December's Creative Challenge - Christmas is coming!

Hi!
Welcome to our challenge for the month of December.
Thank you to everyone who joined in last month's challenge. Loved them all !
This month the theme is Christmas is Coming and can be interpreted any way you like, as long as it has rubber stamps on it. To join in with this challenge (we are limiting the challenge entries to 3 per person), is simple; all we would like you to do is, make a piece of artwork, making sure that you include the theme and some rubber stamping. Pop back here to link up using the Inklinkz at the bottom of this post, so that we can see what you've made and then, leave us a comment to let us know you have joined in with the challenge.

As always, there will be candy for one randomly picked entrant - the winner will receive a stamp of their choice from The Artistic Stamper .
In addition, you can enter the same challenge on Facebook! There is no prize on there, it's just for fun!
To join us on just go to our new Facebook group, and send us a request to join..
And don't forget....if you use The Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will entered into the draw, twice!

Inspiration from the Creative Team .....

TITBELSOEUR

Let's celebrate Christmas with this card : watercolour paper on which I have stamped baubles, snowflakes and ivy with Deep Purple Archival ink, then I have coloured the baubles with watercolour paint,
 and distressed the edges with Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo Distress inks.
Stamps used : 

Long Swirl Bauble, 

Round Wire Bauble, 

snowflake and baubles from Modern Christmas # 1 A5, Tick Tock Christmas Baubles

You may visit my folder : Titbelsoeur stamps @ the Artistic Stamper

I will be happy to read your comments about it !

Bye for now and happy creating.

Titbelsoeur

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Jennie

This is my final postcard in my series, and as Christmas is coming, what else could it be but that! A gold embossed snowflake background, and lots of baubles from CaroLines Bauble set ( think there might be a theme on this blogpost!) gold embossed , and simply coloured using only 3 colours of Distress Oxide 

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JANE

Don't you just love it when a practice piece and general mop up becomes the grungy background that you love!!!....pair it up with an MDF bauble shape, and another Christmas card made!!!

Stamps used;

SNOWFLAKES

VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

We hope that you will join in this month's challenge, and also join us on Facebook too.

We look forward to seeing your creations. Don't forget to add a comment when you have posted your entry. 

Have a Happy Creative Month 

Jennie x

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Christmas present by Titbelsoeur

Good morning friends,
What about home-made Christmas presents ?
Like altered books ?
They are easy to make and are usually very well appreciated.
First of all, grab an old book and roll 5 groups of pages.

Then, colour them with Distress ink on blending tools and foam
Make your Christmas Stamps choice, stamp some of them directly on the book, and others on separate book pages that you will cut out and stick to the book. Use a pretty ribbon to bend the book, and here it is :

Would you like to win these fabulous stamps ? Easy : just participate in our challenge 

December's Creative Challenge - Christmas

 for 3 chances to win !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog

or on  the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page 

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A Trio Of Christmas Tags

Hi hope you are all well, and have done all your Christmas prep! Craft work aside 

I tend to be last minute dot com when it comes to Christmas.

Today I bring you three tags from the Artistic Stamper's

Christmas selection of stamps.

My products used are

Distress inks faded jeans, wild honey, spiced marmalade, aged mahogany, fired brick & walnut stain

Distress stains in Fired brick, Dylusions spray in tangerine dream, cherry pie, pomegranate seed  & ground coffee. Deco art multi medium gloss & media crackle glaze. wooden snowflakes, glass beads, black Fimo clay,

Crafty notion guiding flakes in Autumn gold, craft card (mine is the back of a box of Pepsi packaging),  

3 x tags, black card. 

Artistic Stamper stamps are The snowflake's, Victorian Christmas 2, mini Christmas 2, Victorian Christmas 1 & Christmas greetings.

So here we go

Firstly I coloured the three tags with blending wild honey, spiced marmalade & 

aged mahogany distress ink onto the tags. 

I then stamped the snowflakes and the merry christmas on to them with fired brick and chipped sapphire. I covered the tag in gloss multi medium and pressed them all against each 

other to create a texture into the medium.

