Steampunk art journal page by Titbelsoeur

Hi there,

The background of the art journal page I want to share with you today was inspired by Maremi, a Polish artist. 

Once the background done, I have stamped the Gears Background and Watches background on the edges with 2 different inks, black and white.

Then I have stamped 4 steampunk images on to white drawing paper, and I have decided to keep these images black & white to bring them out :

Round the World

Phineas Pinchbeck

Winged Wheel
Girl with clock

Would you like to win these fabulous stamps ? Easy : just participate in our challenge "Steampunked" for 3 chances to win !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog

or on  the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page 

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Distress Birthday Card by Debs

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all enjoying this months challenge, I know I am.

I started this card believe it or not with a piece of gold card - the gold card i used wasn't quite mirri board, but that works equally well with this technique

Emboss - i used a Tim Holtz embossing folder but any will do.  Then the fun starts

Cover with dark paint as i had used a gold background i opted for Ground Espresso Distress Paint.  If i had used Silver Mirri board i would have used black paint or black gesso.  Work the paint into all of the grooves with your finger

When you are happy with the coverage get a piece of kitchen roll and wipe the paint off - yes really!!

Once you have wiped the paint off this is what you are left with

Here is a piece of the original card next to the painted and embossed piece as you can see its completely changed the colour and texture of the card, i promise it really was the same piece.

I used two more pieces one i just wiped over with the Ground Espresso Paint but guess what I forgot to take the photo of that one!!  This one i wiped the paint on and then with a piece of scrunched up kitchen roll dabbed it into the paint and got this lovely stippled texture.

I distressed all of the edges with a distress tool and inked up with Ground Espresso Distress ink  I also painted a couple of pieces of white card with Shabby Shutters Distress Paint and stamped one piece with the Phineas Pinchbeck Stamp and Happy Birthday from the Grungy Greatings plate twice onto another and again edged the same way. 

Then mounted all of the layers together with foam tape stuck to a cream card again edged with Distress Ink.

Looking forward to seeing your creations on here and on Facebook and don't forget to let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

Happy Creating 

Debs x

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

Can I interest you in...

Hello all, Alison (butterfly) here with a mischievous little trio of ATCs... each of them attempting to entice you into a purchase you didn't even know you wanted!  I love these Artistic Stamper Steampunk stamps - they're like a little touch of time-travel, which regulars at Words and Pictures will know is something I yearn for.

There's the frankly malevolent-looking Phineas Pinchbeck, offering up his clocks to the satirically appropriate clients.

Master Squaretoe's Continuous Lunch sounds just the ticket for a queasy stomach (in the sense of you ending up with one, rather than it being a cure!).

And for the proud possessors of Luxuriant Moustaches, you won't want to be without Professor Barber's patent pomade.

The ATCs themselves are pretty simple, as I think these advertising images pretty much sell themselves.  I started with some ink on the craft mat - Pumice Stone, a hint of Vintage Photo and a few spritzes of Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls spray, which adds a lovely metallic touch.

I stamped the images in Jet Black Archival, and used a blending tool to add plenty more Vintage Photo.  I also stamped the Artistic Stamper Mini Polka Dot Background in Sepia Archival.

There are some Tim Holtz Remnant Rub flourishes around the edges, and a dusting of gesso for some extra highlighting and texture.

And finally each of our tempters got his own little bit of metal embellishing: a clock for the Professor...

... some gears to keep the digestive system churning for the duration of the Continuous Lunch...

... and Mr Pinchbeck clearly deserves to be labelled Unique with an Idea-ology Muse Token.

So that's my historical advertising trio for you today.  Hope you don't get tempted into anything unwise!  Mind you, there's still a week to join our In The Garden challenge and while you don't have to use Artistic Stamper stamps to join in, if you do you get two entries into the draw... so you might want to go stamp shopping!!  Thanks so much for stopping by, and I'll see you again soon.

Ingredients used:

Artistic Stamper stamps - Phineas Pinchbeck, Squaretoe's Continuous Lunch, Goose Grease, Mini Polka Dot Background

Idea-ology Remnant Rubs Elements

Idea-ology Muse Tokens

Distress Inks - Pumice Stone, Vintage Photo

Perfect Pearls Mist - Heirloom Gold

Gesso 

Altered bottle by Titbelsoeur

This is a small (approx. 15 cm high) altered bottle I chose to show you today. It comes from the Ukraine and in a former life it contained spicy vodka !
Today it is prominently exposed on my dresser, after a little refreshing ;-)

I started with a slight coat of gesso all over the bottle, but not regularly applied to obtain a crackled aspect.
After dried, I poured some liquid inks (Distress and other) on the gesso and mixed them with my fingers.
The Phineas Pinchbeck stamp was the exact size to replace the original label :

I stamped it with archival ink on a junk kraft envelope, cut it out and glued it on the bottle.

And it was soooo pleasant to take pictures in the back yard !!!

I hope you like my tiny bottle,

Thanks for stopping by, I am really looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur

The Good Old Days by Alison Bomber

Hello everyone, Alison (butterfly) here for my final post as Guest Designer this month with The Artistic Stamper.

So, I promised you something simpler for my final piece (in the hope of writing a post shorter than War and Peace for once)... and I did make something simpler, but I ended up making it in two different versions!

