Cats and Dogs: Two Cats

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with a card for our Challenge Cats and Dogs! Because of my holiday,( and because I'm chaotic..) I had to choose an oldie, but I think it fits perfectly to this theme! :-)

Stamps used: Two Cats, Pieces of Calligraphy, Pieces of Architecture.

I coloured a big A4 card with Distress inks and water, cut a smaller card and stamped (black ink) and cut the cats out of it. I stamped the texts and fragment with yellow, blue and black ink onto the background and glued the cats onto a yellow cardstock mat and glued them onto the background with 3d foam tape. Why not try it yourself and participate!? :-)

Have a nice and creative day!

LiesbethXX

Colour Challenge: Winged Girl

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Hello everyone! 

Today I would love to show you this terra cotta/turquoise card for our Colour Challege.

I made it with my favourite colour combination ánd one of my favourite stamps: Winged Girl. I also used Daisy Flourish and Misc. Words. 

I started with the two colours ink and water (Adirondack: Terra Cotta and Stream) and I stamped the images with StazOn ink- Jet Black and Blue Hawaii. For the finishing touches I used bleach, charcoal, yellow gel pen, colour pencils and glitter glue.

There's still time enough to choose one of the colour combinations and give it a try!

See you next time, hugs,

LiesbethXX

Colour Challenge: Art Journal Page ,Magic'.

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Hi everyone! Liesbeth here again, today I made a journal page for our Colour Challenge. I coloured an old book page with gesso and a leave and also with Terra cotta and turqoise inks and stamped The Victoriana stamps, the text from Dream, Magic, Love and pieces of the Flagstone Background with black ink. To finish the page I used white gel pen, bleach and charcoal. I glued the page in one of my altered books. 

Hope you like this idea and join us with a colourful piece of art! See you next time,

Liesbeth XX

Are you kidding me? : Two baby flower faces

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Hi lovely people! Today I would like to show you a small card with two baby faces. Last week I was trying out marbling paint together with our oldest granddaughter Lorèn, we had so much fun! Sometimes we had to clean the water with a piece of paper and this background is one of that cleaning scraps. A happy accident!

 

I stamped the faces and the texts on the card and  I finished the it with white gel pen, colour pencils and charcoal. 

Stamps used: 3 Flying Flower Girl faces,   ATC misc. 6 set, Music border, 

HERE you find everything about this challenge Are you kidding me. Give it a try, why not!? 😀

Hope to see you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Are you kidding me??: Button Girl

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Hi everyone! Today I would like to show you a card made with one of my favourite stamps..a lovely girl named Button Girl. I stamped her onto a gelly printed background, and staped Daisy Flourish too. I finished the card with white gel pen, colour pencils and charcoal.

HERE you find everything about this challenge Are you kidding me. Hope you'll join us! :-)

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Where´s my hat: Moon Dolls

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Hi everyone! Today I made a big card for our Where's my hat Challenge with two ,persons' with hats! :-)

I stamped them, and the hat, onto a seperate piece of white cardstock and cut them out. I coloured them with Ecoline Markers and glued them onto an inked and stamped (tree) background.

Stamps used: Large Clown Doll, Three Small Doll Faces, Party Hats 1 Set and Grunge Tree.

There are so many ,hat-possibilities'! Hope you give it a try and participate! Looking forward to see what you create! See you next time. 

Happy Easter! 

LiesbethXX

Where's my Hat: Tres Caballeros

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Hello lovely people! Liesbeth here with 3 different men with 3 beautiful hats for our Where´s my hat Challenge!

I made this card a long time ago , I don´t think if I already showed it here. But of course it fits perfectly for the theme :-)

It's made with different layers of paper and I coloured it with water colour markers. I finished it with some rhinestones.

 Stamp used: Tres Caballeros 

Hope to see you participate this nice and funny challenge! 

See you next time, hugs,

LiesbethXX

I am Woman: Fly

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Hi everyone! Liesbeth here with a happy flying woman for our current challenge. 

I made it with a Infusions-background. I stamped the Robust Dancer with black StazOn ink and masked her. The leaves are stamped with the beautiful Large Tree Crown (CV) and two times the word Fly from Misc. Words. I bleached (pure bleach) the woman and finished the card with colour pencils.

Hope to see your creations too! :-)

Have a nice day!

LiesbethXX

I am woman: Round Frida card

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Hello everyone!

Liesbeth here with a very strong woman for our ,I am Woman' challenge! Hope I inspire you to participate! I made a card in a round shape, I used one of my favourite Frida Kahlo stamps Frida 3 and one of the Pieces of Architecture for the edges. It's stamped on an alcohol inked glossy card.

Frida was such a strong woman!! She's a role model for me!

See you next time, hugs,

LiesbethXX

Fruit, Flower & Foliage: A Dutch card! ;-)

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Hello lovely people, Liesbeth here again. Our current challenge is Fruit, Flower & Foliage and as a Dutchie I would love to show you the Tulip! I love the Carmens Veranda Tulip stamp so much!

First, using a rainbow ink pad,  I stamped the LCD background stamp Flowers on an inked piece of cardstock. With StazOn ink I stamped the Tulip twice (I masked the first) and bleached them. I coloured the tulips with colour pencils and I stamped the sentiment from Party Words.

A very Dutch card I think! Hope you participate this flowery challenge, see you next time!

Liesbeth XX

Fruit, Flower & Foliage: Roses

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Hello everyone!

One of my favourite Lost Coast Designs stamps is the wonderful ,Roses´, you will see it HERE. And as it fits perfectly in our current challenge Fruit, Flower & Foliage I used it on this colourful glossy card!

Such a nice theme, hope you will join us! :-)

I coloured a glossy card with several colours of alcohol ink and let it dry very well. I stamped the Roses with StazOn Jet Black and coloured them wit Ecoline markers, pink, green and some yellow. I finished by stamping a bit of text from Pieces of Calligraphy with orange waterproof ink, and sponged some black ink at the edges.

See you next time,

LiesbethXX

Fruit, Flower & Foliage: Pear bookmark

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Hello everyone, this time I show you a fruity bookmark to inspire you for our current challenge Fruit, Flower and Foliage. (Click for information and how to participate!) :-)

I used just one stamp: one of the beautiful CV Squares, Pear Square. Oh how I love that amazing squares! I stamped it several times onto an inked (Distress) background with black StazOn ink. I bleached the pears and leaves with pure bleach, let them dry well and coloured the card with colour pencils. I finished with a white gelpen and sponged the edges with black ink.

Hope we will see your fruity artwork! :-)

See you soon, hugs,

LiesbethXX

Bright and Cheerful: Bird Diva

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here again. Today I would love to show you a Bright and Cheerful card for our current challenge. 

I made it onto a background coloured with blue acrylic ink and water. I stamped the divas, text and birds with black ink and coloured them with colour pencils and gelpen. 

Stamps used : Bird Diva with Face, Flying Moon, Travel Quotes and Carmens Verandas Flying Birds. 

Join our challege, so much fun!

See you next time, have a nice day!

Liesbeth XX

Bright & Cheerful: A bright morning.

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Hello everyone!

First I wish you all a very happy and healthy new year! Liesbeth here today with a ,Bright morning in the city' for our January challenge Bright and Cheerful. 

I stamped the big Cityscape onto an alcohol inked glossy background with black waterproof ink. I coloured it with different Distress Markers and yellow glitter glue on the windows and doors. I finished with a bit of text (from Pieces of Calligraphy) and made the word ,Joy' (from Misc. Words) on a seperate piece of paper and cardstock.

I hope this will be some inspiration for you to join us and give it a try yourself. See you next time!

LiesbethXX

Cold and Frosty: Winter Castle ATC

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here showing you my Winter Castle miniature. Our new Challenge is called Cold and Frosty! Hope you will join in!

This is how I made this ATC: First I stamped and gold embossed the border (ATC borders set) and cut it out. I masked the border and stamped the castle from Mini Butterfly Collage and one of the Large Snowflakes set with black waterproof ink. I removed the mask and coloured the card with Zig markers and water, like watercolor painting. I finished, as always 😁, with glitter glue. I glued the card onto a black ATC-card.

A detail of the ATC.

Have fun!  See you next time,

                                                             LiesbethXX

Gnome-vember: Birch forest

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here showing you my art journal spread for our current challenge Gnome-vember:

It's a small square journal, perfect size for my lovely Gnomes! I started with a napkin with birch forest image, I got it in Finland! I glued it onto the entire spread with gel medium, and painted a ,frame' at the edges with green paints. I stamped Flowers Gnome, Swinging Gnome and Stone House on a seperate piece of paper with waterproof ink and cut them out.

I stamped the Swinging Gnome and Daisy Flourish onto the spread, with waterproof black ink. I coloured the Gnomes and house with watercolour markers (Zig) and glued them on the spread. I finished the spread with gel pens, black marker and I drew a path and a fence.

I think they live happy there!😀

Hope to see your Gnome-creativity soon! See you next time,

LiesbethXX

Gnome-vember: Lovely witches!

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Hello everyone! Liesbeth here with two ATC's with those gorgeous gnome witches for our current challenge Gnome-vember. Aren't they lovely?

I stamped Gnome Witch with stars and Gnome Witch no stars onto a glossy alcoholink-coloured ATC and coloured the witches with Ecoline markers and finishes the atc's with glitter glue and white gel pen.

Have a ,Gnomefull' time, see you next time!

                                                                          LiesbethXX

31 Days of Halloween: Day 21

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Hi everyone! My fourth inspiration card for our 31 Days of Halloween challenge! Hope we inspire you to give it a go yourself!👻😱👻 Have fun!

The techniques are the same as my previous blogposts. On a coloured background (Distress inks) I stamped Calligraphy Shrine with black StazOn ink and masked it. I stamped Skull Flourish, and also it's flourishes at the edges of the card. I sponged some edges around and inside the masked arch with black ink before I moved the mask. The card is finished with some bleach, charcoal and white gel pen.

See you soon,

LiesbethXX

31 Days of Halloween: Day 17

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with another Halloween project to inspire you for our 31 Days of Halloween!

This time I used the wonderful stamp set Isle of Aud Creatures. I love it so much, and they are perfect Halloween stamps! The images are from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch (16th century), I'm a big fan of him!

I also used three times the window from the Door & Window set. The techniques are the same as last time (as always...;-)) Colouring with Distress inks and water, Stamping, masking, bleaching and finishing with black charcoal and white pens.

Hope you will join us with your Halloween makes!

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween: Day 13

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Hi everyone!

Can you believe it's day 13 of our 31 Days of Halloween already??

Today I made this creepy raven for you to inspire you!

I took a piece of white cardstock and sponged it very dark with Distress inks Vintage Photo, Gathered twigs an Scorched timber.

I stamped the Goth Raven with StazOn ink - Jet Black, and masked it. On my craftsheet I created a very thin layer if bleach and used it as a ,ink-pad' using parts of the big Spiderwebs background stamp. So I stamped it with pure bleach.

Using black ink, I stamped one of the Pieces of Calligraphy. After that I removed the mask and bleached the bird with bleach and a synthetic brush. I finished with an orange colour pencil and a white gel pen.

Hope you will join our Halloween adventure this month! :-)

Hugs, Liesbeth XX