Watercolour paint recycled to tags by Titbelsoeur

Hi there !
Let me show you how I repurpose some watercolour paints that I don't really like.

I cut 5 cm large tags from it, stamp each one with words to meet our February challenge, and tadammm :

Here they are !

The stamps I used come from the following plates :

Journaling Words 3 

Quotes & Sayings 1 by Debs Smith

Tick Tock A5

Hope it gives you inspiration to participate in our 

February Creative Challenge- Words ( and a new Surprise Prize!)

for 3 chances to win some of these fabulous
Artistic Samper stamps !

AND

 an opportunity to join our Creative Team for a month, and get to use The Artistic Stamper stamps, and be posted on this blog, and on social media.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

You may visit my folder : 

Titbelsoeur stamps @ the Artistic Stamper

I will be happy to read your comments about it !

Your comments are very much appreciated here, on my blog

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Bye for now and happy creating. 

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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

Earl's

Hi everyone hope you are all well, and feeling crafty!

Today I bring you a picture using the new stamps

 from Debbie Cotton.

I had this collage frame I covered the base in a cream 

acrylic paint and dried.

Next I used weathered wood, frayed burlap & pumice stone 

Distress paints

I put the three paints on a craft mat & spritzed with water & then

 I swept the cream painted board through the paint. I dried 

it and swept it through again and the spritzed

 the board with water, then dried with

a heat gun.

I grunge board with a Tim Holtz Die and painted with the 

fresco finish stone. Then I used the same distress

paints around the edges and a bit of 

aged mahogany then I blended

 it all with my finger.

I used the crafters workshop specimen stencil and put grunge paste through it. 

Once dried I painted the frame with Fresco's Finish french toast

& dried it. I then applied crackle glaze over the flat area's

 & allowed it to dry. I painted nougat over the top

 & applied white fire treasure gold.

I stamped the Earl's automotive stamp onto tissue paper.

And coloured it with mahogany distress paint.

I carefully cut out all the images

and stuck onto the sign

and canvas.

over the rest of the canvas at the bottom I used the A6 Boarders 

stamp and the cogs of the Tick Tock plate.

I fixed the sign with jump rings and fixed to the top

left hand side. All the stamps used here today are 

for sale at the Artistic Stamper. That's it from 

me today although I will be doing an extra 

post this month. Please feel free

 to leave a comment.

Dee x

Journey of the Butterflies by Dee

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the summer.

Today I have a tag for you.

I put grunge paste through a Tim Holtz cargo stencil to spell Fly.

Once dry I painted the tag with Fresco Finish Paints in the 

following colours Inky Pool, South Pacific,

Beach Hut, Ice blue, Hey pesto &

Guacamole. 

Once dry I stamped the flowers from Encyclopaedia Botanica down both sides

in black archival and highlighted areas with pumpkin soup and ice blue.

The newspaper print from the stamp I stamped with snowflake

down the right hand side at the bottom of the tag.

To the left hand side I stamped the squiggle line from the borders plate

 in chipped sapphire and gold embossed it. On a separate piece of card I

coloured it with distress inks in wild honey and faded jeans

I then stamped the flowers from the botanica plate,

and the butterflies from the insects and 

butterflies plate.

I triple embossed the clocks of the Tick Tock plate and cut them out.

I used a small clock face to finish this off.

Once I had cut out the butterflies and flowers and highlight areas I

 embellished the centres with sequins and beads.

Next I sprayed the butterflies with perfect pearls in Blue Patina,

Cappuccino and Heirloom gold. The wings were then

 highlighted with glossy accents.

Small beads were applied to make up the bodies of the butterflies along with

gold stickles.

The bottom was finished off with a Tim Holtz die cut painted in gold leaf.

That's all for today I hope you have all enjoyed this project . 

Please feel free to leave me comments 

Happy stamping!

Dee x

Materials used :- 

Dee Adams

Stamps Encyclopedia Botanica, Insects and butterflies, Tick Tock, Border stamp.

Fresco Finish paints, Inky pool, South Pacific, Beach Hut, Ice Blue,

Hey pesto, Guacamole, pumpkin Soup, and snow flake.

Distress inks, Faded Jeans, wild honey, glossy accents.

Perfect pearls, Blue patina, Cappuccino, Heirloom Gold.

Gold embossing powder

Running Like Clockwork by Emma

Hello everyone!! Well, it looks as if summer has finally arrived in the UK and July seems to be disappearing quicker than any month so far this year and I can't believe it's already time for me to share my first post of the month...

...and here it is, my clockwork canvas and as always, there's lots of pics to show all the detail and I really hope you like my canvas!

