File Folder by Titbelsoeur

Bonjour tout le monde !

First of all, please forgive my English, I will do my best to be at least understandable... maybe it will make you laugh... anyway !
You can't imagine how happy I am to share my first creation for The Artistic Stamper with you !
My first action since I was chosen was to store my stamps into a quaint  proper file folder. I first removed the plastic cover from an old file folder and then covered the whole cardboard structure with gesso :

Then I scrubbed 2 different Distress pads on the surface :

I sprayed some water to mix both colors, and when dried, I sprayed water inks through stencils, and then after all of that I stamped, and stamped, and stamped again and again !

To finish, I sticked masking tape on the edges and a larger one on the center.

Dusty Concord and Peeled Paint Distress inks
Dylusion stencils
Black Versafine
Stamps :
Architecture
Backgrounds
Men
Time
Gibson girls

I hope you like it,

thanks for looking, I am looking forward to reading your comments ! 

See you again soon...

Titbelsoeur

Keep Calm by Alison

Hello again Stampers! Today, I have an inky frame to share with you.

I began by totally covering a papier mache frame with pieces of torn book page. I used Studio Matt Medium to glue the pieces of book page, then brushed more Matt Medium over the top, to seal.

Next, I brushed a thin layer of Studio Gesso all over the frame, so I could apply the Distress Inks to colour it. I used Fired Brick & Stormy Sky.

Then I stamped the flourish from the Flourish Swirls Plate, using Stormy Sky Distress Ink. I used a heat gun to dry and set the ink. I then stamped the splats from the A5 Swirls, Splats & Dots Plate, using Fired Brick Distress Ink, then heat set these too.

I stamped Keep Calm And Carry On Stamping onto glossy card, using Archival Jet Black Ink, then embossed it with clear powder. I cut it out, leaving a thin border, then inked lightly with the Fired Brick DI. I glued it to the inside of the frame, then added a crown charm.

To finish, I added some blue & red buttons, & applied Gold Inka Gold to the edges of the frame.

Thanks for looking,

Alison xox

Magical story book box. By Zuzu

Hello again. I (Zuzu) am here for my last Design team piece as guest designer for September. I loved it as guest designer seems to make me feel I need to try and pull all the stops out as a thank you for the trillions of Stamps Jennie sent me. So here I have an ongoing project that I started a couple of months ago when Hels first offered me the guest designer spot.

It's a box type cupboard that was filled with little hard back books. I altered the box and am in the process of altering the little books that go inside. I am showing you the parts that involve stamps from "The Artistic Stamper".


Here is the box front, very "secret Garden" and mystical. As the box was full of books I am keeping to a fairy tale and book theme on the outside too. Time because stories are timeless. We can see a fairy on the front, Tinkerbelle from "Peter Pan" perhaps, as well as the "secret garden", there is an ancient Egyptian beetle crawling across it as I was always interested in adventures from far off lands, especially Egypt; there is a swallow from "Swallows and Amazons".

On one side I have featured Alice in wonderland (Using the Mabel Lucie Attwell Alice in Wonderland stamps).

I wont go on about the outside and get on to showing you the inside as this is where the little books are that I've altered with Artistic Stamper Stamps...When you open the door and look inside there are more cogs, lots of rust and some stamping on the edges of the cupboard shelves (Using the Tick Tock plate).

Each of my wee books has its own theme, each called "the little book of...." and its theme added. Previously I did "The little Book Of Egypt" and "The Little Book Of Insects"... Today I am showing you "The Little book of time" and "The Little Book Of Childhood"....

Here is The Little book of Time:


And here is the Little Book of Childhood.

List of Items used from The Artistic Stamper.

Stamps used from the steampunk section HERE.

Phineas Pinchbeck
Goose Grease
Tick Tock

Stamps used from the Mabel Lucie Attwell section HERE.

Mad Hatters Tea Party
White Rabit

Other Stamps used.

Music Background HERE
Childhood Dreams HERE
Our Little one's HERE

From the Tim Holtz Ideaology range HERE
gears,
little bottles,
game spinners
locket key

Watch and cog metal disc charm, and crown charm; HERE

Inks used were ;

Stazon (jet black)
distress inks (I used 7 different shades)
Gleam wax polish (gold tones)

That's all folks. My guest month is over. Thank you for your support and kind comments. and Thanks to Jennie and Hels for having me :)
Z x

Autumn Jigsaw Piece by Alison Hall

Hello Stampers! This week I have altered a jumbo jigsaw piece. It was originally part of a Tweenies puzzle I bought in a charity shop.

First I covered the whole of the back of the jigsaw piece with tissue tape, which is currently on special offer HERE. Then I inked the tape with alcohol inks. I used butterscotch, terra cotta & red pepper. I stamped the Bare Tree twice, using black Archival Ink.

I stamped the leaf, from Tick Tock Flowers, three times on book paper, then cut them out & layered them on the bottom right of the jigsaw piece, with some skeleton leaves.

To make the flower, I cut out a piece of sticky back aluminium sheet, 4x2 inches, inked it with the same alcohol inks as before, peeled off the backing paper & stuck it to some black card, the same size. I stamped the small Tick Tock Flower twice, using Black Stazon, then cut them out, leaving a small border around them, about 1mm. I used a metal tool to emboss the cogs on the flowers, & a wheel tool to edge the flowers. Then I curled the petals, layered them together with a Tim Holtz sprocket gear & long fastener, & glued the flower on top of the leaves.

Finally, I stamped AUTUMN from the Greetings & Words plate, on a piece of alcohol-inked glossy card, edged it with black Archival ink, & attached it to the jigsaw piece with 2 Long Fasteners.

Thanks for looking,

Alison xx

Explorer's Journal. By Zuzu

Hi there. Zuzu here;
I am back for my second guest design team piece.

I have begun to alter a book. It will be an ongoing project though so today I am going to share the cover and three inside pages with you. It started as a red scruffy leather (ish) little book of Shakespeare that's been having pages torn out and used in crafty makes for over a year.The theme is based ona Darwinian type explorer. A bit of travel and a bit of flora and fauna gathering and examining. (this is not to say they are always labeled correctly ;)

As is almost always the case with me, this has been made to look very ancient and tatty scruffy and distressed. I deliberately don't stamp everything perfect and crisp as i want it to look distressed and flawed. THe Fly (known here as the Simpli-fly) is under a vintage glass optical lens and the "bird without wings" (which bears a startling resemblance to a snail), is under a microscope glass slide.
Stamps used from The Artistic Stamper:

Travelling Words found HERE
Europe map background found HERE
Goose Grease found HERE
Calligraphy Mat 13 found HERE
Butterfly words found HERE
Insects and Butterflies No. 1 # 017 found HERE
Flourish Swirls found HERE

Other supplies available from The Artistic Stamper:

Distress inks : I used antique linen, vintage photo, fired brick, aged mahogany, pine needle, dusty concord, peeled paint.
Paint dabber: I used butterscotch.
Vintage Eyeglass: scroll down near the bottom.
Bigz Die Tiny tags and tabs: I used the wee tabs
Ideaology: I used a word stick, a game spinner and two metal corners.

Tattered Bird ....

Good Morning ... Gillian here back with my 3rd and final post as July's Guest Designer. I would like to say a huge thank you to Jennie & Hel's for having me .... I've had a great time ladies.

My last project as you can see is "Bird" inspired. I came across this little fella at the bottom of my alterable stash, he was orginally bought from The Artistic Stamper. I started out by painting him in Distress Crackle Paint (Vintage Photo), setting aside to dry naturally. Once dry he was grunged up abit with Distress Inks (Walnut Stain). The base of this project was a piece of chipboard/plyboard from a Wooden Shrine Frame. I painted the base in Distress Crackle Paint (Old Paper).

Once the base was dry I then stamped Europe Map Background in Archival Ink (Coffee). I inked the edges of the base with Distress Inks (Walnut Stain). I have filled a Cork Vial with Mini Fasteners piercing a Memo Pin through the cork lid. The Adage Ticket was inked with Vintage Photo.
For the flowers I stamped Flower Fever onto Kraft Glassine Sheets , rather than cutting around the flowers I let my Tim Holtz scissors do all the work, they glided through the glassine sheets effortlessly giving more of a tattered effect. I then inked the flowers with Distress Inks (Rusty Hinge). Each layer was adhered with a dot of Ranger's new Glue N Seal.
For the flower centre pieces I have used Wooden Bingo pieces from Maya Road.

The wings have been stamped onto a Journalling Ticket using the Crowning Glory Plate
The Wooden Bobbin has been inked with Distress Inks and adorned with an Accoutrements Button.
Here you can see a close up of the crackle from the Distress Crackle Paint.

Well that's all from me folks. TTFN Gillian x

HOT, HoT, hOt

Hiya! it's the boss here again!
This month's challenge here on the Creative Team blog is using hot colours, and a little bit of stamping. I had a few of the 3 frames that had broken, and I couldn't sell, so I removed everything from them , and added some Terra to the frame with a wooden spatula.

