a fairy

for the anything but a card challenge #26. They want to see fairies on just about everything - except on a card.
It's just a small thing that I made – but definitely no card :-D

It's an envelope I made with a gelli plate print and stamps.

I stamped the moon (which you can hardly recognize) directly on the print as well as the tree. Both images are colored a bit with water-soluble crayons.

The fairy was stamped on a seperate piece of cardstock and the body was masked to color the wings with dylusion sprays and a touch of glimmer mist. Then I cut it out and glued it onto the envelope - done :-D

The moon is by de Stempelwinkel, the tree by Vildastamps, but I can't remember where the fairy is from.

Thanks a lot for stopping by ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

little accordion booklet

I made a little ATC-sized accordion booklet ... think I will embellish it a bit more some day.
In the meantime it fits into the Anything but a Card challenge #11 'Tie it Up' .

front

 back

inside

 For the covers I tried the faux leather technique (by joggles) on grungepaper. Then I embossed the front with the T.H. cogs folder and the back with the rivet folder.
Inside I used several steampunk stamps, the background is sprayed with some glimmer spray 'long john's silver' by Lindy's stamp gang, it looks more brownish, though. That's why I decided to stamp the images with staz on brown timber.

Thanks a lot for having a peek.

Hugs,
Suzanne xxx

apparition

I don't know if this is scary enough for the hardboiled jailors of the evil and creepy over at Haunted Design House, it freaked me out, though: this strange woman appeared one day out of the blue in the mirror on my nightstand ...

Many months ago I saw a tutorial on how you can remove parts of a mirror with oven cleaner. I wanted to try this for just as long. Now I did try it - but it didn't work for some reason, don't know why ... so I tried it the other way around: I took a picture frame from the €-shop, filled some mirror color in a little spray bottle and sprayed it onto the glass plate until it looked somewhat like an old mirror. I applied some rub on metal gold onto the frame and in the middle of the flowers I adhered some small skulls that I had stamped on a piece of cardstock sprayed with a mix of festive berries/fired brick and clear embossed. Finally I put a sepia-photo from the internet behind the glass.

The raven and the skulls are by Oxford Impressions, the tombstone is by paper artsy (hot picks) and the devil by 100 proof press. The raven and the devil are coated with clear embossing powder as well, the headstone is stamped with grey staz on, colored with iced spruce and covered with crackle paint.
It was a real pain to take a pic where you can recognise at least something ... yes, it's a mirror LOL


I'm entering this into the Hanted Design House challenge #158 where's  'Freaker's Free for All' - anything goes.
It's also my contribution for the 'Anything but a Card' challenge #10, where they want to see 'Things with Wings'.

Thanks for having a look.

Hugs, Suzanne

small things, a TAG and a card

My daughter wished for magnets for her locker at school. Since domino magnets have been on my long, long to do list for ages this was a chance to try some. Sadly I simply can't seem to get along with clear stamps ...
The backgrounds are made with Adirondack Alcohol Inks and I colored the images in with sharpie pens. Finally I covered them with a layer of glossy accents.

Anyway. So these are my first ever domino magnets:

on the left a Tim Holtz stamp, on the right the free stamp from the craft stamper magazine, sponsored by darkroomdoor.


Next is a TAG made with one of my Gelli Plate backgrounds.

I cut the bird and the cage from another piece of gelli printed paper with a Tim Holtz/sizzix die (caged bird), applied some mica copper, brown acrylic paint, inka gold and embossing powder vintage photo.
The sentiment reads:
"Freedom is a very powerful thing. Just ask the caged bird. You can hear it in the song she sings."

This was the original paper:

I'm entering these two 'projects' into the Anything but a card challenge #10 where they want to see things with wings.

Finally I made a card with another Gelli Plate background:

Stamps and sentiment: Tim Holtz. I swiped some distress stains antique linen and spun sugar over the lace and then sprinkled a bit of frantage embossing enamel aged ivory onto it.

The background before:

Because it's very hard to have the plate and colors out and make only two or three prints LOL here are some more impressions ...

I'm entering the card into Carolyn Dube's Gelli Print Party

If you want to see more of the Gelli Plate and what awesome things people create with it hop over to her blog and see many, many gorgeous examples people entered there.

And of course and above all Carolyn does stunning stuff and tutorials herself!


Thanks for looking,
hugs, Suzanne xxx

Bats, bats, bats ...

challenge #154 over at Haunted Design House: Bats in the Belfry.
We are to 'create a dark, Gothic or Halloween-based piece that has anything to do with bats'.

Now this time I dared to do something bigger and a little more elaborat than a card :-) in honor of the BATs, some of  the most adorable and fascinating creatures on earth. Just love them ...

So I decided to do a mirror.
First I glued down pre-cut and torn scraps from patterned paper and dictionary pages. Then I stamped the haunted house with a flock of bats from paper artsy/hot pick in the bottom left corner (sponged it a little bit with green, grey and purple ink), in the background I stamped a spider web by Tim Holtz and a little flock of bats (also paper artsy) several times.

Then I covered the frame with a coat of craft glue and sprayed it with mixtures of distress reinker and water (iced spruce, dusty concord and shabby shutters) and some glimmer mist slate for good measure. Then I scattered different cut-out bat stamps all over the frame.

At first I glued the hanging bats onto the frame and the barbed wire has been stamped in black, so nothing really to recognise properly. Also I outlined the bats with white because they've been too dark which didn't look very good.
In the end I stamped the barbed wire again with silver acrylic paint dabber, stamped the bats again on grey cardstock and cut them out generously to cover the white outlining. I adhered them with 3d pads and tried to complete the wire on the cardstock. Finally I added a metal ornate plate with the word BATS in case someone would miss it's all about bats this time LOL
So in the end it looks better than the first attempt :-) Hope some of you like it, too.

I think it's quite funny how people dig up their various kinds of bats :-D


A few close ups, hope you don't tire of looking :-)

This one is just the scrap I covered the mirror with, but I think I might do something with it, though ...

I also like to enter this project into the Artful Times challenge #15: fur or feathers (I'd so love to stroke a bat's fur and hold such a little cutie in my hand ... :-D), and the 'Anything but a card challenge #4: Fall or Halloween or Fall Colors' - I think this definitely fits for Halloween :-)
Usually I'm not the challenge hopper but since at the moment there are Halloween challenges everywhere and I sadly am not able to do as many things as I'd love to, I'll make an exception.

Thanks for having a look and your patience.

Hugs, Suzanne xx