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

two cards with gelli plate backgrounds

Hi and hello everyone out there ...
I haven't done much crafting lately for different reasons, but I made two cards with some of my many many gelli prints.
One as an addition for snail-mail I have to send

(stamps by kaisercraft, Dyan Reaveley, acapella stempel)

and one on commission for a coworker I don't really know. Brown, gold, and radio were the hints. Brown doesn't really inspire me and I don't have a radio image either. But someone else told me she (the coworker) also likes all things maritime, so I made this card:

(the wave is from de stempelwinkel, the other stamps by artemio)

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope you're all well ;-)
These days I'll post a small giveaway on occasion of my 100th follower :-D Enormous thanks to all of you who occasionally stop by and give me support.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Halloween Punk

one more TAG for the TAG along challenge #9 stemapunk Halloween:

Since I can't find anything on the challenge blog that doesn't allow more than one entry I add this one :-)
The background is made with distress paint and an old credit card, stamps are by Acapella Stempel, Art Journey, Cherry Pie. Then some metal was added from T.H. and my stash.

Thank you ever so much for popping by and having a look. Have a quiet week everyone ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Fun with ATCs challenge #98: 3 stamps or more / 3 Stempel oder mehr

Hello all and thanks for stopping by.
Just a quick post today to share my ATC for the FwATCs challenge #98.
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Hallo all Ihr da draußen und vielen Dank für's Vorbeischauen.
heute nur ein kurzer Eintrag, um mein ATC für die Challenge Nr. 98 bei FwATCs zu zeigen.

still (as always, actually LOL) in Halloween / spooky mood.
The background - surprise, surprise - is a gelli plate print again, love it so much. The (black embossed) archway is a gorgeous stamp by indigo blu, the words are from paper artsy (also black embossed and cut out from another gp background), the graveyard with the tree and the fab monk are stamps by Acapella Stempel - Heidi makes such a great range of marvelous and unusual stamps.
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immer noch und immer wieder im Halloween / Gruselmodus :-D
Der Hintergrund - es wird niemanden überraschen - ist wieder ein Gelli Plate Druck. Die Bögen sind ein klasse Stempel von Indigo Blu, die Wörter von Paper Artsy und der Friedhof mit Baum sowie der Mönch sind Stempel von Heidi/Acapella Stempel. Ich liebe sie ....


To get some inspiration please hop over on the Fun with ATCs-Blog and have a thorough look at the gorgeous little artworks my fellow DT members made.
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Besucht den FwATCs Blog und lasst euch von den großartigen kleinen Kunstwerken der DT Mitglieder inspirieren ...

As always, thank you so very much for visiting.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

different faces of a woman

at last ... finally I've been able to join the craft barn alpha challenge again after missing too many chances due to ... ah, anyway. Let's say: life.
This is my page for the letter W. To learn about the details of this challenge please hop over to the craft barn's challenge blog.
I used another one of my gelli plate backgrounds which already had a silhouette of a woman stamp on it and dug out a few more images of women I have. It turned out a bit colourful for my taste but I'm entering it anyway.

stamps are by: hampton art, acapella, oxford impressions, T.H., artistic outpost.

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Noch eine Seite meines hoffentlich  zukünftigen gelli print-Büchleins. Diesmal die verschiedenen Gesichter einer Frau ... zumindest ein paar davon. HG: gelli Druck, ansonsten verschiedene Frauenstempel abgedrückt, ausgemalt, ausgeschnitten und aufgeklebt. Bisschen bunt für meinen Geschmack, aber nuja.

The original print:

Thanks for looking.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

suspekte Schwestern / mysterious sisters

Jaja, man soll sich nicht vom Äußeren täuschen lassen ...


Don't judge a book by its cover ... I think they're up to no good, obviously ... (just kidding, I'm just trying to get in the mood for a big Halloween swap in time LOL)

stamps: acapella, chocolate baroque

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

Experiment mit 'Alcohol Inks' / experiment with AAI

Ich habe ein Video von Andy Skinner gesehen und musste das auch versuchen. Allerdings war ich mit meinen Ergebnissen nicht ganz so zufrieden. Dies ist gerade mal ein Drittel meiner Versuche ...
Aber ich denke, ich werde es auf jeden Fall noch einmal versuchen.

I saw a video by Andy Skinner on youtube these days and had to try this background for myself. But I didn't like my results too much ... this is only about a third of my attempts ...
I'm sure I'll try this again.

... feel free to use these as backgrounds for your own works.

thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

blau/braun - blue/brown

für/for Irishteddy's

Leider ist es ein bisschen verwischt ...
Sadly it's a bit smudged :-(

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Suzanne

der vorläufig letzte Schwung Weihnachtskarten / the last bunch of christmas cards for now

thanks for looking and your patience :-)
see you
Suzanne

eine böse Weihnachtskarte / a wicked christmas card

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cu
Suzanne

clean and simple

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Suzanne

simple Weihnachtskarten / simple christmas cards

so ähnlich gesehen bei Anke und die Idee gemopst.

saw something similar at Anke's Blog and swiped the idea.

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Suzanne

zur Erholung von den W-Karten / for relaxation :-)

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Suzanne

Weihnachtskarten / Christmas Cards

eine Spende für den örtlichen Weinachtsmarkt. Meine persönlichen sähen anders aus :-D

a donation for the school's booth at our local Christmas market. Would I make some for myself to mail off they'd look considerably different :-D

(already in a sleeve:)

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Suzanne

Mumien / Mummies

für/for TMTA:

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Suzanne

Männergeburtstagskarte / birthdaycard (what else? *g*) for a guy

Vorderseite / Front

innen / inside:

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see you
Suzanne

ein paar mehr oder weniger gelungene ATCs / some more or less successful ATCs

and one by daughter 1 (8):

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Suzanne

must be the wrong spell

I think there's something terribly wrong with the eyes and the beard but I show it anyway :-D

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Suzanne

Mäuse / mice

Da beißt die Maus keinen Faden ab ;o)

Suzanne