art journal imagiation

Using my luck with gesso-resist technic and images from deviant scrap
here´s what I came up with

Stamps from Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz and paper artsy. The little mermaid is from Elusive and the stars were an add-on of craft stampers.
Let me know how you like it.

de Stempelwinkel Design Team

Hi everybody,

I am sooooooooooooo happy. Starting in may I am the newest member of the  de Stempelwinkel Design Team.
de Stempelwinkel has so many beautiful stamps and Jeske is just great, so it is going to be a lot of
fun.
If you want to check out her shop go here:

http://www.de-stempelwinkel.nl/index.php?action=page&group_id=20000099&lang=DE

But be warned, with some many beautiful stamps to choose from it can be a hard choice.

tame birds

another art journal page

tamed birds sing about freedom, wild birds fly.

I used a lot of stencils for the background, the border is from deviantscrap.
Stamps are from cherry pie/de stempelwinkel, hero arts

I am taking part with that page at:
http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.de/2012/04/simon-saysanything-goes.html

Fashionable stamping challange embossing

I don´t know about you, but I do have some embossing plates which have put on a lot of dust, as I use them verrrrrrrrrrry randomly.

Reading about that challange I thought it would be a good idea to dust them off

Maybe you would like to participate as well

http://fashionablestampingchallenges.cottagecrafts.ie/?p=3211

All the stamps I used are from de stempelwinkel/cherry pie.

Altered Alice spendidly dresses with hats

For the challange at the altered alice I have changed some plastic schnapps glasses in some hats. Was a lot of fun and a lot of dirt.
Stamps I have used are from de stempelwinkel

in more detail:

If you want to participate you have to hurry up.

http://alteredalice.blogspot.de/2012/04/week-chapter-14-challenge-splendidly.html

Art Journey challange

Going through my stamps I found this wonderful stamp from art journey which was once a free add-on to craft stampers.
And here´s what I did with it

http://artjourneydesign-team.blogspot.de/2012/04/challenge-20-dictionary.html

Arch spring

With rainclouds all over Munich I thought spring might be a nice topic and so I tried my first gothic arch

I printed the photo on transparency and made a photo transfer with mod podge.
Stamps I used: 7gypsies and paperartsy.

I am participating at the following challange:
http://gothicarches.blogspot.de/2012/04/signs-of-spring.html
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.de/2012/04/challenge-9-anything-but-square-or.html

zentangle meets octopode

For the new challange at the octopode factory I zentangled once again

http://toffchallenge.blogspot.de/2012/04/anything-goes.html

zentangled face

Being totally bored at home with my cold and sinusitis I tried my luck with zentangle. Here´s the result:

Stamp from Teesha Moore.

I am participating with that card here:

http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/challenge-1-at-just-keep-on-creating.html

http://365cards.blogspot.de/

creavil Ideenblog fears and dreams

As DT for creavil I made this tag for their idea blog

Apart from the leaves (dylusions) and the sentiment (Tim Holtz) all stamps are from creavil, sprays and stencil again dylusions.

You might also take a look here

 http://www.creavil.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=8&Itemid=41

sunken ship

checking out my dashboard I have discovered a new challange here

http://fashionablestampingchallenges.cottagecrafts.ie/?p=3044

And while I am looking a bit like Rudolph the red nose due to a quiete nasty cold I made this tag with a nautic theme using some ghosting technic for the "ghost ship" in the background

The mermaid is from Suzie Blue.

cup of tea

With snow outsite our windows (thanks god it is already melting) I was inspired to do this cabinet card

I used my new sizzix die  mini cabinet card.
Stamps I have used: Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz, pink paislee, inkadinkado. Background was made with Pan Pastels.

I am participating with that card at the following challanges:

http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.de/

http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.de/

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.de/

cold feet for the easter bunny

Poor easter bunny, that´s what we saw this morning looking out of our window

Certainly a surprise, I hope easter bunny had still his winter boots on hand.

happy eastern

Dear friends,

I wish all of you a very happy eastern. Hope you find all the hidden eggs..

This is my eastern door sign, images are all from the octopode factory.

see also http://toffchallenge.blogspot.de/2012/04/toff-41-easter.html