I Put A Spell On You... Mail Art

Hello Again! 

It's me Tera here with another fun Mail Art tutorial ...
No it's not Monday but, I couldn't resist making a few more Halloween envelopes. 

Stamps Used:

Sitting Voodoo Doll 

Plate 1455

(Individual below)

Smear/Smudge

Paperclip

Mesh Texture

Bubble Wrap Texture

Texture Background

Writing Circles Background

Start by stamping the voodoo doll stamp in the bottom right then mask it off.  Next stamp the paperclip on the left side. draw a box to create a space for your address. (i traced around an ATC then you can keep it to use as a mask).  I then used a combination of the stamps listed above to add texture to my envelopes. I used a sponge to color the base of my envelopes, then used coordinating markers to add accent colors. 

Thank You for visiting! 

I hope you all have a spooktacular rest of October!

mail art monday

Hi Hermine, this time I made an envelope for mail art monday, love making them, love sending them out. Always fun to see the reaction at the post office when they discover they are handmade.

 

step 1: I prefer to make my envelopes from sratch so I used The Enveloper Pro from Crafters Companion, the paper cut to measure 19 x 19 and used B and C to score the sides.

 

step 2: Cut out the little corners but not folding it yet. Then I put a rectangle piece of masking tape on the spot where the address goes.

 

step 3: Sprayed the whole paper with water and sprinkels 5 colours blue Brusho in it.

 

step 4: remove the masking paper because the stamp will end up in this rectanlge for a bit.

 

step 5: Stamp the Whimsical Man-face fish 19678 and Pier or Dock Silhouette 19716 with Stazon Black. Then discolour the fish with some bleech.

 

step 6: Mask the fish and stamp Whimsical border 19675 with Stazon Black. Leave the mask on the fish and use a stencil with bubles and sponge with Memento Luxe Weddingdress.

 

step 7: Colouer the fish and border with Lyra water colour crayons and a waterbrush. Then I decided it needed a few more stamps. So I stamped grunge circles 19563 above the mouth of the fish on the right hand side and the Sawtooth stitching lines 19643 on the right hand side the top of this stamp and on the left hand side the bottom part of this stamp. Colour a bit between the lines.

 

step 8: fold the score lines and put some miracle tape on the bottom flap and glue to the right and left hand flaps.

Hope you like the tutorial on how I make a mail art envelope.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Whimsical man-face Fish 19678

Pier or dock Silhouette 19716

Whimsical border 19675

grunge circles 19563

sawtooth stitching lines 19643

Stazon

Miracle tape

Witch Postcard {Monthly Inspiration} by DeeDee

Whoop! DeeDee here today to inspire you for our monthly challenge. Have you seen the beautiful entries already linked up??? Hopefully I can inspire you to link up yourself!

I was drawn not only to the color combo, but also the sort of whispyness of the tree branches and the big bold circles in the background. So I got out some of my favorite supplies and set to work on this beauty:

Witching Holding Broom

Numbers Set

Waybill/Invoice Background

I created big bold circles with some distress ink and a stencil. I mimicked the tree branches with some background stamping and used all my elements to create the same color combo. There's a bit of stitching, layering, fussy cutting, inking, chipboard use, splattering, misting, and more. I invite you to visit my blog for more details. 

For those of you who have signed up for our Fall Harvest themed Postcard swap you may be interested to know that this will be my postcard! Do you like to swap? Join our facebook group to keep an eye out for our next swap. And don't forget to stop by and enter to win some rubber, too!

Bright ATC's

Hey everyone. Shanna here today and I wanted to inspire you with some fun quick ATC's I made. 

So for the first ATC I first coated it with yellow paint then I laid down a stencil and went over that with blue paint. I stamped the Whimsical Diver - 19354 and Into the Abyss - 19352 on white paper and cut them out, then glued them down.   

I used the stamps In the Pale Moonlight - 19351 and Whimsical Patterned Moon - 19357 for my second ATC. I started with a base of pink paint then used blue again with a different stencil. 

For my last ATC, I used the stamps Dictionary Page - 19015 and the stamp Winged Girl Under Umbrella - 19116. I started with yellow paint. Then pink through another stencil. I stamped the dictionary page on the background and then added the image with some Tim Holtz chit chat stickers. 

I hope i inspired you. 

