THOSE PESKY BIRDS journal page

Hi all,
I'm here with my creation for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
I have made a journal page this time,
I hope you can stop by the post to read all the details HERE
here's a peek,

I have used my own hand drawn image, he's a bit shy, his name is Meenie,

& he is from a group of empathy monsters I have drawn, he has 3 brothers

Eenie, Mineey & Moe, that I am sure will be introducing themselves

to you all in my art work very soon,

they all have there own unique flower & phrases to go with them,

but for this page Meenie has borrowed Eenie's flower,

here he is,

he is having a bad day,

all the birds have decided to nest on his head,

but as he is such a kind & gentle monster

he is making the best of it, LOL.

I Hope you like him, he just wants to be loved.

here he is in all his galore

on his first journal page,

hope you like it! 

Thanks for stopping by,
Back soon,
Kat x.

VINTAGE BUNTING

Hi all,
I'm here with my creation for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
I hope you can stop by the post to read all the details HERE

I have used my BUNTING SET of stamps in a more vintage way this time,

I still have a lot going on at home,
& I am so grateful to those of you that have stuck by me
& still visit my blog even though I haven't posted much exciting stuff lately
I do appreciate it, you are all wonderful, THANK YOU,

thanks for stopping by,
back soon,
Kat x.

RED WHITE & BLUE

Hi all I'm here to show my challenge piece for this months challenge over at
the artistic stamper creative team blog
the theme this time is RED,WHITE & BLUE,
if you fancy joining us please click HERE

 as you can see it's rather a masculine looking card, & not my general style at all,

but I quite like the neatness of it,

I used the keep calm & carry on stamp & the flags from the London set of stamps, I stamped the images in Jet Black archival ink onto white card, then Matt & layered onto red & blue card, I die cut a pair of wings from Tim Holtz Heart Wings Die using textured card,

then assembled the whole thing using foam pads to give some dimension,

finishing off with a red ribbon & bow.

hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

HOUSE & THRICE TAG

HI all,
here's a tag I made for the
artistic stamper creative team blog

yes I know it's my house stamps again,

I just can't help it, they seem to fit my mood of late,

& well, they are my designs (trumpet blow much) lol

if you would like to read the post

please click HERE

to be whisked off to the blog,

A BIG thank you to all of you lovely people that have bought

my house stamps, & now the bunting set of stamps,

I am so thrilled you like them as much as I do,

there are more on the way,

but it's top secret on what they are,

Just for now, LOL.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

A HOUSE IS JUST A HOUSE

Hi all,
I'm here with my creation for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
I hope you can stop by the post to read all the details HERE
also, have you seen my new BUNTING SET of stamps
I designed them to go with the houses,
I now have my own stamp section on the website called
 Kat's Creations how cool is that!

sorry about the blurry photo,

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x. 

VINTAGE HOUSE

Hi all,
I'm here to shear a little triple frame I made using
my very own house stamps
for the artistic stamper creative team blog
there's a post over there if you need any more details,
so here it is,

hope you like it!

I also see I have a couple of new followers,

so a huge welcome to you,

& I want to say a massive thank you

to all my loyal followers

that continue to visit my blog,

you are all special people.

thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

SO SORRY I HAVE BEEN MISSING IN ACTION & art work with my new house stamps

I haven't been doing any crafting of any sort for the last few weeks due to a very hectic home life, & it's been hectic at work too,
I don't really speak about personal stuff on my blog, as I think fellow crafter's are here to look at the art & craft stuff & not have me waffle on about me & mine (we all have our own issues & things going on)

