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!

SDC281 - Background Love

It's Wednesday and that means it's Stampotique challenge time. Background Love is still going strong this week and I'm sharing this journal page in hopes to inspire you to play along. I had some left over modeling paste from another project and scraped it through a brick stencil. Then sploshed some purple inks over it and built it from there. It's got a lot of texture and things going on the in the background and it's my fave way to create a background. I almost always use Textured Cube 1 in anything really. It's my building-block for a great mixed media background. 

I paired the Enjoy today quote with Mothloved and the accentuated the brick-theme with France's Brick Road. Those are made yellow with wink of stella shimmer pen. 

While it's good to make plans for the future and live for tomorrow, I prefer to enjoy today. 

Let's follow the yellow brick road to where we are in life :) 

So hope you'll join in the challenge and link your background project with us here or share on Faccebook here. 

Thanks again for stopping by and do come back tomorrow for more Stampotique love :) 

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! 

Heartfelt watercolor note cards (Stampotique New Release september 2017)

Today I am sharing a few watercolor cards made with some of the newly released Stampotique Originals rubber stamps. There are two beautiful flower bouquets you can make some heartfelt note cards with like I have shown above. What I did with both was emboss the flowers on watercolor paper, then make the background and color in the flowers. die cut the sentiments and piece them together. These watercolors cards are just super fun to make and didn't cost much time at all! You just let the colors work its magic. The watercolors I have worked with here is from Cloves and Honey shimmering watercolors. They just SPARKLE in real life!

This bouquet is designed by Terri Richardson and I love the delicate flowers together. I chose one color for the flowers to make them pop from the background. The HUGS sentiment is a die cut from Technique Tuesday. And the accolades are from an alphabet sticker set I have.

This bouquet, called Flos,  is designed by Kassa Hayselden and she drew them in the same style as the popular "kassa's bloom" stamp. I really love this style and also like it has the word beautiful in it. It's a whimsical design with dots and scribbles and just super fun! I paired it with an XOXO die cut from Stamplorations "cutplorations" die. First on black then inlaid the vellum cut out. The accolades are from the same set. The watercolors are just super fantastic in real life!

Entering this last card in the Stamplorations Never Ending Anything goes challenge

Don't forget to check our newest Stampotique Designer's Challenge as well. Hope this inspired you to work with watercolors and these gorgeous new flower stamps from Stampotique originals! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day :) 

Art Journal: I think I just Threw up in my mouth (Stampotique New Release day!)

It's the 1st of the new month and that means it's New Release day at Stampotique Originals!! There are 6 new images out and I'll be showcasing them for you this coming week. I'm starting off with a design by Daniel Torrente and he is called Blackeyed. I think he's wonderfully morose looking and I have paired him up with a phrase from Terri Ridchardson from last month's release. I just love the sarcasm and witty humor the cube phrases have. Normally this phrase would be used in a negative setting, ie when someone dislikes something, but I used it in another way, like how excited are you for the new stamp releases? Yep, so excited I think I just threw up in my mouth ;)

Blackeyed was colored with alcohol letraset markers and fussy cut and adhered to the background. Which I made on a Distress Oxide base and stamped on with Kate's Texture Cube with my Kalaeida colors ink pad in fall colors. By the way, you can read here how I made the backgrounds with Distress Oxides.

Hope you are excited for the new releases as we are :) Come check out our facebook page where we share more images of the new releases and also check out our challenges at the Challenge blog. This fortnight's challenge is "backgrounds" and next week I'll share an inspiration for that too (but hopefully this also inspired you to make some fun backgrounds with our fun textures stamps and oxides :) 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!