Summer time !

Hello happy crafters !
Summer is on its way, and it feels good ! and it is the theme of this month challenge !
For those who are looking for inspiration to play with us, I have made this card

using the following Artistic Stamper's stuff :

First I have colored the background with acrylic paint and distress ink through
the Flowers & Leaves long mask
When I felt it was colored enough, I have stamped
Flutterby
flowers from Encyclopaedia Botanica and Botanical 2 
and then the sentiment from Journaling Words 3
And at the end I have bordered butterflies, words and some flowers with white gel pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated.

I hope you will participate in our June challenge

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

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Do you know stamp kissing ?

Hello happy crafters !

This is Titbelsoeur today showing you the very last technique I found out on the internet : stamp kissing !

What is this about ? very simple : you have some plain stamps, like the Artistic Stamper's butterflies :

 and textured ones... you ink each of them with different colors, and make them have a kiss.... 

 so that your butterflies have clock wings if they have a kiss with 

 Fantasy ones if they are in love with

or steampunk wings if they kiss cogs :

Isn't it a funny technique ? and the results are really stunning, aren't they ?

I did make some, just to have a try, then cut them out and sticked them on to a card I had made the background with the fabulous Europe map and the Journey sentiment.

On the other side, you make nice stampings with the structured one :

Cogs background
Time and keys
Fantasy background
Flutterby
Europe Map background
A journey
Distress inks
Versafine inks

Thank you so much for stopping by, 

I hope you like this technique,and will quickly have a try :-)

I am looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur 

Free your soul - Mixed Media Canvas

Hello Everyone, Shilpa here today,  with my first project with ASCTB and I am super excited about it. I have created a Mixed media canvas with beautiful Artistic stamper stamps.

 I started with 6*8" canvas. And applied Wendy Vecchi white embossing paste through Crafters workshop stencil- Pomegranate.

I wanted to use Dona's - Free your soul stamp, which is image of lady experiencing freedom. I chose shades of pink and purple for my background.

I spritzed water on the canvas. After this at random places I applied Milled Lavender, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Dusty concord Distress paints. I heat set it with my heat tool.

I stamped this lovely image with Dona's Free your soul stamp and Tree Branch Archival ink. I've also used Pen and ink hatched background stamp and Calligraphic Mat 13 to create more layers in the background.  

To make these butterflies, I've used New Flutterby stamp set and Spun sugar and worn lipstick Distress paints. I stamped them on watercolour paper, let them dry and cut them out, applied walnut stain distress ink (Mini) on the edges. I also applied Vintage photo DI at the all edges of canvas.

Thanks so much for visiting today. Looking forward to your feedback and comments.

Supplies used:
Artistic stamper stamps - Dona's - Free your soul,
Pen and Ink hatched background stamp
Calligraphic mat 13
Flutterby stamp set 
Distress paints - Spun sugar, worn lipstick, milled lavender, dusty concord
Archival Ink - Tree branch
Distress inks - Mini set with walnut stain, vintage photo

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!!