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

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

Stampotique

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by ...
Today I have a tag and a domino piece for a little Challenge where stampotique stamps are asked for.

The domino still has to dry, that's why it looks a bit opaque.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look; have a great weekend all of you ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

all the small things ...

I didn't share yet ...

A tag and an ATC for a Stampotique challenge in an FB group. They asked for red, orange and another color plus Stampotique stamps.

The background is gelli printed fabric with various stencils.

For this ATC I used a gelli plate print too and added the angel and some small chipboard letters, covered with another Stampotique stamp and glossy accents.

Then I finally got my stamps from smeared ink and used one :-) I love those little monsters ...

And at last there were two cards that popped into my mind when I looked over the stamps that accumulated on my table ... again with backgrounds from gelli plate prints.

I'm linking this up to Carolyn Dube's October Gelli Print Party


Read a couple of books about introverts and highly sensitive people LOL

I can't thank you enough for visiting my blog :-) always a pleasure to see you stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

ROTFLMAO

Does anyone recognize this?
There are people around you, roaring with laughter, while you ask yourself what the hell was that funny? While you're still busy looking for the joke?
Well, that's me ...

No, it's not that I don't get the joke ... it's just I don't think things (too) funny that most people do :-D

Just a stupid card that came to my mind this morning and looked much better in my imagination anyway LOL
But here's the result.

Thanks a lot for having a peek ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a small TAGbooklet with envelopes made from gelli prints

I made a little TAG book with some of the envelopes I made from my gelli plate prints.
At the moment there are mainly TAG backgrounds in it and I decorated the envelope pockets almost solely with stampotique stamps.

This is my entry for the stampotique designers challengeSDC#103 'create from an envelope'. If you'd like to learn about the details please have a look at their blog.

And I'm also entering it into Carolyn Dube's awesome gelli print party.


these are the prepared backgrounds on black TAGs:

I got a small number of interference colors yesterday and wanted to try them. The extraordinarily nice saleswoman gave me a little pot of golden interference blue as a gift ... I've been amazed how it looks on black together with some iridescent colors from pebeo:

Thanks so much for stopping by and a great Sunday to all of you!

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Halloween in Green ...

On the blog of the adorably talented Tracy Evans I spotted an absolute stunning card with a background from green Dylusion Sprays. While I had my Stampotiques out for some reason I played a little bit around with those sprays and stamps ...
Of course the results are only a pale imitation ;-) but I had great fun! :-))

Stamps: Stampotique, Paper Artsy Hot Pick (bats, bottle), Katzelkraft (clockface), de Stempelwinkel (skull)

The skull is a template I got at the 'Mekka' stamp fair, it's by Lost Coast Design.
Stamps: Hot pick (October 31st), Chocolate Baroque (sentiment), Hot Pick (skull border).

For the bat I glued some cut outs together and coated them with glossy after I dotted the eyes with red stickles.
Stamps: Hot Picks (October 31st, tree), Stampotique.

The splatters are by Tim Holtz.

Thanks so much for stopping by
hugs, Suzanne xx

Happy Birthday

Jetzt hat das Geburtstagskind die Karte bekommen und ich kann sie zeigen ;o)

The card arrived at its recipient and so I can show it now.

stamps: artistic outpost, hampton art, clear art stamps, stampotique

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

Es lebe der Rock'n Roll / Long live Rock'n Roll

Nur mal so und um mich auf (eine) Idee/n zu bringen für eine Auftragskarte - hat aber leider nix genützt.

Just for fun and to bring forward an idea or rather some ideas for and 'order'. Didn't do the trick, though ...

Stamps: Background-Paper Artsy, Crafty Individuals; guy: Stampotique; Darkroomdoor, Dylusions

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

grüne Spitze / green lace

Diese Karte ist sowohl für Irishteddy's Challenge, wo Spitze gefragt ist, als auch für Iris' Aufruf, für ihre Shopdeko eine grüne Karte beizusteuern :-)

This card is for Irishteddy's Challenge which asks for lace, and to answer her appeal for help decorating her new shop with creating a green card. The shop is going to open on October 8th.

thanks for stopping by
see you
Suzanne

Knöpfe / buttons

für/for Irishteddy's Challenge:

Thanks for watching
see you
Suzanne

Nähen und Nähutensilien / sewing and sewing supplies

ist das Thema bei TMTA diese Woche.

are asked for at TMTA this week

thanks for looking
Suzanne

Ewigkeit / eternity

für/for TMTA

nicht eine meiner besten Ideen, aber ich hoffe, es geht durch und jemand erfasst den Gedanken dahinter *g*

not one of my best ideas but I hope it'll be accepted and someone may grasp the idea behind this :-)

thanks for looking
Suzanne

zwei ATCs und ein Lesezeichen / two ATCs and a bookmark

noch mehr Köpfe / some more heads:

Rost / rust:

the bookmark is made of a scrap - I experimented with distress stains and was surprised how intense it looks on the kraft resist paper ...

Meerjungfrau / mermaid

für die Creavil-Challenge "Meerjungfrauen und Wassermänner"

for the creavil-challenge 'mermaids and mermen'

thanks for looking
c u
Suzanne

Geflügeltes / winged things

alles, was fliegt für 'Fun with ATCs'
– alles bis auf Vögel

things that fly for 'Fun with ATCs' –
anything but birds

Thanks for looking
see you
Suzanne