but I feel I owe you all a little explanation, so to out line a little, my mum broke her back, & was in hospital for ages, now she is home I have to help her every day after work, my sister-in- law died unexpectedly at 42, leaving 3 of her children that were still at home & all under 18, with no where to live (long story) my niece had just had a baby of her own she was only 2 months old when it all happened, so they all moved in, my father-in-laws cancer came back & he died with in a month (more hospital visits & another funeral to go to) I work full time & have my husband & 15 year old son to look after, & all that goes with them as well, so I have been stretched pretty thin,
so no time for crafting,  for a lot of us, crafting is our own little quiet place to get away from every day life
(well it is for me) but there hasn't been enough hours in the day or the inclination to do it, my art & craft seems to be the first to be put on the back burner, when I have a lot going on, & the mojo theft comes & steels any ideas I have in my head.
any way enough about me,
Jennie (the artistic stamper) was so nice about letting me have a few weeks of of the design team,
thank you Jennie, I do appreciate your patience with me.
I am hoping to get back to it soon,
& while all my personal life has been messed up, I have also had my first set of stamp designs (houses) made into rubber, EXCITING they are now available to buy from the artistic stamper so my art work will be focusing on them I expect, LOL. I have submitted more designs in this range so if you like the houses the WATCH THIS SPACE, any way I have waffled on about me for long enough,
here is some art work
the first thing I have made with my house stamps for the artistic stamper creative team

here are some close ups of each panel. 

I have used distress inks to colour the whole thing in

& scraps of card,

the frame is a blank craft frame that I painted with black acrylic

paint & added some inka gold in antique silver to age it.

hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

JOURNEY PLAQUE

Hi all,
I'm here with the second project of the month for the
artistic stamper creative team blog
If you would like the details then please click HERE

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WEAR journal page

Hi all,
I'm here with the first project of the month for the
artistic stamper creative team blog
If you would like the details then please click HERE

the images are made up from collage sheets from

Dyan's downloads & ArtChix studio.com

hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

THE JOURNEY AWAKENS THE SOUL

Hi all,
I'm here with my monthly challenge piece for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
if you fancy joining in, the theme this month is Travel,
click HERE for all the details,
if you enter you could win the prize as it is ramdomly chosen.

for this tag I used, distress stains Tattered Rose, Frayed Burlap & Tea Dye,

Distress Inks Antique Linen & Vintage Photo, all the images are stamped with

archival ink Coffee, & the stamps I used are all Tim Holtz with the exception of

the Small Cogs & Stipple background from the artistic stamper

I added a piece of torn map & used a couple of memo pins

& finished off with some string through the hole of the tag.

hope to see you over there.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

I'M NOT BOSSY JOURNAL PAGE

Hi all,
I'm here today to shear a journal page with a pull out tag,
it's my last project for Feb over at
the artistic stamper creative team blog
if you want the details please click HERE

This is page one of a journal I am going to put together

the plan is, that each page will be different,

this page has a hidden side pocket,

the next page may incorporate a

pull down flap or be a different shape

but each page will have a black binding strip

as shown. 

the idea is to have a more interactive book.

I am quite pleased with this one

I love the Punch & Judy phrase

I think it works so well for this page.

I thought I would show the back.

because it needed to be neat 

I have hidden all the workings inside

by adding a blank sheet,

this has also made a nice thick page.

I used collage sheets from

Cemerony on etsy

to make up this page.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

BUTTERFLY PUBLICITY TAG

Hi all,
Just a quickie to shear my second project of the month for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
this time I have gone with a vintage tag,
if you would like the details on how it was made
please click HERE

I love this stamp set of Tims (papillon)

 I don't use it nearly enough,

any way, I said it would be quick, lol

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

JOURNAL PAGE number 3

Hi all,
I'm here with another journal page,
this time I thought it was time I used my fab set of
NEO 2 water-soluble crayons.

I used :-

NEO 2 water-soluble crayons,

archival ink (jet black, russet, olive, sepia)

Artistic Stamper Stamps,

(swirls, splats & dots A5 plate & stipple background)

crackle stamp (sorry no company name)

leafs, Dylusions, (around the edge DS006)

Phanomanon 1845, on etsy (sunflower faces)

the quote was found on line,

& stamped with alphabet stamps,

& coloured with Letraset, aqua markers.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED journal page

Hi all,
just a quickie to shear with you another page
I have made in my A5 journal
it is also my first project of the month over at
the artistic stamper creative team blog

if you would like the details on how I made it please click HERE

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

Hi all,
just a quickie to show my creation for the monthly challenge over at
the artistic stamper creative team blog
I have made an A5 journal page

I used :- 

Heart background & Stipple background stamps

& Swirls,Splats & Dots A5 plate

(the artistic stamper)

with Iced Spruce Distress Ink

onto the page that had been Gessoed with

Claudine Hellmuth Gesso

I then made hills & little houses from old book pages

& patterned papers,

the phrase was stamped with an alphabet onto old book pages

& then cut out,

the heart is the free stamp this month (Feb)

from Craft Stamper Magazine,

the whole seen was glued down with Multi-Matte Medium

then I shaded around all the elements with a

graphite pencil & a blending stump,

to finish I doodled the top edge with a black marker

& coloured the flowers in with a burgundy colouring pencil.

Hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

ART JOURNAL 2012 page 2

Hi all,
I am quite excited about showing this page,
I am pleased with the colour & how it turned out,
(Picture doesn't do it justice)

Here's what I used :-

Raven doll collage sheet from

Digital image 4 you, on etsy.com

Distress ink colours :-

Weathered Wood, Iced Spruce, Bundled Sage,

Peeled Paint, Antique Linen & Gathered Twigs

Stamps :-

Punk Plaid (the artistic stamper)

Grunge Dots (Tim Holtz, Ultimate Grunge)

Gesso, Copic Markers, Black Pit Pen, White Gel pen

The branch I drew free hand,

the main quote I made up, then printed out on my computer,

I Goggled, the word raven & found out some interesting facts,

which I added around the birds & along the branch,

to read them double click the picture.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon, 

Kat x.

NATURE'S FLOWERS (card book)

Hi all,
I'm here to share my last project of the month for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
this time I have made a card book with a nature/flower theme.

if you would like more of the details on how I made it please click HERE.

card front,

card inside,

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

ART JOURNAL 2012, page 1

Hi all,
I am quite excited to share with you my first page in my journal,
if you want to know what type of book I am using & why
you can click HERE to go to an earlier post, or scroll down to it.

I have decided that I am not going to shear how I made the pages,
only what I used,
as I spend so much time blogging my posts because of my dyslexia
& I get very frustrated with spell check because I don't know
which word that comes up is the right one (I think I over sheared there)
I have never admitted my learning difficulties here before (scary stuff)
any way I want to focus more on creating the pages (because that's what I love)
& not blogging them, I hope you all understand.

Here's page 1,

you can double click if you want to read the fine print,

that's if you can read my handwriting (lol)

I used :-

Distress ink,

(Bundled Sage, Tumbled Glass, Brushed Corduroy,

Gathered Twigs & Iced Spruce)

a medium circles mask (that special touch of )

Swirls,Splats& dots A5 & Calligraphic mat 12

(the Artistic Stamper)

Face (Wendy Vecchi)

Wings, Butterfly plate (creative expressions)

scraps of patterned papers (various makes)

picture frame (Google search) then printed off computer.

many of the words & the title are printed off my computer

pit pen, white gel pen

some holographic stickers.

& there you have it!

see you soon with page number two.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

MY JOURNAL FOR 2012

Hi all,
Just some info today,
& no pics (sorry) well maybe just one.

Just before Christmas I said I was going to start a journal,
& try to create a page each week, or at worst each fortnight,
well I have started it (my first page will show up here in a few days)
but first I wanted to tell you about the book I have decided to use
I was going to buy a moleskine journal
but after some research I found some people say that they fall apart,
& that you can't get them too wet (because the pages buckle)
I then tried some others,
& finally settled on this one because of it's size & it's weight of pages,
it is, DALER ROWNEY EBONY ARTIST SKETCH BOOK A5
it is 150g/m2 & 101lbs, it has 62 pages, it's acid free cartridge paper,
the pages feel nice & thick as well as smooth, & the book is a reasonable price.
here's a pic of the label on my A4 book,
which I haven't been brave enough to use yet, but is exactly the same.

so far I have made a few pages using
all sorts of different mediums & the pages hold up
very well, if I use distress ink then i don't use a
gesso over the page, unless I want a more subtle colour,
if I used acrylic paint, neo color 2 crayons or ink
sprays then I have given the page a base of gesso,
I have also just bought a product called adsorbent ground made by golden,
I will let you know how I get on with that as I go.



