31 days of Halloween day 18

another day in the 31 days of Halloween bloghop, and another rolodex card, video here

31 day of Halloween info here
#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop

Stamps by de Stempelwinkel

31 days of halloween day 17

another card, video here

stamps by de Stempelwinkel

31 day of Halloween info here

#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop,

31 days of Halloween day 14

another one


you know the drill


video here

info on the 31 days of Halloween hop

#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop

31 days of Halloween day 13

a new card for the Rolodex 31 days of Halloween project

how to video here


info on the 31 days of Halloween bloghop here
#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop

Dragon Fly Shrine

I made this little shrine for the Stempelwinkel challenge ""things that fly"

De stempelwinkel stamps used: Libelle and stenen vloer

Deco Art Products used:Deco Art Media antiquing cream in carbon black. Americana acrylic in lamp black, Glamour dust glitter paint in Sizzling red, Deco Art Texture Crackle, Media Crackle Glaze, Metallic lustre black shimmer

the shrine is made using a Tim Holtz die , I used cardboard to die cut the shrine and covered it in texture crackle. The dragon fly was stamped and colored using Derwent iktense pencils. The background stamp is de stenen vloer.

I added crackle glaze and antiquing cream to make the crackles show better

i will enter the following challenges

http://snarkystampers.blogspot.nl/2016/02/soss-53-m-is-for-mixed-media.html

De Stempelwinkel challenge

For the challenge at de Stempelwinkel I made this art journal page, theme of the challenge is use words. I wrote a quote on my page and used a page of an old dictionary, also the feather stamp I used has a bit of text on it, in the corner of the page you can see a little fly stamp that comes from the Collagabilities Nature sheet which also has the feather on it.

Deco Art Products used: Americana acrylic gesso, Americana acrylic paint  in snow white , Media shimmer mister in Turquoise, Metallic Lustre in Gold Rush and Rose Gold

First I gessoed the page and used the gesso as glue to add the disctionary page, so I gessoed the whole page and while it was still wet I put the book page on and gessoed over the book page as well. Let dry.

Next I used a stencil and the shimmer mister, I sprayed throught the stencil to get the patern on the page and while the mister ink was still wet I wiped out the middle part where the stamp is.

In the middle part I use white acrylic paint and next I used a diamond shape stencil to stencil the metallic lustres ariund the edges of the book page,

When pain was dry I stamped the feather and the fly, used Derwent inktense pencils to color the feather and the fly.

Next I used some Distress inks to age the page and to blend it all in.


I will enter  the following challenges

http://destempelwinkelstampers.blogspot.nl/2016/01/de-stempelwinkel-stampers-challenge-2.html

Nature

I made something for de Stempelwinkel challenge, it is made out of cardboard and a wooden photophrame.

The frog stamp is from de Stempelwinkel, I am not sure about the frog skellie, Stempelwinkel has one too but I am not sure if mine is the same

Deco Art products used:
Deco Art Media : Fluid Acrylic in Quinacridone Magenta, Antiquing cream in Raw umber, Crackle paint, crackle paste, Gesso.  modeling paste.
Deco Art Traditions in Phthalo Green and Red Violet

bloody valentine day one

Yay it's that time again, Bloody Valentine is here.  If you have had enough of cute bears with red hearts and other cute stuff, you are at the right place.


The Bloody Valentine blog hop  organized by Smeared Ink is here again .........


The blog roll is below this post

Anyways here is my project for today, a card, using good old rubber stamps from Smeared Ink (haunted places and morte set by Rick St.dennis, and lots of Stempelwinkel stamps)


No blood, but I tried to create a spooky scene, the heart with rose is very Valentine I think, and the bottle next to the skin is probably a love potion......

I will enter this card in the Winter challenge at de Stempelwinkel challenge blog

Jetske from the Stempelwinkel had send me a stamp as a present for entering the first challenge. It was the lady next to the well, but because I have the plate Grave Tidings, I allready had this stamp.
When Jetske heard, she send me a new stamp and she told me to give this one to a real stamp lover

soooo,.... if you would like to have it please say why you need this stamp  in the comments, and I will send it to one lucky winner (you can find the stamp here )

I will let you know who the winner is on day 3 of this hop


Black Dragon
Julia
Monique
Jessica
Nan B
Jane
Susan S
Susan R
Lisa
Teresa
Leigh
Fiona
Rebecca
Lady Brayton
Sharon
Kristy

Macabre Monday # 189 Ripped to Ribbons

Yep it;s that time again, a new challenge at Haunted Design House, theme this fortnight is Ripped to Ribbons........now that's easy......Just use some scary stuff and add ribbons, anyone can do that, see my project, super easy LOL

I made a Triptych (thanks Donna for giving me the English word).

