Measured Time Part Two Time Flies

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well I have for you today the second part 

of my original tag that went towards making Measured Time, (please
see 10th september post on this blog)

and now Time Flies.  

The instructions on how to make the base tag are on the post

Time Measured.

Here's a few photo's below of the original tag, The paste I used to 

put through the artistic stamper stencil Splats and was a crackle paste.

I enhanced the top with fired brick distress ink 

blended on with a blending tool.

Water colour paints and distress inks were used to colour the original 

tag and The Artistic Stamper Stamps were Numerical plate ,

Emphemera plate and graph paper stamp.

I triple embossed black card with gold embossing powder and stamped

 the artistic stamper post mark from the Katy Leitch carte postal plate.

I used grunge board for the clock and used the Tim Holtz 

clock die. I coloured the clock and embossed it to

 look like old rusted metal.

I used Viva Ferro Graphite I put it on the top 

of the tag with a palette knife.

I stamped the dragon fly from the Artistic Stamper insects and butterflies plate,

onto a piece of card. I coloured the card with metallic

 paints. I used Versafine Onyx Black and then used

 clear embossing powder over & heat set.

I cut out the wings and used beads from my stash to make up the body 

for the end of the tail I used Ranger gold Stickles.

I attached the dragonfly to the clock from the Tick Tock 

plate which had been embossed onto whites card

that had been coloured with broken china 

and spiced marmalade distress ink.

I assembled it all together and attached the postal marks

over the graphite which had been enhanced with 

Gilding wax.

That's it for today, I hope you have all enjoyed this two part 

project. Thank you for stopping by and please feel free to 

let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

Girl With A Clock, Chunky ATC by Carol Fox

Hello, Carol here, with my last post as Guest for this month. For my last project I have altered a Wooden ATC Block. The lovely man who owns our local wood yard cuts these for me, and I really love working on them as they are a nice size.

I first gave the block a coat of Gesso and then coloured it with Viva Decor, Inka Gold in Steel Blue, I then used Lava green through the Crafters Workshop mini Gears template.

Using Ranger Black Archival ink I stamped the Dots background randomly onto the block, once it was dry I added thin lines in a sunray pattern using the same ink and a credit card. ( I have found the ranger ink works best over the viva as it stays nice and black, some inks seem to sink in and loose the blackness). To finish I used a Black Acrylic Dabber on the edges.

I have used the Girl With Clock stamp as the main focal point, adding the large butterfly wings from Butterfly Collections to the image. Colouring this in and adding some stickles to the wings for a bit of shimmer.

For the flowers I coloured a piece of card with the same Inka Paints and then stamped the small flower from the Tick Tock Flowers Plate, I then cut it out and stamped again on the back so the image is double sided. I then made these up into the flower shapes. Finishing with a spritz of Turquoise Perfect pearls mist and some Distress Stickles.

I attached everything to the block with Glossy Accents, running a line along the bottom of the block and random dots to the flowers, then adding small seed beads to the wet accents.

I have enjoyed my stay here and I wish to thank Jennie and Emma for all their support through the month and to everyone who has read my posts, I hope you have enjoyed them, and I have enjoyed reading all your comments.

Thank You, Carol

"Holly" by Emma

Hi everyone ~ it's Emma here!

December is whizzing by and it's already time to show you my first project of the month using one of the FREE stamps that you get with any order placed at The Artistic Stamper during December.

So, time to share my decorative Christmas plaque ~ I hope you like it...

Here's how I made it and I've included lots of close up photos to show you all the detail!

To begin with I stamped the Mabel Lucie Attwell ~ Holly image onto cream textured card and coloured it in.

Next, I cut to size a 15cm square frame from white card, trimmed the edges to give a decorative effect and then cut an 8cm aperture from the centre. I blended Weathered Wood Distress Ink over the frame and then using the free snowflakes stamp, I stamped all around the edge of the frame with some more Weathered Wood Distress Ink. I then mounted my frame over the top of my stamped Mabel Lucie Attwell image and placed the completed frame onto chipboard, trimming off the excess.

Next, using Tim Holtz's Alterations dies, I die cut the Holly Branch from Grungepaper and the "25" from the Noel die from chipboard. I then blended Evergreen Bough Distress Ink over the holly leaves and Festive Berries on the berries ~ both inks are from the Winter Seasonal DI set. I then used Gathered Twigs on the branch which came in the Autumn Seasonal DI set. Next, I blended Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink over the "25" before covering each number with Picket Fence Crackle Paint.

Once the crackle paint is dry, I assembled each of the Grungepaper die cut elements onto the left hand side of my frame, slightly overlapping the edge. I then placed the "25" on top of the holly branch to give the effect of it being suspended in mid air. I squidged some Rock Candy Distress Stickles over all the die cut pieces.

