Dancer Card by Gemma

 I have a CAS card to share with you today using Distress Oxides and stamps

Cut a piece of white cardstock to fit your card blank and stamp a ballerina in the bottom corner using Versa Mark ink and heat emboss with black embossing powder. Leave additional powder over the card it will blend in with the splattered inks.

Spread three different colored Distress Oxide inks onto a craft mat, mix with water and use a paintbrush to splatter the ink onto the piece of card.

 Once dry use the same three inks and stamp around the edges with a backgrounds stamp. When stamping with the background stamp, overlap the stamping and the colours slightly.

Stamp the text near the edges of the card allowing the text to overhang the card in places, then mount onto a piece of black cardstock before gluing into place on the card blank and doodling a frame around the card with a black pen. 

Thanks for reading 

Gemma

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Dancer stamp set

Mini Background #2

Distress Oxides

Patterned ATC's by Debs

Hi everyone

For a complete change today i decided to make some ATC's

Using some watercolour paper and some PaperArtsy Infusions in Violet Storms, Blackcurrant and a Little bit Jaded.  Sprinkled the infusions on the paper and then spritzed with Water.  Dried it all off with a heat gun and then added some stamping 

I used Punk Plaid, Dots, Sequin Waste and calligraphy mat 11 using Potting Soil Archival Ink

I then cut it into ATC's and then used a different stamp on each one

Our House

Small Gears

Ivy by Lesley Mathewson

Butterfly from Butterflies 2 with Seize the moment from Journaling words 3

Dog rose by Lesley Mathewson and Framed words 1

Gibson Girls and Framed words 1

Dance

If you would like one of these ATC's just let me know what you think and comment which one you would like.  I will allocate ATC's on a first come first served basis.

Have fun and i look forward to seeing your entries into the pattern challenge.   

Dancer Tag by Gemma

 Hello Everyone

I wanted to share this fun tag with you today, using Distress ink and embossing powders.

I blended three different distress inks over a piece of card and then stamped over the top with the same colours using calligraphy mat 4. As I was heat embossing on this, I had to make sure it was completely dry. Once it was, I stamped and heat embossed a circle from the decay journalling  stamp plate.  I then stamped a dancer above that and heat embossed two Flourish Ornate 1 flourishes behind her (every time I look at the new flourish ornate stamps, I see wings).

 On a tag from my stash I blended the same distress inks that I used before, this time sprinkling water on top, so it reacted to the ink. I then stamped over that using calligraphy mat 4, I only re- inked the stamped every few times as I wanted some of the text to be lighter in colour.

I then ripped the card into bits and glued them onto the tag.

On the opposite side of the tag I stamped the swirl/circle from the decay set twice. On kraft card I stamped one of the dancers and heat embossed her with white embossing powder. Once I had cut her out I stamped the same calligraphy mat I had used on the background inside the image and glued her to the tag.

To finish I cut the words you are important from book paper which I glued into place and added some ribbon to the top.

Everyone's comments and challenge participation is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading
Gemma (inkykittty)

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Decay Journalling stamp plate

Dance Plate
Calligraphy Mat 4
Flourish Ornate

Embossing powder
Distress Inks

Label by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy labellers ! 
Let me tell you the way I made this label :

First, I "watercolored" the background with 2 Distress inks, then I stamped words and clock from  Tick Tock A5 in Time with the same inks so that it is in matching shades.

After that, I stamped the dancer and the sentiment from Dance A5© Siuox Jenneys  in Dance with Plum Archival.

I glued it on to a cloth label to strengthen it and highlighted the dancer inside with white Posca and shaded it outside with a red pencil.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated, 

here, on my blog, or on the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page.

I hope that my label did inspire you and that

you will participate in our October challenge

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

my blog

my Facebook page

Light Bulb Journal Page by Gemma

Hi All

 I love, love ,love the new limited set of PaperArtsy paints, The colours are Captain Peacock, Professor Plum, Granny Smith and Teresa Green. It doesn't hurt that the names are just awesome.

 For this page I used Captain Peacock and Professor Plum. I also some basic Buff Titan acrylic, with the three colours I just covered the pages, there was no method I just did not want to see white any more, once it was dry you could really see the brush marks in the paint, which was great. Using both the Captain Peacock and the Professor Plum I stamped over the top with both the dots and large random dots backgrounds. The paint underneath was still slightly wet, which moved and came up in places revealing the titan buff underneath.

Over this I made the black and white circles using Dylusion Paints and two different sized lids that I keep with the paints just to do this. I stamped out the light bulb on to a scrap bit of paper to use as a mask through which I painted Titan buff and then stamped the dancing girl and the word dance with black archival ink from the dance plate. I also stamped some more dots.

 To finish I stamped the light bulb three time onto acetate, with black ink, cut them out and glued them on top of the painted ones, using a black paint pen I drew around them and also drew lines to the top of the page.

Thanks for reading
Gemma (inkykitty) x

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Large light bulb

Dance

Dots

Large Random Dots

Limited addition Paperartsy paints

Dylusion Paints

Gibson Girls can Fly!!

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all enjoying this months challenge.  If you haven't entered yet, you still have a few days to go.  Here is my latest piece to hopefully inspire you!

I took a 6X6 card and stamped the Gibson Girl in Archival Potting Soil and re-stamped onto a post-it note to use as a mask, cut out the mask and stuck it to cover the image. Inked up one of the wings from the Dance A5 set and stamped the first one and then moved the same stamp over slightly and stamped again.  Leaving the mask in place I stamped the flourish from the Borders A5 set.  

