Bright Ideas Notebook by Marjie Kemper

Today I'm sharing a little notebook I made with the Inspiration Lightbulb stamps.  I stamped the blank bulb twice on manila cardstock and then 'filled' one bulb with mini gears from Borders A6 and another with the Notebook background stamp.  I stamped the bases of the bulbs onto Ranger's metal foil tape and popped the bulbs up on cardboard.  

The main tag is inked with distress inks and covered with the mini gears again.  Can you tell what I used for the frame around the tag? They're the rooftops and doors from Kat's Creations Our House plate.  I couldn't stop playing with them after making my first AS piece back at the beginning of the month.   The inside is filled with a combination of blank tags and notebook tags. 

I've used heavy black cardstock to reinforce my covers and Dylusions ink sprays, distress inks, black archival ink, and distress markers for my coloring.  

I'd love it if you'd visit my blog (and please let me know you came by so I can come see yours, too.)

Hope you have a wonderful day, and find some time for creative play!

Marjie

THOSE PESKY BIRDS JOURNAL PAGE By Kat

Hi all, Kat here,
I have made a journal page to share with you today,
I haven't made it in a journal as I like the freedom a loose leaf gives me,
when I have made enough loose pages I am going to make them into a book.

I finally remembered to take pictures of the process,
I am really pleased with this page I hope you like it!

It features one of my empathy monsters (he is called Meenie)
I drew him myself, along with the flower,
he has 3 brothers Eenie, Mineey & Moe,
that I am sure I will be introducing you to in my pages at a later date,
along with their own special flowers,
anyway enough waffle from me, here's my page.

I would like to show you a close up of Meenie,

the birds have made their home on his head

& he is not to happy about it, LOL

another bird coming in to land

& others are circling over head

he's not getting any peace today,

Arr bless him.

OK on to the background,

the photos are self explanatory & the items I used are in them

so less typing for me, yaha!

I will list all the ingredients after the photos.

Here's what I used,

distress stains

weathered wood, antique linen

 bundled sage, broken china, picket fence

Distress Inks

vintage photo, gathered twigs, rusty hinge,

wild honey, brushed corduroy, worn lipstick

archival ink

jet black

crafter's workshop stencil

Stamps I used,

calligraphy mat 11 , swirls,splats & dots

birds of a feather A6 & free as a bird A6

background stamps

sequin waste open & ink blot,

from my stash,

my own images drawn by me & then coloured with pro markers,

the phrase typed on the computer,

patterned papers, staples & ribbon

well I think that's everything,

Hope you like it!

back soon,

Kat x

VINTAGE BUNTING By Kat

Hi all, Kat here,
I'm here today with a monochrome card with a vintage feel.

I started with a 5x5 inch card

& blended Vintage Photo Distress Inks round the edge

I then stamped the cog border off the borders A6#2 stamp plate,

once onto scrap paper then onto the card to give it a lighter colour.

I then Matt & layered brown & cream card,

& blended Vintage Photo Distress Inks round the edge

& stamped the Stipple background stamp onto it.

I then stamped the focal images onto scrap card

which are Tim Holtz with Coffee archival ink cut them out

& stuck them in place with foam pads,

I used 2 of the flag designs off the Bunting plate again stamped with 

Coffee archival ink & blended with Vintage Photo Distress Inks

I attached the little flags to a covered wire & bent it into shape

with the ade of a pencil end, then stuck it to the card as shown.

Hope you like it!

thanks for reading my post,

Kat x.

HOME & THRICE TAG by Kat

Hi all, Kat here,
The sun is shining & it feels like ages since I have made a tag,
& I also wanted to try out my new Spring Distress Inks
& the swirl stamp from the cover of craft stamper magazine.

So here it is,

To start I used Tim's Wrinkle free distress technique to colour the tag

with all three of the Spring Distress Inks, 

then stamped the swirl with the Shaded Lilac colour.

I then blended the edge with Gathered Twig Distress Ink.

Next I stamped in Jet Black archival ink

the houses off the Our House stamp set,

the large butterfly off the Bunting stamp set

& the sentiment off the Home Sweet Home stamp set

I cut them out then coloured them with a wet paint brush

& the same Spring Distress Inks.

After I stuck it all in place

I added the ribbon & trim from Tim Holtz Trim idea-ology range.

hope you like it!

it put a happy smile on my face anyway,

thanks for stopping by, to read this post.

Take care,

Kat x.

VINTAGE HOUSE BY KAT

Hi all Kat here.
I'm still playing with my House stamps,
today I would like to share a little hanging frame I made
in vintage colours.

here's a list of the things I used,

Mini hanging frame

tissue tape

Distress Inks

 Kat's creations House stamps

archival inks, jet black & coffee

stipple background stamp

& scraps of white card.

Here are some close ups

I decided to make each frame almost the same

& just position the items differently.

Hope you like it!

I'm off to cut out my new bunting set of stamps

that arrived in the post today (exciting)

they are so hot off the press, they are steaming, LOL

Just before I go,

I would like to say a big thank you

for all your support & wonderful comments,

Kat x.

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, Frame

Hi all Kat here,
I am very excited to show my first piece of art work showing off my first ever set of stamp designs,
still having to pinch myself about it,
I hope you like them cos there's more on the way, fingers crossed.
here it is,

the frame was painted with black acrylic paint

& aged with a bit of inka gold in antique silver,

the images are from my stamp sets HERE

I have my own button on the website entitled

kat's creations how cool is that!

every thing is stamped with Jet black archival ink

& coloured with a verity of Distress Inks

I used the stipple background 

to give a bit of texture to the sky.

here are some close ups of all 3 panels.

Hope you like it!

if you are wondering where I have been

I have put a brief explanation on my blog 

kat's craft creations

for those of you that would be interested to know.

I would love to know what you think about the house stamps,

please leave me a comment

hope to be back to full capacity very soon

thank you for being so patient,

Kat x.

JOURNEY PLAQUE By Kat

Hi all,
Kat here, with a rather Quick project & post for you,
I don't know were the time is going lately,
one minute it's January, the next it's mid March,
the days have gotten away from me again LOL

Here is my project, I hope you like it!

As you can see it's quite a quick little project,

I used a little wooden frame as my base,

I covered it with Tissue Tape

then blended Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink

over it, & stamped the tiny diamonds over the top

in Coffee archival ink then smudged it in

a bit with my finger to fade it into the background.

On a scrap of card cut to the size of the aperture,

I stamped the Cogs & Stipple Background

in Iced Spruce & brushed Corduroy Distress Ink

& blended the same colours all over

I then stamped the wording in jet black archival ink

which is a Tim Holtz stamp,

I stamped the men the same way &

cut them out from a scrap piece of card

blended the same DI's & stuck them down with foam pads,

I added silver screw top brads to finish.

Hope you like it!

I'll be back with another project

at the end of the month,

I'm off now to frantically try to find

the days that have gone missing LOL.

Kat x.

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WEAR journal page by Kat

Hi all,
I thought I would share another page with you
from my A5 journal,
so straight into it,
here it is.

Here's the list of things I used :-

Distress Inks Brushed Corduroy, Iced Spruce & Victorian Velvet,
Stamps, Large Sequin Waste Closed, Speckle, Calligraphic Mat 11, Backgrounds
Swirls, Splats and Dots A5
archival ink Jet Black
further round the edge (Dylusions stamp set)
Alphabet stamps, collage sheets & googled images,
a white posta paint pen.

to start I blended the Distress inks over the page,
then stamped with the same colours,
I then stamped the border stamp top & bottom of the page
with jet black archival ink, then coloured the dots with a paint pen,
next I put together the art doll & doggies with various
collage sheets & images off the net, then glued them to the page,
I stamped the words out onto scrap paper,
cut them out & glued them to the page.
& lastly I drew the leads to the dogs.

