Inkpad love

Hi everyone,

It's Monday again and Simon Says Stamp and Show has another nice new challenge for you. We ask you to use your favorite ink pad and let us know why it's your favorite. My favorite ink pad is Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. Because it's such a gorgeous color. That it's a Distress Ink, makes it even more my favorite. Distress Ink is just so versatile!


To show of the color very well, I only used Peacock Feathers Distress Ink the create the background with the blending tool. It's a bit plain and hasn't any depth in it, so I did the Spritz and Flick technique, so that beautiful water drops occur. To bring out the beautiful color I distressed the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. I also stamped with Peacock Feathers. So you get from this single color very much depth.

 

I absolutely love the new die of Tim with the Eiffel Tower and Fleur de Lis. I also have the matching embossing folder. They go so well together. It would be even more fantastic if the new Paris stamps had also matched the die and the embossing folder! Well maybe next release :).

 



To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $50 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Stamp and Show Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

Paper padding

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I came back from my trip to Paris and I've had an amamzing time! So much fun adventures with the girls. This was the first time we had been on a trip together. But enough about Paris... It's another Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge. This time, we load up our 6x6 paper pads and get all paper paddy this week.



Do you also buy the lovely 6x6 paper pads and use just a few sheets of it for one single project and then forget all about them? Well I serieusly do. So this challenge is perfect for me, I finally can use some sheets of my hoarded paper pads! A while ago I made this amoire out of cardstock with my Silhouette Cameo and this pattern of SVGcuts.



Honestly, it was a bit boring. Perfect to cover up with beautiful patterns of Meadowlark 6x6 paper pad. In the beginning I'm always a bit hesitant to rip those beautiful sheets into pieces. But after a while I rip and tair like a crazy person. Well not all that crazy ... You know what I mean... With a lot Multi Medium Matte I layered all the pieces of paper on. It still looked a bit plain, it lacked some color. So out come the paints and inks. Well only two colors of paint the Pool Paint Dabber and I stamped with Mustard Seed Distress Paint. I love the new Remnants Rubs from Tim Holtz, they're really cool! That's the beauty of the rubs, they apply to sort of uneven surfaces.

 




To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $50 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Stamp and Show Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

So very inspirational

Hi everyone,

Simon Says Stamp and Show has such a cool challenge in store for us. This week it's 'Inspired by'! Well I'm inspired by a lot of artists, products and techniques. But I really like these two very talented ladies.  Donna Downey and Dina Wakley. Both ladies have an amazing blog packed with inspiration, which I love to visit to give my mojo a boost. They both inspire me just to new things and not to be affraid to go for it. I find their art journal styles and techniques very cool. And I love to watch Donna's Inspiration Wednesday video's.

Recently I purchased the medium Gelli Plate. Unfortunately the workshop Dina gave about it was sold out when she was here in the Netherlands serveral weeks ago. So I looked at lots of youtube videos and went to work. It's so much harder than I expected! Looking at those videos it seems really easy... After buying  more paint colors and after more attempts, I finally made something that made me happy! So that page went in my art journal, a great base to expand into an artjournal page. I collected all the products of Donna and Dina I own around me, and started playing. The stamps of Dina are really super! And I love the stencils of Donna! I used them with paint and with modeling paste.

 



To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $50 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Stamp and Show Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

Do more of what makes you happy!

Hi everyone,

Today I wanna share a card that I made in honor of my mother's upcoming birthday. With this card I'm joining Frilly and Funky where the challenge is to use time in one way or another, and alse with the renewed Our Creative Corner, where it is Anything Goes.

The background contains a lot of different layers. Started with the Distress Paints to create a basic background. Finally an opportunity to try the Metallic Distress Paints. Really love these paints, they are so versatile. Then I stamped with Picket Fence Distress Paint the Flourish stamp. After that I stamped with lots of different colors of ink and stamps. The sentiment I got at a stamping market which was a while ago. I have no idea what brand it is ... Of course I had to use the film ribbon againg, is really a new addiction of me... And if I wanna use clocks, then the Weathered Clock and the stamp of Life's possibilties can't be missed...

 





Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

Pretty Paris

Hi everyone,

Ohh I just can't wait for next week! Because then I'm going to Paris! Again, yippee! I'm so looking forward to it. I'm going with 3 friends and it will be great fun, I'm sure of it! I'm finally gonna climb the Eiffel Tower! It is already reserved, so it's really happening! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show has a very appropriate challenge that fits my upcoming trip: Passport to Fun! So collect your travel stamps and get inky!


I had some old pictures from a previous trip to Paris. I think it's from about 5 years ago. I was with my BFF Lein. This mini Maya Road canvas album is perfect for this project. First I applied the camera stencil with modeling paste. After that was dry I colored the canvas cover of the album and the canvas envelopes with Color Shine and Color Wash Spray. I needs to be really dry before I could continue. It takes a while for fabric to dry. I can take so long before I decide where everything goes, so this cover took a while, as did all the pages!





The pages I covered with the 75 cents paper collection of Kaiser Craft. I love that beautiful paper line! So pretty! The pictures are a bit to big for the pages, but I don't mind. I used a lot of modeling paste with stencils, and the most text is done with the Label Letters from Tim Holtz. The best letter stickers! Only there are not enough 'U's on one sheet!
 

 

 



To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $50 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Stamp and Show Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

Explosion of colors

Hi everyone,

The spring  is playing hard to get over here, we only have had a few nice days. The beautiful springy colors have yet to occur. Fortunately, Simon Says Stamp and Show has come up with a super nice colory challenge. Because the theme is Color Love. Go wild and use even more color in your projects than you normally do!




 
Because I work in an art journal, the swipe method (or whatever this is officially called) is not really suitable. Hmm... what now? Luckily I had a light bulb moment and thought that a transparency could do the trick. I applied 4 colors of Distress Paint on the tranparency.

 
Sprayed some sprayed over it and the swiping could begin. In order to prevent it to get all muddy I left some white space.

 
I filled in the white spaces with Distress Ink. Then swiped and dabbed with the transparency for more layers once again.

 
Distress Paints are really suited for stamping. They aren't as thick as regular paint and not too thin as the Distress Stains. Go lightly over the stamps with Paints and make sure there is not too much paint on it, because then it becomes a big mess. Clean the stamps immediately after use, so that the paint doesn't dry up on them.

 
With a stencil of Dyan Reavely I two layers for more dimension. One white and on top of that the black.

 
To frame the pages, I used a stencil edge and made it pop with a white pen.


I put my Silhouette to work to make my own alphabet stencil. Here I used a transparency, but that was a mistake. Because it takes a long time to get through it. It needs multiple cuts, it is very tough stuff. From now on I just use cardstock for this.







To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $50 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Stamp and Show Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

12 tags of 2013 - April

Hi everyone,

Yeah, finally time for the Tim Holtz april 12 tags of 2013! Ohh and it's yet another beautiful tag. I'm so glad it's with the Distress Paints. I really need more practice with these new additions. Tim uses such beautiful color combos that I would never try myself and that is why I used the same colors as him, to get a bit out of my comfort zone. And I'm happy I give those colors a try.

Of course I still gave my own twist, to it, as I always try to do. In 3 weeks time I go to Paris and I I'm so excited that I've made it the theme of this tag too. But honestly I simply don't have the dragonfly stamp, so that's why I had to chose something else. And I used also a 1, because 14 is my fav number. For the numbers I used the Word Play die. I played with the Remnant Rubs for the first time, and they are so much fun! Love the texts!









Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra