...remembering the autumn...

Winter will end soon ...
Soon will come the spring...
 But I remember last fall...
Maybe because I now do not have enough bright colors, which was a lot recently!.. ..?

And if you pay attention, you will notice that I used the stamps at all of the other subjects.

Look, I took the flags from this set of stamps 

and an umbrella from this set:

I hope your autumn was as bright as mine.
And as I dare to hope that spring will be even brighter!

With <3 from Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell).

Early Bird

Hello Everyone, Shilpa here,

I made a mixed media canvas using fun stamp 'Early Bird Resort' designed by Debbie cotton.

I love that cute Owl so much. I've worked with only two colors here, Evergreen bough and Dusty Concord.

I stamped these flowers with Ranger Black/ watering can  Archival ink and colored them with distress paints.
Background bubbles are created with stencil and Gelatos

Hope you liked my project today.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Material used:

Artistic Stamper Stamps: Early Bird Resort,  Botanical plate 2

Distress Paints - Evergreen bough, Dusty Concord

Distress Inks- Evergreen Bough, dusty concord

Ranger Archival ink- Jet Black and Watering can

Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Gelatos

How does your garden grow?

Hello all!  Alison (butterfly) here with a gentle tag for you today.  I've been playing with some of the lovely new gardening stamps just released here at The Artistic Stamper.  There are some fantastic new releases.  If you haven't seen them yet, do check them out.

So here's my relaxing garden tag - a fairly simple affair, but it gives me lots of pleasure.

I started by putting Distress Ink onto a large acetate gridblock, spritzing it with water and stamping onto a watercolour paper tag.  I did some spritzing and flicking of water to create even more of a textured look.

The fork and spade from Garden #1 are stamped in a combination of Coffee and Potting Soil Archival inks and clear embossed.

I stamped the very useful "extra bit of earth" from Garden #2 next to the main image, so as to 'fade out' the earth rather than have it stop abruptly.

I added another layer by stamping the tiny bubbles from the Borders 2 plate in colours to coordinate with the background.  And there's plenty of white splatter to create more life and movement.

The sentiment is from a PaperArtsy set, and is stamped in graduated Archival inks - Cobalt, Leaf Green and Olive, I think, and then clear-embossed as usual.

I tried out a number of different embellishments, but each time I preferred the simpleness of the tag without any extras until I suddenly remembered these tiny wooden confetti circles, hiding in my stash.

I glued them in place and gave them a tiny swipe of Chalk Fresco paint from one angle.

The Distress-dyed ribbons at the top are tied with some Idea-ology paper string, and the whole thing is mounted on some distressed corrugated cardboard for that rustic look.

And that's your lot for today.  Thanks so much for stopping by - your comments and visits really mean so much.

I hope you'll come and play along in our Love challenge here at The Artistic Stamper this February.  You don't have to use Artistic Stamper stamps, but if you do you'll qualify for a double entry in the prize draw.  What have you got to lose?!  Happy crafting!

Ingredients used:
Artistic Stamper stamps - Garden #1, Garden #2, Borders #2 A6
Distress Inks - Broken China, Stormy Sky, Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Pine Needles
Archival Inks - Coffee, Potting Soil, Cobalt, Leaf Green, Olive
Fresco Paints - Chalk
Seam binding
From my stash - watercolour paper, paper string, corrugated cardboard, wooden confetti, sentiment stamp

Is spring on its way ?

It's so cold these days, Spring is definitely not on its way....
And yet, why wouldn't we hope a little bit ? 
Take a sheet of paint paper...
A paintbrush...
watercolor....
archival ink...
black and white markers....
and...
these amazing new Artistic Stamper's butterflies !!

I don't know yet whether this will be a card or an art journal page... 

But it was just a great pleasure to stamp and color them, color the background, and then write the quote ! I could almost forget the cold outside !

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated.

Don't forget to participate in our monthly challenge to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

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Neil Walker's Trio Of Hearts

Hi everyone to continue with our challenge this month LOVE! I have done a 

trio of hearts for you, using the fabulous Artistic Stampers 

Neil Walker Stamps.

Firstly I used Brusho on wet white card I sprayed it with a

mini mister of water.

I sprinkled Prussian Blue, Sandstone & Crimson.

If you haven't used these before have a play first as you don't 

need much. I followed with a little of gold mica powder 

mixed with water in the mister bottle.

I used the same embossing technique that I used in my last 

post of triple embossing powder.

I followed with stream and denim alcohol inks.

Finally I stamped the Neil walker alphabet soup stamp in walnut stamp

I gold embossed it and ran the versa fine ink pad around the 

edges and dragged it through the gold embossing powder.

Walnut stain was blended round the sides.

Brass sequins to finish.

Products Used

1.   Brusho :- Sandstone, Prussian blue, Crimson.

2. Neil Walkers stamps:-hearts and alphabet soup boarder.

3. Gold embossing powder.

4. Versamark.

5. Distress ink Walnut Stain.

6. Sequins from my stash.

I hope you liked this project love to hear what you think?

Cheers Dee x

Winner of January's Creative Challenge

Hi,
I am back again with the winner of last month's challenge. Always a difficult job, and always done with the help of Mr Random.org.
Thank you to everyone who joined in, the artwork was just so creative.
Please put your hands together for

Notations of a Crafter

 and her lovely artwork

Congratulations and please contact me so you can get your prize.
I look forward to seeing your entries into this month's challenge which is love. You can find it here

Have a creative month
Jennie

February's Creative Challenge- Love

A BIG thank you to everyone who joined in January's  Challenge. We loved all of the entries.

Our new challenge for February is Love. 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've gone the whole Valentine's hog with hearts, flowers and even lace!  They're all collected on some tea and coffee dyed tags, with torn book pages and some rustic buttons to complete the look.  I've used my favourite Calligraphy Plate #19 to "write romantic love letters" in the background, and the tiny flower tags are stamped with Katy Leitch's Botanical #2 plate.  Come and see the details at Words and Pictures


Dee

Hi everyone We have a really great challenge for you this month so why not come along and 

play with us. I have done a Papier Mache heart for you which I have decorated with Deco Art Media 

acrylics, and texture pastes. I have used The Artistic Stampers Swirls, Splats and Dots plate. Why not pop over to deeadamsart to see how I made it.

Shilpa

I've created Love triptych with Artistic Stamper Neil Walker Designed Heart stamp. Background is with texture and stamping. Pls visit my blog Neon Diary for more closeup view and details.
  

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