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I could not have made more traditional Christmas gift tags! Red and green, with pictures of vintage toys... Click here or on the images below to see step by step turorial on how to make these tags, and, please, be inspired to create something!  Vintage Style Christmas Gift Tags  Handmade Vintage Style Christmas Tags These cute, small gift tags in traditional colors are cute and small enough to become Christmas tree ornaments!  Handmade Christmas Gift Tags Yes, if a tag is big enough, it becomes a home decor. Place it on a coffee table, on a shelf, or hang it on the door! This tag was inspired by autumn, pumpkins, mushrooms, moss... Watch the video to see some fun things and effects you can achieve with dry pastels and texture paste!  Mixed Media Autumn Tag, Detail  Mixed Media Autumn Tag, Detail 2  Mixed Media Autumn Tag In our Ephemera series, here are vintage style overhead slides, and this time we are capturing snowflakes in them! Click here or on on the omages to see the step by step tutorial on how to create this wonderful embellishment for your art jornal, junk journal, or mini album!  Hanmade Vintage Style Ephemera for Mini Album  Hanmade Vintage Style Ephemera for Mini Album Sligtly unusual Halloween art journal page, it is a little bit dark to convey the mood of these days. Click here to see the full turorial for your inspiration or on the image bellow. Please watch, and be inspired!  Halloween art journal page The colors of autumn are fading, the grey November slowly takes over... Therefore I tried to capture the last joyful colors of autumn in this tag. Click here or on the images to see the full tutorial, and be inspired to create something! Mixed media autumn tag, detail  Mixed media aurumn tag, detail Mixed Media Autumn tag, detail Can you make an whole book just because you happen to recieve a ribbon you like? Yes, of course! The ribbon was part of Papercraft Society's September box Nr.12 along with other great crafting supplies - stamps, dies, papers, and yes - some very cute birdies! To see what is inside the box, and how I made the book, most of all, to get inspired to do something creative yourself: click here or on the images below! Handmade Christmas art journal  Cover of the handmade christmas art journal. It could easily be also Christmas greeting card.  Handmade art journal  Ribbon binding for the handmade art journal  Detail of the art journal cover aOf course, yes! I received the Papercraft Society' s box 11, and the unusual autumn colors inspired me to do just that! See the video here and get inspired! Did I mention that I even used the paper in which the goodies were wrapped? :-) This page I created for a Facebook Mission Impossible group. The subject given by Mike Deakin was " Go Nuts". I decided to show different nuts, and for that I used two of my favorite artsy things in the world: watercolors and botanical drawing. Aside from watercolors I also used some stamps and black waterproof marker. That was it! I am very happy with the result! By the way, can you spot a nut that does not belong here? :-)  Watercolor art journal page in vintage botanical drawing style It is just a week after the Box 7 arrived, and the Box 8 is here! It is the May box, so, after the period of delivery delays due to the pandemic, we are back on track! This is hands down my favorite Papercraft Society box ever! The main reason - it is mixed media orientated. You can absolutely make cards too, there are gorgeous papers and stamps for that. But just check out the mixed media stamps! Watch the video to discover the contents of the box. Also in the video I give a demonstration of the products in action. And you will see the product that caused me to raise an eyebrow...Get inspired and create something! A mixed media tag made to demonstrate the products in Papercraft Society' s subscription box nr. 8.  A close-up of a mixed media tag made to demonstrate the products in Papercraft Society' s subscription box nr. 8 It was a looooong wait! But it certainly turned out to be worth it! It is packed with supplies for your card making, mixed media projects and crafty makes. In this video you will see what is inside the box and one of the many things you can make with the cutting dies, stamps and papers included in this box. Enjoy and get isnpired!  Papercraft Society' s monthly craft supplies subscription box nr. 7 I tried to capture some sunshine in this art journal page! Watch the video to see how to create a stained glass effect. Simple and beautiful! Click here or on the immage bellow to get insiration to create your own mixed media art journal page with a stained glass window! A close-up of a mixed media art journal page with a stained glass window effect A happy anf sunny, and joyous art journal entry this time! To see a tutorial, how it was made using Brusho powders and Inktence pencils, click here or on the immages below. I hope it gives some inspiration for your next art journal page!  