Second Hand Rose - By Lynn Stevens

I am so enjoying being a Guest Designer for The Artistic Stamper.

I had so much fun creating my Second Hand Rose collage box. I used several stamps from

The Artistic Stamper

Time and Keys plate and Girl With Clock

Along with Grungepaper for my Rose, Idealogy numbers, crackle paint and Distress inks.

All of which can be found at The Artistic Stamper.

The images are from Graphics 45. The Steampunk collection.
Thanks for looking!
Lynn Stevens

Bottle Caps & Number Plates...

...Morning peeps... so... did you go to Stamperama yesterday? And... if you did... did you come and play at making rosebuds with me? And did you see Jennie doing her stuff demo-ing? And... what did you buy??? I had a fab day yesterday, it was so lovely to meet everyone who came and sat with me for 10mins and made one of the little roseybuds from Grungepaper. As promised... here are a couple more ATC's to be given away... same as before, if you leave me a comment here, I will add your name to the draw and a randomly picked name will win one of the ATC's... so that means I will be doing the randomly picked thing twice :O))




The first ATC explains the title of the post... cos I used Tim's Lost & Found stack to make it - the roses are made using the little 2" square pieces, stamped onto using the medium Flower Power stamp and then curled into roses. I added some of Tim's mini stamps to the background, used some Distress Inks to blend it all together and popped some Idea-ology on for decoration.




The next ATC was made using my fave Retro Grunge stack - the colours in this pack are right up my street and I used an ATC sized piece of paper, popped a generous layer of Rock Candy Cracklepaint over it and once it was dry, added some Rock Candy Stickles to the crackles. I used the 2" square pieces again for the roses... added some fibres and more Idea-ology and there you go... another ATC. So, if you would like to be in with a chance of winning one of the ATC's, please leave me a comment... I will use that Random.org thingy to pick out the winners on Thursday August 19th... and they will be announced here :O)) Thanks for looking... have a goodly day... I am off to lay down... yesterday wore me out... all that yakking that I did! LOL TTFN

Hels x

Bathing Belles! By Lucy Edmondson

I hope you will like this little heart shaped album in a heart shaped tin. I love having the aperture so you can see the front page of the album. I have used some gorgeous vintage double sided papers - those were the days, when you didn't have to worry about exposing too much flesh on the beach!

This is what you will need:-

Seaside Plate No 1
Gibson Girls Plate No 2
Distress Inks
White Gesso
Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint in Picket Fence
Fibres or Twill

All available from The Artistic Stamper.

You will also need a tin with an aperture - doesn't have to be heart shaped. My tin was red - which was a difficult starting point! I have also used a fish and some shell art moulds, made up with Fimo and Stickles, but you can use real shells or any seaside ephemera, to decorate the top of the tin. I used a selection of the 'On the Boardwalk' Collection of double sided 12 x 12 papers by Graphic 45, but there are such a lot of images on the Seaside Plate that you could use to make your own backgrounds.

I covered the tin with gesso then added Crackle Paint, and sponged on Distress Inks, and sprayed on some shimmer mists. I cut a front and back cover for the album from mountboard, then the pages from the ds paper, doing a bit of jigsawing so I had the images I wanted, where I wanted them. I added a selection of images from the Seaside plate and the Gibson Girls paddling, stamped in Sepia.

I set eyelets in the top left of each heart shaped piece and attached them together with a book ring and some fibres (the twill Jennie sells would work well too):-

Finally, I took one of the die cut border strips from the paper set, which had an index tab on it, and snipped the words 'On the Boardwalk - By the Beautiful Sea' from the name tab at the top of one of the papers, adhered this to the index tab, blended it in with Antique Linen, added brads, and stuck it diagonally across the front of the tin. The words 'Down the Boardwalk She Came' were positioned on the front page to show through the aperture.

Thanks for looking and your comments are greatly appreciated.

Lucy