Art Journal: Gordon's Eye Roll (Stampotique New Release september 2017)

Hey lovely friends! Today is Friday and also Word Up Weekend at Stampotique Facebook Group and I'm sharing my last make of my "new at Stampotique week" with Kassa's super cute giraffe friend, Gordon. Kassa's drawing style is always so fun and whimsical and I just love to give color to her drawings to watch them come to life! I made a mixed media background with paints stencils and modeling paste. I colored his eyes emerald and with the same color I underlined Terri's phrase "oops, did I roll my eyes out loud?" which I thought would fit the image.

You can join in the challenge this week and link your background project with us here or share on Faccebook here.

Thanks for dropping by  and have an awesome weekend!

PS: my giveaway is open until midnight TODAY

Art Journal: Harry's heart speaks (Stampotique New Release september 2017)

Today I am sharing a fun a quick art journal page I made with a super fun newly released stamp from Stampotique Originals. It's the Harry Heart stamp from Kassa Hayselden. Isn't he just precious? I've paired him with Daniel's hearts, France's Upholstered and her when heart speaks quote stamp. Harry was colored with alcohol markers and the background done with distress oxides and watercolor paints. The edges are lined with distress crayon in shabby shutters and smudged out to the inside to create the border.

Like Harry, I hope you'll listen to your heart when it speaks :)

I would like to enter this journal page in the following challenges:
Watercooler Wednesday WWC135 Feminine Anything goes
Simon says Stamp it! - Wednesday Challenge
Happy Little Stampers Water color challenge September 

Art Journal Journey September - color in my world
Another beautiful theme ladies!
My hearts speaks to me in color and I always use color in my art journal pages. My latest "obsession" is watercolors :)

And don't forget you can join in the Stampotique challenge this week and link your background project with us here or share on Faccebook here.

Thanks for dropping by and tomorrow I'll have the last showcase for september's new releases at stampotique.  :)

PS: my giveaway is open until midnight this friday!

Shut the Front Door (Stampotique New Release september 2017)

Today I am sharing a fun a quick postcard I made with a super fun newly released stamp from Stampotique Originals. It's the Dog with kittens stamp from Terri Richardson and isn't is just adorable? I love how the kitties are peaking from behind him! I colored with letraset alcohol markers, cut him out and adhered the image onto a piece I had left over paint and stamped images on. That is Mash up from France Papillon. I added more color with distress crayons and the piano keys ephemera to emulate a doormat. Thought it would be fun to add "Shut the front door" phrase from Terri because I think that it's might be the litter of kitties from the neighbor's house wanting to play with ol' Rufus here, what do you think? LOL :) 

Thanks for dropping by and hope you will tomorrow to see my make for this week's challenge and have a wonderful day :) 

PS: my giveaway is open until midnight this friday! 

Mail Art Monday: I'm not weird, I'm a limited edition

It's another beautiful Monday out and I'm sharing this postcard I made with a bunch of the new stamp releases from Stampotique Originals! I love using book pages in my postcards lately and the background is one I had in my stash a while, it's got left over paints from stencil wiped off it like the star you see on the top left. These new releases really do combine very will together!

Stamps from the new releases I have used in this card are:
Funky Town by Kate Crane
Hive Flower by Arwen McCullen
Little Whookie by Daniel Torrente
Short and Tall Tress by Jill Penny
Phrase Cube #3 from Teri Richradson
Other stamps used
Brick Road by France Papillion
Texture Cube 1 by Kate Crane

I would love to enter this work in the following challenges:
Sunday Postcard Art - Stargazing
Try it on Tuesday - Postcard

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!

Mail Art Monday: 'Ello

'ello my dears - hope you are doing well on this fine Monday! It's time for another Mail Art Monday and I am sharing a postcard I have made recently. It's for a swap on Swap-Bot for the Hand Made Postcard group. Theme was to make a postcard using a book page in your design. As you can see, I used a book page for the background. I used a handmade stencil made from Tim Holtz Mixed Media dies and sennelier watercolors in greens and blues. Then added some gold and white spatters. The edges are stamped with the knitted border from Dylusions stamps and added the black soot crayon around those outer edges.

The focal point, you might have recognized from this video as I was trying to see which of the ladies would fit better at that page. This one didn't go in that art journal page, but she does look very striking here, wouldn't you say? I gave her more color using wink of stella markers, so she also had a bit of shimmer in her. The sentiment was supposed to say "hello" as it was a negative from the TH sizzix words die cut, but the "h" got cut off and well I like the whimsy this adds to the piece.

By the way, the woman is a stamp from the clear stamp set "with the right hat" from Dyslusions. I really love the line art of this stamp set and stamping it on a piece of gelli printed paper, makes it even more fun.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day :)

Mail Art Monday: Snow in July

Over at Stampotique this fortnight we have a challenge for you to use your tape. I often use it to put it under an image to "ground" them on the page. I have done that with this postcard as well. I've used Cloy from the July new releases combined with this wonderful quote from  Mark Twain. Cloy is such a fun and interesting image! The background is a typewritten book page which I swiped through distress stains and after it dried I spattered some white and gold liquitex paints over it. It looks like its snowing on a warm july day... but cloy seems to be cold none the less ;) Don't forget to link up your project if you make something to fit the theme :) 

I'll be back later this week for more tape inspiration! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Mail Art Monday: Fancy a Cuppa?

Today I'm sharing a card for coffee lovers, made with VLVS! (the cup and saying) and the splats are from Marianne Design I think. The background is done with Tim Holtz Oxide ink walnut stain and stamped with as well. I also used Staz-on Timber brown. The cup is colored with tombow markers and I placed a lady next to it which is a cut out from a vintage magazine. Found some "atomic age" icon stamps and stamped those as well. created a border with washitape and a krink marker. Sealed it off with Modge Podge shimmering gold. Fun, simple and effective! 

Over the weekend I have played with the new Oxide ink colors (so fun and BRIGHT!) and got a fun project to share with you tomorrow :) 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!