Bloom. End of story.

Heh, hi, Stampers))))

It's Maria Potapovich here for you today)
Me and my new box.

Do you like Botanical Plates 1 and 2?
Here is the one of them:

And here is my box, made with these stamps:

Lots of flowers and greenery ...

Girls in the garden. Butterflies and birds are their neighbors.

Rhinestones and white paint add a little "dew" in the garden.

Of course, this garden will be stored under the transparent cover - so to speak "behind the fence".)))

Do you already want to make your garden in a box?

Or do you have some other idea?

I already want to see your results!

Explore - Art Journal cover

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year to you All!! This is my first post of 2015 at Artistic Stamper.

Today I would like to share project with you which is 'New Beginning' which is also a theme of our challenge this month. New beginning of my 'face journal', yes, I took up a challenge for myself  and which I rarely do, and I am totally fascinated about right now,  is to create one mixed media face journal page  every week this year!! :)

and here is Journal cover I made with Artistic stamper stamps.

Let's see how I made this ....

I've used Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Mini Journal board as a base. I applied Gesso as a primer.. When It dried, I applied distress paints (Broken china, Forest Moss, Vintage photo, Brushed corduroy, Tea dye), spritzed water and let them move and this created my base color.

Next I stamped Artistic stamper's Song Bird stamp on tissue paper with ranger jet black Archival ink and adhered that piece on my base. To create dimensional texture on this panel I used stencils and modelling paste.

Here you will see I adhered some of the elements like pearls, wood veneer birds, diecut dragonflies, vintage butterfly washi tape.

and I wanted to add more color but translucent one, so I used Distress stains (Broken China, Evergreen Bough, Wild Honey, peeled paint and Walnut stain)

Another layer of stamping with Artistic Stamper stamps- Calligraphy mats - 4 and small circles from Boarder stamp set 2 I love the texture it gives!!

For final finishing touches, I applied bit of Viva Decor Inka Gold on raised surfaces.

I also used vintage photo and tea dye distress inks to apply on all edges of this piece.

The journaling  word is 'explore'

Let me know if you liked my tutorial and project, it makes my day!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Don't forget to participate in our monthly challenge to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

 

 

Products used:

Artistic stamper stamps - Song Bird, Calligraphy mat 4, Boarder stamp 2,

Distress paints - Broken china, Forest Moss, Vintage photo, Brushed corduroy, Tea dye

Distress Stains - Broken China, Evergreen Bough, Wild Honey, peeled paint and Walnut stain

Viva Decor Inka Gold 

From my stash - Design Memory craft Journal board, Crafters workshop stencils, Washi tape, Modelling paste

The Brighter Side of Journalling

Hello all, Alison (butterfly) here with you again... and with some more art journalling.  But rather than the wintry pages over at Words and Pictures, this is an altogether lighter and brighter bit of journalling!

It does make me smile though to see how similar elements seem to have bobbed up on this very different page.

I'm definitely having a thing with circles at the moment - and here there are two layers of them.  First, some Distress Spray spritzed large circles using the Large Sequin Waste mask, and over that I spread a very thin layer of the Viva Decor Croco Crackling Colour through the Large Dot mask and left it to get on with cracking while I went off to do something else.

When the large dots were dry, I did some stamping with Distress Inks in my Jan/Feb colours of vivid blues and greens.  There's the Sequin Waste background stamp in Mowed Lawn and the Mini Polka Dots in Broken China and Peacock Feathers.

Once stamped, I gave them a spritz of water to let the Distress Ink do its magic wicking thing, softening the look.

And I used Distress Stains to add some colour to the large dots, wiping away the excess so that the crackle is highlighted.

So, like the winter pages, there's lots of crackle too.

For my focal point, I chose the word from Journaling Words #5 (oh, for the missing L!  Ah well, the Americans will like it).  I stamped it in the matching Distress Ink colours and clear embossed it on a whitewashed book page.

It's layered up over some wire mesh, tea-dyed tissue paper (transparent - so you can see the stamping and the text through it - love it!) and another book page.

I had great fun with my metal pieces.  The Idea-ology flower is altered with Distress Paint, while the skeleton leaves have had a dose of my Ten Seconds Verday Paint (weathered patinas, until now only really used on dollshouse work).

I used a combination of the Verday Copper finish as well as some Distress Paint in Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean to get the finished effect, and I love it.

And I edged the page with Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain to pick up the rusty colours of the central layers, so we also have - at heart - the blues and browns of my winter pages, but transformed to a brighter version.

So having set out to do something completely different from the recent art journalling shared over at Words and Pictures, I have got something different, but somehow very closely related!

Thanks so much for stopping by today - it's always lovely to hear what you think.  And do come and play along in our New Beginnings challenge for a chance to win a gift voucher here at The Artistic Stamper - hope to see you there!

Ingredients used:
Artistic Stamper stamps: Journaling Words #5, Mini Polka Dots, Sequin Waste Open
Artistic Stamper masks: Large Sequin Waste, Large Dot
Distress Spray Stains: Broken China, Peacock Feathers
Distress Inks: Mowed Lawn, Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain
Distress Paints: Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn
Distress Stains: Mowed Lawn, Broken China, Peacock Feathers
Clear Embossing Powder
Viva Croco Crackling Colour - White
From my stash - gesso, wire mesh, tissue paper, book pages, metal flower and skeleton leaves, tea(!)

