Summer On My Mind - with Stampendous and Dreamweaver

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stampendous and Dreamweaver Blog Play - Day 4. Tomorrow is the big finale so do make sure to pop back! This week we've been dreaming of stencils and stamps - a fabulous combination, if you ask me!

My biggest highlight of the week is the set we chose to play with - the Blossom Beauty stamps and the matching Cutting Die set. I absolutely love this new collection and the matching dies, they make crafting so much quicker and so much more enjoyable! We also have some fun free hair templates for your Blossom Beauty that you can download here. Both teams have really rocked this set so do check out all the amazing projects shared this week.

Oh and of course - there are prizes, too! There will be three bundles for grabs - and the teaser picture is below. All you have to do is to comment on the posts shared this week as part of the Dream-pendous play. The more you comment, the bigger chance you have of winning!

For my inspiration today I am sharing a calendar journal page. Now, before you ask why it's an August one... 

At the beginning of the year I made a resolution (one of many!) to finish all projects I started in the past and never completed. Many moons ago I began creating a calendar where I could keep track of all the birthdays and anniversaries I need to remember about. The inspiration behind it was the 'challenge' started by Kate Crane from The Kathryn Wheel. So far I've done April, June, July and October so I only have a few months left to do...LOL. I chose to make the August page - I suppose I already have summer on my mind!

The background for my page was created with the DecoArt Americana acrylic paints smooshed around on the Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate. To add depth I layered lots of stamping with Mish Mesh, Grunge and Wired stamp plates - these are perfect for mixed media backgrounds.

I also fussy cut some lovely images from a napkin and added them to the page. To add texture the images were covered with Translucent Embossing Paste through sequin waste and sprinkled with a touch of Crystal Micro Glitter.

Next I sponged lovely neon inks all over the page through the Summer stencil. Then I was ready to stamp my Blossom Beauty. I coloured her with PITT pens  and aquarell pencils. I also gave her a little hat which I made using the Hydrangea Garden stamp and the Cutting Die set.

For the August banner I used some old paint swatch cards stamped with the Vintage Lowercase stamps and pins from the Smash Notes clear set.

The days were punched from Crafty Individual papers.

Additional supplies I used:
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L - Mounting Squares, MyStik® Permanent Strips, Adhesive Sheets
Tsukineko (Imagine Crafts) - Jet Black and Blue Hawaii StazOn Minis, Memento Grape Jelly, Radiant Neons - Electric Blue, Purple and Pink
Staedtler - ergosoft aquarell pencils
Faber- Castell - India Ink PITT Artist Pens

I hope you enjoyed my offering today. There is still more inspiration today for your viewing pleasure so make sure to check out the following:

Stampendous blog

Dreamweaver blog

Asia King (that's me!)

Rhea Weigand

Laura Drahozal

Janelle Stollfus

Louise Healy

Lea Kimmel

Pam Hornschu

Cyndi Bundy

Suzanne Czosek

Thank you for stopping by and for all your lovely comments. See you again tomorrow!

Witam wszystkich bardzo serdecznie i zapraszam na blogowy hop z udzialem firm Stampendous i Dreamweaver. Na uczestnikow czekaja niesamowite inspiracje a jesli posiadasz adres kontaktowy w USA, masz szanse zdobyc jedna z 3 nagrod przeznaczonych dla komentujacych.

Jako inspiracje przygotowalam strone do kalendarza w stylu art journaling. Powyzej znajduje sie lista uzytych materialow. Dziekuje za wizyte i za pozostawione komentarze :).

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Challenges for this project:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Big Stamp
Craftowy Ogrodek - Wyzwanie z UHK

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Fashionable Journaling with Jumbo Daisies - FSC #45 and a quick tutorial

Guess what? The sun is finally shining and who knows, maybe Spring is finally on its way? But if Mother Nature is still unsure whether it's time then I hope this project will make it absolutely clear - yes, it IS time! LOL.

And it's also time for another Fashionable Stamping Challenge :). This fortnight we are challenging ourselves and you lovely stampers with  (Art) Journaling! But we could not let this challenge go without some inspiration from a professional Art Journaling artist so we have a very special guest playing with us - the one and only - Kate Crane from The Kathryn Wheel. How exciting is that?