 I then sprinkled glass beads onto them and also crafty notions guilding flakes, and allowed to dry

once dry I sprayed each tag with the delusions sprays and allowed to dry.

Tag 1

For this tag I used the snow flake stamp,  the season greetings from the Victorian 2, 

 and the little girl at the fireplace from the mini Christmas plate. I stamped them in 

black archival onto craft card tags. The wooden snowflake coloured with distress

 ink and coated in media crackle glaze. The top star was black fimo clay stamped with the bauble pattern and a star shaped cutter was used to cut it out, once baked it was highlighted with treasure gold.

Tag 2

Father Christmas of the mini Christmas 2 plate and the snowflake stamp.

Wooden snow flake same as above merry Christmas stamped into 

black fimo clay baked and highlighted with treasure gold.

Tag 3

Same as above for snowflakes and stars stamps used were snowflake stamp, merry Christmas of the Christmas greetings and father Christmas of the Victorian Christmas plate 2. string on the tags was swiped with fired brick distress stains. All tags were glued on using my hot glue gun as had trouble fixing them on with other glues. 

they were all attached with a mini attacher to the back of Pepsi packaging which had had the sides  treated with distressing blade and then finished with walnut stain distressing ink.

I have done it again I must try to make much simpler posts with less products. Thank for popping by

and don't forget to leave a comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

Christmas ATB

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

I've another inspiration project for our this month's Christmas Challenge.. I made Christmas ATB

Artistic stamper has wonderful sets of Christmas theme stamps and here, I tried to use as many I can :)

I cut out shape for Artist trading block with white card stock and kept it flat. Distressed the edges with Barn door and Vintage photo  Distress inks.

With other five white papers , I made panels to attach onto this ATB. 

Here, you will see,  I've used Pine Tree stamp and olive Archival Ink to get the image. Before that, I applied weathered wood and Iced spruce distress inks on that white square. I also used snowflakes stamp in the background.

I created small embellishment with Cute little Christmas Tree stamp from Christmas Greetings plate, Oval glass Cabochons and Oval Charm. I adhered it on flower. It is attached at the bottom corner.

 

Here, I've used Tic Tock Christmas Baubles stamp set . I stamped wordings first with Coffee Archival Ink. On another paper, I stamped baubles with Vermillion Archival ink, fussy cut them, applied Distressinks- Barn door and vintage photo at the edges and adhered them on this panel.

I stamped the snow scene with Victorian Christmas stamp set and Jet Black Archival Ink. Poinsettias are made with Cheery lynn die and Graphic 45 papers.

This Santa image is also from Victorian Christmas Stamp set which I stamped with Coffee Archival ink.

 

This is top view of ATB

some more pictures are here....

Thanks so much for stopping by today... don't forget to join our Christmas Challenge this month to win some fab stamps from Artistic stamper.

Supplies list:

Artistic stamper Stamps- Victorian Christmas, Snowflakes, .Christmas Greetings, Tic Tock Bauble.

Ranger Archival Inks - Jet Black, Coffee 

Distress Inks- Barn door, Vintage Photo

Christmas Card

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

Artistic stamper has got lovely Christmas theme stamps....you can see them here.
 I made Christmas card today!!

I've some close view photos to share with you

I stamped Santa image from Artistic stamper Victorian Christmas plate #1 with Coffee Archival ink on diecut frame. I used barn door and vintage photo distress inks to color the edges of frame.

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Sentiment stamp is from Christmas Greetings plate # 1

I made a card with red craft paper from Tim Holtz Kraft-core shattered collection. Distressed edges with distressing tool, we can see Kraft color paper and it gives grungy look!!
I also applied barn door distress ink at the edge .
Design papers which I've used here are from Graphic 45 Twas the Night Before Christmas collection.

 I made Poinsettia with same red kraft core paper and Cheery Lyn Poinsettia die. I've used golden beads for the center of flowers.
At the corner, you will find golden Jingle bells !!

