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

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

ATCs for Art Journey

The wonderful ladies over at Art Journey want to see ATCs in their current challenge #38.
Art Journey makes adorably beautiful stamps and I mixed some of them together

You have to use mainly Art Journey stamps.
Again I used up some of my gelli plate prints for the backgrounds.

Thank you ever so much for looking. Have a great weekend all of you ...

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

don't let it get you down

... use your wings and fly.

This TAG for the Art Journey challenge #25 'wings' just flowed out of my head - and my past life. But I won't go into detail here :-)
I'm always surprised by the magic of those Dylusion Sprays ... when I begin, I nearly every time am convinced this is never going to work ... but then in the end - it does :-)
The woman is a leftover from another project, the fish appeared out of nowhere and the masking tape was still on the table among the other things I didn't get around yet to stow away.

Let's see if I remember all the gorgeous Art Journey stamps I used (I'm so lucky to own several of these beautiful stamp plates :-)):
The woman is of the plate 'lady clock', the fish: 'fish' :-), the branch and the eye: 'men', the rose in the background, very hard to recognise: 'beautiful roses', fly away and hope: 'pages'.
The wing is stamped on acetate, colored with alcohol inks, behind the lady is a piece of tissue paper, sprayed with glimmer mist and stamped with beautiful roses, again, hard to see.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

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

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

Männerkarten / cards for men

in Regenbogenfarben für die Art Journey Challenge #18.
Ich hatte diese Idee schon länger im Kopf und heute hatte ich endlich Zeit, sie zu verwirklichen. Und weil ich schon mal dabei war, sind es gleich drei geworden.

in rainbow colours for the Art Journey Challenge #18.
I had this in mind for some time and now finally I had the time to make it real. And while I was at it I made three cards :-)

All stamps by Art Journey.

Thanks for looking
Suzanne

TAG Freundschaft / friendship

für die ArtJorney Challenge #14: Text

to take part in the ArtJourney Challenge #14: text

I tried to accentuate the 'friends' in the center with glossy accents - it still has to dry :-)
the texts are pieces of dictionary entries on the subject of friendship such as trust and companion(-ship).

Suzanne

Kind/Child

für/for the ArtJourney challenge.

thanks for looking
Suzanne

You used WHAT? / WAS hast Du benutzt?

heißt es bei der Art Journey - Challenge.

This months Art Journey challenge is:
"You used WHAT??!!"
The idea is to use "anything you like to create a mark/pattern or effect to use along side your stamping whether it's a background or part of the main feature".

Ich habe für den Hintergrund unten ein Stück einer Plastiktüte benutzt, verwischt mit Nagellackentferner, und den oberen Teil mit neocolor eingefärbt.

For the background below I used a piece of a plastic bag and wiped it with a bit of cotton and nail polish remover. The background above is coloured with neocolor II.

Die weißen Flecken oben habe ich mit einem kleinen Kuchenförmchen und Gesso gestempelt, hatte mir vorgestellt, zwei Halbkreise zu stempeln ... naja, jetzt sieht es etwas chaotisch aus.

The white dots are stamped with this little cake-pan and gesso. I imagined something like two semicircles, but it turned out somewhat jumbled.

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne