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Hello,

OMG, it's a fact, I totally have lost all grasps on time,
it can't be already a month since I posted here, can it?
Not that I didn't create or anything but just haven't come around to the scanning and telling bit.
I will try to catch up this week though,
here are 2 more additions to my 365 collection, no's 144 and 145,
I went to town with acrylic paint, stencils and stamps to create these awesome backgrounds:

more to come...

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For this week's somethings I kept it fairly simple,

I tore bookpages and added some stamped images to them,

simple but pretty nonetheless.

butterflies to the stars

Today I used stamps, regular ones and found objects, to create my background.

For the found objects ( like some lego, bottlecaps, toiletrol)

I like to use my gelli plate as stamp pad, brayer it up with a juicy layer of paint and stamp away. As an added bonus I have some wicked printed papers.

The stars are stencilled and outlined with a white gel pen. 
The butterflies traced with a stencil and cut out of patterned paper.

I would like to enter this page to following challenges

The Craft Barn weekly challenge: stamping

The Craft Barn weekly challenge: stencils/masks

flowerart

So we already have used stamps as a focal image, to build up a scene, write a quote, next in line is homemade stamps. 
I started on a page that already had some interest from cleaning of stamps and stencils from the previous page (owlsome)

I used 4 of my handcarved stamps

The flowers are stamped on a piece of tissuepaper 

I would like to enter this page to following challenges:
The Craft Barn weekly challenge: stamping
Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge for September where the theme is take a stamp, anything goes

Owlsome

Yesterday I showed you how I used stamps to create a scene, today I will be showing how I used a stamp as focal image.

I choose a cute little doodled owl stamp.

But first things first, the background.

I started with a layer of distress stain: brushed corduroy and a hint of rusty hinge. Followed with some stenciling with walnut DI and metallic acrylic paint.

A  border of washi tape which I distressed with antique linen contains the page.

Slam bang in the middle I glued my owl which I had stamped on a piece of underpaper (you could not reconstruct the colors if you wished to).

Last but not least, yet another way to use stamps, I stamped the quote: don’t forget to be owlsome.

The great escape

Stamps are so versatile, you can use them as a focal image, build up a scene, create a background with them, make your own stamps, use found objects as stamps….

For this week’s Craft Barn challenge I created a scene with different stamps.

First I colored the sky blue and the grass green with brushos to set the scene

then came the stamping (which is not pristine due to the nature of my journal). I stamped a tree surrounded with all kind of flying creatures: birds, dragonflies and butterflies. On top I added splatters with a wet paintbrush which I dipped in the brushos. (warning: this is very addictive and is very hard to stop once you started) I also added a bit of gold by swiping the page with a card to tie in the page with the page next to it (which has gold lettering). Finally I added a rubbon with the text The great escape. 

retiform

Last week was stamping master class week over on The Craft Barn blog, Dawn's post included a technique called retiform, never heard about it but it looked soo cool that I immediately wrote it on my to do list. It turns out that this technique is this week's challenge over on the blog so I immediately got cracking with this technique. I must say I've needed a few attempts, initially I wanted to make bubbles

but the stamping didn't turn out how it supposed to because I was using a square stamp, so I decided to try it first with straight lines
I used a blue DI and colored with antique linnen distress stain

Next came the fun part off masking of the areas and stamping.
I was pleasantly surprised on how this simple grid turned into something stunning as this

I think this would make a great cover for a book.