Believe in magic

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my blogpost! I have an art journal to share today.

This AJ page started off with brayering yellow and orange paint in my journal. I then added some stamping in the background. Next I stamped the stars on the page; I wanted to have the writing around them too and this is impossible to cut out. 

Next I painted a piece of card stock with turquoise paint, stamped the stars on it again, added some white pen details and splatters and cut them out. 

I then adhered them to the ones on the page. 

The girl with wings was stamped separately on white card stock, coloured with Coopic Markers and cut out. I placed her on one of the stars. 

The sentiment is a Small Talk Sticker by Tim Holtz.

I have used the following stamps for this page :

19659 - Numbers set

19822 - Squiggly star collage

19827 - Doodle dots

19005 - Girl with wings

ATC Trio and a NEW VIDEO !!!

Hello everyone,

I have a project for you today and I have made a trio of ATC's. I filmed the process too so hop over if you are interested; there's a link at the bottom of this post.

Here they are together.... 

No 1.

No. 2 

 No. 3 

Here is the link to YouTube : 

I have used the following stamps: 

19795 - Into the wild blue yonder

19980 - Deer Head

19987 - Sheep

19659 - Numbers 

19827 - Doodle dots

19787 - Fawn

19338 - Color Wheel Lines

Thank you so much for stopping by today !

Mail art Monday ! Yay !

Hello everyone,

It's my turn to show you some mailart. I have altered a boring white envelope today. I hope you like it and maybe do some yourself to brighten up the mail !

Here is the front...

And this is the back ...

This envelope was quite easy to make. I started with the front. First I masked off the address part.  I then used a mini gelli plate, acrylic paint by PaperArtsy and a stencil. Unfortunately I put so much over the top that you can't really see the pattern anymore.... 

I then used a load of different stamps to add more interest. I used the same paints and also some archival inks in similar colours and Jet Black. 

When I was happy with how it looked, I drew a black line around the address area and stamped the Queen of Hearts on separate card stock and coloured her with Copic Markers. I cut her out and adhered her to the front of the envelope. 

The back was even easier; I just brayered the paint on, did the stamping in the same way as on the front and that was that ! 

I used a whole bunch of stamps :

19568 - Double Coffee Rings

19567 - Writing Circles

19571 - Writing triangles

19574 - Paperclip

19575 - Stitching

19566 - Bubble wrap

14260 - Queen of hearts

5559 - Alice 

19580 - Wonderland

19015 - DIctionary page

19562 - Deliver to 

18098 - Birds on a wire lg. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today ! 

It's Time to Cut the CAKE and your Stamps!!!

Hello everyone! Susan here with a tutorial using Viva Las VegaStamps! and some birthday cardmaking fun! There is a great challenge over at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers "C is for Cake" and I just couldn't "resist" playing along - LOL!

I've had this "Chicken Crying" stamp for a while now and I've been dying to use him. Today is the day!!! I inked him up with some Versafine black in and embossed him with VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder. Then while the stamp was still wet, I stamped and cut a quick post-it note mask.

With my quickie mask in place, I repeat the process with the "Cake with Candle" stamp. I also make a quick mask of the cake so I can do something with this plain white background. I don't want to cut out and paste these onto something else... I'm going to work around my grouping and it's pretty easy.

On my craft sheet I smooshed out a few colors of Distress Paint spritzed with a bit of water, then blended with my brayer. With my post-it masks in place, I rolled the color over my images. I picked up more color and reapplied until it was to my liking.

Now to add some music to my background! Using some blue dye ink I stamp the "Sheet Music Background" #19557 over my layers.

Before removing masks, I added one more stamp to ground my scene - the "Smear/Smudge" #19573. Now it's Reveal time!! A little paint got under my mask and I'm perfectly fine with that.

Now it's time for some color with Ranger Distress Markers and a little glittery shimmer!

  

I need to make a quick sentiment and I don't want to cut and paste words together in this case... so I give you a TIP – I'm cutting my stamp, "Happy Birthday from One Old Buzzard to Another!". I gently cut "birthday" and "another" apart from the phrase and lined them up on my block. Don't be afraid this is very liberating!!

I stamped onto the edge of my creation so it matches and give it a kiss of embossing powder for some POP! I made the ... by tapping the back end of a paintbrush into the ink using as a stamp.

I trimmed everything, layered with mats and Miracle Tape and I have a fun birthday card ready to go! This is so going to my sister who's birthday is next week... she's cracking the big 4-0.

"It's My Party and I wanna Cry"

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From Viva Las VegaStamps:

"Chicken Crying" #9464

"Cake with Candle" #5161

"Sheet Music Background" #19557

"Smear/Smudge" #19573

VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

1/4" Miracle Tape

Other Supplies: white, teal and blue cardstocks; Ranger Distress Paint, Ranger Distress Markers; Sakura of America Gelly Roll® Stardust® Pen, paper trimmer; sticky back gems; and May Arts trim.

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Thanks so much for dropping by! It's a holiday weekend and that brings a SALE at the VLVS! store... CLICK HERE for details. Also are you a fellow rubber addict?  Here's your chance to join the design team {CLICK HERE for details} and stamp til your hearts content!

If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. Hope you have a fabulous day!!  Sb