Winner of February's Creative Challenge

Hi!
A BIG thank you to everyone who joined in last month's Creative Challenge. We had lots of gorgeous artwork, and it is always so hard to choose, so we use Mr. Random.org to pick a winner.
Congratulations to

Crafty Effusions for this lovely piece

Please email me claim your prize.

Do check out our March Creative Challenge as we have changed the rules a little bit, and have added the challenge to Facebook too for those of you who don't have a blog, or like to enter challenges.
All the details are here

We look forward to seeing your artwork.
Have a creative month
Jennie

Creative Challenge March 2016- Springtime

Hello!
Welcome to our monthly blog challenge!
A big thank you to everyone who joined in last month's challenge. We had lots of fabulous entries and I will be announcing the winner of February's challenge in the next couple of days.


We have decided to change the way the Creative Challenge is run, and we have implemented several new things!
Please read below, so you know what is happening!

This month the challenge theme is Springtime.

You can interpret it any way you like, as long as there is rubber stamping in it.

To join in with this challenge (we are limiting the challenge entries to 3 per person), 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 a stamp of their choice from The Artistic Stamper . 

In addition,  starting this month,  you can enter the same challenge on Facebook!  

To join us on just go to our new Facebook group, and send us a request to join in. 
There will be a prize for the Facebook challenge, as well as the blog challenge!

And don't forget....if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will entered into the draw, twice!

Here is a little bit of creativity for you from the Creative Team to help you get started....

Gemma

I hope you are ready to join me and my team mates for a new challenge. 

Springtime always makes me think of butterflies. 

I used butterflies from  butterflies #2 to create this accordion book, along with some other bits and bobs, Head over to my blog if you would like to know more.

Titbelsoeur :

Let us use another sardine can and fill it with a bicycle and flowers...

I used Debbie Cotton's bicycle and flowers, and the butterfly from the Encyclopedia Botanica from the Floral stamps. More details on my blog

Jennie

I created this card with tag holder using just Distress inks in Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber and Lucky Clover. I used one of the Gibson Girls, and the 2 new Floral backgrounds , stamping them in Black Archival.

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

Have a creative month

Jennie

An InLinkz Link-up

Hearts Canvas by Gemma

 Hi Everyone

February is over and it is my last chance to use as many hearts as I possibly can for another year. So this time I painted a 12x12 inches square canvas.

After covering the canvas with gesso, I painted the whole canvas with two different shades of green fresco finish paint. I used Teresa Green and Granny Smith. I then stamped over top with the darker shade of green (Granny Smith) using  Calligraphy mat 11. When I was stamping I made sure to cover the whole canvas but stamped two or three time before applying more paint to the stamp as I wanted some areas to be more faded than others.

 I used both Haystack and Chalk fresco finish paints and the dots from the swirls, splats and dots plate, to add the circles to the canvas. I love how imperfect they are, areas where you can see the paint has splodges or areas that were missed.  

The hearts are wooden and just something I had floating about in the crafty stash. I covered them with gesso and then with the Haystack fresco finish paint. I really should have added a second layer of gesso because as time has gone on I have noticed areas where the wood is still visible. Then I stamped on the top of them using Tango fresco finish and the dots background stamp.
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After edging the hearts with the same Tango paint I glued them in place using Cosmic shimmer acrylic glue. Then with a black stabilo pencil I added a boarder, some stems and some grass, so the hearts are a little like flowers. To finish I added the word love from the words mask.

Thank you for reading, taking part in the challenges and commenting. Me and my Team mates really appreciate it.

Gemma (inkykitty)

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Dots Background

Swirls, Splats and Dots Stamp Plate

Words Mask

Fresco Finish Paints

Heart Journal page Tutorial by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

Today, I am sharing with you an art journal page and its tutorial.

I've used many Artistic stamper Decay stamps to create the background on this page!

here are the step by step photos...

I stamped squares and rectangles from Decay Journaling Stamp set #2 with Jet blck archival ink. Fussy cut them and adhered them on surface to my satisfaction.

I applied mustered seed distress paint and spritzed water to spread it. I dried it with heat tool. And next I used decay numbers stamps with black archival ink to get more texture.
I also used Calligraphy Mat 3 stamp for text on my background.

For more texture I used stencil and gold embossing paste.

I cut out heart and stamped on it with heart background stamp and Calligraphy mat #13 and Coffee archival ink. Applied Fired brick distress paint on it and spritzed water. Let it dry.

I attached the heart on the texture background and my page was ready? Are you liking it !

You have 4 more days to participate in our this month's challenge - "Theme- Heart"

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Products used from Artistic Stamper:
Decay stamps
Calligraphy Mat 3 stamp
Calligraphy Mat #13
Heart Background stamp
Distress Paints- Mustred seed, Fired brick
Ranger Archival inks - Coffee, Jet black

HeArt Art with a twist

Hi All

So we have got Valentines Day out of the way, and unless we are making cards etc for loved ones or the occasional wedding.  I know i tend not to bother too much about hearts.  However, we all like extra usage out of our stamps so here is alternative use, which I am sure some or all of you will have already thought of  - turn hearts into petals and make up a flower.

