Still a live and creating

Hi Guys,


I'm sorry I haven't posted in such a long long time. There are a lot of reasons,
First of al I've had an sinus/nasal cavity operations because my mucous membrane where in a constant state of irritation, that's why every cold ended up with a cavity inflammation which made my right cheek look puffy and blue. I always had to take a course of antibiotics to get rid of it.
The operations itself doesn't take long, the healing process does. I did get some complications so it took even longer for me. Every thing is well now and it's a bigger releave than I would have thought.
Second reason I'm preparing for our emigrations to Scotland and
3th I'm still planning on graduating.

There for blogging will be infrequently till I'm in Scotland.

For now some flowers and a butterfly I created with my new Big Brush pens from Faber-Castell

 

 

 

 

 

Have a nice week,

 

Love Susan

Creative JumpStart 16 to 30

Goeie middag, good afternoon,

I've had an evening out yesterday. I had a delicious dinner and a good time with my friend Wanda. After dinner we went to the bar we used to go to a lot when we were younger. At the bar were a couple of friends and we had a blast. So now I'm a bit hoarse and very tired, but it was totally worth it!

Back to Creative JumpStart 2013, reaching the end of January means that Creative JumpStart is almost over... boehoe. I really enjoy the daily mails with fun techniques.
The last video was number 37 but I'm not that up to date :)
So here is what I've made:

Number 16 with Anna, she uses tiny tiny seed beads. I love what she made but it's not really my style.
Nummer 18 with Nathalie: Watersplash and Acrylic paint:

Very fun technique. I'm definitively going to use it more!! In the last one I used some kitchentowel to dab the water off, I think I pressed too hard because the texture is still visable!! Which is a good thing, I love texture :)


CJS 19 was shown by Rachel;  an oilpastel resist technique, among 2 others, with photostamps. I loved the result and tried my best, but I think I don't have the right photostamp. I love the DarkroomDoor stamps a lot, but they are quite expensive for me (student, with a low paid parttime job.)

Here's my result:

CJS 20 is presented by Janna. 3 ways too make splatters with spray inks. A very lovely video with techniques I knew, but a superb refresh video :) And I had a lot of fun making this:

CJS video nummer 22 is made by Claudine and she shows us three ways too use sticky back canvas. I loved it, but I don't have sticky back canvas. I put in on my supply list and when I have money to spend I'm gona buy myself a packet.

CJS technique video 24 is made by Nathalie: A very fun and fast technique to make colorfull backgrounds with a few blobs of paint and a brayer.

On the first one you can still see the texture the brayer made. The second one was quite messy so I sprayed with water and use a kitchentowel to dab dry and it left the beautiful texture. The last one was also messy, so I sprayed with water but used a babywhipe to remove the remnant paint. No texture there.

After I made these fun pages I wanted to make something else and I carved 4 stamps. I really love to make my own stamps if its possible:

CJS 26 is a video made by Carmen; she shows 3 different ways to use napkins. Lovely to see but not really my kind of style. But visit her blog because the things she makes and shows there are awesome!
CJS 28 is presented by Vicky; she shows her new die(cut) but I don't have a die cutting machine.

CJS nummer 29 is another fun video from Nathalie. She uses acrylic ink on (old) black and white pictures. I love it! I don't think I would have tried that. Too use ink on pictures opens a lot of possibilities!! I made this composition photo:

And this is how it looked after I used the acrylic inks:

So and now the last CJS in this post number 30 by Revlie; She shows a couple of different ways to use felt and fabric in your art(journals). Really inspiring and I'm defenitly going to use some of her ideas after I've bought some Felt.

I hope you all have/had a lovely weekend.

Love Susan

Creative JumpStart 9 & 10

 

Hi there,

I'm still being amazed by the techniques in Creative JumpStart by Nathalie.
I've tried some and here are the result of video 9 with Karen :

 

 

I allways clear my desk, set up the supplies I need and go for a cup of tea or coffee, the picture below is how I found my desk after getting tea:

 

So after putting House in his basket (its a he and his name is House M.D.(yeah after the brilliant televisionserie :)), or House for short. After getting rid of his hair, which is very fluffy and goes everywhere, I was ready to start.
Karen uses a Gelli Plate for her background. I don't have one and use a sheet of plastic, its workable:

I don't have the beautifull coloured molding paste Karen used so I made my own with:

It worked quite well although I wouldn't put any perfect peals in a second batch.
The sparks became visible after drying.



