Banksy takes over the post again!

Hello Again!
Welcome back to another Mail Art Monday!

Today I want to share the Envelopes I made for the VLVS Banksy Mail Art swap on the

  Viva Las VegaStamps Groupies Facebook page! 

(I hope some of you joined in!)

To start I created a pair of A2 sized envelopes using my Envelope punch board and some blue watercolor looking scrapbook paper.  

Next I stamped all 3 of my Banksy stamps in black Stazon ink. (stamps listed below)

I masked off my address block, with an business card that I often use as a mask. 

(Hence the ink all already all over it...lol)

I traced around this with a black Micron pen.

Now to enhance the blue color, I used Distress inks in salty ocean and tumbled glass. 

The stencil I used was by Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous (THMS055)

Next, I added a few flicks of picket fence and black soot distress stains. 

After I removed the mask I added a few doodles around the inside of the address lock with my white gel pen and a black Micron. 

I hope you all enjoy these fun envelopes, and I hope you feel inspired to get inky!

tutorial - friends are cheaper than therapy

Hi Hermine here with a tutorial again.

 

step 1: take a piece of paper and start drawing lines with a ruler and Derwenrt Inktence blocks. Then take a water brush and blend the lines. Leave to dry.

 

step 2: Dot the same but turn your paper. Leave to dry

 

step 3: Stamp with Stazon Black the Grandville Chicken 18894 and the Grandville Bug 18896.

 

step 4: stamp with Stazon Black only the top half of the Whimsical Tree Lady Nude 19681 at the bottom of your card.

 

step 5: Stamp with Stazon Black the tekst Good Friends are 18885 and with Memento olive green Sky of stars background 19819 . I coloured the bottom trees and the upper part of the chicken with felt tip markers.

 

step 6: Start colouring the rest of the images with Lyra water colour crayons and a water brush.

 

step 7:  take a rectangle double card and glue the inner card on the card. Then colour some paper and die-cut the branches. Glue onto the card.

 

Close up

 Hope you liked the tutorial. 

Warmly Hermine

Used materials: 

Grandville Chicken 18894

Grandville Bug 18896

Whimsical Tree lady Nude 19681

Good friends are 18885

Sky of stars background 19819

Stazon Black

Derwent Inktence Blocks

Lyra water colour crayons

water brush

Making Memories die

felt tip markers

I believe

Hi Hermine here. This is my last post for 2015. I believe together we can make the world a better place, I believe dreams can come true. Sometimes you let loose of the old ones and make some new ones. And I want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and artful 2016.

step 1: sand the wood, so you create a very smooth surface to stamp on.
step 2: stamp the Banksy balloon girl 19430 with Stazon for the balloon, stamp this with red Memento Luxe
step 3: stamp the line of Rocks/pebbles 19720 and the tekst I believe 19347 with Stazon Black/
step 4: colour the rocks with colouring pencils.



warmly Hermine

Used materials:
Bansky Balloon girl 19430
Line of rocks/Pebbles 19720
I believe 19347
Stazon black
Memento Luxe

What's in a jar

Hi, Hermine here, today I played around with my dylysions sprays again and made this card.

 

step 1: take a white piece of paper and spray with Dylussion Turquiose and dab with a paper towel, this provides you with an awesome pattern.

 

step 2: take a stencil and spray again with a different colour Dylyssions, I used purple.

 

step 3: stamp the Mason Jar 18957 with Stazon Black, stamp also on masking paper and cut out, only use the outside but cover the lid

 

step 4: remove mask and sponge with white gesso

 

step 5: put the mask back on and stamp the Mounted Bird head 19163 with Stazon Black and the Grunge Circles 19563 with Memento Luxe Wedding Dress.

 

step 6: Colour the bird  with colouring markers and make some white accents with gesso in the little dots of the stencil and take some lids and stamp circles with gesso.

 

step 7:  take a little piece of paper and stamp It's your big day 19475 with Stazon Black. Punch a hole in it. Punch 2 holes just underneath the lid of the stamped image, take a piece of string and tie the text to it.

