ATC: Poppy Fields

April showers and May brings flowers... at least that is the theory, because it still showers in this part of the world! Well, there are a lot of flower ATC's going on on Swap-Bot and this is the one I sent to my partner for a Mixed Media flower swap. I sorta cheated... or well, made creative use of what I had, because.... doesn't the above image look familiar to you?

Maybe now it does... It's a piece from my processing poppies experiment I did a while back. A part of it became this journal page and I still had a piece left over. I ran in through my cuttle bug with an ATC die, some white splatters over it and matted on black card stock and it's done. Creating ATC's from left over Art Journal pages like that is great way to use up your left overs, isn't it?

I'd like to enter this ATC in the following challenges:

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge #26 - Anything goes
Time out Challenge #82- Flowers with optional kissing technique
Mixed Media World #24 - Anything Mixed Media goes with optional watercolors
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Hint of Pink
Make My Monday #45 - May Flowers

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

MailART Monday: Persistence

Today I would like to show you this postcard I made for a swap on swapbot in which you were required to use one of your gelli printed pieces of paper. And last week I showed you my process of printing on Tomoe River paper. I took one of those printed papers and created the above postcard. I only added some background stamping with some lush VLVS!, the lady is a cut out from a vintage fashion magazine and the dots are made with distress paints daubers. The sentiment "nevertheless, she persisted" is from VLVS! as well and it's definitely among my fave of the new releases! This piece has such a wonderful retro feel to it with with yellow and orange tones :) I loved making one of my vintage magazine mail art pieces again! I recently got a bunch of old magazine from a friend and I am excited to go through them!

Even when it rains, my mail box drops are always ever persistent!

Have a great Monday everyone and thanks for stopping by!

Art Journal: Be Vivacious

This is a journal page I made with an advertisement postcard being the base. I glued on several strips of left over trims and then added some flowers cut with the Tim Holtz flowers die and the paper Artsy moths die and stamp set. Those were made from left over gelli print paper. I used the Stabilo marks all water color pencil in blue for some shadow on the flowers and then added some spatters with my posca pen. The sentiment "be Vivacious" was left over from this journal page and seemed very filling for the page. Very easy and quick journal page which was done under 30 minutes and helps you to get rid of your left over trims :)

I would like to enter this journal page to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Hint of Pink
(there is a hint of Pink in the flowers after all :)

Moo Mania - Hats (the lady is wearing a cape/drape over her head)

The Artistic Stamper - Floral fantasy

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #WWC117 - Feminine Anything goes challenge

Make My Monday - May Flowers

Art Journal Journey - Elegance and Grunge

Time Out Challenge #82 - Anything goes with optional Kissing

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

WIP: Gelli Printing on Tomoe River Paper + process video!

Today I'm sharing a fun experiment I did recently, which is gelli printing on Tomoe River paper. It's a very lightweight paper, 52gms and in the fountain pen community famous for its great workings with fountain pen (and other) inks. I was wondering if it could hold up to fluid acrylic paints so I experimented a little with DecoART media Fluid Acrylics which I recently received from the decoarts media team as part of the blogger out reach program.

Gorgeous little bottles with fluid acrylics from Deco Art Media. I also used the bottom stencil by Andy Skinner for a couple of prints among other stencils.

The paper holds up the fluid acrylics really well and the drying time wasn't bad at all. I've filmed this process video and you can watch the whole process here

Not bad work for an half an hour on a monday night, right? The video is sped up to around 9 minutes total, so no worries, LOL :) I really had fun with this and am looking forward to use the prints in a few upcoming projects. If you like the video, please hit like and subscribe to my channel to see more. I have been working on a few other process video's and hope to upload on a bi-weekly basis. Still very new to this, so if you have any tips/suggestions they are welcome. 

As always, thanks ever so much for stopping by and hope you are having a wonderful day!

MailART Monday: The right side of the brain

A colorful and bright postcard for the beginning of May! I really hope that spring weather will hit soon and the flowers will bloom and warmth will shine through, like it does on this card. It's another of my Masterboard collage pieces and while I have made this piece initially to send out for a swap, I decided to keep it in one of my art journals. It rarely happens I can't let a piece go, but with this, I think it's the color combo and the meaning behind it... much like this journal page was to inspire oneself to be true. 

The face was stamped on the gelli print I had used in the collage background, I stamped it again on sticker paper and colored it in with promarkers and only stuck on the face part on the right. The sentiment stamp on the left side and added the same text with Molotow paint marker in white on the right. I also did the drips with that. Added some pops of colors with Caran d'Ache neopastels. 

Stamps used: 

Lost Coast Designs "franco face" 

Viva Las VegaStamps! "Be True" and "be adorable"

I would love to enter this piece in the following challenges:
Moo Mania - Faces 
Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #36 - Put a Stamp on it

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great FIRST of May :)