My Little Book of Love by Gemma

I have created a little accordion book to share with you all today. I love how cute and colourful it turned out with those little splashes of orange against the red, and it had so much space inside for little pictures and messages for the special person in my life. 

How to

1- Spread Distress Oxides on your craft mat and spray with water

2- Press a large sheet of cardstock into the ink puddles. Drying between layers keep going until the card is mostly covered and you are happy with the look.

3- Using the same colours stamp over the top with different stamps and stencils.

4- Add extra details by stamping over the top with black and white acrylic paints.

5- Cut the cardstock into strips and score them to create the valley and mountain folds, and glue them together.

6- Cut two pieces of kraft card for the front and back covers and ink the edges

7- Decorate the covers by cutting white card to fit the covers and inking them with Distress Oxides.

8- Stamp some hearts onto leftover bits from the large sheet of cardstock you created for the inside and cut them out

9- Stamp out some text on kraft card and then glue all the elements together, add some string for the closure.

Gemma

Products from The Artistic Stamper  

Roses are red stamp

Harlequin Background

Calligraphic Mat 15

Harlequin Mask

Super Speedy Tags by Gemma

There are so many things to do and make in December, So I try to keep thing super quick and simple where I can especially when I feel like the gifts needing wrapping will never end.  

 So for my gifts this year I made these tags they are easy to do and to batch make.

I started by using leftover white card sitting on my desk but you could easily just do a whole sheet. I covered each piece with two similar shades of Distress Ink and sprinkled some water over the top.

I then stamped over the top with background and calligraphy stamps and more Distress Ink.

Then I die cut lots and lots of circles, which I attached to the tags, then it was just a matter of sitting with a nice hot cuppa and doodling around the tags and turning the circles into baubles.

Thanks for popping by

Gemma

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Dots background

Harlequin Background

Calligraphy Mat

Winged Heart by Gemma

 I have a small piece to share with you today, made on a  chipboard base. later I will use it as the front of a book.

I collected some bits and pieces from my stash that I felt went well together.

I coated everything with a layer of gesso and then I painted the wings, heart and board with different colours of Dylusions paint.

Once those layers were dry. I stamped onto the orange piece with the large dotty background stamp and Versa Mark ink. I then sprinkled black embossing powder over the top and melted it using a heat tool, I also heat embossed the word peace with the same black embossing powder. At the same time, I glued a small bit of dried wet wipe behind the heart.

Before glueing all the pieces together I painted the small bird, edged it with gold and stamped the word smile in the middle from Framed Words #1. I also stamped onto the wings with a calligraphy mat and paint. 

Thanks for Reading

Gemma

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Calligraphy Mat

Framed Words #1

Large Dotty Background

Dylusions Paints

Wet Wipe background by Gemma

 We all use wet wipes to clean up after our very messy selves when we craft, and sometimes they end up the most beautiful colours. If you dry them out they can by used in so many ways here I have turned one into a background for a very simple card.

One dried out and beautiful wet wipe, Hmmmmm I wonder if I could ever get that deliberately  

I then added some blue with a distress ink and the honeycomb mask. Over that, I stamped with different coloured distress ink, the honeycomb stamp and mini honeycomb stamp.

Then I added the word dream from the framed words set and some gems to finish.

Thanks for reading, I have loved seeing everyone's challenge entries this month and can not wait to see what next month brings

Gemma

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Honeycomb background stamp

Honeycomb Mask

Mini Backgrounds #3

Kathryn Wheel Project, by Marjie Kemper

I'm very excited to be guesting here at The Artistic Stamper this month... thanks so much to Jennie and Emma for the invitation!

I chose Kat's Creations house stamps as the focus for my August calendar page.  These funky house stamps are available in several different sizes and combinations ~ I used the set called Our House A6. I stamped the houses repeatedly on manila cardstock and cut and colored them before adhering to the page. I also cut some of the stamped images apart and regrouped them so my little town would have some variety in the way the buildings are positioned.  They are all colored with Ranger Distress Markers and edged with black soot Distress Ink.

For the background, I sprayed my large watercolor paper with Dylusions Ink Sprays (lemon zest, pure sunshine, and postbox red), spritzed with water, and let all the colors run a bit.  I then stamped and stenciled using loads of Crafters' Workshop stencils (mini circle explosion, large circles, chicken wire, punchinella, mini harlequin, chevron) and Distress Inks (barn door, spiced marmalade, wild honey, mustard seed, gathered twigs and black soot).  

