Xmas Lady by Sioux Jenneys

Hello everyone! It's my (Sioux) turn again and I'm here to share a card :)

1. I cut a square piece of card to fit the card front and stamped the lady from the 20's number 1 plate in Archival black the snowflakes were then stamped in Distress Ink antique linen, the edges tattered and coloured with more antique linen.

2. I stamped the lady again onto patterned papers and cut out the relevant pieces needed from 
different ones. The pieces were stuck on with glossy accents.

3. I cut a poinsettia using the Alterations die from the same papers and layered up before securing them with a flower type brad. It was attached to the card using silicone glue.

4. Stamped the Seasons Greetings from mini Christmas 1 plate in Distress Ink victorian velvet.

5. Dabs of sparkly stickles were added to the snowflakes to finish.

Well that's one more Christmas card to add to my stash :) See you again soon!

xoxo Sioux

Winner of the November challenge!

Hi,
We had the most wonderful response to our Anything goes challenge last month, with exactly 100 entries! Way to go! Thank you to everyone who entered, we loved all the creativity :)
Sadly there can only be one winner, and the prize of £15 worth of stamps goes to..... drum roll please....

KATE

 

 with this gorgeous creation.

 Congratulations, and please email me , so we can arrange your prize.
We have a great Christmas challenge this month, and all details can be found here

Have a very creative day
Hugs
Jennie

HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS...by MEL HOOKHAM

...hello everyone, I'm thrilled to bits to of been asked to join The Artistic Stamper for the month of December as their Guest Designer, how awesome is that!...I hope I do Jennie and the Team proud...

...well, I don't know about you but the theme for Christmas in my home this year is HOMEMADE, and using the wonderfully versatile Tick Tock Christmas stamps here are my designs...

...I stamped the tick tock Christmas baubles onto fine weave linen using bronze & gold embossing powder and was thrilled with the results...

 ...I added silver eyelets and natural linen jute for the tie's, it's so enjoyable to make your own gift tags... 

 ...I stamped this image on Mulberry paper with black stazon and went over the outline with a sparkly silver pen, loving this image... 

 ...using the holiday wreath die from Tim Holtz I embossed in white the tick tock image  randomly, these cute little steampunk cogs & sprockets look like new-age snowflakes, just perfect for this Christmas wreath... 

 

...and Christmas isn't Christmas without a star...for this piece I inked up a sheet of paper with the tick tock image in black stazon then ripped it up randomly into pieces...I then covered the whole star using mod podge, then when dry I went over the entire star with rock candy for a bit of festive sparkle, added the banner & a brulap bow...perfect, well thats Christmas all wrapped up for me, these tick tock stamps have given a wondeful look to my homemade makes...

...thank you so much for dropping by today I hope I have inspired you and I'll see you again later in the month...

xxx

December Challenge ~ Home For Christmas

Hi everyone!

Another month has flown by and it's the start of a brand new challenge ~ so, welcome to a new month at The Artistic Stamper and we really hope you'll join in!!

Firstly, we would like to say thank you to everyone for all your fabulous entries that you submitted in last month's Anything Goes challenge. We had so many wonderful creative pieces from you all and were overwhelmed with the amount of entries we received. We will be announcing one very lucky winner in the next few days, so make sure you check back to see if it's you!!

During November, we had the pleasure of having the very talented Joanna King join us as our Guest Designer and on behalf of the team, Jennie and I would like to say a big thank you to Joanna, for all her hard work and for the stunning creations that she made and shared with us. In December, we're saying hello to the very lovely and extremely talented Mel Hookham, as our Guest Designer, and we're really looking forward to seeing all her gorgeous artwork, here on the blog.

The new challenge for December is HOME FOR CHRISTMAS and the whole team are looking forward to seeing all the wonderful and varied creations that you submit. To join in with this challenge is simple; make a piece of artwork, making sure that you include the theme and some rubberstamping. Pop back here to link up using the Froggy 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 plus the Kling On to mount them onto. And don't forget....if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will entered into the draw, twice!!!!

If you do need any inspiration, then look no further than a couple of our Creative Team's stunning creations for this month's challenge.

Sioux decided to make an amazing quadruple ATC display.

Making a background with Dylusions in vibrant turquoise, lemon zest and London blue 

Stamps used: Mini Christmas 1 plate

Crowning Glory

Home Sweet Home A5 plate

Mini Journaling Words 1

Jennie has made a wreath for Christmas... what door isn't complete without one?

 Ink a tag using red and gold Distress Stains. Die cut Tim's Holiday Wreath, and simply add shades of Green Distress ink, with a slight dab of a metallic Distress stain. Add red stickles for berries, and a Merry Christmas stamp.

We hope you will join in with this month's challenge and we're really looking forward to seeing your interpretation of our theme and all your amazing creations and artwork. Please, don't forget to add a comment when you post your entry.

I hope you all have a happy and very creative month.

See you soon...

Emma x

Timeless Twenties... by Joanna King

I can't believe it's already time for my final post as the November's Guest Designer at The Artistic Stamper... Where has November gone???

Before I share my final project, I would like to say a big 'thank you' to Jennie and the Creative Team for inviting me to share this fabulous Artistic Stamper adventure. Another big 'thank you' to Emma, for all her help and hard work to make this adventure so much fun! And I mustn't forget about You lovely crafters - for leaving such wonderful comments on my previous projects :).

Today I have an altered shadow box/frame to share. The stamps I used are from Twenties #1 A5 plate, Lacy Border and the sentiment is from the Time and Keys set.

I started my project by painting the frame with a few coats of matt emulsion paint. Then, using the Coffee Archival ink, I stamped the Lacy Border on each side. If you stamp the pattern by hand without a stamping block, you can control the amount of pressure you apply. This way you can easily create a worn, distressed look by leaving parts of the image unstamped :).

The front and the inner part of the frame were decorated with printed napkins. Napkin art is my fave technique at the moment :).

Then I stamped the lovely Twenties Ladies and the sentiment onto patterned papers and coloured them subtly with chalk pencils. The peacock feather was highlighted with metallic markers.

Before I sealed the background image within the box, I added some highlights with Stampendous glitter and colour fragments around the glass and the inner frame. And I also added some crushed glass glitter to turn my shadow box into a shaker box :).

To decorate the front I used a couple of peacock feathers and a moulded flower I made from embossing enamels and UTEE.

I hope you like this last project from me and I have really enjoyed sharing inspiration here with you. I hope you will still pop over to my Creative Spell to say 'hello' from time to time :).

Big hugs

Let it Snow...

Hello everyone, Astrid here with my second project for November.

I seem to have fallen in love with the colours blue and brown, not exactly traditional for Christmas projects, but for some reason I can't seem to get away from them.....
For my second project this month  I decided to make a piece of Christmas wall art.
I used the following stamps for my project:
Mini Christmas 1
Christmas Greetings 1 and
Music# 011
I started by taking a piece of 5.5 by 4" smooth white card and coloured it by putting some Distress Stains in Tarnished Brass, Bundles Sage and Picket Fence on my craft sheet and swiping my card stock through it several times. I then coloured it further  with some  Distress Inks in Chipped Sapphire, Vintage Photo and Scattered Straw. I  crumpled it all up, roughly flattened it again and then dried it with my heatgun. I then ran it through an embossing folder from my stash and darkened the embossed bits some more.

The next step was to colour a small canvas board with Pains Grey acrylic paint, it's called grey but is actually blue. I'm pretty sure you would get a very similar effect with Sapphire Blue Distress Stains, but I don't have that one. Before it had dried I dabbed it with a piece of kitchen towel to get a textured effect and when it was dry I  stamped some of the little snowflakes from the Christmas Greetings 1 plate in white by using the Picket Fence Distress Marker. Love how they slowly start to appear against the dark background. I embellished the background with a strip of canvas tape, stamped with the music stamp and some lace.

The final steps were to stamp some of the Christmas stamps from the two plates I used on smooth card, cutting them out and colouring them with the same colours of Distress Inks. Next I cut theTim Holtz Decorative Snowflake Rosette Die, slightly inked and glittered with some Diamond Stickles. I ran the topper through a little snowflake embossing folder in my stash to give it some more texture and then I put it all together as you can see on the photo.

Thank you for dropping by, - I hope you liked my project and feel inspired to use some of the wonderful Artistic Stamper Christmas stamps for your own Christmas projects.

The Creative Team Stars!

Hi, it's the Chief Rubber Stamper here checking in a little early this month. I thought I would use this opportunity to publicly thank my wonderfully creative team for all their hard work this past year. I know from all the comments that you enjoy their very innovative creations and posts using The Artistic Stamper stamps. I love what they do, and a very BIG thank you, comes from me to Emma, Alison, Sioux, Astrid, Louise and Tit for all their hard work making sure that everything is in place for you to ogle over!

I have been making lots of Christmassy tags, just to get in the mood for next month, and this tag is very appropriate for my wonderfully supportive team .
 Thank you girls, it is very much appreciated.
 I used Tim's new Star die, ( this is one of my favourites :)), inked with distress inks with one of his stamps.

Have a very creative weekend
Hugs
Jennie