Creative JumpStart 2013 Last post.

Hi Guys,

I'm sooooo sorry I haven't posted earlier. There's a lot going on at the moment. It's a bit too early for me to blog about that yet, I will when I feel I've sorted it all out (in my head at least :))
First I'll show you all my progress on the last tutorials in Creative Jumpstart 2013. The video's are still available on Natalie's blog.

Number 32 is a tutorial from Nathalie about PanPastels:


The stamps are from Hero Arts

Number 33 is a tutorial from Dina Wakley. She shows a few techniques, one is how to use stamps on tissuepaper. I really loved this and my result is quite "grungie" and will make a perfect background.

most of the stamps are made by Paperartsy from the hotpick series. The background rainbow color is made with Neocolor II from Caran d'Ache)

After I had lot's of fun with that page I recieved a parcel with some sticky back canvas I needed for CJS number 22 with Claudine Hellmuth. I've used some of her techniques and with the last one I just played around.

All four a soo different.. I love it.

Lesson 35 was made by Nathalie also and soooooooo much fun. She called it Gesso fun and that's just what it is!


Festina Lente = Hurry slowly
I've used Gesso (duh) dylusions blue and Neocolor II from Caran d'Ache. They are one of my favourites, I only have 15 colors but the possibilities are endless. ( still I'm saving for a bigger box, Í'll just use this box for traveling)
 

Then there were some give aways and tutorials with materials I don't have or techniques I already knew.
So the next one I made was number 41 made by Nathalie, again :)
In this tutorial she used different kinds of tape, the result is stunning. I've used tissue tape from two different brands and some homemade tissue tape, some sticky back canvas cuts and some papertape from Leukopor. It's used for bandages (I'm allergic to all other kinds of sticky tapes and bandages). Leukopos is the official brand here but there are cheaper ones. (I've found, in my eyes, the same material by Kruidvat (dutch drug store).
The best part of the papertape is 1. that you can remove it afterwards and 2 that you can winkle it up and gives you great texture.

I've use my other favourite coloring suply for this one: Inktense blocks from Derwent.

So the last CJS tutorial I've made is number 42 by Ronda Palazzari. A tutorial with templates and watersolubles. I've used my trusted Neocolor II again.

Soooo my sketchbook isn't full yet...so I will be roaming Youtube to find some great other techniques. I've set my eyes on some technique with alcohol, I will be playing with that one this week and show you guys the result next week.

Oh last but not least I've made a fun index for the Creative Jumpstart:

Soo that's it. I've still some fun items to show from last month. I will post again soon I promise.

Love Susan

Creative JumpStart 13 and 15

Hi Guys,

So here are some pictures of what I've been making using the techniques provided by Creative Jumpstart video 13 and 15. You might think where are 12 and 14; well I love technique 12 but I think it will take time, so I'm gona do the techniques in that video when I feel relaxed and have the time too really dive into it. 14 is a give away so no technique there.

Creative JumpStart 13 is a video made by Nathalie herself. And here she uses gesso with her stamps.
I really liked the idea and tried the technique with a few stamps. Conclusion: don't use stamps with fine details, like my pencil stamp, that won't work.



The flowers are from Heroarts, the pencilstamp I got as a gift and there was no name on it.

I made this one with a background stamp from Darkroom Door. They have amazing stamps I would like to have them all :) Too bad they are a bit expensive and I'm still a student with a job that pays me a crapy salary. :)

Creative JumpStart 15 is a video by Christine. She uses a spray coating named: Krylon Crystal Clear to make transfers on fabric and clay. I was sooooo excited to try that one because the results in the video are fabulous.
Krylon is not for sale in The Netherlands so I used a coating I had from Winsor and Newton.

Lets just say the results are totaly different :)
I'm not even going to show you the result I had on fabric becauce its just a blob of color, barely visable. Okay maybe I should have used denim, but it was light blue and I had a project in mind.
I also tried it on clay, I've used DAS, modeling material. It's a bit grey when its wet but dries up white. I only have a picture when it was still wet. I tried to make a picture just jet but it's already too dark so that picture will have to wait for my next blogpost.

