Find your tribe, love them hard - VLVS!

Find your tribe, love them hard! I've made this funky note card for my post over at VLVS! today. Hop on over to see which stamps I used and see more pictures. 

Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome weekend!

SDC283 - Anything but a card

So it's Wednesday and that means it's time for another challenge at Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog :) This week the theme is " anything but a card" and I'm sharing an Art Journal page I made to inspire you.

Last fortnight's challenge was blue, and I could not resist but stick to that color scheme as it's my fave color, but I have popped out Topher with oranges and green. The background is done with a Prima Marketing stencil and DecoArts Media Mixed Media spray and added some texture with Kate's Texture cube. Of course I had to use the Mark Twain Quote again as it suits the photography theme.

The little camera Topher is holding is a die cut I received from a friend. It fits so well in his hands and the eye peeking through, it seems like this die cut was made for him :) 

So hope this inspires you to play along with our fortnight's challenge. Check out the makes of my wonderful design team mates here and link up your projects here or on our Facebook group in the specific challenge album there.  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!

Art Journal: Embrace your ridiculous awesomeness

Today I am sharing an art journal collage piece. I incorporated my love for mixed media, collage, random word poetry and fountain pens in one. And I am really happy how this art journal collage turned out.

The lady is a from a vintage fashion mag and she was holding her hands in a way that I wanted her to hold flowers. Perfect time to use the little prima flowers I have been hoarding. Also the larger flowers on the piece are also from Prima which I glued on flat and drew on.

I've used fountain pen images from PenWorld magazine, with the ledger and script rubber stamps I thought it would be a great match. The sentiment is a part from this stamp from VLVS! and it says 

"She chose to embrace her ridiculous awesomeness and shine like the freaking supernova she was meant to be"  

And this my dear friends I hope you all will do, for embracing your ridiculous awesome self is the best thing you can ever do!

I would like to enter this journal page in the following challenges: 

TIOT - try it on tuesday "my friend" challenge 

It's often the case we are our own worst enemy, but I wholeheartedly encourage you to befriend yourself in the most compassionate way. So embrace your ridiculous awesomeness :) 

Art Journal Journey - theme color in my world (this challenge site is so wonderful! I keep discovering new talented people all over the world!)

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge - September 2017 Collage

MixedMedia World MMW#29 anything goes 

Craft Stamper Take it make it challenge september 2017 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have an ridiculously awesome weekend :)

Back to work, but first... coffee!

Stickers illustrated by Nikki Smits

It's been a little quiet on my blog, as you might have noticed. That is because I took a much needed break from the virtual world and was on vacation in beautiful Sweden to visit my in-laws. I could have left some scheduled posts, but decided not to because I didn't want to worry about it... and it felt sooooo good not to worry about it :) I would highly recommend that to everyone, just to take a (little) online break. So I am getting back into the groove of things, taking it slow and steady with stuff to share on the blog. And I'm starting off by telling you a little about my time away.

This was my view and we walked in the forest almost daily... and I didn't want to leave it! See HERE for more pictures. Leaving was hard but it was good to come home to my Meesha cat, as she really missed us (and we her!)

While I was away, I did make some things with a huge stash of postage stamps found in a thrift store.

Made this journal for my MIL with French postage stamps.

The back has different portraits on it. 

My in laws have the most loveliest wooden desk, but I forgot to photograph it in its entirety. It was great to have a desk to work at while away. 

This is a small Muji notebook and made for the neighbor there. It's the size of a traveler's notebook.

The postage stamp art is inspired by my good friend Sue of TangleCrafts. She sells her gorgeous collage works HERE. BONUS her books are also fountain pen ink friendly :)

Fall came to greet us while we are there and in two more days, fall will arrive here too... according to the calendar. Cozy jumpers, scarves and beautiful autumn colored (falling) leaves... I feel like I am ready for it!

Sharing this over at Julia, for WOYWW this week - hope you all are doing well and are looking forward to embrace fall as well :) 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Mail Art Monday: You're awesome! - VLVS!

Hey you all, it's my turn at the VLVS! blog today and I'm sharing a tutorial for this mail art envelope I have made, based on out inspiration challenge photo. We want to inspire you with fall colors and themes this month. So hop on over to my blog post, to see the steps on how to make this cute foxy envelope for your snail mail friends :) 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!