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

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

altered playing cards - de stempelwinkel

Hi all and a good morning to you.
Today I'm sharing a few altered playing cards on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog.
I'd love you to stop by and have a closer look.

Thanks so very much!
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

altered clockface - de stempelwinkel

Hi and good morning all.
It's my turn again on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog, I'm sharing an altered clockface today.

If you'd like to learn more about it I'd love to see you over on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog.
And please don't miss the fun and join the challenge - 'silhoutettes' - on our de-stempelwinkel stampers challenge blog.
Have a great day everyone .... 
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

DAY #15 OF THE 31 DAYS OF HALLOWE'EN – the book of secret ingredients

Hi all ...
Halloween is around the corner and we, some of the designteam of the de stempelwinkel designteam blog, are happy to join in. You can find the details here.

It's my turn again and I'm sharing one of Tim Holtz' configuration boxes:

Please hop by the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and follow the Halloween-ish makes the dt members will create for the hop.

Thanks so very much for stopping by.
Have a great day everyone.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

they're coming ... – de stempelwinkel

It's my turn at the de stempelwinkel designteam blog again today and although it's late Summer and we have two or three quite beautiful days my thoughts are wandering ahead of time ... and I'm thinking of Halloween already.

To see the complete project please hop over to the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and have a look :-)
I'd love to welcome you over there and please stop by any other day to see what my teamies are up to.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great Sunnday everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

late again ... - de stempelwinkel

and so very sorry.
Hello everyone out there in the crafty spheres ...
It's my turn over at the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and I'm sharing two ATCs that became victims of my watercolour experimentation.

If you'd like to have a peek anyway you are welcome to pay a visit to the de stempelwinkel designteam blog, where the DT shares great work every day.
Thanks so very much!
Have a most wonderful weekend everyone ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Leonardo - de Stempelwinkel

Hi all ...

It's my turn again at de Stempelwinkel Designteam blog to share a little something.
I decorated a wooden bookcover, using the uber gorgeous  Leonardo da Vinci images.

To get the full view and the how-to please visit the Stempelwinkel Designteam blog. I'd love to see you there ...

Have a nice and crafty day ...
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a book-like box

Hi and hello you creative people out there ...

I have to say, sometimes I'm highly surprised by myself.Like just now LOL

The following project actually started out as a rather halfhearted experiment to create texture with a paper napkin. I did it on an already broken bookcover from papier mâché that I had sitting around for quite some time.
Hm, I just went on, thinking nothing in particular, added acrylic paint with a brush and a brayer, decoupage glue, some embossing powder ... and so forth. Then an idea assumed shape.

There's a Facebook group connected with the very well assorted and gorgeous stamp- and mixed media shop 'de Craftorij' in The Netherlands that is going to run the "De Craftorij Zomer Challenge 2014":
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Wat is de bedoeling?
Vanaf 1 Juni maak je elke dag iets op een correspondentiekaart van ca. 10x15 cm. 61 dagen achter elkaar, eindigend op 31 Juli. Begin je later dan 1 Juni dan hoef je niets in te halen, begin gewoon, dat is het belangrijkste. Je kunt altijd aan het eind van de challenge nog zien of je de gemiste opdrachten in wilt halen.
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What is it about?
From June 1st on each day you create something on a card sized about 10x15cm, for 61 days in a row until July 31. If you start later than June 1st there's no need to catch up with anything. The most important thing is to just start and join in.
(roughly translated, hope it's okay ;-))
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The members of this group have come up with absolutely brilliant ideas and projects that will hold all the cards that are going to be made.
So I thought why not build a new box to go into the cover and keep my blank cards in there :-D
Enough blah blah, here it is:

So there the cards are sitting, white and pure, waiting ...
Let's see how far I'll get :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a great weekend everyone.,
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

soon-to-be-bookcover

Hi all,
Hopefully you are okay wherever you are ... seems quite a few people are under the weather at the moment from what I hear in blogland. If you are, too, accept my best well wishes.

