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!

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 :)