To begin with I used a 5" square box canvas and I added PaperArtsy Grunge Paste around the edges to give a stippled, vintage effect to the piece. I covered the front and sides of the canvas using Distress Paints in Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Weathered Wood, Metallic Antiqued Bronze and a smidge of Black Soot, which I knocked back with some Picket Fence.

I then stamped the left and right hand sides of my box canvas with black Archival Ink, using the using the cogs border stamp from the Borders A6 #2 stamp plate and then added more Distress Paint to build up the colour. On the top edge of the canvas, I used the cog stamp from the Tick Tock A5 stamp plate.

Next, I stamped random areas on the front of the canvas using the Calligraphic Mat 11. Once this was done, I started to create a smaller canvas to mount onto the larger box one, so...I used some of Claudine Hellmuth's sticky back canvas and covered a small rectangle of chipboard. I then applied Distress Paint over the top of the canvas and added Walnut Stain Distress Ink around the edges, which I frayed slightly. I then stamped Phineas Pinchbeck onto the small canvas and it gave me a distressed faded look, that I loved. I added a rub on from Tim's Elements Remnants Rubs and popped a small screw brad into the corner.

The next part was to create the cogs using Tim's Gadget Gears die from Sizzix. I stuck sticky back aluminium onto chipboard and then ran it through the die cutting machine before applying Alcohol Inks over the surface to give a coppery metallic look to the cogs.

I adhered the cogs to my background using Matte Medium before then layering my Phineas Pinchbeck canvas over the top.

Next, I added some Idea-ology Mini Gears onto my canvas, clustering them together with my chipboard cogs and some Sprocket Gears, attaching Spinners into the centres.

I then added a Muse Token which I hung from a Ring Fastener.

 On the top of the box canvas, I used a Clock Key.

Finally, to complete my piece, I filled one of the Corked Vials with old watch parts and then added a Chit Chat sticker onto the bottle.

  

So, that's it from me for this today and I hope I've inspired you with what I've created, I can't wait to read all your comments. Don't forget that we have our "Ladies Day" challenge running at the moment and we would love you all to join in. For details of the challenge, just click HERE!

See you very soon and hope you all have a great day!

Bye for now...Emma x

Up Up & Away One Last Time! By Anita Houston

Hello Artistic Stampers! Anita Houston of the Artful Maven, here one last time to bring you my last whimsical steampunkish canvas using these amazing red rubber stamps! I really have had the best time creating these three pieces (Project 1, Project 2), and have enjoyed reading all the comments and emails about them, as well as bribes to attain them ;0) !!! I do hope you didn't find them monotonous as they are very much alike, but each one has different motivational and inspirational intonations, and not only would they look well together but also apart.

I just love the quote on this sentiment stamp. It really has so much truth to it, and time flies so fast that sometimes we fail to realize the importance of the here and now.

I started by stamped the Marbled Background in Sepia Archival and heat embossing it in Ranger's Clear Embossing Powder, and did the same with the clock image from the Tick Tock  Set, except in Jet Black.

Using the swirl from the Tick Tock Set, I stamped it Snow Cap Paint Dabber, so it would resist the Ink Sprays that would soon come. I stamped the phrase from the Journaling Words 3 Set.

I sprayed a piece of tissue paper in Melted Chocolate, Pure Sunshine, and Black Marble Dylusions, then stamped the clock from the Time & Keys Set in Copper Paint Dabber. I cut it out.

I adhered the the clock face to the center of the clock, to be the sun's face.

I stamped the two smaller watch faces from the Time & Keys Set in Copper and Silver Paint Dabbers, and the larger watch face from the Watches Set in Gold Paint Dabber, all on Specialty Stamping Paper.

I gave the faces the same Dylusions treatment, and then cut them out.

I added a little bit of Wendy Vecchi's Embossing Paste to bits of corrugated kraft, that I cut to look like balloon baskets. I adhered the words "yesterday", "present", and "tomorrow" to each stamped on tissue paper, from the same sentiment stamp. I added the metal bits and chain pieces.

I die cut the butterflies from Tim's Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shapers Mini Butterflies Set, and colored each with the metallic dabbers. I adhered the gears and attached them to the watch faces.

These number paper clips were more purchases from Liberty of London, but they were a little too bright for my project, so it was metallic Alcohol Ink to the rescue. They acted as my anchors to attach the chains to the ballons and then to the baskets, each with it's respective number of importance...in my opinion.

I stamped the key from the Time & Keys Set in Gold Paint Dabber onto the corrugated kraft paper, as well as the makeshift ribbon from the Border A5 Set using Jet Black, and cut them out. Every thing got a good inking using Black Soot Distress Ink.

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you all so much again, and huge thanks to Jennie and Emma for having me this month! It has been an honor to say the least!