This was quite a simple canvas and came from an idea about using the three colours of Distress Paint which were sitting on my desk! Weathered Wood, Frayed Burlap and Victorian Velvet.  The three colours are all quite muted colours and as paints personally come into their own, working really well with each other.

I started off with a 12 x 12 canvas and added grunge paste through The Artistic Stamper Chevron 6x6 and Large Dot 6x6 Mask with Grunge Paste  

Whilst i was waiting for the Grunge past to dry I stamped 8 of the large hearts from the Roses are Red Plate with Black Archival Ink onto Tim Holtz Grunge Paper

And then cut them out and painted with a quick coat of Gesso not quite sure why as I didn't really need to!!

And also stamped the Chinese Background stamp onto a piece of beige tissue paper again with Archival

Then painted stripes in Weathered Wood and Frayed Burlap overlapping as i went across

Whilst waiting for the stripes to dry I painted all of the hearts with the Victorian Velvet.  The paint comes out a beautiful dusky pink, far less muted than the Distress Ink

I then stamped each heart with the Dots Background A6 stamp using Victorian Velvet Distress Ink

I also went around the outside edge of each heart with Ground Espresso Ink

Using the Dots Background again i added some Victorian velvet paint and stamped some random dots directly onto the canvas, and also added some bottle top marks from the lids of the three colours

Ripped up pieces of the tissue I had stamped with Chinese script and added that to the canvas using Prima Soft Matt Gel

And added the heart petals to make the flower using Prima 3D Matt Gel This gel is absolutely amazing.  You can use it through stencil or as an ordinary glue however if you put a dollop of it onto a project it will stay raised so that you can add dimension really easily.  Plus it adheres pretty much everything including metal and it dries really quickly.  You do have time to move it but you do need to be quite quick if you do.

I stamped the lovely flourish from the Swirls Splats and Dots Plate onto white white tissue and carefully tore around the edge.  I also stamped Follow your dreams from  Journaling Words #1 onto a bit more of the beige tissue and added it onto a piece of cardboard and painted in Weathered Wood and Frayed Burlap but when mounting ensured the colours were the opposite of underneath!  Stuck down the tissue with the soft matt gel 

I made three smaller hearts and coloured the same as the large ones however, this time i used Ground Espresso Ink to add the dots as well as to edge

Added a metal embellishment and a glass bead from my stash and there it is!

As always do let me know your thoughts good and bad, and don't forget to add your project to the blog, we do enjoy seeing what you have produced and you still have a few more days to go.

Happy Crafting Debs

Bubbles & Fish

Hi everyone Dee here with a couple of altered beer mats. Looking at 

the photos it looks a bit dark but it actually is quite pale.

Firstly I put texture paste through a stencil when dry covered 

it in a coat of gesso or thick cream paint if you don't 

have gesso.

Next I used the paint in pale blue, green, pink violet & orange.

Spritz each colour as you apply it drying in-between. 

Once happy with the result stamp the random dots from the boarders plate 

& the 3 large circles from swirls splats and dots plate in black

 archival ink. Colour the dots on the small open dots images with a

white gel pen and the large circles use gesso to colour.

take a fine black pitt pen and scribble a zigzag line round the larger circles.

To finish the effect apply the Black Soot Distress Spray and

activate with water. 

Stamp the fish image from the sea side 1 plate on white card and cut in half.

use the glitter paste see below around the edges. Also use it through 

the circle stencil, along with crackle paste colour with

a silver wax.

Swipe the edges with silver once finished.

That's it for today folks I hope

you enjoyed it.

Cheers Dee x

Products Used

1. The Artistic stamper stamps:-Borders A6#2, Swirls Splats and Dots, Seaside No. 1 # 018.
2. Stencil 6 x 6" - Cobbles, A various sized circle stencil.
3. Any Acrylic paint spritzed with water so it becomes translucent.
4. Modelling paste
5. Black soot distress stain spray.
6. White gel pen or sharpie.
7. Crystal Stickles/ clear 3D gel with glitter mixed through it to create a glitter paste.
8. White Gesso and crackle paste.

A whole village... by Titbelsoeur

Hi everyone, Titbelsoeur here showing you how to build a whole village and have it all gather into a sardine can. Would you believe it ?
You should.
Because it is possible !
Just follow my step-by-step :

First, you want to gather all of your gelli print leftovers and stamp your houses from Kat's creations

and cut them out

On the bottom of the can, just cut out another print and glue it on

and on the back, you may glue a map :

then you glue a piece of cardboard and glue your first two houses

and so on and so on, house, cardboard, house, cardboard... until your village is complete :

add some grass from the Gardening Garden #2 set :

Stamped and cut the text out, then glued it on the top

and houses on both sides

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated, 

here, on my blog, or on the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page.

Do not forget to participate in our monthly challenge

@ February Creative Challenge - HeART Art

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

To build this village, I was inspired by a Jessica Sporn's workshop

Titbelsoeur

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