Touch of Magic

 It seams that I still have " me time" and " me time" means making things just for myself. Like for some web challenges. Like to play with products I forgot about as I had to work with " my" companies.
 So this art piece is a bit about forgotten things and a bit about " let play from the heart".
 This is an small, card  size art board I made for a couple of web challenges.
The only new thing here is the stencil I just got and this delight is from Rebecca Baer. You will see much more of them from April, but for now it's just a sample.
I used  very old stamps from the time I was a Guest designer for a few months on 100 Proof Press company. The mists are from Lindy Stamp Gang February challenge colors and lucky me just had 3 of them at hand ( Used Luscious lime mist,Hottie Patottie hot pink, and Delphinium Turquoise). Also used DecoArt Decoupage medium to glue the stamped over tissue images and their Texture paste. Some glitters were the only other medium used.
And the letters are from AC and Michaels.

And those are the challenges that I enter this pieces:

Lindy Stamp Gang color challenges

 Used Luscious lime mist,Hottie Patottie hot pink, and Delphinium Turquoise

More than words- mini challenge- Magical

SSSS- Song words challenge-  it's an inspiration from Olivia Newton John song " Magic"

 Mixed Media Monthly- glitter

Stamps and stencils

Splatter, Spritz and Smoosh !

Country view challenges- Make your own background
 Anything but a card- Sweet Stamps

Angels place cards

A very small , but yet lovely project I made for Just Christmas cards and decorations! print 2015 issue and this was already printed.
I used Canvas Corps corrugated cardstock;Canvas corps  patterned cardstock and Canvas Corps red burlap as the base of those place cards.
Then I stamped the angels (100 Proof Press stamp) with 3 different embossing powders heat embossing and hand cut them to be placed over the cards.
Happy Holidays sentiment is stamped inside and it's a Rubber Dance stamp.
I also added WOW! Embossing Powders names (dad, mom, etc) on the corner to make those a real place cards.

My House of Everything

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share my Mixed Media 4 pieces art mini album made with 100 Proof Press gorgeous stamps and a lot of everything else... This project was print published in RubberStampMadness Fall 2014 issue on pages 40-41-42   with a full 3 pages article and even with my own photo, so now this is a time to post it on the web.
This is my Mixed Media House of everything piece.  Actually those are 4 same shape, but different sizes house shapes.Handmade chipboard cut and a lot of Mediums  over it.

I used 100 Proof Press stamps: Old Script over the roof; Calendar blocks as a background;  Intently Reading girl as a symbol of Knowledge and an Open  Notebook. For the Dream piece I used Boy Daydreaming  and Spring Bouquet . For the Adventure piece I used  Small many line Circle, A flock of crows and  Basic Compass and for the Imagination piece I used Butterfly boy, Old script, Spring Bouquet and  Basic Compass stamps.

Then I use Tando Creative and TCW stencils, Tsukineko  inks such as VersMark for embossing and also Memento, StazOn and even Brilliance, Sweet Stamps dimensional paints, yellow embossing powder, gesso and a bunch of mists.  And then I had to add something!
 It all was too flat, also messy and full of colors. So each piece got a piece or 2 of Wycinanka small chipboards  from 5 different sets. I decided to leave them just a bit black inked and bare, as is. Those are white chipboards that look like a wood, so it fits this Natural  feeling.

And as I can see, I am going to add some more of those Houses: maybe a House of Love, of Hope and of Inspiration. But not this time. You need to come back to check in the future as if it was good for big stamping print magazine, sure it's a good concept to continue with. And if you want to see me (not really, I  and not so pretty) in the magazine- this is still the last published issue  on the shelf. And I do have a new piece in Winter issue of RSM too! Not printed yet, but it comes.

Black and blue with Tando

My new project made for Tando blog using Die Versions die , 100 Proof Press stamp, a lot of ribbon and LSG mists.

Adore...

My new layout with my adorable grandson's photo and the most adorable FabScraps new paper collection. Everything on this page is this paper line, but some FWAB  pearls and a lot of stamping with my previous DT on 100 Proof Press. As always I used Lindy's Stamp Gang mists  over some real punchinella (yes, I still use it even with all fancy masks around as  I have a lot of it and you don't need to clean it after you use the real thing. Not like the fancy masks.)