Hope you like it.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:
Mason Jar 18957
Mounted Bird head 19163
Grunge Circles 19563
It's your big day 19475
Stazon
Dylyssions spray ink
gesso

from paintstick to bookmark

Hi Hermine here, I thought it would be great to turn a paintstick into a bookmark so I don't loose this one comparing to my paper ones, so I did, and this is how it turned out.

step 1: sand the paintstick lightly and give it a thin layer of gesso
step 2: stamp the Face Collage 18378 with Stazon Black
step 3: take a stencil (this one is with leaves) and use some moddeling paste to put over the stencil. Leave to dry over night.
step 4: Colour the face with Lyra crayons aqua colour and sponge the rest with 2 colours Distress ink
step 5: stamp Do all things with Love 19545  with Stazon black.
step 6: Make some accents in the leaves with a black pen.



Hope you like it.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:
Face Collage 18378
Do all things with Love 19545
Stazon

Relax

Hi Hermine here, in this part of the hemisphere its almost summertime, time to relax.

step 1: stamp with Stazon Black Man and Dog sitting 18968 and make a mask as well, cut out mask and put on the image. Stamp the vintage lighthouse 19288, make a mask and put on your image.
step 2: take a script stencil and use modelling paste to stencil with. Leave to dry, Then take a flower stencil and modelling paste and use this stencil only partial. Leave to dry.
step 3: remove the mask from the lighthouse but leave the mask on the man and dog on. Spray some water and sprinkel 2 colours Brusho.
step 4: take the flower stencil again and only put modelling paste on the large flower in the middle.
step 5: Colour the man and dog with some Lyra crayons and a water brush.


Hope you like it.


Warmly Hermine


Used materials:
Man and Dog sitting 18968
Vintage lighthouse 19288
Stazon black

April challenge inspiration piece

Hi Hermine here with an inspiration piece for the april challenge. For more information look HERE.

The inspiration board:

 

step 1: Tear a page out of an old dictionary. Spray it with water and sprinkle some Brusho (Violet) in it.

step 2: take a brush and bleech and draw a swirl. Sprinkle with some bleech.

step 3: stamp with Stazon at the bottom  the line of Grass 19549 twice. And the Flock of Geese19465 on the left hand side.

step 4: stamp Boy in Cape 19036 on a seperate piece of paper and colour with Lyra crayons and cut out. Cover the whole image swith Versamark and emboss with Ultra High Gloss embossing powder clear. And Glue on your background. Stamp with Stazon Black the tekst Get Cape wear Cape Fly 19292.

step 5: Punch 2 circles out of black paper and cut in half. Use bleech to lighten the circles, do this twice everytime a little more to the edge. Stamp with Stazon Stars 19291 on the half circles and highlight some with a white sharpie. Glue them on the background and scribble around them with a white sharpie. Glue the background on white cardstock. 

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

Line of Grass 19549

Flock of Geese 19465

Boy in Cape 19036

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly 19292

Stars 19291

Stazon

Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

 

Another CAS card

Hi Hermine here, I made another CAS card but Clean: CHECK, Simple: UNCHECK, absolutely NOT. I saw this somewhere on the internet, just a picture not a describtion, so I tried it myself by using colouring pencils. I really love the look, even though it was a challenge to achieve this effect, but I really like to challenge myself.

 

step 1: Stamp with Memento Cantaloupe the  Fris CharmairisLatifolia 18733 on a smaller piece of beautiful paper. Then start to colour it in with Colouring pencils and a paperstump with white spirit. It sounds easy but it is not, it took me hours to get to the point I wanted to, It helps when you leave it for a while, have a cup of coffee or something like that, and then come back to it, keep it at least an arm length away and decide if it needs more colour or shades.

step 2: When you are happy with the coloured image you take the text stamp You Colour my World 19344 and stamp with Stazon Black.

step 3: Glue the piece of paper on a larger double card with miracle tape.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 CharmairisLatifolia 18733

You Colour my World 19344

Stazon

Mircale tape

Lots of layers

Hi Hermine here again. This time a card with lots of layers but still keeping the CAS look, I really love that look but I also love lots of stamping :o)

 

step 1 : take a piece of mica sheet (Always hard to photograph because its transparent) and stamp with Versamark the text You are here 19178 and emboss with Black embossingpowder

 

step 2 : take a piece of vellum (this one has little golden spots which adds depth to the look), stamp with Stazon black the Big Ben 19391 and mask it. Stamp the Double Coffee rings 19568

 

step 3 : Take a piece of kraftpaper and stamp Victorian Flourish 19417 with Versamark and emboss with High Gloss clear embossing powder. Sponge with Distress Black soot and whipe excess off with a paper towel.

