Mail art monday with Hermine

Hi Hermine here, I altered this box for my turn on mail art monday. The size is to fit two DVD boxes in it. I bought an blanc one, so awesome to turn it in to a colourful and btight one and its already on its way to Vegas.

step 1: lay the box flat on your work service and brayer on some acryllic paints, I used red, blue, yellow and green. Leave to dry. Then take a stencil and brayer qwith white acryllix paint. Leave to dry again.

step 2: mask off the area you want to put the adress in, but mask of the outside lines, paint in with white acryllic paint. Start enhancing the box with stamps. First I used the Writing Chevron 19824 and stamped with Colorbox Chalk Black bird

step 3 : Mask off the space for the adress,  then I stamped the Doodle Flower/garden 19828 on both sides of the bottom. And the Squiggly Star collage 19822 ont the address side of the box.

step 4: Then enhance some of the circles with Doodle Circle 19823. And last but not least stamp the Banksy Winged Mohaek guy 19602 on the left hand side of the address space.

step 5: fold the box, close the lid, write on the adress and sent away!!!!



Hope you like it.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:
Writing Chevron 19824
Doodle Flower/garden 19828
Squiggle Star Collage 19822
Doodle Circle 19823
Banksy winged Mohawk guy 19602
cardboard box
acryllic paint
Colorbox Chalk ink Blackbird

You are beautiful

Hi Hermine here, I had a good time playing around with the gelli plate. Awesome thing is that you always end up with more then one.

 

 

step 1 :  Brayer one colour Memento Luxe onto you gelli plate, then take a stencil put it on your gelli plate, take a second colour Memento Luxe and brayer over your stencil.

step 2 : Stamp with Stazon Black the Butterfly Gossamer Large 7760 and colour the image with colouring pencils.

step 3 : then stamp with Stazon Black the Writing Chevron 19824, the row of Chevrons 19829 twice and the tekst You are beautiful 19832. Colour the row of chevron in with markers.

step 4: Take a black fine liner and doodle a border around the gelli print, colour some spaces in with a marker.

 

As you can see there is still lots of ink left on the gelli plate to make a second one. Here I stamped the Brown Towhee 15392 and the Multi-leaf Branch 14088 with Stazon Black. Coloured the bird with ZIG markers.

Hope you like it.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Buttferly Gossamer large 7760

Wrting Chevron 19824

Row of Chevrons 19829

You are beautiful 19832

Brown Towhee 15392

Multi-leaf branch 14088

Stazon Black

Memento Luxe

Fine liner

ZIG markers

colouring pencils

gelli plate

tutorial - friends are cheaper than therapy

Hi Hermine here with a tutorial again.

 

step 1: take a piece of paper and start drawing lines with a ruler and Derwenrt Inktence blocks. Then take a water brush and blend the lines. Leave to dry.

 

step 2: Dot the same but turn your paper. Leave to dry

 

step 3: Stamp with Stazon Black the Grandville Chicken 18894 and the Grandville Bug 18896.

 

step 4: stamp with Stazon Black only the top half of the Whimsical Tree Lady Nude 19681 at the bottom of your card.

 

step 5: Stamp with Stazon Black the tekst Good Friends are 18885 and with Memento olive green Sky of stars background 19819 . I coloured the bottom trees and the upper part of the chicken with felt tip markers.

 

step 6: Start colouring the rest of the images with Lyra water colour crayons and a water brush.

 

step 7:  take a rectangle double card and glue the inner card on the card. Then colour some paper and die-cut the branches. Glue onto the card.

 

Close up

 Hope you liked the tutorial. 

Warmly Hermine

Used materials: 

Grandville Chicken 18894

Grandville Bug 18896

Whimsical Tree lady Nude 19681

Good friends are 18885

Sky of stars background 19819

Stazon Black

Derwent Inktence Blocks

Lyra water colour crayons

water brush

Making Memories die

felt tip markers

So cute

Hi Hermine here, I find this stamp so cute, love working with it. Hope you enjoy.

step 1: stamp Sitting Voodoo doll 19739 with Stazon Black, make a mask and put the mask on.
step 2: Stamp Bell Jar 19660, remove mask and colour the imgaes with ZIG Clean Colour Real Brush markers.
step 3: then mask off the top of the jar and stamp Blood dripping 18961 by colouring directly onto the stamp with the markers. I used the same colour as I use to colour the jar.
step 4: glue this card onto a double rectanlge card.


Warmly Hermine
Used materials:
Sitting Voodoo Doll 19739
Bell Jar 19660
Blood dripping 18961
Stazon
ZIG Clean Colour Real Brush markers

Tutorial pretty in pink

Hi Hermine here. I made a photo step by step tutorial in tun-sur-ton colours.

 

step 1: Stamp with Stazon black  Roller-skating teens 19749 and make a mask of it.

 

step 2: Put mask on and stencil with different colours Memento Luxe.

 

step 3: keep mask still on and stamp with the different colours Memento Luxe the Clock face 19468, Lines of Chevrons 18965, Sawtooth Stitching lines 19643 and the alphabet of the December Daily plate 1430 and with Stazon Black the Striped border Arrow 19202

 

step 4: Remove mask and colour the focal image with the same colours Memento Luxe and a water brush. Glue with magical tape onto a doble square card.

