Only one post

It is 31st January and this is my second post this year. What a shame! I feel guilty for not trying to motivate  myself to do some posting.

Hope that 2016  will be more creative as my New Year's resolution is to enjoy life more.

Happy New Year!

ART JOURNALING - Home, Dom, Srce, Heart and 2015

About six months ago while visiting Serbia, I came across lovely journalling tutorials on YouTube. I was amazed. I just wanted to try it.

Since then I have been collecting material and courage. 

Finally, today, I did a page.

                                      WARNING: I AM NOT AN ARTIST

My first page is about my home town Nis, in Serbia.  Simply a sketch of the Nis Fortress in pencil and pens lead to cutting out the image and gluing it on the page with the clear shine glue medium.

The next step that should have been the first actually was to cover the page with white gesso.
Once the page dried I played with  gel sticks from Faber Castell (mostly white and black) and Black Soot Distress ink from Tim  Holtz. I also edged the page with a tin black marker and smudged some silver metallic paste against the edges.

In  the end, using black and white markers, I wrote those 4 magic words  and  sprinkled some white acrylic paint over the page.

The final result is the  picture which has  that winter sky grey feeling. 

 The feeling of achievement is lovely especially, after I have touched the page. It feels like touching a canvas. 

And on the final thought, I do hope that 2015 will bring lots of new and lovely things. 

Hobby Art Vintage Stamps

Hobby Art Vintage stamps have caught my imagination recently. 

With good quality and versatility, these stamps with a little imagination can make you go far.

These are the results that I have achieved with them and they are very very beautiful. 

Happy crafting

xxx

The card for Steve

Weather it is due to laziness or  lack of mojo, but I haven't written and posted on my blog  for good 4 months.  Shame on me!!! None of the previously mentioned is not a good excuse not to be active.

During that time I made some very lovely cards which I will post later, but  to start with is to start with the best I have made in long long time, and it is the card for Steve.

I was asked to make a card for him, but  honestly, they should not have asked me as I was to make one anyway. 

Steve is a gentleman who was very closely working with us, with the whole team and he was one of those particular parts of the chain that team couldn't work without. 

So, Steve did deserve the card for himself to be special, but not pathetic like:'Oh, I am so sorry you are leaving'. It was card that reflected Steve the person, a gentleman who likes to work.

I used Debbi Moore products for this card and I am very happy that it came so beautiful. 

IndigoBlue Stamps

I know I have not been posting regularly, but it's just that there is either no inspiration -mojo gone, or being lazy, or just not feeling like it.

While wandering through Cambridge yesterday, I popped into WH Smith and to my surprise, I saw a beautiful stamp set as a free gift  from'Simply Cards and Papercraft' magazine.

 IndigoBlue is the company responsible for the stamp set. So gorgeous that  it did not take me a second to buy it.

The moment I got home, I started to play and my play resulted in the following cards:

                                                 Card 1 :

Versafine - Onyx Black ink stamp

Black Card -Crafter's Companion

Watercolour card - Crafter's Companion

Faber-Castell Watercolour pencils

Black gems

Diamond Glitter Spray - Crafter's Companion

Neenah Solar White card - Crafter's Comapnion

Card 2:

Versafine - Onyx Black ink stamp

Black Card -Crafter's Companion

Neenah Solar White card - Crafter's Comapnion

Black organza ribbon

Diamond Glitter Spray - Crafter's Companion

Gold Metallic Gilding Wax

Cuttlebug Embossing folder - Paisley

Happy Crafting 

xxx

Follow Your Dreams....

Angelica and Adam are there and they have taken the crafting world by storm. It has been easy to play with the whole range.





The following cards are just a hint of what can you do with the whole range whether it is the CDs, papers, embossing folders or stamps.

All the card images presented here are stamped with acrylic stamps from Angelica and Adam range coloured with Spectrum Noir alcohol pens and mounted on original papers from the range itself.

The cards are made with Crafter's Companion products apart from message stamps and few embellishments.

Happy crafting, xxx.

A Poker Face

I love all of my cuties and sweeties, but from time to time I love to make something different, grown up, something that is lovely, that can convey a hidden message and be considered as a card for a man.

Frou Frou stamp - Poker Face - from Crafter's Companion has that edge that can go both ways:

Tools and materials used:

• Frou Frou stamp- Poker Face- Crafter's Companion
• Neenah card-Crafter's Companion
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens-Crafter's Companion
• Core'dinations black card-Crafter's Companion
• Diamond Spray & Sparkle-Crafter's Companion
• All sorts of Collall glues-Crafter's Companion
• Some organza ribbon and black pearls and some left over of some backing paper -don't know which

Happy Crafting xxx

Donka

Valentine's Is Again.

Some people are lucky to receive more than one card for St Valentine's, and one of those is my other half who received two.

The first one was a Bebunni card just as a teaser and a reminder of the day and the second one  was from Bamboo Panda range. Both of the card were made with tools and materials from CRAFTER'S COMPANION products.

Happy Crafting. xxx

Babies

The very begining of this year started with hearing about babies, babies to come, babies that have already arrived,  ideas of maybe having babies...

So, where's smoke, there is fire, i.e. where there are babies, there are baby cards. As a consequence to all that fuss about them , I decide to make at least one as I am not very experienced in making baby cards. 

The card presented is from a Bebunni collection :

The tools and materials used:

• Crafter's Companion Bebunni Baby Unmounted Rubber Stamp - Bundle of Joy
• Spectrum Noir pens
• Kraft card blanks from DO crafts
• Some embelishments and scraps of paper

Overall, the result is not bad.

Happy Crafting

xxx

Let's try something different

 I thought that my mojo would be back, but I was not right. It was still hiding stubbornly somewhere.  The only solution was to try something different and messier and hope of success

It was a right time to try something sunnier and more positive and different from my Christmas cards which does not mean that I don't love making
Xmas cards,

  All the tools and materials used here for making these cards come from Crafter's Companion, especially from the kitchen of Sheena Douglass.

The following are:

• Sheena Douglass 5''x 7'' Embossing Folders - Silhouette Grass;
• Sheena Douglass A Little Bit Scenic Stamp Set - Silhouette Grasses
• Darice Embossing folder 4.23'' x 5.75'' Grass
• 
• White and kraft card blanks from DO Crafts,
• Gold and Silver mirri cards 
• Embelsihments of all sorts
• Penny Black Creative dies -Flutters 51 - 006
• Sheena Douglas A Little Bit Sketchy A5 Stamp Set - Only words - From the Heart
• Ink pads from Papermania - DO Crafts.
• All sorts of Collall glue.

January 2014

Lost Mojo

January 2014 was spent in a wish to craft. Most of the time I was fighting with my lack of motivation, my lost mojo, and lots other things irrelevant to this blog.

There were very big breaks between my little projects. In this posting you'll see just few that I have made

After I had made this birthday card for my brother in December 2013, I completely stopped.

I did enjoy making it and it was easy.

The ingredients used for this card:

• Time flies - Debbi Moore CD
• Neenah card - Crafter's Companion
• All sorts of Collall glues.

And then, the inspiration struck again, after some time and I made the following two:

I used here frlower stamps from Lili of the Valley, message stamps from DO Crafts, Neenah card  and an embossing folder from Crafter's Companion; and few embelishments.

Both of the project were completely coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and mounted on some kraft card blanks 

Having finished them quite easily, I really thought my MOJO was BACK, but it wasn't.

It took me days to sit and do another one ages. 

The new card was made in its entirety from a free gift papers from a magazine bought many many moons before.

I just cut them and mat and layered them on withe and card. AS a finishing touch, I sprayed the whole card with the iridescent glue from Crafter's Companion.

Happy Crafting. xxx

One for special occasion

Yesterday we celebrated our 10th anniversary and must  admit that I was fueled to make a card that will be different this year. 

Tools and materials used for this card are the following:

• Crafters Companion Strawberry Kissed - Babe stamp set
• Crafters Companion Strawberry Kissed -  Together Forever stamp set
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pen
• Card from the Bamboo range
• Few embellishments from different sources

Happy crafting. xx

X-mas Diva

Christmas Divas - Debbi Moore  is one of my most favourite CD ever. I just love the overall art on it and the way it was one.

The card was easy to make after having printed a backing paper and the image from the CD itself. It took me 15 minutes to make this lovely X-mas card.

Happy crafting.xx

Black, Red and Grey

I love this card as it is done in in more or less three colour variations : black, red and grey. 

To make it I used LOTV stamp that I stamped on a super smooth card with my alcohol pens. I even coloured the background paper which I embossed and mounted all on black Core'dinations. To spice up I added the sentiment from one of Makey Backey's Chrostmas stam sets. 

Not bad at all ;-)

Tool and Materials used:

LOTV image

Spectrum Noir acohol pens ( all ice greys and black, reds: DR3 and DR5)

All Purpose Collall glue

Die'sire Embossalicious X-mas Folder : Mistletoe

Makey Backey X-mas message stamp from one of the stamps

Neenah Solar White card

Some pearls and a snowflake

Core'dinations Card -black

Happy crafting. x

A coffee table decoration

I love the new embossing boards from Crafter's Companion. They are what they are name says  SWEET TREATS.

On one of them I say a triangular shape which made me think :-) and while I was thinking, an idea just came and developed into this small and lovely Christmas decoration :-)

This little project can be used in many different ways. You can hang in on your Christmas tree, use it as a little gift box or just simply intend it for a coffee table. ..

My 2013 Christmas Cards

 I am late with Christmas cards this year. Lots of different things distracted me from my favourite hobby: if I wasn’t moving house, cleaning and working, then it was just that I was just too tired to make myself make something and then recording it.

So, this is the chance to show everything that I have made in last few days.The basic material is all the same and mostly from Crafter’s Companion with the few exceptions : Debbi Moore, Tattered Lace, Lili of the Valley and DO crafts basic card blanks. All small embellishments come from different little sources.

The frist set of cards is from Crafter's Companion:

• SWALK stamps,
• Makey Bakey Christmas stamps

The second set of cards is from Lili of the Valley

 It was fun using these in conjunction with Spectrum Noir pens and Crafter's Companion embossing folders. Love the final results.

The third set is Debbi Moore's Christmas Divas CD.

 I just love these and could not resist to have a go. The final result is gorgeous and these easel cards just stand different. 

This green is my favourite one.

And, the last fourth set was made with the Tattred Lace Christmas dies.

I also used Crafter's Companion embossing folders and Xmas stams from the same company.

Christmas is coming slowly....

Chrismas is coming slowly and, I could not resist one of the new stamps:Crafter's Companion The Makey Bakey Mice collection. Just love this little fella and it was easy to make this card. It is all Crafter's Companion:

• The Makey Bakey  Christmas stamp: Holly Jolly Christmas
• Spectrum Noir pens
• Neenah Solar White card
• Tattered Lace Christmas dies: Snowflakes
• Die'sire Embossalicious X-mas Folder