tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15652934958341244692024-03-13T23:31:10.514+02:00Emsige BieneAlma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-50340516395344913762016-08-14T19:06:00.000+02:002016-08-14T19:34:16.488+02:00#150 - Feeling Sketchy<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OH WOW!! My card for #149 : <a href="http://emsigebiene.blogspot.com/2016/07/149-feeling-sketchy.html" target="_blank">Hold on to Your Dreams</a>, was chosen as a <a href="http://feeling-sketchy.blogspot.com/2016/08/149-winner-and-top-picks.html" target="_blank">Top Pick over at Feeling Sketchy!</a> Thank you sooooo much! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The First Sketch for August at </span><a href="http://feeling-sketchy.blogspot.com/2016/08/new-sketch-150.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Feeling Sketchy</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is up and I have but a few hours to submit my card ;-) I did not have much time for any creativity as other priorities got in the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is the great sketch designed by Michelle van Wyk:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here is my take on the sketch:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet again bad lighting as the sun is down already :-(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used patterned papers from a very old Making Memories 6x6 paperpack, Whiteboard embellishments from <b><a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" target="_blank">Enmarc Crafts</a></b> in South-Africa and the green paper flowers are also from Enmarc Crafts, but the item is long time discontinued. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The leaves were punched out from the same paper range, I tea-dyed the lace flower and the ribbon and large brad are from my stash.</span></div>
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I stamped the sentiment with Memento LUXE : Pistachio and raised it with foam squares onto the card.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little surprise on the top left corner inside the card:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut one of the small flowers from the Page Corner : Flower String and used it on the tag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you for stopping by :-) I hope you found a wee bit of inspiration here and thank you so much for your kind comments!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hugs and love till next time :-) ♥♥♥</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-57488700822258297152016-07-31T13:00:00.004+02:002016-07-31T13:00:21.852+02:00#149 Feeling SketchyHi all you Lovelies!<br />
I made over 200 commissioned cards lately so I am a bit allergic to card making at the moment LOL!<br />
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I have so much left over papers and especially from my last layout for the <a href="http://letsscrapsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Let's Scrap Sketches challenges</a>, that I just had to make something! I joined in on <a href="http://feeling-sketchy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Feeling Sketchy</a> - Challenge #149. This is a Card Making group and there are really some awesome sketches you can play with!<br />
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This is Sketch #149<br />
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and here is my take on the sketch.<br />
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Now I must admit that I will have to make many more little projects before I will have used all the left-over papers!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" target="_blank">Enmarc Crafts</a> products used:<br />
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Happy Crafting till next time!</div>
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XOXOX</div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-4539355744941215582016-07-28T23:19:00.000+02:002016-07-28T23:19:25.195+02:00Never Never Give Up! Just Do It!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We recently had a holiday up north and my DH has been dreaming of a microlite flip over the Victoria Falls for many years. Well, this time he actually did it! He said it was incredible and the view from the sky was just breathtakingly awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the bi-weekly sketch from <a href="http://letsscrapsketches.blogspot.com/2016/07/7-15-16-new-sketch.html" target="_blank">Let's Scrap Sketches</a> for my Layout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, I did not use the sketch as is, but rotated it to suit my needs. Here is my take on the sketch:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used some more of my very old stash - Simple Stories : Urban Traveller. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few close-ups:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the green background I used a watermark ink pad, stamp and stencil and for the 'droplets' I used <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=2737&category_id=129&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53" target="_blank">Enmarc Craft's Arty Stencil : Bubble Wrap</a>, Finnabair Gold Crackle Paste and ultra fine glitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">White Board embellishments and other products from <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" target="_blank">Enmarc Crafts</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Crafting till next time!</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-51588958465876613872016-07-27T23:58:00.003+02:002016-07-27T23:58:59.998+02:00Whooo-whooo!! I WON!