postcard

One of the postcards I made recently ..
This is my entry for the 'Lost Coast Portal to Creativity' challenge.

The background is made with the gelli printing plate, image is coloured with watercolour pencils.

Thanks so much for stopping by
and have a wonderful week.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

Gelli print stickers

Hi all,

recently I dug up my gelli printing plate(s) and did a bit of playing around with them - and a few acrylic paints; sheets intended to be backgrounds, mostly. I just loved some too much to not keep them in any way so they were printed onto adhesive a4 labels and I used punches to get small shapes.

I don't have many punches so it's circles and squares mainly. I also used the big shot and circle dies in different seizes.

You can use the shapes to add to art journal pages for example

or you can even use up the remains to start new ones

Of course you can also use the shapes in any other way you can possibly think of :-)

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.


On a personal note: I won't apologise any more for being absent for long times now and again, it's just the way it is and it's the way I am. I just want you to know I'm still here and I don't want to seem rude in any way.
Hugs to all of you
Suzanne xxx

notepad - de stempelwinkel

Hi and good m orning all ...
It's my turn again at the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and I made a notepad my son wished for.

I'd love you to stop by the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and have a closer look ...

Please make sure to pay a visit to our new challenge blog were anything goes this fortnight. If you're chosen as the winner you can win a totally beautiful stamp by de stempelwinkel.

Have a great day everyone ...
Hugs, Suzanne xxx 

butterfly lady ...

I'm slowly getting back to crafting and stamping ... don't know yet how it will go on, though.

I hope you're all well ... :-D
Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

wings

Hi all ...
I'm so glad to see you.
I'm joining the October challenge of the Lost Coast blog with this card, they ask for wings. Fortunately I bought some of their stamps recently at the Stempelmekka :-)

The background of this card is a gelli plate print, stamped with a brick stamp and some branches. The butterfly was fuzzy cut from another gelli plate print, the two Lost Coast stamp images are fuzzy cut too and coloured with watercolor pencils resp. distress ink and a waterbrush.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a birthday card again - allow us to congratulate you

A week ago I've been at a crafty - and chatty - get together and had lots of fun :-D
And I only got one single card done. Good or bad sign? ;-) I take it as a good sign, I definitely enjoyed being there.
I got the chance to use some great Stampotique images and the guy who got the card knows me and my sense of humour quite well. We shared a life changing time - no, nothing relationship-ish, something completely different.
Some of you have already seen it on FB:

 

To be honest I can't remember how exactly I did the background. I think a bit of gelli print and some tinted modeling paste may have been involved. The collage elements have been stamped on different gelli prints and fuzzy cut, the Stampotique images were fuzzy cut too and colored in with distress ink pads and a waterbrush.

Thanks so very much for stopping by today and have a great Sunday everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxxx

a bunch of gelli collages

Hi all ...
Seems 'Summer' is over, doesn't it? Yupp, I'm a bit pessimistic on that one.
My little daughter finished her swimming class today with rain and about 16°C - maybe 17°C. Anyway, this is just a quick post to share some collages I made with gelli plate printed paper and fuzzy cut stamp images. You may have seen the one or other but I wanted to collect all of them in one post.

The stamps I used are by de stempelwinkel, artemio, oxford impressions, hampton art, paper artsy, Brett Weldele/stampers anonymous, and viva las vegas stamps.
I made the bookmarks to leave them behind in a small telephone booth library in the area of our local swimmingpool. I hope they'll find new owners who like them a bit :-D

Thank you ever so much for stopping by and have a great weekend.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

bookmarks to abandon - de stempelwinkel

Hi and good morning all ...
Again it's time for another designteam post on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog:

To see and learn about the details please hop over to the de stempelwinkel designteam blog ... while you're staing there you can browse the blog for all the great pieces my fellow DT members made :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by today, it's always a huge pleasure to 'see' you.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

numbers - de stempelwinkel

Hello everyone out there ...
Just hopping in with a quick post to tell you there's a new post at de stempelwinkel designteam blog, showing a card I made.