I am a big fan of Kate's art and I love her Art Journaling DVDs. So what a better way to join this challenge than with a project inspired by Kate's all year long challenge of journalled calendars - here you can link up your April pages.

For almost a year now I've been trying to make a journalled calendar to keep track of all important dates, anniversaries, birthdays etc. But so far I only made June, July and October ha ha ha! It will probably be another year before I finish it (and that's quite optimistic). But since my dear friend Ruby recently told me to get on with the calendar, I decided to....errr...get on with it! :).

Without further ado, here's my April page.

For my April page I reused parts from an old calendar. I kept it because it was so pretty and I knew that one day I would find another use for it. 

My background was created with acrylic paints, Inktense pencils, Colour Wash, Glimmer Mist and Cosmic Shimmer Mist sprays. I used a brickwork stencil to add gessoed texture and to add some colour highlights.

Those fabulous flowers are stamped with Stampendous Jumbo Daisy with a free template.

And I thought I would share a quick tutorial how to use the free templates from the new Stampendous Jumbo flower stamps.

I hope you can join us for this challenge, there is fabulous prize waiting for one lucky stamper - $20 voucher to spend at Flonz Craft store. Be sure to check out all the gorgeous Journalled projects my talented DT Sisters have created - and of course the magical pages created by our lovely Guest!

Have a fabulous week!

Big hugs

Challenges for this project:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything goes
Sunday Stamper #252 - Squares
Pan Pastel UK #14 - Use a stamped image
The Kathryn's Wheel - April calendar
Blogger's Challenge - Backgrounds
Inspiration Journal - Masks and Stencils

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My 'Four Seasons' of Stampendous - part 2

Hello Friends!

Are you ready for part 2 of my Four Seasons concerto? If you missed part 1 with the close up pictures of my project, you can check it out here.

The full step by step instructions are now available on the Stampendous blog so hop over there and enjoy! :)

Big hugs 

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My 'Four Seasons' of Stampendous

Hello my talented Friends! I am back to share another sample I created for the Create & Craft shows featuring Stampendous products.

But before I tell you all about it, I'd like to say a big and warm welcome to my new followers and a big thank you to all my blogging friends who joined to share my creative journey with me. Having so many crafty friends 'near me' really fills my heart with joy and I feel very privileged to have captured your hearts :).

A 'Thank You' Giveaway!

That's right, as a way of 'thank you' I am giving away this gorgeous Violets stamp from Stampendous for one lucky commenter who's left some love on my blog. Whether it's a comment on this post or on any other post in the past - you all are in a chance of winning! You don't have to be a follower of my blog, although I would love it if you were. So all I can say, please keep those lovely comments coming as the more love you leave for My Creative Spell, the higher your chance of winning! :) The winner will be announced next week.

OK, onto my project then. Last week I finally felt that Spring was on its way to the UK. Blankets of snowdrops and first shy daffodils were trying very hard to send Winter home :). And whilst talking about seasons, I thought I would share this little beauty with you today. Just like the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi, I wanted to compose a concerto of the four seasons - in my own way :).

 I didn't want this post to be too picture heavy, so I am going to break it down into two parts. Today I will share the individual pages of my Four Seasons accordion book and next week I will show you the 'technical' steps. Well then, let's start with...

Winter! 

  I started off by waving my baton, errr... the heat gun that is, got the orchestra of Fran-tage powders tune their instruments, I mean particles, and before I knew it, the music was filling in my craft room... For my frosty season I used the cling Old World Map and the Suitcase World sentiment stamp. The map was first heat embossed with Silver Detail embossing powder and coloured with Inktense pencils. The sentiment was heat embossed with Black Detail embossing powder. The snowflakes were adorned with Teal Mica fragments and Sky Blue embossing powder. Then I 'framed' the sentiment panel with Detail Capri embossing powder and the background panel was Fran-taged with the Aged Teal Embossing Enamel. All these beauties can be found in one magical place - Fran-tage Encrusted Jewel Kit in Teal. Now... let's cheer for...

Spring! 

