Star Card by Gemma

I have a new messy square card to share with you all for my post today using one of my first stamps from The Artistic Stamper. It was a very loved stamp but one I had completely forgotten about, and it was lovely to come across it and love it again, but then who doesnt love a good numeral/number stamp. 

My Process

I started by cutting a piece of white card to fit my card blank and then creating a border around the card by masking off the edges with washi tape. Once that was done I gently tapped on some Color Burst ( a little really does go a long way) and sprayed it with water. I did this twice drying between layers adding a lot of water to the first layer and a little to the second. Over this I stamped the large dot stamp in ink before removing the washi tape.

Once dry I stamped over the whole piece of card with a script stamp and black ink. On a separate piece of white card, I drew a star using the star mask as a template and stamped in the center with the number stamp and black ink. After cutting the star out I glued it to the background and added some detail with black and white pens.

xx Gemma xx

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Calligraphic Mat 12

Large Dotty Background

Family Values Number stamp

Star Mask

Distressed In Time with Lisa

Hi folks, Lisa here, welcome to my post. This month's theme is 'distress', my favourite theme! 

The Artistic Stamper products I used was the Girl with Clock stamp and Random Dots 6 x 6 Stencil.

I first created the background using the stencil and Distress Oxide inks. 

I stamped around the edges of the background using just the clock part of the stamp. Then stamped in areas using one of the stamps from the Mini Backgrounds #3 stamp set. 

I stamped the Girl With Clock stamp on to acetate and painted the reverse of the acetate with white acrylic paint. 

I then painted some ball head pins with black gesso.

I mounted the acetate piece on a double layer of foam pads and pinned the painted pins in to the foam.

Thanks for popping by The Artistic Stamper blog today.

Toodles for now, 

Lisa.

            

I called to the Lord!!

Hi there, it's Jane again here to hopefully inspire you to join in with the challenge for this month... "distress it", so however it calls to you then you can interpret it any way you like.

For my challenge piece I have used my newest purchase, Eileen Hulls Bigz passport die, it is fantastic, and I was inspired to make an inspirational book using distress inks and Artistic Stamper stamps.

This book started off as a piece of art that I had done that I wasn't too thrilled with, so I ripped up a book page, stuck it down randomly, then gave it a good gesso'ing, a few spritzes of distress inks, and then stamped the fabulous window from the ARCHITECTURE 3 stamp set, then added the text with some alphabet stamps from my stash!!. I am in the process of doing the pages for this book so if you join me tomorrow on MY BLOG I will post the finished product.

I have so enjoyed doing this "distress it" challenge, I hope you will join in too...HERE.

JANE

Wedding card by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone,
Once again, I have used the same technique as I used to make Artifacts cards by Titbelsoeur : first stamp in blue the Wedding Vows Text and the Dog Rose © Lesley Matthewson as focal points, hide both the text and flowers and stamp the background using your gelli plate as a pad :

I hope this card will help you find inspiration to participate in our monthly challenge !

July's creative challenge - Distress it 

 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

Bye for now and happy creating. 

Titbelsoeur

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Messy Heart Card by Gemma

I was very pleased with this little square card I am sharing with you all today using wonderful stamps from The Artistic Stamper, Inks and Pigment Powders.

Steps

1)  I cut a piece of white card to fit my card blank and then masked off the edge with torn washi tape.

2) Then I sprinkled Pigment powders over the top and sprayed them with water to activate them. I used more water and a paintbrush to move them about a bit.

3) Before removing the washi tape I went around the edges with a brown ink.

4) Once completely dry I stamped over the top with ink and the dots stamp, keeping the stamping to the coloured areas.

5) Over this, I stamped Calligraphic mat 20 with black ink, this time I stamped over the whole piece of card. 

6) On a separate piece of card, I stamped a heart and the text from the same set inside it with black Archival ink and coloured it with pigment powders.

7) I also stamped out the Postscript stamp with Archival ink and cut out a few of the pen images from that stamp. 

8) I then glued all the elements together and added some white dots with a chalk pen

xx Gemma xx

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Artifacts postscript stamp

Heart Stamps

Dots Background stamp

Calligraphic mat 20

Distress Oxide Altered Book Pages by Angie Coomber

Hi!

This month I have created some altered book pages for you. Depending on the thickness of your pages you may have to glue a few of them together, and in this case I glued 3 sets of 2 pages each as the paper is quite thin.

