Steampunk tag by Titbelsoeur

Hi this is Titbelsoeur today.
A big tag to give you inspiration for our Steampunk challenge.

I have used a big tag and glued old papers on it. Stamped it with Gears Background and the rule from the Ephemera 1 plate. Used a cloth tag, an old photo and ancient poststamp and frame.

Here is a snapshot on the steampunk butterfly from Butterflies 2 , body made with a safety pin painted in black and wire as antennas :

The 2 tags of last week's post have found their place on this big one :

Hope it gives you inspiration to participate in our 

March Creative Challenge - Steampunk

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.

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

or on  the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page

Bye for now and happy creating. 

Titbelsoeur

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Bees by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone,
This is a canvas I have first covered with corrugated cardboard, gessoed and painted it. Then added a piece of an old pair of jeans, and a stamped page of a book.
On both sides, I have sticked pieces of a very special masking tape, that you won't find in any shop. Why ? because I have made it on my own, with 2 Artistic Stamper stamps that fit very well to it :

this one from Ephemera 1 A5

and that one from Labels A6

I also could have used stamps from The Open Road 1 A5  but I did not.

I first stamped the book page with the small bee from Honeycomb Background & Free Bees, using a lot of Versa and Izink inks, to have a multicolor background. I stamped the queen and hid her to protect when stamping the honeycomb. .

Here is the finished project :

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

BIRDS AND THE BEES

 for 3 chances to win !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog

or on  the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page

Bye for now and happy creating. 

Titbelsoeur

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Canvas by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone,
To make this altered canvas, I  first cut and corrugated cardboard pieces, then I applied gesso with my fingers, sprayed some ink and stamped Ephemera 1 A5 with black ink :

Then I added some ink on pieces of fabric and stamped garden tools, bees, butterfly and mushroom with black Archival ink. I also glued tissue paper on to my canvas and added some white gesso on it. Then sticked fabric on to cardboards and cardboards on to the canvas. 

Snapshots :

Here is the finished piece :

You will find the stamps I used here :
Ephemera 1 A5 Butterflies 2 size A5Honeycomb Background & Free Bees Garden #2 size A6Mushrooms A5 Plate © Tit Belsoeur 

Do not forget that you can win these fabulous stamps, just participating in our March challenge :  Stencils & Masks

 

 for 3 chances to win !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog

or on  the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page

Bye for now and happy creating. 

Titbelsoeur

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A Vintage Motor

Hi everyone hope you are all well!  & enjoying the Easter weekend. 

I have a vintage piece for you today. 

I started with swiping distress paint vintage photo, gathered twigs 

& walnut stain onto a craft mat and sprayed with

water from a mini mister.

I swiped my card through and paint and sprayed with the mini mister as I dried

it so the paints blended together. I sealed it all with a matt 

medium.

I inked up the Debbie Cotton car stamp Earls Automotive with 

Black onyx versafine & clear embossed it. Next I painted 

the entire card bar the car with cream acrylic paint.

I used blended distress inks in the following colours vintage photo,

walnut stain & scattered straw to colour spare card stock. 

Onto this I stamped images from the following stamps winged wheel &

 numerical plate. The numbers were stamped in 

archival ink cornflower blue.

The clock was an old one I had done previously from the 

Time & keys plate that had been covered in glossy 

accents and a curtain ring was attached.

I used ripped pages & glued them to the main image. I used two die cuts

which I stamped with the ruler stamp of the Empemera plate 

and I used this to frame the project.

I backed it all onto ripped cardboard that I had swiped walnut stain

paint. Please let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

Products used

1. Distress paints Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs & Vintage Photo
2. Distress ink in Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain.
3. Inks:- Black Oynx Versafine, Cornflower Blue & Black Archival.
4. Artistic Stamper Stamps:- Debbie Cottons Earls Automotive, Numerical plate, winged wheel, ephemera & time & Keys.
5. Rangers Glossy Accents. 

Phineas Pinchbeck

I loved the Phineas Pinchbeck stamp from the moment I saw it. For this

 project I used the following Artistic stamper stamps, Numerical plate, 

Carte postale, Phineas Pinchbeck, Time & Keys plate, crowning 

glory and Ephemera 1. Tim Holtz cargo stencil  & 

grunge paste. Fresco finish paints, crackle accents

archival ink. Distress Inks vintage

 photo and scattered straw.  

Firstly I painted grey board with fresco finish paints in stone, nougat,

and mushroom, through a honeycone stencil I put squid ink

paint that I then knocked back with nougat. 

