Star Card by Gemma

I have a new messy square card to share with you all for my post today using one of my first stamps from The Artistic Stamper. It was a very loved stamp but one I had completely forgotten about, and it was lovely to come across it and love it again, but then who doesnt love a good numeral/number stamp. 

My Process

I started by cutting a piece of white card to fit my card blank and then creating a border around the card by masking off the edges with washi tape. Once that was done I gently tapped on some Color Burst ( a little really does go a long way) and sprayed it with water. I did this twice drying between layers adding a lot of water to the first layer and a little to the second. Over this I stamped the large dot stamp in ink before removing the washi tape.

Once dry I stamped over the whole piece of card with a script stamp and black ink. On a separate piece of white card, I drew a star using the star mask as a template and stamped in the center with the number stamp and black ink. After cutting the star out I glued it to the background and added some detail with black and white pens.

xx Gemma xx

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Calligraphic Mat 12

Large Dotty Background

Family Values Number stamp

Star Mask

Blue Star Card by Gemma

Loving the theme of this months challenge and there is still plenty of time to join in both here on the blog and on the Facebook group.

For my post today I have a card and tag to share with you all using Distress Inks and lots of Jennie's stamps

What I did

1- I cut card to the size of my card blank and covered it with a layer of Distress Ink

2- I then stamped one of the new designs by Tracy Scott over part of the card. I heat embossed this with a clear embossing powder. 

3- I filled the opposite side of the card with the small Scribble stamp

4- On a separate piece of card I stamped several different sized stars from the star set with black ink and heat embossed them before cutting them out.

5- I also stamped out and heat embossed the words Happy Birthday from Grungy Greeting 1

7- I coloured all of these pieces and an extra mat I cut with Distress Inks and Distress Oxides before gluing everything in place and adding doodles with both black and white pens. 

xx Gemma xx

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Background 5

Scribble

Star Plethora

Grungy Greetings 1

Star Card By Gemma

 I love this card and tag, it combines everything I like, stamping, stenciling, Distress Inks, Stars and using Gesso to mask/ push back areas.

 Steps

 1- Pick three colours of Distress Ink, Spread each colour on a mat separately and spray with water, press the card stock into the ink. Dry each colour before adding the next.

2- Using the same colours of ink stamp different sized star stamps over the card. 

3- Using a star stamp add a couple of dark brown or black stars. 

4- Using a star mask and a white pen draw in stars.

5- Paint over the rest of the piece of card with a thin layer of Gesso carefully painting around the stars that have drawn in with the white pen.

6- Doodle around the edge of the card and the stars with a black pen and glue to a card blank.

7- Draw and cut a star from the leftover card, stamp a word onto the star and glue it to the card over a strip of black cardstock and inked paper. 

xx Gemma xx

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Star Plethora

Star Background

Stars Mask

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star By Gemma

I am loving all Jennies star themed stanps at the moment and am having so much fun playing with them, I just had to have a messy play in my journal, it really was a must do :-) 

Steps

1- Using Gesso as a glue apply a sheet of crumpled up tissue paper to a journal page.

2- Using gel medium attach some torn book page paper, I really liked the little girl I found on the corner of a page and I just had to keep her.

3- Spread some Distress Inks onto a glass mat and spritzs with water, press the page into the ink allowing the colours to pool into each other and mix. Keeping some white space dry between layers untill happy. 

4- Using a long detailed stamp, stamp along one of the top corners and the opposite bottom corner.

5- Add some random stamping with a background stamp and one of the Distress Inks used for the first layer. 

  6- Spread some ink onto your glass mat and mix with texture paste, apply this to the page through a mask.

7- Doodle over some of the stamping and around the edge of the page.

xx Gemma xx

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Shooting stars stamp

Star Plethora stamps

Star Background

Star Cards by Gemma

 I decided to make my own Christmas cards again this year, but instead of making the odd one for a specific person and decided to make a batch of cards so I could also donate some to my son's school fair. 

These were easy to replicate and work through systematically and I just changed colours when I got too bored.

After I cut cardstock down to fit my card blanks, I used a repositionable spray to hold in place stars I cut by hand, these acted as a mask and were removed at the end. Over the top, I sponged different shades of green paint.

I then stamped over the top with orange and white paint using background stamps.

The last layer before removing the stars was to stamp using a calligraphy mat and brown ink.

To finish I doodled around the start and the card with a black pen.

Thank you for popping by

Gemma

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Dots Background

Harlequin Background

Calligraphy Mat's

Room for Improvement! by Nicky Cresswell

Good day fellow crafters, I hope you are well and happily creating art.

This is my last piece of the Mabel month and I saved the best for last.

I created a door plaque from a thick piece of cardboard.

I covered it with a sheet of retro grunge paper.

I then started by putting some chipboard letters onto squares of grungeboard, then covering with TSS metal, using the TSS tools to define the letters and jazz up the edges. I then smooched on some alcohol ink over the top to give a more grungy look.

I used some more chipboard letters coloured with distress ink and stamped with the 'star background' stamp, using the bubble as one of the O's, but it looked a little bare so I filled it by stamping the star inside.

I used the 'I'm forever blowing bubbles' mabel stamp coloured with my copics and then grungied up with distress inks.

 I stamped the 2 largest stars from the 'Star Plethora' plate, 1 on metal {which I embossed slightly} and one on grunge, and layered them up, and the finishing touches were a couple of retro grunge paper roses and an idea-ology hinge clip to hang it.

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 And here is the finished door hanger perfect for any little Mabel's room

Thanks for stopping by, Until next time 

Stay Inky

Star Journey! by Nicky Cresswell

Well ello my lovely blogging chums, so nice of you to stop by.

Today i have a humble tag to share.

A very simple distress ink background using wild honey & victorian velvet blended together.

Then lots of simple stamping using the Star Plethora set and Simple Swirls set

To make it a bit more interesting I stamped an extra star onto grungeboard and layered it up.

And i also threaded some wire intermittently along the lines for some added texture.

 I cut out a banner in grungeboard from the 'regal crest' alterations die, coloured using the same distress inks and then stamped the 'all of life' phrase in black archival ink.

I attached it to the tag using wire, all i did was to pierce some holes using a retractable craft pick and threaded the wire through like a coil.

I hope you have enjoyed my simple but fun project today.

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Oh and don't forget

You still have time {just} to enter this months 'Things with Wings' theme challenge HERE.

Happy Creating