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Summer Fun Blog Hop over at <a href="http://letsscrapsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Let's Scrap Sketches</a> has come to an end and guess what!! I WON not only one RAK, but TWO!!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU so much Rhoda and Val! Mwah! ♥♥♥</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will wait patiently for all my yummies to arrive by snail mail :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the lovely RAK offered by Val:</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-71993774359013525642016-07-06T01:49:00.001+02:002016-07-06T01:50:47.018+02:00Summer Fun Blog Hop<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today I am joining in on the fun over at <a href="http://letsscrapsketches.blogspot.com/2016/07/summer-fun-blog-hop.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Let's Scrap Sketches</a>! They have a super fun Blog Hop on running from the 1st of July to the 7th of July 2016 and there are LOADS of yummy prizes to win!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to take a photo of my workspace/room as it is whether tidy or not! My craft room's light need to be fixed, so I am working on the breakfast nook table at the moment. I am busy making cards for my SIL's shop (finished approx. 80 cards and still a couple more to go), so no time for scrapping! Hopefully I will be able to participate in this week's STUNNING sketch challenge.</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-42665755356824873272016-06-27T23:46:00.002+02:002016-06-27T23:46:29.246+02:00'Bak & Brou by Ouma Joey' : 6-15-16 - Let's Scrap Sketch<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's really been quite a while since I have scrapped . . . no mojo and all these mixed-media-single-photo-layouts all over the www were very intimidating as I like to scrap double pages and my page must tell it's own little story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also haven't done any of the <a href="http://letsscrapsketches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Let's Scrap Sketch challenges</a> for many many moons . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I chose to turn the sketch upside down :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The photos are of my DGD3 who visited her other Granny and they baked cupcakes together. . . or shall I rather say, the little one did what little ones do ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have sooooo much patterned papers in my stash and used a very old collection which suited best with my photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chipboard embellishments are by <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" target="_blank">Enmarc Crafts</a> and were sprayed with <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=4&Itemid=53" target="_blank">Enmarc Dazzles</a> : Bermuda, Summer Fields and Lemon Meringue and some were glazed after the Dazzles were dry. Then a few of the paper flowers were sprayed with Dazzles : Misty Maroon.</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-67522928753795542862016-06-26T23:50:00.001+02:002016-06-26T23:50:54.094+02:00ALWAYS - Paper Bag Mini Album<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I watched a youtube video by Steffi Miller (Live with Prima) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCIuB8lH6I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCIuB8lH6I</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The album consists of 2 paper bags, patterned papers and embellishments. I really enjoyed making this mini album!</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-84568669130657631772016-05-29T00:52:00.000+02:002016-05-29T00:53:34.239+02:00Paper Bag Gift Bag - Mixed Media<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then some stamping with Finnabair stamps and Memento Luxe:Rhubarb Stalk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pasted scraps of old book paper down and then added more texture using <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" target="_blank">Enmarc Crafts Arty Stencils</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First I used Dewdrops:Tea Leaves and then pink and chocolate texture paste</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next I sprayed the doily with Dazzles:Eggshell and pasted a section of the sprayed doily down and added more white texture paste</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whilst the texture paste was drying, I painted a green silk flower with white gesso and when it was dry, I sprayed it with Dazzles:Mystic Olive & Avocado. Then some Finnabair stamping when the flower was dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also sprayed a couple of paper flowers with Dazzles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Deco Frame:Doodle Square was inked with green and then chocolate texture paste added randomly. The the fun part was decorating the paper bag :-) I also used Finnabair art ingredients for the decoration.</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-91373040205584197292016-05-25T23:57:00.001+02:002016-05-25T23:57:18.581+02:00A much needed Holiday<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was very busy preparing for a much needed holiday thus no time for being creative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We visited the Caprivi - the pan handle of Namibia (Now called the Zambezi Region), Botswana and Zambia. What a great time we had camping along the Okavango River, the Zambezi River and back to the Okavango River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vic Falls (Victoria Water Falls) was FULL as the catchment area had lots of good rain earlier. The water in the rivers was quite high and the wind wasn't in our favour to do tiger fishing as planned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DH did a microlite flight over the falls and I had the blessing of riding on an African elephant!