paint over, the lightly scraped modeling paste over a tile stencil and rolled over some more paints in grey and black tones. The dry brushed the piece to get the stencil pattern showing through for texture. Stamped the handwritten script with a white ink ink pad, Black embossed soulmate, spatters with a posca pen and adhered all the other pieces to the card. The angel is colored with wink of stella and water brush. She got a lot of sparkle to her.

Before I matted this onto the card stock, I added more gold and bronze spatters and a border with distress crayons. I love how she pops due the the black background and the subtle texture that shows through behind her. A special card you could send to your loved one. 

The following stamps were used: 

Angel toes 

Hashtags 

Daniels hearts 

When heart speaks 

Script background 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Itsy Bitsy Spider (Stampotique new release October)

It's the beginning of a new month and that means new releases from Stampotique Originals are available! 

This pocket art journal page has a distress Oxide base. I still love making colorful backgrounds with those inks! It's another one layer page in which I have used this fun Spider stamp and as it has a smaller one on the side, I made Linda hold that one from her hand. The larger one is stamped on the background for some fun effect. The coloring is done with alcohol and faber castell pitt markers and the lettering with a Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen (with white gel pen accents) 

It's the second week of our Anything but a card Challenge and you are invited to play along. You can link your project on the blog HERE or on our FB group album HERE. 

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.

Remember - you can enter our challenge twice, as long as your using two different projects. :)

Twice the chance to win too.

In case you wanted to order stamps directly from Stampotique the following notice is up: 

CLOSURE NOTICE: Stampotique will be closed for a few weeks beginning October 6th, 2017. In order to assure that your order will be shipped before we leave, the order must be received by September 6th 2017..... Any orders after that date will be processed when we return. Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

The "friendly" neighbor (Stampotique new release October)

It's the beginning of a new month and that means new releases from Stampotique Originals are available! 

This art journal was started on a page I have rolled off some excess paint on and it had a fun and interesting effect on which I worked further and did some one layer scene stamping. The house and Wedgel are from the newest release and it looks like the "friendly Neighbor" is kindly requesting you to get off his lawn! Apparently we're getting on his last nerve :) 

I've also used Hive Flower and Kate's Texture cube for the background. The coloring is done with alcohol markers, gel pens and colored pencils.

It's the second week of our Anything but a card Challenge and you are invited to play along. You can link your project on the blog HERE or on our FB group album HERE. 

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.

Remember - you can enter our challenge twice, as long as your using two different projects. :)

Twice the chance to win too.

In case you wanted to order stamps directly from Stampotique the following notice is up: 

CLOSURE NOTICE: Stampotique will be closed for a few weeks beginning October 6th, 2017. In order to assure that your order will be shipped before we leave, the order must be received by September 6th 2017..... Any orders after that date will be processed when we return. Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Home is where the hearth is (Stampotique new release October)

It's the beginning of a new month and that means new releases from Stampotique Originals are available! 

With autumn beginning and winter coming closer, at least on this hemisphere, the evenings are spent cuddled up on the couch with a hot drink and a book. Our wonderful Arwen has designed a Hearth Stamp that is the epitome of home coziness as I am trying to depict here. 

I've also used Marsha and Kate's Texture cube for the background. I've used distress inks, alcohol markers, wink of stella shimmer pens, water soluble crayons and pencils. The lettering is done with Tombow Fudenosuke brushpen.

It's the second week of our Anything but a card Challenge and you are invited to play along. You can link your project on the blog HERE or on our FB group album HERE. 

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.

Remember - you can enter our challenge twice, as long as your using two different projects. :)

Twice the chance to win too.

In case you wanted to order stamps directly from Stampotique the following notice is up: 

CLOSURE NOTICE: Stampotique will be closed for a few weeks beginning October 6th, 2017. In order to assure that your order will be shipped before we leave, the order must be received by September 6th 2017..... Any orders after that date will be processed when we return. Thank you for your understanding.

I would like to enter this page in the following challenge:
Country View Challenges October: Mixed Media Autumn Colors

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!