Blessed be long weekends, because otherwise I wouldn’t had made anything artistic :p So, this is my latest artistic little thing. And I do mean little, it was harder to work on a 1″ square than I thought.

So, I started with some cardboard covered with a vintage pages from and old book, the one that Claudio gave is actualy… 50 years old!! I hadn’t checked the date before. I’m selling some inchie bases just like these ones I used here on my Etsy, if you’re interested ;)

Anyway, next thing I did was stamp some flowers (from a rubberstamp dear Heather sent me when I was just starting on the OSA group) in different shades of blue and brown and inked the edges too.

Finally I printed an image of a japanese lady combing her hair, cut it around and glued it down in different angles, to try which one would look best. My favourite is the top middle one :)

I don’t know what I’ll be doing with these yet, so if you want to trade comment here or drop me a line :) (my e-mail address is on the “About Me” page).

Thanks for visiting!

Estivalia.

Materials: Cardboard, text book pages, “Chocolate and Blueberries” Colorbox fluid chalk inks (Clearsnap),glue, printed image, “Four Season” round stamp (Art Neko).

Hi everyone! WOW, 2 days in a roll, I almost can’t believe it myself ;D I’m posting while watching the chile v/s Australia tenis match that’s playing on my city… Ironic, I know, the stadium is right next to my university, LOL.

Anyway, I digress. Today I’m showing you the second cat card, my personal favourite :)

It’s the same concept and almost the same supplies, but this one in different colors.

To make the background “splashes” of color I dilluted the watercolor into water and used a syringe (without needle) to splat the watercolor over the paper. Then I poured salt over it, for an added effect (and so it’d dry faster :). I used watercolor in tubes, since it was harder to get a lot of color from the cakes (at least to me). Then I used my fingers to make a circle where the cat would be, with watercolors and gold acrylic paint, stamped the flourishes and distressed the background

I was also very impressed with the performance of the ink I used, which made a better impression that the black Staz-On from yesterday. I used Dark Brown fluid chalk ink on the porous side of my transparency and let it dry for a while. Awesome stuff :)

Oh, yeah, here’s the detail shot:

Today I’m planning to make my first try at inchies, that’ll be fun :D

Estivalia

Materials: Cardboard, text page, inkjet transparency (HP), Baroque Motifs rubberstamp set (SU!), cat rubberstamp (unknown brand), watercolor in tubes (Pentel), syringer, salt, Palmer Prism Acrylic paint in Pure Gold (LOVE this gold tone), Chocolate & Blueberries Colorbox fluid chalk ink (Clearsnap).

Hi everyone! Long time, no art :P Today, I think, it’s the beggining of an ATC kick that hopefully will last some time. I can’t stay away from it too long, lol.

This ATC is part of a series of 2 that I made inspired by a swap over at ATCs for All that I couldn’t join because I was already late when I got back to the site (I try to mail my cards with at least 3 weeks on anticipation). The swap was about using transparencies on the cards… but, where, do you ask? HA, keep reading *wink*

So, I started with some cardboard (from a cereal box) and covered it with a text page from an old physics book in spanish that Claudio found on his place and gave me, to use for this kind of stuff. I painted the page with some watercolors (very dilluted on water and using a syringer for the “splash”).

Then I painted a circle with my fingers, added some gold acrylic paint here and there, stamped some flourished and added ink to the edges, for distressing.

So, that is the background. What is actually stamped on the transparency is… the cat, lol. I used black Staz-On on the porous side of a trasparency meant to use with a inkjet printer. Here’s a detail shot, so you can see it “clearly” (pun intended :D)

Not the best picture ever, but it’s a cloudy dat (dunno why, but it’s so hard to get decent shot on cloudy days). Anyway, the transparency is attached to the cardboard with an eyelet, so you can play with it, moving it aside… or not, I just thought it’d be fun.

So, that’s it for today. I’ll show you the second one tomorrow! Thanks you for reading :)

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. ~Jean Burden

Estivalia.

Materials: Cardboard, text page, inkjet transparency (HP), Baroque Motifs rubberstamp set (SU!), cat rubberstamp (unknown brand), watercolor in tubes (Pentel), syringer, salt, Palmer Prism Acrylic paint in Pure Gold (LOVE this gold tone), Jet Black Staz-On ink(Tsukineko), Black colorbox pigment ink.

To let you know that there is some awesome back to school blog candy over at “Inky and Scrappy”, a crafty blog by Jaime.

It’s an alphabet clear stamp set by “Close to my Heart”. I loved the font and I totally need an alphabet set ;) It’s very easy to participate, leave a comment and you’re in.

Good luck!

Estivalia.

Hi! I finally made something “post worthy” ;) This one is for Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge #54, I just flipped the sketch like if you looked it in a mirror so it’d work with my image (I hope it still counts, LOL).

I loved this sheet of patterned paper and I was just so lucky yesterday to find a matching piece of cardstock! So I cut the cardstock to make a 5″ square card and trimmed the paper to 4 3/4″ square.

I stamped my bird with a Glue Pad and then with purple pigment ink to flock it with matching flock, very nice effect :) Then I matted it with a vellum circle that I scalloped with a corner round (same old, same old).

The orange strip was stamped with a bird in Versamark repeteadly to make a pattern and at the end I made a knot using this video tutorial.

The only thing I regret is that the bird is a little crooked, but one can’t win them all :P

Estivalia.