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few photos of beautiful Mother Nature:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Okavango River</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time for the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 : March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you know by now, this year's tags are made with combined techniques from previous years' tags. This month Tim revisited Textures and Dimensional Cuts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and this is the beautiful tag Tim came up with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">You may want to join in on the fun by clicking </span><a href="http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2016-march/" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="text-align: start;"> to get the details on Tim's Blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I really love this remix technique and I again created 2 tags as well as a page for my Photo Carousel. The Distress Crayons are not available where I live and I do not have Distress Spray Stains, so I used what I have and replaced the Distress Crayons with Gelatos and the distress spray stains with Distress Stains and Distress Paint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the 2 tags, I used sections of Silhouette patterns as I also do not have the same dies Tim used. For the Photo Carousel page, I used <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" target="_blank">Enmarc Crafts</a>' Dazzle Stencil : Old Brick Wall which I traced and cut out. I coloured The Pocket Watch chipboard piece black and then painted the detail with white to mimic the metal pieces which were rubbed with a white gelato to add detail.</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-20856488167274299932016-02-25T01:46:00.000+02:002016-03-29T21:02:56.775+02:0012 Tags of 2016 - February<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I decided to join in on the fun creating along with so many others worldwide. Tim Holtz has an endless source of creativity - how very blessed he is!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started off with a manilla tag, but then added another tag as well as an index tab . . . not sure which of the 3 I might mess up along the way LOL, although I am trying my best to 'EMBRACE IMPERFECTION'!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I followed the background mono printing technique - Color Wash Butterscotch, Disstressstain Wild Honey and also Distress Ink Bundled Sage on the Index Tab.Then I did the numerals and the splatches on the index tab with stencils and texture paste. The other writing I did by putting texture paste into a bottle with a spout and then wrote onto the tags. I used copper embossing powder and then afterwards I outlined the lettering on the index tab with a gold permanent marker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chipboard Hearts was sprayed with Dazzles - Ruby Red, the Heart Arrows and the Doodle Word with Anthracite, the flowers with Eggshell and the flowers on the last tag with Hot Tomato. I made Burlap bows to add to the flowers and to the top hearts of the index tab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used a fine chain to hang my Heart charms. The quotes I did on my computer and then cut it out as I do not have the word stickers used by Tim. I stamped words with Archival Ink Jet Black onto index labels and added it to the tags.</span></div>
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<a href="http://tworzysko.blogspot.ie/2014/12/art-recipe-wednesday-new-life-of-old.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Art Recipe Wednesday: New Life of the Old Brush</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and it really got me inspired as I have lots of old brushes and all
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up the courage to give it a try. My friend, Jacqui, and I organised a play date
at the shop during her holidays. Oh what fun did we have! We put all our ‘ingredients’ ranging from the
blank canvasses and brushes to washers, paper flowers, wing nuts, buttons (like
in ‘ugly’ buttons), hinges, twine, beads, nuts, bolts, chipboard
embellishments, etc. out on the workspace and started off sort of slowly. We
quickly got the gest of ‘How To’, but *Sigh!* the day flew by way too quickly! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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. that wasn’t so easy, because it so happened that one moment it was too pink
and the next moment it was too green . . . then too pink , then too green. After
a couple of these ‘trial and errors’ I was satisfied with the outcome. Next I
used metallic gold acrylic paint and dry brushed all over the brush and
embellishments close to it. I added Finnabair art Extra vagence Texture Paste :
Clear Crackle to the handle of the brush and also a bit randomly onto some of
the embellishments. Then I added Finnabair art Extra vagence Texture Paste :
Gold Crackle in a blob onto the tip of the brush and added Finnabair art
ingredients Glass Glitter : Gold Rush to the Gold Crackle. Then Finnabair art
basics Soft Matte Gel : Transparent was added randomly with added Finnabair art
ingredients Glass Glitter : Copper. Then the micro beads and seed beads were
added also with the soft matte gel. I got carried away and maybe have put too
many beads onto the canvas, but for now I am happy </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">J</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">.
