Stampotique challenge SDC 210- Enchanted Goddess

 

Hello everyone and hope you are having a good weekend.

 

This weeks challenge over at the Stampotique Designers blog challenge is hosted by Kim.

We have been given the theme of "anything Goes" and most of us Stampotique fans will find it difficult to choose from all the fabulous stamp ranges they have!! I know I do !

 

I treated myself this week to some of the new stamp ranges that have come out(and you can see them all on the stampotique website).

So I have chosen to use "Lucille" by Arwen Mccullen as I just love this image. I have placed the image on a painted background and added some Stampotique words and quote to it.

 

I am entering this into:

Stampotique Designers Blog challenge SDC 210- Anything goes

 

So what have I been up to this weekend:

 

 

 

A few pics of my fabulous weekend at the Leeds Music festival !! Had the most amazing time !

 

See you again soon

x catherine

I can see clearly now..

Hello everyone. I have certainly kept up with my blogging this week!

I have been a bit behind with The Documented Life project of late so trying to pick up !!

This month's Art challenge is "Expressive Faces" and the prompt from the beginning was "What I see clearly now"

I have made a background in my journal and used a stamp for the main image of the face. I also stamped the words . By putting these images onto white paper helped to stand them out from such a busy background.

I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend. I have a busy one coming up as I am going to the Leeds festival tomorrow- hoping it doesn't rain and the wellies need to come out!!!!!!

see you again soon

x catherine

comfort zone journal 52

Hello everyone. I would like to say hello to all my new followers and thank you for joining me here on my blog. I hope you enjoy your visits here.

So I have needed to catch up with some of my Journal 52 prompts and week 33 last week's prompt was "Comfort Zone"
As many of my followers will have seen I have been working on some ready made backgrounds and so I thought this it what I would do with one of them.

I often make tags and journal onto the back of them. This means I can slip the tags into my journal.

Sometimes when you have a really "busy" background a quote is all that is really needed and Journals what I feel at that moment .

So as I am taking new steps in my life just now this is the quote which really shows where I am at this moment.

"There is a whole world outside your comfortzone" is a stamped quote from Stampotique.

see you soon

x catherine

WOYWDW# 325

 

Good morning all,

 

Today it is WOYWDW and you can pop over to Julias blog here to find out what crafters have on their work desks today.

So I have pieces ready to work on with some journaling.

 

This is how I finished my big piece yesterday:

 

Although I really liked the finished piece I knew it was just to big to work on (A3) as one project and that is where the cutting up into smaller pieces gives me the ready made backgrounds.

 

Lots of paint and plenty of doodling and my followers will remember it started like this on Monday:

Yes the pink and yellow one !

So what will I do with these now!! I suppose you will see them throughout the next week as finished journal pieces and tags.

WOYWDW #325

Thanks for stopping by and visiting and see you again soon

x catherine

Journal 52 - Keys

 

Hello everyone,

well I didn't think I would be blogging this so quick from yesterdays post !!! As you remember it was just in the background stage but I just played for a while yesterday afternoon and this emerged. I love it and just the freedom was so enjoyable.
This weeks prompt over at Journal 52 - Keys. I have stamped out the words to my journal page and focused with the larger stamps on the "lock and unlock". These words reflect where I am at the moment as I have my enrolment for college on Wednesday .

You can find all the details to the challenge here:
Journal 52 - keys

Have a good day and see you soon

x catherine

New start to the week

 

Hello everyone and here's to the start of a new week.

 

Now many of my followers will have realised lately that I have just not been able to blog as often as I would have done before! Time just doesn't allow for me anymore to complete as many projects on a daily basis as used to be. But I do still craft daily and projects just take a bit longer now.

Blogging has been a big part of my life over the last few years and something I  wouldn't want to stop doing just now. So I may have to just approach my blog a bit differently for a while and some posts will be more of a "here is what am I working on "instead of " here is what I have finished today"

 

I thought today I would share with you how I am starting this week. Just lately I have found that working like this really suits my time frame.

 

As you can see I often now work on two pieces at the same time(A4 and A3),. The larger A3 piece is a masterboard and will be cut up and used in as many pieces as I want. The smaller A4 piece will be a finished journal page.

