Mail Art Swap

Initiated by the Art Journey Challenge 'Mail Art Envelopes' some time ago I did mailart swaps with two very versatile and talented ladies: Alie and Tera.

Please have a look at the most wonderful and gorgeous mail art I got from these inspiring ladies

from Alie:
this beautifully colored and stamped envelope

plus one of her famous most wonderful and bright TAGs

and from Tera I got this most elaborate and artful envelope
front and back

 and a fabulous matching card

 I thank you so very much ladies, it has been such great fun to create my envelopes and to swap with you.

I'd so love to do more swaps at some point, mailart, TAGs, ATCs ... whatever. Love this.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a quiet week ..
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

another bookmark

For the swap mentioned in the post below I made another 'unusual' bookmark.

(sorry for the bad pics, it is not that dark irl.)

My very talented friend Anne once sent me a few of those die cuts from Tim Holtz' picture wheel die. Until now I had no idea how I could use them appropriately. When the idea to swap unusual bookmarks came up in a forum I knew what to do with one of them ;-)
I used the 'wrinkle free distress' technique on it with different shades of brown distress ink and sponged the edges with walnut stain DI. Then I cut a T.H. filmstrip in pieces and glued them to the open areas with glossy accents (uh, you have to be really patient wit this :-D). At last I glued a piece of design paper behind the wheel and added some twine.
Since it's supposed to be a bookmark you can really use there aren't any additional embellishments.

I'm linking this up to the very first challenge of a Vintage Journey where the theme is 'anything Tim'.

Thank you so very much for stopping by and I wish you a great weekend.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Bookmark - de stempelwinkel

Good morning all ...
It's my turn again over at de stempelwinkel designteam blog and today I'm sharing a bookmark I made for a swap themed unusual bookmarks.

I'd so love to see you over there and please have a look at all the stunning creations my teamies made.

Thanks so much for stopping by ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

playing card swap

Hello hello, I hope you're well wherever you are and not too stressed out with all those Christmas preparations.
I signed up for a swap of playing cards and since they didn't arrive yet I'll only share the back so far:

I sprayed white cardstock with moonshadow mist gold and some homemade glimmerspray, the stamps are by BoBunny.

This is an envelope I made for another swap, this time with ATCs:
front

back

It started with some fabric. On this I applied two layers of gesso on each side and then several washes of acrylic ink. Finally I splattered some more acrylic ink onto it and sealed it.
The Zombie is an image transfer.

I recently got a wonderful book:
Painted Paper: Techniques & Projects for Handmade Books and Cards by Alisa Golden.
There I got the idea. The book is full of wonderful techniques and inspirations and I'm excited to try lots of them soon ...

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

swap

Hi all, thank you so much for visiting my blog.

It's quite a while now since I asked one of my artistic idols, Patti Tolley Parrish from Inky Obsessions, if she'd swap one of her awesome gelli print journals with me. To my huge amazement and delight she agreed :-D
Without further ado, this is what I got:

An awesome piece of printed fabric with gorgeous colors. I really must give this another go. My first piece had hardly any color on it. Isn't it fabulous? Love the butterflies and the script, also the leaves of course. I wish you could touch it, it has a wonderful feel to it.

Some more absolutely stunning fabric, I so love these ... a feast for the eyes. I will treasure all those amazing pieces until something very special comes to my mind what I can do with them.
And please have a closer look at this marvelous necklace! Also an explosion of yummie colors, I love how they merge so beautifully ...

Fab envelopes with cards and a tool for the gelli plate - I don't know what it's called, but I'm eager to try it :-)

I asked for some black and white duct tape because here in G we only have the plain black and grey ones, so she send me some fantastic moustache tape - doesn't it look fab? Along with gorgeous little tags and a terrific foam flower stamp. Can't wait to try this either ...

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd - last but not least - the journal she made for me (and the moonshadow mist, I SO love these ... how could she possibly know?):

 Look at this fantastic closure and those terrific beads ... the colors, the touch ... *sigh* I could just sit and stroke it LOL

Here some random awesome pages:

I'm no person of exuberant words, but let me assure you I'm beyond delighted with those gifts! My heartfelt deepest thanks to you, Patti!
I hope I didn't leave out anything, that would be a shame. I kept all the things in the box they came in but with those many little curious hands you never know ...

And if you want to know what Patti got from me please have a look at this vid, from approximately 00:36 on ...

Thank you so very much for stopping by and admiring this heap of yummieness with me.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx