tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51538920221552754992024-03-12T23:14:18.710+00:00Gerda's creationsGerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.comBlogger878125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-9162359548419148242019-03-17T14:32:00.001+00:002019-03-17T14:32:12.015+00:00RememberOn the wings of the tiniest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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earth angels...............Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-79210035986285323352019-03-17T14:28:00.002+00:002019-03-17T14:28:31.510+00:00I'm just winging it...For Lost Coast Portal To Creativity - <a href="https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2019/03/challenge-72-round-and-round.html">Challenge #72</a> Round and Round<div>
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Background is done with the gelliplate and lots of layers paint.</div>
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Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-70435996495361167172018-09-23T15:07:00.000+00:002018-09-23T15:07:05.849+00:00I See YouSeptember challenge at Viva Las Vegastamps! <a href="https://vivalas.blogspot.com/2018/09/for-birds-september-challenge.html">For The Birds</a><br />
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My background is made with several layers distress oxide & water.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-24190299807125070462018-08-08T09:51:00.000+00:002018-08-08T09:51:40.988+00:00Left unsupervisedChallenge <a href="https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2018/08/challenge-58-anything-goes.html">#58</a> on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity = Anything Goes<br />
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I stamped Megan's Owl with distress oxide & water to get a watercolor effect.<br />
Painted the background also with distress oxide & water, added some grey paint and black gesso. Some lines to suggest cobwebs / spiders.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-34588757977820351632018-06-24T12:29:00.004+00:002018-06-24T12:29:52.023+00:00Live lifeJournalpage, inspired by <a href="https://vivalas.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-challenge-tree-of-life.html">Viva Las Vegastamps </a>June Swap<br />
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Started stamping the background stamp with versamark, when dry, brayered big&juicy ink over it until I liked the depth of the colours.<br />
Used modeling paste through a star stencil, Tim Holtz designtape and lyrics.<br />
Stamps ofcourse Lost Coast :-)<br />
Finished with some metallic paint.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-14075168447445941672018-06-13T16:04:00.001+00:002018-06-13T16:04:45.175+00:00Mini me<a href="https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2018/06/challenge-54-mini-me.html">Challenge #54 </a>on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is "mini me"<br />
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I made this ATCoin for the challenge, had to scan with a black sheet of paper behind it else the scanner wouldn't take the little thing ;-)<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-4104099451639142072018-05-13T08:09:00.000+00:002018-05-13T08:09:01.391+00:00Orange and Yellow<a href="http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.nl/2018/05/challenge-52-orange-and-yellow.html">Challenge #52</a> on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is all about Orange and Yellow.<br />
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I made a background on the gelliplate with inks, paints and stencils.<br />
Stamped my fav. bird and finished with some ribbon, washitape and Tim Holtz chitchat stickers.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-45320467666506549152018-05-10T09:07:00.000+00:002018-05-10T09:07:09.708+00:00PossibilitiesMade for <a href="https://vivalas.blogspot.nl/2018/05/may-challenge.html">Viva Las Vegastamps</a> May challenge.<br />
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Background with Barn door and Hickory smoke distress ink & distress oxide ink.<br />
White and black gesso and accents with black&white gelpens.<br />
My inspiration came from the words Octopus, RED RED RED, gray, black&white.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-24485109557081001912018-04-28T12:54:00.001+00:002018-04-28T12:54:25.767+00:00TranquilityMade for <a href="http://vivalas.blogspot.nl/2018/04/april-monthly-challenge.html">Viva Las VegaStamps</a> challenge april 2018<br />
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Background is done with distress oxide Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans, Iced Spruce, Fossilized Amber and water.<br />
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Had a lot of trouble entering my own blog, somehow is was logged to the wrong email address.<br />
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I started with 2 greens distress oxide with water. Some black & white accents, markmaking and ofcourse the lovely stamp.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">We'd like you to pull deep down and bring forth your muse! Show us your face... real or whimsical, use greens of any hue, black & white. Be inspired by bold patterns, circles, dots, crosses, mark making, hatches, grungy, distress, layers & more. Mary Vogel Lozinak's images are a great way to start your year of stamping.</span><br />
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Took some halloween themed stamps and drew the bats.</div>
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Love that one, use it a lot ...</div>
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Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-3790389292207477162017-09-23T15:38:00.001+00:002017-09-23T15:38:18.617+00:00Thoughts of FallBackground is done with the gelliplate, paint & lots of stencils.<br />
I also used stencils on top of the gelliplate background <spiderweb large="" tree=""></spiderweb><br />
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Really like the result :-)<br />
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Made for Viva Las Vegastamps <a href="https://vivalas.blogspot.nl/2017/09/september-challenge-thoughts-of-fall.html">September Challenge</a><br />
