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time for something new...

I've been away from all the wonderful challenges for quite some time now... If you take a look here you'll understand why :) I have been so busy trying to go in a different direction - and man it feels GOOD!!!! I'm just learning - no perfection expected and I am having so much fun on the way. I can recommend Suzi's classes to EVERYONE! Here are a few samples of what I have been up to lately




"My silent friend"

"La belle jardiniere"

"from the heart"

"Helena"

MMM - lace

This is my entry for this weeks challenge on Mixed media monday. It's a card, but I'll never be able to send it by mail because the shells are so delicate. One good reason to vistit my dear friend :) to give her this little card...

Art Creations Friday

I used this wonderful background as a dress for my petite doll... and the bird singing in the same color...

This is my entry for this weeks challenge.

TGIF - Childhood

This is my entry

SaWo - Collage

Here is my entry for this week :)

Theme Thursday - Hats

I can't wait for summer! Yesterday was so cold - and wet - yuck! Here is a little bit of summertime to make me feel better :) A little boy wit ha butterfly hat for this weeks challenge.

TGIF - keep smiling

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge. that little girl sure made me smile... ;)

OWOH Winner!

Since I am lousy at almost anything having to do with computers I did the draw the old fashion way ;) I numbered the comments and had my son pick one...

And here is the winner of the patchworked handbag:

Nr. 30 : jjwiskus

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Thank you all for playing along! It was wonderful reading all your comments and getting to know your blogs!!!

Saturdays Workout - Distressed Gesso

My first time working with gesso... thank you for this fun challenge. This is my ATC for this weeks challenge. You can find instructions here

Art creations friday

Onother fun challenge today! Great image - this is my entry for this week. It's an ATC - the background was made by using one of those nets that oranges come in. I taped it to the back of the ATC and ther brayered over it with Archival Inks plum. Then I took the net off and brayered over it with distress inks scattered straw. stamp is by Inque Boutique.

Arty Girlz - ATC

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge over at Arty Girlz

Gothic Arches - Winter sports

Ok, christmas is over... but I can't seem to make friends with winter and snow unless it has something to do with christmasy sparkle. Plus - you can't start making christmas cards too early, right? ;)) This is my entry for this weeks challenge.

Pennants swap

This swap was hosted by Lisa at Simple Journeys - quite some time ago - I'm really ashamed that I didn't get to show the banner earlier. But - better late than never ;) Thank you all who participated for these wonderful wonderful pennants!

Art creation friday

This is my first time to participate in the challenge of art creation friday . What fun! Be sure to check out the site - wonderful inspiration!!!

I made this card using Golden Gel Medium for the image transfer (I love transfer!!!:)) on a watercolored background. Stamps are by Nara Studio and Time to stamp.

thank you june

I got this award form june and I I'm very honored to have gotten it. Now the thing is that you have to pass it on to 7 other blogs... But - after having joined the gypsy caravan of the One World One Heart event - it's impossible for me to pass it on to just 7!!! There are so many awesome blogs out there! I pass this award on to all the participants of OWOH! thank you all for showing your wonderful artwork!

TGIF - books

I made this simple card for the TGIF challenge this week. The background is cheap brown paper - crumpled and sponged with bleach, then I sanded it a little. The writing and the watch are white embossed and highlighted with perfect pearls. That never shows on the screen though... :(

WS - Lace

Perfect theme for me :)) alot of my projects include lace, I can never get enough of it...

I also used some pink pepper on this one - I brought it home from Egypt about five years ago. It looks and smells so nice, but there is no way I would ever acctually EAT any of it - The color is not even waterproof ;)

So the theme of this card may as well be : Sugar and spice and all the things nice - that's what little girls are made of :))

Arty Gilrz - Transparent

This weeks theme on Arty Girlz was perfect for trying my new gel medium :) hooray got that done from the to-do-list :))

So this simple card created by playing with another new medium is my entry for this week. The sentiment stamp is by The Stampsmith.

One World - One Heart Giveaway

The one world - one heart event was started to get to know bloggers from all over the world. Take a look here for more information. It's the first time I'm participating but I read alot about it last year.











I am giving away this patchworked handbag.




All you have to do to be able to win it, is be an active blogger and leave a comment to this post. I will draw the name of the winner and have it published by February 12th.



I hope I got everything right and I'm really looking forward to this event :)



Please do not post anymore - I will draw the winner today, Feb. 12th 09

TMTA - red

here is my entry for this weeks theme on TMTA.

Christmas printable countdown

take a look here ! Wonderful images to print!!!

Button Wrath

Here is a little something I made for christmas decoration - as seen on the fabulos blog artsy-fartsy Thank you Cheryl for the great idea! Now I have a reason to buy more buttons :))

Theme Thursday - Birds

This is my entry for the Theme Thursday Challenge this week. Thank you for looking :))

WS - Telephone

Endlich wieder mal eine Challenge geschafft!! Wir sind immer noch fleissig am renovieren und ich komme zu gar nichts :( Da mein Werkelzimmer nicht isoliert ist und die Heizung noch nicht angeschlossen ist ist es auch nicht sonderlich gemütlich hier. Nach dem grauen Tag draussen und der Kälte drinnen hab ich mal wieder etwas Farbe gebraucht ;)

Transylvania

Endlich hatte ich wieder mal ein bisschen Zeit zum werkeln :)) Das ist für Katrins Ketting zum Thema Transylvanien...

