Heart Art Part II The Love Letter by Dee

Hi Everyone Dee here today with the second part of my post and

 continuing the theme heart art. This is the inside of the box and is 

called the love letter as she has it all secreted away in her love 

box the photo of her love and his letters all held 

together with a gold heart.

I painted the inside of the box with distress paints and spritzed them so the 

colours mingled together to give a lovely warm red.

For the letter I used an old craft coloured envelope which I stamped with 

the Calligraphic Mat 12 and used Distress inks both Walnut Stain &

 Vintage photo.  Around the torn edges I distressed with 

running vintage photo round.

I glued two different sized beer mats together to create my note photo

 keeper. this was coloured with the same distress paints that were used 

on both the lid and the inside of the box.

This was then stamped with the bark background stamp from The

 Artistic Stamper, Archival ink was used on the stamp & black soot 

was applied to the edges of the matt.

I tore a strip of the craft paper off and stamped with the calligraphy matt

in black archival and glued it down the middle of the matt.

Gold embossed heart see link here to previous post for the box. The photo's 

were then attached as was the film strip which I attached with

 glossy accents.

The ornate corner was then applied.

Well that about sums it up I hope you have enjoyed this post as much as 

I have creating it.

If there is anything you are not sure of please contact Jennie at the shop I am sure she will be able to get it for you. I hope you all have an amazing Valentines day and see you again towards the end of the month. Please feel free to leave a comment as these are what inspire me 

and make doing these projects so rewarding.

Cheers Dee x

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper stamps:- Calligraphic Mat 12, Bark 2 Background, Doodle Bubbles Background size A6 & Neil Walkers Large Heart.
2. Distress Paint in the following colours:-Barn Door, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, & Wild Honey.
3. Distress ink:- Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain & Black Soot.
4. Jet Black Archival Ink.
5. Gold embossing powder &  & Embossing ink pad.
6. Other pieces from my stash to include film strip Tim's Ideaology, beer mats, Old photo's, brads & Metal Ornate Corner. 

Sowing the seeds of loooove... by Titbelsoeur

HI there, this is Titbelsoeur singing for you today !
I have decided to decorate the envelopes I store seeds into, waiting for the right moment to sow them in my garden.

I have first painted the background, spraying ink and water on to my "magic" cutting board and then patting the envelopes down.

Then I have inked the fence background stamp with ink and then sprayed it with water too, here and there, to have this saturated look.

After that, I have stamped various stamps on each envelope with Plum archival ink.

And to finish, I have inked the edges of each envelope with the same ink. 

I used :
Plum Archival ink
Rusty Hinge Distress ink
Distress reinkers

stamps :
Gardening stamps
Butterflies
Debbie Cotton's
Katy Leitch's
Travel stamps

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated.

Don't forget to participate in our monthly challenge to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

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Neil Walker's Trio Of Hearts

Hi everyone to continue with our challenge this month LOVE! I have done a 

trio of hearts for you, using the fabulous Artistic Stampers 

Neil Walker Stamps.

Firstly I used Brusho on wet white card I sprayed it with a

mini mister of water.

I sprinkled Prussian Blue, Sandstone & Crimson.

If you haven't used these before have a play first as you don't 

need much. I followed with a little of gold mica powder 

mixed with water in the mister bottle.

I used the same embossing technique that I used in my last 

post of triple embossing powder.

I followed with stream and denim alcohol inks.

Finally I stamped the Neil walker alphabet soup stamp in walnut stamp

I gold embossed it and ran the versa fine ink pad around the 

edges and dragged it through the gold embossing powder.

Walnut stain was blended round the sides.

Brass sequins to finish.

Products Used

1.   Brusho :- Sandstone, Prussian blue, Crimson.

2. Neil Walkers stamps:-hearts and alphabet soup boarder.

3. Gold embossing powder.

4. Versamark.

5. Distress ink Walnut Stain.

6. Sequins from my stash.

I hope you liked this project love to hear what you think?

Cheers Dee x

Faux Dichroic Glass Domino Book by Alison Hall

Hello Stampers! I have a little domino book to share with you today, & I used a fabulous faux dichroic glass technique by Julie Dandy of It's a Scrappy Life.

Ingredients...( I used a LOT of stamps!)

Jumbo Bouvardia, Encyclopaedia Botanica, Garden Plate 1, Botanical Plate 2, Botanical Plate 3, Free as a Bird, Insects and Butterflies No. 1, Gibson Girls 002, Journaling Mini Words, Dragonfly Words, Butterfly Words

Dominos x2

Owl Charm

Vintage Ribbon

Viva Croco - Gold

Alcohol Inks - Stream & Pesto

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black

Versamark Embossing Ink

Ranger Mini Mister

Craft Mat

Heat Gun

Matte Medium

White Card

Clear Embossing Powder

Extra Sticky Double-sided Tape

Post-it Notes

Copier Paper

Glass Beads

Instructions...

1. Spread a layer of gold Viva Croco on the smooth side of the domino, about 1 mm thick. Allow it to dry & crackle, or use a heat gun to speed things up. You'll get better cracks if you let it dry naturally, but I was impatient! Lol!

2. Apply alcohol inks to the Croco, leaving some of the gold showing through. I also inked the domino edges & other side.

3. Press the crackled side of the dominos into embossing ink, then apply clear embossing powder and heat. If you use normal clear powder, you may have to do 3 or 4 layers, but with ultra thick, 2 layers should suffice.

4. Cut a piece of white card, 7 ins x 1 7/8 ins, then score & fold every 7/8 ins. 

5. Swipe Vintage Photo Distress Ink on the craft mat, mist it with water, then dip the white card in it. Dry & re-dip until you are happy with your background. Do this on both sides, then ink the edges & all of the folds with the Distress ink pad.

6. Use the black archival ink to stamp your chosen images, masking each segment as you go. Stamp both sides, omitting the edges you will stick to the domino. Stamp & cut out the phrases on copier paper, ink with vintage photo, & adhere to the pages.

7. Use extra sticky tape to adhere your domino covers to the little book.

8. Stamp the words from Journaling Mini Words onto copier paper, ink & cut out your chosen words, then use the extra sticky tape to adhere them to your front domino cover.

9. Thread ribbon through the owl charm, tie it around the book, gluing the owl in place with matte medium. Finish off with some contrasting glass beads.

I hope my project inspires you to make a little domino book of your own, they're a lot of fun! They also make lovely gifts for arty friends :-)

Alison xxx

Capture Your Dreams by Astrid

Hi everyone and thanks for dropping in here.
Today I am sharing a project using some of the new stamps by Katie Leitch (formerly Fox).

I started with a long Prima tag I had in my stash. I cut off the bottom and then created a background with the help of some Tumbled Glass Distress Paint and Weathered Wood, Iced Spruce and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks.

Next I stamped the Jumbo Camellia size A6 straight onto the tag in Coffee Archival ink. I then stamped just the flowers, which come as separate stamps with this set, in Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink on white card, cut them out and glued them onto my main flower.

Now the other stamps I wanted to use are from the beautiful Flutterby set. The moment I saw these solid butterfly stamps, I thought, - great for "kiss stamping". If you don't know what kiss stamping is, - this is how it works: You ink your solid stamp, then stamp into the inked stamp with another un-inked stamp, and then stamp the original stamp onto your project. Whatever second stamp you used will appear in white on your stamped impression.

So I took three different butterflies, inked them with Chipped Sapphire, pressed a little text stamp (a really old Tim Holtz one) onto the inked butterflies and then stamped onto some white card. I cut them out and adhered them to my two part tag. Sometimes this works better than other times (see samples below):

I stamped the word Inspire from the Journaling Words 2 set in Coffee Archival along the side of the top part.

I also stamped a few faint impressions with the Calligraphic mat 12 in the background of both the top and the bottom and then finished my little tag hanger with some little chit chat stickers and a ribbon at the top. I fasted the two tags together with some rusty wire from my stash.

Well, hope you like it. If you have never tried "kiss stamping" before, give it a go, it is great fun to do.

Thank you for visiting and make sure to stay inky!!

Baroque Memories by Alison (Craftytrog)

Hello Stampers! I have some vintage-style hanging art to share with you today.