The background stamps are a mix of Tim Holtz's (Ultimate Grunge), this bubble border stamp, the numbers stamp from the Family Values set, and a few unmarked ones from my stash.  The banner is by Dyan Reaveley, stamped on manila and colored with her Dylusions ink sprays.  I used a square punch for my dates and wrote August spanning the width of the page. 

My date format is irregular but that's been a great part of the fun of participating in the Kathryn Wheel project... seeing how many ways one really can make a calendar page.

I'd love it if you'd visit my blog (and please let me know you came by so I can repay the visit!) You can find out more about the Kathryn Wheel Project on Kate Crane's blog.  Nearly a hundred people play along each month from all different parts of the world and all the different styles are just mind boggling. 

Hope you have a terrific day, and find some time for creative play!

Marjie

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

Find Your Wings & Fly

Hi all,
Kat here with my 3rd & final project for the month,
The focus this month is still on the very fab distress stains
on offer in the shop for this month only,

So straight onto my creation,
(love the size of these tags)

To start,

I squeezed the distress stains

onto my craft mat, then spritzed them with water

smooched my tag into the puddle

(this technique is called wrinkle free distress)

turned it over & dyed with a heat gun,

I continued to do this until I was happy with the background,

I then went round the tag with

gathered twig limited addition Distress Ink

next I added the stamps

I used mini polka dots & sequin waste open

backgrounds with plum & maroon archival inks

I finished by adding a few swirls from the

swirls, splats & dots A5 plate

with pale ochre archival inks

With the background done,

it's on to the embellishing part,

I cut the cage from the caged bird die

using craft metal & embossed it with an

embossing folder,

next I stamped the leaves on to the metal

with black stazon & cut them out.

I then cut the bird from (caged bird die)

& the flowers from (tattered florals die)

with book pages glued to scraps of card,

I edged them with Victorian velvet Distress Ink

& added some snaps to the centres,

I shaped all the pieces

glued them down with silicone glue,

to finish I added a sentiment on to a scrap of card

& coloured it to match,

I added some fibers through the hole at the top,

& there you have it, another XL tag, done

Hope you like It!

Have a great day, until next time,

Kat x.

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU AN ITCH

Hi all,
Kat here with my 3rd & last project for this month,
it's page no 2 in my board book journal,
I am loving my journey with this little book!
sorry guys not many step by step photos again,
(to caught up in the creative process)
note to self, must try harder to remember to take the shots, LOL,

so here it is,

I started by adding ripped book & dictionary pages

adhered with Claudine Hellmuth Multi Matte Medium,

the colour is added by using

Neo color 2 water soluble pastels,

(azurite blue & jade)

I scribbled them onto the page & then went over with

a wet paint brush,

(an easy way to add vivid colour

to the whole page quickly & simply)

I used stamp set,

Swirls, Splats & Dots A4

(a massive 25% for this month only in the shop)

the medium size ring was stamped in

Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink

to give it a gently faded look,

& the large splats (my absolute fave of mine)

were stamped in Plum archival ink

& lastly I used Tim Holtz Ticket Stamp

stamped in Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink

as a grounding for the boys to stand on.

I glued the collage images down,

& went round them with a graphite pencil

to give some shading,

printed off a funny saying from my computer,

(that I think sums up the expression on his face perfectly)

glued them in place,

then went roughly round them with double lines using a Zig pen,

Finally I doodled a scallop round the whole page

& added some dots with a white gel pen.

I am really pleased with the way this page turned out,

Hope you like it!

That's it from me for this month,

Hope to see you next time,

have fun creating,

Kat x.

FUN & LAUGHTER PAGE

Hi all,
Kat here, hope you are all well,
today I would Like to shear with you the first page
in my board book journal,
firstly, when I sit down to create a page, I have no idea what it's going to be,
I gather some supplies & go for it,
so there is not many photos of the process because I forgot to take them,
(to caught up in the creativeness of it all)
love it when that happens, but the hours fly pass,

so straight to it.

I started by Gessoing the whole page with

Claudine hellmuth white gesso

then used distress stains in

tumbled glass, wild honey & bundled sage.

I then added the stamps,

I used coffee archival ink & the large splats

from the swirls, splats & dots A4 plate

in first & second generation ink around the edge,

& the grid background all over.