Fat positive Art journal page A Pie In The Sky This art journal page was inspired by folkart animal paintings. Calm, simple composition, but pensive at the same time. I used a rather untraditional Brusho pigment powder and gesso technique for the background, and several types of pencils for the focal point of the page. Click here or in the image below to see everything in detail! I hope it will inspire you to create a folkart inspired page in your own art journal!  A close-up detail of the folkart inspired art journal page  Art Journal page inspired by folk art Remember the previous post on how to make transparent paper? Here is one of the ways how to use transparent images. I used it to create an art journal page on the subject of being home. Where or whith whom do you feel at home? I hope that the answer inspires you to create something.. Art journal page "Home"  Fragment of an art yournal page How to turn images transparent? How to make velum from an ordinary printer paper? Answers are in this video. Watch it, try it, and be inspired to create something!  How to make transparent images A new page in my art journal. Inspired by the Venus of Willendorf and the following thought: fat people have existed always. We will continue to exist. So, world, let us just get over it and move on with our lives! This is a step by step art journal page tutorial, and I hope it will inspire you to get out some paints and stamps, and create your own art journal page! I also used my favorite handmade Venus of Willendorf stamp and gell prints from my stash. To see how the page was created, click here or on the video below.  Mixed media art journal page "Always"  Mixed media art journal page "Always" Do you remember all those Easter mixed media supplies I got from LaBlanche? Those Easter bunnies which looked serious and not cutesy cute? And the amazing very detailed stamps? I used them to make this mixed media tag! To see the step by step tutorial on how to make this tag, click here or on the image below.  Vintage style mixed media Easter tag  Mixed Media Easter tag using LaBlanche products I received a surprise Easter themed media products box from Hochanda, UK based Crafts and DIY shopping channel! They were doing a giveaway of La Blanche products, and I won them! Easter stamps of bunnies, meadows, flowers, diecuts of bunnies and chicken, and designer papers! Great inspiration! Thank you Hochanda! Thank you La Blanche! Click here or on the video below to see all the lovely goodies!  Gorgeous mixed media products by LaBlanche This is a handmade notebook for recipes with lots of pockets to store your recipes. You know all those recipe pages torn out of magasines? It also includes recipe cards to write your recipes on. In more pockets! And, of course, there is also a handmade notebook with sewn signatures. I used Fabrika Decoru Soul Kitchen papers. They are delicious! :-) I hope you get inspired to make your own recipe book! If you click here or on the video, you will see all the details of this little delightful project! Handmade recipe book contains not only pockets and more pockets, but also a hand-sewn notebook.  This little recipe book contains A LOT of room for all your recipes!  In thes recipe book there is plenty of room for recipe cardsm magasine cut-outs and quick cooking notes. This is a handmade notebook in a very generous decorative cover with lots of pockets. I used Stamperia 30x30cm Patchwork paper block. The notebook has sewn signatures, and the pages are made from real old vintage papers for notes. I hope you get inspired to make your own notebook for all your creative ideas! Click on the image below to see the video! Handmade notebook for creative ideas using Patchwork paper by Stamperia  This mixed media mini album is made from gell prints and vintage photos. It includes inserts that can be use as gift tags, bookmarks or just as little joy-to-look-at objects. Click on the immage to see al the details of this little delightful album! This album features vintage photos of gentlemen, this one, holding a flower, is one of my favorites.  One of the tags in the mixed media mini album My Tribe This album is quite small and it comes with its own box.  This mini album is mini indeed, but it comes in its own box! This perpetual calendar is made using the absolutely gorgeous Voyages Fantastiques papers by Stamperia and MDF kit by My Creative Spirit. And I painstakingly glued the letters and numbers one by one! Steampunk Perpetual Calendar This art journal was a labour of love. It has seven (yes, seven!) signatures, they are sewn into a rounded spine: It is dedicated to one of the greatest criminal novelists Dorothy L. Sayers, and to her book "The Seven Taylors". As you know, Tailors were bells; and it was a joy to find examples of the bell sheet music! And there is more than at first meets the eye. Dedicated to a criminal novel, this art journal has a secret of its own. What is the secret? All is revealed in the video!
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