Merry christmas to all of you.

 Have yourself a merry little christmas.

Studio light stamps for my art journal.

 

Hi there, I made this AJ page with stamps from Studio Light. 

The butterfly and flowers are oldies.

I colored with Derwent inktense.

In the deep mid winter challenge at lost coast designs/Carmens veranda stamps.

Hi there, its a lovely challenge, love the winter theme.

I hope you will join the lost coast designs challenge.

You have a chance to win stamps.

And let's face it, who wouldn't want that.

Now the step by step of this winter landscape.

What I used for this card.

LCD Grunge tree large

(used only the tree)

LCD Cityscape large.

LCD Lycaonia

Moon face.

 Stazon 

Midnight Blue.

Jet Black

Saddle brown

Distressink,

Dusty concord

Musterd seed

Chipped sapphire

Stormy sky

Tumbled glass 

Distress oxide,

Weathered wood

White gelpen.

Markers or color pencils.

I started with 3 strips of paper that were torn off.

Sponge along the paper edges with the Distress Oxide Wethered wood.

This way you can make beautiful snow edges.

I also use these strips as masks when I stamp the cityscape.

I stamped it with stazon midnight blue.

Now choose a place where the moon should be and

use Distress ink Musterd seed to make a yellow spot slightly larger than the moon stamp.

Stamp the moon with the Stazon Saddle brown.

Now we are going to create the sky with ink blenders.

For this we take different colors and build up, from light to dark, as shown on the card.

I used these distress ink colors for this

Dusty concord, Chipped sapphire, Stormy sky, Tumbled glass.

Well, because I only thought about using the Lycaonia stamp at this point, I stamped her on a thin paper, colored her in and glued her on later.

But before I glued her on I first stamped her on the card so I knew exactly where to place her.

Stamped the trees with Stazon black.

Now finish with the white gel pen. Make stars in the sky and snow on the tree branches.

I hope you enjoyed it and join us in the challenge. The more who participate, the greater the prize.

And you can even participate with stamps from another brand.

You can read all about it in the rules.

Birthday card for my daugther.

 I made this card with Derwent inktense pencils. Just love them.

The flower is a Studio Light stamp.

Lost coast designs "In the deep mid winter" challenge is all about winter.

 

It's December so that's why it's a winter challenge.

Everything related to it is good for the challenge.

I chose these funny Christmas gnomes, really love them.

They come in two sizes.

For this shaker card I used the smaller ones.

And this is how I made the card:

What I used:

LCD stamps

Gnome Santa with toys

Reindeer gnome

Gnome santa in chimney

Checkerboard rustic border

Party words.

Distressink:

Barn door

Memento tuxedo black

Small snowflake punch

Punch for white small cirkels that looks like snow 

White acrylic paint

White posca marker

Markers or pencils to color the gnomes.

Foam tape

Mica sheet

Window and frame die.

I started by coloring and cutting out the gnomes.

With the Distressink Barn door and Rustic wilderness I made 6 prints on my worksheet.

Spray some water on it and place your paper on top.

Don't wipe, just give it some time to absorb the ink.

Once the paper is completely dry, we will splash with white acrylic paint.

While the background is drying we continue with the frame.

We stamp the frame with Distress ink Rustic wilderness and the checkerd border stamp.

On the bottom of the frame we stamp the text "Merry Christmas" with Memento black.

I cut some silver snowflakes with the punch.

And some dots in 3 sizes from white paper.

That is the filling for the shaker element.

I glue the red/green background onto a piece of paper.

Glue the checker board frame around it.

Now stick the foam tape on the back

and stick it on a white card.

Now glue the mica sheet that you first cut to size on the inside of the window frame.

Place foam tape around the frame.

Now place the shaker elements on the background and stick the window frame on the background.

Use the posca pen to put some white dots on the text.

Now we glue the gnomes to the windows.

The card is ready.

I hope you like it.

I'd love to see what you make of it.

So post it on the challenge blog or on the Facebook group.

Then you have a chance to win new stamps.

The new challenge at Lost coast designs/Carmens Veranda

 Hello there, the theme of the new challenge is,

"In the deep midwinter".

So find all your winter craft and stamp supplies and get started quickly.

Then you can participate in the challenge and maybe win new stamps.