So that's it for now.
See you next week!

Love Susan

Alterd Book lesson 4 - "boek aanpassen" les 4

I'm following this great tutorial at Elizabeth's blog. This lessons theme was gesso and glue.
There were 6 "homework" tasks:

Ik volg de geweldige turorial op Elizabeth's blog. Het thema van deze les is Gesso en Glue.
Er waren 6 "huiswerk" taken:

1.) Create at least three double glued pages using different glues of your choice. I suggest glue stick, white glue, gel medium, and possibly Mod Podge. Document how each of these glues behaved when you worked with them.
1.) Creëer tenminst 3 dubbele verlijmde pagina's waarbij je verschillende soorten lijm gebruikt. Ik suggereer: lijmstick, witte lijm, gel medium en misschien Mod Podge. Documenteer hoe elke van deze lijmen zich gedragen terwijl je er mee werkt.

2.) Create one double glued page using gesso. Document how it behaved when you worked with it.
2.) Maak een dubbel gelijmde pagina met Gesso. Documenteer hoe het werkt.

3.) I suggest using tags made from your choice of materials to document each of the above adhesives.
3.) Ik stel voor om tags te maken waar je de keuze van de lijm en gedragingen op kunt documenteren.

The tags are collored with Ranger DistressInk. For the ones with the embossing I used the vines backgrouned stamp from HeroArts.
I used white ribbon which I stamped with versamark on HeroArts vines. (versamark is used for embossing) then I collored the ribbon with Ranger DistressInk.
De tags heb ik gekleurd met Ranger DistressInk. Voor degene die ik embossed heb, heb ik de achterond stempel Vines van HeroArts gebruikt. Verder heb ik wit lint gebruikt dat ik met VersaMark op de stempel Vines van HeroArts heb bedrukt. Daarna heb ik het lint gekleurd met Ranger DistressInk.

4.) Create a double page spread using gesso as both the background AND the glue to which you will add your page elements and embellishments.
4.) Maak een dubbele pagina waarbij je gesso zowel als achtergond als als lijm gebruikt.

Mixed media. Gesso, acrylic inks, acrylic paint, distress ink and handmade stamps.
Mixed media. Gesso, acryllic inkt, acryl verf, distress ink en zelfgemaakt stempels.

5.) Find at least one way to use white glue as a major ingredient in a technique for a page you will either add to your AB, or on a page that is already in your AB.
6.) A spread that includes any type of glue or adhesive will be considered an added bonus.

5.) Probeer op z'n minst 1 manier om witte lijm als belangrijkste ingediënt in een techniek te gebruiken. Maak een pagina in je boek of een losse pagina die je toe kunt voegen.
6.)Een dubbele pagina (?) waar enig type lijm op gebruikt is telt extra.

For the butterfly I've used Caran D'Aches neocolor II, watersoluble. The flowers is colored with aquarell. This white glue is storaged in a container, so to use it for drawing I made this "tube"thingie :)
Voor de vlinder heb ik Caran D'Aches Neocolor II, watersuluble gebruikt. De bloem is geverfd met aquarel. Omdat de witte lijm in een potje zit moest ik iets verzinnen om ermee te kunnen tekenen. Dit spuitzak achtige gevalletje was het resultaat. 

Transparant, watersoluble gleu. It did run a bit after apply-ing. And when I colored it, it did dissolve in some sticky mess. I've put these two in my book but it's still a bit sticky. So I won't use it again.
Transparant in water oplosbare lijm van de AH. Nadat ik het op papier had aangebracht liep het nog wat uit. Tijdens het verven werd het weer zacht, het loste op tot een plakkig rotzooitje. Na 5 dagen is de bovenste nog steeds een beetje plakkering.



End result of one of the glued pages together with the glue experiment.
Eind resultaat van een van de aaneen gelijmde pagina's samen met het bijbehordende lijm experiment.