I stamped the two sets of numbers off the Numerical 

plate in chocolate pudding.

The two stamps of the postal plate were stamped in claret

 and baltic blue. The ruler of the Ephemera plate was 

stamped in archival ink. 

Grunge paste was put through the cargo stencil numerical 

once dry this was coloured with 

geletoes and treasure gold. 

Gauze was coloured with claret fresco finish paint then darkened 

with black soot distress ink.

Card coloured with distress inks was stamped with the Phineas

 stamp and the crown from crowning glory which I 

then highlighted with liquid pearls.

The clock face x 2 from Phineas stamp was covered in crackle 

accents. this was layered up with the clock faces of the 

time and keys plate. I used a cog die that I had in

my stash.

The sign at the bottom was hand written with white gel pen on 

black card and then backed onto kraft card.

I then backed it onto burlap and black card and finished off with 

 four gold brads on all corners. Thank you for stopping by 

please feel free to leave your comments as your

comments help to inspire me.

Cheers Dee

Upcycling...

Hello happy crafters ! this is Titbelsoeur showing you today an album made with upcycled stuff AND an Artistic Stamper stamp as a background on each and every page : Family Values from the Collage & Retro collection :

 Here are the pages :

I am sure you noticed on the last page that I also used the "Art" stamp, from Collage Art, and the rule from Ephemera 1, both in the same collection as Family values.

The covers are all made with upcycled things (buttons, chicken wire, fridge light bulb, coffee pad, zip, hand-made beads, etc etc...) :

I was happy to show you this album I am proud of !

I will demonstrate how to do it on November 11th

 in a workshop at my place near Versailles, France, 

and hope it will give you some inspiration to make one of your own !

Thank you for stopping by, I am looking forward to reading your comments.

See you,

Titbelsoeur

Sardine can by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy Readers !
My project of today is an altered sardine can. I have started stamping a very old envelope with stamps from the Ephemera 1 and Carte Postale plates to make my background

Here are the items I was planning to add to my project, I haven't used all of them. 
I have stamped the Gibson girl from the 2nd plate and colored it with watercolors :

I have sticked it on the top of the can to make volume :

And made a garland with book pages that I glued to the back of the can :

Thank you so much for stopping by, I am looking forward to reading your comments below...

Wishing you a very good summer time !

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur 

Journal spread Finnabair style

Hello everyone, Astrid here with my first project for September. As some of you know two of my teamies and myself plus 25 or so other people spent a weekend learning from the wonderful Finnabair about two weeks ago. Today I am sharing a journal spread with you that includes some of the techniques we learnt, but created with stamps from the Artistic Stamper.

I started by creating some "ephemera" using  the Ephemera 1 and Labels sets. I inked some scraps of card with Vintage Linen Distress Ink and then stamped my chosen images in a mix of Jet Black, Coffee and Maroon Archival Inks, I then darkened the edges with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
Here you can see them al, - at this point I have no idea yet which ones I will use, but I think they look pretty cool together like that.

Next I prepared my pages. I laid 2 pages from my Mixed Media journal side by side and covered them with random strips of paper, ripped canvas and other textural bits.

I used cheap collage glue for this, that's why it is so shiny here and there.
The next step was to cover it all with a  layer of Gesso.

I had a vintage photo that I wanted to use so I played around until I knew where abouts I wanted to place it

After that I started to arrange my ephemera over and around it until I was happy with the composition. At that point I should have taken another photo but forgot.... So I'll talk you through the next stages. I glued my ephemera down over and around my photo which I had trimmed a little first. I added a few embellishments from my stash and then created a home made spray with a mix of Distress Ink re-inkers, I used Aged Mahogany, Victorian Velvet, Black Soot and Dusty Concord, just a few drops of each. I tested it on the way adding a drop here and there until I was happy with the colour. I put it in a mister bottle with a tiny bit of Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold. I covered the photo with some kitchen roll and a baby wipe and then carefully sprayed over and around it and also in the other corner of my journal spread. The final step was to add some back ground stamping with Jet Black Archival ink. I used the Calligraphic Mat 12 and the Chicken Wire background for that. Here are some close up of the finished pages:

I added some ink rings still by dipping a bottle lid in some black ink. Here you can see the pages after I cut them apart (some of the strips went right across both pages) and after I inked around them still with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

 The right side page with the photo

 The left hand side, just with an arrangement of the ephemera and some embellishments.

Finally a few more close ups:

Well, that is it. Hope you like this journal spread, I have to say I really enjoyed making it and I still have a few ephemera left for a next project.
Until next time