I stamped the into each day saying

with jet black archival ink

I then glued the collage images to the page

& finally doodled round the edge with a zig pen.

& I added a little shading round the images with a charcoal pencil.

Hope you like it!

I'll be back on the 25th with page number two,

see you then,

Kat x.

Blue Denim Note Book by Kat

Hi all,
Kat here, with my 3rd & final project of the month,

Apologies for the rubbish post names,
I never know what to call them,
so I usually just write what I see (lol)

with core'dinations card stock as our focus
it seemed only natural to make a note book.
so here it is,

I started of with 2 pieces of grey board cut to size

I then cut the core'dinations card stock in 2 different blues

slightly larger, so if it shrank when it was embossing

it wouldn't be to small.

I then embossed with the same design,

but by turning the card pieces over

you get an embossed & debossed pattern,

I then sanded it with Tim's sanding grip

here's the difference in the patterns.

I then glued them with

Claudine Hellmuth multi matte medium

I glued a silver strip over the join

& added another sanded strip of the darker blue core card

I trimmed it all back with a craft knife,

I glued the silver paper to the inside of the covers

& trimmed it back,

then cut the holes with the bind it all machine.

for the pages I cut them a couple of mm smaller than the covers,

I didn't count them (just made a small wedge)

then with a scrap of card slightly smaller than the page

for a mask & a

blending tool I blended faded jeans Distress Ink

then added the texture with Stipple background stamp

& faded jeans Distress Ink

I added the small flower chain off the flower blooms set

coloured with a copic marker.

punched the holes with the bind it all

& put it all together with half inch 0 ring.

I made the flower from the same stamp set

(flower blooms set) stamped in Jet Black archival ink

& blended with Weatherd wood & Faded Jeans Distress Inks

I glued a button in the center & added some leaves

cut from a sizzix die & the same core'dinations card stock

& glued it to the cover.

here's the stamps I used,

& there you have it,

Jobs a good-en

Hope you like it!

have a creative day,

Kat x.

Bright As A Button...

Goodly Morning! I have been playing with Distress Stains and Perfect Pearls Mists and am here to show you a card I have made... instead of my usual tags. I have made the card so it is tag sized (ish) and used loads of different elements on it to layer it up. I usually jiggle my photo's in PSP to sharpen up etc... but these haven't been adjusted... this is the actual real colour that I achieve... scorchio!!




Starting with a piece of cream cardstock, squidged Fired Brick and Wild Honey Distress Stains onto my non-stick craft sheet and dipped the card straight into the inks, twisting it as I went so I blended the colours together. I used a heat gun to dry the cardstock and then re-dipped it onto the remaining in to pick up little bobbles of colour. Next I went in with Forever Red & Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mists, giving a generous spritz right across the card with both colours - again using the heat gun to dry it off. I wanted to decorate the background a little without taking away from the inky pattern I had achieve so I used Vermillion Archival Ink (in my opinion a MUST for any crafty stash and the colour on the website is more pink than it is in real life)) and stamped some a Stipple background and then a nice Calligraphic Mat #4 background too. I edged the whole piece of card with Black Soot Distress Ink to nicely "close in the edges".




The embellishments are made up of the Movers & Shapers Mini Butterflies - cut from card and coloured as the background, with little Idea-ology Spinners and Brads for bodies. The flower is made from bookpages cut using the Tattered Florals Alterations die - colouring the layers with Mustard Seed DI and Sunflower Sparkle PP Mist, Fired Brick DI and Forever Red PP Mist and finally, Spiced Marmalade and Copper PP Mist. I cut a Movers & Shapers Flourish and coloured with Peeled Paint Stains and Kiwi PP Mists. The sentiment is stamped onto a Movers & Shapers Heart, again cut and coloured as before... popped into an Idea-ology Memo Pin. The Seam Binding was stained with Distress Inks/Stains and I added a Mini Safety Pin with a couple of Idea-ology Baubles and a Tassell to dangle. Oh and the centre of the flower is an Idea-ology Fanciful Accoutrement , BTW, these are on special off ATM... spritzed with Copper PP Mist to colour it.

Well, that's all for me for the moment... ooh, while I think of it... the brand new Distress Stains are arriving at The Artistic Stamper by the 5th August... so if you would like to pre-order, HERE are the deets! Thanks for looking... have a fab weekend!! TTFN

Hels x