I then used the Swirl 6x6 Mask and using cut and dry sponge applied Rusty Hinge Distress Ink, I also coloured the Gibson Girl's dress with the same sponge.  I used the Calligraphy Mat 11 again in Archival to add to the background and the Flourish from the Swirls, Splats and Dots Mat.

I finished it all off with a bit of Rusty Hinge around the edge of the card and the Kisses stamp is from Grungy Greetings and was done on a separate piece to add an extra bit of dimension.

Don't forget you still have time to add a project to the challenge. 

Debs

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)

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Dylusions Paints

Grid Background

Dots Background

Decay Journaling Stamps

Dance

Time and Keys

Words Mask

Swirls Mask

Altered CD by Gemma Hynes

Hi All

So this is my very first post for The Artistic Stamper Creative team. I was honoured to be invited to create along side such a  talented group of people and needless to say there was a lot of jumping around when I got home and shared the news with my partner.

I have always loved music and have collected just a few CDs, Recently I started to add them all to the laptop. Leaving me with lots of now useless disk's, that I could not possibly just put in the bin. So after some very good suggestions from people, I decided to paint them.

 To start I coated them with a layer of Gesso. Over that I used Dylusion's Squeezed Orange and Fresh Lime paints which I applied with a brayer. Using Squeezed Orange  I stamped over the top with the Grid Background

On a stamping block I arranged all the words from the Dance stamp set and stamped over the CD repeatedly to cover the whole disk. I heat embossed this using a clear embossing powder.

On a small piece of card that I had painted earlier with the left over orange paint. I stamped the Dots background in a couple of places, after I stamped the clock face twice to cover the hole in the disk both sides of the CD. To finish off I stamped and embossed the dancer from the dance stamp set and doodled with both a black and white pens.

Thanks for reading,
Gem (inkykitty) xxx

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Dance A5© Sioux Jenneys

Tick Tock A5

Grid Background

Dots Background

Dylusions paints

Embossing powders

Dance Tag by Alison

Hello Stampers! I have a little painty tag to share with you today.

Here's what I used...

The Artistic Stamper Sioux Jenneys Stamps - Dance A5

The Artistic Stamper Stamps - Borders A6

Dylusions Stamps - Say What You Mean

Manila Tag size 8

White Smoothy Card

Fresco Finish Paint - Bora Bora, London Bus & Snowflake

Uniball Signo White Pen

White Rayon Seam Binding

Jet Black Archival Ink

Glossy Accents

Jump Ring

Brayer

Heat Gun

Charm

And this is how I made my tag...

I gave my tag a base coat of Snowflake Fresco paint, using a brayer. I brayered on some Bora Bora, dried with a heat gun, applied some London Bus, drying again, then finished with a little Snowflake to tone down the colours.

I stamped the larger dots from the Borders set along the bottom edge with archival ink. I inked up just a small part of the tiny dot border, & stamped my background. I used the white pen to highlight some of the tiny dots, then edged the tag with archival ink.

I stamped the dancer onto white card, coloured her with watered down London Bus Fresco, cut her out & glued her to the tag with glossy accents.

I stamped the Dylusions phrase onto white card, cut it out & used glossy accents to glue it to the tag.

I coloured some seam binding with watered down London Bus Fresco, tied it to the top of my tag, then finished with a jump ring and charm.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xxx

Coz I luv U...

Hello messarounders, this is Titbelsoeur here showing you my very last card, with lots of love !
 

This love quote, stamped on a paper mat, should disconcert you... yes, you are not used to see me doing shabby things with lace and wet-eyed kitten pictures...
But I love to mix styles that don't fit together...
that is why I have first stamped backgrounds on a leftover page, for a grunge look :

Sequin Waste open and Dots Background :
 

 Dance Dictionary Background

And I have added this mat, stamped with lots of love from the Grungy Greetings #1 plate

But my card looked quite nude with only this stamped mat... then I stamped the spring flowers from the Encyclopaedia Botanica  plate on to a book page, I cut it out and colored it lightly with watercolor chalks :

And tadammmm, here is my love card for Spring :

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

thank you so much for stopping by, 

I am looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt,

Titbelsoeur  

 

And if you want to remind of the 70's luv songs, just pop up to my blog... ;-)

Dance to the Music by Alison (Craftytrog)

Hello Stampers! I have a painty tag to share with you today.

This tag started off when I used up some paints that were left on my craft mat after another project. There was black, white & some blue Fresco Finish paints in the mix.

I used some distress inks, picked raspberry & spiced marmalade, to ink the tag, then knocked the colours back by using a brayer to apply snowflake FF paint. After that, I sponged some bora bora FF paint through a Crafter's Workshop stencil.

Here's how it looked at this stage...

I stamped the outline dancer & the phrase from Sioux Jenney's Dance Plate, onto glossy card, using jet black archival ink, then cut them out. I stamped the dancer again, onto a Gelli print painted scrap, cut out just the tutu, then stamped the 'Dance' bodice on another scrap & cut that out too. I glued the bodice & tutu onto the dancer, then glued her to the tag with glossy accents.

I stamped the ruler from Ephemera Plate 1 down the left side of the tag, then stamped 'perfectly fitted' on the bottom edge. I added a few words from the Dance Plate, then finished off by stapling some gingham ribbon & the cut out 'Dance' phrase to the top of the tag.

I hope you like my tag,

thanks for visiting,

Alison xxx