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

Vintage, Button/s, Lace - and a Game of your Choice

are the recipe's ingredients over at Dragons Dream challenge #150.

I chose tic - tac - toe, as you can see :-)

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

Have a great Sunday, all of you.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

orange, time, nature ...

are the incredients for TIO's - or rather May's - recipe for challenge #148 over at the DragonsDream blog.
This is my offer:

The background is made with distress paint and a woodgrain stamp, the butterfly was stamped seperately on a gelli plate print and cut out.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a peek, have a great weekend.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

this vintage stuff is just not my kind of thing ...

I tried to make a TAG for the TIO - DragonsDream challenge #145 where they ask for vintage, texture, and flower/s this time.
I just don't seem to have a knack for vintage themed things. Anyway.
Okay, let me rephrase it: I don't feel any connection to the vintage theme so I'm always extremely unsure if I can do this :-)

Here's what I came up with ...
The first attempt:

I made the background with distress paint walnut stain, picket fence, victorian velvet, and antiqued bronze. The stamps are by tweety jill stamps - I stamped some of them onto the background and two of them onto some tea-dyed paper, then I cut them out. For the texture I added some paint to modeling paste and put it through a letter stencil by Dyan Reaveley. The flower is die cut with the T.H. tattered florals die and sprayed with some glimmer mist and moonshadow spray.

This is the second one I slightly like better:

For this one I created a gelli plate print background with various stencils and 'tools'. Then I put some modeling paste mixed with fresco paint very berry through a flower stencil, pressed a script stamp into it and rubbed antique copper over it. The stamps are by hampton art and oxford impressions, also stamped on tea-dyed paper and slightly colored with caran d'ache water-soluble crayons. On the left there is a stamp by kaisercraft, on the right bottom edge there's a metal corner I found in my stash. The pendant is from T.H. glued onto one of his tiny thing stamps.
Here you can see the texture:

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

a TAG and a card

I've been too late with this one - it was supposed to be for the DragonsDream Tag It On challenge and I was highly irritated by their closing date - but I want to show it anyway. It's made with the ingredients yellow, light bulb, and wire.
I didn't want to do another steampunk TAG and went for something different.

The light bulbs on the top are by Tim Holtz. The background is a piece of a gelli print embossed with circles and stripes, also by T.H. The woman is from de stempelwinkel and she dances on a flower by darkroomdoor. The little flowers are gelli transfer print shown here: http://gelliarts.blogspot.de/2013/05/gelli-transfer-prints-and-giveaway.html
I made this with self adhesive book wrapping but it's too thin.

This background is another gelli print I blew some printer color on. The stamp is by crafty individuals embossed with white ep, the 'hello' is from darkroomdoor. The butterflies again are gelli transfer print. The book page thing didn't turn out too well with the book wrapping so I used perfect pearls and panpastel.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

hands ...

Hello folks, hope you're having a great Sunday wherever you are.

Annnnnnnnnnd one more TAG with clock hands ... thought it a good idea :-) but haven't been the first one in this challenge to do so ... didn't want to give up my plan either, though.

So, this is my entry for the DragonsDream challenge Tag It On #140 where the recipe is: brown, vellum and hands this time. Another real challenge because brown isn't a favourite of mine either.

The background is made with distress paints antique linen, walnut stain, antiqued bronze, rusty hinge according to this video by Kaz from The Shabby Shed  and a few background stamps by paper artsy and de stempelwinkel.
Then I pulled a gelli print (what else ... what would I do without my plate, I'm wondering :-) it's so versatile ...) on vellum with gold, shades of brown, and a crackle stencil, die cut it with the weathered clock die. The sentiment is by paper artsy and embossed with gold embossing powder, the arms are images by de stempelwinkel, I think, and the woman (indigo blu) still lay around here from an earlier project.

Thanks yo much for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Pink, Fabric, Face ...

including at least one real stamp = a TAG for DragonsDream Tag It On challenge #139:

I have to confess I had a very hard time using pink. Therefore it was absolutely inevitable to make tons of other gelli prints as a sideline to keep my eyes halfway sound ;oD
So the background is a gelli print, stamps are by acapella stamped on a paper coloured with distress stains spun sugar and sprinkled with a little glimmer mist pearl. The flower is die cut from denim with the T.H. tattered floral die.
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HG ist wieder ein Gelli Plate Druck. Die Gesichter sind von Acapella auf einem HG aus Distress Stain spun sugar und ein paar kleinen Spritzern Glimmermist pearl, die Blume ist aus einem Rest Jeansstoff ausgestanzt.

Thanks a lot for having a look.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a maritime TAG

for DragonsDream Tag it On #138. Sue came up with the following recipe: stencil, blue, sea.

This is what came to my mind on this wonderful sunny Sunday (I relished the rare gift of being alone for a few hours ...):

The background is - surprise surprise - made with the gelli plate and stencils, then I put some modeling paste through a stencil to symbolize waves. All stamps are by artemio, the ship and the shells stamped on and cut out from another gelli print paper.

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HG und Untergrund für das Schiff und die Muscheln: gelli plate Drucke. Für die "Wellen" habe ich Modellierpaste durch eine Schablone gedrückt. Alle Stempel sind von Artemio.

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

green

This TAG is for DragonsDream Tag it On #137. Trace dreamt up the recipe 'green, die cuts and cogs' and this is my entry for the challenge:

It's a wonderful sunny day today so I took the pic on our terrace.
For the background I glued different kinds of paper, masking tape and a few pieces of musline on a cardstock TAG. Then I sprayed it with dylusion sprays fresh lime and cut grass, embossed the grass (T.H.) with black embossing powder and adhered the flowers and the butterflies. Finally I dusted some frantage embossing enamel ivory on the TAG.
The paper I used for the cogs and flowers was sprayed with moon shadow spray and the butterflies with the same greens I used on the background, they were stamped over with a script stamp by darkroomdoor.
Voilá.