Stamps: “Always” set (Stampin’ up!), “Decorative Birds” set (Hero Arts). Ink: Versamark (Tsukineko), Wisteria chalk ink (Colorbox).Paper: Indigo cardstock, orange textured cardstock, “Aerial” paper pack (Memory Box), vellum. Misc: Scalloped scissor, grossgrain ribbon, medium corner rounder punch (EK Success).

Oh, and a bonus (because I couldn’t resist sharing this cute pic of Pimienta :)

Today I got tagged by my dearest friend, Laura! (aka The Stampin’ Soldier). We met last year, when we were both starting blogging, she was my faithful reader (and commenter) over at my old LJ :P

Ok, so here are the rules!

1. Only five people allowed..
2. Four of them have to be dedicated followers of your blog. One has to be new and live in another part of the world.
3. You have to link back to who gave you the award.

So, the winners are…. *drumroll*

• Patty (because she’s teh master of collage and vintage stuff)
• Denise (the girl who introduced me to icanhazcheezburger… the page I spend infinite hours browsing, love her sense of humor!)
• Sandy (she does amazing stuff for american soldiers that are away from home… not to mention she’s my Copic idol!)
• Heather (amazing stamp designer and digital scrapbooker)

Sorry the blog it’s been on a “hiatus” mode for a few weeks, hopefully that will end soon! (time to get done on the christmas stuff… with how much little time I’ve got, I better start now, LOL!)

And yes, I’m so using a hedgie stamp from Penny Black. Just waiting to hear back from the eBay seller. Speaking of hedgies, I got a new home for my little ones! And, yes, that’s plural. I couldn’t bare to part with the hoglet (that’s a she and I named her Paprika, and it’s HUGE!).

If I don’t find time to post anything creative the next thing you see will be pictures of them in the new house.

Oh, and a final nota, please please remember I have some ColorBox Cat’s Queue (the stackables mini inkpads) in both Pigment and Chalk for sale at my Etsy. They’re BRAND NEW and still SEALED! (seriously, I need to pay for that Wodent Wheel I already bought, lol)

See ya soon, girls! :)

Estivalia.

Today I DO have a card, yippie! I made this card last night. I wanted to make an asian card and so, I grabbed this gorgeus washi paper with cranes on it. I ♥ papers with cranes, mainly because it’s one of the few asian stamps I have left. Oh, yeah, I should dust off that Haiku Bunny stamp… soon, soon!

So I stamped my crane with Versamark over a hadnmade cream/vanilla colored paper and used my new chalk set to add a shimmery gold look to it. Details in black and red are painted with prismacolor pencil.

To make the small grungeboard flourish I just cut a bigger one in half and painted it with golden acrylic paint. Then I added a white paper flower and a leaf on the right.

I don’t have time right now to add the supply list because I have to study for a test on wednesday (labour law). But after that I’ll be test-free for 2 weeks, yay!! So, wish me luck and I hope to see you soon again :)

Oh, and visit my friend’s Laura blog, she’s offering a “mystery” blog candy in exchange of watching pictures of your craft space (I know we all love to show off ;) and your organization ideas. I’m sure it’ll be an awesome loot!

Estivalia.

Sorry for the crappy picture… and card (I am totally aware this is not one of my best creations, lol). I just finished this card for a classmate whose birthday was today (but I’ll see her tomorrow because she has a test, not fun!).

I’m totally falling asleep right now, so I’ll edit this later to add the supply list and stuff.

Hugs!

Estivalia :)

The last 2 items that I put up on my Etsy just expired, after 3 months and no one bough them :( I am not going to renew the cards that expired, but will try something else.

So I put 2 matching cards up... let’s see how it’ll do :)

I was also thinking about buying some of those incredibly cute hedgie stamps from Penny Black to make cards to sell in a forum for chilean owners of hedgie. Well, not that I wouldn’t love some of those! I can’t afford new ones just right now… so, if you have some of this stamps used that would like to sell/trade, please think of me! :)

Hugs,

Estivalia.

I actually made this card yesterday, but I just found time to post it. Seriously, ever since we went back to “normal” classes after the strike professors have been taking revenge on all of us. But, it’s a price for the things that were accomplished.

Anyway, for this card I wanted to try a vintage-ish style of some sorts, inspired by the amazing artwork from my friend Patty :) I think I failed but it was still fun to try, lol.

I started with a piece on Grungeboard and covered it with some text and distressed it with Distress Inks (seriously, I love that stuff, will be getting more soon!). I colored and paper pieced the Elzybell image with copic markers and also distressed it with scissors and ink.

My base is Wild Wasabi cardstock with some Memory Box paper over it (gorgeus paper! seriously, my favourite line so far) and a vellum layer. The “happy day” sentiment and the flowers are actually rub-ons.

Then I added a paper flower with a aged metallic brad that I got as a RAK (and been hoarding because I love them so much I don’t want to run out, LOL!).

Anyway, I’ll leave you with the supply list. Thank you for visiting!

Estivalia

Stamp: Girl on swing (Elzybell) Ink: Tea Dye Distress Ink (Ranger) Papers: Aerial paper pack (Memory Box), Vellum, Wild Wasabi Cardstock (Stampin Up!) Misc: Elementes Grungeboard, hydrangea paper flower, aged metallic brad, Glossy Accents (Ranger), foam tape. Love & Happiness rub ons (Stampin’ Up!)