Adventure - Tag by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

I've created this mixed media tag with Artistic stamper Dragonfly stamp and Decay swirl background stamp.

here are step out

I applied Prima modeling paste on the tag with my palette knife. Before it dry, I took out my swirls stamp, spritzed water on it and stamped into the paste, it gave this fab texture design. Let it air dry completely.

Next, I spritzed Peacock feather and cracked pistachio distress sprays randomly on the surface. 

When the surface was dry, I stamped text and texture with few of Artistic stamper stamps and archival inks.

Further I stamped dragonfly and fuzzy cut it. I created layered background for it with burlap, tag, Tim's tissue paper. Attached brad onto the dragonfly for more interest. 

Hope you liked my tag and got inspired.

Thanks so much for stopping  by.

Products Used :

Butterflies stamp set#2

Decay Swirl Background stamp

Mini Background stamp#1

Calligraphic Mat#13

Numerical Plate#A5

Distress sprays- peacock feathers, cracked pistachio

Archival inks

 Prima Modeling Paste

Ohh!! I Do Love a Dragon fly By Dee

Hi Everyone I hope you are all well I have the beautiful Dragon fly

from the Butterflies #2 size A5 plate.

I started out with a cream tag that has some crackle paint on it in places.

Next I used the Calligraphic Mat 12 

 I swiped it through mat sealer and stamped onto the tag.

I then spritzed the distress paint with water then swiped the tag

 through the paint. Knock back the area's that had the script stamp 

stamped on it.

Next I took a square beer mat and cut the Tag up and assembled it to 

fit.

Crackle paste was put round the edges of the mat then antiquing cream

in black and patina were applied once paste was dried.

Iridescent turquoise paint was.

For the dragon fly I used pewter embossing powder and ultra thick embossing

powder followed by silver.

I stamped the dragon fly twice into the hot embossing powder.

I cut it out and then trimmed the top one back.

I threaded the beads with wire to make the main body and the antennae.

The base was coloured with the alcohol ink.

A close up of the dragon fly 

Well that's it for today I hope you all enjoyed my post 

please feel free to let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

Products Used

Artistic Stamper stamps used:- Butterflies #2 size A5, Calligraphic Mat 12  & Decay Journaling Stamps #1 Size A5 

Distress Paints:- Antique Linen, Weathered Wood, & Pickled Raspberry.

Distress Stains:- Weather Wood, Antique Linen.

Alcohol ink, Crackle Paste, embossing powder, Iridescent turquoise paint.

Garden - Mixed Media Canvas by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

I would like to share mini Garden canvas with you for which I've used Artistic stamper Katy Leitch designed Encyclopedia Botanica stamp set.

I created background with Prima Modeling paste and stencil. When it dried completely, I spritzed Ranger Distress stains Ground espresso and mermaid lagoon.

Flowers are stamped with Jet black archival ink and coloured with Cracked Pistachio Distress stain.

I did some text stamping in the background for more interest. 

Here is the final look of my mini canvas.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Products used from Artistic stamper:

Stamps- Katy Leitch designed Encyclopedia Botanica stamp set. 

Ranger Archival Inks- Jet Black

Distress stain sprays - Mermaid Lagoon, Cracked Pistachio and Ground espresso

Prima Modeling paste

Gothic Arch's By Dee

Hi everyone hope you are all well and having a crafty time. I have a plaque 

for you today using the new stencils from The artistic Stamper,

and some Artistic stamper stamps.

Firstly I brayered on the fresco paint till it resembled old stone.

I then used a pallet knife to apply the grunge paste to the top left

I applied this quite thickly so it would resembled old stone 

once I had stamped into it using the circular column toppers

of the architecture plate.

I inked up the stained glass window off the architecture plate

stamped it twice with black stazon once onto the background

and once onto spare card. This was then cut out and

 stuck into the frame of the main image of the arch.

I used the Artistic Stamper lace background stamp & inked it up with stazon black ink 

This resembles peeled paint if you used the right area's. Stamp around the 

Arch window.

I put texture paste through the Artistic Stamper flourish stencil, I then

sprinkled a mix of pale blue and gold embossing powder and dried 

with a heat gun.

I used the Framelits die and glued this up the side after I had sprayed it with spiced

 marmalade and rusty hinge distress spray stains.

I wasn't keen on the colour although it did look like an old Gothic 

building I wanted it to look vibrant and highlight the swirl

texture.

I stamped the calligraphy mat 4 on distress treated paper which had

been swiped with old page and stained walnut.

I used the distress stain sprays to spray the entire piece to make it more vibrant.

I highlighted in area's with gilding wax. I applied a three

embellishments to look like old rusty bolts.

I must admit looking at it it reminds me of Rapunzel maybe the swirl is her hair

That's it for today as always let me know what you think remember look

at your stamps and see what other patterns they can create.

