That weird inbetween time by Siobhan

I love this Forest stamp by Neil Walker, and really enjoy creating a background to stamp it on.

I decided to try and pick some of those colours from lovely summer sunsets, and used my Brush pens to create a watercolour vignetted effect, I used a Bristol board as its a lovely smooth paper.

Once dry I added clear spatters and coloured splatters using a toothbrush, to create some depth.

I then embossed in black, and trimmed the image up to the edges of the stamp, and then mounted on a square white card, to create a simple card, leaving room to stamp a sentiment if needed.

These are the products I used, I used the Tim Holtz stamp platform ( available in shop only) to ensure I got a crisp clean image to emboss, and if not I could just stamp again, (such a genius product).

Happy New Year

Siobhan

If Friends were.........by Debs

Hi Everyone

I must say i am really enjoying playing with the new Distress Oxide inks.  They are just so lovely to use and because they are an Opaque ink, you can achieve some lovely effects.

the only problem with this card, was the fact that i was having so much fun playing that it was only when i had finished that i realised i hadn't taken any photos expect for the very first stage

The background was done with Broken China and Iced Spruce, using the wrinkle free distress method, they really do layer so nicely providing you dry between each layer.

After this layer was dry i added one of the Inspiration Jars direct to the background, and then using post it note to mask off the jar, i then stamped in Sunflowers by Lesley Matthewson then using another piece of post it and stamping with the sunflower made another mask and re-stamped the sunflowers a couple more times.  I painted the flowers using spiced marmalade and peeled paint, and kept layering and drying until i was haps with the colours.  I then lightly stamped the new Neil Walker web stamp, and edged over the top with more spiced marmalade.  Used a piece of scrap card with spiced marmalade on to stamp the phrase from the Botanicals plate.

Hope you have a crafty weekend

Take care

Debs

Two Mini Canvas by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

Today, I've two mini mixed media canvas to share with you. For that I've used Neil Walker designed lovely bird stamps.

I've worked on 4" square canvas. I couldn't take photos while making this... 

here are the steps I followed for both.

1. Adhere text and music paper with gel medium on the canvas.

2. Apply thin coat of white gesso with palette knife.

3. Apply one color of acrylic paint, spread it with fingers. Dry it

4.Stamp with different types of texture and text  stamps and archival inks.

5.Apply second color of acrylic paint spread it. Dry this layer.

6. Again stamp with different texture stamps (Artistic stamper has fabulous collection of texture stamps..check them here )

7. On another watercolor paper stamp the birds, color them with watercolors, fussy cut them.

8. On canvas, stamp the birds again with black archival ink and attach the fussy cut birds on it.

9.Lastly apply embossing paste through stencil  randomly on the canvas.

Hope you followed my mixed media procedure for this canvas, if you have any questions, pls let me know 

here are individual canvas photos

Products from Artistic stamper:

Stamps-Neil Walker designed - Mystical Bird and Funky bird

Background stamps- Swirl background, Mini Backgrounds#1, sequin waste open, heart, Harlequin, music 

Ranger Archival inks- Jet black, Watering can, Fern green

Let's art journal in May by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy journalers !
You know that the May challenge at the Artistic Stamper is "Journaling your heART out!" and I have decided to make this page for you...

I started by gluing some pieces of "test" pages, this one to test Neil's stamp on to my home-made gelli plate :

or that one that was used to clean my A.S. Sequin mask up :

So here is the 1st layer background :

Some gesso here and there, then brown and green acrylic paint, with a brush or with a baby wipe through A.S. Sequin and Petals masks 

Then stamps as backgrounds : car, alphabet soup, dots with black Archival 

And to end, let's stamp words with black and brown Archival, paint some circles with a bottle cap and write some unreadable words in white and black, and here it is :

To make this page, I have used :
black and brown Archival inks
Large Sequin and Petals Artistic Stamper's masks 
Dots background stamp
Neil Walker's alphabet soup and fantasy background
Debbie Cotton's Linington's automotive Sales
Journaling Words #5, Imagine 4.5 cm, Creative 4.5 cm and Journaling Words 3 

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated.

I hope you will participate in our May challenge

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

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Mail Art

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

I've got these fabulous Postage stamps(No1) from Artistic Stamper and I kept them to use for some special project... today is the day... :)

I created Post Cards.

I created 4 1/4" * 6" Post card with white card stock. I started with spraying Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise on it. I spritzed water on it to dilute the color. Next I've done Dyan's famous ghost technique, got some lovely layers. I've used many stamp stamps at the top right corner. Calligraphy Mat12 for text. Leaves stamp is from Leaves A5 set.

I stamped dragonfly twice, once on this post card and second on another white paper. Fussy cut it and adhered it to create layered effect.

I got carried away and made two more Post cards,

here I've used Dylusion's Cheery Pie spray ink and Neil Walker bird Stamp.

And on this card, I spritzed Dylusion's Dirty Martini ink and have used bird from Birds of Feather stamp set.

Hope you liked my Mail art post!

Our monthly challenge is open till 30th April with theme - Flora and Fauna.

You still have time to join in.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

 

Supplies Used:

Artistic Stamper Stamps - 

Postage Stamp No1

Neil Walker Stamp- Funky Bird

Katy Leitch - Leaves A5

Random Dots background stamp 

Borders A6 #2

Birds Of Feather A6, Butterflies and Insects No1

Calligraphy Mat 12

Ranger Archival Inks- Jet Black, Forget Me Not, Fern Green

Distress Inks - Peeled Paint, Pecock Feather, Fired Brick

Dylusion Ink sprays- Dirty Martini, Cherry Red, Vibrant Turquoise, White Linen

Free birds !

Hello everyone, Titbelsoeur here with birds everywhere...
I have made a tiny album, using an ugly scrapbook page :

covered it with gesso, then book pages :

adding acrylic paints with a card, not waiting for the gesso to dry :

then adding Splats & Swirl with the Artistic Stamper's mask 

folded the paper in 4 on a side and 4 on the other side and then cut the edges :

folded the pleats, placed one end on top of the others and the other end on top of it to make the edge :

and glued Neil Walker's and Katy Leitch's birds and quotes stamped on the pages of a dictionary :

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated.

Don't forget to participate in our monthly challenge to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

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Observation

Hello Everyone, Shilpa here

I've art panel today to share with you.

I've used lots of Artistic stamper stamps for this.

I enjoyed making this background. Here are the steps I followed.

1. Gessoed the panel

2. Applied Peeled paint distress stain. Let it dry.

3. Stamped text randomly on background with Artistic stamper Calligraphy mat 13 and Fern Green Archival Ink. I also stamped texture with Artistic stamper Fantasy background stamp designed by Neil Walker.

4.Spritzed Picket fence distress stain and let it drip. Heat set it.

5. I created large clock in the background  with mask and peeled paint distress ink.

6. I applied vintage photo distress ink through Tim's Measured stencil at the two edges.

6. Next I stamped watches and gears.

7. Spritzed Picket fence distress stain and let it dry, it gave translucent layer. 

8. Applied wild honey distress stain at the edges of panel.

 Bird image is from Neil Walker designed Junior bird stamp.i colored it with wild honey distress stain dauber.

The sentiment is from Traveling words collection.

 Hope you liked my art panel, it is always great to hear from you.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

 Material used:

Artistic Stamper stamps :  Neil Walker designed - Fantasy background, Junior bird

calligraphy mat 13, Watches, Travelling words, Boarder stamp - Gears

Ranger Archival ink- Jet Black, Fern Green 

Distress Inks - Vintage photo, Peeled paint

Guess what...

... the background of my card is made of...

Actually, Jennibellie showed us the technique on her forum, and I had a try (just like I try all weird techniques I view !). You just want to take 4 or 5 kitchen roll used sheets, glue 2 of them together, then another one on top of it and one or 2 again. The glue must completely wet the towels, thus you either want to use your home-made glue (with rice or flour), or add the same volume of water to your glue and mix.
Once dry, here are your sheets, all different and unique :

Now you want to stamp on the sheets :
Handstamped 

Encyclopaedia Botanica Size A5 © Katy Fox  

Numerical plate size A5 © Katy Fox

 outlined with white pen to highlight the stamped images
 

Encyclopaedia Botanica Size A5 © Katy Fox  

And then I stamped the
Grungy Greetings #1 

Kiki 7 x 12cm ©Neil Walker

on to a watercolor paper

 And Grungy Greetings #1   on to school book pages I glued on the inside of the card for the sender to write down some sentiment !

Please let me know whether this technique did interest you, I am looking forward to reading from you ! And don't forget to participate in the Artistic Stamper monthly challenge... talking about memories !

See you !

Titbelsoeur

Believe - Art Journal Page

Hello Everyone, Shilpa here,

Hope you had a great weekend and making some crafty plans for week ahead.

Today I am sharing with you a journal page which I made with Artistic stamper's gorgeous Gibson girl stamp.

I've used Wendy Vecchi's Archival reinkers and rubbing alcohol (Surgical Spirit) to create the background. I put few drops of rubbing alcohol on the craft mat and on that I added one drop of each Archival reinkers colours- Forget Me not, Dandelion and Leaf Green. They are very concentrated colours. I mixed them well with rubbing alcohol. And put my paper into that and took it off. I had to do two three times to get this cool background.
Next I stamped this Gibson girl image with Ranger jet black Archival Ink. Below that, I stamped circles  with  Boarder stamp A6#2. I also attached ruler washi tape. I've created some background texture with Damask stencil, Calligraphy mat 12 and Vintage photo distress ink.

On the other side of the page, I stamped Neil Walker Bobble bird with Ranger black Archival ink. To bring more vibrant colour on the page, I adhered flowers. The Journaling word 'believe' is from this AS stamp set.

Hope you liked my two page journal spread.
We have Autumn colours theme challenge going on for this month, join us to win the beautiful Artistic stamper stamps.
Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Supplies used:

Artistic stamper stamps - Neil Walker bobble Bird,  Gibson Girls, Boarder stamps, Calligraphy Mat 12, Journaling stamps.

Ranger Archival Inks - Jet Black, Carnation Red

Washi tape, Flowers from my stash.