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Draw inspiration from the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">browns</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> and </span><b style="background-color: #999999; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">grays</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">. 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Also feel free to use lots of marks & textures in your background. </span>Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-21222293802766765922017-08-13T06:58:00.002+00:002017-08-13T07:03:35.451+00:00Floating on the seaBackground is done with distress oxide & water.<br />
Made for Viva Las VegaStamps!: <a href="https://vivalas.blogspot.nl/2017/08/august-challenge.html">August Challenge</a><br />
My inspiration came from the words: sea, pink,purple, orange,blue&teal<br />
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Plus anything </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://vlvstamps.com/rubber-stamps-o-to-z/waterworld.html" style="color: #ff7592; text-decoration: none;">sea or</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://vlvstamps.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=ocean" style="color: #ff7592; text-decoration: none;">ocean</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> related like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://vlvstamps.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=shell" style="color: #ff7592; text-decoration: none;">shells</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="https://vlvstamps.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=starfish" style="color: #ff7592; text-decoration: none;">starfish</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">, </span><a href="https://vlvstamps.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=coral" style="background-color: white; color: #ff7592; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration: none;">coral</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">, sand, water and more. Don't forget to include some scenery and a lovely </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://vlvstamps.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=mermaid" style="color: #ff7592; text-decoration: none;">mermaid or two</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;">! 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It's SUMMER time and nothing says SUMMER like ice cream, candies, desserts and melty goodness. Hear that music? GET IN LINE! Sunshine, warmer temperatures, polka dot bikinis and more! We have the WHOLE rainbow on this image so let your heart go wild and celebrate SUMMER!</span><br />
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Background with distress oxide spiced marmelade & worn lipstick; 'dots' with distress crayons; some stamping with the same colours.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-40190772975981011282017-05-30T06:37:00.003+00:002017-05-30T06:37:42.188+00:00Le FreakStampotique Designers Challenge <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/05/sdc274-oldie-but-goodie.html">SDC274 - Oldie But Goodie</a><br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-63284386976119826362017-05-21T13:03:00.004+00:002017-05-21T13:04:37.248+00:00Newspaper boyStampotique Designers Challenge <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/05/sdc273-for-boys-week-2.html">SDC273 - For The Boys - Week 2</a><br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-67709152649612278682017-05-13T07:06:00.000+00:002017-05-13T07:08:37.117+00:00Boys Will Be boysStampotique Designers Challenge <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/05/sdc273-for-boys.html">SDC273 : For The Boys</a><br />
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First a layer of white gesso, added some structure.<br />
Then distress oxide iced spruce, grey paint & lots of water.<br />
Black ink through a stencil.<br />
Stamped and cut out the boys, coloured with distress markers.<br />
Glossy accents in the eyes.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-24080908288855319672017-05-12T08:35:00.001+00:002017-05-12T08:35:33.271+00:00Seek ParadiseFor Viva Las Vegastamps <a href="http://vivalas.blogspot.nl/2017/05/monthly-challenge-may-everything-comes.html">May Challenge</a><br />
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Background Distress Oxide Broken China mixed with Cracked Pistachio to get a turquoise feeling.<br />
Added a little Iced Spruce for some grey.<br />
Stamped the wire rings with the same colours, the rest in black.<br />
Draw some circles through a stencil, coloured and added some glossy & crackled accents.<br />
Fisnished with a few stripes washi tape and some rub-ons.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-89034101860988282422017-05-07T07:49:00.001+00:002017-05-07T07:49:35.109+00:00Little squawFor Stampotique Designers Challenge <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/05/sdc272-single-layer-week-2.html">SDC272 - Single Layer </a>- week 2.<br />
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Background is done with distress oxide inks.<br />
The Native American stamps- bought them several years ago on a secondhand market, no idea who made them.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-71652068884914346202017-04-27T18:44:00.001+00:002017-04-27T18:45:12.491+00:00Enjoy todayStampotique Designers Challenge <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/04/sdc272-single-layer.html">SDC272 - Single layer</a><br />
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Background is done with distress oxide inks Spiced marmalade, peeled paint, cracked pistachio &vintage photo.<br />
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<br />Gerda Weilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272385744599184575noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153892022155275499.post-15867300902495312682017-04-23T15:33:00.004+00:002017-04-23T15:36:58.691+00:00Who Knew !Stampotique Designers Challenge <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/04/sdc271-bling-it-on-week-2.html">SDC 271 : Bling It O</a>n<br />
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I hope you can see all the bling :-)<br />
Colored the clothing with Spectrum Noir Sparkle and used stickles on the hair and underneath the feet. Finished with drops of gold ink.<br />
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