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.
Oooh, I loooove Christmas, all the preparations, the decorations and the fact that I can add as much bling to artwork and get away with it LOL For this piece I have used the brand new Steampunk Bauble stamps - aren't they just F A B!!!
I started with some Gold Nuggest TSS metal - you can any colour you want to to match in with your festive colour theme, which was popped onto black card with Humungo Tape. I stamped the baubles with Black StaZon, giving it a quick zap with a heat gun to set the ink. Next I used a teflon tipped refining tool (TSS) and added little indents all around the cogs inside the baubles and then used a scootchy tool to make a nice edge for each one. These were then covered with Black Dabber, which was wiped off with paper towel whilst still wet - this just ages the metal nicely and the paint sits in the bits you have refined.
The base of the canvas was covered with Terra, which was stamped into using background stamps, heat dried to make it warty and then painted with Traditional Tan, A Dash of Red and Sable Brown Claudine Hellmuth paints. Once these were all dried, I used some Perfect Pearl mists - Heirloom Gold and Forever Red, spritzing and heating to dry them. These added a load of bling which doesn't really show in the pics. Finally, I used my favourite applicator tool (my index finger LOL) and popped some Inka Gold onto the bobbles on the canvas to highlight the contours. I added Idea-ology Ball Chain for the baubles to hang from and a Memo Pin and Charm Clip for the sentiment. Thanks for looking! TTFN
Hi, it's the boss again, but don't worry I won't be staying long..lol Just popped in to show you a hanging piece I made , which doesn't take long, and is just perfect for your Christmas Tree, or for any occasion really! I used 3 different sized Chipboard birds from Maya Road, These came from the Fancy Bird coaster, mini bird cages, and the bird keyring.
I coloured them using my favourite colour..blue! I took three different shades of Distress ink, and used the direct to paper, or in this case direct to chipboard. I loved how it came up different shades.
The stamp is one of Wendy Vecchi's swirls from here Botanical Art stamps, which if stamped randomly gives a great pattern. I inked them with Pearl Dabbber. Just make sure you use a rub it scrub it to clean the stamp before the paint dries!
The birds are joined together with Tim's Lace chain, and a few of his baubles to add a bit of bling! The pearly colouring in between the birds on the chain, is a new product which will be available on the website shortly , and is called Hot Tubez. Watch this space :))
If you would like to be in with a chance of winning this hanging birdie set, then just leave a comment on this post, add it to your sidebar for another chance and I will pick the winner next week on Friday 3rd December.
Have a very Creative day
Hugs
Jennie
This is such a beautiful stamp and lends itself to so many themes, Birthday, Friends, Children's cards, etc
I have coloured the stamp with Promarkers. I have kept a purple/blue colour theme throughout as I thought it looked good with just a limited colour theme. Of course you can go mad with colours if you wish!
I punched a little boarder and added a ribbon and bow, along with a little sentiment. I then added some paper flowers with little glittered centers.
I then finished off with a few gems.
A simple card but stylish! I mean what else do you need to add with such a fabulous stamp!
Hello everyone! It's my (Sioux) turn again and I'm here to share a card :)
1. First I stamped the bee from Oddities Plate in Versafine onyx black onto cream textured rive paper...this texture helps to add to the old print look......stamp the bee again on scrap paper...cut out and use this as your mask. ...please don't bother to cut round the fiddly legs it's not necessary ;) and don't worry it's the only mask you will be using!
5. Stamp the Daisy in Distress Ink Old Paper and distress the edges with this colour too.
6. Remove the mask and colour the bee with Distress Ink Wild Honey and Adirondack Stream using Cut and Dry Nibs.....add Diamond Stickles to the wings. ...I think the close up here will help to see the layers of stamping
7. Cut a shield from the Regal Crest die....so love that!...and stamp the sequin waste open in Distress Ink Wild Honey as a second stamping.......over stamp with the small postcard image from the Purely Random plate in Adirondack salmon and add the T!m sentiment in Versafine.......
8. Matt the botanical background onto card distressed with Wild Honey and then another distressed with Willow. ...edge all three layers with a black marker before assembly!
9. Fix a piece of ribbon and stick all three layers to the base card then pop the shield on using 3d foam or silicone and add some Prima Pearls oh so gorgeous!
Ooh! Making that made me happy :)See you again soon! xoxo Artyjen
3. Cut out all three and colour the edges a little with Distress Ink Tattered Rose and at the same time edge the card with this too dragging some over the entire surface.....stick the lace borders to the card using double sided tape.
....I particularly like this ink for detailed image and sentiment stamps ;)
6. Colour the edges with a little more Pool and Tattered Rose....edge with a gold pen and add some gorgeous Prima Pearls.
7. I was going to use some of the printed twill that has music on for the final embellishment but at the moment it is out of stock (it will be back soon no doubt) so I used some of the plain twill and stamped the Music Plate onto it instead.....love it!
...there is a way round most things I find ;) ! LOL
I don't know about you, but I love using corrugated card in my artwork! It provides great texture, & best of all, it's free! (Well, mine is, as I pinch the kit kat boxes from the newsagents where I work! Lol!)
2. Now take a piece of white card (approx. 7" x 5"), and colour it with crushed olive, wild honey, rusty hinge, and forest moss distress inks. Use the same inks to stamp a background with the Bare Tree and Distressed Background. Dry this with a heat gun, then stamp the tree twice, and the flock of birds (from Birds of a Feather) with versamark ink, and emboss the images with vintage photo distress embossing powder. Use the distress tool on the edges, then ink them with forest moss DI.
3. Stamp the bird box and wren from Birds of a Feather, and the birdcage and phrase from Free as a Bird, onto book pages with black ink. I used pages from a book on birds to keep up the theme, but any will do. Tear around the phrase, and ink the edges with black. Cut out the other images.
4. Assemble the backgrounds and images as shown, then add copper coloured eyelets to the top, and thread with copper bead chain.
Hope you like my little piece of art, and thanks for looking!
Goodly morning! I am happy, happy, happy today because I have been playing with ink and card and getting thoroughly messy in the process. I have made a card - which was based on a tag - which as I'm sure I may have told you (like a gadzillion times) that I loooove tags.
Well, I decided to make a tag that was flat on top and didn't have a hole... which in effect means it is ... a card LOL So... starting out with a Non Stick Craft Sheet, I dabbed and squidged the following colours of Distress Inks onto it: Antique Linen, Barn Door, Fired Brick, Vintage Photo and Brushed Corduroy, making sure that the colours don't overlap each other. Next I used a Mini Mister with water in it to spritz over the DI's to make a "wash". The next stage is to take you piece of card and press it onto the inkyness, dry with a heat gun and then repeat the process until you are happy with the look. I have found over the years of doing this technique that if I dry a little bit of the inkyness up with the heatgun it goes into more concentrated droplets, which then transfer to the cardstock... giving it a dappled look, which I like :O))
Next, I edged the card with Brushed Corduroy - I do this so it "closes" the card in, so the inkyness on the card is the focal point - hope that makes sense :O)) I used my fave Tim Holtz Collection stamps to add images onto the background.. and then added the Brolly Man, which was stamped in Black Soot and embossed with Black Soot Distress Powder on Grungeboard. His brolly had a dollop of Glossy Accents popped onto the top of it so it looks like rainwater and the sunrise in front of him is where he is headed :O)) *ah, you ol' romantic Hels :O))* I then added a sentiment and an Idea-ology Key to finish. I hope you found the hints here helpful... thanks for looking... have a FAB weekend! TTFN
6. Removed all the masks and added the words air mail in Adirondack Pool
7. Thought the gorgeous bird looked so regal that he needed a crown LOL! So used the T!m crown from the Mini Ornates Plate stamped onto some Ten Seconds Studio Metal (Bronzed God) and attached with silicone.
I am going to bug the wonderful Hels Sheridan, the designer of Stitchels, until she caves in and designs more Christmas stamps! I love love love the snowmen and snowladies. They are available at The Artistic Stamper
This cutie is Millie!
I have used my favourite Promarkers to colour the stamp. I decided to go for pinks instead of the traditional colourways, well Millie is a lady!
What I have tried to show in this card is that when you are creating a Christmas Card, you can use embellishments that aren't necessarily Christmas embellishments. Yes I have used a Christmas charm but everything else can be used on any card.
By changing the colour of the flowers to match the colours I have used on the stamp and adding matching ribbon and liquid pearls around the edge bring everything together. When you look at the card you think "Pink Christmas", but really the stamp and and charm are the only Christmas themed items. So, come on give it a go, change your everyday embellishments to blend in with your Christmas cards. I would LOVE to see what you do, so please leave me a comment and I can come and see. Bye for now! Tina xxxxxxxxxxx
Every month, we have a challenge set by one of the Team, and this month the subject is "Something Hidden " set by Tina. I had lots of ideas for it, but came up with this idea while prepping a workshop for Christmas cards. The wooden angels are great blank canvases, and I used Terra which I smooched all over it and stamped into with a wet stamp. I used the music background, and then immediately washed the stamp clean. If you don't your stamp will harden and be ruined!
Then when it was dry, I sprayed lots of Ranger Perfect Pearl Mists over it. I love the little wire halo in the top! The card was a folded piece which I had from a set and the angel hid quite nicely in it. I covered the card in old music paper from our Vintage papers sets. I was very lucky as the song was "Believe"! Do you believe in Angels? Finally I distress inked it and added a Idea-ology Seasonal sticker and some dabbers too! A gorgeous piece of Idea-ology trimming also sprayed with Mists just finished it off.
If you feel like making something hidden then please join in ourchallenge and be in with a chance to win £15.00 worth of stamps.
Happy Creating!
