... how lovely are your branches!
I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.
Stampotique stamps used:
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Friday, December 5, 2014
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree ...
... how lovely are your branches!
I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
In the Words of Edgar Allen Poe - Wednesday's With Claudine
Welcome back to another fun Wednesday with Stampotique and me!! yay!
This week our lovely Kay Wallace is our hostess and for challenge number 175 she has asked us to do something in the theme
"In The Words Of Edgar Allen Poe"
I am in love with this theme, Edgar has some pretty creepy stuff going on and his quotes are so cool, right up mine and Stampotique's alley haha!
I decided to do a journal spread inspired by the wonderfully talented France Papillon
France always does some fantastic free tutorials on Monday's and I just love her style
I used Stampotique Stamps -
French Text - By Artist Jo Capper-Sandon
1879 Postmark - By Artist France Papillon
Love Definition - By Artist Amy Wilson Wellenstein
Mrs Snottie - By artist Daniel Torrente
My Quote says: "I don't suffer from insanity but enjoy every minute of it"
come by my blog to see how this page was put together
Cheers!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Designer's Challenge Stripey Background - Wednesday's With Claudine
Wednesday brings another fun challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog
This week our hostess is the lovely Corrie and she is challenging us to do a "Stripey Background" but no using patterned paper for this.
Ok, I love using stripes so this challenge is right up my alley
I used Stampotique Stamps -
Barcode Text 2 and French Journal Page By artist France Papillon
I decided to do a journal page for this challenge
I am kinda in love with this page. I just love the humorousness of Twinkie and "shenanigans" is my new favorite stamp!
Come on over and join us at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and join in on this fun challenge
For more info on how this background was created, head on over to my blog and check it out
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
My "Lucy" is Magda's Agatha's Moon. Also in this card is Daniel's circle cube and France's essential Design Cube.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Bring On The Bling - Wednesday's With Claudine
Hello all, This week over at the Design Team Challenge Blog the Challenge is all about "Bringing on the Bling"!!
Our wonderful hostess France Papillon has picked out theme this week.
This was a toughie for me because I don't do a lot of "bling" when I craft but it was fun to step outside my box and create something
I used Stampotique Stamp
Stella - By Artist Jo Capper-Sandon
I decided to make an ATC for this one and here is my outcome
I added bling in the form of ultra fine glitter to the bees and the red line that Stella is sitting on. I think it turned out fun and colorful!
Thanks for coming by and make sure to join in at the Challenge Blog
You could win a 30.00 gift certificate to the Stampotique online store
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Friday, November 7, 2014
art journaling on the train
It might look like it ..
but this isn't quite the same journal that I've been enjoying working in recently. I took a baggie of art journaling supplies away with me on our recent trip to London, including my little Daler Rowney journal (which is about 4"x 6" in size, a nominal A6) but when it came to the journey home I realised I'd accidentally packed it into my suitcase!
Fortunately we'd happened to shop at the Chelsea School of Art and Design shop (next to the Tate Britain, open to the public, very very cheap :) ) and that journal I did have in my bag! It's a proper square but similar in size to my Daler Rowney (Sea White chunky small, approx 5.5" square)
What I LoVe about working in artist quality sketchbooks is that the paper is heavy enough to take wet media so no gessoing, no gluing of pages together to make them thick enough etc
Having said that, I did glue in a brusho background before collaging on top (with more brusho backgrounds, letraset and those gorgeous stamped numerals!!) !
Stampotique stamps used:
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Spotlight SDC 172
Alright ya'll, have you ever head of the "spotlighting"?
So this is all about highlighting a portion of an image to make it stand out.
So for this week's challenge over at Stampotique's Designer Challenge Blog our so talented and wonderful Arwen is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "Spotlight"
This is a fun and difficult challenge at the same time. I love it! Spotlighting isn't hard but it's tough to decide which portion to highlight.
I decided to make a simple card for this challenge and highlight a portion of my main image stamp.
I added some patterned paper for the background
I used Stampotique Stamps
Young Ignis - By Artist Magda Polakow
Barcode Text - By Artist France Papillon
I chose to highlight the teddy bear because it seems as love Young Ignis is just hugging her bear and loving her.
Come by and join us for this challenge and you could win a 30.00 gift certificate from Stampotique Originals
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Friday, October 31, 2014
circles on a journal page
I am very happy with this journal page spread!
It started off as a bit of a rubbish gelli print which I painted over with some turquoise brusho, thinking it might lift it - it did!!
Then I started playing around with Daniel's circles cube from Stampotique
and lots of variety in text and numerals. The background numeral piece is from my scratch paper on my worktable; it's how I clean my stamps - by stamping them repeatedly on scrap paper!!
Add some doodling ... and Sarah is a happy art journaller!!
Stampotique Stamps used:
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Your Favorite Colors - Wednesday's With Claudine
Welcome back everyone, today there is a new challenge over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and our hostess this week is the super Nellie Van Leeuwen
She has chosen the theme, "Use Your Favorite Colors"
What a great theme! I am excited about this one!
For this challenge I chose to make a mixed media canvas
I used the Stampotique Stamps:
My favorite colors are those of Fall, I just love the browns, oranges, reds and yellows that come with the Fall season and so I used all of these colors on my burlap panel.
I created a lot of texture in this background with embossing pastes, fabrics, paper and paint.
Come on over to the Designer's Challenge Blog and join in on this challenge. You could be the lucky winner of a 30.00 gift card to spend in the store.
Cheers!!
Friday, October 24, 2014
a discombobulated pony
I know I've said this before ...
... but I just love how Roc Nicholas' images lend themselves so beautifully to paper piecing!! And her new ponytail is no exception!
Stampotique stamps used:
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Ghouls and Goblins - Wednesday's With Claudine
Hello all, thanks for coming by the blog again. As you know Wednesday marks another fun challenge over at The Stampotique Designer's Blog and this week our hostess is the great Kristen Catalano and she has challenged us to do some Ghouls and Goblins. Being that it's so close to Halloween, what a fitting challenge.
I decided to do a journal page for this challenge and I used Stampotique Stamps:
Barcode Text #2 - By Artist France Papillon
This is my finished journal page, I love how the background came out with the embossed paper and the acrylic paints but the star of this page is Lovelyarethesound and Buru! It looks as though Buru has become discombobulated! haha!!
Happy Halloween!!!
Friday, October 17, 2014
brusho ink in my journal
I have been playing ...
... with my latest toys - the brusho inks that everyone is using! Who knew that this stock item in every primary school art cupboard could be so much fun!!
Whenever I use something new I start with my favourite colours - just lovin' that turquoise!! Because it's an ink powder, splashing spots of water on the page and dabbing it off (one of my favourite techniques of the moment) doesn't work once the ink is dry, but I managed to catch it before it dried and got a lovely effect. I'm happier splashing water on my pages than bleach!
I think Nina looks right at home on this double spread journal page, and Daniel's circles give lots of choice for a sun!
Stampotique stamps used
Friday, October 10, 2014
french journal page
This journal page just kind of evolved; it started off as a scrap piece of paper but the sponged ink through the stencil took over and I love how many of France Papillon's new release for Stampotique made it onto the page!
I was also thrilled to discover that France's romantic text refers to a visit to a chateau, which I thought co-ordinated brilliantly with her chandelier and made for a great collection of collage images.
Stampotique stamps used:
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
SDC 168 Use Book Text - Wednesday's With Claudine
Hello all, Wednesday's always mark another fun challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and this week our hostess is Corrie Herriman and she has chosen the theme
"Use Book Text"
I love the theme but I don't have a ton of books that I tear up, I need to go to the thrift store and get some so that I can just rip those pages and use them for backgrounds.
I did find one book to use for this challenge and it was an older book that the kids never liked so I figured it was ok haha!
I used a gelli print that I have had for awhile for my background and I added the torn book print and then painted a little bit over it so that it would blend well with the background
Stampotique Stamps I used are:
Ignis - By Artist Magda Polakow
Barcode Text AND Barcode By Artist France Papillon
Cross Hatch Swirl - By Artist Maryse Carrier
Here is my finished postcard
I stamped Ignis onto the book text and colored her with distress markers, this way the book text shows through
I also doodled a bit all over the edges and added a sentiment that a friend of mine lives by haha!!
Thanks for coming by, I hope you will join us in this challenge
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
SDC 167 Masculine - Wednesday's With Claudine
Good morning all, we have a new challenge this week for you over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and our hostess this week is Kim Howard
I know a lot of people have trouble with masculine themed cards or journal pages, I know I do.
Stampotique Stamps I used for this project are:
French Journal Page - By France Papillon
Angel Boy - By Daniel Torrente
Feakin' People Person - From Carol's Collection
I decided to do a small journal page for this one and I used a jelli print that I had made several months ago (gotta love those gelli prints)
if you would like to see a little of how this was created hop on over to my blog
thanks again for coming by
Claudine
Friday, September 26, 2014
dreaming on a tag
Just fancied making a tag featuring Midge and some stars!
Love how it came together :)
Stampotique stamps used:
Friday, September 12, 2014
back to my art journal
Been playing in my journal again :)
I used some 'scratch paper' as the background for my page then played with my Stampotique stamps.
This is in my 'paperback book' sized journal which I got from Paperchase aaaaaages ago but love for it's different size.
Stampotique stamps used:
Friday, August 22, 2014
Flowers galore!
It's flowers galore at Stampotique this week with Kirsten's challenging us to use flowers in our project. Let me introduce you to Cinth, who would love you to say 'Hiya' to her!!
Although she's a touch un-seasonal she's a jolly, good-natured little person who lives very happily, just the kind of person you want to be around!
Stampotique stamps used:
Friday, August 8, 2014
a challenging journal page
Last week Kay's Stampotique challenge was to use black and white with a pop of colour, which is one of my favourite challenges. I use this in reverse a lot but only use it this way round when challenged, don't know why!!
The little scrap of blue was a piece I made for another project that didn't work out, but I liked it so kept it. Really must do use this theme again, I really enjoyed the challenge!!
Stampotique stamps used:
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Modern Woman
So simple, that I am only using parts of the stamps! Cropping your rubber images is a way of expanding your collection in that it offers a new way to look at things.
Stamps used are:
Modern woman - Janet Klein
Splattered Mug - France Papillon
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