A Starry Christmas by Alison Hall

Hello Stampers!

I couldn't resist using that faux dichroic glass technique again. This time I used it on a couple of wooden stars.

Ingredients...

2 Wooden Stars

The Artistic Stamper Stamps - Greetings and Words

Viva Croco Crackling Colour - Silver or Gold

Ranger Alcohol Ink - Sailboat Blue & Purple Twilight

Clear Embossing Enamel - Ultra Thick

Versamark Embossing Ink

Book Paper

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint - Snowflake

Distress Ink - Black Soot

Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents

Clear Crushed Glass Glitter

Tinsel Twine - Silver 

2 Adhesive Gems

Instructions...

1. I started by applying Viva Croco to the stars, then left them for 24 hours, to dry and crackle.

2. I then used a felt applicator to apply the two colours of alcohol ink all over the stars, front, back and sides.

3. I applied Versamark Ink to the crackled surface, then dipped it into clear ultra thick embossing enamel. I added a couple of layers.

4. I lightly painted the book paper with Snowflake paint, then stamped the words. The word 'Wishes' comes from the greeting 'Best Wishes', I just cut out the word I wanted. I inked the edges of the words with Black Soot Distress Ink.

5. I reheated the embossed stars, and used a cocktail stick to push the words into the molten enamel. I sprinkled more clear powder on top & melted it with my heat gun.

6. I applied Glossy Accents to the edges of the stars, and dipped them into some glass glitter. This took about 24 hours to dry thoroughly.

7. I finished my stars off with an adhesive gem and some silver tinsel twine.

I hope this inspires you to have a go at this fabulous technique.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison x

Waiting for Christmas...

Hi there, this is Titbelsoeur today !
I love to use books for home deco, especially for Christmas. Do you remember my Nativity scene in a book from last year (here) ?

Here is a foretaste : little card, season's greetings from Christmas Greetings # 1 on a pinecone :

Then I divided my book on 3 thirds, stamped a Best wishes quote from the same Christmas Greetings # 1  set and glued it with a Christmas image on the last page of the 1st third :

then glued a Girl by Fireplace  card on the first page on the 3rd third of the book :

the 2nd third was folded to make a pine tree, you will see how I did it here (tried to find a short video for you), and here it is :

And, as a bonus, here is my last experiment of the year : how to embellish basic baubles with Artistic Stamper's stamps ?
Just stamping some snowflakes with white acrylic paint ! I am not very gifted at such practicals, but I couldn't resist to give you the idea !

I hope my experiments will inspire you and I am looking forward to reading your comments !

Thank you for visiting, à tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur

A Trio Of Christmas Tags

Hi hope you are all well, and have done all your Christmas prep! Craft work aside 

I tend to be last minute dot com when it comes to Christmas.

Today I bring you three tags from the Artistic Stamper's

Christmas selection of stamps.

My products used are

Distress inks faded jeans, wild honey, spiced marmalade, aged mahogany, fired brick & walnut stain

Distress stains in Fired brick, Dylusions spray in tangerine dream, cherry pie, pomegranate seed  & ground coffee. Deco art multi medium gloss & media crackle glaze. wooden snowflakes, glass beads, black Fimo clay,

Crafty notion guiding flakes in Autumn gold, craft card (mine is the back of a box of Pepsi packaging),  

3 x tags, black card. 

Artistic Stamper stamps are The snowflake's, Victorian Christmas 2, mini Christmas 2, Victorian Christmas 1 & Christmas greetings.

So here we go

Firstly I coloured the three tags with blending wild honey, spiced marmalade & 

aged mahogany distress ink onto the tags. 

I then stamped the snowflakes and the merry christmas on to them with fired brick and chipped sapphire. I covered the tag in gloss multi medium and pressed them all against each 

other to create a texture into the medium.

 I then sprinkled glass beads onto them and also crafty notions guilding flakes, and allowed to dry

once dry I sprayed each tag with the delusions sprays and allowed to dry.

Tag 1

For this tag I used the snow flake stamp,  the season greetings from the Victorian 2, 

 and the little girl at the fireplace from the mini Christmas plate. I stamped them in 

black archival onto craft card tags. The wooden snowflake coloured with distress

 ink and coated in media crackle glaze. The top star was black fimo clay stamped with the bauble pattern and a star shaped cutter was used to cut it out, once baked it was highlighted with treasure gold.

Tag 2

Father Christmas of the mini Christmas 2 plate and the snowflake stamp.

Wooden snow flake same as above merry Christmas stamped into 

black fimo clay baked and highlighted with treasure gold.

Tag 3

Same as above for snowflakes and stars stamps used were snowflake stamp, merry Christmas of the Christmas greetings and father Christmas of the Victorian Christmas plate 2. string on the tags was swiped with fired brick distress stains. All tags were glued on using my hot glue gun as had trouble fixing them on with other glues. 

they were all attached with a mini attacher to the back of Pepsi packaging which had had the sides  treated with distressing blade and then finished with walnut stain distressing ink.