Hintergrund: verschiedene Papierfetzen, Masking Tape und Mullbinde auf Cardstock, besprüht mit Dylusions. Das Gras von T.H. mit schwarzem Embossingpulver embosst und sämtliche Stanzteile aufgeklebt; feddisch.

Thank you very much for looking.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

while dragons dream - TIO #133

Firstly a very warm welcome to my new followers. I'm so happy and honored that you're accompanying me :-) thanks a very lot.


Over at Dragonsdream - Tag it On Helen invites us to dream along with the Dragon at the challenge #133 'While Dragons Dream'.
This time the ingredients of the recipe are: a mythical creature, a night sky and a clear moon. Last but not least, as always, at least one real stamp.
Well, this is as obvious as challenging :-)

But I've been lucky and the stamps that came to my mind fit together, so this is my TAG with - voila - a centaur. Definitely a mythical creature - and perhaps worth a dream :-D

 

stamps used:

horse: katzelkraft, man: stampinback, gate: de stempelwinkel, moon: cherry pie, definition dream: indigo blu, tree: paper artsy hot picks.

The background is made with the 'wrinkle free distress technique' using distress stains chipped sapphire and brushed pewter.

Thanks for having a look,

hugs, Suzanne xxx

Self Propelled Flowers

Over at DragonsDream - TIO #128 - Gabrielle asks us to cook something up according to the following recipe: butterflies, flowers and locomotion/movement of some sort!
Inspired by a quote by R.H. Heinlein: Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

The background is sprayed with dylusion sprays and color wash, before I sprayed the blues I added a bit of goosebumps to make it look like clouds. The flowers are die cut from patterned paper (7 dots, I think) which I then moistened, sprayed with yellow dylusion spray and some glimmer mist pearl, and crumpled up. Then I gave them a blast with my heat gun before I unfolded them. The centers are punched out from brown cardstock with an ordinary office punch. The butterflies are stamped and colored by just swiping some distress stains over them, then cut out.

As for the movement: the butterfly on the top left is mounted onto an action wobble. It spins when touched lightly. 
And now you know why they had to be this big :-) The antennae of the left butterfly are made from a pipe cleaner. I bent up the wings of the right butterfly a bit to hopefully make it a bit more dimensional.

The grass stamp is by darkroomdoor, the butterfly by artemio.

Thanks for looking.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx 

the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it

this is a TAG for the DragonsDream TIO challenge #127: I can resist anything but temptation
The recipe by Sue: use a resist technique, the colour red and a temptation.
I chose another quote by Oscar Wilde as you can see ... 

Ever since I did a seminar paper on Vampires in literature and movies, esp. the Hammer movies at the university so many years ago Vampires have been one of my big interests and always a temptation :-D
no, otherwise I'm quite sane - ask my family ... or rather not, when I come to think of it ...
The background is red, I swiped the TAG with distress stain fired brick. Then I embossed it with black embossing powder. Finally I 'highlighted' an area with distress stain picket fence and toned down another one with DI black soot. So that's the resist.

stamps are by Paper Artsy Hot Pick (coffin), Inkadinkado (the couple), impression obsession (background stamp).

Thanks for looking.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

'leaf me alone' - TIO #126

Helen of the team over at 'Tag it On' challenges us with another recipe: use on your TAG the colour orange, some metal and leaves. 
This is what I came up with:

 The background is sprayed with dylusions and colorwash, some glimmer mist jack'o lantern added through a branch stencil. Then I stamped it lightly over with a woodgrain- and then a leave-background stamp.
The tree is colored with distress ink gathered twigs and coated with a little crackle for texture, as well as the pumpkin.

 The leaves have been (mis-)treated with AAI, TH embossing folder, black acrylic and viva decor inka gold in the hope to achieve a slightly metallic look (???).

 At the bottom a bit of this and bit of that, hope it fits the bill :-))

Stamps are from: vilda stamps, artistic outpost, katzelkraft, darkroomdoor.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs, Suzanne xx

considering Steampunk

a tag for the 'Tag It On' challenge #120, a recipe with the ingredients fantasy, inventions and Victoriana - hope it counts.

The (clock-)face of the groom is coated with crackle paint, which hasn't dried yet.
The background is distress inks and some dry embossing. On the right I added a piece of aluminum foil, also dry embossed and (hopefully) 'aged' with black acrylic paint and some inka gold.
Stamps are: paper artsy, oxford impressions, de stempelwinkel.

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne xxx

TAG 'haunted'

a la Rachel:

Although it's absolutely unseasonal in June I want to enter this TAG into the 'Tag it on' - Challenge 'To dye for'.
I sprayed the background with 'self made' glimmermist from Distress Reinker, covered the bats and the spider (shrinkies from dyes by Tim Holtz and Cuttlebug) with black embossing powder and shrinked them with my heat gun. The main image is by Itkupilli.
I wanted to try this TAG for a very long time ... :-))

Thanks for stopping by
Suzanne

Engel und Dämonen / Angels and Demons

zurzeit habe ich ein bisschen die TAGs für mich wieder entdeckt und da bei 'tag it on' so ein cooles Thema ist, möchte ich dort teilnehmen mit diesen beiden TAGs

I rediscovered the TAGs and since there's such a cool challenge over at 'tag it on' I decided to take part in it with these two TAGs
The left one isn't my best piece of work, I had to hide a 'lighting' I stamped with white ink that never dried ...

stamps: stempelwinkel, cherry pie, stampinback

Thanks for stopping by
xx
Suzanne