I spent some time for the last two days - going waaaaaaaaaaaaaay slowly - doing a cover according to this tutorial from wonderfully versatile and talented Rachel.
I basically used this stuff (and some bronze metal rub-on paste, not in the pic, must have a look)

plus a few stamps and other tools.

The result has lots of texture on it - so gorgeously yummieh irl ... great to the touch :-)
can't even decide which photos to share

 

it's made on/with cardboard and like Rachel says in her video it's astonishingly flexible.
Haven't decided yet what to do on the inside of the cover ... but I'll keep you posted, if you're interested.
I'm so looking forward to the final result.

Thanks so very much for visiting and having a look.

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

cards - de stempelwinkel

Hi everyone, followers, visitors, and passers by too *waves*
Where the heck does the time fly ... again it's my turn over at de stempelwinkel designteam blog to share something I made.
This time it's two cards and a lot of blue.

I'd so love and appreciate your visit over at de stempelwinkel blog to have a look at all the gorgeous makes from the DT members.

Have a great day everyone,
hugs, Suzanne xxx

calendar: May - de stempelwinkel

Hello everyone ...
It's my turn again today at de stempelwinkel designteam blog and it's also time to turn the calendar page.
I did two versions, one rather feminine and another one that's at least quite neutral.

If you'd like to see the complete pages I'd love to see you over at de stempelwinkel designt team blog to have a look at the stunning makes the designteam members create.

Tanks so much for stopping by today.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

teamwork - de stempelwinkel

Hello and good morning ...
It's me again over at de stempewinkel blog, sharing a canvas I made.

I'd so love and appreciate you seeing there and having a look around at all the wonderful and versatile projects the DT members did and do.

Have a wonderful weekend all of you.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

drawers - de stempelwinkel

Hello and good morning to all of you.
It's my turn again over at de stempelwinkel blog and this time I'm sharing a card. Admitted, it may seem a bit strange to some of you but it's straight from the gut LOL

I'd love to see you stopping by there if you have the time to. Thanks a lot for having a look and have a great Sunday everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

framed mirror/kind of shadowbox

Good morning everyone.
It's my turn again at de stempelwinkel designteam blog and I'm sharing a framed mirror-shadow-box whatever you may call it

I's be delighted to see you over there at de stempewinkel blog and have a look at the mirror and all the other stunning makes from my teamies.
Have a great day and thanks a lot for stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

blue - poems

so far the hints.
I've been asked to make a birthday card for a person I don't know.

The background is made with Dylusion sprays and some inka gold turqoise sponged through a stencil. Then I stamped the script with versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. At last I spritzed a little glimmer mist pearl onto the background.
Stamps are by de stempelwinkel, impressions obsessions, cherry pie

Thank you so very much for your visit.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

flying man, resized – de stempelwinkel

Good morning everyone ... seems it's going to be a sunny day today – which would be a great change.
Anyway, it's my turn again at de stempelwinkel designteam blog and today I'm sharing an 'old' stamp in new size.

Following my teammate Mark's example I tried a mixed media board, which you can see as a whole when you pay a visit to de stempelwinkel design team blog. Please check out their new stamps in the shop, too.
As always, I'd love and appreciate to see you there :-)

Have a great weekend ...
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

rooster

Hello everyone ...
I bought a plate with steampunk birds from chocolate baroque recently and thought about what I could do with the rooster.
This is what I came up with

For the background I colored a piece of fabric with acrylic inks. Then I stamped some images from the chocolate baroque steampunk flowers and heat embossed then with clear powder, it's hardly to see.
Mr rooster was stamped separately on white cardstock and colored with various distress inks and a waterbrush pen. The cogs are heat embossed with black powder and from T.H. The words are from the birds plate too, stamped on a scrap of the fabric and glued down.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

cube - de stempelwinkel

Hello and good morning to all of you and thanks for stopping by.
This time  I'm sharing a cube at de stempelwinkel designteam blog

To have a look at the cube please pay a visit to the blog from de stempelwinkel, I'd so love and appreciate to see you there, as always.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx