Sponsor Spotlight DecoArt

Welcome crafters!

It is Sponsor Spotlight time by Our creative corner

and our Sponsor this month is 

 

  today a simple, but also a project with special effects 

- perhaps a gift idea, because christmas is knocking on the door

 - easy and fast -

Here is a sneak peek of today's spotlight.... 

If you are interested in finding out what I have made and how it was made then hop 

over to Our Creative Corner

 

This month a very lucky randomly selected winner will receive such an amazing prize! 

A Decoart Media Sampler Kit

  

...and Andy Skinner has very kindly said he will add in some of his stencils as well! 

 WOW!!! what a wonderful prize!

Hope to see you over there!

Happy crafting!

Another way

  Welcome everyone!

Our new theme at Our creative corner in November is

 - Topsy Turvy! - 

Lys says: ''We often try to do the 'right' way, use the suitable thing, organize our creations following definite lines or intentions… and sometimes it doesn’t go the way we wanted to. Sometimes it goes to the bin, sometimes we discover something new… and we love it!

On the right side or topsy turvy… Is there a right side in art?

 

So let’s play!:  whatever it is: upside down,  inverted, reversed or escaping from the right order…. Please show me one “topsy turvy” creation, and how it came to life in your hands!

 

I have used the theme to try it some new, I like to do this with Mr. Art Journal ;-)

My favourite product in moment is Matte medium as transfer for pictures from old magazines,

by coincidence is this shadow effect behind the face emerged.

das Motiv wurde aus einer Zeitung herausgerissen ( wie man das auch in der Serviettentechnik macht) ich fand den Kontrast schön, das daraus ihre bessere Hälfte entstanden ist ;-) war reiner Zufall

ansonsten habe ich frei nach unserem Monatsmotto drunter und drüber mit Stempeln, Farben und Schablonen gespielt

- together in beauty -

Feelings and experiences

just another way

Let the ideas flow to marvel at the end itself!
our fantastic sponsor this month is
DECOART
 Prize is a Decoart Media Sampler Kit and Andy Skinner will include a few of his stencils too

 

Happy crafting

LG Kerstin

Call me !

Welcome!

  thanks for all your lovely comments on my Haunted Pharmacy, it was fab reading them all. 

Today I am sharing with you

                our new theme this month at Our creative corner          
                                     Halloween Horror

our horror ;-) big Boss Laura says:

 '' For this Halloween share with us some horror inspired creations that 

are sure to send shivers down our spines. 

 

Bring out your most grotesque stamps and embellishments....
....or perhaps take on the challenge of finding a way to transform pretty stamps into something macabre.

Reach for the grungiest colours and textures....

Come over to the dark side of Halloween ''

 My idea was to make a little wooden frame with humor. 
She says, I will call you -  yes, my one and only love - I will wait.
and he waits, and waits and ..... and if he is not dead, he is still waiting today ;-)
that's Horror , or ???

How I made this

my first idea, mostly it looks different at the end  ;-)

use black crackle creme + distress ink 

(dye ink walnut stain + water in mini mister)

 to ink Mr. Skeleton with firstly white Gesso and then distress ink walnut stain

for the background I use a piece old wallpaper, glue it on cardboard with Decoupageglue, spray a little bit water on it, rub it, added Metallic lustre and you will have an altered look

attached thick cardboard with hot glue gun

Forget cute cats and smiling pumpkins....

we want....

Nicerane Designs

 

are offering the random prize winner 
   $20 voucher to spend at the Nicecrane Store

 Can you scare us??

Challenges:

The Mixed Media Monthly - #17 Word search - Moon, skull

 
 
That craft place - Mixed Media - Anything goes
Country view challenges -#32 Add some texture 

Have fun and happy crafting!

Gift box Surprise

Welcome everyone,

today a new idea for our beautiful autum theme by Our creative Corner this month.

Our very creative Julia is hosting and she said : 

I love the colours of autumn! Those beautiful and dramatic reds, golds, yellows, browns, greens and all shades in between. Your challenge this month is to take some inspiration from the colours in the image provided and make an autumnal inspired project.

September -  Shades of Autumn
 

A friend needed a special gift box for a special occasion in Paris. 
He travels with his girlfriend to one of the beautiful bridges in October.
Do you know what the two plan :-) ???
It's a little wooden box in mixed media style and i used a transfer technique in combination with spray inks in brown tones and stencils (fallen chestnut leaves). I think it's masculine and autumnal too.
 

How I made this

1. use Matte Medium 3 x - on laser copy; on box - let it dry - than once again on laser copy

once turn around  and  with the still wet side on the box, let dry for at least 2 hours

with a damp sponge rub off the backside

(a perfect Tuto to the use of Matte Medium can you see here by Andy Skinner)

2. use white Gesso + stencils for structure, let it dry

3. play with colors - spray mist (black + brown)

and Fluid acrylics (Blue green light +  Cobalt Teal Hue)

4. highlighted with Metallic Lustre Lavish Green

5. use embellishments + old jewelry chain

6. to finish use Soft -Touch Varnish 

:-) Now it's your turn :-)
 Creative Embellishments are offering the random prize winner 
a $25 voucher to spend at their store

 

Happy crafting!!
LG Kerstin

Holiday Joy

Welcome everyone,

today in double pack ;-) one hour later comes the next idea!

