Time card by Titbelsoeur

Hello everybody !
To meet our February challenge, I have made a card. Watercoloured the background with my 3 favourite colours blended, Prussian Blue, Azo yellow and Quinadocrine Rose.
When dry, I have stamped the sentiment with Archival Inkpad - Black ink and hidden it with a paper to stamp the clock with Archival Inkpad-Cobalt

Step-by-step pictures on my blog 

Stamps from the following plates :

Time and Keys

Tick Tock A5

Hope it gives you inspiration to participate in our 

February Creative Challenge- Words ( and a new Surprise Prize!)

for 3 chances to win some of these fabulous
Artistic Samper stamps !

AND

 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.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

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I will be happy to read your comments about it !

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Seize the moment by Titbelsoeur

Hello People !

This is Titbelsoeur today showing you how to make a 15 mn card.

I have first stamped the "seize the moment" sentiment from the Journaling Words 3 size A5 plate  with Archival ink and added one boat from my Beach Huts & Boats 2 © Tit Belsoeur plate. When dry, I have watered the paper with a watercolour brush and then added watercolours here and there to have them mixed together, except on the boat I have kept dry.

I hope this card gives you inspiration to participate in our 

August' Creative Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

for 3 chances to win some of these fabulous Artistic Samper stamps !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

You may visit my folder : Titbelsoeur stamps @ the Artistic Stamper
I will be happy to read your comments about it !

Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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Butterfly card by Titbelsoeur

Hi all there !
I love to use these new stamps, the butterfly ones have such a graphic look and this Butterfly Trellis © Neil Walker is a great stamp to make cards. To make this card, I have used watercolours, this is really appropriate to highlight this stamp. I have completed the card with the sentiment from Quotes & Sayings 1 by Debs Smith and used my watercolour brush to make the spots and paint the edges :

I hope my card gives you inspiration to participate in our 

February's Creative Challenge - Heart it!

for 3 chances to win !

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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Thread painting by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone,
I am currently experimenting a technique I did not know... thread painting !
I love the very interesting random results I get with this technique, if you are interested you will find a lot of videos about it on Youtube.
This one looks like an arum, and I love how it fits well with this Artifacts - Treasured Memories stamp :

This is my first step using this technique, be sure I will show you others in the near future !!

I hope you all will participate in our 

November's Creative Challenge - Square it!

for 3 chances to win !

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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Woodland card by Titbelsoeur

Hello Everybody,

I have made a card for you today, using the Mushrooms A5 Plate © Tit Belsoeur I had the pleasure to design fot The Artistic Stamper. My background is made with waterbased inks sprayed on my mat, then I put the paper on to it and immediately stamped the Harlequin background from Mini Backgrounds # 2 size A6 to have it diluted. I stamped it on the card paper as well.

Then I cut out the mushroom stamped images I had coloured with watercolours and sticked them on to the background paper :

I hope you all will participate in our 

September's Creative Challenge - Going Round & Round

 for 3 chances to win !

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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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 !

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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Sunflower card by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone, today I want to show you how I have coloured this sunflower and then stamped it so that the stamp is not hidden under the paint and it is very neat, using my home-made precision press.

I have chosen the Sunflowers © Lesley Matthewson  to make my focal point
Sorry I have not taken a picture from the first step : stamp the sunflower to the paper with black archival ink and do not remove stamp nor paper from their place during the whole process.
Then, paint your image with whatever paint you choose : acrylic, watercolor...

Here is how it looks like once painted and before stamping again : 

After you stamped it again (and again if needed), you may hide the image with paper and sprinkle paint with a brush to have dots here and there.

Do not forget that you can win these fabulous stamps, just participating in our challenge 

USING STENCILS

 for 3 chances to win !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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Butterfly Splatter Card by Gemma

I have another butterfly card to share with you today, I am really enjoying creating fairly simple cards with not a lot of fussiness at the moment.

This card was a larger square card to start with but it had a little accident and had to be redesigned.  

I started by putting small amounts of Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Distress Oxides onto a non-stick mat and mixed them with water, then using different sized small brushed I splattered the ink over a piece of cardstock. 

I then stamped three butterflies diagonally across the piece of card, one of these was later cut off. I also edged the card with yellow ink.

Once everything was dry I stamped along some areas of the sides with the plaid background stamp and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide, before stamping the words with love in archival ink.

To alter the card after it's little mishap I cut off the ruined area, applied more yellow ink to the edges and stamped, colored and cut out a new butterfly for the card front.

Thanks for stopping by

Gemma

Products from The Artistic Stamper
Butterflies 2
Punk Plaid Background Stamp
Grungy Greetings 2
Distress Oxides

Father's day card by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy stampers !
A second card made with the same cardboard bit as here : i'm-gone-gardening-by-titbelsoeur, for father's day.
Just stamp a heart

Mini Heart © Neil Walker 

a sentiment

Grungy Greetings #2 A6

A hugs pin 

Grungy Greetings #1 A6

and a vintage male-related stamp

Men’s Plate 001 # 035 A5

All of these stamps gathered on a gessoed cardboard piece, some book page crops, an altered domino... and here it is :

Would you like to win these fabulous stamps ? Easy : just participate in our monthly challenge "Winged things" for 3 chances to win !

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Home sweet home by Titbelsoeur

Hi there !
Are you crafting this summer ? ready to participate in our July challenge and delight us with bright and beautiful pieces ?

Here today is a card for all those who are travelling around the world.

I first stamped this fabulous Round the World stamp from the Steampunk section on to my gelli plate and made a few tests. Then I chose this very piece 

to be inserted into the card. On the card, I stamped this little house from Houses with Black Archival and highlighted some details with a white pen :

Same thing for the sentiment :

and here is my card :

Thanks so much for stopping by,

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July Challenge- All things Bright & Beautiful

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Houses by Gemma

Hello Everyone

This this post I created a quick, bright fun card, that just made me feel very chilled and happy.

To start with I cut a piece of card to fit the front of my card blank, I also took I sheet of scrap paper and ripped it into three sections. I used these sections of paper as masks to create the sections on the back ground. After blocking off the sections with the scrap paper I used acrylic paints to first paint a layer of block colour on the base and then a slightly darker colour over the top through a mask.

I used the same mask for all three sections and once dry I stamped the phrase from the our house   plate by Kathleen Fullman.

I also stamped out several of the houses from the same set. Before painting them all with the same basic, red, blue and yellow colours. Once they were dried and glued into place, I added some extra colour with pencils and went around all the houses with a black pen.

Thank you so much for reading
Gemma

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Random Dot Mask

Our House A6 plate