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Launching registration for a class like this should be done months in advance. Because I've only given myself a few weeks, I'm going to need your help. In return, I will enter you in a draw for a giveaway: A free seat in ALL the sessions of Book Of Days I teach next year. I've got three of these to giveaway, so here's how to enter:</div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-33685122238917262032014-08-18T23:28:00.000+02:002014-08-18T23:31:35.639+02:00Digi Stamps 4 Joy : Mid-challenge #98 - NEW - Poplap<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I used Spectrum Noir pens to colour the images. The garden gate image is from </span><a href="http://digistamps4joy.co.za/"><span style="color: #660000;">Digi Stamps 4 Joy</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> and the Teddy image is from Dominique Boudlei? got it from a friend as a free digi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All other embellishments except for the ribbon on the inside of the card, are from <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/">Enmarc Crafts</a>. The word tile on the front and the floral bling on the inside of the card are discontinued products.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little surprise on the inside of the card: (I had to scan the inside of the card as I forgot to photograph the inside of the card and there is no sunshine this time of the night ;-) )</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-25108112518346834732014-08-16T17:30:00.001+02:002014-08-16T17:33:11.067+02:00My Paper Bag Art Journal : If I had a Flower<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose another watercolour paper for this page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This page was inspired by this gorgeous darling little angel
I found on Pinterest. The original image belongs to Becky Hetherington –
attic-crafter.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ain’t she just way too sweet!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you know, I am a wanna-be-artist and I copied this
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND . . . . here is mine ;-) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a gazillion liquid pearls! I am still trying to bond
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-58871691748132906202014-08-14T01:23:00.000+02:002014-08-14T01:23:10.853+02:00My Paper Bag Art Journal : Lessons from a Dragonfly<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is actually my 4th page of my art journal, but I could not find my photos and posted page 5 instead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After searching for hours, I realised that I have lost all my photo's for this project, so only a photo of the finished art journal page :-(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there is this beautiful poem <i>Lessons from a Dragonfly</i> by Ruth O'Neill . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stamps I used, are from Great Impressions, a South African based manufacturer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stamped the dragonfly image on the right side with Ranger Archival Ink : Jet Black and coloured it with Distress Markers and a water brush. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I used the <span style="background-color: nil; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Tim Holtz® Distress Marker Spritzer</span></span><span style="background-color: nil; color: #b72e2e; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="background-color: nil; line-height: 1.5em;">and Fired Brick Distress Marker to spritz all over the page.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I used a watermark embossing pen to 'glue' the small dragonfly postage stamp (coloured green) and embossed it with clear UTE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then added rhinestones to the wings and painted the dragonflies with Distress Crackle Paint Clear Rock Candy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the dragonflies were dry, I pasted it onto the background and added shadows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did not have enough space on the background for the complete poem and used only excerpts of it. I used a uni-ball black pen to do the writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">A dragonfly accepts it’s brevity of life </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">With its gossamer wings feeling the breeze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Full of freedom it watches our joy and our strife</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">With wings that shimmer showing purpose and duty </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Obedient to all of life’s changes in flight</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Modestly it shows us its outer beauty </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Always gracious, mindful and full of delight</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">So whether what life gives you is good, bad, or sad</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Show others that inner beauty counts and matters</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Make your actions amount to many smiles and be glad</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">For the dragonfly knows it lives a brief life this way </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">So I learn from this creature to live wisely each day</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">And make every minute special to those that you love</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">As the dragonfly watches our actions from above</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly I added trails behind the dragonflies with a Marabu Fun Liner Glitter : Reddish Gold.</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-33536965691415616092014-08-12T20:50:00.002+02:002014-08-12T20:50:47.078+02:00My Paper Bag Art Journal : Autumn is a Second Spring<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time ran away from me AGAIN!!! ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started off with painting 2 layers of canvas primer on the paper bag. I wanted to draw something and whilst I was waiting for the primer to dry, I browsed in the shop for something with easy lines as I am a wanna-be-artist ;-) I came upon this stamp and then drew it on the white background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I suppose I should have done some texture first, but I wanted to have a more smooth surface on which I could draw my sketch. Next I tore a paper serviette into pieces and used gel medium to paste it down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the gel medium was dry, I painted a layer of canvas primer on top of the serviette. By now, I decided to do something about winter or maybe autumn, seeing that the girl image was dressed up warmly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I used a leaf stencil and gesso paste and scraped with an old credit card a few leaves randomly on the background. So, now it will be Autumn!! Thinking of the wind blowing leaves all over ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst the gesso paste was drying, I coloured a few white board chippies - from </span><a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enmarc Crafts</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - with Distress Markers. I love the WHITE board, because it is so easy to colour it with almost any medium. - Product = Nature Element : Rustling Leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a hectic week! *Pffffeeww!