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.