 

 

Lesson 10

Lesson 10 was made by Nathalie herself and consist a resist technique with gel medium.

For the first page I used colorwash, gesso, gel medium (golden) and a stencil:

 

 

 

 

I didn't like the color, its a bit dull. So I tried a second time but didn't gesso the page and used dylusions:

 

 

The colours are a lot brigher which I like but it looks like the color has run under the dried gelmedium, which I don't like. So maybe I should use a primer especially for watercolor. I might give it a try later.

 

I've got a very busy week ahead so I hope I will have time to try some other techniques and show the results here next monday but I won't promise anything.

 

I hope you'll have a great week,

 

Love Susan

 

 

 

 

 

Creative JumpStart - stencils

Hi there,

So this year is starting very creative, thanks too Natalie from N*studio and for today thanks too Julie Fei-Fan Balzer from Balzer Design.
Julie showed some cool techniques using stencils. Here's my attempt:

The tags, and because I don't like to throw away good ink and paint, the first page in the little sketchbook I use for this Creative JumpStart Workshop.

This is the finished tag:

I think its a bit too crowded / to much color and figures.
The line is from Albert Einstein and says: 'Logic takes you from A to B, Imagination brings you everywhere'

The tag together with the page gives a nice finished image:



I'm curious what we will learn tomorrow :)


Love Susan

Altered book lesson 10- Altered book les 10

Woh did these two weeks go fast!! I've created some fun pages, althought not all about the theme for this weeks lesson: Lesson 10: Magazine images and frames. Made possible by Elizabeth on her blog!!
I didn't have any idea what to do with the magazine images. I just didn't get inspired... boehoe. 
Yesterday my order with a lot of art supply finally arrived!! I was sooo happy :)
Deze afgelopen twee weken zijn echt voorbij gevlogen. Ik heb een paar mooie/leuke pagina's gemaakt hoewel ze niet allemaal over het thema van deze week gaan. Les 10 van Elizabeth's workshop gaat over Magazine plaatjes en randen. Ik heb niets met het thema magazine plaatjes gedaan want ik had gewoon geen inspiratie.... boehoe.
Gister kwam eindelijk mijn pakket binnen met inkten, verven etc dat ik had besteld. Plus nog een ander pakketje wat ik donderdag had besteld, Oh ik wordt daar toch zo blij van......

All good stuff!!!!
Allemaal leuke spulletjes!!

Two weeks ealier I recieved a pakket full of masking/washi tape, al nice collors!! so I used these for my first page about frames:
Twee weken terug ontving een pakketje vol masking/washi tape, allemaal mooie kleurtjes!! Deze heb ik dan ook voor mijn eerste pagina over randen gebruikt:

Masking/Washi tape and PaperArtsy stamps.

My second page is really really easy. While I was doubting about what to make My eye spoted the wallpaper with the nice flowers. I looked like a flower framed by another sooo that's the first and then I made al little face in the flower.
De tweede pagina was eigenlijk wel zo super simpel! Terwijl ik aan het dubben was over wat ik nog meer zou maken, viel mijn ook op een rol behang met geweldige bloemen erop. De ene bloem leek wel omrand door een andere bloem, een gezichtje in het midden en voila, klaar.

Last but not least I made a dubble set which didn't follow the theme. I found the quote in the Dutch magazine FLOW.
Laatste voor vandaag is deze dubbele pagina die geen thema volgt. De quite heb ik in de FLOW gezien.

CraftersWorkshop Template, Liquitex acrylic paint, some stamps, home made letterstamps.

I hope you all had a great weekend and have a nice week!
Ik hoop dat jullie allemaal een leuk weekend hebben gehad en en fijne week hebben!

Love Susan

Altered book lesson 9 - Altered book les 9

For this weeks lesson we were able to make a mess on our worktables and kitchen dressers; creating backgrounds! Elizabeth suggested a lot of materials and the different ways to use them. I don't have any alcohol inks so that limited my options a little bit. Only a little bit.
Because I really liked the result of the Bubble background I tried that one first. The result wasn't anywhere near Elizabeth's result. I think I din't use enough ink.
But still I managed to make some background with the liquid.