I hope this info has been a help to someone,
see you soon with my first page.

Thanks for stopping by,
Back soon,
Kat x.

CAN CARS FLY?.....

IN MY WORLD THEY CAN (lol)
Hi all,
I'm here with my second project of the month for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
it's another page in my board book journal,

the car images are from itkupilli

the buildings are from a magazine.

If you would like more details on how I made it
please click HERE

Thanks for stopping by,
Back soon,
Kat x.

LIFE BOOK, PAGE 1, DONE :-D

Hi all,
Today I am shearing my first page
that I painted for my life book, year long art journal course,
if you don't know what it's all about,
you can click HERE to find out, & sign up,
it's never to late as you can join in & start at any time,
because the classes stay there for you to download
& take at your own pace.
Plus as an added bonus,
depending on which package you sign up to,
you can take 1,2 or 3 of Tams past courses (of your choice)
cool hay, so get your behind over THERE & check it out.
Don't worry if you are a beginner, like me as all
skill levels are welcome.

This is the first time I have painted a face after sketching one,
& this is only my second ever sketch,
(the first was done in the fab faces course
{one of Tam's other courses} I only done week one then lost my nerve)
so as this life book course is running live,
I am determined to be brave, & keep up with it.

Here's my first page, (it's a fold out)

I am not giving any details on how I achieved the page

or what I used, as it would spoil your experience of LIFE BOOK

when you take the course for yourself.

Hope you like it!

I am pleased with her as a first attempt

I can already tell after just one lesson,

this course is going to teach me so much,

& expand my knowledge of not just art & painting skills,

but products as well, as there are over 15 different teachers

throughout the year I am going to learn so many

different approaches & styles of art & painting.

Keep coming back if you are interested

in seeing more about what I'm up to in this course,

as there is something to do each week or two

I am going to post regularly.

[now I have said it I am more likely to do it (lol)}

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

TIME WON'T WAIT

Hi All,
Just a quickie to show my first project of the month
for the artistic stamper creative team blog

Here it is,
if you want the details click HERE

told you it was a quickie. lol

Thanks For Stopping By,
Back Soon,
Kat x.

VINTAGE TIME AFTER TIME

Hi all,
I'm here with my monthly challenge piece for
the artistic stamper creative team blog
if you fancy joining in, the theme is VINTAGE,
click HERE for all the details.

here's a closer look,

things I used,

A mini hanging frame,

Distress Inks :- Brushed Corduroy, Iced Spruce & Gathered Twig,

Coffee Archival Ink,

Tissue Tape,

Tim Holtz, Steampunk set,

 Artistic Stamper stamps

 Backgrounds are:- Stipple, Watch, Music & Harlequin

& Tick Tock A5 stamp plate.

I hope this will inspire you to join us,

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Kat x.

365 ROUND UP OF ALL 12 PAGES

HI all,
I am here with December all filled out,
for the 365 journal challenge, over at
the Kathryn wheel blog
& the years round up photos

so first things first,
here's December all filled out (to conclude the year)

And now for the round up.
JANUARY,

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL,

MAY,

JUNE,

JULY,

AUGUST,

SEPTEMBER,

OCTOBER,

NOVEMBER,

DECEMBER,

Well there it is,
looking back through this year,
I can definitely say that my confidence has grown so much,
at first I was so frightened of making a mistake that I wouldn't stick anything down
& I would write out what I wanted in each square on scrap
to make sure it was spaced properly & that it would fit on the square.
As the months went on I didn't worry so much about it all being perfect,
I stuck it all down straight away, so if I made a mistake it would have to stay there,
because that's the whole point of art journaling,
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE JOURNEY & NOT THE END RESULT,
I get that now,
by doing this calender for a whole year it has given me the confidence to go onto bigger things,
so instead of doing the calender challenge again, I am going to do a journal instead,
I would like to say I am going to do a page a week & end up with 52 pages,
but I think that would be to much pressure, so it will be one a month total 12 for definite,
but if I can fit it in I would like to make a page fortnightly I'll see how I get on,

Well I think I have waffled on enough for one day,
so I'll be off.

Thanks for stopping by,
Back soon,
Kat xx.