* Working full time and playing at night time . . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was intrigued by the 'chalkboard' effect floating around on the internet and wanted to try it out. For my first layout I created a faux chalkboard background and titled it 'Keradie's Garage'. My DGS1 could not say 'Conradie' when he was a todler and when I asked what his surname is, he replied : 'Keradie' and I thought I would like to capture this sweetness on my layout.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tore pieces of brown card stock which I distressed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads beforehand and also tore a large Bingo card. These I pasted down randomly with gel medium.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a layer of acrylic canvas medium.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strips of tissue tape were added for more texture.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Used a Blending tool and Pink and Brown Distress inks and added some colour ontop of the canvas medium.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stamped randomly with StazOn Black.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I sketched flowers on a free printable dictionary page as well as on the background and then outlined it with a black permanent fine liner.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then tore the dictionary page in an oval shape, inked it with pink and brown distress inks and pasted it down with gel medium.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Added another strip of tissue tape to overlap the dictionary page.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flowers were painted with Derwent Inktense Blocks and more detail was added with permanent markers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chipboard corner by <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/">Enmarc Crafts</a> was inked with pink and brown distress inks, spritzed and flicked with water and when it was dry, I painted clear rock candy distress paint on top and left it to dry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Added a bit of distress ink to the dictionary page as it was too white.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I rubbed a bit of magic touch in a copper colour randomly on the page.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wording was done with a white permanent marker onto a piece of the brown distressed card stock. The letters were outlined with a black fine liner. I then tore the words separately from the card stock piece and inked each piece with brown, then pasted it down.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The small hearts came from a box I cut with my Silhouette and I thought that is what Seeds of Love look like ;-)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the chipboard corner was dry, I pasted it down.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly I added some shadows.</span></li>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-32650216342637482582014-07-28T02:18:00.000+02:002014-07-28T02:18:09.389+02:00Scrap-a-Doodles Design Team 2014 Audition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scrap-a-doodles.co.za/">Scrap-a-Doodles</a>, a South-African based Scrapbook Store, sent out an invitation to all interested to apply for their design team. As part of the audition, I have to showcase some of my work here on my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would really love to be part of their design team, playing with the latest products and share with others my results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for the opportunity to audition for your Design Team <a href="http://www.scrap-a-doodles.co.za/">Scrap-a-Doodles</a> :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On to a couple of my layouts and projects:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Created for Enmarc Crafts as well as for a Let's Scrap Challenge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Created for Enmarc Crafts as well as for a Let's Scrap Challenge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following Layout (You are the Love of my Life) was created for a challenge at CSI:ColorStoriesInspiration and resulted in me being invited as a guest designer for April 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was also submitted at Enmarc Crafts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designed for Enmarc Crafts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Husband lets me Have all the Scrapbooking Supplies I can Hide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(At least I don't have to hide these lot anymore ;-) )</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-19891211983802807942014-07-27T15:01:00.000+02:002014-07-27T15:01:00.216+02:00My Papaer Bag Album : When I needed Sunshine I Got Rain<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This page was inspired by Neil Diamond's song I'm a Believer. The words 'When I needed sunshine I got rain' fell on my ears. We hardly ever get any rain, but it was cold and misty for more than 2 weeks and I was longing for warm sunshiny weather!</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/">Enmarc Crafts</a> Stencil : Hart & Flowers and gesso paste for additional flowers painted with pink craft paint. Added stickles to the centers and outlined with white permanent marker.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly dripped dimensional glaze from the top and let it run down.</span></li>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-12696417875919531322014-07-24T23:55:00.001+02:002014-07-25T00:03:19.607+02:00My Paper Bag Art Journal : Only 10? Minutes a Day!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been watching quite a few Youtube videos and saw an Art Journal by Andrea Gomoll which she created December 2013 - 【December Daily Artjournal】 Résumé _ Pageflip. Her art journal was made of paper bags and watercolour paper and this journal consists of daily pages from the 1st of December up to the 24th of December. I then decided I want to make one too, but it would not be a Christmas journal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately I cannot remember where I read about it or watched a video clip, but the lady suggested that one should put a couple of materials (journal/pens/crayons/mediums/etc) aside and spend 10 minutes a day on your art journal. Even if it means that you put all of these materials on a tray which you can hide underneath the lounge chair ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, that sounded like a super nice idea and I decided to combine the 2 ideas, spending 10 minutes a day on a Paper Bag Journal!