Sunday, September 14, 2025

Doodle journal 8-2 ~ I am a horse, ...

The last doodle journal in this round.

Doodle journal 8-1 ~ Will I find it?

Second doodle journal page.


Doodle journal #8 ~ Already autumn?

Three doodle journals.


2025 ATC swap #39 ~ party

A gift party banner, a flower and a balloon. I forgot from which Cricut cartridge I cut the gift banner and the balloon"(


Medium used:
recycled cardstock
cardstock ~ pink, yellow
flower stencil
Van bleijswijck acrylic paints
Cricut die cuts
Kruidvat hair jewels ~ embellishment on the flower

2025 ATC swap #38 ~ baking

I choose to draw and water colour some kitchen/baking utensils and bread.


Used medium:
Creative Artists aquarel paper
Avec complete water colour pencils drawing set

2025 ATC swap #37 ~ superhero

I don't have a superhero. I choose to drawn and paint Nubia.


Media used:
Creative Artists aquarel paper
Avec acrylic paint
Van bleijswijck acrylic paint ~ yellow
Avec complete water colour pencils drawing set ~ blue, black

Doodle journal # 7~3

My images obviously refer to real objetcs/things we have in life. I may take these drawings too serious.😇 These doodle journals are drawn on cardstock that I recycle. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the very nice watercoloured doodle journals. A bit of sad! I used my Avec complete water colour pencils set to colour these journals.

I wish I had pictures of the coloured version of these doodle journals.

Doodle journal # 7~2

My images obviously refer to real objetcs/things we have in life. I may take these drawings too serious.😇 These doodle journals are drawn on cardstock that I recycle. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the very nice watercoloured doodle journals. A bit of sad! I used my Avec complete water colour pencils set to colour these journals.

Doodle journal # 7~1

My images obviously refer to real objetcs/things we have in life. I may take these drawings too serious.😇 These doodle journals are drawn on cardstock that I recycle. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the very nice watercoloured doodle journals. A bit of sad! I used my Avec complete water colour pencils set to colour these journals.

Monday, September 8, 2025

Colouring postcard #11

An image out of an aquarel postcard book.


Materials used:

recycled cardboard ~ backing

double sided tape

Decotime aquarel postcards book

Avec complete watercolour drawing set

Easy peasy watercolor postcard #8

You see a two images on the postcard. It is me again practicing watercolouring.


Materials used:

Dectime aquarel postcards book

Avec complete watercolour drawing set

Handmade postcard: sender's choice ~ september 2025

You see a part of a cat (brown, hairy)on the postcard. I've drawn and painted feathers on the other half of the postcard.


Used:

Decotime aquarel postcards book

Avec complete watercolour drawing set

Friday, September 5, 2025

Only ATC's ~ Embellish a quote 1:1

Quote: If you're tired, learn to rest. Don't quit!



Medium used:

recycled cardstock

Cricut Sentimentals

Avec complete watercolour drawing set

fine liner ~ black

Monday, September 1, 2025

Mini Art Exchange: ATC coins #9 ~ Flying Object ~ a kite


Materials used:

recycled cardstock

cardstock ~ yellow, orange, black

patterned cardstock

Cricut cartridge ~ 

fineliner ~ black

Mini Art Exchange: ATC coins #9 ~ Flying Object ~ an ufo


Used materials:

recycled cardstock

recipe cardstock

cardstock ~ grey, bleu, white

Cricut cartridge ~ 

fine liner ~ black

Mini Art Exchange: ATC coins #9 ~ Flying Object ~ football

Three ATC coins. My first ATC coins ever! The layers of this coin went a bit square on me, but hé, not all coins are nice circle shaped;)


Used:

recycled cardstock

die cut with hearts

Avec liquid watercolour

Avec acrylic spray paint ~ neon

Cricut cartridge ~ 

Handmade postcard club ~ put a used postage on it


Materials used:

recycled cardstock

patterned papers

used postages

2025 ATC Swap #36 ~ Vegetable

Aubergine aka boulanger


Materials used:
recycled cardstock
Avec acrylic markers
ephemera

Saturday, August 30, 2025

2025 ATC swap #35 ~ mushroom

Theme: mushroom

Materials:

recycled cardstock

paper napkin

fine liner ~ black

acrylic paint markers

gel pens

Amazing Mail Art (AMA) ~ Monster mania mail art series #1 ~ Skeleton

The skeleton is cut at 3 1/4". The 'Eek!' is cut at 3/4". Both are cut out of sturdy black sketch paper. I found this image on the Artiste cartridge.



Materials used:
Cricut cartridge ~ Artiste
recycled cardstock
tissue paper
paper ~ black
acrylic paints
fine liner ~ black
gel pen ~ white

All About Handmade Postcards ~ Black & Yellow collage postcard ~ August



Mixed media used:

recycled cardstock

handmade paper

Chinese tissue paper

Cricut Artiste ~ Eek

cat image ~ received from a swapper

acrylic paint markers

ribbon

Amazing mail art ~ Pass & paste #129 August

For a decorated base I used liquid watercolour. To embellish my part of the postcard, which is marked A, I cut out a hand holding a feather pen. This image is cut at 1 1/2".




Materials used:

Cricut cartridge ~ Sentimentals

Creative Artist aquarel paper

kraft paper

Coloured cardstock ~ gold glitter

fine liner ~ black

Monday, August 25, 2025

ATC challenge August

For us to create an artist trading card without using pre-fabricated items. My choice is a watercolour ATC and some drawing.




Materials used:
Creative Artist aquarel paper
Avec liquid watercolour ~ warm (red, yellow)
Avec liquid watercolour ~ cool (blue, green)
fine liner ~ black

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Amazing mail art ~ Negative space #3

This negative space technique isn't easy! Cutting out an image and mix 'n match a replacement with which you create another scene or story. Well... here is my attempt.


Material used:
recycled cardstock
magazines cut outs

Another napkin decorated envelope

Decorating a boring plain beige envelope. I'm sending the "Traveling PC's World #108" to the next swap partner.

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Paper napkin decorated envies and cards #8

To decorate two notecards and matching envelopes with paper napkin. I used the scrap to decorate the notecard on the inside.

napkins


card & envie

front of the card

back of the card

front of the envelope



back of the envelope

the second notecard
I used my Cricut cartridge ~ Sentimentals to cut a backing for the napkin front panel. Just a fun addition to the card.


card ~ back

Here I added a little extra on the inside of the notecard using scrap from the front layer. Just cute😊


card ~ back

card & envie

envie ~ back

For fun I also cut a key out of kraft paper, which I found in the Sentimentals cartridge. It is cut at 3 1/4". Finally I cut a greeting also from the Sentimentals cartridge using patterned cardstock; cut at 3/4". Both sent to my swap partner. I forgot to take pictures😞.

Material used:
Craft sensations luxury cardstock with linen structure ~ beige, blue
Craft sensations cardstock ~ Textures & backgrounds
kraft paper
paper napkins