Z as in ...

Zoo :-)
Not that this is a favourite thing of mine, but with the ingredients of the new TIO challenge (the letter Z and a face) this is what came to my mind, considering the stamps I own.

stamps I used:
man: oxford impressions
elephant: acapella stempel
giraffe: katzelkraft
bird: crafty individuals
letters: artemio
plus: a small stencil

The background is made with Adirondack colorwash and muted down with panpastel white, the images were stamped with different Archival inkpads and colored with watercolor pens.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. Have a great day, all you welcome visitors and much appreciated followers :-D

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

C as in ... - de stempelwinkel

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well ...
This time I'm sharing a TAG over at de stempelwinkel blog.

I'd love and appreciate to welcome you there and of course if you'd have a look at all the wonderful DT makes.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

repost: some things are better rich ...

I made a little canvas which didn't turn out too well at the first attempt, but now since I changed some little things here and there I like it a bit better. It's only my second one so please bear with me ;-)

I recycled the canvas, it was an ugly reminder of my very short lived paper napkin attempts LOL
After I thoroughly gessoed it I put some modelling paste through a few stencils, then sprayed it over. The background is a mix of dylusion sprays and colorwash. The words are stamped on a paper coloured with the wrinkle free distress technique, the images stamped, cut out and adhered with 3d pads.

All stamps are by indigo blu, I used grand tour I, pomp and pageantry, and brideshead.
I'm entering this into the indigo blu challenge 'words and phrases'. To see details please have a look at their blog.

It's also my contribution to the crafty boots challenge where Gabrielle chose the theme 'recycle'
as well as to the Artistic Stamper April challenge which is 'texture'.

Love the texture here:

Zweitbenutzung eines kleinen Keilrahmens, eine unangenehme Erinnerung an meine sehr kurzlebige Serviettentechnik-Phase LOL 
Dick Gesso drüber und ein bisschen Modellierpaste durch Schablonen gedrückt. Dann den HG besprüht mit Dylusions und Colorwash; die Stempel extra abgedrückt, ausgeschnitten und mit Abstandsklebern aufgebracht, die Wörter auf ein Papier eingefärbt mit Distress Ink gestempelt und aufgeklebt.

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

sprayed background with cogs / Zahnräder-HG

saw this on the blog from indigo blue stamps and had to try the background.
I'm not too happy with how the guys on the cards turned out ... first I stamped the images on a sprayed bg too, but that was too dark (and the second one looked like The Hulk - LOL). Then I used a similar bg as for the card itself. Hm hm ...

postscript:

Okay, I really don't like the guys this way ... I'll correct that in a few hours. So please concentrate on the background until then and just ignore the men :-))

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Nevertheless, I'll enter these into the challenge on 'Simon says Stamp and Show' - spritz, spray, or stencil.

I tried several things to rescue the cards but I ran out of patience now.
So I'll leave the first card this way - hopefully improved a bit - and dumped (and deleted it here) the card with the Hulk, he didn't survive ...

Stamps are all by Oxford Impressions.

Thanks for stopping by,
have a great day!
Suzanne x

Hochzeitskarte und 'Spiel und Spaß' / wedding card and 'fun and games'

Eine Kollegin bat mich um eine Hochzeitskarte und dies ist dabei heraus gekommen - es gefällt ihr zum Glück:

A coworker asked me for a wedding card and this is the result - I'm glad she likes it:

Und das ist einfach eine Karte, leider sind die Farben nicht wirklichkeitsgetreu

This is just a card I made, unfortunately the colours aren't represented quite realistically

Thanks for stopping by
see you
Suzanne