Tuesday 21 April 2020

Flowers in the Night. by Jane

Hydrangeas are just the most beautiful flowers are they not!! especially the deep pink and the deep blue kind. I have no room in my garden for a hydrangea bush, so I  have a couple in pots, but alas they don't fare too well in them. We are still on with the "In the garden" challenge, so you still have time to enter this month.


To make the hydrangeas and the sentiment really pop on the dark background I embossed them with white embossing powder.
Artistic stamper products used;
Hope you will join in the fun.





Sunday 19 April 2020

Confinart journal - part 2 by Titbelsoeur

Hi everyone !
Hope you are all safe.
I told you on my last post here Dragonfly page by Titbelsoeur about the "Confinart Journal" I have made and posted on Youtube to help my French friends doing mixed-media art while locked-down.
I enjoyed very much to shoot these tutorials and am very happy with the comments I received about it.
Here below are 2 pages from this art journal. I have used 2 big stamps and 2 background ones, and I love the way they look on my pages :





Would you like to view how I use the Artistic Stamper stamps, please have a look at this video :



Hope it gives you inspiration to participate in our 

This month and for the next three months, we are giving YOU an opportunity to join our Creative Team for a month, and get to use The Artistic Stamper stamps, and be posted on this blog, and on social media. Come and create and be in it to win it!
In addition, you can enter the same challenge on Facebook just for fun.
To join us on just go to our new Facebook group, and send us a request to join.
We will pick a winner early next month from the entries, so get your thinking caps on, bring out your inks and stamps, and join in!

Thank you so much for stopping by.
You may visit my folder : 
I will be happy to read your comments about it !
Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog
Bye for now and happy creating. 
Titbelsoeur

Thursday 16 April 2020

Winner of March's Creative Challenge

Hi,
I am always excited to announce the winner of our blog challenge, and this month even more so, as the prize is to create for us, using The Artistic Stamper Stamps, and join the blog for the month of June!
Gorgeous creations as always, and a big thank you to everyone who joined in.
This month, we loved Felix the Crafty Cat with this gorgoeus steampunk piece!

 Please contact me, so we can get started on your guest spot on this blog :)
As always we have a new challenge for , this time it is In the Garden, and it can be found here.
Wew look forward to seeing your creations
Happy Creating
Stay Safe and #stayhomeandkeepcrafting
Jennie x

Sunday 12 April 2020

"Blossom with Time" by Jane

Do artists blossom with time?...I certainly think so, when I look back at my style of crafting when I first started, it has definitely changed, I am still working on trying to be much looser, much freer, and less analytical, I'm not there yet,will I ever get there!!!,definitely not if I am always getting to a point where I dare not make another mark on it for fear of ruining it!!! heck...what do I have to fear...the piece will only go on the teetering mountain of previous stuff anyway!!LOL.
Anyway, enough of my mentality and on to this months challenge, in the garden. sorry guys for my overuse of this brilliant stencil yet again, but I love it.


I love it for its random feel..which I think was more luck than on purpose, but is totally my case in point with trying to be freer..!!
Artistic Stamper products used;
Hope your'e all having fun in your craftrooms



Tuesday 7 April 2020

Dragonfly page by Titbelsoeur

Hello everybody,
I hope you are all safe at home. What about doing an art journal during this social distanciation to stay together even if alone ? This is the title I have chosen for my new "confinart journal". I have made videos while doing it and have posted them on my Youtube channel.

I have made one of theses pages doing prints on my gel plate with the dragonfly from the Butterflies 2 plate :

Art journalons ensemble...


The video tutorial using this Artistic Stamper dragonfly on to gel plate is here :



Hope it gives you inspiration to participate in our 

This month and for the next three months, we are giving YOU an opportunity to join our Creative Team for a month, and get to use The Artistic Stamper stamps, and be posted on this blog, and on social media. Come and create and be in it to win it!
In addition, you can enter the same challenge on Facebook just for fun.
To join us on just go to our new Facebook group, and send us a request to join.
We will pick a winner early next month from the entries, so get your thinking caps on, bring out your inks and stamps, and join in!

Thank you so much for stopping by.
You may visit my folder : 
I will be happy to read your comments about it !
Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog
Bye for now and happy creating. 
Titbelsoeur

Wednesday 1 April 2020

April's Creative Challenge - In The Garden

Hello,and welcome to April's challenge, with a brand NEW prize!
At the moment it is a strange world we are living in, and we hope this will bring a bit of joy into your lives.
This month and for the next three months, we are giving YOU an opportunity to join our Creative Team for a month, and get to use The Artistic Stamper stamps, and be posted on this blog, and on social media. Come and create and be in it to win it!

This month the theme is In The Garden 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.

We will pick a winner early next month from the entries, so get your thinking caps on, bring out your inks and stamps, and join in!

In addition, you can enter the same challenge on Facebook just for fun.
To join us on just go to our new Facebook group, and send us a request to join.
For inspiration, this is some of team's  In the Garden creations.


JANE
I was messing around with some paperclay and ended up with a a scrappy bit left over, so I flattened it out in a scruffy manner!! and decided to stamp into it with one of the SKELETON LEAVES, there are five different sizes in this set, rangeing from huge to tiny, I love them, and I love the impression it left on the paperclay, a bit fossil like.


Artistic Stamper products used;



Angie
First I painted a square piece of card with green acrylic paint and embossed it with a background stamp and green embossing powder.
Next I stamped a selection of mushroom images and coloured them in with watercolours, then cut them out. I glued one layer of mushrooms to the background, then glued a strip of adhesive foam to the bottom of the it. I stuck another set of mushrooms to the foam strip, positioned the Tim Holtzpaperdoll and added some decorative moss.
Finally I glued the whole scene into a little wooden box.



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 
#stayhomeandkeepcrafting
Stay safe 
Jennie x
 
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