Bookmarks by Cathy

 Goodmorning, Today I have 2 bookmarks for you.

I started out by cutting a strip of paper 6in X 2in. 

Then I used a Tim Holtz stencil and green distress ink and make a background.

On a scrap of paper I stamped the creepy creature and colored with Copic markers and cut out and added to the bottom of the bookmark.

For this one I started with 2 different purple distress inks to make the background. 

I then stamped the cross stich on the bottom of the bookmark for the creepy striped creature to stand on.

On a scrap of paper, I stamped the creepy standing creature and colored it with Copic markers and cut out. Next, I placed the cut out on top of the stamped cross stich. Around the background I stamped the grunge writing in purple ink. 

I then stamped the sawtooth stitching off the top of the bookmark.

Lastly, I added some white spots to it.

Stamps Used:

19876Creepy creature sitting.

19877 Creepy striped creature

19880 Cross stich

19643 sawtooth stitching

17545 Grunge writing

Other stuff:

Cardstock

Distress inks, green and 2 purples

Copic

White ink

Black ink

Tim Holtz stencil

Fall vibe by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello Everyone!

Crazy weather and hot temps has made me miss my beloved fall-It inspired this art tag....

I started with a resin frame I had sitting around and have been wanting to use. For that I used a mould and black quick cure resin. once cured, I used rust effect paint to give it that old grungy look. 

i used some resin flies I had ready as well. Glued them on with some thin sticks. Then I die cut a spider web from card stock and used the rust effect paint again.

For the tag, I used Distress spray stains. Spray background with antique linen, dried, sprayed with some stormy sky, dry then drip on more colors drying in-between to get that mottled look. once dry, I stamped the chicken wire in brown. 

I then stamped the milk jug, fussy cut it out, sprayed with antique linen and rusty hinge spray stains. I cut a slice in top and put sticks in there. Taped them on the back and attached to the bottom of frame inside.

Showing the kind of brush I use for rust paint. I stipple it on. Make a jute bow and that's

 it. I use a really sticky double stick tape to adhere the frame to the tag.

Stamps used:

Chicken wire       5757

Metal milk jug     20021

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains:  Antique linen, Uncharted Mariner, Rusty Hinge, Spiced Marmalade, Stormy Sky, Black soot

Black Resin

Finabair moulds

Rust effect paint kit- Finabair

sticks from nature

Tag #8 TH

To My Foodie Friend by Madisen Hernandez

 Hello my stamping friends, it's Madisen! Today I come at you with a card made for my awesome nurse coworker who is a foodie just like me! I plan on giving this card wrapped with a cookbook I bought for her. I liked the way the chopsticks are used to pick up the cookie. If you're a foodie too, you know sometimes you have to be innovative! Enjoy!

I started this card by selecting the two main stamps I wanted to use. I chose 

Chocolate Chip Cookie 2

and 

Hand Holding Chopsticks

because I liked the juxtaposition  of the elegance of the chopsticks with the simplicity and rustic character of a chocolate chip cookie. I then used some alcohol markers to color these two images in. 

I knew that I wanted some contrast from the blue and the brown of the cookie and also wanted to tie in the nail color together, so I chose a violet purple and red combo. 

Once I was satisfied with my blending I decided what background stamps I wanted. I chose

 Twilight Zone Swirl

Stars

Tina Walker Scribble Mountains

I wanted a little sumthin' extra so I lined the border with some golden glitz pigment ink

I'm always curious about adhesives, FIY these are the ones I use

...and the rest is history! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to look at my stamp art! 

-xoxo Madisen 

Have a great day!

 

Hi!My boys have finally arrived and I’ve decided to play with them ASAP.

First I prepared my background using a checked stencil and some fuchsia.

Next I stamped the kids and coloured them with some markers, same story goes with the big clock that is literally the best universal stamp for all projects.

Finally I created a journal page adding some circles and little bits here and there.

Stamps used:

https://vlvstamps.com/plate1444/ - clock

https://vlvstamps.com/kids-in-futuristic-hats-3-x-2-1-2/

https://vlvstamps.com/spiral-heavy-1-x-1/

A Mail Art

 Hi Everyone! 

Corinne with you today. For my first project as guest DT for a few months, I had fun creating a first Mail Art, at the moment I love creating such decorated envelopes, it's so fun. 

