Earl's

Hi everyone hope you are all well, and feeling crafty!

Today I bring you a picture using the new stamps

 from Debbie Cotton.

I had this collage frame I covered the base in a cream 

acrylic paint and dried.

Next I used weathered wood, frayed burlap & pumice stone 

Distress paints

I put the three paints on a craft mat & spritzed with water & then

 I swept the cream painted board through the paint. I dried 

it and swept it through again and the spritzed

 the board with water, then dried with

a heat gun.

I grunge board with a Tim Holtz Die and painted with the 

fresco finish stone. Then I used the same distress

paints around the edges and a bit of 

aged mahogany then I blended

 it all with my finger.

I used the crafters workshop specimen stencil and put grunge paste through it. 

Once dried I painted the frame with Fresco's Finish french toast

& dried it. I then applied crackle glaze over the flat area's

 & allowed it to dry. I painted nougat over the top

 & applied white fire treasure gold.

I stamped the Earl's automotive stamp onto tissue paper.

And coloured it with mahogany distress paint.

I carefully cut out all the images

and stuck onto the sign

and canvas.

over the rest of the canvas at the bottom I used the A6 Boarders 

stamp and the cogs of the Tick Tock plate.

I fixed the sign with jump rings and fixed to the top

left hand side. All the stamps used here today are 

for sale at the Artistic Stamper. That's it from 

me today although I will be doing an extra 

post this month. Please feel free

 to leave a comment.

Dee x

Field Notes of a Naturalist

Hello all, Alison (butterfly) here with a Victorian naturalist's field notes from his day's excursion in the fields... and we're back to the neutrals!  It's a simple stamped tag, using Katy Leitch's fabulous new Jumbo Flowers along with one of the Stampers Anonymous Classics releases from earlier this year.

I kept the stamping simple over a background of Fresco paints and crackle glaze.  I couldn't resist a spot of clear-embossing though!

The flowers are done in Potting Soil Archival, which seems an appropriate enough colour for botanical sketches.  This is the Bouvardia, tucked away at the bottom...

Here's the Flowering Branch...

And the Camellia...

The insects are stamped in Jet Black Archival...

... carefully labelled to keep track of genus and species.

In between, you might catch sight of the sparkle of some handwritten notes about what he's found.

I stamped the Calligraphy Mat #9 in Pumice Stone Distress Ink, and then clear-embossed it.  I love the dewy shimmer as it catches the light, so I don't mind the occasional places where it's spots rather than writing - just more dew drops!

There's some simple embellishing - a word band attached with rustic twine, and the pen nib with which he's been scratching his field notes in his journal.

At the top some seam binding, dyed with Pumice Stone and bound with more twine, is fastened with a Muse Token celebrating the new knowledge he's acquired in today's nature ramble.

The whole thing is matted onto black card, to give a little extra definition, and that's your lot.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  There's still time to enter our By the Seaside challenge this month... hope to see you there!

Ingredients used:

Artistic Stamper Stamps: Katy Leitch Jumbo Flowers - Bouvardia, Camellia and Flowering Branch, Calligraphic Mat #9

Stampers Anonymous - Classics #17

Fresco Finish Paints - Crackle Glaze, French Roast, Chocolate Pudding, Stone, Snowflake

Ranger Archival Ink - Potting Soil, Jet Black

Distress Inks - Pumice Stone, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Clear Embossing Powder

Idea-ology Findings - Word Band, Pen Nib, Muse Token

Twine 

Seam binding