Heike`s AugenBlick

Hello everyone, welcome to the second special day of "watercolor" from 13@rts. I created for you as inspiration two layouts on watercolor paper. The size is 9inch by 12inch. These pages are super easy and perfect for beginners.. The only thing you need is watercolor paper and high quality watercolor. A scisssor, brush, gel medium, black and white posca pen, word stickers, punch and DIE cut embellishments, stamp and black Ink, and of course photos. If you are not yet so familiar with watercolors, here are a few tips: 1.as the word "watercolors" says, these are pigments dilutable with water. (Please be careful that you don't give so many colors above each other. They could quickly turn ugly brown). 2. before you start give a little bit water over your watercolor set. 3. use two water tanks, one for the brush to clean, and the other to dilute paints. 4. use watercolor paper for a beautiful result. (if using design paper, please add on the design pa

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first 13@rts group post in the month of April. Our highlight in April is "WATERCOLOR" Watercolors are pigments with water-soluble binders, which are activated with water. 13@rts has a beautiful watercolor box with 16 colors. The set includes red, yellow, pink, green, blue, brown and white. Before I started with the watercolors I always give with the water mister a little bit water on my watercolors. This activates the pigments. I created a mini book from a A3 paper sheet. It was not a special watercolor paper. That's why I've attached on each side of my paper two layers of clear gesso. After that, I glued from the A6 paper pad, "travel the world" randomly thorn paper pieces with gel medium to the A3 paper. After that I painted some parts of my background with white gesso. Next I scribbled with a pencil. Now it was time to apply a bit of color, with watercolor and Ayeeda matte sand paint. After everythin

Hello everyone and welcome to my second blog post for the company Scrap Fx Australia. I created for you as inspiration two mini books and one art journal page. Let`s start with the art journal page. I created my art journal page on watercolor paper with the beautiful collage paper of ScrapFx. I love using collage paper to design my pages. Collage paper is super easy to use, it can be torn or be cut, depending on whether one prefers frayed edges or sharp edges. I myself prefer to tear the collage paper. As glue I prefer gel medium or UHU adhesive pen. The chipboards are colored with black gesso and a little bit of glitter from 13@rts. A closer look.. My next inspiration for ScrapFx.... At the moment I like to create mini books with the name zine from one sheet of paper. I did not invent this type of mini book by myself. Unfortunately, I can not tell you the name of the creator. The name zine comes from the word magazine. Actually, these small books were made as

Hello Nomadic soul diaries fans... welcome on my blog post for the April challenge on the IG site of NSD. This month is the challenge . 1. create a card or ATCs 2. creative challenge are cracks. 3. the inspiration words are: Creative people colour outside the lines. 4. get inspired from the colors of the Mood board, and use at least three colors. 5. post your entry on the IG site of NSD. The words "creative people color outside the lines" inspired me to create a card with lots of paper layers from the beautiful paper collection of 13@rts. Which I still painted with watercolors for more color intensity. I feel also as a creative person with the ability to invent or skillfully redesigning art. In my case redesigning from the 13@rts paper. For the creative challenge: I added clear crackleglaze on the circles and the title. Here is the link to the IG site:  https://www.instagram.com/nomadicsouldiaries/ Have fun with the challenge. Stay safe. xoxo

Hello 13@rts friends, Heike here from Heike`sAugenBlick. Today I would like to inspire you to make something beautiful with the wonderful products of  13@rts. My two youngest children have tried the new photo camera of my son and made a photoshoot. Because they wanted to make me happy and they know how much I appreciate it to get photos of my loved ones.  They had sunshine, but the wind was cold. Which has not deterred them. If you look at the photo you can also see that they had a lot of fun. Live your Life... This time I decided to work on a dark background. The paper collection of "Victoriana" has a wonderful design in black with white writing. Paper: Papier The circle of time - Victoriana Set of 12x12 "VICTORIANA papers  Paper pad 6x6 "" VICTORIANA "  First I started with a layer of Gesso: Gesso Clear - 500 ml acrylic primer I always use the gesso on both sides of my paper. This prevents my paper

Hello everyone, we now have the third stay at home week behind us while I am writing this post. I hope you all are well? Now, the weather here in Europe is becoming very springlike. I think it's going to be hard for a lot of people to stay indoors now, but we can do it together: for the people who are in the risk group, for the older generation, but also for the people who now give everything to care for our loved ones. For all these people I stay at home. But now I want to tell you something about my layout. I have made two scrapbook pages with the new collage paper from ScrapFx. Michelle Logan designed the collage paper. As you already know from me, I like to design my scrapbook pages on white background. White and empty areas on my scrapbook design are very important for me. The eye gets more rest and the individual clusters get more attention and just as there are white surfaces on my art, there is also hardly a scrapbook page without my favorite black surfaces. I crea

Good morning everyone, and welcome to my first blog post for the month April. The new month started with an amazing weather, lots of sunny days. My garden begins to bloom in the gentle green colors of spring. I love getting up early to feel the morning dew on my skin. What could be more beautiful on earth than listening to the birds, the insects humming, with the morning coffee in hand. For the month of April this is exactly the theme for our April challenge from More than Words. Here is the link:  https://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.com/ The word: EVERYDAY The creative challenge: BUGS and BIRDS. Something I do "EVERYDAY" is my Tai-Chi exercises. The slow stretching of the muscles and tendons, the conscious breathing... For me, it is part of a healthy life. For the creative challenge "BUGS and BIRDS" I have decided to stamp lots of bugs on my background. I created on yupo paper with watercolor an abstract background. After that I stamped wi

Hello everyone, and welcome April, wishing you my dear blog readers a healthy month filled with love and hope. My first april post started with my dt member inspiration for 13arts. This page is actually created by looking at the beautiful transparency of 13arts. Do you sometimes have that too? You take a  product in your hand and immediately you will think about what you want to make with the product. This was a moment I actually wanted to start with my creative ideas right away, and happily I... I had to create a layout anyway... Here is my result which began with a transparency.... BEAUTIFUL I used for this page: Paper sheet:  http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Papier-Birds-and-flowers/4020 Transparency:  http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Folia-Transparency-WREATHS/4253 Chipboard:  http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Tekturka-Chipboard-set-Unforgettable/4252 Words:  http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Speaking-of-which-cardstock-30x30cm-eco/3991 Flower:  http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Roze-4-szt.-biale/74 Stencil:  http