I decided to enter this to some web challenges too.

Colors for Artimeno blog

Stamping and the mood board (I picked mostly colors and circles and arrows) for Punky scraps

 Monochromatic for Studio challenges

Live the moment with GJS AND 100 PP

My monthly GJS wooden mini book project and it's a Summer Mixed Media mini book. No photos this time, just a lot of stamping,  stencilling, inks, mists and all possible mediums over the  wood with no... paper. Yes, there is no paper on this project and finally I can live without it.
So here is the cover of this Picket  Fence mini book.

Painted with a thin layer of crackled white paint (Ranger), dried and stamped with Spring Bouquet 100 Proof Press stamp. Dozen of times stamping over and over with black die ink only to get this flowered result. Then I  misted it with 3-4 mist from Ranger and Art Anthology.
Next I added FWAB Tree and grass, colored with brown alcohol ink randomly and just in the middle.
 Oh, you don't want to see my fingers and nails after this treat!

Then I added a resin bird and a flower cluster and Tim Holtz metal plate with this " Life the moment" title.
Next page was stencilled with TCW ATC size stencil  and gel paste, misted and then I made this house with a lot of 100 PP stamping: Old Script, Butterfly  boy, Basic  Compass and a Cloud Speech bubble on the wood.

The third page was with the same stencilled technique  with gel, but another stencil pattern; all misted again and stamped just a bit with the very same stamps. I added FWAB fence (stamped with flowers over it) and misted some white Prima flowers to this mute vintage colors.

The last page: same mists, same stamps; Kaisercraft wooden clock, resin flower, stencilled background  and a lot of summer colors; Flower girls silhouette stamped on the  back.

 

And here is my back cover (I already posted a full tutorial  with step by step instructions for this page)



I hope you like my Mixed Media GJS  fence mini book.

Be happy or how to make your own silhouette stamps

 I love silhouette stamps! I think it's very easy to work with this kind  of stamps and very effective.
So when I don't have them, I just make them. Period. I try to find a stamp with some kind of a silhouette and then, after I stamp it with black permanent ink, I just  color  the whole image over with a good permanent black marker.
That's exactly how this card was made.

One 100 Proof Press Boy Daydreaming and a randomly, partially stamped Spring  Bouquet ; 4 mists form Lindi's stamp gang; some solid cardstock and a few small letter stickers. One delicious Faber Castell Artist black pen! This is a must!
10 minutes and a card. Or an art piece. Or something you can be proud to show as nobody will know how fast it was done.

So go and do it!
 Pick your favorite stamp and make your own silhouettes!

Red, black and gold Orient

I love all things Chinese and Japanese, but I hardly craft if this style due the shortage of oriental products on my craft table. So when in one day I got those products from my two design teams, I just made not one and even not 2 projects, but a card and  and 3 ATC cards, All were made with 100 Proof Press Ginko and Lanterns set  of stamps - this collection of cling stamps is very new in the shop-  and with Papyrus #1 and #2 plus a gorgeous corner from my very new Polish team - Wycinanka

The card was made with gold heat embossing of an oriental script over the black card base. Then a front panel was made over white cardstock and heavely covered with Red Distress paint form Ranger (some masking made here, not a lot). Another oriental  flower was stamped and arranged with bare papyrus chipboards. The corner was gold heat embossed and I added a huge bow on the left side.

The ATC cards were stamped over glossy cardstock with permanent ink, painted the same way to the red color with Distress Paint  and every single piece of papyrus chipboards was gold heat embossed. Then I rubbed a bit of Gold  Inka paint for more interest.

I enter this card to some web challenges:
Anything with a bow for Craft Deebowz
Use distress paint for Frog Dog Studio
 Red for Get creative card challenge

Inspiring with Tando and 100 Proof Press

My new altered frame, all pinks and stamps, lovely and so much inspiring as my title says.
I used Tando Creative frame with Bo Bunny background paper and some more  chipboards over it and stamped with most delicious 100 Proof Press stamps all around.

Each spot  got a stamped image: Child  Looking up,  Intently  Reading Girl , Butterfly Boy and Spring Bouquet stamped several times as a background; I used Ranger Black Archival ink all over this piece and it was just perfect for the background paper.

