For a boy... for a girl... and one for a friend...

This stamps I made for a friend. He wanted some stamps for his niece and nephew for christmas. For her everything connected to ballet and a princess... and for him all the things connected to farming. So here we go...! 

(the background of the ballet shoes I stamped with textured wall papers!)

Of course a farmhouse...

...and ballett shoes...!

...a dancer...

...and a crown...

...next to a John Deere...

(Yes, this is for the same boy who got this T-shirts!)

You see, the dancer can stay on her tiptoe...

...either with her hand going up or just dancing in a round...

...the stamps for the niece...

...and the ones chared...

...every farmhouse needs a little fence...

...and a tree...!

...and someone has to wake every one up in the morning...

...a tiny tractor stamp...

...all of the stamps can be combined...

...looks nicer with a cloud at the sky...

...a horse is liked by both!

...the measurement is in cm, so you can get an impresson how big (or rather small) the stamps are...

All of them together in one box... 

...yes, some of the stamps are really big ones!

This time my hand for some kind of size measurment ^^

The last stamp I show you was not for one of the kids but a friend if mine. 

You see the surface? This is not an effect I created by controlled carving... but by just cutting over the same space again and again! Love the effect, sometimes the best is not to be too controlled...

Sparkling deers....!

What shall I say? I wish you all a great christmas, if you are not into christmas I wish you relaxing days! I know I could need some but with all the family around it won't be for me (not saying that it isn't worth it ^^)   

For the deers... I took some wooden cut out christmas decoration stuff (is there a short word for description?).

(I still feel a little bit weird about drilling little holes into the deers ^^).

They were dipped in glue and then just went into a box with pink glitter (the same one I used for the pink magnets). I added a silver bead and there we go!

The bead is brushed silver (I love the effect) and yes, real silver beads because I think it balance the over-the-top glittery and shiny pink! So that while still being all sparkles it still may be wearable beside certain occasions (although one still has to be brave, you'll be seen for real! ^^).

I already used one of the silver beads for my leather flower and I am always fascinated how different the combination of the same element with new ones can look. Have a look here for the combination of the silver bead with leather :)

Find the deer....!

Although not perfect (it also was -of course- an experiment so no need to be perfect) I really like this image and it is going to be used for some cards :)

I cut out a deer shape (not my own one but drawn from an deer shaped ornament), placed it on some plastic and started to draw all over the plastiv with a laquer pen. The idea was that the deer would come out due to the missing parts in the ornaments (aka strange pattern). 

The original drawing didn't survive the next experiment: Bake the plastic (it was a polystyrene plastic sheet). The baking was perfect but during the baking / shrinking the plastic curled up too much and was baked in a wrinkled way. Yes, I had to laugh seeing this ^^

But I made pictures before because I already plannend on printing this image, so this is saved at least!

As you may have noticed: Yes I draw lines and dots where the second back leg should have been... But I think if one doesn't knows the original deer, one wouldn't notice ;)