  And with Spring I bring you a handful of Fresh and Ruffled Blooms, heat embossed with Black (for the foreground) and White Detail (for the background) embossing powders. The flower centres are all bathed in Champagne Glass glitter and Pearlised Mica Fragments. The background panel has been embellished with the same Mica Fragments and a generous sprinkle of Aged Rose Embossing Enamel. These gorgeous jewels can be found in the Pink Encrusted Jewel Kit. Now, let's get ready for...

Summer! 

  Oh, I so love Summer evenings in a garden full of wonderful flowers. Sadly my garden is not very inspiring (yet!), so perhaps this gorgeous Seed Catalogue stamp will inspire me to fill my garden with beautiful blooms. Just so I can see the world that will be Beautiful :). With the Summer season in mind, I 'seasoned' my page with Aged Hunter and Aged Rose embossing enamels and added Champagne glass glitter and Rose Colour Fragments. And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...

Autumn! Or Fall, depending on your point of view :D.

My Autumnal page is swept with a gentle brush of the Ruffled Butterfly's wings and the leaves falling off the trees, dancing in the wind. Can you see all those golds, coppers and bronzes sparkling in the Autumnal sun That's the sparkle of the Vintage Mahogany embossing tinsel, Bronze Glass Glitter, Golden Sand embossing powder and Aged Copper embossing enamel - from the Bronze Encrusted Kit. 

And in case you've missed it, this is what my Teamies Rhea and Tobi were up to this week:

Colouring with Copics - great tutorial by Tobi:

Beautiful '30 minute wonder' by Rhea:

I hope you enjoyed my Stampendoulicious seasonal symphony :). Stay tuned for the 2nd part with the step by step assembling  instructions for the accordion book. 

Until then... 

Big hugs 

Challenges for this project:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Chic to be Shabby
Country View Crafts #1 - Pick and Mix
Inspiration Journal - Make it POP
Stamping Sensations March - The Great Outdoors
Heck of a Challenge - Spring/Butterflies and Pearls
Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge #68 - Flowers and Ribbon
Happy Campers #12 - Flutterby Butterfly
Moving Along with The Times - Spring is in the Air

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Steampunk butterflies and November Guest Designer at the Artistic Stamper

Hello Friends! I am really excited to play with the Artistic Stamper's Creative Team this month! Hop over to this post to see the first project for my guest designer assignment ;).

Big hugs!

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July calendar page...

Re-edited: Wooo hooo!!! I am a Spotlight Artist at City Crafter Challenge Blog ;))))

I can't believe it's almost the middle of August!!! Where did all this time go???? I have just finished the July page of my calendar... At this rate I will never be able to catch up with the rest of the months before the end of this year.... or century for that matter! lol ;)

The days have not been filled in yet as I am going to use it as a birthday diary. Throughout my life I have NEVER forgotten anyone's birthday, anniversary... etc. I mean family and close friends, not everyone in the entire world, in case you wonder lol! Until recently... with all the goings on in my life, those horrible turbulences and stuff... I forgotten about my brother's and my SIL's birthdays!!! How awful is that???

I thought it was time for radical measures so I decided to make a calendar where I will be keeping track of all those important dates and make my cards ahead of time (wishful thinking, me thinks!) ;-D.

But before my lovely pages get filled in, I will first need to do some researching who, what & when! D'you know what I mean?!

The page was inspired by the fantastic art journalling DVD by Kate. The background was created with acrylic paints and the day tiles were stamped and coloured with distress inks. Love the colours! Are they bright, cheerful and summery or what??? lol ;p.

The stamps I used are Doodle bloom by Tia Bennett and I did A LOT of lovely doodling myself, too! Hmmmm! ;)

The flowers were painted with my new fascination - cosmic shimmer watercolour paints. I just fell in love with them!!! Not sure if the picture fully reflects the lovely glimmering effect, very subtle yet quite defined! Love this stuff!!!!

Well, that's all from me for now. I hope you are all well, my Friends. In case you're not - hey, it's (almost) weekend (depending on your time zone lol)!!!

Hugs xxx





Challenges for this project:
The Stamp Man Challenge #29 - Anything goes, with summery colours
Divas by Design #8 - Birthdays
City Crafter Challenge Blog #69 - Doodling
The Cheerful Stamp Pad #23 - Petals
The Kathryn Wheel - Calendar
Stampalot Challenge August - Whatever you fancy

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