A journey... by Titbelsoeur

Hello Happy Crafters, Titbelsoeur here wishing you a very happy and creative year !

Let's start the year with a travel door hanger.

I have first stamped the car from Earl's Automotive Service and colored it with watercolor and then enhanced with Promarkers :

I also stamped the Clark's Fresh Roses and  watercolored the image :

 Onto a cardboard I had peeled and covered with gesso, then sprayed with walnut stain and light blue inks, I glued some stamps and images, a bit of a map and a cola can, and then the car :

The bunch of flowers was slid between the map and a chocolate corolla paper :

And I stamped the Journey words on to a piece of jeans and stapled it :

 And here it is : 

I am so happy to start this new year with you ! I hope you like my make and can't wait to read your comments !

Titbelsoeur

Dragonfly Card

Hello to you all Wishing all of you a very Happy New year!

I hope you all had a very good Christmas and are 

looking forward to a very crafty 2015.

I was very lucky my son's bought me the distress stains for Christmas 

and this is my first play with them.

For my first post of 2015 I have created a card made from the Artistic Stamper's

 fabulous Neil Walker stamps and the dragonfly from the insects &

butterfly plate and lots of lovely embossing.

1. Distress inks in the following colours:- iced spruce, vintage photo, wild honey, fired brick & walnut stain.
2. Distress stains spray in the following colours:- wild honey, fired brick, iced spruce & tarnished brass.
3. The following Artistic Stamper Stamps:- Neil Walkers alphabet soup & boarder set + the dragonfly off the insects and butterflies. 
4. Gold & clear embossing powder. 
5. Small coloured beads and home made beads for the centre body please see my blog.
6. Ranger distress stickles in the following colours:- aqua & copper.
7. Versamark.
8. Deco art liquid glass.
9. Gold ink pad.
10. Viva Ferro, ledger stencil.

Firstly I coloured a piece of white card with distress inks blending off a craft mat.

I used wild honey, vintage photo, iced spruce and fired brick.

I sprayed water onto my fingers the flicked it across the card and mopped up with tissue

& repeated it until I was happy with the result. I then used my distress stained iced spruce 

and lightly spritzed it. I inked the Neil walker alphabet soup stamp in gold

and stamped the bottom and top right.

You can just see it faintly, next I inked up the boarder stamp with

Walnut stain distress ink and gently put gold embossing

 powder so it didn't cover the entire stamped image,

then heat set.

I cut out a square and from the piece of coloured card I then cut 

another piece off and a third and arranged it 

out on the original cut square.

I then inked up the boarder stamp with walnut stain. Without 

putting it on a block I just placed the stamp where I wanted it

 on the third piece and then covered it in clear embossing 

powder and heat set. Ferro paste was put through the date 

on the ledger stencil on the bottom left hand side.

The edges were run along the versa mark ink pad then swiped 

through gold embossing powder to finish the square off. 

For the dragonfly I inked it up with walnut stain stamped it 

onto distress coloured card which was clear embossed.

I sprayed the wings with tarnished gold, wild honey 

and fired brick spray stains. Decoart liquid glass was 

applied to the wings and allowed to dry.

.

The main body of the dragon fly is made up with a bead I made 

please see my blog. The head is again beads made up 

from sequins and from my stash also copper stickles. small seed beads

were glued around and then I a dot of aqua stickles to finish.

Wire and a bead were used for the antennae. Finally mounted onto 

black card and attached onto a white card. Well that's it for today

 I hope you have all enjoyed this post please feel free to

 leave a comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

December's Challenge winner

Hi!
Thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge. It was lovely to see so many gorgeous creations. Apologies if we didn't get to comment on all of them.. we aim to do better in 2015!

I cannot choose a winner on my own, so with the help of Mr Random.org here is the winner!
Congratulations to

 Irit Shalom

with this fab creation.

Please email me to arrange your prize.


Have a very creative January, and do join in our challenge this month which you can find here.
{Hugs}
Jennie

January's Challenge- New Beginnings

Happy New Year to everyone!

A BIG thank you to everyone who joined in December's  Challenge, I know December is a busy time for everyone, so thank you for taking the time.

Our new challenge for January is New Beginnings.. 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....

 

    Shilpa 

I  made tag for this inspiration post. I've used Birds of Feather and Free as a Bird stamps from The Artistic Stamper.

Alison (butterfly)

I've created a pair of ATCs marking the passing of the old year and the coming of the new one.  

The backgrounds are stamped with the fabulous number and word collage stamps from the Family Values set.  I used various Distress Ink colours and clear embossed them, and added Vintage Photo Distress embossing powder around the edges for a textured finish.

Then Katy Leitch's Dates stamps were perfect for my tiny tags, complete with rusty bells to ring in the New Year.  And some ChitChat stickers share a couple of thoughts about what's past and what's to come.  You can see more details over at Words and Pictures.

Jennie

I have created a page for a calendar using Graphic 45's Time to Flourish papers ( January) and Katy Leitch's Numerical Plate  stamps to make the 2015, and the edge of the paper.

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

An InLinkz Link-up