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

a bunch of (collage-)ATCs

Hi everyone,
I've been away for a frew days, for the Easter holidays, and I tried not to take too much art stuff with me - haha. Of course I only had the chance and time to use some bits and pieces and so I made a couple ATCs:

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.

Have a quiet week ... Hugs, Suzanne xxx

annnnd ... the next spread

based on a wonderful tutorial by Susanne Rose:

This is my entry for the challenge 'Mixed Media Monthly - what's your superpower?'

What I consider my 'superpower' in real life is silent observation. It's an indefinite source of learning and getting to know people. You can learn and experience so much and so many things if you observe and listen. And people tend to tell/reveal many interesting things and thoughts ...

Again, I used different Decoart products:
gesso, modeling paste, matte medium, americana acrylics tradidtions blue green light,
aquamarine, fluid acrylics quin gold

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

'Happiness' is ... (Art Journal spread with Decoart yummies)

(as close as I can get to the feeling):

Again, lots of yummie Decoart products:

fluid acrylics

metallic silver, green gold, Diarylide Yellow, Cadmium Orange Hue, Carbon Black, Hansa Yellow Light, Cobalt Teal Hue, Quinacridone Gold, Pyrrole Red

and interference:

Gold, Green 

metallic lustre: Orange Flicker, Majestic Purple, Gold Rush

weathered wood, crackle paint, gesso, matte medium, varnish ultra matte, triple thick

Thanks soo very much for stopping by and having a peek,
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

another Art Journal spread

in my handmade  'Badass Journal' - with more Decoart goodies:

 

Products involved:

white gesso

matte medium

misters turquoise and blue

paints

fluid acrylics quin gold, payne's grey, titan buff, phtalo turquoise

dazzling metallics teal

two step crackle

ultra matte varnish

Thanks so much for having a look, have a great weekend.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

Journal Page

Today I'm sharing a page I did yesterday.
That I would use pink (waaaay out of my comfort zone) and grey was the only thing I knew when I started.
This is what it became in the end

Ingedients involved:
Palette knife, acrylic paints, DIY and other stencils, one handcarved stamp and one from the fabulous Master Andy Skinner, Stabilo all marking pencil, a google search for quotes on women, Derwent graphik line painters black and white and wonky handwriting :-)

It reads
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Thanks for having a peek.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

Journal spread with Decoart goodies

Today I'm sharing an Art Journal spread I did as part of an online workshop I joined. It's called One Badass Art Journal and it's run and offered by the wonderful Tiare Smith.

The decoart products I used:

Thank you ever so much for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

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

canvas and canvas board

Hi all ...
A few of you probably know I'm kind of obsessed with backgrounds. Obsessed, because I don't seem to get them done to my satisfaction, no matter how many tutorials I'm watching.
This time I dabbled with a canvas and a canvas board. The board was a gift for my son who really loves it - or so he says :-) the canvas is just for practising. I have to say the backgrounds surprisingly turned out better than I hoped for - although, to my greatest astonishment, a bit of ... ahem ... *shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht* pink-ish showed up ...

the canvas board

and the canvas

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

pimped notebook

Hi everyone ...
I'm so sorry I haven't been around for some time. Life - you know.
As a member of the blogger outreach program I pimped a notebook. It was plain silver and I didn't like its look.

front

 back

At first I primed everything with gesso. For the front cover I used the peeled paint technique as a background and added modeling paste throuhj stencils, Andy's snake's web.. Finally I applied some paints and metallic lustre with a small piece of cut'n dry foam. The cover was sealed with decoupage glue in the end.

On the back I stencilled Andy's sculduggery and painted everything over with paynes grey.This was rubbed off in some areas and more paint was added.

Decoart products I used:

gesso

modeling paste

decoupage glue

paint

americana acrylics yellow green

eggshell

pineapple

mississippi mud

transparent iron yellow oxide

metallic

dark patina

 

fluid acrylics

paynes grey

quinacridone gold

green gold 

metallic lustre

cosmic blue

orange flicker

stencil

snake's web 

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. Have a great weekend everyone ... finally it's warm and sunny around here.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

round canvas

Hi all ...
I know, it's very quiet on my side. That makes me so sad, I'd so love to do/create more and above all more of the makes that I feel comfortable showing. There are no specific reasons, sadly just because. From time to time I'm retreating into my 'hermit crab-mode' and there's no way telling for how long this is going to last.
Anyway, as you can see in the sidebar I'm an adventurer on Wanderlust and I had a try at a round mixed media canvas I'm sharing with you (I won't tell how much time it took me :-P):

At first I didn't think I could do this but I like the result :-)
No stamps this time ...

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a peek.
Have a great weekend all of you.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Canvas Board - Eye of Horus

Hi all.
My blogpost today on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog is about a canvas board 'Egyptian' style.

I'd so love you to stop by and have a closer look.
Thanks so very much!!

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

another note holder block

Again a little project with those gorgeous yummieh decoart products.
As a thank you for a coworker who is extremely kind and ready to help throughout the year I made a note holder.

cover front

cover back

It's from a wooden block that I painted with Americana tradidtions blue green light and media fluids phtalo green blue. Around the edges some reactive metallic paint was used to make it rusty. Then came a little bit of stamping that I covered with two step crackle, the cracks were highlighted with media fluids quin gold.
Those colours were also used to make the background for the cover, they were scraped onto cardstock with a palette knife.
Everything was sealed with media varnish utra matte and the cover was laminated.

A ring binder was also rusted and fastened with screws.
To fill the note holder I used cut up paper from my office work (upcycling is the keyword ;-)) to take notes and - separated by a postcard to color in - a stack of paper I had printed with doodle prompts.

some shots of gorgeous rust:

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.
Sorry for the blurred pics, I'll try to replace them with better ones as soon as possible.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Mailbox

Hi all ... I hope you're well wherever you are.
My DT piece for today over on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog is a mailbox I made with products from Decoart.
All stamp imags are by De Stempelwinkel, NL.

First of all: sorry for the pic's poor quality, there simply doesn't seem to be a place to take decent shots around the house.

Now after priming the box with gesso I painted it with two different colours of chalk paint (rouge, yesteryear), sanded it back and sealed the panels with créme wax. Finally the images were stamped with stazon inkpad jet black.

For the second bigger side some stamps were sponged with vintage photo, spritzed with water, crumpled up and heat dried. After I adhered them with glossy accents I stamped over them and glued down the letters that I painted with reactice metal paints beforehand; those I shadowed with a wash of paynes grey acrylic paint. In the end all panels were splattered with diluted acrylic paint.

Products I used

for the box

chalky paint rouge and

yesteryear

gesso

Créme wax deep brown 

media fluid acrylics paynes grey

for the envelopes

media mister red

dazzling metallics teal

media fluid acrylics paynes grey

To fill the box a little I also made some envelopes, one s from a elli plate print (with decoart americana acrylic paints), one with a wash of media mister red.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. I'm wishing you a peaceful time ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx