The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog: crafters workshop stencils

Sunday, 22 February 2015

Florishes and Butterflies

Hi everyone I have for you a picture for my next post the background came out of a

session playing with a brayer and using Paper Artsy Fresco Finish paints

in shades of blue, I watched Leandra's you tube brayered

backgrounds and that was the result.

Instead of their waxed paper I used kitchen grease proof paper

and gradually built up the layers.

You have to be very careful not to have to much paint on the brayer and be gentle rolling

it across make sure all the paint is off the brayer before you use a different colour.

Start with dark colours first then and then gradually add the lighter ones.

It left a lovely mottled effect and the grease proof paper gets stronger

with each application.

To finish the background I used Tim's Flourish stamp inked up with snowflake fresco

finish paint then stamped randomly across the paper.

I triple embossed The Artistic Stamper butterfly off the insects & butterflies plate

three times with gold embossing powder.

I then layered it up and highlighted areas with treasure gold after using alcohol

inks to colour the recessed bits.

Little sequins were glued onto both wings and the body was made up with beads

from my stash. The curly twig with berrys on I had laying around and

two sparkly circles were glues on.

The frame was made with grunge paste through a stencil once dry painted with deco art

media paint in Cobalt Turquoise, once dry I used Deco Art Antiquing cream

if you haven't tried this product yet you need to get some its amazing.

Products Used

I used beads and sequins from my stash, The very talented Jools Robinson inspired this piece by suggesting that I framed the paper I had made. So with that in mind this was where I ended up.

I would be very pleased if you let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Explore - Art Journal cover

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year to you All!! This is my first post of 2015 at Artistic Stamper.

Today I would like to share project with you which is 'New Beginning' which is also a theme of our challenge this month. New beginning of my 'face journal', yes, I took up a challenge for myself and which I rarely do, and I am totally fascinated about right now, is to create one mixed media face journal page every week this year!! :)

and here is Journal cover I made with Artistic stamper stamps.

Let's see how I made this ....

I've used Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Mini Journal board as a base. I applied Gesso as a primer.. When It dried, I applied distress paints (Broken china, Forest Moss, Vintage photo, Brushed corduroy, Tea dye), spritzed water and let them move and this created my base color.

Next I stamped Artistic stamper's Song Bird stamp on tissue paper with ranger jet black Archival ink and adhered that piece on my base. To create dimensional texture on this panel I used stencils and modelling paste.

Here you will see I adhered some of the elements like pearls, wood veneer birds, diecut dragonflies, vintage butterfly washi tape.

and I wanted to add more color but translucent one, so I used Distress stains (Broken China, Evergreen Bough, Wild Honey, peeled paint and Walnut stain)