Stamp into it with a wet stamp, and make sure you clean the stamp immediately or it will dry and ruin the stamp.

Allow the frame to dry, and then spray with hot colours from Ranger's Adirondack Color Wash. I used Butterscotch and Sunset Orange.

I printed out the words create and everyday on my computer and added a stamp with the new Archival Saffron and Venetian Orange to the middle...
add a little distress ink , and this is what I should be doing everyday!!

To make the hanging baubles and the wings add a few drops of alcohol ink to a small plastic bag ( make sure there are no holes in it, and shake your baubles into it! Remove from the bag and  allow to dry!

I think this fits perfectly into the challenge for this month, and there is still loads of time to enter too!

P.S. did you spot the sneaky peeks of our new stamps???!!!  lol
Have a very creative day
Jennie

Love Icon! by Nicky Cresswell

Hello my lovelies, Minxy here for my second visit of the month
Today i'm sharing a little altered wooden icon.. 

And as I went a bit mad with the photo's you can make one too if you like!

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For this piece you will obviously need 1 blank Wooden icon

Then gather together the following:

Traditional tan studio paint, A mini-mister,  antique linen distress re-inker and heirloom gold  from the perfect pearls aged patina set, {or you could use a distress pad and perfect pearl mist spray}, coffee and black archival inkpads, heat gun,

 accoutrements and baubles={WHICH ARE STILL ON SALE BTW} metal photo corners, cotton twine, white gloss card,

And the following Artistic Stamper stamps:

Calligraphic Mat 15, 

The Kiss, 

Architecture 1

Before you start painting, notch out 2 holes where you're buttons will sit to allow the backs to sit in and make them a little more secure when gluing.

Apply 2 coats of studio traditional tan paint.

Then spray with an antique linen and heirloom gold mini mister mix and heat set using a heat gun straight away to get the speckled effect.

Use coffee archival to randomly stamp some calligraphy script, doing some places lighter than others by stamping off first. {stamping off is when you ink your stamp and stamp a piece of scrap paper before stamping your real piece so you get a lighter more faded image}

 Stamp the window from the Architecture 1 plate in black archival in areas where there is little or no script

Stamp the 'The Kiss' statue onto white gloss card in coffee archival ink, and cut out.
I coated with matt accents as I didn't like the gloss look, {but you don't have too} when it was dry I straightened it out as it had curled a bit and this caused the accents to crack a little but that actually added to the statues look which was a happy accident!
I stuck the image straight in the middle of the icon and stamped the phrase straight below it in black archival ink.

 The treatment of the outside was very much the same as the inside only I didn't use any pearl mist because I wanted it to stay a little lighter.
I used one of the fancy sconces from the architecture 1 plate to add an almost hinge like effect before gluing the accouterments fanciful buttons on, I also added a piece of cotten twine round each button so the doors are easier to open.

I used silver-plated metal photo corners to give the front a nice finish.

flattening one side with pliers so it sat flush {ish lol}

You can also see in the pic I used some ball chain to hang the piece by cutting out a small groove for the chain to sit in and gluing in place. {I used E600}

I added some mini hooks to the bottom to make it useful, so I could hang earrings and chains on the piece, but for display purposes i've added some twine & baubles for show.

And there you have it

I hope you've enjoyed todays art

I'll see you again soon but till then..

Stay Inky

Dance Domino Pendant by Alison Hall

Hello, Alison here again. For my second post this month, I have altered a large domino, which is available in a set of 4, from The Artistic Stamper here.

I started by inking the domino with alcohol inks. I used sunset orange, peach bellini & sandal. When the ink was dry, I stamped the dancer from the Dance Plate, using black stazon ink. Then I inked the sides of the domino with the black stazon.

I added some small red beads to the dancer, then some microbeads to the edges of the domino, using glossy accents, then left this to dry.

To make bales for the top & bottom of my pendant, I took a small strip of brown Ten Second Studio metal sheet, about half an inch in width & 2 inches length. First I folded it lengthways, one side to the middle, then the other side. I smoothed the folds with a bone folder, then cut into two 1" lengths. I folded each one over a thin paintbrush, to get my loops. Using a piece of embossedmetal & humungo tape, I attached both bales to the back of the domino.

Next, I took one of Tim's crystal baubles ( these are still on special offer here!), & inked it with the alcohol inks I used on the domino. I attached it to the bottom of the domino, using a jump ring, then tied a red ribbon bow through the jump ring.

Finally, I used two jump rings to attach some ball chain for the pendant.

Thanks for looking!

Alison x