Stop wars

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my first December post. Today I have an artjournal page to show you.

The background is a gel printed piece of paper from my stash. I randomly stamped it with Distress Oxide inks, black VersaFine and some grey StaZon. I stamped the Stormtrooper and Toto on my page and on some watercolour paper. After colouring the images with watercolours and som coloured pencils I cut them out and arranged them on my page. I added some colour under his brush and some shading under their feet. A border drawn with a graphite pencil finished it off. 

I have used the following stamps:

19945 - Banksy Love is the answer

19938 - Banksy Dorothy & Toto being searched

19974 - Banksy Stormtropper stop wars

19015 - Dictionary page

19568 - Double coffee rings

19571 - Writing triangles

20449 Art is my weapon

18920 - Harlequin Diamond background

Other materials:

A gel printed background from my stash

Distress Oxide Inks

StaZon ink

Versafine Ink

Watercolour paints

coloured pencils

graphite pencil

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Whassup - mail art monday

Hi Hermine here on mailart monday. Hope you like it.

 

step 1: Take an acryllic bloc and add three colours Memento Luxe, but instead by spraying water onto the block I sprayed water on my paper and then presed the coloured acryllic block onto your paper. I think this work easier without dripping colour water onto you work when you flip you block. Leave to dry.

 

step 2: Mask off the white border. Stamp your focal image Cellular Fanatic 415 with Stazon Black

 

step 3 Stamp  Coffee rings 19568, December daily 1430, Victorian Flourish19417, Pointed Pen 18793 with the same colours you used for the background. Stamp with Stazon Black the Spiked Fence 18919. Then hand draw the outside line, mask it and stamp Bubble Wrap Texture 19566 in the corners

 

step 4: Colour the woman with colouring pencils. Stamp Whassup 3048  with Stazon Black below the woman. And because I decided I needed a little more colour I stamped the Scribbled heart 19645 twice above the woman.

And I hear you thinking, I thought it was mail art monday and it is, because I used a blanc postcard, so here you see the back side of the card. Remember if you send a postcard out like this to use water proof inks and stuff.

 

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

Cellular Fanatic 415

 Coffee rings 19568

December daily 1430

Victorian Flourish 19417

Pointed pen 18793

Spiked Fence 18919

Bubble wrap Texture 19566

Whassup 3048

Scribbled heart 19645

Stazon

Memento Luxe

Made to match

Hello, Hermine here. Made this card and matching envelope, using Magenta Nuances and colouring pencils.

step 1: spary some water on your craftsheet and sprinkle some Magenta Nuances powder into it. Then put your cardstock and your envelope onto the craftsheet. Leave to dry.
step 2: for the envelope I masked of a little rectangle and bleached the inner side. Remove masking paper and stamp the Fris ChamairisLatifolia  18733 (not inking the text), and stamp the same flower onto you card. Discolour with bleach and colour in with colouring pencils.
step 3: Mask the flower and use sequin scrap and Memento Luxe wedding dress to sponge.
step 4: handdrawn some lines around the rectangle on the envelope with a black fine liner. Stamp with stazon the text inspire 18888 on the lefthand bottom side.
step 5: Use black/white washi tape all around the outside  on both card and envelope.





Warmly Hermine



Used materials:
Fris ChamairisLatifolia 18733
Inspire 18888
Stazon

from the heart

Hi hermine here. Again with a photo step by step tutorial. As you probably know by know I love to incorporate the back of my cards into my design.

step 1: make a heart mask and put on the onfolded (but already scored in the middle) card

step 2 : stamp all around the heart except for the spot where you see the girl peeping out, for that see next photo. You can find the stamps I used at the end of this article. I used Stazon the stamp with. Sometimes you mask things, sometimes you can stamp on top of the previous stamp.

step 3: flip the mask over to one side for a minute and stamp the Banksy Swing Girl.

step 4: flip mask back and make a mask for the Banksy swing girl.

step 5: spray with 2 colours Dyllusion spray and remove mask.

step 6: hand draw the lines around the heart twice with a black fine liner and make some red accents with a red fine liner and scribble some zigzag stitches with a black fine liner.

step 7: make some highlights in the windows of the buildings with a white sharpie. Stamp with Stazon black the text She was a dreamer on the inside of the heart. Then fold the card.

