Sowing the seeds of loooove... by Titbelsoeur

HI there, this is Titbelsoeur singing for you today !
I have decided to decorate the envelopes I store seeds into, waiting for the right moment to sow them in my garden.

I have first painted the background, spraying ink and water on to my "magic" cutting board and then patting the envelopes down.

Then I have inked the fence background stamp with ink and then sprayed it with water too, here and there, to have this saturated look.

After that, I have stamped various stamps on each envelope with Plum archival ink.

And to finish, I have inked the edges of each envelope with the same ink. 

I used :
Plum Archival ink
Rusty Hinge Distress ink
Distress reinkers

stamps :
Gardening stamps
Butterflies
Debbie Cotton's
Katy Leitch's
Travel stamps

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.

Titbelsoeur

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A Vintage Motor

Hi everyone hope you are all well!  & enjoying the Easter weekend. 

I have a vintage piece for you today. 

I started with swiping distress paint vintage photo, gathered twigs 

& walnut stain onto a craft mat and sprayed with

water from a mini mister.

I swiped my card through and paint and sprayed with the mini mister as I dried

it so the paints blended together. I sealed it all with a matt 

medium.

I inked up the Debbie Cotton car stamp Earls Automotive with 

Black onyx versafine & clear embossed it. Next I painted 

the entire card bar the car with cream acrylic paint.

I used blended distress inks in the following colours vintage photo,

walnut stain & scattered straw to colour spare card stock. 

Onto this I stamped images from the following stamps winged wheel &

 numerical plate. The numbers were stamped in 

archival ink cornflower blue.

The clock was an old one I had done previously from the 

Time & keys plate that had been covered in glossy 

accents and a curtain ring was attached.

I used ripped pages & glued them to the main image. I used two die cuts

which I stamped with the ruler stamp of the Empemera plate 

and I used this to frame the project.

I backed it all onto ripped cardboard that I had swiped walnut stain

paint. Please let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

Products used

1. Distress paints Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs & Vintage Photo
2. Distress ink in Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain.
3. Inks:- Black Oynx Versafine, Cornflower Blue & Black Archival.
4. Artistic Stamper Stamps:- Debbie Cottons Earls Automotive, Numerical plate, winged wheel, ephemera & time & Keys.
5. Rangers Glossy Accents. 

March's Creative Challenge WINNER!

Hi,
 I am back with the winner of last month's challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in.. a stunning array of creations.
The winner of March's challenge, picked by Mr. Random.org is

Sue O'Connell

with this lovely monochrome piece.

Congratulations Sue, and please email me so we can arrange your prize.

Don;t forget this month's challenge is now on, Flora & Fauna, which should include some stamping is here

Have a very creative day
{hugs}
Jennie

April's Creative Challenge -Flora & Fauna

A BIG thank you to everyone who joined in March's Challenge. An amazing set of entries, thank you!

Our new challenge for April is Flora & Fauna. 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 (butterfly)

 

The Flora and Fauna theme seemed the perfect excuse to get out the fabulous Encyclopaedia Botanica stamps.  I stamped them in Coffee Archival ink over a metallic verdigris background and clear-embossed them to give them some extra oomph.  I altered some metal embellishments and some seam binding to finish it all off.  Come and check out the details over at Words and Pictures.

Dee

So the theme here at The Artistic stamper this month is Flora and Fauna so I used 

Flower Power A6 stamps to create these flowers & also the swirl line from the Boarders

A5 stamps. I used card sprayed with Distress Inks for the flowers and a craft tag coloured with 

Wild honey, Vintage Photo, Mahogany and Walnut Stain distress inks. Tim Holtz thinlets die

to finish off. Pop over to deeadamsart.blogspot.co.uk for further details.  

Shilpa

The Artistic Stamper has lovely flower stamps. And I wanted to use them in my Journal page. I've used Botanical Plate1 and Botanical Plate 2 for these floral images. And cute dragonfly is from Insects and Butterflies stamp No.1 set. I've also used many texture stamps from The Artistic Stamper in the background. Please visit my blog 'Neon Diary' for more 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 in a couple of days with the winner of last month's Challenge.

Have a very creative month

{hugs}

Jennie

 

An InLinkz Link-up

...lightness and transparency...

Hello everyone!

It's Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell) is here for you today ;)

Today I will show you a card that I wanted to do for a long time.

