Mini Blue Book By Gemma

I have a fun little mini book to share with you all today. This is a simple little project that is not material heavy.  All I needed for this project was white card, Distress Inks, and the Artifacts secret key stamp. 

What I did 😀

I cut the white card down to 3x2 inch rectangles for my pages and folded these in half. I then pushed them into Distress ink that I had spread onto my glass mat and sprayed with water. 

Once dry I edged all the pages with more ink and then stamped along one side of each page. The stamp in a long one so I made sure to stamp different sections onto the pages. I then glued the pages back to back to form the book/signature.

When cutting the card for the cover, I cut the card a little larger than the pages and with a spine section in the middle. I then inked the cover following the same process as the pages, except for when it came to stamping. This time I stamped in a contrasting coloured ink and I stamped along the spine, I also added some more stamping using black ink. After gluing the pages into the book I cut a small band to hold the book closed and add interest. 

Thanks for stopping by

XX Gemma XX

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Patterned card by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone !
Titbelsoeur today to present you a simple card where patterns are repeated again and again with 3 different stamps : Floral Open Background with 2 Free Flower stamps , Cogs Background and the big watch from Tick Tock A5.
And on the center, one of these forever beautiful Gibson Girls.


I have first colored the background with Distress ink, then stamped the Gibson Girl is stamped with Blue Archival ink, cut out a mask of this stamp on to a post-it I sticked on the stamped image, and stamped the cogs with grey, the watch with blue and the flowers with crimson.
And sticked the cardstock on to a card :

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Inspiration card by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone !
Titbelsoeur today sharing a distressed card with you, to help you participate in our April challenge.

I have first peeled and gessoed a piece of cardboard, then stamped 

clocks from Time
A Stitch in Time ruler from Dressmaking
Encyclopaedia Botanica dictionary page from Katy Leitch
Journaling Words, Imagine and Creative  from Words and sayings

And then I stamped the Butterfly from Neil Walker twice with distress pens, cut them out and sticked them on to the cardboard.
And here it is ! 

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Art Journal page by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy art journalers !

Today let me show you a new art journal page.

To make the background, I have glued paper squares on to my page, coloured it with yellow and stamped Decay Swirl Background and Swirl Background Open from Backgrounds with Distress ink to have a smooth background.

Then I stamped Decay Journaling Stamps #1 and Decay Alphabet from Journaling, text from Time and Keys in Time and the butterfly from Butterflies #2 in Butterflies & Birds, all  with black Archival 

The Blossom stamp from Debbie Cotton I stamped on to a cardboard and scraped it, then coloured it with Promarkers and sticked it to the background :

and here is my page :

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you will participate in our October challenge

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Time... by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy card senders !
Since the August challenge is about Anything goes, the project I want to share with you today is a card.
About time.
Start glueing a dictionary page on your cardboard
Use watercolor chalks here and there and wet your paper here and there too.
Then stamp the background with Plum Archival ink and outline the cogs and clocks with white chalk or white pen when necessary.
Stamp the big clock and the quote on to another piece of a dictionary page,
And here it is !!
You will find the time stamps HERE !

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Small Journal by Gemma

Hi All

So the summer holiday is here and I like to have a little art journal, that I can just toss in my bag when I am out and about.

 I have some 12x12 grunge board that sits around waiting for projects like this as it can take a little rough treatment and that's what happens to anything sitting in the bottom of my bag.

I covered the board with Gesso and left it to completely dry, Then using a brayer I added Phthola Turquoise Acrylic and Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise, I love the fact that because its on the grunge board you get a bitty texture with lots of the Gesso showing through. Using the same colours I stamped over the top with the Grid and Dots background stamps.

On card I stamped the clock,key and dancer. The clock and key were stamped on card painted black and covered with gilding flakes. The dancer was just stamped in black ink. I used the words mask to add the word Art to the corner with texture paste.

Once they were dry I added the swirls using Phthola Turquoise. After deciding I did not like the word white, I painted it black and added a little gilding flake. I finished off by adding some circles using a white pen and a little doodling with a black pen. I then stitched in the pages and added a ribbon to close.

And of course I couldn't waste the left over paper so I made this note pad.

Here I have just added more words from the same mask with black paint, and stamped the Decay swirl,

Thank you for reading
Gemma (inkykitty)

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Thinking of you...

Hi there, Titbelsoeur here with another card !
You know that I love to try new techniques, so here is another one. How have I made it ?
I first took a background paper from my stash, one I made while my last workshop. Then I stamped here and there letters and numbers from Family Values with Broken China Distress ink. After that I sprayed the Large Sequin Waste Mask  with a mix of Festive Berries and Pink Raspberries inks.
Thinking of you from Grungy Greetings was stamped with Archival Black and the Time & Keys clocks with Archival Plum
A spray of Lemon Zest Dylusions ink, then some white acrylic on the edges and on spots here and there.

And, of course, a personalised signature from the Handstamped set on the back of the card :

Do you like this card ?

Thank you so much for stopping by, I can't wait to read your comments !

See ya, 

Titbelsoeur

Phineas Pinchbeck

I loved the Phineas Pinchbeck stamp from the moment I saw it. For this

 project I used the following Artistic stamper stamps, Numerical plate, 

Carte postale, Phineas Pinchbeck, Time & Keys plate, crowning 

glory and Ephemera 1. Tim Holtz cargo stencil  & 

grunge paste. Fresco finish paints, crackle accents

archival ink. Distress Inks vintage

 photo and scattered straw.  

Firstly I painted grey board with fresco finish paints in stone, nougat,

and mushroom, through a honeycone stencil I put squid ink

paint that I then knocked back with nougat. 

I stamped the two sets of numbers off the Numerical 

plate in chocolate pudding.

The two stamps of the postal plate were stamped in claret

 and baltic blue. The ruler of the Ephemera plate was 

stamped in archival ink. 

Grunge paste was put through the cargo stencil numerical 

once dry this was coloured with 

geletoes and treasure gold. 

Gauze was coloured with claret fresco finish paint then darkened 

with black soot distress ink.

Card coloured with distress inks was stamped with the Phineas

 stamp and the crown from crowning glory which I 

then highlighted with liquid pearls.

The clock face x 2 from Phineas stamp was covered in crackle 

accents. this was layered up with the clock faces of the 

time and keys plate. I used a cog die that I had in

my stash.

The sign at the bottom was hand written with white gel pen on 

black card and then backed onto kraft card.

I then backed it onto burlap and black card and finished off with 

 four gold brads on all corners. Thank you for stopping by 

please feel free to leave your comments as your

comments help to inspire me.

Cheers Dee

Steam Punk Birdz By Dee Adams

Hi Everyone! Dee here again I hope you are all enjoying my creations.

Today I have another piece using Neil Walker's  birdz plate.

Around the left hand side and along the bottom put grunge paste 

through the clocks stencil. On the top right hand side

 put grunge paste randomly through a star stencil. Once dry paint the 

whole board with honey dew Fresco Finish paints

Once dry paint with fresco finish paints in the following colours:- haystack, pumpkin soup, 

south pacific & inky pool.

Smoked paprika and dry claret was then dry brushed on to the grey board.

Or you can apply this with your finger. Again dry and then 

apply treasure gold to the grunged clocks and stars.

On a separate piece of gray board I cut out a circle so that the clock from the

 time and keys plate stamped perfectly on to it. Or use the chipboard shapes

 that go with the stamps but cut of the top to make a circle. 

I then painted this with honey dew and once dry I stamped the clock face 

onto it and watered down haystack paint and gently darken the centre.

I coloured a separate piece of board with peeled paint distress ink 

and then stamped the smaller clock face onto it and cut it out. 

I then rolled them on an embossing pad, gold embossing powder

was then applied round and heat set. The centre was filled with

 crackle accents and three very small cogs were dropped into it while still wet.

I stamped the Neil Walker Birdz x 2 onto mop up card and cut out. I then gently

 applied vintage photo distress ink to the clock face to highlight the cracks. I  assembled

 the clocks and birdz using a Tim Holt's metal wing, then a cog was 

placed at the bottom. I placed four brads to the 

top left hand side. 

I mounted it all onto black card and used scrabble letters. Thank you for taking

 the time to read my piece and I hope that It inspires you in some way. 

Please feel free to leave your comments.

Background stamps part II by Titbelsoeur

Hi crazy stampers !
2 weeks ago, I showed you how I had made an original background spraying ink on my stamp instead of inking it with a pad.
The card I am showing you today was made with the 2nd use of the stamp, I had just sprayed some water to revive the colors, hence the shadows here and there :

I then enhanced my background applying Broken China and Worn Lipstick Distress inks through the Dot Masks with foam.

Since my Architecture stamps were on my table, I stamped the word "Art" and the column again, and completed with Chevron Elements, Messy Art arrows and "I made this", a clock and a Gibson girl on to a book page :

To make this card, I used :
Dot masks
Archival ink
Dylusions Inks  
Distress inks and foam
and stamps :
 
Chevron Elements
Background stamps : Linen and Calligraphic Mat 13
Architecture plates : Art and column
Gibson girls
Time
Journaling 

And I have tested this technique on to other supports and with other stamps. Some results looked great, others were not convincing or simply ugly, it really depends on the stamp you use, anyway I am sure I will use this technique again, using the stamps that match with it... Some outlooks :

 

 

 and I have swept the leftover on pages of my artbook :

I would be very happy if my technique does inspire you, 

thank you so much for stopping by, 

I am looking forward to reading your comments !

Do not hesitate to ask for any help !

A tout bientôt,

Titbelsoeur