Hope you like this little tutorial.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Roller-skating teens 19749

Clock face 19468

Line of Chevrons 18965

December daily plate 1430

Striped border Arrow 19202

Sawtooth stitiching lines 19643

Stazon Black

Memento Luxe

Magical tape

mail art monday

Hi Hermine here on mail art monday. This time I used a bubble wrap envelope to alter.

 

step 1: Take different colours Memento Luxe, put them directly on a craftsheet, spray a little water and put your envelope in it. If you press a little harder you'll end up with an imprint of the bubble warp inside, which gives it some extra depth (don't press to hard or else the bubbles will pop)

step 2: Stamp with Stazon Black the images: start with the windmill 19791 and mask it, then Winter Woods Scene 19793, Stars 19291. Then hand draw the rectanlge for the address and mask of. Then stamp  Fallen Tree 19722 and Leafless Trees in field 19719. Colour the images slightly with some colouring pencils.

step 3: Stamp with blue the Harlequin Diamond background 18920 on the flap, do the same with pink and the Spotty Background 1461. Then stamp with Stazon Black the staples 19578, 19576 and 19577.

And now you are ready and set to send out you artwork in a fancy way.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Windmill 19791

Winter Woods Scene 19793

Stars 19291

Fallen Tree 19722

Leafless Trees in field 19719

Harlequin Diamond Background 18920

Spotty Background 1461

staples 19578, 19576 and 19577

boys tutorial and winner give away

Hi Hermine here, this time with a little tutorial, sijple but effective. And ofcourse the announcement of the winner of my give away.

 

step 1:  take 3 colours distress ink. Stamp one colour directly on paper with the inkpad, take a waterbrush and blend the colour, take a second colour and do the same in a angle, same thing with the third colour.

 

step 2: Stamp Spotty Background 1461, Line of Chevrons 18965, Bubble warp texture 19566 and Stitching 19575 with the same colours you used for the background.

 

step 3: Stamp with Stazon Black Man in Flying Machine 18161 and Boys just want to have fun 19766. Take a water brush and remove some of the colour in the man. Then matt on black paper and glue onto a double square card.

And now for the winner and that is:

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said: Absolutely gorgeous. I love using spotlights and they are so effective here. Wonderful designs. Fabulous giveaway. Thank you x 

Congratulations Tracy, please could you mail me your snail mail address to herminekoster@yahoo.com .

Hope you like the tutorial.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

  Spotty Background 1461

Line of chevrons 18965

Bubble wrtap texture 19566

Stitching 19575

Man in Flying Machine 18161

Boys just want to have fun 19766

Stazon

Distress ink

Forest Critter and give away

Hi Hermine here, my turn to post today and I made a card with this awesome little forest critter. But not only that I made a little pocket as well to pu in my give-away. Read about this further on in this post.

 

But first the how to on this card:

step 1: Stamp the forest critter 19820 on your piece of paper and mask it. Then stamp the winter wood scene 19793.

step 2: take a outer circle mask and put on your work. Start colouring the images and its surroundings with colouring pencils.

step 3: remove mask and draw some faux stitches around the circle. 

step 4: mat on black paper and glue onto a double rectangle card.

 

And here is my give-away.  As you can see on the photo its not an ATC but a little pocket. I had this stamp double so I want to give it away to one of you loveluy people. The only thing you have to do it to leave a comment at this post. Its runs untill march 20th, after that I put all the names in a hat and draw the winner/ The winner will be announced in my second post for march and that is march 23.

 

Here a close-up of the little pocket. Stamped the same way as the card, but using the inner mask to mask off the center and sponged around to create the background.

Hope you like it and good luck. One of you will be the winner of this awesome stamp designed by Mary Vogel Lozinak and is called Whimsical collage 19166.

Used materials:

Forest Critter 19820

Winter wood scene 19793

Stazon

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

mainly men

Hi Hermine here, this time I tried to make a card for men, always a struggle for me,

 

step 1: colour the backgorund with 3 colours fluid ink.

step 2: stencil the dots onto the background with Memento Luxe Weddingdress (white).

step 3: stamp with distress purple the Victorian Flourish 19417 and partial  Waybill/invoice background 19416 

step 4: stamp with Stazon Black the Business man silhouette 19418 and  Wright brothers walking 19730

step 5: take a stencil and purple Memento Luxe and sponge the dots. Make with a white sharpie some accents.

step 6: die cut the dragonfly and glue onto the left hand upper corner

step 7: Glue one a white card.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

 Victorian Flourish 19417

Waybill.invoice background 19416

Business man Silhouette 19418

Wright Borthers walking 19730

Stazon black

TIME - tutorial

Hi Hermine here, with a little tutorial this time. Time to play!

 

step 1 : take a stencil, add gesso with a palet knife. Leave to dry, best is to leave to dry overnight.

 

step 2 : take liquid ink and colour the background.

 

step 3 : stamp with Stazon different trees at the bottom, all the trees are on plate 1460

 

step 4:  stamp on a seperate piece of paper the Clockface 19468 , Whimsical Lettered man19679 and Writing triangles 19571 with Stazon. Glue the clockface onto the background. Colour the face and the with Memento Luxe and a sponge. Finish the fac with some white accents. Glue the triangles behind the face and glue onto the clock. Make some black lines with a fine liner that acts like a border.

Hope you like the tutorial.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:
plate 1460
clockface 19468
Whimsical Lettered man 19679
writing triangles 19571
Stazon
Miracle tape