Spiced Summer by Tina Barnett

Hello!

It's Tina here back with a Mabel Lucie Attwell Stamp. The stamp I am using today is called "Can we Keep Him". How cute is that!!
OK.... I started with an 8 by 8 inch card, my favourite size to use. I used Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink by Tim Holtz around the edges of my card. I then used an Artistic Stamper background stamp over the card in the same colour ink.
I coloured the stamp with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink using a water brush to shade the image. I love using the same tones on a card. When you have a cute image you don't always want a "Cute" finish and I think the Mabel Lucie Attwell Stamps. work so well with both.
I then used some Coredinations Paper by Tim Holtz................ Oh Wow! how much do I love this! I cut a shape of it along with some Sizzix Tim Holtz Dies and distressed them (well it would have been rude not to lol!).
I layered the card as shown and then added STUNNING Baubles by Tim Holtz . These are just amazing! I love the chains on them. I also popped on a button from the same range on the card too.
I then added some flowers, leaves and pearls from my stash. Lastly I went over parts of the card with Distress Stickles . This product has got to be one of my favourites at the moment, I am stickling everything lol!

Well that's me for now! See you soon!

Tina xx

Shrunken Charm! by Nicky Cresswell

Good day fellow stampers, Minxy in the house today,

 As you may know we have a bit of a Baubles and Accoutrements theme going on this month.

{by the way they're on sale so snap em up while you can}

So after racking my brain I though i'd showcase the baubles and what better way to do that than with a fetching bag charm.

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I started by stamping 2 bird cages from the birds of a feather & free as a bird plates with black archival ink and 3 of the larger birds from the birds of a feather plate in carnation archival ink onto some lightly sanded shrink plastic, I cut them out and punched the holes I needed with my crop-a-dile and inserted the jump rings before shrinking.

Once I had shrunk all the pieces down it was a simple task of putting it all together.

I started with one of the Idea-ology swivel clasps

Then I just played about with the layout and placement of the pieces and baubles till I was happy with the look. I love the large bauble from the set as you can harvest some of the tassel chain to add more character to the other areas of the piece. You can also hang things from it using jump rings like I did with the bottom bird.

So what will you do with your Baubles and Accoutrements!

Thanks for stopping by.

Stay Inky

MAGICAL, MYSTICAL WALL HANGING

Sorry about the dodge title (lol)

Hi all, Kat here AKA Kat's craft creations
I am a now a fully fledged, full time member of the design team,
& I will be popping up about 3 times a month, how cool is that!
thanks Hels & Jennie for the opportunity,

the design team are featuring Baubles and Buttons
this month & you can find them HERE at special offer prices

Here's my first creation for the month of July
my mystical wall hanging,

I covered 2 chipboard shapes with white paper,

glued with Claudine Hellmuth multi matte medium

then covered with 2 coats of Antique Linen distress stain

after that dryed, I stamped the

Harlequin background stamp

(after I doctored the stamp to how I wanted It)

with Versamark ink & heat embossed with clear powder,

I then stamped Calligraphic mat 13 with

Pumice stone Distress Ink (now my new favorite)

& edged with Old paper Distress Ink & Blending tool

added the holes & brads with a crop-o-dile &

used idea-ology bead chain as the hangings

I cut 2 frames with sizzix jelly frame out of card & used

pumice stone Distress Ink & a blending tool to colour it,

then glued them to my images, & stuck them to the background.

for the flowers I used a selection of old book pages

& stamped the largest flower off of the Flower Bloom set

& layered them up.

Then added the buttons from Accoutrements fanciful.

for the leaves I used sizzix leaf stem

& cut them out of 2 different pearlessent papers

arranged & glued as shown

to finish off I added 2 butterflies cut with a punch

& I made the body's from wire & beads

then added all the dangley beads & pearls

from the Idea-ology Baubles set

Hope you like it!

Just before I go,

I thought I would show you how I cut my

Harlequin background stamp up

to get lots more affects out of the one stamp

& I still have a block section to be able to

make a solid background (cool ha!)

Thanks for having me,

I'll be back on the 15th with my next creation,

until then have lots of creative day's,

Kat x.

I am Woman by Sioux Jenneys

Happy Monday! It's my turn to share a little something today :)

1. I started by using one of the 7cm boxes from a Configurations Print Tray and painted it with pink sherbet Paint Dabber.

2. Stamped the Baroque Background onto tissue with Archival chrome yellow and used multi-medium matte to stick it to the inside of the box. I then stamped the word woman from Nudes 063 plate onto a piece of thick acetate making sure it was long enough to bend the edges over to eventually stick to the inside edges of the box.

...I rested it on the box to take the picture in the hope it shows up better.

3. Stamped one of the crowns from Crowning Glory onto metal in Staz On and cut out then embossed a little to give some dimension......I knew I wanted to hang this piece from my cork board so attached a piece of grunge paper to the back so that I could use a tack to hang it with.

4. If you remember from my post the other day....the design team are featuring Baubles and Buttons this month that are on special offer here ;) ;)

...I attached the bauble with some wire and covered it with a little bit of paper from the Lost and Found stack.

5. I cut the wreath from the Regal Crest die (that's on special offer too at the minute) and stamped the houndstooth background in Archival sepia then coloured it with Distress Ink wild honey.....Yum!

