Craftorij Summer Challenge week 9 (the last batch)

I can honestly say that I really surprised myself and managed to finish the cards last weekend (even though I was pretty ill with a throat infection/flue type and could do much creative work at all last week!) The last prompts had a few tough ones for me because I couldn't come up with a lot of different stuff. But well I did my best and that is all you can do, right? So here they are, the last prompts of the CZC 2016:

CZC54-Use a selfmade stencil

The flower is a stencil I made with the MM Slice. Bakcground is made with various distress stains and designs by Rynn Texture stamps. The floral silhouette woman is from Lost coast Designs. I stamped her onto a separate paper and adhered her to the piece. Traced with a fineliner to make her more pronounced.

CZC55 - your hero/person you admire

for me that is Vincent Van Gogh.

You can read how I created this piece in my previous Mailart Monday (also do not forget the giveaway!!)

CZC56 use watercolor paint - version 1

CZC56 use watercolor paint

I used a large stamp and painted over with gouache/aqruarelle paint and stamped it on the card stock. Then I painted more/different colors to finish the piece. Version 2

CZC57 Hands

was not too inspired for this one, but LCD has some great images I wanted to use.

an ink spatted background on which I stamped carabelle and katzelkraft stamps. The hand images are from Lost Coast Designs and I stamped them on sticker paper, colored, cut and adhered them to the piece.

CZC58 Reflection

Another stencil I made with the MM Slice. The background is made with various purple distress stains and I spattered white acrylic paint over it. Then I used the stencil and dark purple memento ink and a distress tool to sponge the ink through the stencil. Looks like portraits of galaxies. This might be one of my fave pieces I have done in the challenge.

CZC59 - Use a transfer technique

I used two: the gel transfer of the image in the middle and the gelli plate packing tape transfer on the borders. I adhered it all to a marbled bookpage. stamps from VLVs and Studio Light.

CZC60

Stamps from joy crafts and katzetkraft

colored with tombows, distress stains, promarkers and distress crayons.

CZC61 - make something in 15 minutes

I created with ink wash with stencils, india ink and ecoline (magic ink tutorial on youtube!)

And it's indeed time to unwind as this is the last piece of the CZC 2016 challenge!

What a ride it has been! This is what the whole stack looks like in hand (minus a few which I already mailed out):

And you can flip through the album below to few all the cards I made

On to next year's challenge I say :)

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Namasté

Craftorij Summer Challenge week 8

Today is the actual LAST DAY of CZC 2016! Gosh what a what a fun and creative ride it has been! So far I should say because like I said in my last post, I still am behind with the prompts of week 9, but well, I will take my time with those and post when I can. It was at times impossible to make something each day, so I made them in batches when I had some time to play creatively. But it was such a fun journey and I'm glad I stuck with it so far.  I have the cards ready for week 8, I will share those with you now.

CZC 48 - Big, bigger, biggest

the heart

background done with distress stains and water. You can see I have been fun with my nexw stamps from from carabelle, keisercraft and viva las vegastamps

CZC 49 - depict an emotion

I chose sorrow

The background is a page where I rolled off extra paint from my brayer. On the left a leftover piece from an embossed altas page which is a bit of the ocean, stamp from Viva Las Vegastamps (I LOVE this half face stamp) and drops from Designs by Rynn. The quote is from the book Cloud Atlas written with fudenosuke brush pen. I also used a sakura gellyroll stardust pen for glitter highlights in tear drops and words.

CZC 50 - use washitape

The background is with a dylusions inks and waterspray, used a lot of masking tape and main image from VLVstamps (colored with promarkers) and rounds stamps from katzelkraft. Like so many of you, I have a collection of washi tape, but I really want, need, love it and can hardly can resist the urge to buy more.

CZC- 51 - use a text balloon

mixed media back ground on scrap book paper, first a layer of acrylic pant, gesso and oil pastels, then clear gesso through a stemcil which I colored with ecoline, Stamped over with stazon and various stamps. lady from a vintage fashion magazine.

CZC 52 - use a post-it

the strip on the bottom on the bookpage is a post it I masked something with. ink spatters done with fountain pen ink and syringe, lost coast designs and carabelle stamps. also used pearl rubs and distress crayons and a fineliner for depth.

CZC 53 - steampunk

Combination of stamper's anonymous brett weldele stamps and Viva Las vegastamps with nautical themed washitape. gears and cogs embossed black card stock which I distressed with bronze, gold and black metallic Liquitex INK. added bronze lines with an edding paintmarker.

A post on week 9 (CZC 54-61) will follow soon (hopefully next weekend) but it has been such an awesome ride so far! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Namasté

Craftorij Summer Challenge week 7

Gosh, the end date of July 31st for this challenge is in sight and I have been in perpetual catch up more. I am sure I won't be able to finish all the cards before the deadline, but well, I will give it my best shot! Sharing the cards I have done for week 7 with you today.

CZC 41 - insects

background is made with brush and bubblewrap

Stamps by joy crafts and artemio

CZC 42 - use aluminum foil

From my soda can of San Pellegrino limonata. used distress inks and my new acrylic INKS! from Liquitex in bronze and gold.

CZC 43 - movie

I have a pathe unlimited pass and go to the movies regularly. I always keep my ticket stubs and over the years I have some pretty bad movies. Thought this quote from hitchcock was pretty fitting. movie strip stamp from lost coast designs, hitchcock from carmen's veranda, spatters from katzelkraft, alphabet stamp from studio g/pear tree.

CZC 44 - Use one word

stamps by inkadinkadoo and eline's handlettering

dylusions sprays and tombow markers

CZC 45- your fave place

my art room pictures of really old izone polaroid of my art room in various states overlayed with stickers of my own work as well as a "craft brew beer" label which I thought was fitting.

CZC 46 - use a comic/cartoon

Stamp from Brett Weldele (a comic book artist) whom designs for stampers anonymous. Colored with distress stain Wild honey, adhered on a marbled book page and spattered acrylic bronze and gold ink over it.

CZC 47 - use a picture

used one from long ago, june 20015 in chicago. A trip which I actually WON through a contest at Boom Chicago Amsterdam. It was a magical time. Stamps from carabelle and kaisercraft.

That is it for week 7. Hope to be able to post an update on week 8 and 9 soon.

Have a great weekend and Thanks for stopping by!

namasté

Craftorij Summer Challenge week 6

It's nearly the end of July! and I'm falling behind with my CZC posts and also prompts. The weather has been pleasant so I've been outside a lot more enjoying the sunshine. But I have made the cards for week 6 already, so I'll share those here with you today.

CZC35- use circles

I used carabelle, dylusions, inkadinkadoo and Designs by Rynn texture stamps, stamped with Staz On and colored with Lamy violet and akkerman blauw Fountainpen inks. I like how this all pops out from the page!

CZC36 - the horizon

Art specially city skyline stamp stamped with Staz on. Colored with mont blanc blue hour, diamine teal, Lamy violet and pilot red fountain pen inks. Also used Derwent artist pencil sunset gold to outline the city sky line. I wrote the quote "the horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it" by Ginnifer Goodwin which I thought was fitting.

CZC 37 - umbrella

Used one of my fave VLVstamps, the umbrella ladies, in combination with designs by Rynn drops and eline brush stamps used as ground. Made water sdrop spatters with akkerman blauw and bezuidenwoud green fountain pen inks.

CZC38 - use a tea bag

I usually drink green tea and for this theme I set some dark earl grey tea and colored some papers with it. Used a couple of tea bags and matching stamps. The girl and other stamps are colored with tombow markers.

CZC39 - create a border

Made with stamps from de Stempelwinkel (non sequitur, roaring 20s)

Also entering this for the July "anything goes" from the stempelwinkel.

CZC40- use green and yellow

I used lost coast designs sungodess stamps (I left them white for the CZC 27 black and white challenge) and for this one I colored in with green and yellow toned tombows.