I also enter this to Artastic challenge

 All in pink for Pink with wings challenge

When you are a King

It's very hard to make masculine project. This key chain is   one of those " hard to make" ones, but finally I got a lovely art piece that is a great Father's   day gift.
I made it with Tando Creative chipboards, lots of WOW! Embossing powders  and 2 of the most gorgeous  100 Proof Press stamps:
King  of Clubs  and Old script.

The script was stamped as the larger cog background with Ranger Black Archival ink and the cardstock was distressed with Tea Die Ranger distress ink . King stamp was used a my smaller cog background with the same ink and then I made another image as my focal point.I added a bit of red paint  over the image using Creative Inspiration Garnet paint.
The song lyrics was a perfect for the wording and I also added some Tando arrows (trendy and to give some more interest) to my piece.(Fancy pants stickers and some glaze over them)

I also enter this to Masculine challenge for Artistic stamper

 And to Craft Stamper Embossing challenge with stamping

Steampunk/vintage for Sparkles forum

New mini book with Want to Scrap and Bo Bunny

This  new totally Bo Bunny mini album. made with Mama- Ratzi papers, stickers and die cuts and a lot of stamping (mostly VLVS!, but some TRC  and 100 Proof Press too). I tried to stay with the collection: colors, theme and everything in between and not to add too many embellishments as the photos of my grandson and his parents are so lovely.The chipboard album is from Want to Scrap  and I got it in one of my product swaps in the past (thanks for this lovely shaped album)
 Here is what I made for the cover: BB paper had those film strips, so I added some more stamped with VLVS Film strip over it. Then I decided to pick any camera images I have and to glue them over the cover. So here are one stamped Camera from VLVS!, one from 100 Proof Press and the last one is from The Rubber Cafe. And the forth? BB chipboard sticker. 4 cameras, all different, all tell the same photo story of this project.
The A2Z Scraplets title was hear embossed and drops of " blood" were added to give it more interest and a small drop of red color.

And now for the inner pages. Same paper collection and some chipboard stickers and again, VLVS! stamps are my stars here.The whole rubber plate I bought was about Photos with some perfect images to add  to my faux Polaroid photos.

Another page, more stamping.

And more...

 And much more.

Last photo page and  stamping over the page again.

This is a back cover (sorry, no stamping )

 

Special memories mini book

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today I am going to show you the whole mini album I made and as I already posted some of the page before for GJS and Artistcellar blog hop, maybe you will see some of them again.
So here we go!
This huge (in my opinion) project was made with FabScraps gorgeous papers and was intended to be a workshop project. Then I just " dropped" it after gluing some papers and decided to make it my own one: at home, with my own chipboards, stamps and embellishments , also I used some kit flowers, stickers  and die cuts too (and paid a lot for a class I just spent outside chatting  and doing nothing.) But it's my very first brown bag project, so I got some experience with it  a bit after all and the products in this kit are gorgeous.
So here is the cover (and every single page can be a cover too as I added big titles to the front side and then the photos can be hidden in a lot of pockets.)

I  stamped the background with 100 Proof Press stamps :  Old script and Spring Bouquet  using black ink, then I stamped the same script over Prima flowers with white and black and added a stamped Camera 35mm , heat embossed and hand cut.I also stamped the Script over the solid flowers for more interest.
My A2Z Scraplets title and corner were slightly inked and I made some embellishment cluster and added TH handle for my own closure of this album
Now for the inside pages.
This one was stamped with the same Spring Bouquet  and  Old Script  stamps too.

The second page was made with Ornate Gate stamp, another chipboard title, a swirl and  a lot of flowers and butterflies.

The second page inside: just a few embellishments were added

The third page: stamping the Small Many Lines Circle and adding a big chipboard over it.

The third back- some stamping again and some embellishments

Forth page was misted with Artistcellar stencil and walnut ink.

Forth page inside was made with another Artistcellar stencil called Family Tree and is was perfect for this Family page, gesso and green embossing powder over the wet  gesso.

2 more pages were made with another stamps.
 A few more pages to show

Lesson learned: don't go to  workshops, unless you want to make a  whole project there! It's cheaper to buy the products  by yourself if you are going to make your totally own project after all.(Also  I had a lovely time with girls there )