It's made out of the cardboard back of a drawing pad (I always recycle those), ths side panels are made using the Tim Holz Sizzix die Vintage Cabinet ( I never thought I would use it that much, but can;t live without it anymore I guess). The Panel in the middle is just hand cut, I used a tag shape.

This was supposed to be just a tag, the side panels sorta happened ( yup. I know I should think before I start, but usually my projects turn out to be a lot different than what I thought they would be)

 So this is what I started with, just plain cardboard, covered with white cardstock. Stamps used are a dancing skellie and tombstones form de Stempelwinkel, and a shrine stamp from Lost Coast Designs. The skellie was stamped first, masked and than the Shrine was stamped. Masked the Shrine and the skellie and stamped the tombstones. I alsway love to create these kind of scenes using lots of stamps.

after the stamping was done, they were coloured using pencils.

I just thought to add a ribbon in a hole at the top and be finished, but it just didn't look very good, so I made the side panels

the Stamps used are all Lost Cost Designs, there is a Sugar Skull, the crackle back ground stamp and the domino and skull border stamps (first stamp the skull, mask it and tamp the rest also using masks)

Coloured the skulls using pencil and the background is Distress Ink (Mustard seed, Tattered glass, and walnut stain)

 I made holes on the sides of the panels using a crop a dile, this way  the panels could have hinges made out of ribbon (I had to put ribbon somewhere) .
And as a finishing touch I used DecoArt  Texture Fierro in Iron Black  to give the edges a bit of a distressed/vintage look and added some DecoArt Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso, to give it some extra shine (it doesn't show very well in the pic, but looks great IRL)

Can't wait to see what you all will be making for this challenge, will see you there

GDT de Stempelwinkel : easel cards

the second post with the special card shapes, i made easel cards. i am not the best card maker, i don't do many special card shapes. My fav is making tags LOL

anyway Easel cards but  a little bit different, they are clock shaped and I made three of them whil I was at it LOL.

again all info about the stamps and materials used on the design team blog from the Stempelwinkel

here the cards

i wil enter the white rabbit easel card in the following challenge
http://alteredalice.blogspot.nl/2013/05/chapter-27-what-wonderful-dream-it-has.html
and
http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/lady-annes-challenge.html

GDT de Stempelwinkel; memories of Venice

this is the first of the "other than a card" projects, it's an altered tin, It used to have peppermints in it but now it turned into a little Venice shrine, all info about the stamp at de Stempelwinkel Design Team blog

The outside of the tin is aged using alcohol ink and crackle glossy accents, the inside hase some memories of our trip to Venice in it, some small pics, charms a stamp roses and candles

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://www.fashionablestampingchallenges.com/?p=6318    challenge 48 alter it

GDT de Stempelwinkel ; the looking glass

When I saw this stamp i just had to have it, beautiful and creepy at the same time. I really loved making this card, enjoyed the coloring very much. I hope you like the result. You can find all info on the Stempelwinkels design team blog.

 

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/05/loc-challenge-6-loc-theme-andor-red-and.html

Gdt Stempelwinkel card : Dancing skeleton

Today a fun skellie post for de Stempelwinkel,  I can't help it I will always end up using skellies or other scary stuff,  I just love the scary stuff. and just to prove tha you can make a fun card using a skeleton i made this one:

you can find all stamps used on the Stempelwinkel   design team blog

the stamps are coloured using pencils and the tulle skirt is coloured using distress ink.

visit the Stempelwinkel design team blog for every day new inspiration

hdh again LOL

last one for the Stephen King challenge at HDH I promise, problem was I couldn't choose which one was my favorite book, so this is another fav : Pet Sematary LOL

the digi is a Rick St. Dennis image called monument skulls, the rubber is all Stempelwinkel

i will enter this card in the following challenge

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.nl/2013/05/challenge-inspired-by.html  inspired by Stephen King
and

http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/thechallenger/forum/topics/oh-the-horror-challenge-may-1 the birds

GDT de Stempelwinkel; special card shape

Another post for the Stempelwinkel, this time a special card shape. I made the card using a Tim Holz die and stamped the Goddess of Nature stamp( from Stempelwinkel of course)  using black Archival Ink, I coloured the background using distress ink and the image it self was coloured using pencils. I added some paper roses et voila:

All info about the stamps and material used on the design team blog of the stempelwinkel, you will find new inspiration there every day

i will enter this card in the following challenges

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.nl/2013/05/challenge-268-something-blue.html

http://www.sarahhurleychallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/05/challenge-80-shades-of-blue.html

http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/05/challenge-92-shaped-but-not-square.html

http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/05/cmc20-flower-power.html

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/05/challenge-161-floral-delights.html

http://bastel-traum.blogspot.nl/2013/04/mutter-vatertag-duell.html mothersday this time

http://phoebekattebeest.blogspot.nl/2013/05/gdt-de-stempelwinkel-special-card-shape.html inspired by the cabinet die to make the card and I thought this image would fit perfectly

GDT Stempelwinkel, Steampunk card

This month I am guest designer for de Stempelwinkel, I just love the stamps they have and had so much fun making pojects for them. So here is project rubber part one LOL

the background is made of mirror cardstock and a Tim Holz embossing folder. Embossed the cardstock and added some black and bronze paint to give it a metal lool. The Gears are a Tim Holz die and the Gentleman rubber stamp is from de Stempelwinkel, I have stamped him using versamark ink and then coverd the image with copper embossing powder, melted it using heatgun and cut the stamped imaged out and glued it to the card.

