Oh for the life of a sardine! by Titbelsoeur

Salut les patouilleuses, c'est Titbelsoeur aux manettes !

Sardines are good for the health, one says... and they are good for mixed-media, I say ! don't you agree ?
Look, I have taken a basic sardine can, covered it with a slight coat of gesso mixed with blue acrylic paint, showing a very clear blue...
Glued images from the internet on the bottom and glued the children on a cardstock to strengthen it.

The stamp I used comes from the Kat's Creations "our house" plate

I hope you like my sardine can (I really hope, because I may show you others in the coming days ;-)

Thanks for stopping by, I am really looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur

Home by Titbelsoeur

Coucou les copines !

I tried to find a song that would fit with my project, this one by Jack Johnson looked wistful enough ;-)

I gotta get home there's a garden to tend
There's fruit on the ground 
and the birds have all moved back into my attic, 
whistling static
When the young learn to fly I will patch all the holes up again...

keep it in my records for a next project about gardening... if any !
    
To make this project, I have used a A4 sheet of drawing paper, some printed pictures, book pages and various pieces of fabric, lace and ribbons.

I have stamped HOUSES on a piece of fabric that I have glued on the back of the 4 sides to make a cover. Then I decorated it with lace and ribbons, a tag and some home made paper beads.
   

I have covered the front with book pages and colored them with various Distress inks on a pad through stencils. I then stamped some arch doors  and glued cropped images. Roofs are drawn with a black pen.

 

 

Thanks for reading to the end, I hope you enjoy my project,

 I am looking forward to reading your comments ! 

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur

Our house... by Titbelsoeur

Coucou me revoilou !

I'm back and back again :-)

Today I am eager to show you a little piece of artwork I have made from a scrap of packaging kraft. Following a tutorial from Pascanine on a French mixed-media forum, I have folded it and then sewed lines on it with my tiny machine.

I have colored it with alcohol inks, but it was too dark, thus I added some yellow acrylics to lighten it.

A touch of border stamps here and there, whitened with my Posca pen, and just added punched circles from my table protective paper (just have a try, the result is stunning !)

And on the bottom, a little house garland stamped on a book page and colored with watercolor !

This piece will soon become a notebook cover... who loves it ?

Read you very soon ! 

Titbelsoeur

Imagination street. A shrine by zuzu.

 Today, I have decorated one of the alterable wooden shrines; you can find it HERE. I have used the little "our house" stamps HERE, the birds from the"free as a bird" stamps HERE and the Dylusions alphabet stencil from HERE.

I also used the star background stamp from HERE and to highlight the little doodle leaves I drew, I used some glitter stickles (crystal) from HERE...

 To decorate the outside, I have used some ideaology findings. you can find those HERE...but as this is the back of the shrine, if you are going to leave it open, then you dont need to add anything at all and save some money. But I like adding curios to things ;)

See you on the 17th
Z x

Chunky Houses by Lori!

Hi all! I was so honored to be asked to contribute to the Artistic Stamper Creative Team! There is truly so much talent here!

For my first project, I thought I would use Kat's Creations stamps..more specifically, the Our House A6 set.  Along with...Borders A6, which is in the background, hard to see, but it's there!  I chose to create a chunky ATC for my project, which is a dimensional ATC cut from a chunk of wood.  I sprayed the plain block of wood with Dylusions inks, which I love doing on bare wood, the wood grain really comes through and looks fantastic. I then stamped the houses and sentiment on white cardstock, then painted with the Dylusions inks! When I glued the houses on the wood, I used some foam behind the roofs and doors, to give them some more dimension. How about some pictures?

I did cut out some leaves from grungepaper and glued them on, after painting with a Citrus Paint Dabber.

Here's a little different angle, showing more of the top:

I painted some plain wooden plugs with the Watermelon Paint Dabber for the "feet" or base, to raise it up a bit.
I just love using the bright colors with the Our House stamp set, the stamps were meant for color!
Thank you for stopping by today, I hope I've inspired you to make some "chunky ATC's"!