Art Journal: Valley of the blind - VLVS!

Over at VLVS! blog I am sharing this art journal spread using lovely Banksy stamps and a Whimsical Cyclops.  Go check out the blogpost to see how I have made it. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day. 

Delight in the Little Things - VLVS!

Hey friends, it's my last post over at VLVS! I'm sharing a little ATC and Watercolor project with you in which I made this inspiration card. Be sure to check out the blog post HERE.   

I absolutely loved being a part of this fantastic team! I hope my posts there have inspired you as much as I loved making them. My term there has ended and have not reapplied because of time constraints as I am planning on doing a new studies. But will definitely be an unofficial ambassador of this wonderful stamp company as I LOVE using their stamps in my work. 

May the new year bring you beautiful delightful moments. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day. 

Mail Art Monday - In the pale Moonlight - VLVS!

It's a beautiful winter wonderland outside and it inspired me to create this Mail Art Monday envelope using a bunch of lush VLVStamps! I've got a step by step tutorial on the VLVS! blog, so take a look to see how I created it. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Art Journal: Exhaustipated! - VLVS!

Hi friends! It's my turn over at VLVS! blog today to share a creation. It's almost december and all the year end holidays are coming up and for me it's always such a tough month. The business of the festivities, hustle and bustle to buy presents (buyer's stress) does not mix well with my Seasonal Affective Disorder, so I just feel sooo tired just thinking about all these busy days ahead and dealing with the lack of sunlight which is a much needed fuel for my body. Often people think I am a real Grinch when I let these feelings out, but it's not about not wanting to celebrate. Being forced to be happy about the holiday season while I'm dealing with some tough things on a physical and emotional level, sometimes just takes its toll and I rather be honest about it than fake going through being "happy camper" about "this festive season".

Anyhow, I didn't had a word for this feeling until the brilliant people at VLVS! came up with this awesome word stamp "Exhaustipated: too tired to give a shit." and OH MY what a relief it was to create this art journal page about what I am feeling! So cathartic and meditative. Also this woman stamp is just my avatar around these winter days. To see the process of this page, I invite you to go to my blogpost at VLVS! HERE which also includes a list of other VLVS! stamps I used. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you have any sort of similar feelings about this topic, let me know, so we can support each other in solidarity. Wishing you a wonderful day!

Art Journal: Whimsical Sparkly Fairy - VLVS!

Hi everyone! It's my turn today over at VLVS! blog to share a project I made. If you have been following me on my instagram, you perhaps have been seeing this process in my stories and some sneak peeks on my feed. This Whimsical Fairy Lady from the newest releases from VLVS! is a cutie for sure and she does leave a sparkle everywhere she goes :) 

To read more about how I made it and which stamps I used, I'm inviting you to go over to my blog post at VLVS! for more close up and process pictures. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day! 

Silently Correcting your Grammar - VLVS!

Hi all, it's my turn at the VLVS! blog today and I am sharing this postcard I made. If you have been following me for a while, you know I like to take the "tongue in cheek" approach to conventional celebrations (and really almost everything else in life ;) . With Halloween coming up, I thought about the most horrifying thing to "dress up as", and that would be a "belittling know it all" - far more annoyingly terrifying than any monster in my book! ;) 

VLVS! has these AMAZING text stamps and the "I am silently correcting your grammar" is one of my favorites. To see which other stamps I used and know how I made this card, I cordially invite you to check out my post on the VLVS! blog :) 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

TGIF! the 13th - VLVS!

Hi all, it's my turn over at the VLVS! blog and I made this fun card for Friday the 13th- TGIF! it's happy hour for Nosferatu and he's looking for brains - a detour from his usual diet :) Hope on over to see more pictures and see what materials and stamps I used.

I would like to enter this piece in the following challenge:
Try it on Tuesday Halloween theme 

Wishing you all a wonderful creepy and happy Friday the 13th!

Find your tribe, love them hard - VLVS!

Find your tribe, love them hard! I've made this funky note card for my post over at VLVS! today. Hop on over to see which stamps I used and see more pictures. 

Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome weekend!

Mail Art Monday: You're awesome! - VLVS!

Hey you all, it's my turn at the VLVS! blog today and I'm sharing a tutorial for this mail art envelope I have made, based on out inspiration challenge photo. We want to inspire you with fall colors and themes this month. So hop on over to my blog post, to see the steps on how to make this cute foxy envelope for your snail mail friends :) 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Her Sparkly Star Shaped Self - VLVS!

Hi all, it's my turn over at the VLVS! blog and I made a little something for you to inspire you for our August Challenge. I have made an index sized art card inspired by the colors and imagery from our mood board below

Isn't it gorgeous and don't you just long for a summer sunset at the beach? 

It has inspired me to make the following

I am just absolutely in love with that Fancy Mermaid, the large moon and all the mixed media journaling stamps from the latest release. I've mixed a few oldies too, like the sentiment which is is a part of Tired of trying to cram stamp, which I LOVE! A full list of stamps and materials used is (including a time to stamp process video!!) is to be seen at the VLVS! blog post.

Hope this will inspire you to play along with out monthly challenge where you could win some great quality rubber stamps!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Always remember you are beautiful - VLVS! (+ process video!)

It's my turn on the VLVS! inspiration blog and I'm sharing how I made the above piece with you.