All details about the stamp used you can find on the DT blog of the stempelwinkel, you can find a new project and inspiration there every day.

I will have another GDT project using Stempelwinkel stamps for you may 6th

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-1-dies-punches-and-dt-call.html

http://bastel-traum.blogspot.nl/2013/04/mutter-vatertag-duell.html this one is perfect for fathersday I think

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/cards-galore-may-challenge.html

SNS Throwdown challenge #2 Faux Finish and Rock n Rolla challenge

Ok here we go, probably a long post with lots a pics so i will start with getting the linking buisines out of the way.The TrowDown is an Smeared and smudged event, see rules here. The challenge theme is made up by last challenge winners HDH, big congrats to you all and  you'v come up with a great theme I love everything Faux.

The Rick St. Dennis team are again Miranda, me and of course Rick, the post is linked from his blog you can find all the teams projects (and the digi sets) there.

I used Rick St. Dennis digi's check out his blog the set is only available there.
 The Bone bunny is from Smeared Ink (I cut of his ears btw, but made sure it was dead first)

Rock n rolla challenge post is at the end of this one

Now we can start with the fun part, PICS,  I made a poison bottle and a tag will tell you below the pics how i did it

This was a glass bottle, there used to be olive oil in it

first I embossed cardstock and glued it on the sides of the bottle

then covered with aluminum tape, and made sure the embossed pattern showed, very carefully to not tear up the tape.

Covered the tape with black arcrilyc paint, let dry for a bit and wipe off again.

Next layer paint is bronze acrilyc paint, let dry and wipe till you got the look you want.

Now it looked rusty, which was cool but i wanted a more copper look, so added some spots of blue and green acrilyc paint, which could stay on there for a change.

Now that was the messy part. Could start decorating now

This side of the bottle has beads on it spelling the word "poison" the are coverd with alohol ink and attached with a leather shoe lace.

The Skull and bones, and roses are Rick St. Dennis digi's, the skull is layered to make a 3d  faux porcelain look. (6 layers of skull covered with crackle glossy accents and distress ink walnut stain)

Every poison bottle needs a spoon, how else would you know the right amount to take LOL, this was a stainless steel spoon, but it needed to be old (does faux old count lol) so used acohol ink (caramel and green) and sealed with glossy accents. Added ribbon, silk flowers and a faux Ruby (just a plastic bead but hey, you wanted faux stuff). The skully was a necklace and undereath are beads.

The other side of the bottle has an embossed skellie and a framed Smeared Ink digi, wanted to make it look like an old photograph ( is that also Faux?)

The pentagram (which is of course up side down) I made out of wire, bit of a puzzle but it came out ok

the last side has a dragon on it (this was also a necklace) used alcohol ink on it and attached with a chain, the bottle has glitter glue in it but is supposed to be faux blood (faux dragon blood if you want)

some close ups

The stopper isn't a stopper (hey faux again) it's a lightbulb, painted in same colours as the bottle and sealed with glossy accents. The decoration on the stopper are 2 buttons glued together and a plastic skull which i also painted in the bottle colours.

Final touch, a leather shoe lace and another skull charm (with faux diamonds, it's glass sssshhh don't tell)

Kind a cool you can make this using all kinds of stuff that was allready in my stash, never throw away anything cause you don't know when you will need it, LOL

Now the other project is a tag

Same procedure but hand embossed the dots using ruler and embossing pen, did the paint thing again (rusty look this time) and made the embellishment from charms and bat wings stamps (used copper embossing powder on them and the wings are also faux metal)

The Rick St. Dennis skull and bones is available on Rick's blog and the Dead Dancer Falling is a Smeared Ink digi, she is attached to the skull with strings.

The senti on the skulled heart says : dance with death.

that's it, don't forget to check out my teamies projects and to vote.

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this is a tag I made for the Smeared Ink Rock n Rolla challenge,

the skull and hand digi are Rick St. Dennis images and the dead dancer pointing is a Smeared Ink digi, the rubber in the background is from the stempelwinkel

 

the dead dancer is attached with strings again to the hand

 

 

I will enter this tag in the following challenges

http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ challenge 34 fantasy