Wooden box with super boy by MFT stamps

One of my classmates from the high school became a vet. During the summer when we are in our hometown we often visit him with our dog, Rozi.

He was the vet who spayed Rozi, who every summer gives her the vaccinations and who cured her from an ear infection this summer. And sometimes he doesn't ask any money for the treatment, like this summer, although he vaccinated her and gave us medicine! He absolutely refused my money when I wanted to pay! 

So I decided to make something them, something that I can give him and his family.

First of all I have made two boxes for his sons, Misu and Zéti.

For these boxes I used the MFT Super Boy stamp which is unfortunately not available right now (maybe discontinued).

For this project I used wooden boxes and painted them with acrylic paints. The stamped images were heat embossed.

I hope they will like it! And now I'm planning something for my hero vet!

PaperArtsy dragonflies by Emma Godfrey

I have made this tag as a second inspirational piece for our August challenge. The theme of this challenge: Blues and greens and my lovely teamie Corrie is the hostess.

I have chosen one of the stamp sets of PaperArtsy, Eclectica EEG24 by Emma Godfrey.

But first of all, I gessoed a chipboard tag. Then I adhered some pieces of sheet music with Distress Collage Medium (matte) and put a layer of white acrylic paint.

After I painted green with a DecoArt Americana paint (I think  Peackock Teal). And toned back with some white acrylic paint that I tapped with a sponge onto the surface.

After drying I stamped the circles and embossed with  Wow! Vanilla Sparkle embossing powder.

For stamping the text I used my Misti platform but if you have Tim's stamping platform that great too. I also heat embossed the text.

The dragonflies were heat embossed too, then I inked with Ranger Distress inks and put a tiny bit of  Perfect Pearls onto the wings.

I added some sequins and a ribbon and that's it!

I hope you like it! And don't forget to join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

Card with PaperArtsy Zinski stamp - She's a dreamer

Hello everybody, it's a scheduled post, because the full tutorial is on the Country View Crafts blog.

I hope you like it! And if so, please click on the CVC post!

With my card I would like to join:

- the August TIMI challenge of the Craft Stamper Magazine.

- August challenge of the Penny Black and More blog: All creatures great and small

Card with Tim Holtz Snowglobe

After a one month holiday I'm back. I left the 40 degree for the 14! None of them is average in summer but if a season called summer I prefer the 40 - my mum doesn't agree with me.

So after my long break I would like to show you a totally Tim Holtz card. I have mixed three different thinlits die sets by Tim, the Suburbia, the Commute and the Snowglobe. 

The elements were cut out from Kraft-Core Nostalgic and Classic Collection.

The big part of the snowglobe was cut out from watercolour paper (300g/140lb). I smeared Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Hickory Smoke inks onto the paper and after I spritzed with water.

The text is from one of Tim's text book (sticker book).

I hope you like it! Big hugs

Mini canvas board with crazy bird

I have made this mini canvas board (10x14cm) for our August challenge: Blues and Greens. Actually these are the favourite colours for my lovely teamie, Corrie who is the hostess of our August challenge.

What I used:

for the background:

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil, Polkadot

Ranger embossing powder, White 

Ranger Distress ink pad, Twisted Citron

Ranger Distress ink pad, Cracked Pistachio

for the images:

Stampers Anonymous, Bird Crazy by Tim Holtz (CMS212)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Things by Tim Holtz (CMS237)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk by Tim Holtz (CMS236)

Stampers Anonymous, Mini Bird Crazy&Thingsby Tim Holtz (CMS250)

Ranger Distress ink pad, Black Soot

Ranger embossing powder, Clear

Ranger Distress markers (greens and blues)

others:

canvas board (10x14cm)

Ranger Glossy Accents (for glueing)

Ranger Distress, Micro Glaze (for protection)

I hope you like it! And if you fancy to make something just with greens and blues, please don't hesitate to join our challenge where you can win a £20 voucher.

Card with pirate boy by MFT stamps

Hello Everybody, I'm sorry I have been silent lately but I'm on a long holiday in Hungary. We visited my family in the Eastern part of the country and right now I'm at the lake Balaton enjoying the warm water and hot weather!

Among my photos I have found a picture of a card which was made by MFT stamps.

And I have found some last year photos from the Balaton when we were on a pirate ship with the kids. What a coincidence!!!

I hope you enjoy the summer and your holiday just like me with my family!!! Big hugs!

Card with a football player by Penny Black

For my today card I used the Way Cool! stamp set of the Penny Black Inc. As you can see I coloured the jersey of the little football player to the colours of the FC Barcelona :-)

With my card I would like to join:

- the challenge of the Penny Black and More: For the boys

- the Monday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp blog: Red, white and blue

Vintage three-drawer box with butterflies

I made this three-drawer box with butterflies for our July challenge: Things with wings.