Und gleich noch ein ATC dazu weils so viel Spass gemacht hat *lol*

And I have a little surprise for one more participant:

truutske

All winners please E-mail me your shipping address - I will mail your candy right away! Congatulations!!!

Winners of the single stamps are: *drumroll*

cleo

kardkrazy

trish

Winner of the sheet

Winner of the unmounted sheet of rubber stamps is: *drumroll*

gillian

Gothic Arches - Black, white and a hint of red

Ok, I really like to look at black and white combinations but I am so bad at creatig them - To me my pieces always look too naked *sigh* So I decided to make a miniature gothic arch for this challenge. Just some time ago I finished John Irving's "Until I find you"... so now you know where the inspiration came from *lol* Not quite as thrilling as some of his other novels but still worth reading...

Award

I got this wonderful award from Willy. Thank you so much! :)) So the thing about this award is that you have to nominate seven blogs with their blog links, email them and post this award on your blog with the link going back to the person who awards you.

Now nominating just seven blogs is quite a challenge because there are so many blogs I love to visit...

My first nomination is Sija - although I'm almost sure that she has gotten the award several times already :))

Ilonka

Lorraine

Gayle

Barbara

Femmy

Faye

I could go on all night - but - just seven ;)

This thursday - blings the thing

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge. I had great fun on this one - too bad you can't see it on the screen - her hair and the bottles are colored with Twinklings - more bling :))

Blog Candy!

Hello to everyone visiting my blog! I've got a little thank you for all of you who stop by and leave such wonderful, encouraging comments. Winter is coming closer and it's time to think about christmas cards - well it is if you are as slow as I am... :)) My bolg candy is a sheet of rubber stamps by Nara Studio. All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog and a link in your blog until September 12th and I will draw the lucky winner of the sheet, and then, there are still 3 single stamps to give away...

I'd love to hear from you!

xoxo

another painting...

...I'm still working on it - It's probably going to take me a year or so to finish, so I'll just show a little work in progress...

Arty Girlz - Shapes

This is my entry for this weeks challenge at Arty Girlz. The theme is add shapes to your creation.

Back to painting

For over two years I have been absolutley unable to paint - so I just kind of stuck to the mixed media - stamping thing. I drives me crazy not beeing able to create...

But two days ago I read a post on Pilar Pollocks blog and it encouraged me to start painting again - and mostly it encouraged me not to be so hard on myself ;))

This is the first paintig, it's 70 x 50cm. There are three more in progress... Thank you Pilar for helping me untie that knot!

SALE

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Arty Girlz - No patterned paper

When I make backgrounds without patterned paper I usually use Distress Inks. I love the color palette and how the inks blend so well using just a sponge to apply. This is my card for this weeks challenge

(someday I'll find out how to get things into the scanner straight... *sigh*) :))

Hermine's Background

This is for a challenge at Hermines Place She made this beautiful background to download and create something... I have to tell you - this was a tough one! After adhering the backgound to my card it already looked finished :)) It's so beautiful! It took me a while to figure out what to add...

One thing that has been on my mind for quite some time is how the people on those cute vintage pictures would feel if they could see the artwork done with their pictures now.... surley they must be very very very old or they just missed it... What would they think about party hats,butterfly wings ect.? Some might be delighted others might just say: Why me? :))

Tgif - earth colors

This week on Tgif the theme is earth colors. I used an image off a collage sheet by Lisa's Altered Art - take a look at the wonderful images. The quote on this ATC is the first thing that came to my mind seeing the faces of these little ones :))

Make a Moo or two - school

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge, I really enjoy working on moos - maybe someday I will dare to go even smaller and try inchies ;))

Stamps are by Nara Studio

Arty Girlz - Vintage

Arty Girlz want to see vintage this week. This is my entry. It's not really visible on the screen, but some details are highlighted with Perfect Pearls. And I used real vintage mother-of-pearl buttons and some very old lace.

Layers of color

This weeks theme on Layers of Color is Children. This is my first time participating - I couldn't resist for this is one of my favourite themes :))

And this is my entry - The quote is in german and translated it would be something like:

There are three things that remained from paradise: the stars of the night, the flowers of day and children's eyes.

TMTA - turquoise

It's actually a color I like very much - I just don't seem to use it too often. Somehow it looks more like a shade of green on the screen, but I'd say it's turquoise in daylight... ;)

Would anyone like to swap any of my latest ATCs?

Gothic Arches - Shades of white

My entry for this week at the GA challenge blog

tgif - numbers

Enjoying the simple things I made this simple ATC for this weeks challenge on Tgif :)) Stamps by Nara Studio and Time to Stamp.

WS - Summer Tea Party

My entry for this week - Stamps by PSX, Nara Studio, NeuLand, OI

TMTA - eyes

This is my entry for this weeks TMTA challenge...

Skinny Saturday - Hats

And this is also the first time I tried this format - I really like it alot, somehow it's easier to "fill"

Skinny Saturday Challenge