Distressed/torn edges

For the challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show.
I inked the flower with distress inks and sprayed water on it before stamping. Then sponged the background with distress inks. Stamped the text and then tore and distressed the edges.
Mounted on purple, yellow and green cardstock.

Seeing spots

For the June challenge on Inkurable Stampers.
The background is made with alcohol ink on glossy paper and then I sanded the paper.
The girl is stamped with Archival Jet Black.
The spots, dots, circles and text are stamped with various inks, a little vague for the grungy effect. The white circles are done with gesso. For some color I put 3D flowers on the hat, adhered with a flower-eyelet.

PDCC85

At the Play Date Café Challenge the colors are this time - Blueberry...Cream...Dusty Rose.
I stamped the fairy with Distress Ink Tattered Rose on creamy cardstock and heat-embossed. A bit hard to see. Glued on blueberry cardstock and then on cream cardstock and rose patterned paper.

Polkadots

For Flutter By Wednesday's - use polka dots -.

Summer

For CrazyAmigo Challenge - Zomer / Summer -
I got the idea from the card on EyeletOutlet.com. Tore some handmade paper in strips and glued on cardboard. Smeared some versamark on and heat-embossed with mushroom embossingpowder. Cut some pieces of cloth for the towels and glued them on top of the light-umbrella brads. Sponged the sun and stamped the birds.
Wanted to draw some lines on the right side to suggest water in the background, but was afraid it would ruin the card...

Jong geleerd........

Alphabet's Challenge Blog- Father's Day -
Crazy4Challenges C4C91 - Father's Day -
Speedy The Cat - Father's Day -
'Jong geleerd, oud gedaan' or in English 'bend the twig and bend the tree' ..........
The heart is done with alcohol inks on an acrylic block and then cut out. Isn't the young boy, trying to shave with his dad's equipment, adorable?

Wildlife Reserve

For My Time To Craft Challenge #144.

Up the country

Less Is More - One Layer & In The Frame
OLW - Summer Holidays
I'd love to spend my holidays 'up the country' as Canned Heat sang so nicely.
Stamped the frame and picture, sponged a bit of sunshine. Printed the lyrics on parchment, cut out and adhered with eyelets.

Exotic bird

The Three Muses - Exotic bird -
Theme Thursday -lots of color -
Background is made with Adirondack Inks on a heart shaped Acrylic Block. The bird & flowers are cut out pictures and the swirls are stamped. On the heart of the flowers and the eye of the bird are some drops of crackle accents.

Dragonfly atc

For Fun with ATCs Challenge #37 - Alles was Flügel hat ...

Dragonfly Tag

For DragonsDream TIO - Winged Things -.
I stamped the grassblades, sponged the sun and wrote the haiku (A blade of grass whereon, in vain, a dragonfly attempts to light ) on a tag. Then stamped the dragonfly on parchment and adhered with eyelets.

Weird Wings

For Just For Fun - Something, Anything All things t!m -
Try it on Tuesday - Weird and Wonderful - (Sponsored by One Stop Card and Crafts).
Background lines are from a t!m stamp, I used t!m's Grungeboard letter S for the creature and made some 'waves' with Crackle accents, also a dot Crackle accents for the eye.

Flowers in the rain

For Card Crazy Challenge - Brads
Created By Hand - Flowers/Flock

Wish Upon A Star

For The ABC Challenge - W is for Wish -
Take A Word - Stars -
Speedy's Friends - 3D flowers -

A world all her own

Clean & Simple for Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC#32.
I stamped & heat-embossed the background with gold, spunged a sunset and decided to write the lyrics (instead of stamping) on Parchment. Adhered the parchment with eyelets.

Philosophy

For the challenge on Tag Tuesday - Manly (masculine) tag -.
The background and stamping is done with various distress inks. The philosopher is stamped on acetate with stazon black and adhered with eyelets.

Distressed Tag

For Grungy Monday 10 Distress Ink-o-Rama and for Simon Says Stamp and Show a Tag.
Background and stamping is done with Pumic Stone, Broken China, Crushed Olive, Vintage Photo and ofcourse Back Soot. Edges are sanded and heat-embossed with Black Soot Embossingpowder.

Red/Black

For the challenge on TMTA.

Crazy4ChallengesC4C90

Crazy4Challenges has an inspiration challenge this week.
I used the direct-to-paper technique with distress inks to create the background with the colors of the challenge.

