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

Life is not a movie: August challenge inspiration

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my August challenge inspiration for our VLVS challenge.

First let  me show you our gorgeous August inspiration:

This inspiration is SO MUCH ME!! 

Even as a new DT member I already own most of the stamps on this inspirational photo and I love them.

So here is my art page made with this inspiration.

I made it in my usual Mixed Media style using lots of mediums, paints, stencils and ... stamps, sure.

Also this inspiration is in black and white, I thought that adding a bit of color on the corner can be interesting. So I used stencil to make the texture over stamped Dictionary page  (keeping the main image of Businessman  Silhouette on the corner). The Film strip that was on the inspirational piece gave me the words of my art piece: Life is not an old movie, but a new rainbow dream.

Totally my own quote, believe me... 

The quote was made with my very old letter stickers and as those became totally non adhesive, I added a thin line of glaze to keep them in the place.

And now for some close- ups too:

I used Sepia black ink and not the  real black one, so you see a bit of dark brown on the background stamping. The man image was outlined with white paint around to make it " standing out".

The word life is a die cut  that I glued on my piece.

And here is a full sentiment  (you sure can use it, but remember me if you do so)

And here is a list of stamps I used for this inspirational piece:

 Businessman Silhouette Item 19418 Plate 1440

Film strip Item 18921 Plate 1428

Dictionary page Item 19015 Plate 890

Other products:

Stencil- Tando Creative

Die- Cherry Lynn Designs

Letter stickers

Paints, mists, gesso : Ranger

So now it's your time to play with our inspirational challenge!

Who knows- you can even win!!!

Stamp-Boards in my Clairfontaine Journal

I have always wanted to try my hand at a stamp-board, you may ask what am I referring to? Instead of always having to buy your background papers for your cards and scrapbooking make your own!  

With my awesome journal from Clairfontaine I have been dabbling with stamp-boards.  The 83lb paper is the perfect weight, I have sprayed each page with a mist before stamping and they didn’t buckle!

All pages were misted first, set aside to dry and stamped.  All stamps are from Viva Las Vegastamps! 

WRITER - DRAWING

Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Wheat Grass 

Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Dye

Pen Tips 

Stafford Bottle Ink  

Pointed Pen Tip 

Fountain Pen 

Spilling Ink Bottle 

Draw 

The above listed stamps are available on Plate 1424 

Fountain Pen 

 DOILIES

 

Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Iridescent 

Ink:  Color Box Fluid Chalk - Rouge

Large Doily 

Medium Doily 

Small Doily 

All available on Plate 1427 

PARIS

Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Sparkling Silver

Ink:  CTMH Barn Red (Stamped off)

Paris Address 

Paris Eiffel Stamp Cancelled 

Paris Grunge 

Paris Champs-Elysees Cancellation 

Eiffel Tower Medium

Swirl 

STEAMPUNK

 Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Sparkling Silver

Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Barn Door(Stamped off)

Key 3/4 x 1 1/4 

Key 1 x 1 3/4 

Fancy Key Vintage

Pocket Watch 

Nesting Gears 

Four Gears Rotating 

Try making your own stamp boards!

The month of August, twice a week, the VLVS! Design Team is featuring journals entries   in “Carnet de Voyage Travel Album” by Clairefontaine. You can see Clairefontaine products HERE. As part of this month long event, Viva Las Vegastamps! and Clairefontaine are hosting a month long contest--comment on all the Clairefontaine posts throughout the month to get a chance at a free journal and a $15 coupon to the VLVS! online store!  You can't win if you don't enter!!! Good Luck!

The next Clairefontaine post by will be Friday by Aimee. 

Chicken Wire

I'm having so much fun art journaling.. Here's one of my most recent:

After I misted my background and did a bit of ink puddling, I gathered my spiced marmalade distress ink and stamped my
Chicken Wire Background

3 3/4 x 4 1/2 - $15.25

to add some orange to my page. I sponged the pad directly to the stamp but then misted the stamp a bit with water. It's an easy way to break up a monotone piece and throw in a bit of excitement without taking away from the whole thing. Gives it sort of a watercolor feel.

When misting.. hold the bottle up high and let the water just "speckle" the ink on the stamp. I didn't let mine puddle.. but that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been a nice effect! Just try it out :)

Other products used include a star punchinella from Gauche Alchemy, charcoal tattered angels glimmer mist, a jar, gesso, art blanche alphas, 7gypsies file tab and a woven web from my friend Paula!