For this tag I used,

CV Plaid pants santa.

Lcd snowflakes large set.

Lcd party words.

Lcd Snowflake border.

The challenge at lost coast designs/Carmens Veranda is "Round and Round"

What a nice challenge again.

Round and round, well everyone should be able to do that, right?

Did you know that at Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda stamps,

 you can also participate in the challenge with other brands of stamps?

So it's easy, participate and maybe you will be the winner of new stamps.

Now to the explanation of this card/AJ page. 

What I used:

LCD

Shadow frames set.

Butterfly set.

Pieces of Calligraphy.

Brush strokes

CV

Just when the caterpillar.

Stencil with small holes.

Distress ink:

Evergreen bough.

Peacock feathers.

Saltwater taffy.

Distress oxide:

Peacock feathers.

Saltwater taffy.

Versafine onyx black.

Black paint for splassing drops.

Black fineliner.

Watercolor paper.

I started with Peacock feathers and the largest circle from the shadow frames set.

I repeated that with Evergreen bough and overlapped the stamp a bit.

Take a little water and a brush to spread the ink a bit.

Wait till its dry.

With the bubble plastic stamp from the Brush strokes, 

I stamped with Distress ink Evergreen bough and

Peacock feathers.

I did this in contrast next to the circles.

Stamped the 3 cirkels flom the Brush strokes set with Distress Oxide Saltwater taffy.

And did the stencil with the Distress Oxide Saltwater taffy.

I stamped the CV text and letters of the Pieces of calligraphy sheet 

with versafine onyx black.

Stamp the butterfly in the center.

Take some black paint for the splashes.

Stamp the butterfly on a piece of paper and color with de distress ink.

Cut the butterfly out and glue on the card.

Color some Peacock feathers in the cirkels.

And with a black fineliner scribble some lines round the cirkels.

Are you in the mood for new stamps?

Then join the challenge and click on the link.

And maybe you will be the lucky winner of this challenge.

And if not, keep participating and don't give up.

Good luck and above all have fun stamping.

Gast designer bij "Kleuren met potloden" challenge blog.

Today I have a post for the "Kleuren met potloden" blog.

In english coloring with pencils.

This is a fun challenge blog for digi's.

I had to color a digi from,

 ALEXSYBERIADESIGNS

Just For You Digital Stamp.

Happy birthday sweet grandaugther.

Made this card with the beautiful unicorn clear stamp from "Art by Marlene". 

Used lots of glitter because little girls love that.

Round and round challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmens Veranda stamps.

Hi stampers, I made this wooden disk for the new challenge with the topic round.

I used the large Elk skull stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

I stamped directly onto the wooden disc and colored it with Derwent Inktense. 

It wasn't easy to color on rough wood, but I managed it anyway.

Well you understand what's round, right?

The dream catchers are round, but the wooden disk is also round.

And the annual rings in the wood are also round.

Have you also made something round and used stamps?

Then join the challenge, you can even do it with stamps from other brands.

Maybe you will be the winner of new stamps.

So hop on over and join the challenge.

Challenge at Lost Coast Designs. Stamp on patterned paper. (Design paper)

Today a card in vintage style.

I used the Labels set,

and the new floral set from Lost Coast designs.

The saying is from Carmens Veranda.

Carmen's Veranda has a whole page full of the funniest and quirky sayings.

Really worth taking a look. 

Also used: 

Distress ink Antique linen,

Archival coffee

Leaves and branch die cut.

Brown ink to spletter.

Now how the card is made.

I started with a sheet of printed paper.

I stamped the label with the lady using Archival coffee.

I colored a piece of paper with Distressink antique linen.

I stamped the label with the archival coffee.

And I made the edges a bit darker with it.

Did the same with a piece of paper for the saying.

The same goes for the flowers.

These come in 4 sizes, I used the two smallest sizes.

Colored the flowers with a waterbased marker and cut them out.

Die cut some branches.

The label and text were stuck on with some foam tape.

Colored some details with the markers.

And decorated the card with the twigs and flowers.

A few more brown ink splatters and then it's done.

I hope you liked it and that you will participate the challenge.

You can be the winner of new rubber stamps.

I admitted this card in the challenge from

Simon says, anything go's