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started off by painting the bag with acrylic canvas primer and left it to dry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I so much love to use paper serviettes and then tore a patterned serviette into smaller pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I used Matt Gel Medium and pasted the serviette pieces down and left it to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Added a layer of acrylic canvas primer and left it to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Used bubble wrap and acrylic craft paint in white and pink to 'stamp' dots randomly on the page and left to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I used gold acrylic craft paint and rubbed it randomly with my finger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the gel medium was dry, I painted the clock with acrylic craft paints, used a gold permanent marker and added ruby liquid pearls and finished the clock off with a black fine liner (which smudged, but I WILL embrace imperfection!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Added a white pearly Sugar Candy brad to the centre of the clock face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I traced different sized circles randomly onto the background. Some of the circles were painted with green and white acrylic craft paint and some were just outlined with the gold marker. I added 'clock hands' to the green circles and outlined it with a white permanent marker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now at this point I have to tell you that for me, it is IMPOSSIBLE to stick to just <b>10 minutes a day</b> LOL! Thus the whiteboard chippy 'Time Flies' by <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/">Enmarc Crafts</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I inked it lightly with brown and added stickles to the wings and left it to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I added dimensional glaze to the clock face and wings and after it was dry, I pasted it down.</span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-37530004000648014462014-07-22T23:15:00.003+02:002014-07-23T00:00:56.167+02:00Just Some Handmade Cards<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while since I have posted to the Blog, but I have been very busy ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I needed to make cards for my shop as the stock dropped drastically and I hate it to send customers across the street to the local CNA :-( Why put jam on their bread instead of my own!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I made some 130+ cards of which some were duplicated and others not. Stamping. Embossing, Colouring. etc was on the priority list for a week or three and I had to do these as time permitted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few of these cards so long. I will photograph some more and post in the near future. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Left : Stamped with StazOn and coloured with Derwent Graphitint Colour Pencils</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Middle : <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/">Enmarc Crafts</a> White Board Chippie : Plain Emb Set : Boats -Coloured with Tombow Filt Pens</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Left : Tim Holtz Distress Inks for the background and stamped with Versafine Black</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stamped with Versamark Watermark, Embossed with <a href="http://www.enmarc.co.za/">Enmarc</a> Embossing Powder Silver (Left) and Gold (Right), added stickles to the flowers and Dimensional Glaze to the vases</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stamped with StazOn Black and Coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Markers</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Tim Holtz Distress Inks for the background and stamped with Versafine Black. Tissue Tape</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim Holtz Distress Inks for the background and stamped with StazOn Black. Coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Markers </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">Tim Holtz Distress Inks for the background and stamped with Versafine Sepia (Left) and Black (Right). Butterflies stamped with Versamark Watermark on Tracing paper, Embossed with Enmarc Embossing Powder Iridescent (Left) and Gold (Right) and coloured with Twinkling H2O's</span></span></div>
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Alma Carter : Emsige Bienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07947514686100100862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565293495834124469.post-57522770286297176642014-04-26T00:58:00.000+02:002014-04-26T00:58:08.843+02:00Today is a Day to Remember : CSI Case File 120<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every week a new challenge over at CSI Color Stories Inspiration <a href="http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/">http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and this week yet another terrific challenge :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something sheer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">animal accents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">umbrella<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wet medium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">place something upside down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">raindrop shapes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scribbles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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least 1 clue<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Write your journaling as a haiku.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use a prompt from <a href="http://journalbuddies.com/creative-writing-2/creative-writing-prompts-fabulous-ideas/">Journal
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create a vellum or transparent holder for your
journaling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choose a prompt from <a href="http://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/">Sunday Scribblings.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspiration Words: -pal, float, sad, --<span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #080808; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> use these as
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<span style="color: #080808;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Pfffeewww!* Another
month flew by!!! This is my last submission as Guest Detective for April 2014.
Thank you once again for the wonderful opportunity to design along with the most
talented group of Detectives at CSI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #080808;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although it was
raining a lot whilst I visited my children, it was not raining the day we went
to the Smuts House in Irene, so no umbrellas needed ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #080808; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">A little OOPSIE!! I did not notice that the umbrella charm came loose
when I took the photo!! Well, I fixed it in the meantime as you will see in the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wet medium – gesso, craft paint, Dazzles, water soluble
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">place something upside down – Birdhouse and Birdie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">raindrop shapes – Berry Pins and drop-shaped pearls for a
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scribbles – Scribbled into the thick wet Gesso paste and
3 chipboard scribbles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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