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

black is beautiful

Sorry all ... it's been a long time, I know. Life is just unpredictable and gets in my way too often at the moment.
Anyway. All that talk with Iris about pan pastels inspired me to make a small TAG booklet on black paper.

All images on the covers, inside and out, are from Brett Weldele, those on the TAGs from de stempelwinkel. They are stamped with versamark ink and coloured with pan pastels.
The pockets are coin envelopes made from black sturdy paper, stencilled with interference acrylic paints.

Thank you ever so much for having a look and have a great sunday everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

tags - de stempelwinkel

Hello and good morning.
It's my turn again over on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and if you'd like to have a look at the tags I'd love you to visit. Thanks so very much and have a great weekend ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

wooden giftbox - de stempelwinkel

Hi and a late good morning to all of you ...
It's my turn again to share something on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog. This time it's another example for a gift, maybe, a wooden box I altered.

I'd love to see you over there on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog.
Your visit is highly appreciated and please have a look around and enjoy all the great makes from my teamies, if you have the time :-)

Thanks so very  much for stopping by today.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

calendar page November - de stempelwinkel

Hi and good morning to you ...

Now we're already welcoming - well, some more, some less - November.
My personal memories related to this month aren't that happy, chilblains, illness, death, darkness ... but perhaps exactly for this reason my page turned out quite colourful :-)
I hardly used any stamps this time but concentrated on the colours all the more.
It's my turn over at the de stempelwinkel designteam blog to share the monthly calendar page.

To see the full blog post please pay a visit at the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and have a look.
Have a great weekend everyyone,
hugs, Suzanne xxx

Knuff :-) – de stempelwinkel

Unfortunately Mark can't share one of his terrific pieces of art today due to some trouble with his internet connection. So I grabbed the chance to make up for my absence last week ...
I'm sharing a magazine rack I treated a little bit with some gorgeous goodies from Jetskes shop.

I'd love you to stop by on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog to have a look ...
Have a great weekend everyone,
hugs, Suzanne xxx

uh oooh

Hello all ...

Forgot to put up my post for the de stempelwinkel designteam ...
I made a square fanfold album this time ... that is I decorated it and prepared it to hold some pics.

I'd love and appreciate you to hop over on the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and have a look. Thanks so very much ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a bunch of gelli collages

Hi all ...
Seems 'Summer' is over, doesn't it? Yupp, I'm a bit pessimistic on that one.
My little daughter finished her swimming class today with rain and about 16°C - maybe 17°C. Anyway, this is just a quick post to share some collages I made with gelli plate printed paper and fuzzy cut stamp images. You may have seen the one or other but I wanted to collect all of them in one post.

The stamps I used are by de stempelwinkel, artemio, oxford impressions, hampton art, paper artsy, Brett Weldele/stampers anonymous, and viva las vegas stamps.
I made the bookmarks to leave them behind in a small telephone booth library in the area of our local swimmingpool. I hope they'll find new owners who like them a bit :-D

Thank you ever so much for stopping by and have a great weekend.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

numbers - de stempelwinkel

Hello everyone out there ...
Just hopping in with a quick post to tell you there's a new post at de stempelwinkel designteam blog, showing a card I made.

To see all of it please hop over to the stempelwinkel designteam blog and have a peek :-)
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great summertime ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

the transormation of a woodchip basket ... – de stempelwinkel

Hi everyone ...  I hope you're all well :-)

if you'd like to know how this

was transformed into this

please stop by at de stempelwinkel designteam blog to read about it :-) I'd so love to see you there ...
Thank you so much for stopping by and have a most wonderful day.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

DCSC 2014 - cards 3 to 6

Hello and good morning all you crafty people out there ...
I'm sharing cards 3 – 6 for the De Craftorij Summer Challenge 2014:

#3: mosaic

(after I'd taken the photo I outlined the mosaic tiles with a slightly darker matching color to give it a bit of depth)

#4: black and white + another color:

#5: numbers:

and #6: use some wrapping/package (I cut a stencil from the package the TH die came in):

Many, many thanks for your much appreciated visit.
Have a nice Pentecost break, everyone.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

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