Next, I punched two holes and placed some eyelets into top corners of the frame using a Crop-a-Dile. I attached some glass beads to the twine and threaded this through the holes to create a hanger. Finally, I added some seam binding as the finishing touch, to complete my decorative wall hanger.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at what I've made and once again, for taking the time to leave comments on these posts ~ I appreciate all your kind words.

Bye for now and have fun creating.

Emma x

December Challenge - Christmas

Goodly Morning Stampers and welcome to a brand new challenge for December. Many thanks for all your wonderful entries for November, the winner of this challenge will be announced on Saturday, December 3rd. The new challenge this month is CHRISTMAS. To join in with the challenge is simple; make a piece of artwork, include the theme and some rubberstamping, pop back here to link up using the Froggy at the bottom of this post and leave us a comment to let us know you have joined in. As ever there will be candy for one randomly picked entrant - £15 worth of The Artistic Stamper stamps of your choice plus the Kling On to mount them onto. And... if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will be entered twice into the draw! Moving on, last month we were very lucky to have the very talented and uber creative Kaz Hall as our Guest Designer, many thanks to Kaz for her innovative & gorgeous creations! This month we are welcoming a new Guest Designer ... and this is Tracey Metcalfe and we are all really excited to see the wonderful artwork that she will bring to the team.

We do have some sad news this month... Minxy and Tina have both left the Creative Team... we will certainly miss them both very lots and wish them all the very best for the future and from all of us... a huge Thank You for all the hard work and gorgeousness they made for us.

There's much excitement at Artistic Towers this month, we have Christmas coming and with that, the 12 Tags of Christmas... and all the goodies used will be listed daily and be available on the website HERE. AND... as a thank you to all our loyal customers, each order placed will receive a pressie of one each of these fab limited edition stamps. Our team have been using them on their entries for our monthly challenge... there's a sweet little snowflake background and some cool icicles too :O))

SIOUX

Sioux made a festive place setting trio of a napkin, place card and menu holder simply stamped with Distress Ink using one of the free stamps.

KAT

Kat made a folded easel card using her favourite Santa stamp from the Christmas Mini Plate #1, Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans Distress Ink and a bit of Stickles for some added Bling.

EMMA

Emma made this card by using the Mabel Lucie Attwell ~ Jolly Day Out stamp and combining it with the free snowflake stamp to make a wintery scene. Some die cut Mini Snowflakes from Tim Holtz's Alterations range were added, together with a couple of the gorgeous Tattered Pine Cones and an Adage Ticket. To complete the card, the die cuts were all covered with Rock Candy Distress Stickles for an icy feel.

ALISON

Alison used masking & Distress Inks, with the free snowflake stamp, the new icicles stamp, & an image from the Victorian Christmas 1 Plate.

JENNIE

Made this in the tradition of Tim's Twelve tags of Christmas, and used the mini reindeer die, and the mini holly die, with added red stickles. The tag was inked in Alcohol inks, using the Snow Cap Mixative as random dots of snow :) . The white embossed snowflakes are one of the free stamps that are on offer this month with any order from The Artistic Stamper! The reindeer were covered in Tim's District Market Tissue paper and then alcohol inked in Latte and Espresso inks.



HELS



I got all inky and messy with those fab new freebie stamps, making the icicles using SnowCap Dabber and an inky background using Distress Stains and Perfect Pearls Mists. I painted the frame with Pitch Black Dabber and sanded it back to show some wood, which was then inked over with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. The embellishments are made using the Sizzix Alterations Holly Branch and Tattered Pine Cone. The sentiment in the middle is cut using the Sizzix Alterations Vintage Noel, cut from cream card that I then dabbered with Silver Dabber and embossed with Silver Ultra Thick Embossing Powder and then edged with Black StaZon to make the design pop. I added some bling using Picket Fence and Rock Candy Stickles. Finally, I added the fabby little reindeer from the Christmas Adornments Idea-ology pack... I coloured him with Caramel Alcohol Ink and popped him into a Memo Pin so he could sit inside the embellishment. To see more deets on how I made this, please pop over my blog :O))

That's all from me for now... thanks for looking and a very Happy Christmas to you all!!

Hels x

Creative Art Thoughts by Tina Barnett

Hi !!

I have tried something different this time. The stamp called Pen and Ink from the Mabel Lucie Attwell range was perfect!



I started by cutting some card stock to size, using slightly bigger pieces for the covers. I then inked the pages using Rusty Hinge distress inks

I then went to town! You must go and have a look at all the new stamps in the store at The Artistic Stamper

I love the journal stamp! I used it on each page along with the different sized Splatter stamp! So cool!!!!

The back of each page I used different background stamps .

I then aged each page with distress ink . The little lightblub Chipboard piece was great for my theme.

