Paint Chip Scraplings

These scraplings are for the Gingersnap Creations 'Paint Chip Scraplings' exchange ... challenging and different.
The size of the scraplings is 3.8cm x 10.8cm for one half ... not so easy to choose a design and the stamps. The paint chips themselves were also a bit tricky ... the name of the colour and the colour code were printed in each of the white separator lines ... I only used the colour strips and not to worry about the characters. This way I was also able to mix and match. These strips were glued onto card ready to be stamped, embellished and eventually layered onto patterned papers or plain card

papers: cosmo cricket, the Background Fairy, black and white textured card, Basic Grey, Splendid Fiins office paper
stamps: Elzybells, Hein Design, Bettys Creations, Little-Z
ink: Brilliance, VersaColor, Ranger Distress ink
Stickles, Glossy Accents

Each scrapling has also an inside in case you would like to leave a little note, Petra.

Make a Splash

... the theme for August at Addicted to ATCs. It fitted so well into the summer holiday period

The ducks are free clip art, the children images from Magic Moonlight Free Images, Flickr photostreams from clotho98's and Suzee Que. The blue splashes are stamped with Darkroom Door stamps and VersaColor ink.
The next swap theme is schooldays. Why not hop over to 'Addicted to ATCs' and join the swap? It is always really great fun. Petra.

A Spot of Colour

Susan set the OLW challenge to: B&W with a Spot of Colour ... immediately a special stamp came to my mind - special because it was one which I bought during my first ever visit of a craft fair. It is a Penny Black stamp with five sitting little birdies ... one of them is the odd one out because its tail feathers are pointing into the air

I stamped the little one in light blue onto a scrapling but then couldn't resist to glitter it as well (lol), Petra.

Civilization and Punches

You might wonder what this has got to do with each other .... this is the new challenge Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply challenge: Punches within the cycle of celebrating the Ancient Ages this month. Oh dear, this was a challenege because I do not really use punches, I only own a handful of them mainly edge punches. But I have a very good friend and colleague Jane who is the papercraft wizard in the office and she helped me. She came with a bag full of punches for me to choose ... thank you so much, Jane. Otherwise it would have been a real struggle ... well, it still was difficult.
This week all students went back to school in England. All dads and mums had been talking about this event for the whole of last week so I thought it would be an appropriate topic for my card
I chose one of the old greek scholars as focal point for the digital collage: Pythagoras. This reminds me very much of my schooltime struggling with geometry - it was not my favourite subject (lol). The card consists of various layers of kraftcard and patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket. All images are from educational web sites. I used edge, circle and a corner punch, a label punch in the inside of the card ... and, of course, the apple for the teacher which is a punch as well

If you like punches you will love this challenge and if you don't feel so comfortable with them, have a go anyway. I realised it is great fun and I maybe need to consider to get, well, some more punches (lol), happy Wednesday, Petra.

Tree Simplicity

I love trees and think we cannot have enough of them ... and to my delight Susan's OLW challenge features 'Trees' this week.

The tree stamp is from Hobby Art whereby I stamped the image using a tutorial from Susan: Stamping off the Edge ... otherwise the image would have been too big for the mini card. The leafs are coloured with colour pencils and the little flowers are set with Ranger liquid pearls.

This card is also for the Paper Players Challenge: Clean and Simple.

Happy Monday, Petra.

Miss Sunflower

Please, may I introduce you to Miss Sunflower? She is a tribute to all the amazing and wonderful sunflowers which grow around my allotment plot. I absolutely love all the varieties of sunflowers with their huge flower heads, their wonderful colours ... all the different tones of yellow and brown
I created the cotton reel doll for the Art 'n' Soul challenge on Flickr. The challenge was set by Viv ... she always has the most amazing and challenghng ideas! The challenge was based on the design and instructions from Sue Roddis and was featured in a recent issue of Craft Stamper Magazine and there were two MUSTs:
must be made from torn strips of card and her face must be a stamped image

I must admit the lady turned out to be quite chunky with a body made of watercolour card torn in strips and painted with thinned acrylic paint. I wiped of some of the paint to get a more uneven surface. The stamp for the face is from Heindesign stamped on Cosmo Cricket paper which I also used for the leaves ie arms (lol). The sunflower frame around the face is a free image from Arthur's Clip Art. The head and the arms together with the body looked quite plain at the time ... so embellishments were needed and I started to experiment with stamps and shrink plastic to make some buttons. This is such fun! I used the same stamp for the image on the pockets where some faux stitching appears ... and, of course, the pockets of a sunflower lady in a garden are always filled with some goodies ......
Enjoy the late summer days, Petra.

Time Travel

Back to Ancient Ages - for Gingersnap Creations and as Visiting Artist! I am so thrilled and I still cannot believe it! But I was more than happy to start the journey for the month of September with going on a trip back in time .... Egypt, land of pyramids, treasures, sand, pharaos and so much more. My little pyramid book will tell you a story about the journey, the sites to visit and the treasures to find. It all started with a map ....
... and the plan to follow the sun and the stream into a foreign land by means of boat, animals and on foot ....

... in the end to find a long lost treasure ....

To create this little book I used slightly textured 300gsm watercolour card and covered it inside and outside with Rayher patterned paper. The vintage images are from The Vintage Moth and Arthur's Clipart. I stamped the Egyptian images with Tanda stamps with brilliance and Elzybells hybrid ink onto the watercolour card. You will find quite a bit of embossing using papermania gold embossing powder because I eventually treated myself to a heatgun and need to practise a lot (lol) ... and lots of stickles and glitter. The little sarkophag is made of Fimo, the mould is from Lucy who kindly offered me the mould when she heard that I would travel to ancient Egypt. Lucy is a very talented lady and she is this month's muse over at Gingersnap Creations.

Now you know all about my travel, why don't you hop over to Gingersnap Creations to see for yourself all the amazing work from the DT, the visiting artists and Lucy and hopefully even take part yourself? Petra.

NB Somebody very close to my heart now pointed out that Ancient Ages is a whisky and was surprised that I had only thought of it in historical terms ... well, I suppose it is all about getting your priorities right (lol)