Love, Live, Laugh by Gemma

 I have another quick card to share with you today, I only used a black piece of card, white ink, and paint along with some of my Artistic Stamper stamps and stencils

Step by Step

- Cut a piece of black card to fit the front of a card blank
- Stamp around the edges with white ink and a background stamp. I have used the mini square wire stamp.
-Blend a little ink around the edges of the card.
- Mix a little white paint with water and splatter paint over the top

- Sponge white paint through the words love, live, and laugh from the 6x6 work mask. Opps! I meant to use the word life from the same mask but got a bit carried away.

- Stamp one of  Neil Walkers Birdz on the bottom in white paint extending the legs to the base of the card.
- Doodle some flowers in random places with a white paint pen, also go over the stamped and stenciled images as needed.

Thanks for reading

Gemma

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Mini Square Wire background

Word Mask

Neil Walkers Birdz

Bird Canvas by Gemma

Hello Everyone

This canvas roughly measures 5 x 6.5 inches. The background for this canvas changed a lot while I was working on it. I started off by tearing two pieces of patterned paper and gluing them to the canvas with a gel medium, over that I scraped some crackle paste and paint. I was fairly unhappy with the results and ended up going over the top with gesso, but some of the texture can still be seen underneath.

On the bottom third of the canvas I stuck bits of washi tape, and as the gesso was still wet I blended in blue acrylic. I then watered down some Teresa Green Fresco Finish paints and wiped it over the washi tape. I dried off those layers and then stamped over the blue paint with a slightly darker shade of blue and the honeycomb stamp. I stamped over the washi tape with a darker shade of green and the petal stamp.

On a sheet of white card I stamped out two birds and nine circles using black archival ink. I painted them using Tangerine Twist, Banana, Tango and Cherry Red Fresco Finish paints. I stamped over the top of the circle with the petal stamp using the same colour paints.

I then cut them out and using gel medium I glued the bird in place and the circles layering them up largest to smallest.

 I brushed some ground espresso distress ink around the edges, and then using a black pen I drew in the stems of the flowers. I edged everything with the same black pen and drew in few leaves on the stems.

There is still plenty of time to join in this months challenge both on the blog and on the facebook page here

Thank you for reading
Gemma (inkykitty)

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Petals Closed Background

Honeycomb Background

Swirls, Splats and Dots

Junior Bird

Fresco Finish Paints

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

Autumnal Birdz

Hi everyone I hope you are well and getting your crafty stuff ready

 for Christmas. I have for you again today another Adirondck

 colour wash piece. 

I painted the large beer mat with cream acrylic paint then

I sprayed the colour wash over the top.

Next I stamped the Decay Journaling Stamps I then gold embossed.

I then used 3D Matt Gel through the flourish stencil and 

sprinkled with gold embossing powder.

Around the edges i used crackle paste and coloured with 

purple paint.

White embossing powder was sprinkled over and heat set.

I used the triple embossed card that I then stamped the Neil Walker

mechanical stamp into.

I hope you have enjoyed my project please feel free to

let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

PRODUCTS USED

1. Artistic Stamper stamps/masks used are Decay Journaling Stamps, Neil Walkers Mechanical Bird stamp & The Artistic Stamper Swirl mask
2. Adirondack colour wash Cranberry, Sunset Orange and Wild plum.
3. Finnabairs 3D Matt gel, Gold embossing powder.

Mystical Bird Part 2 By Dee

Hi Everyone Dee here with the second part of The Birdz

wall plaque. I hope you are all well! and ready to
 join in with us here at the Artistic stamper for our
monthly challenge, which is
' Things With Wings'
 & on that note!

For this last plaque I used the second 

Rust board from my previous post

I triple embossed the mechanical bird from

Neil Walkers birdz plate.

I coloured the bird with the same alcohol inks

 as the previous post.

Next I used Pins and jump rings to attach the two

 plaques together.

More photo's

and some more,

I used items from my stash to join it all together.

I hope you have enjoyed this two part project and like the end result.

please feel free to let me know what you think!

take care see you soon.

Dee x

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper stamps used Neil Walkers Birdz Set A6 , Decay Journaling Stamps #1.
2. Deco Art Products used  Quinacridone Gold, Quinacrodine Burnt Orange, Prussian Blue Hue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Tourquoise Hue, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide. Texture sand paste and crackle paste.
3. Ranger crackle accents, Alcohol inks Terracotta,Stream, Ginger & Butterscotch.
4. Inka Gold Gold. 

Mystical Bird part 1 By Dee

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the summer and managed
some crafty time for yourselves. I have a two part Project
for you this time it started a while ago when I was experimenting
with trying to recreate the beautiful patinas and verdigris that
appear naturally in copper.

This picture shows the patina effect in more colour than 

the above photo.

As you can see below I covered 2 x board in texture sand paste.

Next I coloured the board with the Deco art Media paints.

Some Ranger crackle accents.

Deco art crackle paste round the edges.

Triple embossing using the fabulous Neil Walker Birdz stamps

& the new distress journal stamp.

Rangers alcohol inks.

The writing below was written onto a coffee stirrer and 

clear embossed.

That is it for this time I will be back soon with the second part.

Cheers Dee x

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper stamps used Neil Walkers Birdz Set A6 , Decay Journaling Stamps #1.
2. Deco Art Products used  Quinacridone Gold, Quinacrodine Burnt Orange, Prussian Blue Hue, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Tourquoise Hue, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide. Texture sand paste and crackle paste.
3. Ranger crackle accents, Alcohol inks Terracotta,Stream, Ginger & Butterscotch.
4. Inka Gold Gold. 

Small Art

Hi everyone I hope you are all having an amazing summer.

I have a piece for you today that uses the Neil Walker

  Birdz stamp, Fantasy 2 background & the new 

decay journaling stamps.

A few stencils

Firstly I used distress paints and a brayer to create the background 

card that would be the base of the 

bird and the matt card.

Next I inked or I should say painted up the Fantasy stamp

with fresco finish paint and stamped randomly over 

the background.

Next i used versa fine ink and gold embossing powder and stamped 

randomly with both the fantasy and decay stamp. I stamped the 

bird onto the painted background and embossed with clear, 

also the swirl from the decay stamp was embossed with gold.

I used some mop up card that was on my desk I think it was distress stains

that I had used. I used a dot stencil with grunge paste 

put through on the dots I put embossing powder 

on and heat set. Next I ripped two strips off and 

attached it on to a rectangle of grey board.

The base board had grunge paste through a stencil applied and dried.

next this was painted with

Fresco finish paints.

To finish it off I used some brass pieces from my stash and

mounted it all up.

I hope you enjoyed my post. 

Please feel free to let me know what you think.

PRODUCTS USED

1. Artistic Stamper Neil Walker Fantasy 2 & Birdz stamps, The swirl of the decay journaling plate.
2. Distress paints in Aged Mahogany, Wild Honey, Barn Door.
3. Fresco Finish space cadet, Smurf and snowflake (also used to highlight the bird).
4. Gold & Clear embossing powder,
5. Grunge paste.