First I die-cut my base from mountboard, using the Sizzix Alterations Baroque die.

I inked it with Vintage Photo Distress, then stamped the Regency Background with the same ink. I inked the edges with Black Soot Distress.

I used Potting Soil Archival Ink to stamp the watch from the Time & Keys plate, & Jet Black Archival Ink to stamp the mini Gibson Girl, both onto glossy card. I cut them out & used Glossy Accents to adhere them to the base, together with lace, a red ribbon bow & a pearl drop. I inked & added a Chit Chat Sticker.

To finish, I added some eyelets to the top, & a piece of  Lace Chain.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xxx

Seasons Greetings by Emma

Hello everyone!

Today, is my turn to share here at The Artistic Stamper and for my piece, I've created a hanging ornament. As an alternative to the traditional Christmas colours, I thought it would be nice to have something a little bit different and because I love the look of chalkboard, that's what came to mind and here it is, my hanging chalkboard ornament ~ hope you like it!

To create this, I gave an MDF bauble two coats of Black Soot Distress Paint, allowing it to dry between coats each time. Next, and using the Seasons Greetings and Holly bough stamp from the Mini Christmas 1 stamp plate, I stamped directly onto the painted bauble with Versamark ink and applied white embossing powder over the top, then heat embossed, until it was molten and shiny.

I used a piece of chalk to create the chalkboard effect onto the black paint and then added some Snowflake Fresco Finish paint around the edges before sealing the whole bauble with a coat of Mod Podge. 

 I created my poinsettia with Tim Holtz's Tattered Poinsettia die from Sizzix and added some glass glitter into the centre. I used some die cut foliage which I coloured with Iced Spruce Distress Ink and then sprinkled with Rock Candy Distress Glitter. To complete the bauble, I added some rusty wire and distressed some seam binding, which I added with some twine to create the hanger.

So, that's it from me for today and I'll see you again later in the month.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I'm looking forward to reading your comments.

Love Emma x

Christmas Surprise by Emma

Hi everyone...

Hope you've all had a great week and looking forward to the weekend. Well, if you're looking for inspiration for your Christmas cards or gifts, then I hope that I can inspire you with the piece I'm sharing today ~ my little altered matchbox, with a big surprise when you open it up! As always, I hope you love it...

To begin with I made my own matchbox from kraft card, measuring approx 7 x 11.5cm in size. I then cut pieces of cream card to fit the outside of the box, inked them with Old Paper DI and stamped each piece with the Music Background stamp. I distressed the edges of the paper with Walnut Stain DI before attaching them to the outside of my box. I then added a Idea-Ology Hitch Fastener on the front of the drawer, to enable you to pull the box out of the cover easily.

I then cut more cream card to fit the base and the sides of the box and again inked them with Old Paper DI before stamping the Santa image from the Mini Christmas 1 stamp set onto the base card. 

I coloured the image with Distress Marker Pens and then inked up the Snowflake stamp with Tumbled Glass DI and stamped the flakes onto all my pieces of card before attaching them to the inside.

I then raided my own stash of dies and used the Festive Greenery and the Tattered Pine Cone die from Tim Holtz for Sizzix to die cut card and coloured each individual die cut with Distress Inks, adding highlights of Rock Candy Distress Dry Glitter to each piece. I then added these to decorate the inside of my box, together with a small Bottle Brush tree and some fake snow before finishing the inside with a couple of Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers.

To decorate the outside of my matchbox, I used the Tattered Poinsettia die from Tim Holtz, again from my stash and made a large bloom from cream card, inked around the edges with Distress Ink and spritzed with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mists. 

I attached the flower to my box and added die cut holly leaves, inked with Iced Spruce Distress Ink and rusty wire coils, smeared some Rock Candy Distress Stickles over the top of the leaves and then die cut the number 25, painted it with PaperArtsy Snowflake Fresco Finish paint and covered the numerals with Rock Candy Distress Glitter.  

So, that's it from me for today...thank you so much for stopping by and I'll look forward to reading your comments! Don't forget we still have our Christmas challenge running until the end of the month, so if you would like to enter, with a chance to be the lucky winner, then just click HERE for all the details.

See you again soon...Emma x