That's it,

Hope you like it!

See you next time,

Kat x.

I'M NOT BOSSY JOURNAL PAGE by Kat

Hi all,
I would like to share with you all today
the first page of an art journal I am going to
put together myself,
it's going to be an interactive book that has
pockets, flaps & pull downs,
each page is going to be different.
(well that's what's in my mind, whether it will work is another thing) LOL

so I am happy to present to you page 1,
this page has a side tag pocket to pull out.

I thought I would post this a little differently

to see if it ends up with less writing than my normal posts,

I hope you don't mind.

I am going to list all the things I used

then show the pictures on how I made the background.

I used :-

1 A4 piece of card cut into 2 A5 pieces,

1 Manila tag size 8,

 distress stains Bundled Sage, Tumbled Glass,

Scattered Straw & Antique Linen,

Distress Ink Vintage Photo,

Wild Honey & Tumbled Glass,

Stamps I used are,

Sequin Waste Open & Calligraphy mat 11 background stamps

Birds & splatters are Tim Holtz

archival inks Sepia & jet black

Crafters workshop stencil,

Collage sheets to make up the figure etc.,

the phrase is printed out on the computer

a bind it all machine, & scraps of card

scrap of ribbon.

here's the background pictures.

smooshed stains onto a craft sheet

then dragged the card through them then dried with a heat tool

added the distress inks

splatted the stain to make the splats,

sprayed water through a stencil

then blotted it off with kitchen roll

finally I added the stamps

I stamped the birds then glued everything in place

with Claudine Hellmuth multi matte medium

hope you like it!

If anyone has any two part phrases, quotes or

jokes etc that would fit this style of journaling

please leave me a comment, 

I would love to read them,

you never know they may just make it into the book (LOL)

have a creative day,

Kat x.

BUTTERFLY PUBLICITY TAG by Kat

Hi all, Kat Here,
it feels like it's been ages since I made a tag,
so that's what I have to share with you today,
I have also had a little play with my distress stains.
so here is my creation.

I started with a size 8 manilla tag

I took took the distress stains

Picket Fence, Vintage Photo & Brushed Corduroy,

smooshed them on my craft sheet & dragged the tag through the ink

then dried it with a heat tool,

I then repeated this with the ink that was left 

& dried the tag again,

I then took the vintage photo stain,

 banged it on to the tag to make cool splats

(a trick that Hel's showed me) cool ha!

then dried the tag again.

I then blended round the edge with

Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain Distress Ink

& stamped the butterflies off the Papillon plate Tim Holtz.

I then stamped the butterflies on some scrap card &

coloured them in with pro markers,

cut them out & attached them over the top,

to give some dimension.

I made a little torn edge sign with THIS

fab saying & attached it to the tag with a memo pin

& to finish I stapled some brown ribbon along the side edge.

hope you like it!

just quickly,

 can I say a big thank you to every one

that leaves me such lovely comments on

the things I post here,

I am always  excited to read them

& they are so appreciated. 

hope to see you next time,

Kat x.

BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED journal page

Hi all, Kat here,
I have another journal page to share with you today
so I will jump right in,

I started by blending Iced Spruce Distress Ink

all over the page,

then stamped the buildings & the

Inspiration Light Bulb onto the page with

Jet Black archival ink

I then hand drew the stalks, leaves & petals with

a black pit pen,

& coloured them with

Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey & Forest Moss Distress Inks

by smooshing some ink on a craft sheet, watering it down

& painting it on with a water brush,

I coloured some of the buildings the same way with

Pumice Stone & Iced Spruce Distress Ink

next I hand drew B,L,M across the page to spell the word

BLOOM using the flowers as the OOs,

the rest of the phrase is stamped with small alphabet stamps.

& to finish I used  the Small Cogs stamp

& Iced Spruce Distress Ink around the edge of the page.

That's it hope you like it!

I'll be back on the 16th with another project,

hope to see you then,

Kat x.