little squares

Hi and hello everyone out there in the world wide web ...

It's been ages since I joined the Art Journey challenge and I thought it was about time to take part again. This month for the 49th challenge the wonderful DT wants to see little squares.
I had this 15,5 cm by 15, 5 cm MDF plate for quite a long time and I took the opportunity to work on it.

The square has been painted with acrylic paints, stamped with stazon jet black + stone grey, archival ink green and turquoise, and some white ink. The little squares are from stampbord and they were coloured with AAI and stamped with AJ images too :-) Between the squares on the plate I glued some parcel string horizontally and vertically.
That's it ...
as always, thank you so very much for stopping by and having a look.
Have a great Sunday everyone

hugs, Suzanne xxx

Mail Art Swap

Initiated by the Art Journey Challenge 'Mail Art Envelopes' some time ago I did mailart swaps with two very versatile and talented ladies: Alie and Tera.

Please have a look at the most wonderful and gorgeous mail art I got from these inspiring ladies

from Alie:
this beautifully colored and stamped envelope

plus one of her famous most wonderful and bright TAGs

and from Tera I got this most elaborate and artful envelope
front and back

 and a fabulous matching card

 I thank you so very much ladies, it has been such great fun to create my envelopes and to swap with you.

I'd so love to do more swaps at some point, mailart, TAGs, ATCs ... whatever. Love this.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a quiet week ..
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

and some more Mail Art Envelopes

Hello everyone.
I hope you had some wonderful Easter Holidays.

The totally talented DT over at the Art Journey Blog are asking for Mail Art Envelopes for their monthly challenge. Since the day I did my first ones on this occasion I just couldn't stop. There were more backgrounds, snippets, stamps I hadn't used ... and so on. I'm pretty sure you know what I mean.
Therefore now my second entry into the AJ challenge:

I sneaked in one or two different stamps, hope that's okay ...

Thanks for this absolutely wonderful - and for me very productive - challenge :-)

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annnnnnnnnnnnnd ...

– Spirits that I've cited .... –

still some more:

Anyone interested in swapping one?

Thank you ever so much for your visit and your patience ;-)
Have a good week all of you ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Mail Art Envelope

Second post for today - thanks for bearing with me :-)
After quite some time I'm happy to join the Art Journey Challenge again, one of my favorite challenges.
This time the gorgeously talented DT asks for mail art envelopes and I made two pieces.

For the first one I cut a few freehand clouds and masked them as well as a piece of paper to keep the space for the address clear. The background was sponged with several distress ink pads, trying to blend the colors together. Then I stamped various AJ stamps onto it and colored them lightly with watercolor pencils.

For the second one - with matching postcard - I used the gelli printing plate and a few stencils to create the background. Then here too several of those adorable AJ images were stamped, they have stunning steampunk stamps among others. I used watercolor pencils on those too to give the images a bit of color.

Thanks a bunch for taking the time and stopping by. Have a lovely day all of you, sun is shining around here and I really hope it will stay a bit.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

shades of blue and green ...

for a little TAG-book. Finally I'm able to join the challenge at the Art Journey blog again. Sadly I missed it so many times this year ... This time the wonderful ladies ask for shades of blue and green. For further details please have a look at their blog with gorgeous inspirations from the very talented DT.
This is my entry: A little TAG book with pages from gelli plate prints.
front:

back:

The boy is stamped onto kraft cardstock and colored with neocolor II crayons, hence his strange look LOL
outside:

 inside:

the TAG is cut by hand and sprayed with dylusion inks, stamped with various background stamps by Art Journey.

Thanks so much for visiting.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Alcohol Inking

... is the theme over at the artful times challenge blog.
Here is my version:

The background was made with the 'alcohol ink floating' background technique Andy Skinner shows in this video. Then I stamped the grass (T.H.) three times with various ink intensity. The boy (adhered with 3 D dots), the birds and the branches are by Art Jorney, the butterfly is a die by T.H., cut from a gelli plate print, stamped over with a script stamp (also T.H.). The hope script stamp is by lost coast design.

Lets hope for spring to arrive ;o)

Oh, the little car (T.H. again) arrived just in time today for the boy to play with ...

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Hintergrund: 'alcohol ink floating' Technik. Verschiedene Stempel, der Junge von Art Journey ist mit Abstandsklebern aufgeklebt. Der Schmetterling ist ausgestanzt aus einem weiteren Gelli-Plate-Druck.

Thanks for having a look.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a (steampunk?)rose for you ...

One of those cards that developed itself.
Somehow it reminds me of the 'Little Prince' with his rose.

The background is swiped through some DI iced spruce and weathered wood, then embossed with the riveted metal embossing folder and wiped over with some more iced spruce. Then I added some embossing ink here and there and sprinkled it with vintage photo emb. powder.
The butterfly is by chocolate baroque, stamped onto and cut out from one of my gelli plate prints. Into the wings I put two screw brads, also embossed with vintage photo. The rose is by chocolate baroque, too, just dabbed with distress stains peeled paint and rusty hinge and also sprinkled with emb. powder vintage photo. The guy is by one of my favorite shops: art journey.

Finally I added a weathered clock I found by accident in my chaos around me :-) I was just thinking hard about what I could add still because it looked so blank in some areas ...

Thank you so very much for looking.

Hugs, Suzanne

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - letter V

Over at the Craft Barn there's a new challenge.

It's all about letters and dictionaries: the alpha challenge. The challenge will be offered every second Sunday and the letters won't be chosen in alphabetical order ;o)
The rules are explained in detail on the craft barn blog.
We are to take a dictionary, chose a word and make it into a project.

