Tick Tock Birthday Card by Debs Smith

Happy New Year everyone

I have done a birthday card for you today! Its nice and bright and cheerful to take my mind off the miserable grey weather we have here at the moment!

The background is brayered and to see how i achieved the look read on.  The flowers and the sentiment were stamped on a mop up sheet.

 I started with a piece of white card and bartered a small amount of Fresco Finish Mahogany to cover the card

I then applied Terracotta and Tangerine Twist over the top of the Mahogany.  At this point i wasn't quite sure if it was quite the colour i was looking for so i took the Snowflake

 and covered the whole thing with white to knock the colour back a tad

I then added Bouganvilla over the top of the white in places and it was starting looking so much brighter

I had used a spare piece of card to mop up the excess paint with some water expecting to put it in my stash for future use.  I have just noticed a red indian in the paint  wish i had seen it before!!

I then stamped tick tock flowers with black Archival onto the mop up sheet and cut them out using two of the large flower and one of the small.

I then added some background stamping to the main piece by using the number stamp from  the Family Values plate and then stamped one of the flourishes from the Swirls and Splats plate these would be under the flower so it didnt matter that they hadn't lined up completely 

I added the flower onto the top of the flourish and popped a button from my stash on the top and then stamped Happy Birthday from the Grungy Greetings plate onto another piece of the mop up sheet.

Added this piece to a white card and voila!!

Thanks for popping over and i am looking forward to seeing all of your entries this year!

Happy creating 

Debs

...bye-bye...

Farewell of MarIa Potapovich (mellpellmell).
Hi to all of you, mellpellmell is here for you today.

And today I'm going to tell you not only "hi", but "Goodbye"...
...because this post  is the last one that I have created as an official member of the ASC design team.

I'm a little sad, but so sometimes it happens ...

It was very interesting - to be here with you and work with wonderful stamps. In spite of my forgetfulness, Jennie has always managed to keep me in the plan (well, almost always) - special thanks to her for understanding, patience and organization! You're just a miracle!

And, of course, thank Jennie for her generosity and clear leadership, and the opportunity to work with her fantastic stamps.
I consider myself very lucky that I had this privilege - to be in such a wonderful team of designers.


Today I want to make a small flash-back - let us see with me, how that time has passed for me, and what work has appeared in the meantime.

So...

The first thing I would like to remember once again with you - it is a regular notebook.

  And as you see - I've used just a single stamp to decorate it:

Here my "Bug's card":

  I've used the Encyclopedia Botanica stamps set  here

Gibson Girls Plate 1
Calligraphic Mat 
(stamping, masking, spraying, splashing... - it was fun!)

Now...here is the Bloom shadow-box - I like to make them (maybe it's a mania?)...

And here is a one of my canvases. It's about girl's spring)))))

 I've used  Encyclopaedia Botanica Size A5

And of course the Botanical Plates 1 and 2.


Do you know I like  watercolor and ink drawing?
And  I like to add stamps to my watercolors.
I've used the Encyclopedia Botanica stamps set  again:

Mmmmm... Mixed-media. Yes, it's one of the greatest style, I think...

And here is the video of it's creating:

I've used Journaling Mini Words stamps set to make this card.


 This philosophical image are adhered on the big house, made ​​of gypsum.

  Encyclopaedia Botanica stamps set and Family Values

Oh, I nearly forgot!

Special thanks to all those who have left great comments and kind words to my post - these words graced my days!

I leave the team, but I'm still here - because it is a wonderful blog with an incredible amount of inspiration and positive!

Good luck and enjoy your creativity!

<3

Thinking of you...

Hi there, Titbelsoeur here with another card !
You know that I love to try new techniques, so here is another one. How have I made it ?
I first took a background paper from my stash, one I made while my last workshop. Then I stamped here and there letters and numbers from Family Values with Broken China Distress ink. After that I sprayed the Large Sequin Waste Mask  with a mix of Festive Berries and Pink Raspberries inks.
Thinking of you from Grungy Greetings was stamped with Archival Black and the Time & Keys clocks with Archival Plum
A spray of Lemon Zest Dylusions ink, then some white acrylic on the edges and on spots here and there.

And, of course, a personalised signature from the Handstamped set on the back of the card :

Do you like this card ?

Thank you so much for stopping by, I can't wait to read your comments !

See ya, 

Titbelsoeur

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

The family is a little home.

I have a wonderful stamp with collage - it illustrated happy family and relevant inscriptions ...

Despite the fact that the stamp is good in itself, I wanted to make with it something interesting, but better - something a bit philosophical.

Therefore, this image appeared on the big house, made ​​of gypsum.
As well as butterflies began coexist with this family - as if hinting at ease and a wonderful family atmosphere.

To make the background a little more interesting, I added to it the structural paste, in which I've put the stamp "Stars", as well as a little spray of vintage colors.

And so a great decoration for the home is ready!

Due to the design features, it is not too heavy, but it looks very imposing)))))

And, sorry, one more photo)))))

I hope you liked the idea of ​​a large decoration for home)

See you)
And have a good day!

Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell)

ATC by Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell)

Hi)

Sometimes we have to repay debts!

A thousand years ago I promised some people to make cards for the exchange, and  ... voila!  ... there are two ATC "Brutal flowers"! 

They are ready! Uffff...

But in fact, I have to admit - it was very easy to make them! I took two stamps from Family Values 062 A5 :

...added a bit of watercolor and acrylic, a bit of ribbons, flowers, beads, gouache pens ...

But the butterfly flew by themselves!

Oh yeah! I had to connect everything with the stapler!

But it was easy, honestly! ;)

P.S. Do you like ATS?

Family values...

Hello everyone, this is Titbelsoeur here today.

I have made, just for you... and for my great pleasure too ! a terrific background with household items and stamps from the Artistic Stamper.

I have started with an ugly scrapbook page, you know these are the ones you bought at the very beginning, they were cheap... but today you find them as ugly as anything !

I have started with gessoeing here and there through a piece of plasterboard banneer and a stencil with numbers, among other stuff, to add some texture. Then I sprayed blue, red, orange, yellow, green... inks (Distress, Dylusion...) and let them mix together and drip on the whole page to enhance the textured parts.

After that, I whipped out my stamps... 
Dots Background A6 stamped with gesso :

chicken wire background :

Large Bingo Card

now let's have a look at the entire background :

And at the end, I have added some papers from my stash and stamped :
seize the moment from the Journaling Words 3 plate
and Family values

I would be very happy if my page inspires you, 

thank you so much for stopping by,

 I am looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt,

Titbelsoeur