Flower card by Gemma

 Hello Everyone

Its great to see so many of you joining in with this months challenge, and there is still plenty of time to get involved. Don't forget that you can now join in on our facebook challenge page here.

I made a card for this post as I have a few birthdays coming up, and I keep getting in trouble for sending shop bought ones (I can hear the gasps of shock, from certain people as I am typing).

I cut a piece of red card and kraft card to 18 x 18 cm square. On the Kraft card I drew a 1.5 cm frame around the edge and two wavy lines across, roughly the same width. I then cut away the middle sections with a craft knife.

Using the sections I cut on the kraft card as a guide I drew faint lines on the red piece, to mark where I wanted to stamp. I used the solid floral background in two sections and the open floral background in the centre section.  I heat embossed the stamping with white embossing powder.

I then stamped on to the kraft card using distress ink and the random dots background. I then went around all the edges of the card and glued it in place over the red piece.

Before I attached this to the card blank I taped red and brown ribbon to the back, and once glued to the blank I tied each into a bow at the front of the card.

On left over scraps of card I stamped the large flowers from the open floral background stamp and heat embossed them with more of the white embossing powder, before cutting them out.

I arranged them around the bows I had made, and glued them in place, adding some ring tabs from drink cans for some added interest.

Thank you for reading
Gemma (inkykitty)

Products used from The Artistic Stamper

Solid Floral Background

Open Floral Background

Random Dots Background

Embossing Powder

Collage Journal page by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

As we have Spring theme for our March Challenge, I've created journal page with this Lovely "Bird Song" stamp. .from Artistic stamper

(click on image for bigger view)

I've worked in my A4 size journal. Lots of layers have been created with coffee stain papers, doilies, vintage laces, fabric flowers.

I've also used pearls, buttons and Washi tape, Have you checked new Washi tape at Artistic stamper?

If you like to use your old ephemera and papers ....you would like to create this kind of Vintage theme collage  journal page.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Products used form Artistic stamper:

Bird Song stamp

Archival ink- Cofee

Distress inks- Vintage photo, tea dye, Ground espresso

Distress paints- Victorian velvet

Washi tapes

 

Artists are like Roses card by Debs

Hi All

Springtime makes me think of warmer days and flowers and with that thought here is my latest project

I started off with a piece of kraft glassine, Dylusions paints in Postbox red, Lemon Zest, and Squeezed Orange and a brayer

I put a dob (technical term) of postbox red and adding this to the  paper with the brayer

I covered the whole piece with red using the brayer

Then added on the orange

and then the yellow

The nice thing about Dylusions other than their consistency is the fact that they are transparent paint and so will always pick up the colour underneath and using this technique gives a lovely effect

Once the paint was dry I then used some Fresh Lime and one of the new flourishes from The Flourish Ornate plate and stamped over the background in a couple of places

Then added some of the new flowers from the Open Floral Background in postbox red using a piece of foam to ink up the stamp

And again with some of the Lemon Zest and some of the other new stamps from both the Solid Floral Background and the Open Floral Background 

Next step was to take a piece of A4 White card and cut at an angle across the card and score in three equal pieces

Cut the painted Kraft Glassine to fit each panel 

I painted another piece of Glassine with the Postbox Red and then stamped the small rose from the 

Botanical Plate 3 and then cut them out 

And added them to the card along with the sentiment also from the same plate.

This challenge has obviously sparked those creative juices as we have loads of lovely entries already so do keep them coming and don't forget the Facebook page as well.

Happy crafting Debs

Birthday card, by Titbelsoeur

Hello everyone, this is Tibelsoeur here today, sharing with you a birthday card.

Here is the background, I made it with the 5x3 gelli plate, acrylics and Honeycomb Background stamp
Then I stamped the Encyclopaedia Botanica page with black archival, and the butterfly with Distress ink highlighted with watercolor pen :

The sentiment was stamped with watercolor pens and added to the background :

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 

March Challenge-Springtime

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

my blog

my Facebook page

Playing with dylusions by Dee

Hi folks I popped down to see Jennie and have a play at The Artistic Stamper

when I had a week off work in January. We did a class on

journaling not something that I am used to but seem

to have started doing this year.

The Artistic stamper has a load of amazing journaling stamps

so I thought I would do a piece playing with the stamps that 

I picked up while I was there.

I also picked up some Dylusion paints while I was there

which have a finish that I really like and are very neon

 bright, again not colours I would usually use.

So I did three panels using a different colours but one

colour that was common to all three.

Fresh Lime and vibrant turquoise

I stamped different journalling word stamps onto each 

panel.

Purple pink and turquoise

Journal word inspiration

collated it all onto a black journal page ooh a white pen and

 doodled around the edge.

That's it for today I hope you like my play.

Please let me know what you think.

Products Used

1. Artistic Stamper stamps used Borders A6#2, Journaling Words, Fabric 3 C334, Mini Backgrounds #1.
2. Dylusions paint Vibrant Turquoise, Crushed Grape, Fresh Lime, Bubblegum Pink.
3. White ink pen for doodling.

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

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