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.