Om de opdrachten voor deze weeks les: Het maken van achtergronden, mochten we een enorme puinhoop van onze werktafels en aanrechten maken. Elizabeth gaf een groot aantal voorbeelden met veel verschillende materialen. Ik heb geen alcohol inkt dus die kon ik niet maken maar de keuze bleef enorm.
Omdat ik het resultaat van de bellen achtergond zo mooi vind heb ik die eerst geprobeerd. Helaas lukte het totaal niet. Ik denk dat ik te weinig inkt heb gebruikt. Maar goed zonde om weg te gooien dus ik heb toch nog wat aardigs weten te fabriceren:

The next one I've tried was the cling wrap and acrylic background. Had some real fun and the results are awsome:
De volgende methode was met huishoudfolie en acryl verf. Erg leuk om te doen en geweldig eindresultaat:

In the top one I added some bronzcolored acrylic paint, in the other I added some golden perfect pearls from ranger.
In de bovenste heb ik bronskleurige acrylverf gebruikt in de onderste wat gouden perfect pearls van ranger.

Next backgrounds are based on the Napkin, Glazes, and Rubber Stamp Background
Althought I didn't use any....I used my tissuepaper. I received a pakket full of different colors a week ago and couldn't wait to use it. I made some pompons and two backgrounds:

De volgende achtergronden zijn gebaseerd op de servet, glazes en stempel achtergond. Ik heb geen van deze gebruikt, maar mijn tissuepapier dat een paar weken terug binnengekomen was. Ik heb deze achtergronden gemaakt en wat pompons. Leuk!!

Ponpons :)

I hadn't ever heard of the technique for the Oil Pastel and Gesso Background and it was wonderfull. I really like how the oilpastel seems to desolve. 
Ik had nog nooit gehoord van de techniek met olie pastels en gesso achtergrond maar het was geweldig. Ik vond het erg leuk om te zien hoe de oliepastel lijkt op te lossen.

Then there was the Grunge background (acrylic paint and credit card), I've used this before. So I altered it a bit. I put on the paint with a brayer and because I found the colors a bit too dark I've used a creditcard dipped in Gesso to "scrap" some paint of. It really worked great.
I immediately used the background but you can still see some of it.
Daarna nog de "Grunge" achtergrond gemaakt (met acryl verf en een credit card), ik heb dit al eens eerder gebruikt en de techniek ietswat aan gepast. Ik heb een brayer gebruitk om de kleuren aan te brengen en daarna een creditcard gedipt in geesso gebruikt om de verf ietswat weg te schrapen en de kleuren wat lichter te krijgen. Het werkte erg goed en hoewel ik de achtergrond al heb gebruikt kun je toch nog wel zien wat het resultaat is.

I still want to try out the Shaving Cream Backgrounds, I've seen some great projects on youtube. They use it to get a marble effect. I'm wainting for a packet to arrive with some lovely acrylic inks.

Nu wil ik alleen de scheerschuim achtergrond nog uitproberen. Ik heb een paar geweldige projecten gezien op youtube waar ze het gebruikten om een marble effect te creeeren. Ik wacht nog op een bestelling waarin een paar mooie acryl inkten in zitten.

Thanks for reading!
Bedankt voor het kijken en lezen!

Love Susan

Altered book lesson 8 - Altered book les 8

So another update on Elizabeth's turorial Lesson 8 was all about Color.... Jippie. I like :)
First we had to make a color wheel, mine isn't quite finished yet. I have to scramble a few more magazines together too finish it but here is what I have so far:
Zo een nieuwe update voor Elizabeth's tutorial Les 8, alles over Kleur... joepie. Leuk :)
Eerst moesten we een kleuren cirkel maken. De mijne is nog niet helemaal af, ik moet nog wat tijdschriften bijelkaar zien te rapen, maar dit is wat ik tot nu toe heb:

We also had to make some backgrounds using : "wet sgraffito".  (paint page, let dry, paint with other color and scrape away paint) Well I didn't do a background. My page was just too inspirational. There was a lovely boat/ship on it and I just had too use it. So I used my new delusional spray inkt with gesso for the first layer:
Als tweede werd er gevraagd om achtergronden te maken met de techniek: "wet sgraffito".  (papier verven, laten drogen, opnieuwe verven met een andere kleur en dan verf wegschrapen)
Ik heb alleen geen achtergronden gemaakt omdat ik de pagina te mooi en inspirerend vond. Het zeilschip vind ik prachtig en wilde ik graag behouden. De 1ste verflaag bestaat uit delusional spray inkts vermengd met gesso.