 

So a sneak peak into the start of them is some background colours and collage pieces. I will now work on these adding all sorts of media and mainly in a random fashion!!!

 

I hope you will continue to follow my development here and look forward to showing how these pieces come together.

 

Thank you for visiting me today and I really do appreciate all of your comments.

See you later

x catherine

Paper Hearts Chain, Paper Hearts Chain

 

Hello everyone and hope you have all had a good weekend.

 

Now I haven't lost it with the title of my post(repeating myself)- there is a reason!!!!

 

This weeks new challenge at Stampotique designers Blog challenge is being hosted by Sam read and Sam has challenged us to "Repeat Yourself"- Get the idea!

 

I choose to use a stamp by kate Crane "Boots" and repeatedly stamped it three times. I just had to go with the idea of these holding a paper Hearts chain so perservered and stamped the heart several times and cut them out.

 

Set on a background of random mixed media.

 

I am entering this into:

Stampotique designers Blog challenge -SDC 209- Repeat Yourself

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today and see you again soon

x Catherine

Number 2 at Dragons Dream challenge #198

Hello everyone and hope your having a good week so far.

We have a new challenge started over on the Dragon's Dream tag It On challenge and this week Sylvia has chosen the number " for us to work with.

You can find all the details to the challenge here:

Dragons Dream tag It On challenge #198- Number 2

For my tag I used a combination of twos- two blue distress ink colours, two stamps from the same stamp set, two stencils in the background and two words beginning with "c".

So you get the idea of the way it works!!! We would love for you to come and visit and play along with this weeks challenge and look forward to visiting your blogs.

See you soon

x catherine

Stampotique challenge SDC 208-Animals

Hello everyone and hope you have all had a good weekend.

The new challenge over at the Stampotique Designer Blog is "Animals" hosted by Jackie Payne.

I have chosen to make a piece of Mail Art for my entry. I started with a postcard cut size piece from a mixed media background and then stamped on this using Peacock Feathers and stamp Journey Collage(Amy Wilson).

I stamped the images Top Hat(Kira Nichols) and Mushroom Group(JO Capper-Sandon) and coloured them using Inktense pencils and a waterbrush.

The Art Mail quote stamp is by Barcode Text (France Papillon)

I am entering this into :

Stampotique Designer Challenge blog -SDC 208-Animals

Thanks for stopping by today and see you again soon

x catherine



More mail Art

 

Hello everyone and hope your all having a good week so far.

 

I just got to love this image so much and can relate to looking like this on occasions!!!!

 

Having a play with some more mail art postcards and love how this has turned out.

 

This one is being sent to someone so hope the postman has a laugh at it !!!

 

see you later

x catherine

Tim's tags 2015 - August

 

Hello everyone.

 

Now I know it is summer and here I am with a Christmas Tag!! Well Tim Holtz has a new tag up on his blog and I don't have the dies that he used for his. The ones I have are Christmas words so decided to go with a Christmas theme(Tim is keen this month for us to get the most out of the supplies we have!)

All the other elements added are from Tim's product range.

 

 

Tim Holtz Tags 2015 - August

 

see you again soon

x catherine

Mini Journal Album

Hello everyone.

I recently came across the mini album project by Kathy Orta and was inspired to make one of my own but using my own journal backgrounds and some Gelli prints. This has turned out to be a great journal mini album for keeping in some of my ATC's, tags and mail art postcards. Here I can plan to keep them all together and tidy !! 

I am entering this into:

Simon Monday challenge - make a plan(To keep mini art journal pieces together and tidy!!)

See you again soon

x catherine 

Another Mail Art Postcard

 

Hello everyone and I am slowly getting back into things again.

 

I have been making another Mail Art Postcard using a painted background and collage images from Mischief Circus.

 

I am making large painted pieces and cutting them down to postcard size so my backgrounds are all random.

 

 

The Prompt over at Journal 52(which I admit now to being a bit behind with!!!) this week is 10 minutes. You can only allow yourself 10 minutes to just play. This background was already done so my 10 minutes was spent adding the collage and stamping.

 

Here is the link for Journal 52- Journal 52 week 31 - 10 minutes

 

Hope you all have a good week ahead

 

See you soon

x catherine