 

Hope you like my tutorial. Have fun playing around.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Wright Brothers walking 19730

 Old house 19741

Tree with Tire swing 19717

Leafless Trees in Field 19719

Fir Trees Silhouette 19723

Clump of rocks.pebbles 19721

Wildflowers Silhouette 19646

Banksy swing girl 19425

She was a dreamer 19635

Stazon

Together

Hi Hermine, this time I made a step by step photo tutorial again. I am totally in love with this heart stamp, it colours my world.

step 1: take several colours Memento Luxe and several rounds sponges and finger sponges and stamp circles all over you card, one colour at a time. On the front as well as on the back of your card. Leave to dry.

step 2: Take Memento Luxe Weddingdress (white) and work in the same way you did in step 1. Leave to dry.

step 3: Stamp Wright Brothers walking 19730 with Stazon Black. And the Vitruvian Man Large 19763 partial on the right hand site and partial on the left hand bottom side.

step 4: Stamp the Squiggle Heart 19644 next to the Vitruvian Man   Then stamp the  Scribble Heart 19645 once on the front and twice on the back. Make some outside masks and sponge the inner space with Memento Luxe red.

step 5:  Stamp the Stitching Lines 19642 3 times on the front vertically and twice on the back horizontally. Draw some dots at the ends of the stitching lines. Take green en blue Memento Luxe and stamp the Wild flowers Silhouette 19646 aal the way along the bottom of the card.

step 6: fold the card in half. I Always love when the design runs over the back of the card as well.

 

Hope you like my tutorial. 

Warmly Hermine 

Used stamps:

Wright Brothers walking 19730

Vitruvian Man Large 19763

Squiggle Heart 19644

Scribble heart 19645

Stitching Lines 19642

Wildflowers Silhouette 19646

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

Specimen

Hello everyone,

For my DT post today I made a card. I love this bunny, he looks so sweet ! I wrote up how I made this card so sit down, have a nice cup of coffee and enjoy !

This is the finished project and here is how I made it :

I painted a piece of white card stock with gesso. 

Next I mixed Primary Elements with soft gel Medium and 

painted my card with that....

I then sprayed some Lindy's spray ink on it and it gave me this mottled effect which I thought was nice.

Then I got my stamps out ! 

The bell jar was stamped straight on the card along with some numbers in the background. I used black Archival ink for the jar and grey for the numbers.

The rest of the images were stamped on separate card stock, I used Memento ink for the bunny and the bee as I was going to colour with Copic Markers. The sentiment words, of which I only used one in the end, were stamped on black card stock using Versamark ink. I then heat embossed them with white embossing powder.

Here is how it looked after colouring...

I then decided to stamp the jar on acetate also; I used StaZon ink for this. I got rid of the back bottom rim with a cotton bud and some StaZon cleaner and cut it out.  Next I glued the bunny on the card.

I then adhered the acetate jar over the top. The bee was glued over the acetate, so was the sentiment. I also drew some doodle lines on the edges of the card panel...

Lastly I adhered the panel to a card blank. 

Here is a view from the side so you can see the shiny acetate. It looks like bunny is really in a glass jar... 

I used the following stamps:

9985 Dumb Bunny

19660 Bell jar

19657 Specimen

19659 Numbers set

19653 Bumble bee 

Thank you so much for stopping by today !

Create art every day

Hi Hermine here. This time I made a tutorial on how I made a pocket letter using a gelli plate and paint.

step 1 : cut a piece of paper in 9 sections and put some low tack masking tape on the back to keep them together

step 2 : put some acryllic paint on you gelli plate and put the paper on the gelli plate, do this several times with different colours

step 3 : take another colour and put a stencil onj top of the gelli plate, remove and put you paper onto the gelli plate. Then use the stencil itself to put on the paper, so you get a positive and negative print of the stencil.

step 4: stamp with Stazon black stitching lines 19642 on left and richt side and Sawtooth stitching lines 19643 on the bottom and top side

step 5: Before deciding where to put the images onto the pocketletter pieces I stamped them on transparant sheet so I can shuffle and decide to put which one on which place, see photo below.

step 6: put the transparant sheet on top of your background and see what look best, if your happy with it stamp the images onto the background.

step 7: I used Verdamark and black embossing powder to stamp the images, on 2 of the bottom ones I stamped: Whimsical honred boy 19688 and the text she was 19632  and an artist 19636 on each side.

step 8: on 4 of the pocketletters I stamped Whimsical lady on bench 19691 and the text create art every day 19637 on one of them.

step 9: remove the tape, make some white high lights with a sharpie and put then in the pockets

BONUS: if you keep a piece of paper by hand, so you can use the leftover paint from the gelli plate, and stencil you can create a second background and clean you gelli plate, stencil and brayer at the same time. Its looks great to start a new project. I haven't decide yet how to use it, make it into a journal page, cut them in four to make a series of cards or make another pocket letter. Time will tell.

 

Hope you like it.

Warmly Hermine

Used material:

 stitching lines 19642

sawtooth stitching lines 19643

Whimsical horned boy 19688

Whimsical lady on bench 19691

she was.. 19632

an artist 19636

create art every day 19637