The really fun Whimsical Jester stamp and You are Beautiful phrase are my focal points. I have used some pigment powders, modeling paste, gelli printed deli papers and home made stencil for this piece. A full list of the stamps and materials used are listed below. I also have recorded the process video for this which you can see here on our Time2Stamp channel:

Stamps used: 

Whimsical Jester 

You are Beautiful 

Numbers set

Butterfly Specimen 

Doodle Dots 

Others:

Staz-On jet black, midnight blue, vibrant violet, black cherry, royal purple 

Color Bursts mustard, merlot, indigo 

Lindy'magical shaker oompah loompah pink 

Liquitex modeling paste and INKS! in white and gold

Art medium glue 

Tissue papers 

Random collage papers and gelli printed deli papers 

Tim Holtz Sizzix mixed media die cut for my stencil 

Black pearl rub on

Black soot distress crayon.

Also don't forget our August Challenge is up and running :) I will be back mid month for some inspiration for it :) 

Hope you enjoyed this :) Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome weekend!

There is a Universe Inside - VLVS!

Hi friends! It's my turn over at the VLVS! inspiration blog and here's a sneak peak I'm sharing of a card I made. I used various lush VLVS! to make this sentiment card and some perfect pearl glimmer mist for some shimmer and shine. So head on over to my VLVS! blogpost to see the full image of the card and which stamps I used :)

Also don't forget our Monthly Challenge is still running with the Flock of Birds challenge and this gorgeous mood board

AND there are some awesome new releases out for this summer! Check them out HERE!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day :)

Nevertheless, she persisted - VLVS!

Last week I received some gorgeous stamps from Viva las VegaStamps! and among them was this gorgeous whimsical leaf lady from the new releases and I just had to use her in one of my projects right away! I invite you to hop on over to my blogpost over at VLVS! to see the postcard in full and which other stamps and materials I used. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

MailART Monday: From the desk of Cheetarah

Last week on the VLVS! blog I shared a little tutorial for you to personalize your store bought postcards and I am sharing that with you here today. I love buying and sending postcards and have a stack of them to send out, but what really irks me a lot about postcards, sometimes there is no address placement lines or message box on the back.

As you can see with the Monet Art postcard here, the back is totally blank and boring. So what I did to help brighten these up is to decorate sheets of blank sticker paper that are already cut into 4 A5 (postcard) size in a mail art theme.

I used all these wonderful mail art related stamps from Viva LasVegaStamps! and Memento rubber stamp inks. I invite you to go to my blogpost over at VLVS! to see the whole tutorial.

There are more MailART Monday makes and tutorials every monday from my fellow DT members there!

Also our march challenge is up, so don't forget to link your makes inspired by the gorgeous inspiration board and words.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

MailART Monday: Banksy Mailart Inspiration

I'm very excited to share this week's MailART Monday with you as it's made for VLVS! blog MailART Monday section. 

Please hop on over to the Viva Las VegaStamps! inspiration blog to see the whole image and a step by step tutorial as to how I made it. In my blogpost there is a complete list of which stamps and materials I used as well.

This month we have a wonderful mail art swap going on in the VLVS! Groupies page, please check it out :) The theme is Banksy, so use any of the wonderful Banksy stamps VLVS! has to offer. Go on and join and perhaps you will be one of the recipients of these envies I made  :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Dandelion Breeze - VLVS! January Inspiration

 I'm back on the VLVS! inspiration blog this week with a card I wanted to share based on our challenge this month.

This is the mood board for our january challenge. Nice vintage looking style and colors. 

And inspiration words like foliage, flowers, weeds, nature, bugs, moths, butterflies, wings, numbers, script, invoice, background stamps, vintage, tan, black, white, brown, distressed, grungy,... made me dig up some great VLVS! images to work with. A full list of stamps and other items I used are listed below.

 

I worked on thick vellum paper on which I used a circle stencil and light and fluffy modeling paste. Then went on to distress it with brownish Distress inks to get that vintage look going. The vellum is nice and smooth so you can get a great transition into colors. The main image I used for this card is Blowing Dandelion and Extra Seed by Susan M. Brown which I stamped twice. First with Staz-On timbre brown and then with versamark ink to emboss it in a golden honey pearl color. The timber brown stamped image gives a nice shadow effect under the embossed image. Then I used Postcards ATC size and other fun stamps for more interest. The sentiment "she flies with her own wings" is a part of this stamp by Cat Kerr which I thought would be fitting to add here. I also stamped this sentiment twice to get a shadow effect. 

After I matted the card on cream paper and adhered onto a black card (which I used Miracle Tape for!)
 I also embossed the dandelion and sentiment on the envelope, which is also in a honey pearl cream color.

They make a classy pair, the card and envelope and is ready to be written on and mailed out!


Stamps used: 
Blowing Dandelion and Extra Seed by Susan M. Brown 
Postcards ATC size 
"she flies with her own wings" is a part of this stamp by Cat KerrWriting
Circles background
Smear/Smudge
Stitching Lines 1

Others:
Miracle Tape
Thick vellum paper
Cream pearlized envelope
The Crafter's Workshop Light and Fluffy Modeling paste
Carabelle studio circle stencil
Distress inks: Old paper, vintage photo and ground espresso
Staz-On inks: Jet Black, Timber Brown, Saddle brown
Top Boss Honey Pearl embossing powder

Hope this inspired you to play along with our challenge this month.
Thanks so much for stopping by!