This week it's the letter V.
I went for the word 'VANITY' and came up with something I intend to assemble into a journal in the end but is now only a loose page

The background is another Gelli Plate experiment - so no surprise there.
The stamp was sent to me by the wonderful and most generous Vee, I've been so very delighted to get it and thought it would fit well with the quote by R.L. Stevenson I chose. I tore out the definition of vanity of an old dictionary I purchased at a fleamarket, applied some crackle paint here and there as a resist, crumpled it and went over it with some DI spiced marmelade and vintage photo, glued it down. The words are computer generated, swiped through a few more DIs and glued down as well. The rose (Art Journey) is black embossed.

Thanks a lot for looking.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

farewell cards ...

for a couple that worked in our local ice cream parlour for many years.
Those humble cards do them by no means any justice ... but I wanted to give them a personal gift.
Wherever they'll go ... I hope they'll remember the coffee-crowd from time to time ...
*fightsbacktears*

for her

Stamps: Dina Wakley, Tim Holtz, de Stempelwinkel

for him

Stamps: Hero Arts, Art Journey, Indigo Blu, Tim Holtz, Inkadinkado, Katzelkraft.

I'm going to miss them dearly ...

Thanks for having a peek
Suzanne xxx

bound in darkness ...

This is my entry for the Art Journey challenge 'Photo'

stamps by Art Journey, background: dylusion sprays, stencils, perfect pearl mist.

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne xx

digging for roses / nach Rosen graben

Nicht wundern, der "Titel" kam mir genau so ins Hirn gesprungen wie die Karte selbst ...

... the 'sentiment' suddenly popped into my brain like the rest of the card LOL – I love those cards that just come flowing through the fingertips.
I made a few backgrounds these days, tried something Godelieve shows on her blog for example (on this bg I flipped the stencil over and pressed it down to get the remaining gesso from the template onto the card). This is a card I made:

Afterwards I wondered if there aren't too much images on that one, but I decided to like it exactly this way :-)

All stamps by Art Journey.

Thanks for having a peek
Suzanne x

Panpastel

Ich gestehe: mich hat es auch erwischt. Ich experimentiere. Mal wieder ein Geburtstag im Kollegenkreis.

I confess ... the panpastels got me, too. I'm experimenting. A birthday card again, for a coworker.

stamps: art journey (woman, birds), hero arts (balloon), creavil (birthday wishes)
(the background looks like a wallpaper of the 70ies LOL)

other attempts:

stamps: art journey
(unappropriate, red roses, comments my spouse)

stamps: see first one.
(too cold, says my background noise)

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

ein Rosengruß / greeting card with roses

stamps: art journey

Thanks for stopping by

Suzanne

Grußkarte / greeting card

Wasn't sure if it's "here" or "there" ... now I'm stuck with it.

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

Augenblicke / Moments

Dise Karte ist für die Art Journey-Challenge "Dictionary".
Der "Moments"-Stempel ist von Hero Arts, ich hoffe, das ist okay. Mir war nicht so sehr nach Wörterbuchseiten verbasteln ...

This card is my entry for the Art Journey-challenge 'dictionary'.
The dictionary-stamp is by Hero Arts, I hope that's okay.

Stamps by Art Journey: Grunge, Roses, Lady Clock, Pages. Definition 'Moments': Hero Arts.


Thanks for having a look
Suzanne

noch mehr Blumen / some more flowers

nur ein bisschen aussprobiert ...

just played around ...

I don't like it too much, but I show it anyway.

See you
Suzanne

fiese Karte / a 'mean' card

Das war vielleicht eine Aktion ... ich war ein paar Mal drauf und dran, die Karte in die Tonne zu kloppen ... aber nun geht es, finde ich.

This one took some doing ... I felt like throwing the card into the dust bin several times. But now I think it's quite okay ;o)

Ehm, it's not for me ;o) if that makes any difference LOL

Und hier wollte ich eigentlich versuchen, aus dem Motiv ein Gespenst/Geist zu machen ... das ATC gefällt mir, auch wenn es nicht so ganz das Ergebnis ist, was ich erhofft hatte.

Here I wanted to create something like a phantom/ghost ... I like this ATC although it turned out different from what I had in mind.

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

Geburtstag unserer ehem. Tagesmutter / our former child minder's birthday

Hat mich ziemlich Zeit gekostet seltsamerweise, hoffentlich gefällt es ihr.

Took me quite a long time, hope she likes it.

Thanks for looking
Suzanne

wir waren fleißig, mein Sohn und ich / we were busy, my son and I

mein Sohn hat eine Weihnachts-Tipi-Karte gemacht (für die Oma, die andere bekommt jetzt doch der Onkel ;o)) und eine Herbstkarte.

my son made a christmas-teepee-card and one with autumn colours.

Und ich hatte hier seit Ewigkeiten einen Hintergrund rumfliegen, der noch aus Iris' Shopthekendeko-Aktion stammt. Heute habe ich ihn ver ... äh, schandelt LOL
Der olle Hirsch wächst mir langsam ans Herz ...

I had a backgroung lying around for about ages and today I ... erm, kind of ruined it a bit, in christmas style ... LOL
I'm beginning to like the ol' stag a lot ...

ein bisschen Dies und ein bisschen Das ... / a little bit of this and a little bit of that ...

Ja, es gibt mich noch - und ich habe sogar ein bisschen was getan die Tage.
Und zwar: eine Geburtstagskarte mit Umschlag, ein Mini-TAG und ein ATC.
(und ein paar Aufträge für Weihnachtskarten von Kolleginnen *g*)

Yes, I'm still around - and I even accomplished something these days: a birthday card with an envelope, a mini-TAG and an ATC.
(and I had a few orders for x-mas-cards from coworkers *g*)

thanks for stopping by
see you
Suzanne