Sunflower card by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone, today I want to show you how I have coloured this sunflower and then stamped it so that the stamp is not hidden under the paint and it is very neat, using my home-made precision press.

I have chosen the Sunflowers © Lesley Matthewson  to make my focal point
Sorry I have not taken a picture from the first step : stamp the sunflower to the paper with black archival ink and do not remove stamp nor paper from their place during the whole process.
Then, paint your image with whatever paint you choose : acrylic, watercolor...

Here is how it looks like once painted and before stamping again : 

After you stamped it again (and again if needed), you may hide the image with paper and sprinkle paint with a brush to have dots here and there.

Do not forget that you can win these fabulous stamps, just participating in our challenge 

USING STENCILS

 for 3 chances to win !

Thank you so much for stopping by.

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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Floral Fantasy ATC's by Debs

Hi Everyone

I have made some ATC's for you today.

I had quite a bit of fun with these, although they did turn out a little darker than i had hoped.

I used my collection of Distress Oxides in 8 out of the 12 colours,  I put the pad directly onto some card, and then sprayed with water, whilst wet i sprinkled with Paperartsy Infusions in Rocky Road.  

As you can see i used a lovely of selection of Artistic Stamper flower stamps, i added some background stamps on a couple of them and also added some white pen.

On some of them you can see the red from the Rocky Road Infusion peeking through the original colours.

Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as i enjoyed making them

Happy crafting 

Debs

If Friends were.........by Debs

Hi Everyone

I must say i am really enjoying playing with the new Distress Oxide inks.  They are just so lovely to use and because they are an Opaque ink, you can achieve some lovely effects.

the only problem with this card, was the fact that i was having so much fun playing that it was only when i had finished that i realised i hadn't taken any photos expect for the very first stage

The background was done with Broken China and Iced Spruce, using the wrinkle free distress method, they really do layer so nicely providing you dry between each layer.

After this layer was dry i added one of the Inspiration Jars direct to the background, and then using post it note to mask off the jar, i then stamped in Sunflowers by Lesley Matthewson then using another piece of post it and stamping with the sunflower made another mask and re-stamped the sunflowers a couple more times.  I painted the flowers using spiced marmalade and peeled paint, and kept layering and drying until i was haps with the colours.  I then lightly stamped the new Neil Walker web stamp, and edged over the top with more spiced marmalade.  Used a piece of scrap card with spiced marmalade on to stamp the phrase from the Botanicals plate.

Hope you have a crafty weekend

Take care

Debs

Sunflower Card by Gemma

I have seen some amazing entries this month. and there is still plenty of time to join in the challenge on the blog and the facebook page

I have a fun birthday card to share with you all 

Cut a piece of card to fit the card blank and spray with Dylusions ink sprays. Only half press the spray pump for limited coverage. 

Edge the card with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and glue into place pieces of washi tape. The washi tape should be different thicknesses.

Stamp five of the larger sunflowers from the sunflower stamp. Paint them with Distress Inks and add some pastels over the top for added interest.

Cut them out, shape them slightly and glue them down the centre of the card. Add a sentiment and draw a line around the edges to finish 

Thanks for reading
Gemma

Products from The Artistic Stamper

Sunflowers by Lesley

Dirty Martini Dylusion Spray

Lemon Zest Dylusion Spray

Squeezed Orange Dylusion Spray

Peeled Paint Distress Ink

Smile card By Gemma

 Hello Everyone

For this post I wanted to share a small card with you. I thought this card was ideal just to drop a note to a friend to say smile we are thinking of you. 

Being a very messy crafter I always cut a piece of card to work

 on that I can then glue to the card blank. 

To start I added a small amount of white paint to some Dylusions Squeezed Orange and painted a layer over the card. I then placed three small amounts of the same paint onto my craft mat and added the tiniest amount of black paint to the first pile and an even tinnier amount to the second, the third I left as it was. With these paints I stamped the lace background over the card and sponged through the dot mask.

Once dry, which took no time at all, I stamped Lesleys sunflower stamp, so only a small section of the flower showed at the top and although more of the stamp can be seen at the bottom it still over hangs the card. 

I added the word smile from the framed words set and painted the flowers in using a mixture of the three paints, Orange, Black and white. Once it was totally dry I went around everything with a black pen and drew a wonky frame around the edge before gluing it in place on the card blank. 

Thank you for reading

Gemma

Products Used From The Artistic Stamper

Sunflowers By Lesley Matthewson

Lace Background Stamp

Framed Words 1

Random Dot Mask

Squeezed Orange Dylusions Paint