 

step 4 : take a strip of black paper (in my case I used a tag that was on one of my new cloth). Take a little piece of white paper and stamp with Stazon Black the barcode from the December Daily Plate 1430

 

step 5 : layer all of your stamped pieces on to a double white card untill you are happy with the layout.

 

step 6: Fasten the pieces with an eyelet, I have used 5. Tie a knot in 4 of them and tie a piece of string in the eyelet with the black strip and fasten some beads.

Hope you like my CAS card.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

You are here 19178

Big Ben 19391

Double Coffee rings 19568

Victorian Flourish 19417

December Daily plate 1430

Stazon Black

High Gloss embossing powder

 

Puzzled

Hi Hermine here,

This time I played around with some puzzle pieces and some Brusho's.

step 1: pull all parts apart and start with the middle one, the puzzle shped one. Spray with water and use some Brusho. leave to dry

step 2: take the outside part and colour with some distress ink tea dye. Stamp with Stazon Black  Sheet Music Background 19557, do this on your left hand side and don't push to hard because you want to achive a distressed look. Then stamp with Distress Tea Dye  the grunge circles 19563 on the right hand side.Sponge the edges with a Stazon Black. Leave to dry

step 3: take the middle part, colour with distress inks and a bit of brusho. Stamp with Stazon Black Do all things with love 19545. Make some white accents with a sharpie. Punch a hole and tie a string. put all the pieces together again except for the middle piece. Colour the edges with a sponge and Stazon Black

step 4: take a double squared card and layer down the card and mark the inner space of the little rectangle with pencil ( so you can erase it later). Put aside the puzzle pieces and stamp directly on the card the bird in Mask 19160 with Stazon and colour in with Lyra crayons and a water brush.

step 4: assemble the puzzle parts and glue onto the card. Then punch some hinches (I used the Quickutz), glue on the left hand side of the card, half on the puzzle piece, and the other half on the rectangled middle piece, so it acts like a little door.

Hope you like this card.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

Sheet Music Background 19557

grunge circles 19563

Do all things with Love 19545

Bird in mask 19160

Stazon 

bye bye 2014 happy 2015

Hi Hermine here with the last post for 2014. just a few days away for the new year. With this project I want to wish you all a very happy, healthy and creative 2015!!!!

step by step:
step 1: Take a large wooden spool and four little ones. The large one I decorated with a origami fold ( you can find it here: http://www.minieco.co.uk/accordion-paper-folding-candle-holders/ ). I started with wh9ite paper and coloured it with different colours alcohol ink, then stamped on it with several stamps from plate 1455.
step 2: stamp the grunge 4 19455 on a seperate piece of paper, wrinkle it, colour it with distress inks and glue on one of the little spools.
step 3: stamp the grunge 2 19453 on a seperate piece of paper, mask of and stamp the paint brushes in jar  9235, cut out and colour with distress and a waterbrush. Do the same with the grunge 0 19461 and double coffee rings 19568, the grunge 1 19452 and pointed pen tip 18793, and the grunge 5 19456 and whimsical mouse 18755. Colour in with distress inks and waterbrush.
step 4: stamp the letters happy on craftpaper, using steampunk alphabet 5888, punch out with an inchy punch and make some highlights with a white gel pen.
step 5: take some twigs and spray them silver. Glue the images on the twigs and tie some string. Decorate the little spolls with some washi tape. Glue the little spools with glue dots on the large spool.


SEE YAH back in 2015!


Warmly Hermine




Used stamps:
plate 1455
grunge 4 19455
grunge 2 19453
grunge 0 19461
grunge 1 19452
grunge 5 19456
paint brushes in jar 9235
pointed pen tip 18793
whimsical mouse 18755
Double coffee rings 19568
Steampunk alphabet 5888
Stazon