I coloured each section with Distress Oxides and then used some of Tracy Scott's fab background stamps.

I also stamped on a spare page, coloured in the circles with Distress Oxides and cut them out.

I made some tags, glued book pages to them, stamped, and then decorated both the tags and pages with the cut out circles.

I found some lovely coloured string for the tags and glued the tags between the pages.

As always I finished my project off with a quote.

Hope you like it, give book altering a go if you haven't already!
Angie

Distressed Butterfly with Lisa

Hi lovelies, Lisa here with today's post is for The Artistic Stamper and this month's theme is 'Distress'.

Distress. My favourite subject!!!

I first started with a plain piece of white card and used ink sprays to add some colour to the background. 

I then added some layers using Mini Backgrounds #1 & #2 with black ink.

I stamped the large butterfly from the Insects and Butterflies stamp set on to patterned paper then cut out and sprayed with teal ink spray.

I stamped the butterfly on to the background multiple times, overlaying the image with light pressure. 

Then adhered the cut out butterfly over the top.

To finish, I distressed the edges of the card with a pair of scissors. 

Thanks for popping by the blog today,

toodles for now,

Lisa x 

Here are the Artistic Stamper stamp sets I used....


         

Summer holidays by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone,
This project to wish you very good Summer holidays !
I have used a wooden block found on a beach after Spring tides, don't know whether it comes from a boat or not... I have stuck on it a decorated sardine can, some seashells and a parasol.

Focus on the sardine can : coloured compress as a fishing net, other seashells and a big fish stamped in 2 different shades, all stamps from Seaside No. 1 A5 

Last focus on the background I have made with metallic tape covered with various acrylic paints (brown, blue and black) and wiped with a dry baby wipe to avoid erasing all paint.

I hope this hanger will help you find inspiration to participate in our monthly challenge !

July's Creative Challenge - Distress it!

 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

Bye for now and happy creating. 

Titbelsoeur

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Damsel in Distress!!!..Never!!!

I'm loving this months challenge..."Distress It".... I mean...who doesn't love Sir Tim's distress inks, oxides, sprays....well to be more precise..every God damn Tim Holtz product!!!..between them and dancing lessons, I am never gonna be able to retire to a villa on the beach in the south of France!!!..lol.

Anyways, I killed two birds with one stone for my "distress it" card, I used my two favourite distress inks, walnut stain and spiced marmalade, and I even used the word distress in the title!!

Other products I have used are the HARLEQUIN MASK, the CALLIGRAPHY MAT 12 stamp, and the woman is from the NUDES stamp set.

I do hope you will join in this fabulous challenge, I look forward to seeing your entries.

JANE

Winner of June's Blue Challenge

Hi!
Thank you for dropping by. I have the pleasure of always choosing the winner of our Blog Creative Challenge, and a big thank you to everyone who joined in last month's Colour It Blue challenge.
As always there can only be one winner, and this month, I am delighted to show you

Mac Mable's gorgeous creation

Congratulations, and please email me so we can arrange your prize of one of The Artistic Stamper stamps.

Have a creative month everyone, and why not join in this month's challenge which is Distress it, and can be found here
Hugs
Jennie

July's Creative Challenge - Distress it!

Hello!

Welcome to the July Creative  challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in last month's challenge.. we loved all the Blue that covered the blog :) 
. This month the theme is Distress it, 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! To get you started here are creations fron some of the team...

Jennie

I made a card using Distress Oxides , which I spritzed, and layered . I added Backgrounds from Tracy Scott,  a calligraphy mat and a border from  Borders 1 . The words are some of my favourites, and come from Creative Art thoughts

Gemma

I had fun creating this tag for this months challenge, using Distress Ink and Distress Oxides along with Secret Keys, Treasured Memories and Neil Walkers Butterfly stamps from The Artistic Stamper.


JANE

Distress inks and oxides and tags...oh my!!!. Distressed!!!....definitely de-stressed...while playing with my distress inks and oxides to tie in with this months "distressed" challenge.

I started by using the fabulous distress oxides on my tag, then stamped the hydrangeas and the sentiment from the BOTANICAL stamp set, then mounted it on  an oxide spritzed piece of craft card. I even distressed the edges of the card stock!!. 

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 very creative  month

Jennie xx

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