Card with yellow butterfly

For making this card, I used one of my earlier cards as an inspiration. 

The background was made with Sky Blue embossing powder. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo and Antique Linen. I also spattered the surface with Antique Linen Distress re-inker. 

For the butterfly and all the gold parts of the card, I used Princess Gold embossing powder.

The butterfly was coloured with Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honig Distress ink.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Perspective (CMS213)

Stampers Anonymous, Vines&Roses (CMS298)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Text (CMS394)

Ranger embossing powders (Princess Gold, Sky Blue)

Ranger Distress ink pads (Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Wild Honig, Squeezed Lemonade)

Ranger Distress Archival ink (Black Soot)

Ranger Distress embossing ink

etc.

With my card, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Lazy Days Of Summer

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Emboss it

Silly monster goes on vacation

Hello crafty friends, I'm here with the second inspirational project for the August challenge of the Country View Challenges. The theme is I do like to be beside the seaside and my teamie, the lovely Christine is your hostess.

This happy monster is jumping on his suitcase because at last, he can go on holiday. His destination is one of the islands of the Caribbean sea. He was working a lot all year long and the last months were quite hard for him, you know because of the lockdown and the teleworking. But the time of desperation finished and this is the time to go to a happy place, a nice sandy beach to relax and drinking cocktails.

Now let me see if I can write a tutorial or not.

The globe was covered with Liquid Platinum embossing powder and I put a paper behind which was inked with blue Distress inks (oxides and originals).

The luggage was inked with Mustard Seed Distress ink and spritzed with water. In the end, I smeared Micro Glaze onto the coloured surface to seal them and to give the paper an interesting texture.

The silly monster and the background of the tiny island were coloured with Distress paints. The palm tree and the island were coloured with Distress markers. 

For my favourite monster, (really, from the silly monsters he is my favourite character) I created swimming trunks by cutting off the upper body and the legs of the monster.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Alphanumeric Tiny Type Lower by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Silly Monster by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Globe by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tiny Globe by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Bigz Die, Baggage Claim by Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress inks (oxide and original)

Ranger Distress markers

Ranger Distress paints

Ranger embossing powder (Liquid Platinum)

etc.

So if you have a project with a beach scene, please don't hesitate to join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher. 

With my card I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Summer Memories

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Use Your Favourite Tool (Big Shot Plus machine)

Framed beach scene

I have made this framed beach scene for our August challenge. The theme was chosen by the lovely Christine aka CraftyField and it's called I do like to be beside the seaside.

For this project, I got the inspiration from one of my earlier cards. You can find it here. 

Here is my tutorial. 

I cut out a rectangle, the exact same size which fits in the frame, and then another one. The second one was torn by hand to create the beach. This second one was also covered with Ranger, Grit-Paste. When it was dry, I painted with DecoArt Americana Buttermilk paint, then spritzed with Burnt Umber.

For making the beach hut, I used only one side of the Village Dwelling house. And I cut this out from corrugated cardboard.

I painted the house white and then I let it dry.

For the little doorknob, I used this part of the Robotic die set.

The door, the roof and the tree trunk were cut out from kraft paper but I inked the edges with Vintage Photo.

The leaves of the palm tree were inked with Distress inks (Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint). Then I smeared Micro Glaze onto the surface. 

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz die, Village Surf Shack by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Village Dwelling by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tropical by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Scarecrow by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits die, Robotic by Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress Grit-Paste by Tim Holtz

DecoArt Americana paints

Ranger Distress inks

Ranger Distress Micro Glaze

So if you have a project with a beach scene, please don't hesitate to join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher. 

Wildflowers in sunset

Hello crafty friends, I'm here with the second inspirational project for the June challenge of the Country View Challenges. This time the lovely Rachel chose the theme which is Summer Fields. 

As you can see I created a summer field filled with wildflowers and a sunset scene. 

To begin, I cut a rectangle panel and I started to blend Ranger Distress colours onto the surface. I used Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Abandoned Coral, Candied Apple, Broken China, Faded Jeans and Black Soot. I blended more black ink around the edges but to tell the truth I slightly touched the whole surface with the black ink to darken the vivid colours a little bit.

Then I spritzed my panel with water.

Next, I started to stamp the flowers with Black Soot Archival ink from the Stampers Anonymous Wildflowers (CMS253) and Winter Watercolor (CMS354) stamp sets.

I placed my panel to a black rectangle panel, then to a grey card. And that's it! My card was ready.

And a last photo:

So if you have a project with a summer field, please don't hesitate to join our June challenge where you can win a £20 voucher.

Card with an aircraft

Yesterday I needed some colouring so I chose two MFT (My Favorite Things) stamp set by Stacey Yacula, the Sky High and the Scene Builder and created a scene with an aircraft.

For creating the scene I followed the scheme of the current Wednesday Sketch Challenge of the MFT, the Sketch 493.

I stamped most of the images on Neenah Solar White paper (110lb) with Chocolate Hybrid ink, for the clouds I used Grout Grey Hybrid ink. I coloured them with Copic Sketch markers.

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Thank you card with wildflowers

Hello crafty friends, I'm here with the first project for the June challenge of the Country View Challenges. The theme is Summer fields and the lovely Rachel will be your hostess this month.