....attached a heart gem and the wreath with silicone glue to the front.

6. The Gibson girl 4 was stamped in Archival coffee and attached with dimensional pads.

I hope you can see that the word women is attached to the sides and the scrabble tiles have also been glued to thick acetate and attached in the same way to get some added dimension.

That was fun :) See you again soon!

xoxo Sioux

Winners Galore!

I love having to write this post every month, as I get to give away lots of stamps, and make at least one person's day! Today I get to make 2 people happy ( I hope...lol).Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in June's challenge which was monochromatic plus one, and was interpreted in lots of ways... I loved all of the entries, and Mr Random.org has made his choice... so please step up to the podium

Libeeti

Congratulations, and please email me so you can choose your prize of The Artistic Stamps!I can also announce the winner of Hels' ATC and stamps giveaway too! Congratulations to



Scrapping 4 Fun

Please email me or Hels to claim your prize!

It has been a great month so far, and of course we have a new challenge with another prize of £15.00 worth of stamps, so if you haven't ever joined in now is the time to do so...the theme is Hot , hot, hot!!

Have a very Creative day

Jennie

The World Is A Book

Hello Everyone,

Can't believe it's July already, thanks to Neil for showcasing some amazing projects throughout the month of June. Today is my first post as Guest Designer for July here at The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog (Thanks Jennie & Hels for inviting me).

My first project that I want to share with you all is using the set of 2 Papier Mache books. I have used the larger of the 2 books. I started out by spraying the whole book in Adirondack Colour Wash (Expresso), layering the depth of colour in different areas then drying with a heat gun. I then inked some cardstock from the Kraft Resist paper stash by Tim Holtz using Distress Stains (Weathered Wood) & Distress Inks (Walnut Stain & Vintage Photo). First of all I stamped the European Map Background in Archival Ink (Coffee) onto the cardstock and adhered to the front of the box. I then stamped Round The World & a quote

from the Travelling Words plate onto the pre inked cardstock.

Inside the book I have used a further quote from the Travelling Words plate and this fab male image called Goose Grease. I then added some pen nibs & a cork vial from the Ideaology range which were adhered with Glossy Accents.
On the back is another section of the European Map Background plate. I have added some metallic rub on pastes to give the appearance of an aged book.

So there it is my first project , I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have and I look forward to my next post. TTF Gillian x.

July Challenge - Feeling Hot! Hot! Hot!

Goodly Morning Stampers and welcome to a brand new challenge for July. Many thanks for all your wonderful entries for June, the winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday July 3rd. The new challenge this month is USE HOT COLOURS. To join in with the challenge is simple; make a piece of artwork, include the theme and some rubberstamping, pop back here to link up using the Froggy at the bottom of this post and leave us a comment to let us know you have joined in. As ever there will be candy for one randomly picked entrant - £15 worth of The Artistic Stamper stamps of your choice plus the Kling On to mount them onto. Moving on, last month we were very lucky to have the very talented Neil Walker as our Guest Designer, he pulled out all the stops and made some amazing pieces for the team. This month our Guest Designer is Gillian Simson and we are all really excited to see the marvellous creations that she will bring to this blog.

The team has been busy making samples for the challenge for you to see:

Alison got inky and used Wild Honey, Fired Brick and Vintage Photo Distress Inks along with the Calligraphic Mat #13, the Flourish Swirls and made a focal image of the Bird Song Complete stamp and finished the card with an Idea-ology Accoutrement and a Prima Flower.

Sioux has made a beautiful colourful card featuring a gorgeous butterfly stamp from the Butterflies and Insects plate. She also combined one of the new Travel Labels with a Calligraphic Mat #13 background, using Distress Inks to stamp and colour in the butterfly.

Minxy has been busy altering an 8" square canvas by using Adirondack Dabbers to colour the base and then overstamping with the Punk Plaid background stamp. She made great use of the Tick Tock butterflies, even overstamping the little butterfly with a Sequin Waste stamp. Minxy made gorgeous flowers using the Tattered Floral die, popping Accoutrements into the centres and adding Twine for the stems... finally she used the Alterations Chip Block to make her words up.

Hels - I got busy with Distress Inks, using my fave combo of Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Fired Brick to make a hot hot hot background base. I used a Dotty Background to make a pattern on the tag, swishing Fired Brick DI onto my craft sheet and then dipping the stamp into it, stamping onto the tag and then drying with a heat gun. I used the Crowns, stamping them in a row using Black Archival Ink and then did a little bit of cutting out using the Tattered Florals die to make a rose out of Kraft Resist which I coloured with Wild Honey and Fired Brick Distress Stains. I added a couple of Tattered Leaves which I coloured with Peeled Paint Stains. The Idea-ology Baubles were attached to Seam Binding that I had dyed with more Stains. I used the Travel Label stamp, masked off the writing in the centre, stamped onto cream card and then added a sentiment from Tim's Stuff to Say set. To finish I added a Corked Vial filled with Alcohol Ink and popped a Pen Nib on for decoration.


Thanks for looking... have a wonderfully inky and stampy month!

Just add your challenge artwork with a direct link to your post and follow the instructions. Pleaseleave us a comment too so we know you have entered.