Still have some prompts to catch up on week 7, but hopefully this weekend can be filled with creative productivity :)

Have a great weekend all and thanks for stopping by!

namasté

Craftorij Summer Challenge week 5

Still going strong with the CZC/index card a day challenge! It's half way through and I'm really enjoying this year's prompts a lot :)

CZC 29 - Use an ambigram (word you can also read upside down) or palindrome (word which reads the same backward and forward)

I chose to depict the palindrome "madame" for this one. Made it with a large Gibson Women background stamp from Lost Coast Designs. The flourishes, flower and font stamps are from Technique Tuesday "Start me up Broadway" font set. I used distress and memento inks in various purple tones and a round blending tool.

CZC 30 - paint with your fingers

Used paint (yes with my fingers!) on a book page and combined stamps from carabelle The bookpage have  the words "de regen"on them and made that the focus for this piece. "Van de regen in de drup" is a Dutch saying means the same as the English saying "Out of the frying pan, into the fire". Funny how one langues uses the water analogy and the other a fire one for the same meaning!

CZC 31 - use water drops

I made the previous card (30) with water drops without knowing the theme for this day's challenge! But this is a good excuse to use Designs by Rynn waterdrops in combination with eye stamps from Hampton arts. The moth and nose is also from Hampton but has a border around it which I didn't ink. The back ground is made with Tombow markers and the blending tool mister. I also added some glaze accents on the drops. The eyes and moth is also colored with tombows.

CZC 32 is Lyrics themed and I used the Star Man collage  from Mailart Monday of last week for. But I also made another card because I got inspired by the Cherry Blossom stamp set I recently got. Colored (including the back ground) with Tombow markers. Lyrics are from the song Cherry Blossom by Paolo Nutini.

CZC 33 - emoticons

Well I am really not a fan of those standard round emoticons (as many whom are partaking in this challenge with me) but I thought I would use the word 'emote' as vocal point for this theme. This background stamp with faces from Stampotique surely does emote a numb state of being. The dude with the Bowtie is also from that line of stamps. I used memento ans staz-on ink pads. Everything is colored with Letraset Promarkers. (yeah it could also be considered for the Lyrics assignment as it's a U2 song :)

CZC 34 - use everything except black

Seeing I love color, this one was not a hard challenge for me. This was a really FUN challenge :) I sprayed a white glassine gift bag with 4 colors of dylusions ink and that was my base. Cut and pasted it to the index card and stamped the moth from paper Artsy Hot Picks on it. Colored the woman from Viva Las VegaStamps on sticker paper and combined Eline's handlettering stamps with Carabelle daily stamps. A reminder to myself to be courageous every single day.

And with this I am concluding this weeks' CZC update.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful (courageous) day!

Namasté

Mailart Monday: Star Man

On today's mailart monday I wanted to share a collage piece I made for a swap on Swap-Bot Mail Art Postcard Random hosted in the group Sealed with Love. What I literally did for this swap, I took a hand full of small paper scraps from my junk paper boxes and see what I could come up with collage wise. The card below is the result.

In the "lucky dip" of papers there were paper scraps from scrap book papers, left over pieces from gelli prints, postage stamp sheet left overs and a home made sticker from my David Bowie Print I made earlier this year. These were "faulty prints" as the print was on the cut line of the sticker sheet. But I'm glad I kept these none the less, as it's fun to use in projects such as this (plus you know I can't throw away anything, so yeah...) I stamped some stars on the card with Brilliance lavender ink and sealed the card with artists medium. Afterwards I decided to put some accents on the  lettering with a white gel pen.

And then the Star Man was ready to be mailed out! I'm happy to say that the recipient liked this card and the lyrics was stuck in my head for a week! Want to sing along?

All together now...