I have done it again I must try to make much simpler posts with less products. Thank for popping by

and don't forget to leave a comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

Winner of November's Challenge

Hi,
A big Thank you to all of you who joined in last month's Challenge. Wow! An amazing number of entries, all of them just so creative!
Of course, I cannot pick just one winner, so with the helping hand of Mr Random.org I have picked no 40

ScrappEllen

with this very festive card.

 

 

 

Please contact me to arrange for your prize.

We hope you will join in this month's challenge which is Anything Goes.

Have a very creative day

{hugs}

Jennie

December's Creative Challenge-Anything Goes

Hi to all of our blog readers,

A BIG thank you to everyone who joined in November's  Challenge, All the entries were gorgeous.

Our new challenge for December is Anything Goes. You can interpret this anyway you like :) as long as it has rubber stamping in it.

We are  looking forward to seeing all your artwork and stamped projects that you submit in relation to this theme. To join in with this challenge (and you can join in as many times as you want), is simple; all we would like you to do is, make a piece of artwork, making sure that you include the theme and some rubber stamping. Pop back here to link up using the Inklinkz at the bottom of this post, so that we can see what you've made and then, leave us a comment to let us know you have joined in with the challenge. As always, there will be candy for one randomly picked entrant - the winner will receive £15 worth of The Artistic Stamper stamps of your choice. And don't forget....if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will entered into the draw, twice!!!! You can also enter as many times as you like!

Some of the team have created artwork for you to be inspired by....

 

Alison

I have created a cheeky little ATC for the challenge, using the stamp Saucy Girl 1.
I made it Christmassy very simply by adding a Santa hat & some words cut from a dictionary.

Shilpa

 I've used latest, Debbie Cotton Designed - Florence Flowers Seeds Stamp and created this mixed media piece. The detailed tutorial is given at my blog- Neon Diary

 

Jennie

 

I created a Christmas card. Probably the only one I will get time to do this year! I used some Graphic 45 papers for the background, and a Tim Holtz Snowflake rosette die and the words from Christmas Greetings #1

 

We hope that you will join in this month's challenge and look forward to seeing your creations. Don't forget to add a comment when you have posted your entry.

I will be back tomorrow with the winner of last month's Challenge.

Have a very creative month

{hugs}

Jennie

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Watercolor fruit cards

Hi, it's me, Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell) here for you today.

As you know I like to use stamps not in scrapbooking or cardmaking (in the classic sense).

But I like to add stamps to my watercolors.

Sometimes the work looks unfinished, but I do not know what to do ...
Then the simplest solution might be to add a background stamp.
Here's the truth!

Be sure of it )))))

Don't you think it's too simple?
And now you can see the same picture, but with a slight modification - I added two stamps.

And here's another one the same:

And with the added stamps:

I believe that you can see everything without my words and explanations)))))

By the way, here stamps that I have added:

Encyclopaedia Botanica Size A5 © Katy Fox

Have a good day ;)

Christmas ATB

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

I've another inspiration project for our this month's Christmas Challenge.. I made Christmas ATB

Artistic stamper has wonderful sets of Christmas theme stamps and here, I tried to use as many I can :)

I cut out shape for Artist trading block with white card stock and kept it flat. Distressed the edges with Barn door and Vintage photo  Distress inks.

With other five white papers , I made panels to attach onto this ATB. 

Here, you will see,  I've used Pine Tree stamp and olive Archival Ink to get the image. Before that, I applied weathered wood and Iced spruce distress inks on that white square. I also used snowflakes stamp in the background.

I created small embellishment with Cute little Christmas Tree stamp from Christmas Greetings plate, Oval glass Cabochons and Oval Charm. I adhered it on flower. It is attached at the bottom corner.

 

Here, I've used Tic Tock Christmas Baubles stamp set . I stamped wordings first with Coffee Archival Ink. On another paper, I stamped baubles with Vermillion Archival ink, fussy cut them, applied Distressinks- Barn door and vintage photo at the edges and adhered them on this panel.

I stamped the snow scene with Victorian Christmas stamp set and Jet Black Archival Ink. Poinsettias are made with Cheery lynn die and Graphic 45 papers.

This Santa image is also from Victorian Christmas Stamp set which I stamped with Coffee Archival ink.

 

This is top view of ATB

some more pictures are here....

Thanks so much for stopping by today... don't forget to join our Christmas Challenge this month to win some fab stamps from Artistic stamper.

Supplies list:

Artistic stamper Stamps- Victorian Christmas, Snowflakes, .Christmas Greetings, Tic Tock Bauble.

Ranger Archival Inks - Jet Black, Coffee 

Distress Inks- Barn door, Vintage Photo