New for November~Mail Art Challenge at Lost Coast~Postcard

Hi Lovely Friends!

Thanks so much for coming by!

This month at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity our Challenge theme is Mail Art! So grab those envelopes, some papers, lots of ink and paint, stamp it up and come play with us!

Here is a bit of play to get you going!

As always, you can see more including the stamp list over on the Lost Coast Review Blog, HERE


See ya soon!
~kim

Vera Lane Postcard~Party Time!

Happy Friday!

Earlier today I posted the Visible Image Blog Hop and hope you enjoyed that Hop! The fundraising drive continues at Visible Image for Breast Cancer Care, so please share, scroll down for the Hop or click HERE


I love making postcards! They are a bit bigger than an ATC but still so fun and so not overwhelming. So when I found the Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group and found out she is having a postcard coloring challenge, (of course!) I had to play along! I love her digital stamps, so quirky and fun! U have used them before on some ATCs and had a blast.

Here is what I colored, have a great day!

Check out the digis HERE on Etsy when you have time!

~hugs
~kim

Lost Coast Designs~A Murder of Crows Postcard

Hello!

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

A Murder of Crows Mail Art Postcard!

This postcard is 6 inches x 4 inches. The background is colored with DecoArt acrylics and Distress Paints. All stamps are heat embossed.

These are the stamps I was given to play with:

Spray Webbing

A Murder of Crows

Bird on Bike

Have a great day and hope you have time to check out our challenge and 31 Days of Halloween!

~kim

Visible Image Fun~Mixed Media Postcard~

Hello!

Happy weekend!

Today is my day to share some Visible Image fun :)

I have a mixed media postcard today. I am having so much fun with mail art! Hope you like it!

This is  the front side of the card. I started with some plain white mixed media paper. I cut a bunch of pieces to 4 inches by 6 inches.

Then I made puddles of Americana Multi Surface Satin paints on my craft mat, spritzed with water and smooshed the paper into the paints. Lots of painty play. The nicest thing, once the paint is dry, it is very easy to stamp onto the background.

The front side uses the awesome Vision INKognito and sentiment Love Yourself from the No Regrets set. Both are heat embossed with Distress Ink and Ranger Superfine powder.

I dry embossed the chicken wire pattern on the side of the front of the card. Then layered some clear embossing powder and Jet Black Archival ink. This makes is so wonderful to feel and added some POP and shine :)

This is the backside of the postcard. For the text and address divider I used the stem from Flower INKognito.  The amazing splats are found in the Ink Splats set. All are stamped with Distress Ink and heat embossed with Ranger Super fine, black powder.

I added some fine paintbrush spatters with Black DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint. More spatters the better in my mind anyways!

I glued the front and back together with Americana Decou-page Paper collage medium. It dries quickly and non-tacky.

Once done I inked all the edges and my fingers with Jet Black Archival ink.

So are you ready to play and get inky??

Hop along to see loads more Visible Image inspiration, these are your key links:

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

Hugs and inky fun,

~kim

Stencil Play~June 17

Hello!

Hope Summer is going well for everyone so far! As always seems to go by too fast, hahaha!

Had some time to play with some stencils and paint today. I made this postcard, it is about 4"x5". I made it with the Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday challenge in mind, the theme, STENCIL IT. I used the Crafter's Workshop Mini Gears stencil, Distress Paint and tissue.

Below are a couple of photos, click to see each one a bit bigger:) Thanks for looking! I really am happy you stopped by today!!

This is the complete postcard. I love the texture the tissue stamped and stenciled images add to the project. The base paper was embossed then colored with Dylusions spray to highlight the raised portions.

I stenciled the mini gears onto tissue paper using black archival ink. Once dry, and it dries quick!, I used distress paint on the non-stick craft mat and dipped the stencil and stamped tissue into it.

After everything was dry, I tore apart pieces and started layering! I love how each layer melts into the previous one. The archival ink does not run or smear when wet. The distress paint stays clean and clear too. The Dylusions spray inks do run when re-wetted with the gel medium I used in layering. But that effect I like as well, I just get my fingers inky and pasty and push it all around, the color bleed is really nice so it's all good:)

Thanks again and make sure to check out all the awesome projects at Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday Challenge.