Gesso and dylusions

I covered the boat/ship with some Gel medium so no paint would stick too it, let it dry and used acrylic paint, a bit of modelingpaste for the second layer. For creating weaves I've used a plastic knife and for the air I've used a homemade pencil thing made from a branch.
Ik heb het zeilschip bedekt met Gel medium zodat ik eventuele nieuwe verf er makkelijker af kon halen. Nadat het geheel gedroogd was heb ik acryl verf met een beetje modelingpasta gebruikt voor de tweede laag. De golven heb ik "gekrast" met een plastic wegwerp mes, de lucht met een zelfgemaakt pennetje van een takje.

(gesso and dylusions) + acrylic paint, modeling paste and magazine images.

Oh and the pinquins are from my still growing pile of interesting images. I've use a fine black pencil to redraw some lines on the boat/ship soo it shows a bit more.
I'm soooooo pleased with the end result. :)
Oh en de pinguins komen uit mijn groeiende stapel met interessante/ leuke plaatjes. Het zeilschip heb ik met een zwart pennetje wat opgehaald zodat het beter zichtbaar werd.
Ik ben zoooo blij met het eindresultaat :)

Here are some close-ups and the tools I've used.
Hier zijn nog wat close-ups en foto's van de spullen die ik heb gebruikt.

Have a lovely weekend! (without Hail!!)
Fijn weekend allemaal!

Love Susan

Altered book lesson 6 - Altered book les 6

I've been quit busy last week with work and preparations for my altered book lessons.
I had planned to put all the design element into one page, but it just didn't work out that way.
Deze week was erg druk met werk en het voorbereiden en maken van de altered book lessen.
Ik wilde eigenlijk alle design elementen in 1 pagina verwerken, maar zo kwam het niet uit.

1st one: rhythm or pattern: / 1ste: ritme of patroon

I've used a homemade stamp with stazon and memento inkpads
Gemaakt met zelfgemaakte stempel en stazon en memento inktkussens.

2nd: rhythm and/or repetition: / 2e: ritme en/of herhaling:

Homemade stamp with stazon and memento inkpads. (and its raining right now. I feel cosy here in my lovely room in the attic)
Zelfgemaakte stempel met stazon en memento inktkussens. (en nu regent het ook. Ik ben erg blij met mijn gezellige studeerkamer op zolder.)

3th one: Contrast:  /   3e contrast:

I've used Hero arts stamps: large open en closed flower with black embossing powder.
Ik heb stempels van Hero arts gebruikt (large open en closed flower) met zwart embossing poeder.

And last: Dominance with a bit of repetition:  /  De laatste: dominantie en herhaling.


I've used arylic paint, a hart mask I made myself, some stamps,old paper left overs and a white pen..
The saying is in dutch meaning: "Love doesn't cost anything to get, but is unaffordable if you have it. (now I think about it, it could also be; unaffordable if you don't have it) Ah well : CHERISH your loved ones!!
Ik heb acylverf gebruikt, een zelfgemaakt hart masker, een paar stempels, wat papier restjes en een witte pen.

I've had a lot of fun making these, hope you'll like them too


Love Susan

Altered book Lesson 5 - Les 5

Time for another update on Elizabeth's turorial.
This dubble weeks theme was Design Principles (part1)
Homework evolves around 1 or more of the principles from this week. (Harmony, Unity, Balance, Emphasis, and Proportion.)

Tijd voor een nieuwe update over Elizabeth's turorial.
Het thema voor deze twee weken was Design principes (deel 1).
Je kon kiezen om 1 of meer van de principes uit te werken (Harmonie, Eenheid, Balance, "Belangrijkheid" en Proportie. )

close-op detail.