For the back page I have used another new stamp, I love this sentiment!

The Pen and Ink stamp from the range was stamped and shaded in the same colour distress ink.

I finished off the front by mounting the stamp on to other card stock which had been cut with dies, distressed and stamped with background stamps. I embossed them too.
I gave the book a spine of Tissue tape along with wire and a bauble

Lastly I popped on my favourite distress stickles LOVE THEM!

I had so much fun with all of these stamps!

Thank you for looking, see you again soon.

Hugs Tina xx

Bliss! By Tina Barnett

Hi Gang! I am back with you again using some more Mabel Lucie Attwell stamps. This cutie is called "Aufully Comfy". It's by The Artistic Stamper

I started my card using an 8 inch by 8 inch card (my preferred size to work with). I used a Tim Holtz distress ink to edge around the card.

then used some of my new favourite ever item! Coredinations card stock. You MUST try this!! you can do so much with it, emboss, distress, stamp etc etc I love it! Anyway..... back to the card lol!

I used the Coredinations card as a base piece by tearing the corner off and screwing it up then sanding it. I like the way it doesn't sit flat (you could make it sit flat but that's not the look I wanted).
I then used the Coredination card as layers for the stamp. Again I distressed them. The tones of the card are amazing. I used the same Distress Ink to colour my image.

The "bliss" is made using one of Tim Holtz book plates and tickets. I then filled in the opening with Crackle accents .

I finished the card of with Distress Stickles , flowers, hat pins and gems. Not forgetting a little bead also by Tim Holtz .

Well I hope you have enjoyed looking. Until next time!

Hugs

Tina xx

Spiced Summer by Tina Barnett

Hello!

It's Tina here back with a Mabel Lucie Attwell Stamp. The stamp I am using today is called "Can we Keep Him". How cute is that!!
OK.... I started with an 8 by 8 inch card, my favourite size to use. I used Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink by Tim Holtz around the edges of my card. I then used an Artistic Stamper background stamp over the card in the same colour ink.
I coloured the stamp with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink using a water brush to shade the image. I love using the same tones on a card. When you have a cute image you don't always want a "Cute" finish and I think the Mabel Lucie Attwell Stamps. work so well with both.
I then used some Coredinations Paper by Tim Holtz................ Oh Wow! how much do I love this! I cut a shape of it along with some Sizzix Tim Holtz Dies and distressed them (well it would have been rude not to lol!).
I layered the card as shown and then added STUNNING Baubles by Tim Holtz . These are just amazing! I love the chains on them. I also popped on a button from the same range on the card too.
I then added some flowers, leaves and pearls from my stash. Lastly I went over parts of the card with Distress Stickles . This product has got to be one of my favourites at the moment, I am stickling everything lol!

Well that's me for now! See you soon!

Tina xx

Mirror, Mirror By Kat Fullman

Hello to all, Kat here, AKA Kat's craft creations I am absolutely thrilled & privileged to be invited to be the GUEST DESIGNER for the month of April here on the Artistic Stamper Creative Team.

May I take this time to say a big thank you to Hels & Jennie
for the opportunity to show my craft creations here.

My first piece I would like to shaer with you is a Mirror that I have altered.

I have placed a piece of paper over the mirror

(so you don't get me in the reflection)

I have taken some step by step pics

to show how I made it and some of the things I used are also in the pics,

(so there will be less writing to read)

That's always good in my book.

I used

stamps from the the artistic stamper range pictured below;

Here's the mirror before I altered it;

I made a template using white card

With Antique Linen distress ink & blending tool

distress white card as shown,

Then use the same ink & this Calligraphic Mat 13 stamp

(love the size of this stamp)

& stamp all over as shown,

With these 3 stamp sets,

Botanical plate 1 , Architecture plate 1 & Insects & Butterflies no1

I stamped ramdomly using Sepia Archival Ink

Using Vintage Photo Distress Ink

blend inner & outer edges as shown,

Then glue this to the mirror,

Next is the embelishment part,

Using Flower Power & Dots background stamps,

& Peeled Paint, Faded Jeans & Rusty Hinge Distress inks,

Wendy Vecchi studio 490 Leaf stamps ,

Tim Holtz Tatterd Rose Die & Grunge Paper

Make a selection of flowers as shown in pic above,

remember to shape them for extra dimention, then glue together,

I added a touch of rock candy distress stickles for that extra touch of sparkle

Hels has a fab tutorial on her blog

for the rose if your not sure how to make them.

Add some sparkly bits or gems,

I have used old & broken bits of jewellry for this one,

some silver buttons & 2 decorative stick pins from my stash

all stuck with silicone glue.

I think I have rememberd everything,

I will be back on the 14th with my second project

see you then, Have a crafty day,

Kat.