Birds Printers Tray

Hello Everyone, 

Shilpa here,

Today, I have colorful project to share with you.

Birds Printers Tray

It is a MDF printers tray which I colored with acrylic paints. I've used Graphic 45 Botanical Tea papers in the background.

Artistic Stamper has got cutest collection of Bird stamps and this project is dedicated to them.

I've used Money Bird, Mystical bird, Mechanical bird and Funky bird stamps designed by Neil Walker. And small bird in the middle is from 'Birds of a feather' stamp collection.

I stamped all birds with Ranger Archival jet black ink, colored them with distress inks -
Blue birds - Broken china, Faded Jeans, Peacock feather,
Pink Birds - Victorian velvet, worn lipstick and dusty concord

Leaves are also handmade. I stamped Autumn leaves designed by Katy Leitch with Leaf green archival ink. Cut them and applied Peeled paint distress ink at the edges. Aren't they look real?
Here are some of the close up views.

Hope you are inspired by my project to use the stamps in a different way.

Artistic stamper has also got New Wonderful stamp collection designed by Debbie Cotton, you can find them here.

Thanks  so much for stopping by today

Supplies used:

Artistic stamper stamps - Money Bird, Mechanical Bird, Funky Bird, Mystical Bird    Birds of a Feather

Katy Leitch designed Autumn  Leaves 

Distress Inks - Broken China, Faded jeans, Peacock feather, Victorian Velvet, Worn lipstick, dusty concord.

Ranger Archival inks - Jet black, Leaf Green

Field Notes of a Naturalist

Hello all, Alison (butterfly) here with a Victorian naturalist's field notes from his day's excursion in the fields... and we're back to the neutrals!  It's a simple stamped tag, using Katy Leitch's fabulous new Jumbo Flowers along with one of the Stampers Anonymous Classics releases from earlier this year.

I kept the stamping simple over a background of Fresco paints and crackle glaze.  I couldn't resist a spot of clear-embossing though!

The flowers are done in Potting Soil Archival, which seems an appropriate enough colour for botanical sketches.  This is the Bouvardia, tucked away at the bottom...

Here's the Flowering Branch...

And the Camellia...

The insects are stamped in Jet Black Archival...

... carefully labelled to keep track of genus and species.

In between, you might catch sight of the sparkle of some handwritten notes about what he's found.

I stamped the Calligraphy Mat #9 in Pumice Stone Distress Ink, and then clear-embossed it.  I love the dewy shimmer as it catches the light, so I don't mind the occasional places where it's spots rather than writing - just more dew drops!

There's some simple embellishing - a word band attached with rustic twine, and the pen nib with which he's been scratching his field notes in his journal.

At the top some seam binding, dyed with Pumice Stone and bound with more twine, is fastened with a Muse Token celebrating the new knowledge he's acquired in today's nature ramble.

The whole thing is matted onto black card, to give a little extra definition, and that's your lot.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  There's still time to enter our By the Seaside challenge this month... hope to see you there!

Ingredients used:

Artistic Stamper Stamps: Katy Leitch Jumbo Flowers - Bouvardia, Camellia and Flowering Branch, Calligraphic Mat #9

Stampers Anonymous - Classics #17

Fresco Finish Paints - Crackle Glaze, French Roast, Chocolate Pudding, Stone, Snowflake

Ranger Archival Ink - Potting Soil, Jet Black

Distress Inks - Pumice Stone, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Clear Embossing Powder

Idea-ology Findings - Word Band, Pen Nib, Muse Token

Twine 

Seam binding

Klimt Take On Salome By Dee

Hi everyone I hope you are all well, this piece is inspired by the artist

Gustav Klimt if any of you know about him

he was a symbolist painter. 

The moment I spotted this stamp I thought of his work

So with that in mind it would be rude

not to use gold.

Firstly I painted my board with Fresco  Finish paints in the

following colours Tikka, Seaweed, Brownshed, 

claret and Baltic Blue.

I stamped the Salome stamp to the centre in versa fine onyx black

and then clear embossed it. Then around the edges I stamped

with the small cogs design and gold embossed it.

I then added some hessian ribbon down the left hand side and

attached this with five brads. 

Next I picked out areas to highlight with old gold 

Fresco Finish paint.

I also used the Claret and brown shed to highlight 

other area's.

Next I used a small paint brush and applied glossy accents to 

highlight certain area's.

I poped this on to a vibrant red covered foam board.

I then placed this on to a black piece of card that I had randomly

stamped with the swirl pattern of the tick tock plate that had

 been inked with gold brilliance and heat set.

That's it from me today thank you for taking the time to pop by

please feel free to leave your comments 

happy stamping!

Dee x

Materials used:- Artistic Stamper Stamps  Tick Tock, Borders A5, Salome 4 x 9 

  Embellishments,  Dee Adams 

Fresco Finish paints,

Ranger Glossy accents

Versa Fine

My little sewing box

Salut les patouilleur-se-s !!
This is Titbelsoeur talking to you today.
I wish you a good Summer time and hope the weather is hot and sunny wherever you are !

My piece for today is a tin can (I'm not floating on though) I have covered with a very old song paper and in which I have put some sewing tools :

thread spools (authentic or not ;)
 

a button card (card is stamped and buttons are period ones) :

a pin card :

and a spool label :

a tiny pair of scissors, some "hand made" and tailor's tape ribbons, and tadammm

here it is :

 

All these stamps come from the A Stitch in Time plate.

