Sweet Dreams by Emma Williams

Hello everyone!

It's Emma here, and I'm back with my first post of November and this time I've chosen to make a twisted easel card, featuring another of those gorgeous Mabel Lucie Attwell stamps, together with an inky background made using the fab Distress Stains which are currently on offer this month over at The Artistic Stamper.

So here's how I made it..

I stamped the Mabel Lucie Attwell image onto mount board, coloured it in and inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I then applied a generous amount of Versamark all over the image, covered with UTEE and heated it until it becomes molten and glossy.

To make the card base, I took a square pre-scored card, scored diagonally from corner to corner, across the front of the card blank and folded to give my basic easel shape card. Next, I inked up the Dots Background stamp with Versamark, stamped onto white card and embossed with clear embossing powder. Next, I got inky with the Distress Stains and randomly applied, Wild Honey, Weathered Wood and Antique Linen, all over the embossed piece of card ~ where you've previously embossed with the clear embossing powder, this will act as a resist and those little dots will just pop out.

I matted this onto black card and attached to the diagonal fold on the card blank. Next, using the same colours of Distress Stains as before, I once again, randomly applied them all over another piece of white card card and then stamped this background with the "splat" from the Swirls, Dots and Splats stamp and the Ink Blot Background. Attach this piece of card to the base of the card blank, trimming off the excess.

Using Tim Holtz's Tattered Florals Alterations die, I made a handmade 3D flower, coloured with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and spritzed with Turquoise Perfect Pearls Mists, I then attached this to the upright section of my card base, together with my enameled Mabel Lucie Attwell artwork and some seam binding.

I printed out "Time For Bed", adhered the words to a piece of card and attached it to the front of my card using a Tim Holtz Memo Pin. I finally made up two rosettes from some paper in my crafty stash, using Tim's Mini Rosette Strip Die and added these to the base of the card, together with the "Sweet Dreams" sentiment which I printed out on the computer.

So that's about it and I really hope you like my card!

I'll be back later in the month with another project. Thank you for taking the time to come and look at my work and for leaving all your lovely comments.

See you soon and happy creating!

Emma x

A Little Distressed by Tina Barnett

Hi Gang!

It's Tina here. I have made a card using the wonderful Mabel Lucie Attwell stamp "Natures little helper". How cute!!!



I started with an 8 inch by 8 inch card and used some beautiful swirl stamps by The Artistic Stamper . I used Tim Holtz distress inks to stamp them.

I then went over the card with .............. and I just have to say fabulous .... Distress ink dabbers It gave a beautiful background effect.


I used a darker ink dabber around the edge of the card. Where I had stamped the sentiment, which is an Artistic stamper stamp I then over stamped it used the darker ink dabber.


The main Mabel Lucie Attwell stamp has been coloured using Tim Holtz distress inks and edged in the same dark ink dabber.


I embossed some Coredinations card stock and went over that with the distress ink dabbers.

I then finished off with some ribbon from my stash.

Hope you like the results.

See you soon xx Tina xx

Winners Day!!

Goodly Morning to you all... we had a few publishing issues on Thursday so the winners of last months Challenge haven't been announced yet... high time to get Mr Random.org working... and he has chosen entry #19 which belonged to Lisa Sparkle....

Here's Lisa's Entry...

And... because it was our 13th month birthday we had two £15 worth of stamps prizes.. so the second winner is... #15 which belonged to Sarah Engels Greer.

Here's Sarah's Entry

Congrats to both winners, please can you email Jennie with your contact details :O))



And... it is also time to draw the winner of my taggy giveaway... who is... .Kirsten Alicia. Please can you email me your contact deets and I will pop the tag into the post for you!

My October Taggy Giveaway

AND... A big shout out... to JUDE... please can you email me your addy because I still have the tag you won last month!!! Ta! :O))

That's all from me for today... oh apart from mentioning that the brand new Seasonal Distress, Winter, Inks are in... HERE... and ready to be snapped up... TTFN!

Hels x

Hels x

SUNSET RAINBOWS XL TAG

Hi all, Kat here,
I'm here today to show my first project of the month,
it's an XL tag (my new fave surface to work on) at the moment anyway, LOL
the tag measures 10.5cm x 21.5cm,
that's 1 third bigger than the 8 by 16cm tags fab ha!

the focus this month for the design team is the amazing distress stains
they are on offer in the shop for this month only.

Here's my Tag,

I started of by die cutting the word journey along the side

with movers & shapers journey die

I then took a variety of the distress stains

in a rainbow of colours

& added bands of colour to the tag as shown,

I then took some background stamps & archival inks

& stamped randomly as shown in the picture below,

& stamped the word nature near the top,

next I made a dimensional pile of leaves with

autumn gatherings decorative strip die

& some textured card, that was sanded back

& the edges were inked with Distress inks

 

 

all glued with silicone glue & added then to the tag,

I then added the squirrel snugly into the pile of leaves,

I printed out the the little poem

that I made up myself (one of my better ones) LOL

& went scruffily around the words with a zig pen,

I distressed the edge of the tag with Tim's paper distresser

& added fibers through the hole at the top.

