A little more mail art...

A little while ago I stumbled across and online mixed media postcard swap

being hosted by Ursula Markgraf .

As I love getting mail that isn't a bill I immediately signed up to play.

Super easy, create several mixed media postcards and get several in return.

I can't wait to see my mailbox filling up with fun mail.

These are the ones I created for the swap.

                           

I started with a piece of cardstock 12x12 with the idea I could create a large background then cut the cards to size.

Acrylic paint in multiple colors were swiped across the paper.

Stamping added after using Solvent ink and several different stamps.

Added some washii tape and a light wash of white paint in spots.

The circles were stamped, painted in and then outlined with a Sharpie marker.

Acrylic paint wasdabbed through some punchinella.

Finally some scribbling with a fine black tip pen and a white pen.

The hearts were freehand cut from a dictionary page that I had used to clean excess paint off my brayer. They were then outlined with a Black Soot Distress Marker.

Each card then had a sentiment stamped onto it.

All are ready to go postal (YAY).

I can't wait to come back and share what I receive in return.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

We rise...

In my continuing share of Art Journal pages...

This is one I finished up today;

while working on my stove top which I have converted into a workweeks until renovations are finished.

Cooking takes a second to creating!

The background was created with extra paint on brushes from another page.

Just use a blank page to clean it off and you have an instant background.

Modeling paste through a Crafter's Workshop stencil, 

and a little bit of stamping with a script stamp and a Club Scrap circle stamp.

The hand came in a Happy Mail envelope.

I wish I had more of them, it looks so cool in real life.

The heart is cut freehand from sheet music and painted with several colors of acrylic paint

Gesso on bubble wrap stamped over and a Black Soot distress marker and 

White Pitt Pen were used for shading.

My quote I found while searching Pinterest.

It really spoke to me while seeing all the bad things happening in the news.

I'm a firm believer in the whole "it takes a village" concept 

as well as Do Unto Others.

When you do you reap the rewards ten fold.

If only everyone could be a little bit nicer

(my ramblings for today).

Hope you get a little bit of creating in.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous March Challenge...GO GREEN!

     It's time for another challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous, but before we get to it please make sure to read the following announcement from Gloria (our Chief Hoarder)....

    Dear Friends. It's Gloria here. I am so sorry to tell you that this will be the LAST Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge. After the March Challenge ends, we will NOT be posting more challenges. I started this challenge blog as a way to keep busy while I recovered from an injury. Once I started to feel better, I started to take on more design work, and now I am over-burdened (again). I am still suffering pain and lack of mobility due to the injury, and once again, I need to down-size my crafting work. In an effort to make the best choices for myself, for my family, and for my finances, I have decided to close the Hoarders blog. This has been an amazing 14-month journey! I have the best team of ladies to work with! They are all so very talented. I have gotten to know some of our regular Readers and have discovered new artists. It is very painful for me to have to say good-bye. The blog will remain up on Blogger for a time, to allow people to derive inspiration from the work posted here. But, folks, this is our last challenge. 

Please play along and visit with us one last time! We will pick Favorites for March, as always. Thanks to each of you for your support this past year! It has been a blessing! You are all welcome to visit me at my Scraps of Life Blog, where I may have some surprises up my sleeve starting in April. Happy spring!

Go Green

Use this color board as inspiration for your green challenge. Make a challenge which has green as the predominate color. Use the other colors in this color board as your accent colors. You may make any type or theme of project that you wish. You do NOT have to use all of the colors represented here, but green must be the star of your project! There must be some green in your vast hoard...dig it out!

(Color inspiration by Design Seeds)

and now my final DT piece for the blog...

Supplies:

Silks Acrylic Glaze

Tattered Angels Plain Jane mist

Distress Inks

Distress Marker

Paper scraps

BoBunny Stamp

Doily

Make sure to visit the Design Team members blogs to see how they have 

Gone Green.

Design Team

Amber Milone
Christy Butters
Debbie Seyer
Donna Idlet
Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks
Gloria Stengel 
Kathy Clement
Nancy Dynes (unable to participate)

Pam Bray
Teresa Horner
Wendi Robinson

Documented Life Project Week 24

Sharing my week 24 page from

The Documented Life project.

I'm really far behind now, but it's all good.

That's the joy of this project.

It's ok to fall behind, work out of order,

interpret how you wish, and create in a way that makes you happy.

The challenge for week 24 is this:

 Use book text

This is my page.

The background is a Gelli Print.

There was some white space so I used a Spectrum Noir marker to color it in.

Claudine Hellmuth acrylic paint was used with and UmWow circle stencil,

once the paint dried the circles were all outlined with a Faber Castell Pitt Artist pen in White.

I took an old dictionary page and colored it with various Gelatos

by Faber Castell, then blended them with a baby wipe.

I then freehand cut out circles in varying sizes and adhered them to my page.

They were then outlined with a Black Soot Distress marker and smudged.

                               

                               

The chevrons are created using a Club Scrap stencil and a Black Sharpie paint pen.

Some random stamping with a Kaisercraft script stamp and Archival ink.

The top sticker and sticker strips are from 7Dots Studio.

The heart in the center is an altered mini playing card created in 

Stephanie Ackerman's class.

On the back it has some journaling.

To finish off the page I took some Liquitex Acrylic ink in Carbon Black and 

flicked it randomly over the page.

I can't believe how chunky my book is getting.

I'll need to remind myself to share some photos soon.

Make sure you stop by the flickr page and see what everyone is creating.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!