Thank you so much for stopping by, 

I hope you like my sewing can, and am looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur 

Goose Grease Tag by Alison Hall

Hello Stampers! I have a large inky tag to share with you today.

Here's what I used...

Manila Tag - Size 10

Old Book Paper

Claudine Hellmuth Matt Medium

Fresco Finish Paint - Snowflake

Ranger Archival Ink - Cobalt, Watering Can, Potting Soil

Stamps - Goose Grease, Katy Leitch Numerical Plate A5, Ephemera Plate 1

Distress Inks - Antique Linen, Vintage Photo

PaperArtsy White Smoothy Card

Crunchy Waxed Kraft Paper

Gleam Gilding Wax Set 8 - Metallic 2

Ideaology Long Fasteners, Mini Gear, & Pen Nib

White Rayon Seam Binding

Distress Stains - Vintage Photo
Glossy Accents

Blending Foam

Distress Tool

Sequin Waste

Paper Tape Measure (from a Christmas Cracker!)

And, here's what I did...

1. I used matt medium to glue some scraps of book paper to the tag, then realised that the matt medium resists ink! So, I added a thin coat of Fresco Snowflake paint.

2. I used blending foam to apply Cobalt Archival ink to the tag, sponged some of the ink through sequin waste, then stamped images from the Numerical & Ephemera Plates, using Cobalt, Watering Can & Potting Soil Archival inks.

3. I used blending foam to darken the edges of the tag with the Cobalt, then distressed the edges & applied Vintage Photo Distress ink.

4. I stamped Goose Grease & the words from Ephemera Plate 1 onto white smoothy card. I inked Goose Grease with Antique Linen Distress ink, cut him out, distressed the edges, then inked them with Vintage Photo. 

5. I cut out the words, distressed the edges, then inked with Vintage Photo Distress.

6. I tore a piece of crunchy wax kraft paper, crumpled it up, inked the edges & applied coppery gilding wax. I attached Goose Grease to the wax paper & tag with long fasteners, adding a mini gear & a pen nib.

7. I glued the words to the tag, then added the paper tape measure to the bottom with long fasteners.

8. Finally, I coloured some seam binding with Vintage Photo Distress Stain, crumpled it up, inked the creases with Potting Soil Archival, added some gilding wax, then threaded it through the top of my tag.
9. Oops...nearly forgot to say, I also added some glossy accents to the Prof's glasses!

If you click on the photos, you may just see the book paper texture in the background. 

I hope you like my tag. I really love the gorgeous colour of the Cobalt background against the kraft paper. 

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xxx

Creative life card by Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell)

Hi))) 

It's me, Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell) here for you today!

I am here for the first time, so I have to explain something.

I love everything associated with paper, brushes, paints, stamps, ink, stencils, scissors ... 

Well, you get my point ... 

I do different projects, but today I want to share with you just a small postcard. 

At first glance, it is quite simple. Let's be honest:  at second glance everything is the same))) 

At the beginning I suggest you watch the video, and then I'll tell you the details. Ok?

Just want to tell you that I've used these stamps:

Star Background 2 A6 

Journaling Mini Words #1

Now let's talk about the process)))

1. So, first I made the background using a stencil "honeycomb", ink (distress/fired brick) and sponge.

2. Then I added the stars, putting the stamp mark with star background stamp and ink (distress/black soot).

3. When the background was "a half ready", I sprinkled a little water (just with my wet hands) and then added a little splash of white ink.

4. Then I outlined the hexagons on the right side with a black pen.

5.  And finally I glued two printed and  crookedly cut words on 3D foam squares.

6. The End))) Card is already ready! Nothing more to write here!)))

I hope you enjoyed this simple card made ​​for one very creative person! ;)

Have a nice day!

Masculine project with Franswar Stamp

Hello Everyone, Shilpa here today,  with masculine project.

Artistic Stamper has a very good collection of Masculine stamps and today my main character is 'Franswar' designed by Neil Walker.

And this is how I  started off

On a gesso treated white card stock, I applied Antique linen, Old paper and Scattered straw distress paints. Spritzed water to get even layer. Dried it with my heat tool and gave another layer of DP. 

Stamped randomly with Small bingo card and Coffee Archival Ink.

Next layer was with Pine needles DI and Crafters workshop Specimen stencil.

 

After this, I stamped  Franswar image stamp with Jet black Archival ink. At the edges stamped with cogs  border stamps. Artistic stamper's Watches set is wonderful set of different varieties of watch images. At the corner, in the picture , you can see the side view watch image, which is a unique stamp, I have not seen similar before.

 

This is another watch in same stamp set.

Then, I applied Antique linen, Tea dye and Pine needles DI at the edges.

Adhered wood veneer Scale at the bottom of the piece. It has colored with DI. 

The word 'believe' is from Journaling words # 4

And finally I adhered the whole panel on another pattern paper from DCVW.

Hope you liked my masculine project.

Do check Artistic stamper store for amazing stamp collection.

Thanks so much for your visit today.

 

Supplies used:

Artistic stamper Stamps:

Small Bingo Card

Border Stamp - Cogs

Francewar

Watches set

Journaling Words -4

Distress Paints:- Antique Linen, Scattered straw, Old paper

Distress Inks: - Tea Dye, Pine needles, Antique Linen

Ranger Archival Inks - Jet black, Coffee

Specimen: - Crafters workshop stencil.

From my stash - white card stock, Gesso, DCWV paper pad