Finnbair inspired Butterfly By Dee

Hi everyone Dee here with you today kicking of the New Year on the Artistic Stamper Team Blog!

I am a great fan of Finnabair's work and have always wanted to try a canvas

 inspired by her work.

The canvas was made by firstly putting embossing paste through The Artistic Stamper

Swirl mask, and allowing it to dry.

I used Neil Walkers butterfly stamp for the main focal piece this 

was made by triple embossing into gold embossing powder.

This was then coloured with alcohol inks once the stamp had

been triple embossed.

The centre piece had crystal gems stuck on to form the body of 

the butterfly. 

The main canvas once dry was painted with Gesso then fresco sage paint

& various colours were used to paint the background. Then

A mix of metallic paints and spray was used to paint 

over the background.

Well that's it from me for today folks please feel free to ask any 

questions if you have any. There is a product list below

Thanks for dropping by and wishing you all

A Happy New Year!

Dee X 

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper products used :- Swirl Mask, Neil Walkers Butterfly stamp.
2. Fresco Finish paints :- Chalk, blue oyster & sage.
3. Dylusion sprays in lime and chopped pesto 

Post Card from Maida.Hill

Hi everyone hope you are all well. Today I am bringing to you a 

project using the lovely Carte Postale plate from the 

Artistic Stamper 

I also used the butterflies from the insects & butterflies plate and the small

 clock from the tick tock plate.

Firstly I coloured a lightweight card with distress inks in 

scattered straw, antique linen with a bit of

Vintage photo.

I die cut a piece of thicker card with Tim Holtz on the edge die torn notebook.

I coloured a second piece with the same colours and edged

 with black soot distress ink.

I stamped the post card stamp onto the lighter card in versafine onyx black

and clear embossed it 

Next I stamped the script from the carte postal stamp in 

vintage photo.

I knocked it back a bit with a baby wipe.

The clock face was stamped onto distress coloured card 

and clear embossed the butterflies were stamped in 

chipped Sapphire distress inks and clear embossed

then gently sprayed with mica spray. 

The post marks were triple embossed with gold embossing powder,

and then cut out and fixed. 

Finally I added a brass clock to sit over the clock face, a final sweep

with black soot distress ink, a keyhole and key 

glued it all onto black card to 

complete the project.

Thank you for stopping by hope this project inspires you to 

dig out your distress inks and have a play.

Have a great day!

Cheers Dee x

Measured Time.

Hi Everyone Dee here again with my passion clocks, this is actually 

a two piece blog as it started out as a tag and I wasn't 

happy with it but loved the colours, So it developed

 into two pieces. So here it is

 Part 1

I love paint splats and had seen a lovely tag that just had paint or ink 

splats on it & was very effective. So I started by flicking 

water colour paint across the tag.

I wasn't happy with this so I got my distress inks out and blended 

spiced marmalade and broken china across the tag.

I stamped the numbers from the Numerical plate in fired brick distress ink,

down one side and at the bottom of the Tag. 

I stamped the Tape measure from the Ephemera Plate down the bottom in 

black versa fine and clear embossed, I also stamped it on the opposite

 side to the numbers and gold embossed it. 

The centre was stamped with the Clock of the Tick Tock plate and 

gold embossed. I stamped the graph  paper stamp in dove grey 

so it only hinted that it was there.

Texture crackle paste was put through the Artistic stamper mask The large

splat & swirl at the top and the bottle top at the bottom.

I then cut the top third of the Tag off.

On scrap card coloured with distress inks I stamped clocks from

The Time and keys plate also the tick tock 

plate I cut them out.

I then layered the clocks and embossed some of the edges with

gold and placed others on top.

I placed glass embellishments on them, along with cogs

and I also used distress crackle paint rock candy

on one of the faces. of coarse a little bit

of gilding wax, to highlight.

I backed it all onto black card. I hope you like this piece 

and come back to view part two. Please feel free to 

let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x