To see all of it please hop over to the stempelwinkel designteam blog and have a peek :-)
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great summertime ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

still alive

and kicking, I am.
I have to sincerely apologize for not being around more frequently - and for not commenting on my favorite- and other blogs.
I'm okay so far, it's 'only' that life is very, very busy and stressful at the moment - once more :-( In addition to that the children have Summer holidays and there are quite some logistics to do and things to organize ... oh well, I don't want to get too private here :-)
I'm going to share some pieces I made inbetween, just cards

a birthday card on commission for an acquaintance, she wants to go to the USA this year and got a voucher for a visit at the EmpireState Building

 

a birthday card for a coworker, the first double sided card I made for one of them :-)

another birthday card for a collegue

a card for another coworker who left our department

three TAGs - just for fun and with leftovers

and a good bye for one more coworker who left for another employer

So, just you can see I didn't quit crafting, although I didn't do anything for myself ... 

Oh yes, I did - this one:

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and having a look.

Have a great week everyone - 

hugs, Suzanne xxx

DCSC 2014 - cards 3 to 6

Hello and good morning all you crafty people out there ...
I'm sharing cards 3 – 6 for the De Craftorij Summer Challenge 2014:

#3: mosaic

(after I'd taken the photo I outlined the mosaic tiles with a slightly darker matching color to give it a bit of depth)

#4: black and white + another color:

#5: numbers:

and #6: use some wrapping/package (I cut a stencil from the package the TH die came in):

Many, many thanks for your much appreciated visit.
Have a nice Pentecost break, everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Summer challenge at De Craftorij

Hi all.
I'm taking part in the Summer Challenge run by the Dutch stamp shop De Craftorij - some very talented and imaginative ladies set up a Facebook group for those crafty people who'd like to join.
Each day there's a new little challenge or an assignment which you're asked to make an index card on. To collect those I made this box the other day.
To keep our fingers flexible there have been some warming ups like

card with a flap or envelope

inchies

circles

simple card with Stampotique image

... and the first assignment today was or still is 'droplets':

It's running for two months and I'm curious at how far I get with my job and everyday life around here ...

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

more leftovers still ... assembling scraps

Hi all,
I fell ill again - guess it was for too long that I've been well :-( and I'm only able to play around a little with some more scraps I dug up. So I decided to make this a more frequent thing (if not regular) together with those cards I already made now and then for the last weeks.

found: the background with the pattern stamps and the word 'industrial' (some patterned paper, gessoed up and stamped, if I recall correctly), piece of a butterly wing, cut out girl, gelli printed washi tape.

added: the steampunk machine Stempelwinkel image SW R12102, the red gelli collage elements (leftovers from my Mother's day card), the eye (from an I*EA TAG, colored with a wash of acrylic ink).

found:
the background (sprayed with Dylusion sprays, water and a letter stencil), piece of a gelli print, scrap from a die cut TH weathered clock.

added: Stampotique stamp - heat embossed with white ep, scrap is colored with distress stain black soot, Dylusion stamps leaves, words, some of the leaves are colored in slightly with neocolor II wax crayons.

Lia, the kindest and most wonderful owner of the Dutch stamp and mixed media shop de Craftorij and her very busy and creative team have set up a Facebook group some time ago, where the teamies have several mini challenges and other stuff going on. Much worth visiting, I'm highly recommending it.
The second card is for the Tuesday mini (Stampotique) challenge, run by Coby van Willigenburg, which this time is: use just one stencil (and at least one Stampotique image) - it's the letter stencil in the background you can hardly recognise :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.
Have a good time everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

stamped stuff and an altered calendar - very picture-heavy post

Hi all :-)
I'm apologizing in advance because this is going to be - very atypical for me :-D - a picture-heavy post.

First I'm sharing a bunch of cards and a TAG I did last week. Another coworker's birthday is around the corner and after I absolutely didn't have any idea the first day I made four simultaneously and had to concentrate to not mix up my ideas :-) but hey, I think even that would have been interesting.
First up the two blue ones I shared over at de stempelwinkel designteam blog:

And those are the two other cards I made to choose from:

Two cards and a TAG I made and sent off resp. gave away:

another TAG:

and last but not least a calendar I bought the other day - before and after:

Thank you so very much for taking the time for a visit and your patience with all my pics.
I hope you will understand that I don't have the time at the  moment to give the details on each make. If you have a specific question or just want to know how one of these was made please leave me a comment or use my email-address in the profile - thanks so much.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx