New Years Resolution (haha)

My New Years Resolution is ..... to finish projects, maybe new ones, hopefully some old ones and in the process to finish organinsing my stash as well (my poor, poor fella is surrounded by stamps, cardstock, ink and he never says a word about it, he is such a love).

So with this in mind here is my first one, I have half a dozen card bases which I have made up using distress inks on a shadow block then spritzed. I thought it was a lovely effect so I have sat and looked at them for several months hehehe.

This is for this Stampotique challenge, I hope you like it.

Blue Monday

Its Sunday afternoon, its raining and I am back to work tomorrow after a weeks vacation, this seemed fitting for the Stampotique Desingers Challenge, I have created the background with ColourBox Chalk inks as they layer nicely and are not too wet for the journal.

Far Away

Time for another Stampotique challenge, which was to use your scraps. Well I have a small bag of pieces of card, all cut offs from other projects and I just can't bring myself to throw them away so this challenge was ideal. I glued lots of different pieces onto card stock, regardless of colour but 90% had a texture of some kind. I painted over them all with some gesso then spritzed with a few glimmer mists. Added the stamped image which I highlighted with gel pen and then some words and brads. I hope you like it.

Paper Piecing Challenge

One of the challenges over on StampTV this week is to do Paper Piecing, its always fun to do and I always use my little scraps which I find very satisfying (I do hate to throw anything away). So here is my example, I hope you like it,

Stampotique CAS challenge

Another Stampotique challenge, I did go a bit wild at the Port Sunlight stamp festival and bought a whole load of Stampotique stamps, so glad Happy Daze were there this year, it was a real treat. Well I have no excuse to not enter the challenges now hehehe so here is my go at CAS and I just love it, this style suits me down to the ground, I hope you like it as well

Follow your dreams

It is a glorious day here in Rijswijk and I should be outside doing something hehehe but no I have been stamping instead, but my table is infront of our balcony door which is open so I can at least see outside (does that count???) I really wanted to enter this weeks Mark's Finest Papers Speedy Cat challenge which is to do a collage card, so here is my offering. It looks nothing like the idea I started out with in my head, but then again in my head I think I can sing like Sarah Brightman (I can't in real life) so maybe it is not such a bad thing. Anyway I hope you like it.

Dance in the rain

This card I made for the Stampoutique Challenge, which was to use Newsprint/Old Book Pages. I don't have any old books but I did find a musical score so I hope this counts. I really enjoyed making this card, I am trying very hard to push myself outside of my comfort zone which is much more CAS. Lots of inky fingers which is always fun.