Jennie
2. Place the stamped image (it is ATC size by the way) on a square of paper that is just a little smaller than the card front you are using and lightly mark in pencil where the top and bottom corners sit.
3. I desperately wanted a plain shape stamp to put behind the sweet daisy image to ground it but I did not have one then I remembered I had one of T!m's Styled Label dies so cut the shape out of funky foam added a bit of non permanent sticky stuff to the back and inked it up!
(I find using white foam is best as you can see how much ink you have put on it!)
Thank you to everyone who joined n the challenge in October... it was great fun, and some beautiful entries. Loved all of them! I did use random.org to get a winner, and this person wins £15.00 worth of The Artistic Stamper stamps, plus enough Kling-On to mount them!.. so is it you? Well, if
would like to step up to get her prize......Congratulations! A beautiful piece. Don't forget to grab your winner blinkie ( down on the right hand side of the blog), and to email me to find out how to claim your stamps.
This month's challenge is set by Tina, and is "something hidden", so get out your stamps, and get creating!
We look forward to seeing your creations.
Happy Stamping!
Jennie
That's certainly true! Hi! Alison here! Thank you Jennie & Hels for giving me my first ever guest designer opportunity! And what fabulous stamps I've had to play with! For my first piece, I chose to use Jennie's wonderful new Inspiration Light Bulbs. I thought they'd make great hot air balloons. And, to carry on the steampunk theme, I used the Cogs Background, and also the Calligraphic mat and the Punk Plaid Background.
Here are the instructions for my frame
1. Paint a Shadowbox with Gesso, then spread Ferro all around the frame of it. Stamp into the wet Ferro with the Cogs Background & the Caligraphic Mat. Make sure you wet your stamps when you do this, and clean them thoroughly straight afterwards.
3. Back to the Shadowbox. Once it is dry, sponge Azure Precious Metal Paint all over it, including the cavity. Add highlights to the stamped areas with Silver PM Paint and Orange Inka Gold. Once the paint is dry,adhere the metal inlay into the cavity, using red line tape.
6. Cut two basket shapes from the Punk Plaid Background, then emboss them with the TSS tools. Attach the baskets to the 'balloons' with short lengths of silver wire.
7. Cut out the phrase and emboss the edges of this with the TSS wheel tool. Rub a little of the Orange Inka Gold onto all of the metal embellishments, then curve them all slightly before gluing them to the frame with silicone glue.
Morning Stampers and a pinch n a punch to you all :O)) Today is the first of the month, so that can mean only one thing... time for a brand new monthly challenge theme. Thank you to everyone who joined in with last months challenge... the winner of the candy will be announced by Jennie on Wednesday - drawn randomly by Mr. Random.org :O)) On with the theme for this months challenge... chosen by Tina, our Colouring Artist Extraordaire, the theme is SOMETHING HIDDEN. To join in, all you need to do is make a piece of art, be it a card, ATC, tag, altered art - that is entirely up to you... include the theme and some rubberstamping. If you use Artistic Stamper stamps, your name will be entered into the draw twice... the prize is £15 worth of Artistic Stamper stamps of your choice, plus the KlingOn to mount them onto. Leave us a comment here and add your link (to be added shortly by the blog technician cos I am toooo thick to know how to do it ROFL) when you have entered ...oh and you can enter more than once... please just remember to use rubber stamping on your design.
So, for my entry I have used a little papier mache book - any kind of papier mache item will work with this technique though. I painted a layer of watered down Traditional Tan paint and dried it quickly with a heat gun. Then I added some Cloudy Blue Dabber - again watered down slightly and applied with a paint brush... and dried again - finally a stipple brush of Sable Brown paint... dragged over the surface to make it patchy... and then a dab of Copper Dabber... again dried immediately. I have found to my cost - leaving the painted surface to dry naturally warps and buckles the papier mache... and normal thickness paint bubbles too much under the heat - hence the watered down versions :O)) I made a little card insert for the inside... colouring with DI's and stamping with Tim Holtz collection stamps.
I made some Grungepaper roses using the large and medium flowers from the Flower Power sets, painted the Grungepaper with Copper Dabber and then assembled the large rose on the front of the book with a couple of Grungepaper Leaves, cut from the Tattered Leaves Alterations Die, embossed with a Texture Fade and then coloured with Crushed Olive and Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks. I added some Idea-ology Baubles, Memo Pins & Book Plate for decoration and made a little mouse using Fimo - he has Idea-ology Ball & Chain for his tail... I think he is quite cute and mouses like being in a nice cosy cubby hole... so that's why he is hiding in the book :O)) Anyways... that is my entry... what are you going to make?? The idea's are endless; secret compartments, little flipflaps to open up to read a message, words hidden in sketches... go on, have some inky fun! Thanks for looking... TTFN
Hels x
Just add your challenge artwork with a direct link to your post and follow the instructions :) Please add a comment so we know you have entered
For my third and final piece as November's Guest Designer, I decided to make a Christmas card.