As you can see, my summer field is filled with wildflowers.

And here I have to tell you that for this card I got the inspiration from one of my early cards. I really loved that card so I decided to repeat that design in other colours.

For making this one, I took a 300gsm watercolour paper and painted with Ranger Distress paints (Faded Jeans, Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn, Shabby Shutters, Bundled Sage).

Then I inked the edges with Ranger Distress Archival ink (Vintage Photo). Then I started to stamp the wildflowers from the Stampers Anonymous Wildflowers stamp set and heat embossed with Ranger Weathered White embossing powder.

The next step was to cut out some flowers from the Sizzix Wildflowers Thinlits die set from green textured paper and kraft paper. I arranged them on the card and glued them one by one. Then I splattered with diluted white paint.

The text is part of the Stampers Anonymous Crazy Talk stamp set. I stamped with Ranger Distress Gathered Twigs ink, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

So if you have a project with a summer field, please don't hesitate to join our June challenge where you can win a £20 voucher.

Summer scene with a little girl and a hot air balloon

Hello everyone, let me show you the new version of my earlier card, a summer card with a little girl. I made just a few changes compared and if you want to see the differences, please click here and you can see my other card and you can find the supply list of both cards. 

That's all for today! Thank you for stopping by! Happy crafting!

Summer card with little girl

Here is my latest make with the MFT Bring Out The Sunshine stamp set by Birdie Brown.

I stamped the elements of my scene with MFT Chocolate Brown Hybrid ink.

I used the following stamp set:

MFT Birdie Brown, Bring Out The Sunshine stamp set

MFT Stacey Yacula, Scene Builder stamp set

MFT, In Paris stamp set

MFT, Fairy Happy stamp set

I coloured them with Copic Sketch markers. But in the end, I did a little colouring with Faber-Castell Polychrmos pencils.

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Summer scene with beach house

This is my second inspirational project for our August challenge. The theme was chosen by the lovely Corrie: Sun, sea and sand.

For the beach hut, I used the Village Dwelling XL die by Tim Holtz but I used only the side part of the house because I didn't want to make it 3 dimensional. So I just cut off the tabs from my house and painted white the corrugated cardboard.


The sandy beach is a torn paper covered with Grit-Paste. When the paste was dry I coloured with DecoArt Multi-Surface Buff Beige. The edge was inked with Distress Brushed Corduroy ink.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Village Dwelling by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Bigz Die, Village Surf Shack by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Handwritten Vacation by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Scarecrow by Tim Holtz

Kraft paper

Watercolour paper

Tim Holtz Idea-Ology, Textured Surfaces (TH93204)

acrylic paints

Ranger Distress inks and DOX inks by Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress Grit-Paste by Tim Holtz

tiny real shell

So if you have a summer project with sun, sea and/or sand, please join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher.

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Card with Penny Black Summer Love stamp

For this card I used the Penny Black Summer Love stamp and it was not the first time (and I'm sure not the last). Because this little boy and girl are so adorable!

Nowadays I make many watercolour cards, it's because my craft room, actually the whole attic is under construction (changing window, parquet flooring, painting...) so my crafting tools are packed and I have just a few things around me. Here is a picture about the renovation.

But it will be super after all! And I hope I get back everything for the weekend!

And with this card I would like to join the challenge of the Penny Black and More: Anything goes.

Art Impressions: Beach babe

I made this card especially for the challenge of the Art Impressions blog: Let's distress.

For this I used the Beach Babes stamp set. I love the images with the fun texts. 

I coloured the card with watercolour technique using Ranger Distress markers and then inked the edges of the card with Ranger Distress inks (Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo).

Crazy birds on hot summer days

At the Country View Challenges the August theme is: HOT SUMMER DAYS. 

For this challenge I made a fun image with Tim Holtz Crazy Birds who are spending their holidays on a sandy beach in the hottest days of a very hot country. (Actually I'm spending my holiday in South of France right now.) On the very first day they got sunburned, in fact they became really red. (My hubby sunburned too - on the first day). And of course they are terribly hot! (Yes, the same, but I love it!) So when they have just enough from sun and heat, the Dad says wisely: Darling, son! Next year we will fly to Iceland!

First I stamped the birds on white cardstock and cut out.
For this I used Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Stamp Set (CMS212), Crazy Things Stamp Set (CMS237) and Mini Crazy Bird Crazy and Things (CMS250).

With Ranger Distress Markers I coloured them.

For the little flower on the lady's hat I used Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Tattered Flowers by Tim Holtz.

I made the background with using Ranger Distress Ink Pads (Stormy Sky, Antique Linen, Tumbled Glass). I added the colours with a sponge. In the end I put a thin layer of white acrylic paint to soften the colours and I put glitter liner to the sun and to the line between the sea and the sand part.

For the ball I used a Memory Box die and I coloured with Ranger Distress Markers.

And I put a thin layer of Schmincke Acrylic Medium to the background paper and to the birds for protection.

The words were taken from Tim Holtz Idea-ology ChitChat Stickers except the word Iceland, because it was printed by Dymo Label Maker.

I glued the image with double sided foam adhesive to a burlap panel from Tim Holtz Textured Surfaces. 

Happy crafting! And greetings from La Ciotat!