Cheers Dee x

Products used

1. The following Artistic Stamper Stamps Architecture Plate, Caligraphy Mat 4 & Lace background stamp.
2. Fresco finish paint  Chalk, Slate and Blue Oyster.
3. Distress Stain Spray's in the following colours Rusty Hinge, spiced Marmalade & Salty Ocean.
4. Grunge paste
5. Texture paste
6. Sizzix Thinlets mixed media die
7. Embossing powders.

Stamping for Texture

Hello all, Alison (butterfly) here with some textured tags for you today.

It won't have escaped your notice that I'm pretty obsessed with the new Flourish Background stamp.  I've used it on journalling pages and jars already, and now I've been experimenting with using it to create texture in different ways, and here are two of the tags which arrived as a result.

There's so much gilding and shimmer going on that it was hard to get a photo of them together that does them both justice at the same time - either one was in shadow, or the other was catching too much light - hopefully you'll get the idea from the close-ups as we go!

The texture on the blue/gold tag was created with gesso.  I applied a generous coating of heavy gesso to the stamp using Cut'n'Dry foam and pressed it down firmly onto the tag.  As well as the relief stamping of the flourish itself, you get lots of additional textural interest as you peel the rubber away (like when you press two gesso'd or painted tags together and peel them apart) - lots of lovely organic ripple patterns.

Then I spritzed away with a combination of Distress Sprays and Perfect Pearl Mists and a few other sparkly sprays.

The colours settled nicely around the flourish textures, but I wanted to highlight them further so I used gilding waxes to zhuzh them up a little.

I love the golden gleam in the sunlight.

The texture on the coppery green tag has a slightly chunkier look.  I put a layer of texture paste onto the tag and pressed the Flourish Background onto it, just as I did with the gesso - though I don't seem to have a picture of this one "naked".  The texture paste obviously gets you a lot more dimensional bang for your buck!

I started with Dabbers and Distress Paints, including metallics, to get a good covering over the paste, and then added some spritzes of shimmer sprays.

Since I was leaning more to the greens than the blues on this tag, I then found myself reaching for coppery gilding waxes to highlight the textures.

Having created these two backgrounds, I really didn't want to cover them up very much!  I don't often reach for flowers - though for some reason I do have a whole box of paper flowers in my stash! - but that seemed to be the way to go with these tags.

They started out fairly innocuously in various colours... so I got busy with the Distress Sprays again.  I wanted them to look as if they were emerging out of the tags, so I spritzed them to co-ordinate with the respective colour palettes.

The blue-green ones got a spritz of Tarnished Brass to give a hint of a metallic look to fit with the gilded texture.

The flowers for the coppery green tag went through the same process with slightly different colours, and their metallic spray was the Antique Bronze - a warmer shade.

I liked the gilded look, so I emphasised the metallic shimmer even more by adding some gold embossing powder to the edges of the rose flower petals, large and small.  And I used copper embossing powder to add the extra gilding to the tips of the green petals.

It may have been slightly crazy to reach for the kraft card to create my word panels... kraft with all that gilding?!  But I really like the contrast.

The "with thanks" wording comes from Katy Leitch's Leaves set, and it's embossed in gold for one tag and in copper for the other.

It needed a bit more of the rustic earthiness to balance the shimmer, so I mounted the tags onto kraft card with padded tape, edging everything with Archival ink to give little more definition.

And some simple twine at the top completes the look - continuing the contrast between baroque gilded texture and rustic earthiness.

So, I hope you like them - a more gilded look than normal for me.  I think I've been influenced by Dee's fabulous work here!  And with all those flowers these would fit right in to the Flora and Fauna challenge theme here this month.  I hope you'll come and join in.  Remember, we do have to see some stamping, but it doesn't have to be with Artistic Stamper stamps (though if you do use them you get a double entry into the prize draw!!).  Hope to see you there.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I'll see you soon.

Ingredients used:
Artistic Stamper stamps: Flourish Background, Leaves
Distress Spray Stains - Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Tarnished Brass, Antique Bronze
Distress Paints - Antique Bronze, Peeled Paint, Tarnished Brass, Evergreen Bough
Ranger Paint Dabbers - Copper, Bottle
Perfect Pearls Mists - Blue Smoke, Patina Green, Sour Apple, Heirloom Gold, Perfect Copper, Mint, Patina Blue
Gilding Wax - could use Crafty Notions Gleam or Cosmic Shimmer in various colours
Embossing Powders - Rich Gold, Copper
Texture Paste - PaperArtsy Grunge Paste or Cosmic Shimmer paste should both work
Manila Tags
Kraft Card
Inkssentials Cut'n'Dry Foam
From my stash - paper flowers, twine, gesso