Summer, Sun & Sea - GD Scrap and Me + Dusty Attic Moodboard July

 Welcome everyone!

I was invited to create some guest design projects with the wonderful paper collections

 from Scrap And Me . Thanks so much!!!

 

  I'm a handicraft enthusiast with passion since my childhood, crafting makes me happy !

It is a wonderful relaxation and balm for the soul, it's the little things in life

 that makes you happy and I love to share

 this joy and want to encourage my friends and all the others to try new ideas.

 

 

I used a background paper and some flower motifs

from the amazing paper collection 

'Sapphire Days' 

 

 

 

 

Love the Door & Windows

 they are

a great addition, 

such a lot of creative possibilities!

 I have cut out the individual small windows
stuck a photo behind it and opened the window to the sea. 

This creates a simple, but exciting 3D effect

 

Used the Dusty Attic's monthly moodboard as inspiration,

it looks like vacation, 

summer holidays on the sea,

dreamy!! 

 

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Lighthouse #1 Small 2pk

 Mini Compasses

Seaweed Mixed

Grass Cluster #1

Anchor #2

Old Wooden Fence #2

 

 

 

some close up's

 Really hope that I was able to inspire you!  
 

Add something unique to your project

 that you like and never be afraid to try something new!

 There is so much inspiration shared on this fabulous blog each month !

Thank you very much!! 

Kerstin

 

Grand Finale SASPC - Lost treasures

 

  Welcome to the

Grand Finale Challenge July/ August 2021,

dear steampunk and industrial style friends!

 I would like to invite you to play along with our two months 

long special challenge! 

 

 

 It is an "Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial" themed one again and instead of the usual month you have until the end of August to enter up to five (instead of the usual three) entries this time.

I was inspired to create some steampunk pen boxes in altered art. 

 

I rediscovered my creative passion in the last weeks. I simply love to work 
with moulds and modelling clay. 

 

Here is an upcyling idea, I used two simply plastic cups as base

 and modeled with silicone moulds

(from IOD Prima Marketing

Katy Sue Designs).

 

 

 

 

some close up's

You can find some awesome projects at SASPC 

on this Grand Finale Challenge July/ August 2021.

 

 

 

 

 

A big THANK YOU to Claudia

and Maura

for a unforgettable creative time

at SASPC!!

xoxo

Happy summertime!

Kerstin

ATC's with texture

 Hello!

 

Today a new inspiration with MDF shapes. 

I created two artistic trading cards in nature style.

 Love to use and play with textures for interesting effects.

 

 

 

 Use some outcast's made with silicone moulds, textile ribbons, 

and some small suitable MDF shapes. 

Worked with chalky paints and highlighted with creme waxes.

 

used Calico Craft Parts

 

Plain ATC Wood Blank

Wild Flowers & Butterflies

Bluebells - MDF Floral Wood Shape Style 48

 Happy crafting!

Kerstin

Wild Poppies with 13@rts

 

 Hello!

 

I was inspired to create a scrapbooking layout with 3D effect.

Love the colours of the beginning summer 

and the red poppies on meadows and fields are part of it.

 

Chose the 'Unforgettable' collection  from 13arts, beautiful colors and motifs

 for a nature inspired layout. Foil wreath comes from the 'In Love' collection.

 

 

 

 How you can see, I used transparency foil as a wreath on a willow wreath. 

Foil was painted from backside with acrylic flowers.

 Behind the foil I created a small meadow 

world with grasses, daisies and butterflies.

 

some close up's

Happy crafting!

 

Mr. Seaworld - GD with Katy Sue Designs

 

 Hi creative friends!

 

I was invited to create some guest design projects with the amazing silicone moulds

 from Katy Sue Designs. Thanks so much!!!

In focus, one of my favourite themes - The SEA with all  its infinite possibilities. 

Firstly I choose the Green Man mould, love this expressive face.

My personal challenge was to change the Green Man in a Blue Man lol.

 

 

 

I worked with air drying clay and used not the whole mould but only the awesome face. 

I added some sea animals, like shells, seahorses, starfish. 

Under the face you can see some corals, which made with single pieces

 from 'The Tree' mould.

 

some close up's

In the next few weeks you can see other projects with silicone moulds here.

I'm afraid the mould fever has me again fully in its grip. 😀

Until the next creative adventure!

Kerstin

Red poppies

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

Everywhere you can now discover poppies blooming again 

in fields and meadows, beautiful! 

unfortunately they always fade far too quickly. 

That's why I was inspired to create a mixed media layout

 where the beauty stays a little longer. 

Tip to all scrapbook fans 

here you can see that you can combine 

MDF shapes and papers very well

some close up's

 

 

I created a window in weathered wood style with awning 

and framed by two columns made with silicone mould

Wild Poppies shapes 

have been divided into individual flowers and 

arranged to the right and left side of window

 

painted with two shades of red acrylic color

stamens with glass microbeads and black acrylic color

 completed with cut out paper poppies 

and dryed leaves and grasses 

 

which  Calico Craft Parts I used 

can you find here

 

Thanks for your visit!

Kerstin

 

 

Gift Box with 13@rts Rice paper

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

Gift wrapping is often needed and I love these gift boxes

 because you can wrap the gifts so easily. 

The bought ones are often boring and not very individual.

 

 

I used a beautiful rice paper, a stencil and some cut out motifs 

  from the Spring Pastel collection

 

some close up's

 

 

 

I hope I could inspire you to try out your 

very own individual box !

Thanks for your visit!

Happy crafting!

Kerstin