Hope you liked the card!!
Thanks so much for stopping by today.
Dont forget to join our 'Christmas is coming' challenge for November

supplies used:

Artistic stamper stamps- Victorian Christmas plate #1

Christmas Greetings #1

Graphic 45 - Twas The Night Before Christmas

Ranger Archival ink - coffee

Ranger Distress inks - Barn Door, Vintage photo, Peeled paint.

Tim Holtz Kraft core shattered collection.

Cherry Lyn Poinsettia die and Spelbinders  Foliage die

A winter tale - Chris

Hi everyone, Chris here with you today to share my last guest designer project. I've thoroughly enjoyed my month on the blog being able to work with the gorgeous Artistic Stamper stamps.

I decided to go for a Christmas home decor project this time and I've created a scene on a deep edge canvas which I'll be putting out with my other decorations in a couple of weeks.

I love the vintage images in Victorian Christmas 1 # 005 and particularly the snowy cottage scene which reminds me of my favourite winter poem by Robert Frost. I decided to combine the images indicative of the ideal Christmas onto a mixed media canvas.

 I've given my background a snowy feel with texture paste, die cut snowflakes and doily, Tim Holtz Composer tissue wrap

 and my handmade clay embellishments which are all bound together with

DecoArt paints, Frantage embossing powders, pearl pen pearls and stamping with the lovely Snowflakes stamps in the background and around the sides of the canvas.

The focal images were stamped with Archival ink in coffee and given a little bit of colour with distress markers. 

Thank you again Jenny and Emma for your kindness and to everyone on the team for the constant inspiration. Not too long until Christmas now so if you celebrate I wish you all a wonderful time.

Chris x

Merrie Xmas from Alison

Hello Stampers! It's my last post of the year, & I have a last minute Christmas card to share with you today.

I took a size 10 manila tag (8.5 x 4.125 inches), and ripped about 2.5 inches off the end.

I used a Ranger craft scraper to swipe sky blue Studio paint randomly on my tag, then spritzed some Dylusion inks, crushed grape & squeezed orange, through a couple of Crafter's Workshop stencils.

I stamped some script (Calligraphic Mat 11) with manganese blue Archival ink, & snowflakes (Christmas Greetings 2) with deep purple Archival, then edged the tag with the deep purple ink.

I stamped the little girl image from Victorian Christmas 1 on my tag, then on the leftover piece of my manila tag, I stamped the image again. I cut out the little girl & fireplace, then used the Dylusion Inks & a waterbrush to watercolour, before attaching it over the top of the image on the tag.

I coloured some white ribbon with the crushed grape Dylusion ink, tied it to the tag, added a couple of silver charms, then matted the tag on a kraft card to finish.

I'd like to thank everyone for the wonderful support & comments I have received over the year.

Wishing you all a magical Christmas & a very happy new year!

Alison xxx

Victorian Christmas by Alison Hall

For my third and final piece as November's Guest Designer, I decided to make a Christmas card.

The Artistic Stamper has some wonderful vintage Christmas stamps, and there are plenty to choose from.

For the main image, I chose the little girl hanging her Christmas stocking up, from Victorian Christmas 1. I coloured the image with Antique Linen Distress Ink, edged it with Fired Brick, and matted it onto black card.


The corner stamps are from Victorian Christmas 2. This layer was also coloured with Antique Linen, then matted onto green card. I added some torn, inked music sheet, then the little girl image.
The Baubles were stamped onto clear shrink plastic, and coloured with Sakura Stardust pens. I punched a hole at the top, before shrinking them. These were attached to a length of vintage brass chain, then attached to the stamped layers with Tim Holtz long fasteners.


I covered an 8 x 8 inch square card with music sheet, then attached the stamped layer to this.

The 'poinsettia' is made from Grungepaper, diecut with the Tattered Florals and Tattered Leaves Alterations dies. They were coloured with Distress Inks, then I added Rock Candy Distress Stickles to the petals, and Fired Brick to the leaves. The centre of the poinsettia is a shrink plastic bauble, that had the top cut off before it was shrunk.


I hope you like my vintage Christmas card, and thank you for looking.
Alison