Our new theme at Our creative corner in this month hosted by
our very creative Laura is

We want you to grab any inspiration you like from these wonderfully exotic photographs...

Go for colours, shapes, textures, objects or style - There is certainly plenty of inspiration to choose from here in this selection of glorious, vivid, colourful photographs.

Join us in the summer holiday mood....!!!

 What is better than a travel in a distant land?
I was inspired from colors, structures and the door.
It's a DIN A5 card to wish big joy in vacation.

 Supplies:

Embossing folder Sizzix 

Distress inks Spiced marmelade, seedless preserves, vintage photo

Stencil

Inka gold

Chipboards Dusty attic

Stamps La Blanche + hot of the press 

chipboards with crackle glaze

 

 the view through the feather

frame was drawed, cut out and dry embossed

 This month one lucky winner will win a prize from our  sponsor 

 

 Stampington

and

Tando will be sending one lucky winner a surprise bundle

 of their wonderful Tando goodies!

AND THAT ISN'T ALL....

Everyone is a prize winner this Summer at 

Our Creative Corner!

Stampington have very generously offered to give everyone who enters this summer challenge a $2 voucher for Stampington e-crafting!

The teamies at OCC have come up with many inspiring and different mixed-media versions 
on the theme this time.
Please pop on over and have fun!!

Challenge:
Crafty cardmakers #141 Sentiment
 
Wish big Joy
See you later friends!!
LG Kerstin

Filou and the shoelace

Welcome everyone

 Our new theme at Our creative corner in this month hosted by
our new very creative Jan is

 What makes you smile ? :-)?

Close your eyes for a few minutes, relax and think about something that makes you smile..............
It could be a special person, a favourite place, a quote, an incident, the list is endless!
our June challenge is to create something that will make us smile, it could be a scrapbook or journal page, a canvas, a tag, whatever your imagination dictates.

My first thought to this theme was my dog for many years. 

As he was a  puppy he had always fun to pull out the laces from our shoes.

He no longer does this, but it is always something new thought out, it never gets boring ;-)!

           
   Supplies: 

white Gesso DecoArt Media Medium

Distress inks faded jeans, vintage photo, walnut stain + Mini mister + water

corrugated cardboard

stamps

denim + Tim Holtz AlterationsTattered florals die

Techniques with Gesso

Resist Technique.. with gesso (sealed paper )
texture worked with fork in moist gesso
yarn glued in moist gesso

 I want to try the combi with fabric and yarn, (it was my old jeans ;-)

 frame consists of cracked out carton (corrugated)

inked with distress ink walnut stain + white gesso

 The teamies at OCC have come up with many inspiring and different mixed-media versions 
on the theme this time.
Please pop on over and have fun!!

  This month one lucky winner will win a prize from our  sponsor

TANDO

 

Challenges
Mixed media world #3 - Vintage
Moving along with the times C. - Texture
Craft my life - Anything goes, but no cards
Crafting from the heart - Anything goes
Mixed media monthly Ch. #13 A year of choices (#1 Spray inks)


Happy crafting

LG Kerstin

May Flowers

 Welcome everyone,

 Our new theme at Our creative corner in this month hosted by
our new very creative Shari is

April Showers bring May Flowers

This month, the challenge is to create something, a mixed-media project, a journal page, a scrapbook page, a card or tag...
Anything, that reflects the Spring rains and/or Spring flowers 
in your part of the world.   

May I introduce Miss Spring :-)

I decided to make a new art journal page to this topic.

Fabulous theme, here it's also said - Alles neu macht der Mai - therefore  I had to try something new. It's a puzzle from various spring flower stamps tulips, daffodil, cherry blossom... and cheerful bright colorful spray paints in Mixed media style.

Supplies:

 stamps

spray ink

 The teamies at OCC have come up with many inspiring and different mixed-media versions on the theme this time.
Please pop on over and have fun!!

  This month one lucky winner will win a prize from our  sponsor

 Designs by Ryn

Challenges

Stamps and stencils Anything goes

Mixed Media World #2 Use bright colours

Mixed Media Monthly challenge - May flowers

That craft place - No cards

Happy crafting and a wonderful start in the May!

LG Kerstin

Inspire

Welcome crafters on everywhere 
to the second month's Sponsor Spotlight!
 at Our creative corner

  with a new project  in ART JOURNAL :-)

perfectly theme, because it makes me happy!,

it relaxes me and helps me to stress management

                               This month our Sponsor is Creative Embellishments 

 They have a huge assortment of gorgeous chipboards and it was not easy to decided, 

what should I choose???

In fact, there are no rules for journaling, is anything goes .
This is actually the oft-quoted "The journey is the reward" and the images are created precisely.
The journaling very different forms of expression can be used: painting, drawing, photography, collage, stamps, stencils, chipboards, writing, .... and much more. Often it is a combination of different techniques in Mixed media style, that lead to pages .

for this project I chose the Leafy vine frame, the wonderful Flourish dragonflies and the Words Inspire

I hope you will inspired to discover the fascinating world of using Chipboards from Creative Embellishments also for the several options in Art Journaling.

  Creative Embellishments are offering a $25 gift certificate to our randomly drawn winner


Challenges
Creative embellishments April

Just start, having fun and try out!

LG Kerstin