Annie in her blue dress.

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This month's challenge at Lost coast designs is "Children".

I used the Birds in trees stamp and Annie.

And painted the card with van Gogh watercolor paint.

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Cute and/or Fluffy: Cute Elephant

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Hello everyone! Liesbeth here with a lovely little elephant :-) for our Cute&Fluffy Challenge! I stamped it ( Small Baby Elephant) with black StazOn ink on a Distress inked background and masked it. Than I stamped the trees (ATC birds in trees) and texts (Pieces of Calligraphy and Party Words), also with yellow and green ink. I removed the mask and finished the piece with charcoal, white gel pen and colour pencils. Join us and have fun!

Liesbeth XX

Things with Wings: Chicken

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Hi everyone! Liesbeth here with another Thing with Wings, for our Challenge! I'm adicted to glossy paper and alcohol inks at the moment, so I made this background that way! I stamped the AUD Chicken and masked it, after that I stamped the Birds in Trees a several times and also Carte Postale. I used black StazOn ink. I removed the mask and  finished the card with gel pens and glitter.

See you next time!  

                                    Liesbeth XX

#140 Tweet this, challenge.

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Hello bloggers, Riet here.

Today I worked on a large scale, an A4 21cmx30cm.

I think the crows are fantastic, they are so mysterious.

I have used various stamps.

Crow border

Bird on bike.

Raven with tree branches.

Birds in trees.

Pieces of calligraphy.

Stazon black

Distress oxide wilted violet, mermaid lagoon and black soot.

6inch gelli plate round and a round mini gelli plate.

Water resistent fineliner.

Dutch doobadoo stencil bubbles.

Memento tuxido black

And this how I made it.

I started by smearing the large gelli plate with the distress oxides.

First go through these steps with 1 color and then repeat with the other colors.

I sprayed some water over it.

Turned the gelli plate over and used it as a stamp.

Stamp in the middle of the paper.

Look how beautiful that is, be careful when you do the step with the black.

It soon becomes too much black.

With the small gelli plate, repeat the same steps, only with 1 color.

Stamp the small circle right above and left below.

Take the Birds in trees stamp and the black Memento.

Print the stamp on the gelli plate (kiss technique),

 and then print the gelli plate on the small circles of distress oxide.

Now stamp with black the Bird on bike,

 and the long strip of letters from the pieces of calligraphy stamp sheet.

In the top left corner and bottom right corner,

I splattered some more ink.

I thought it was a bit too empty there.

I drew lines around the circles with the fineliner and did some scribbling.

Top left and bottom right I have stamped the pieces of calligraphy set.

And with the stencil I put circles divided in the two colors.

Finaly I stamped the Raven with tree branches in black ink.

And I cut 1 crow off the border stamp.

I stamped these here and there in the colored circles.

Because it is a large page, I glued it in my Art journal, to which I will write some texts later.

I hope you liked it and join our challenge.

You are welcome and you can even participate with other brands.

You probably have a stamp with a bird, so join the fun.

You can even win new stamps.

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31 Day's of Halloween, Day 12, Crows

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Hello everyone,

No tutorial today, I forgot to take the pictures.

But I'll give you a brief explanation.

 

I used:

Lost Coast Designs stamp, 4 ravens

Lost Coast Designs stamp Birds in trees

distress oxide,

dusty concord

crackling campfire

spiced marmalade

mustard seed

A waterproof black ink (Stazon)

color pencils

mask tape

white gel pen

First I stamped and masked the trees.

Then I sponged the entire card with mustard seed.

Then you stick a circle of masking tape, this will be the moon.

Then you will apply the colors.

From below you leave a border yellow,

then spiced marmalade, then crackling campfire.

And finally dusty concord.

Spray a light mist of water to get some spots.

Remove the moon mask, and apply some spiced marmalade on the moon with a small sponge.

Remove the trees mask.

Stamp the 4 ravens on a paper and color them.

Cut them out without the moon and lower loose feather.

Stamp the 4 ravens on the card with stazon but without the moon and the feather at the bottom of the stamp.

Glue the cut out 4 ravens to the stamp imprint on the card.

Give it some shade with a black pencil.

Give the ravens and feathers some accents with a white gel pen.

I hope you liked it.

Come and participate in this super fun challenge.

Follow the link and join in the fun, then you have a chance to win new stamps.

Good luck and see you next time.

Neon colors: Flying Queen

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here again! Today I show you a journal page I made onto a neon colored gelli plate background. The neon paint I used was Talens Amsterdam. I stamped the Queen, the tree and text onto the background with black waterproof ink, like StazOn. I also stanped the queen onto a seperate piece of creme paper and cut her out (except of the candles), colored her with watercolor paint and glitter gel pens. I glued her ,on herself` onto the background and used white and yellow gel pens for the candles. Stamps used: (click=see) Flying Queen, Pieces of Calligraphy and Carmens Verandas Tree with birds.

There's still time to join the neon fun! Give it a try!

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

A jukebox for the mancave.

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#107 The mancave, blue jukebox.


Birds in Trees

Jukebox


 

Hi there, Riet here with another jukebox card.

For this card I used the LCD Birds in tree's background stamp and the Jukebox from Carmens Veranda.
I actually made this background for another card.  But it was not so suitable for that card and I had not used it.  So I found it very suitable for the vintage jukebox.
I made the background with distress glaze resist.
And distress Walnut stain and Antique linen.
I colored the jukebox with watercolor paint.
I did the metal parts with a silver pen.
Those parts seem to be made of chrome.
Too bad it cannot be seen in the photo.
Add some accents with the white gel pen, then cut out and glue on.
Hope you enjoyd the card. Dont forget to join our challenge.
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