I knew I wanted to work with the glorious Victorian advertising bills - they are so much fun: fantastically detailed in their wording, with brilliant cartoons.  They are simply wonderful pieces of print ephemera that rocket me back in time when I look at them.

So my first thought was that I wanted to stick them on a wall; a grimy, crumbling wall in a forgotten alleyway, with these three ancient posters still clinging on.  So I had to create a wall background... lots of ways to do that - you could use the Decorative Strip Die by Sizzix, or some texture paste through a stencil.  I used an embossing folder, Tim Holtz's Bricked Texture Fade on a large tag (running it through twice to emboss the whole thing).

Then I set about it with some inks - Vintage Photo, Pumice Stone, Black Soot and Aged Mahogany - until I had a suitably grungy look.  I used the Paper Distresser on the edges, and then ran the Black Soot DI pad around them to give it a good strong inky edging.

For the posters themselves, I did a bit of TH's wrinkle free distress technique using Old Paper and Antique Linen DIs - not too much ink, as I wanted age spots rather than a complete change of colour.  (I'd already done one version with darker inks, very beautiful, but once I'd stamped the images, they didn't really look like posters.)

So with this new, paler version, I stamped the three adverts in Black Archival, and then did lots of distressing - ripping, rolling, using the TH paper distresser, and adding Vintage Photo to some of the tears and creases.  It's one of my favourite things to be able to age a piece of paper like this!

Simple enough then to stick the bills on the wall (hope I don't get prosecuted), all in a row, and add some trimmings.  And you can read what you like about Victorian society into those trimmings: it's raffia, inky twine and some leather all tied up with a beautiful shiny satin black ribbon.

I was pretty pleased with that, but I still had those spare stamped images still sitting on my desk, stamped on the darker inky paper (two sets in fact, safety in numbers you know).  I started shuffling them around, thinking that they'd look pretty good in a slightly grungier version of the tag.

I grabbed some corrugated card, and added Distress Stains and thick Gesso to it randomly and roughly.  I created a background like this for a recent project and really liked it, so it was fun to resurrect it.  It creates a fantastically grungy, textural mess - no other word for it really.

I gave my three posters the distressing treatment again, and started positioning them on the tag.  They seemed to want to go in the other direction for this one, so I let them.

It was crying out for some metalwork, but I didn't want to go too smart, so I used some black alcohol ink to grunge up a key and some pen nibs from my stash, as well as an Idea-ology clock.

I particularly love how the clock looks, with the black face and the figures sanded back to reveal the gold underneath.

I've always sort of thought that I was born in the wrong century, and I'd love to go back in time and visit, but looking at these images did just make me wonder whether my historical glasses are a little rose-tinted... were they really the "good old days"?

So I added a little slogan at the bottom asking just that question... stamped in black on paper inked to match the advertisements.

Again, I added some varied trimmings: string, raffia and some black paper string to tie them together.  So there are my two variations on a theme using these fabulous little stamps, and I think I've brought it in under the 10,000 word mark!

I'd like to say a huge thank you to Jennie and Emma for having me here - I've had a ball; and thank you also to the rest of the DT and all of you for your fantastic support.  Happy Crafting!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Goose Grease, Phineas Pinchbeck and Squaretoes Continuous Lunch
Distress Inks: Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany, Pumice Stone, Black Soot
Distress Stains: Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Old Paper, Antique Linen
Ranger Archival: Black
Alcohol Inks: Pitch Black
Gesso
Idea-ology: Time Pieces, Game Spinners
Decorative Strip Die Brick Wall (as an alternative to Bricked Texture Fade)
Tim Holtz Paper Distresser
Manila Tags

Happy Halloween by Emma

Hi everyone! Once again, time has flown by and it's already that time of the month for me to share my first piece with you all and I really hope you like it!

Here's how I created the piece...

Firstly, I used Tim's faux metal riveted technique that he used for his September tag, in the 12 tags of 2012 series and covered a Manila tag. I then covered the tag with Hazelnut, Eggplant and Gold Mixative Alcohol Inks before sanding the surface.

Next, I used the Tim Holtz Gadget Gears Alteration Die to die cut some chipboard which I then painted with the gold Adirondack Paint Dabber. Once the paint was dry, I applied the black paint dabber over the top and then, gently wiped away some of the paint. I then die cut the '31' from the Gothic Boo die and applied black paint over the numerals, before brushing the edges with gold paint.

Next, I blended a piece of white card with Old Paper Distress Ink, added Black Soot around the edges and distressed the paper slightly. I then stamped the image of Phineas Pinchbeck onto the card and I also stamped the Happy Halloween Ticket from Tim's Odds and Ends Stamp set.

I added all the die cut and stamped elements onto my tag, together with the a piece of the Film Strip Ribbon, attached with the Tiny Attacher and some Sprocket Gears, with the Game Spinners attached to the centre.

Finally, I added Glossy Accents onto the clock on the stamped image and threaded seam binding through the top of the tag and tied it into a bow.

Here's a list of what I used:

Phineas Pinchbeck Stamp

Adirondack Black and Gold Paint Dabber

Alcohol Inks

Antique Linen

Tim Holtz ~ Odds and Ends Stamp

Sizzix Tim Holtz ~ Gothic Boo Alterations Dies

Idea-ology Findings

Manila Tag

Glossy Accents

Thank you for stopping by to take a look at my little tag and I can't wait to read all your comments!

That's it from me for now but I'll see you all again, soon!

Emma x