I love cats

For the challenge on Sunday Stamper - stash that makes you happy -.
I just lóve working with alcohol inks and my cats make me always feel happy, even if they jump on my crafttable and make dirty footprints on the paper I am working with.
I dropped alcohol inks on an acrylic heartshaped block with some blending solution and placed it on glossy paper. Then cut it out and stamped the cat (cherry pie).
Also for Stamps R Us - Pets R Us! - and The Spotlight Challenge - Challenge yourself -. Although I love working with alcohol inks, this is the first time I tried making a background on an acrylic block. I had to try several times before I was happy, but I do think I will try this again!

You're Purrrfect

For the challenge on Tag Tuesday - soft pink & green-.

Landkarte atc

For the challenge on TMTA.

Inspired by song

One more for the challenge on Sentimental Sundays.
Inspired by When in Rome (Barbara Streisand).

Wild Eyes

For the challenge on JustForFun - Eye spy with my little eye -; Sentimental Sundays - Inspired by song.
I was inspired by the lyrics from the song Wild Eyes by Anvil.

My Hero

For the challenge on OLW - Father's Day - and Less Is More - Monochrome -.
My dad is my hero................
The colours I used are various shades of brown. The darkest brown doesn't fit the monochrome that well, I agree, so I made another with the matching colors from Adirondack: Pebble-Lake Mist-Mushroom.
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Sunset

I made this bookmark for the challenge on Rainbow Lady - Sunrise/Sunset - and Sentimental Sundays - Anything but a card -.

Boekenlegger

Voo de juni challenge op Art Journey.

Time Tag

For challenges on The Stamp Man -Boys and Men -; Simons Says - Father's Day/For A Male -; Tag It On - Time Piece -; Wednesday Stamper - Numbers -; The Three Muses - The Written Word -.

Geknitterde Hintergrund

For the challenge on Creavil - Geknitterde Hintergründe-.
I made a background with alcohol ink, crushed the paper to a ball, then flattened it a bit, put versamark on the 'cracks' and heatembossed with black embossingpowder. Flattened further and stamped some dots, flowers and leaves on it.

Texture

For the challenge on Theme Thursday - Texture and/or Layers -.
I made the background with red paint and gesso, stamped the 'angel', made lines with a white gelpen, some gesso circles, on one of them I put crackle-accents and added and a few embellishments.

Nest

For the challenge on Wednesday Stampers - Nest -.

Like branches on a tree

For the challenge on Stamp Something - Something Sentimental -.

D for Dogs

For the challenge on Alphabet Challenge Blog - D for Dogs.

Red Wings

For the challenge on Sunday Stampers - Red - and on Take A Word - Wings.

Dreamcatcher

For the challenge on The Play Date Cafe - PDCC83 - Black&White with a splash of Green.
I have a Dreamcatcher hanging in my bedroom and that gave me the idea just now.

PaintChips

This one I made for the challenge on Art-Cards-Challenge-Blog. The grass(HeroArts) is stamped with Archival Yellow and the Cat (JudiKins) with Archival Black. The raindrops are embossed with UTEE.

Happy Hour

For the challenge on SundayPostcardArt - Happy Hour -.
This guy had one Happy Hour too many ;-)) It is hard to see, but I put drops of Glossy Accents on the eyes and under the nose.......

Tea Cards

A new size for the challenge on Just For Fun. Now this IS fun!!! These are Zetti style, tha background is done with shavingcream and liquid watercolour.

 
I made a few more.
These are done with the watercolor technique (Tim Holtz).

 
And these are also with the shavingcreambackground.

Watercolor Image

Tim Holtz september 2008 technique for the challenge on Studio L3: Grungy Monday.
This is such a fun and rewarding technique!

Cats Rule

For the challenge on OLW -55 Cats & Dogs- and TopTipTuesday -use 2 or more stamps- I made this card. Tip: Stamp the lyrics/text at a different angle, not straight. I added some text to this message and now it is on top of my blog. How do I change that, so it stays on the date it was before?

Zetti

For the challenge on Take A Word.

Vacation

For challenge C4C89 on Crazy4Challenges - Favorite vacation spot or activity.

Square

For the challenge on Less Is More - pick a square -.
The lyrics are part of a poem: In the wind's eye - give it all, Tailwind - there & back swift.