Of course as mixed media offers such a variety of possible supports, it will change in the future, no worries ;-)

So let's start... I used recycled envelopes.

Then I simply played on separate papers by sprintzing several vibrant Izink liquid inks on two sheets of smooth watercolor paper. My goas was to use it for my background, for collaging some parts of it on a really poor paper envelope used as my support.

To add texture, next I sprayed some more colors on top of it, over some beautiful masks and stencils. But I forgot to take a picture of the process at this stage, sorry. 

In a second step, I took another sheet of watercolor paper, used some postage dies I have in my stash to create some false postal stamps, and also quickly sprayed inks over all the die-cuts. 

This is the result after drying all the elements. 

Time to play with them and add some stamping! 

On a piece of rhodoid, I drawed several squares fitting the size of my postage die-cuts, then cut the inside. By this way, I have a stencil ready to go, to help masking the outside parts of my desired stamped images if needed. 

You can see how I used it below. I created two fake postal stamps with brown and black permanent inks by stamping only some parts of the wonderful large Bug Specimens. The result is beautiful, isn't it? 

After cutting to the size of my envelope a central part of my A4 sheet background, I started to assemble and glue my prepared elements. 

I stamped either directly or on scraps of gelliprint papers some words and mixed media symbols and marks. You will find the full list at the end. 

The text over the three lines embossed initially in white was not enough visible and realistic for me, so I decided to recover it with black Versafine ink. As the stamping can not be adjusted perfectly (I didn't use a stamping platform), it just added some nice black shades to the text, and that's just what I wanted. So perfect! :)   

I also stamped on separate pieces of tissue paper the words Mail Art, and Deliver to, then collaged them with also little pieces of contrasted paper to add some interest. 

I decorated also the back side, using simply the leftovers.

And here the final result, after a few splatters of white paint added. 

At first, the front cover of my mail art:

... And the back. I really love it too!!

I hope you like this mail art. 

I don't know yet if I will keep it for myself as I love it, or send it to a dear friend! Anyway, a thing is sure, it made me smile and spend a great time doing it!!

Until the next time, I wish you a very happy Easter! 

Corinne (aka ~Cocofolies)

Stamps used:

Bug Specimens

Deliver to

Mail Art

Create art every day

Assemic Stripes

Writing Circles Background

Carved Xs

Writing and Scribbles Collage

Other items used:

Stencils 'Art Nouveau' and 'Tribal Frenzy', by GiogioCraft

Seth Apter Izink inks in various colors 

Versafine Clair inks (I used mainly Fantasia, Nocture and Pinecone) 

Sizzix and other postage dies

200g/m2 watercolor paper

old envelopes

washi tape

Versamark + white / clear embossing powders

gel medium + scotch glue 

Nevermore by Arwen

 Hi Lovelies

Back on the Blog with a new flip card:

Close-ups:

Stamps, I used:

- Raven looking up

- Nevermore

Other supplies:

- Cardstock

- Distress Reinker

- ZIG Color 

- Feathers

- 3D Foam pads

- Gems

- Bazzill Cardstock grey

- hand drawn background

- Embossing powder

See ya soon *mwah*

All how wander by Cathy

 Cathy here and today I have a card for you. 

I started out with watercolor paper and 3 colors of green distress inks. I smooched it on my craft mat and added some water to blend the colors. I started with the lightest color and worked my way to the darkest. I dried in-between the colors so they could layer.

Next, I grabbed a Tim Holtz dot stencil and added it the background with the darkest green ink to add a layer.

 

Next, I stamped the Butterfly Specimens in the middle of the panel with black ink. I then stamped Victorian Flourish with the same dark green ink. I only used a corner of the stamp. After that I then stamped Waybill background in brown distress ink randomly over the whole panel. I only used the top part of this stamp. 

To finish it off I edged it in drown distress ink and on top of that I added a layer of black distress ink. Lastly, I stamped Not all who wander saying on white cardstock and layered it on black cardstock and stuck in in the middle of the card. 

Stamps Used:

Butterfly Specimens

Victorian Flourish

Waybill background

Not all who wander

Other supplies used:

watercolor paper

distress ink

amalgam ink

white cardstock

black cardstock