VideoTutorial: Clutch from a Book and **New Stencils**!!

Welcome back everyone!This a first post of many introducing my new set of stencil: it's been a while I wanted to design a round set so finally is here: 3 stencils inspired by 3 beautiful Italian church's rosette and one inspired by a Sardinian jewel, that I love!

OK, let's start with a new video tutorial, you know I have a soft spot for upcycling and this time I gave a new life to an old book cover. It was meant to hold the minialbum from the #marchprintingchallenge, but then I found out it was too thin, so I made a second smaller and thicker one (I confess I like this one more):

 

This is the large book featured in the video:

This is the smaller one with the minialbum inside, it fits perfectly :-)

Fort the inside lining I created two gel prints using the new stencils and fabric flowers

And let me introduce you the new designs, available in my Etsy shop, including a larger size of the 'Tonara' (designed for the 2020 Advent Calendar) and a minitrio:

FREE Cutting file SVG : A Vintage Door Book

Would you like to create this book along with me? I start this year with a little gift for you: a free cutting file to cut at home this beautiful chipboard set (or stencil) to make a door book out of an old book. You can download it for free in my January newsletter along with a video tutorial.

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If you don't jave a cutting machine you can stamp the image, hand cut or just colour/worn/crumple with distress inks or tea/coffee and glue to a cover book or to make a card.

You can find a new set of vintage doors chipboards or SVG files in my Etsy shop:

Tutorial: Altered Book Cover with Visible Image

Happy Weekend everyone. I have a big news: I am happy to announce I am part of the Visible Image Design Team, their stamps and stencils are so inspiring! And today I use a couple of them to embellish a book cover (I altered dozens of them until now, I confess)

I inked for the first time the set Learn To Fly Again, so meaningful

And I had some fun making a couple of pendant out of acetate and wire

The focal point  with the sentiment:

Tutorial:
I stamped on cardstock the sentiment and cut it out. Then I sponged through Strobes stencil with yellow Distress Oxide.

I glued the cardstock to a piece of wire and filled with Glossy Accents.

In the meantime I glued a book page to the book cover and then I sponged it  with Distress Oxide through Distorted Chess and TimeTunnel stencils.

I stamped more details from the Learn To Fly Again set. I glued the focal point and I attached the handmade embellishments to the spine.

With this I participate on the latest challenge on  Simon says stamp blog: Something Clear

New stencil line: Romantic Steampunk

And finally my new line of stencil is out! I've worked on it for months and I hope you like it: I really enjoyed using these new design to make several projects and over the next days I also show you 3 new videos tutorial using them.

Here an artwork using 'Passiflora' on a leather and-made Midori:

I used DecoArt Metallic Texture paint, so scrumptious!

Here I used 'Steampunk Doilie':

Here 'Steampunk Bauble', this stencil is suitable also for not Chistmas cards:

Here 'Lady Jane' on my beloved round altered book

Here 'Hennè Floral' on a paper fan

Here I used 'Regina':

And here I used the kraft cardstock version 'Regina' and also 'Henne' 

And last but not least from the mini trio 'Mini Steampunk Royal'

Available now on my Etsy shop

Video Tutorial: How to use Fommy Stamps

I realized one of my dream to transform some of my stencil design in stamps. What kind of stamps? Not regular, rubber ones but a fun foam version. And when I tried them, wow, I couldn't believe these worked. These are available in my Etsy shop, and here's a video tutorial how to use them. Enjoy the video, I hope it inspires you to use your craft items as well :-).
Ho finalmente realizzato il mio sogno di trasformare gli stencil disegnati da me in timbri. Non quelli normali di gomma (non ancora :-)) ma di crepla, o fommy o EVA. La prima volta che li ho testati, non ci credevo che avrebbero funzionato! Sono adesso disponibili nel mio shop Etsy e vi invito a vedere il video con un pò di idee. Spero questo vi ispiri ad usare anche le cose che già avete a casa :-)

Gelli prints to use as cards:

A funny, spinning card:

Una card con elemento rotante:

Or thank you tags

My favourite cards in ages, love how the coloration turned out:

Le mie card preferite, adoro come è venuta la colorazione con i Distress:

Un progetto MixedMedia, in versione shabby o dark

A MixedMedia project, an altered embroidery hoop in a shabby, romantic version or dark one:

And on my artjournal in a book from the #everythingcircle challenge on Instagram

E il mio nuovo ArtJournal dalla sfida  #everythingcircle su Instagram