The point is mixed media style pay very much attention to the layers. But in this style  artists generally use layers of different materials and medias.

And I wanted to make a card using the translucent layers of tracing paper.

Let's see.

I wanted to achieve the effect of lightness and transparency.
For this I used the white tracing paper, stamping pad were taken not black, but the color of licorice, and also pale blue letters for the label.

Here are only three layers and letters. As you can see some lower layers climbs out of the edges of the upper layers.

This card does not correspond to the style of "clean and simple", but that's how it would be desirable to describe!

I've used the Encyclopaedia Botanica stamps set 

I hope you enjoyed this technique! Perhaps you also want to try to make a card with layers of tracing paper ...

 I am sure that they will be easy and beautiful!

Have fun!

With a Light Flourish!

Hello everyone, Alison (butterfly) here, this time with a candle lantern.  Take one old jam jar, some alcohol inks, gilding flakes and the fabulous new Artistic Stamper Flourish Background stamp, and here's what you get.

Let me take you through some of the steps it took to get here...

I started by applying various blue/green alcohol inks to the exterior of the jar... The new colours Mermaid and Botanical are in there, as well as Meadow, Stream and Denim.

I just kept dabbing until I was happy with the effect - I love it on the inside too!  This would be a good place to stop if you just want a really simple way to light your summer garden evenings.

I debated doing some powder embossing with the flourish stamp, but in the end decided it was way too long since I'd played with the gilding flakes I bought way back when I started this whole crafting hoo-ha.  No idea any longer what colour mix this is - and I may even have mixed in various colourways together in my little plastic box.

As you can see, I didn't quite get a clean stamping with the Flitterglu on most of the sides of the jar (wouldn't want to attempt this on a round jar, by the way!), but I actually don't mind that, on two counts.  One: it means you get a really distressed look, like the lantern has been around the block a few times, and has some history...

Two: it means you get a proper look at the alcohol ink patterns in lots of places, which are attractive in themselves.

Again it was pretty cool from the inside...

... but since the flakes were multi-coloured, I found it a bit hard to tell what was going on with only the very translucent alcohol inks underneath.  It was too translucent... I think you can see what I mean here.

So I decided it needed an internal coat of colour too - South Pacific Fresco paint, painted onto the inside of the jar - just to give a slightly stronger background for the flourishes to show against.

I dyed some seam binding with Rusty Hinge Distress Ink and wound some gold and beige satin ribbons together with it to create the finishing touch at the top.

It's a bit wild and extravagant, but I thought it suited the rococo style of the candle lantern itself.

As usual, it's been difficult to capture a photograph of how it looks with the candlelight illuminating it from within, but I hope this gives you a slight idea of the glow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  You've still got about a week to come and play in our Spring is Coming challenge here at The Artistic Stamper.  You have to include some stamping, but you don't have to use Artistic Stamper stamps for that... although if you do, you automatically get a double-entry to the prize draw.  Hope to see you there!

Ingredients used:
Artistic Stamper stamps - Flourish Background
Alcohol Inks - Mermaid, Botanical, Stream, Meadow, Denim
Seam Binding
Distress Inks - Rusty Hinge
Gilding Flakes - probably a mixture of various colours
From my stash - Jam Jar, Satin Ribbon (but there are plenty of options here too)

A Colour Explosion!

Hi everyone I am here today with a product that I love! & still 

experimenting with its called Brusho. 

It is worth just having a play with this until you are happy as different

types of application give different results.

For this one I shook the pots over the card before spraying lightly with water.

Triple embossing on the butterfly from the new Artistic Stamper butterflies plate,

with gold embossing powder.

                                           Alcohol inks in Currant, Red Pepper and Butterscotch.

Gems from my stash were wired together to make the butterfly's body.

Shabby White frantage embossing powder was shaken over the card and heat 

set from underneath the card. You could use any white embossing

 powder with a bit of gold sprinkled through it.

All Matted onto black card.

I love the effects from brusho and I want to try bister as well thats next on my 

wish list to get.

Please let me know what you think 

Cheers Dee x

Products Used

1. Brusho in ost Red, black & Prussian Blue.
2. Alcohol inks Red Pepper, Currant & Butterscotch.
3. Artistic Stamper stamps Butterflies 2.
4. Embossing Powder.