WOYWW: Some small projects

A while ago I came across a creative meme that is called What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday. It is all about showing what is going on on your workdesk and is hosted by Julia from Stamping Ground. I really like participating, because it is an easy way to show you what I have been working on, and it is fun to visit some other participants :)

I saw this on a Dutch blog called De Postfabriek last week. It is all about pimping postcards and creating more writing space! Easy and fun! I personally think this works best with bun illustrated postcard. Go have a look. There are a lot of posts about pimping a postcard there. Even thought the blog is in Dutch, there are a lot of images to inspire. Today is world post day! So send out a card! :D

The project above counts for Pin it and Do it. Please head over to Trish from Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity, for the Pin it and Do it Challenge! It is so fun! I participated many times before :)

This week I had a visitor on my desk. Luckily the painting was already dry!

This is another homework project. Blops of ink on wet paper. When it is dry I need to look what I see in it and work on that.

As seen here. This is one I already worked on with colored pencils. I darken certain parts or lighten them to create more contrast. I could work on it lots more. But these are supposed to be quick intuitive paintings. The leaves are brooches that I bought last week :D Also: the ones that I don't see anything in, I use as background for ATC's or make tags from it. So nothing goes to waste :)

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WOYWW - Some weeks of snail mail

A while ago I came across a creative meme that is called What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday. It is all about showing what is going on on your workdesk and is hosted by Julia from Stamping Ground. I really like participating, because it is an easy way to show you what I have been working on, and it is fun to visit some other participants :) I have not participated for a few weeks, but during that time I did work on things.

Today I will show you some things I sent to my pen pals. I have been doing things for school as well, but I will save that for another time. Those pictures need to be branded and I haven't been motivated to do that yet. The pictures of my snail mail have been made just with my phone, and because they are just of the things I made to send out, I don't care so much if they are copied. With the pictures I did for school lately, that is a different case.

I have been inspired by nature lately. It must be because I am spending lots of time outside in nature. So I am really enjoying making mail packages with a theme lately. Ducks are always fun, I think :)

I also wanted to make a fox themed envelope to go with the awesome stamps I have. And I found a cute card with it too.

I also made this spring themed one from magazine clippings. In the bags are little seeds :)

A home made card that fits nicely with the envelope. Look at the stamp again :) I love to make matching envelopes with the stamps I have.

Another spring themed one, thise time with only yellow and green colors. On top there is already a sneak peek from my work in nature ;)

I made this blue bird mail, for a bird lover. Again from magazine clippings :) I love how these all go so well together :)

Lastly this is a bird and flower themed ATC that I made for a swap. I love working in this mini collage style.
Well that is it for this time :) I think I showed quite a lot :) Hopefully I find the motivation to work on the pictures some time next week, but I won't guarantee it. I am still in my "I do whatever I feel like" phase blog wise. I find it very relaxing this way :)

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Pin it Do It: Piggy cards

Well it is official, my blogging schedule is on it's behind ;) I managed to keep up for a long time but with my failing health lately, it is kind of hard to write long posts.

But I did do something creative for the Pin It Do It challenge hosted by Trish from Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity, so I will show you what I did today :)

Lately I have been inspired by buttons. Button cards, tags and bookmarks mainly. I saw some cute buttons carfts on Pinterest and I actually bought some buttons to make it happen. I saw this cute pigs on Pinterest with a button as a nose. Now it turned out that those were t-shirts, but I decided to make cards similar to those little pigs. Here is the orginial pin.

And these are the cards I made. I actually send out two of them already to Snail Mail Pals. I painted 3 more pigs but my pink square cards are used up, so now I need to buy new ones first. I really enjoyed making these. And I am certain that I will do more crafts with buttons in the future :)

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It is Valentine!

To me Valentine's Day isn't anything really special, but I don't hate it either. And today I do want to share some fun stuff that is Valentine related.

Last Saturday, I found an early Valentine's Greeting from my mom in my mailbox. She sends me a card every year. This used to frustrate me when I was a teenager. "Oh it is just a card from you, mom?!" I hoped to get a card from a cute guy, but that didn't really happen too often ;) Only when I was 12, and then again at 16. But my mom sends me a card every single year. Since I love owls, I got this cute owl card together with crocheted owls :)

Other then this, I ran into a very pretty mandala today on Susanna's blog; Susi-Art. She has made a beautiful mandala that screams Spring. With a very pretty text as well. I suggest you go there and take a look yourself :) You won't be disappointed. She also makes very cute cards and does a lot of crafting. I love to follow her blog :)

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SPA postcard: Celestial Theme

I discovered this blog that hosts a weekly postcard challenge. Every Sunday a new theme is posted and people can submit their work as long as it is 10x15 cm or 4x6 inches. All mediums are allowed and to me it seems like a fun way experimenting with making my own postcards. I probably won't join every week, but depending on the time I have at hand and the theme chosen, this might be a fun way to explore for me. This weeks theme is Celestial. Read more about it and join here!

This is my submission:

I have a lot of paper with patterns on it so I used that as my base. Then I drew a lose star shape on the card in yellow, white & blue oil pastel. I pasted some angels, metallic stars and letters on there. Of course the card looks better color wise but this is the best my scanner would do. I kept it fairly simple and experimented using oil pastel on colored paper. Intuitive background since we all know I draw like a 10 year old but I don't care ;)

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