On the Pinterest I created a board with vintage butterfly illustrations. While I was gathering the images I just realised that I could do it with Tim's stamps and that they look good on my three-drawer box too. 

Here is my box before:

First I painted brown with acrylic paint. Then I sanded with a soft sandpaper. 

After I painted white with DecoArt Americana White Wash paint. I put at least three coats. After this process I sanded the edges with a rough sandpaper.

Then I stamped the images one by one using the Ranger Archival ink (Potting Soil). Normally when I stamp onto a wooden box I use clear embossing powder after stamping but my craft room was renovated in June and I had to box and pack up everything and I still can't find my heat gun.

For the stamping I used two stamp sets of the Stampers Anonymous:

Flutter (CMS294) and Bird Feather (CMS180) by Tim Holtz. From the Bird Feather I needed the Fig1, Fig2, Fig3... piece.

After stamping I coloured the butterflies with Ranger Archival inks and I applied the ink with cotton buds onto the butterflies.  And since I couldn't use embossing powder when the Potting Soil ink from the outlines reacted with other Ranger colours, it dissolved a bit, so every colour became little bit brownish.

But it was no problem for me because I wanted to make a vintage box :-)

The Ranger Archival colours I used for the butterflies (Chrome Yellow, Sky Blue, Cobalt, Cornflower Blue, Pale Ochre:

In the end I inked the edges of the whole box with Coffee.

I hope you like it! And if you have a project with some wings, please don't hesitate to join our July challenge at the Country View Challenges where you can win a £20 voucher!

Vintage Cote D'Azur poster by me

I love the Cote D'Azur! I love the sea, the forever blue sky (without any cloud on the horizon), the hot weather with cooling wind from the sea, I love the French culture, food, wine etc. Every year when I was somewhere on the Riviera I bumped into the vintage Cote D'Azur posters advertising this area for the tourists in the early 1900s. Most of them were made by very famous painters and illustrators like Picasso, Hervé Baille,  Jean-Gabriel Domergue...

But unfortunately this year we can't go there during the summer, instead we will stay long in Hungary because our family is there, because my daughter prefers the Balaton to the Cote D'Azur and because I have a lot of things to arrange there. 

But I will miss this region so I prepared a canvas (18x24cm) in the style of those vintage posters. 

I will show you some posters which inspired me but on my Pinterest board you can find more:

Like on the posters I used bold colours and strong contours. Although I had a primed canvas I put one layer of gesso on it.

For the background I used the following DecoArt Americana colours: Buttermilk, Desert Turquoise, Whispering Turquoise.

The palm trees were coloured by Light Cinnamon and Mistletoe.

The sun was stencilled and I used Pineapple.

For my project Tim's new Alphabet die with its Art Deco letters was just perfect for my project, also it was better to make with cutouts than stamps.

What I used:

Sizzix Big die, Village Surf Shack by Tim Holtz (661208)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Tropical by Tim Holtz (661207)

Sizzix Bigz XL die, Alphabet, Deco by Tim Holtz (661815)

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil, Rays (THS003)

Signature dies, Seagulls (SD232)

Signature dies, Yacht with Sails (SD180)

DecoArt Americana paints

With my canvas I would like to join the following challenges:

- Monday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp blog: Stencil It!

- Stamps and Stencils blog Words with Meaning because Cote D'Azur means a lot to me

And because of the art deco feel I would like to join the Canvas challenge of A Vintage Journey. 

I hope you like it! Happy crafting!

Canvas board with crazy birds by Tim Holtz

When I was a little girl I just loved this song: Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep... by the Middle of the Road. I think I loved the simplicity of the text and I loved it because it was a very happy song. Well this song inspired me to make these canvas boards with Tim's crazy birds for our new challenge at the Country View Challenges: THINGS WITH WINGS.

As you see these boards are complementary and make sense just together. For making them I just stamped the birds who look in the same direction onto the same canvas. 

Now let me show you the process... 


Although my canvas was primed I applied a layer of gesso to the surface. After drying I outlined the branch cutout with a pencil.

I coloured the branch with DecoArt Americana paint, then contoured it with Posca Pen.

The contouring was very important part of my project. I wanted strong contours and bold, cheery colours because I wanted my canvas to look like an illustration of a children's book. 

I stamped the images directly onto the canvas with Ranger Archival ink (Jet Black).

I coloured the birds with DecoArt Americana paints.If the outlines faded because of the acrylic paint I drew the line again with Posca Pen.

For the leaves I used an old Sizzix Framelits dies and stamp set by Stephanie Barnard (657917): Leaves.

I hope you like them! And if you have a project with some wings, please don't hesitate to join our July challenge at the Country View Challenges where you can win a £20 voucher!