& there you have it!

hope you like my XL tag, the first of many, me thinks (lol)

I'll be back on the 15th with project number 2

until then wrap up, keep warm,

& carry on crafting (LOL)

KAT x.

 

Art tag by Sioux Jenneys

It's the fourth day of a new month....it must be my turn again to share something with you and this time I'm here to share a tag :)

1. I started by using my two Distress Stains...dried marigold and broken china to colour a tag and with the remains of the ink that ended up on the craft sheet I tapped the tag into the colours trying to get the dried marigold onto the blue section and the broken china onto the marigold section :)

2. Then it was a matter of some stamping and masking to create the main group...

...first the crown from crowning glory heat embossed in gold...

... then the Ball bottle stamped in Archival coffee...

...then the wings from crowning glory stamped in Archival aquamarine.

3. I left all these masks on and stamped the ruler from ephemera #1 down one side in Distress Ink weathered wood....then the ink blots from the A5 size swirls, splats and dots in Distress spiced marmalade

4. I then removed the masks for the wings and stamped the words premiere and deuxieme from the dance plate in Archival black....and also the word Art from creative art thoughts and air mail from bird collage elements.

5. Some white cotton ribbon (you can get similar ones here) was colourised with the same two Distress Stains that are this months special offer with 20% off :)......how vibrant these are on material! Then stapled to the tag.

6. A screw top brad was added to hold a piece of wire with a trinket pin dangling from it.

7. The edges were tattered and inked with Distress Ink antique linen and the bottle coloured with Distress peeled paint using a cut and dry nib.

Thanks for looking. See you again soon!

xoxo Sioux

Guest Artist- A Vintage Tag

Hello All

The lovely ladies here at

The Artistic Stampers Creative Blog asked me

 to to be a guest Artist for  the month of November....thank you all

so much, I am really looking forward to it!

So I thought I would share with you a tag I created using

Tim Holtz Distress inks in Vintage Photo and Antique Linen 

I inked up two tags.....one to use as the main tag and one to create a pocket.

After inking up the main tag I pasted some torn book pages and stuck them down with Claudine Hellmuths Matte Medium.

I then inked the pen nibs from the Tim Holtz Artful Artifacts stamp set onto the spare tag and cut out to make a pocket, this was then sewn into place with the sewing machine

I then stamped the sentiment from Stuff to say set by Tim Holtz

and selected a a hand from the Little labels set

I added some of my own stash of watch faces and a selection of Idea-ology

 and some corners

The small hand was covered with a fragment tile and I added some torn ribbon to the tag

 

I then added some more stitches to the side of the tag.

I really had a lot of fun creating this tag

I look forward to returning very soon

stay inky

Kaz

x

November Challenge - Backgrounds

Goodly Morning Stampers and welcome to a brand new challenge for November. Many thanks for all your wonderful entries for October, the winner of this challenge will be announced on Thursday, November 3rd. The new challenge this month is BACKGROUNDS 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. And... if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will be entered twice into the draw! Moving on, last month we were very lucky to have the very creative and innovative Laura Liddell as our Guest Designer, many thanks to Laura for her gorgeous creations! This month our Guest Designer is Kaz Hall and we are all really excited to see the marvellous creations that she will bring to the team.

Just a little note for you all to remember... The SPECIAL offer for November is... .DISTRESS STAINS. All the deets on how to catch yourselves a bargain are HERE... with a mahoosive 15% off all of these gorgeous stains. Throughout the month, the team will be showing you different ways of using them :O)) The team have been busy making samples for the challenge and using the fab new stamps...

KAT

ALISON

Alison stamped the Lace Background with spiced marmalade Distress Stains, then clear embossed it. Faded jeans & dusty concord distress stains were then blended over the top. She stamped the Lacy Border onto card coloured with distress stains. The main image & words are from the Nudes Plate. The seam binding was also coloured with distress stains.

EMMA

Emma used Distress Inks on a Ranger tag and then stamped the background with several background stamps and one element from the Stars Plethora stamp. The Mabel Lucie Attwell image was stamped onto a separate piece of card, coloured, cut out and then layered onto the tag. Finally, the "Fun" and "Laughter" words, taken from the "Into Each Day..." stamp were added, together with some seam binding and buttons.

Sioux

Sioux used nearly every background stamp she posseses to make some windmills.

JENNIE

Jennie has made a wooden bird using the calligraphic mat background, and the full instructions on how to make it are on her blog, which also includes a great blog hop today!

HELS

I made a tag using yummy Distress Inks - blending them over a manila tag and really working the inks into the surface. I over stamped with the Distressed Background stamp and Perfect Pearls Mists (more about this technique later in the month!) and then I used the Mini Polka Dot to overstamp this. I used the crowns from Crowning Glory to add interest down the side of the tag... and then I made a Grungepaper rose, using the large Flower Power stamp ... and again using the Mini Polka Dot stamp, adding Tattered Leaves using Forest Moss and Olive Archival to add the Grid background stamp. A few bits of Idea-ology, a couple of crystal pins and a word stamp finished the tag.




Thanks for looking!! TTFN

Hels x