There's a starman waiting in the sky

He'd like to come and meet us

But he thinks he'd blow our minds

There's a starman waiting in the sky

He's told us not to blow it

'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile

He told me

Let the children lose it

Let the children use it

Let all the children boogie

This card is also suitable for #32 "use songtext/lyrics" of the craftorij summer challenge prompt :) 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! Shout out to all my USA friends, hope you all are having a great 4th of July celebration!

namasté

Craftorij Summer Challenge week 4

June is over and crossed into another month of the CZC index card challenge! High time for another update on my take of the daily prompts of week 4. I did a couple of "double takes" on a couple of these, but I still managed to do all the cards for this week, so yay!

CZC 23 use feathers version 1 and 2

Both are made on a background of Brusho and using Carmen's Veranda peacock stamps. Version one the single peacock feather and version two the back ground feather motive. The peacock is stamped on another piece of paper, embossed and adhered to the index card.

CZC 23 use a chevron motive

I started on scrap book paper, stencil of the chevron over it and dabbed my ink tool on it with some distress inks. And used the Carabelle "the here and now" stamp set.

CZC 24 Use a map

Made a paris themed collage, used a touris map from Paris for the silhouet cutting of the buste and various Paris themed papers. This piece was sent for the CC sender's choice June swap via swapbot.

CZC 25 Halloween/Creepy - also made 2 version of this prompt

Stamps used from stampotique and inkadinkadoo. The spider is hand carved. It was fun using the cuttlebug for embossing again :)

CZC 26 Make 1 majuscule and doodle it from the inside

Doodled a letter Zenspirations style on an ink sprayed card. The cat is a stamp I incorporated in the design.

CZC 27 Black and white

I used these gorgeous stamps from Lost Coast Designs, they are mirror images from each other and super cool!

CZC 28 - travel

I made a travelling/commute card collage with ols train tickets, left overs from a coupon and postage stamps, with stamps from technique tuesday and yellow owl workshop.

And that's it for another week! These were some fun prompts and my fave of the bunch was the doodle letter!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

namasté

Craftorij Summer Challenge week 3

Another update on the Craftorij Summer Challenge. Oh boy, these have been so fun to make! But finding the time to do them daily has been proven yet again a challenge. Last year this was around the time I called it quits, but not this year! Maybe it also helped that I combined the challenges with some swap bot swap themes, to give me some extra incentive to make the pieces. At any rate, I'm actually quite proud I made it this far :) 

I left off with number 14 last time and continuing on from that...

CZC 15 - The Weather

Sadly an accurate description of dutch summer :( Stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps and Carabelle

CZC 16 - Monochromatic

I also entered my piece "no love for the lovelorn" for this theme, ut I had a fun Brusho Olive green background which I made with bubble plastic which I wanted to use. Then stamped the grunge background from Carmen's Veranda and the Leonardo Woman from Lost Coast Designs over it. 

CZC 17 - Boardgame

This theme got me stumped for a while... Not sure how I feel about this piece, but well, it does come together as a whole. Stamps from De Stempelwinkel and background from Carmen's Veranda. 

CZC18 - Use markers with 2 different nibs

Background is a piece left over from the Nickle Teal Time Wash which I stamped Katzelkraft rounds on. The stamps with fish on them are from Viva Las VegaStamps. I used letraset promarkers to color this and the quote from Big Fish "The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught" is written with a tombow fudenosuke brush pen. I sent this piece for the swap WIYM- Handmade postcard Fish swap.

CZC 19 - (Item of) your bucket list

Something I ticked off my bucketlist earlier this year, a hot air balloon ride at sunrise over Kapadokya. Stamp is from Carmen's Veranda on a brusho background. Colored in with Tombow brush markers. 

CZC 20 - use an image of a man

Van Gogh stamp is from Carmen's Veranda and the VG quote stamp is from Magenta. Background is structure paint through a stencil, brusho effects, left over mono prints from the gelli plate, and a cityscape napkin. This piece is sent for "HMPC put a napkin on it" swap.

CZC 21 - the 7th word of the 17th page of a book

I used Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman from H. Murakami, the word is "blushed"

background is a test paper piece where I cleaned off stencils and stamps. The woman is from Viva Las VegaStamps and the text from PaperArtsy. 

That was it for week 3!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day :)

namasté