Gorgeous greens

Hi Hermine here, my favorite colour is green as you maybe can tell :o) so I made this clean and simple card with lots of green.

step 1: take the Big and Juicy Herb garden and stamp several different trees by inking on a different spot on the ink pad. I have used: Redwood Trees 19718, Fir trees Silhouette 19723 and  Leafless trees in field 19719
step 2: Take the Tree with tire swing 19717 and stamp it with Stazon Black. Then take the Stitching Lines 19642 and stamp on the card as shown on photo 3, making little squares. Colour in 4 of the squares with the big and juicy.
step 3: fasten some brads in 2 of them and die cut a leaf and put behind one brad.
step 4: glue the card on a double square card.





Warmly Hermine

Used materials:
Redwood Trees 19718
Fir trees silhouette 19723
Leafless Trees in field 19719
Stitching Lines 19642
Tree with tire swing 19717
Stazon

Mail Art Monday

Hi my dear Viva Las VegaStamps! Friends!

It's Mail Art Monday today on our blog and I have a video to share. I used PanPastels together with VersaMark Ink and some of the awesome Viva Las VegaStamps!
Have fun watching the video!

Here are some more detailed images:

I hope you like the video. See you next time and happy stamping!
Susanne.

Stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps!
Dictionary Page
Harlequin Diamond Background
Dream
Escape
Imagine
Caped Lady
Curly Hair Lady 

Other supplies:
PanPastel
VersaMark Ink
Archival Ink

September WINNERs

We have a WINNER (or 2) to announce today :). Coming to you directly from our September SPOOOOOKY Challenge is the voted winner... TINA WALKER:

She's used our Whimsical Lettered Man and Small Striped Witch Hat on this deliciously fun Halloween themed tag! Lovin' all the details on this piece. Congrats on your win, Tina! Please feel free to use the following graphic on your blog as a winner:

And our random winner is Kristiina!

Congrats to both ladies; please email me @ deedee430@gmail.com with your shipping addresses.

And don't forget to stop by our Current Challenge to enter and win yourself!

Spooky Decor

Holy moly!  It's October already and Halloween is creeping up FAST!!!
Michele here today sharing some creepy crawly ornaments to spook up your home.

Viva Las VegaStamps!: Spider Web, Spider, Spider on Web Line, Striped Spider and Fly.

Other items:  Archival Ink, Distress Stain, Distress Spray and wood ornaments.

Bright colors and creepy spiders...

And a fly caught in the web.

Make sure you check out our October inspiration challenge!!  Link up for a chance to win!

Until next time...get INKY!!

You can do it art board

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first October VLVS post.

This art piece is a kind of " stamp first and then find the title" one and it's totally different from my usual kind of crafting.

It's a Mixed Media piece made over 8*6 chipboard with all possible mediums.

I made the background with stencils and texture paste, gel mediums and glass beads, mists, paints and two VLVS stamps that was stamped on tissue paper.

When you have a very textured piece of art the only way to stamp over it is to add your stamped over tissue image and to glue it with gel medium or Mod Podge. As I really wanted this single Man in flying machine image on my art piece I had to find the title that fits this image and the general " fly away" theme. 

I didn't want to make it general in this " Sky is a limit" style. So finally I found those very old leather letters and made this" YOU CAN DO IT" title. And it means that if you try hard- you can do everything.

Even to fly. Or even more than just to fly.

Here you can see how the image over tissue becomes the part of the art piece and you can't even see the tissue edges.

Products used:
VLVS
Flock of Geese Item 19465 Plate 1444  
Man in flying machine   Item 15967 Plate 1271
Other:
Inks- Ranger
Stencils- Tando Creative
Mists, paints- Tattered Angels
Other- texture paste, letters, tissue

Super freak

Hello everyone,

Today it is my turn to share a project with you.  For this post I have made a postcard using my new paints... and of course loads of yummy VivaLasVegaStamps! I really enjoyed making this..

I started out with a piece of white card stock which I painted with white gesso. After it dried I used a palet knife to scrape Art Anthology Sorbet paint over it. I used yellow, orange and pink. I had to put on two layers to cover all the white gesso. Next I got the gesso out again and scraped some over here and there, using the same palet knife. I also put some around the edges. I then used a stencil and some modelling paste to make the background more interesting. I coloured the stencilled dots with similar coloured inks and my fingers after it dried to make it blend in with the background. You can still see it although it is very subtle. 

Next I randomly stamped the background. There is a list of all the stamps I used at the bottom of this post. Next I stamped the boy and the sentiment. The boy was coloured, cut out and clear embossed. The open letters of the sentiment were coloured in with a black marker and the edges of the strip of paper were inked with a black Archival ink pad. 

Both the boy and the sentiment were then adhered to the card. 

I used the following stamps:

19688 Whimsical horned boy

19571 Writing triangles

19569 Mesh texture

19566 Bubble wrap texture

19659 Numbers set

19652 Super freak 

Thank you so much for stopping by today !