Hello! canvas by Debs

Hi All

Hope you are all having fun with this months challenge, as canvas is a type of fabric (well sort of)  I decided to use the new stamps just released from The Artistic Stamper.

I took  a canvas and drew a face on it with a pencil, i didn't worry about shaping the face or adding hair just eyes, nose and a mouth.

 Out came the Dylusions paints and using my finger added Squeezed Orange and Bubblegum Pink to the canvas

cover the whole canvas adding some light bits of Squeezed Orange across the facial area.

Then I added a touch more Bubblegum Pink and some Vibrant Turquoise, especially around the edges

Then covered it all with a light coat of White Linen to knock it bad a bit and soften it down, as Dylusions paints are translucent its will always pick up the colour underneath it.  I added some black to outline the eyes and a bit around the nose but try and make this a tad lighter and outlined the lips in Pink

 Added some blue and white to the eyes now we have the face appearing 

Next I stamped the new Lesleys Flowers (these are the same flowers as we had on the stencils and the plate comes with both outline and block filled flowers I used the outline one and stamped around the face

I also stamped one of the bees from the new Honeycomb and bees plate  the detail on these Bees is quite stunning i have used the smaller bee and stuck it to the canvas.

Then i started to paint all of the flowers and leaves white

As you can see from this one the white paint has picked up the colour from underneath.  At this point i decided that it needed another dimension 

I painted some white tissue with some white linen paint and once dried stamped some more of the flowers on 

with these flowers i mixed some white with a touch of pink to give a subtle hue and added some orange and a bit of yellow to the centre and cut them out 

Stuck them onto the canvas adding some colour to the original flowers and painting over the eyes with a touch of white to lighten them stamped a couple of the smaller flowers and painted them light pink using a similar mix as before.  I also added a touch of white to the mouth.

I then took out a tiny blob of orange (sorry the photo is a bit blurred but its quite hard taking a photo of your right hand with your left lol)  and then used this blob to ink up the honeycomb stamp and stamped it onto a piece of card and did the same thing in pink although I forgot to take of photo

To finish i stamped hello from the Journaling Words 4 plate in black Archival ink and cut it down. I  also painted another piece of card in the turquoise and cut it to be a little larger than the honeycomb piece and stuck it underneath.  Then placed this onto the canvas.

Sorry about the lengthy step out. 

As always we really do look forward to viewing your creations so do keep them coming and we also appreciate any comments good or bad you may have on our projects so do let us know what you think.  Thanks for stopping by

Debs

Fabric, again... by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy sewers... and the others !
I love to see fabric books but have always thought that I am not gifted at making some.
Maybe you remember the one I made 2 years ago, they are here : 

Ladies album part 1 by Titbelsoeur and here : Ladies Album part 2 by Titbelsoeur

And today I am doing it again, I love challenges ! And the November challenge at the Artistic Stamper being simply "fabric", I have started to make a new one. Quite different... fall colours... fall theme, for the moment...

You have seen the first page on the monthly challenge post, and here is a second one :

Just like I did on the other page, I have stitched fabric pieces and a half-zip all around the page, and stamped the Florence's Flowers stamp from Debbie Cotton, and the Free Your Soul words  from Donna's Stamps on the old bed sheet that supports the fabric sheets.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated, 

here, on my blog, or on the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page.

I hope that my fabric page did inspire you and that

you will participate in our monthly challenge

@ November's Creative Challenge- Fabric

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

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November's Creative Challenge- Fabric

Hello!

Welcome to November, and the start of Winter! A big thank you to everyone who joined in last month's challenge. We had some gorgeous creations.
This month the challenge is Fabric, and you can interpret it any way you like, as long as there is 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!

Here is a little bit of creativity for you from some of the team to help you get started....

Jennie

 

I created a card using Distress inks, white embossing , and a variety of

 The Artistic Stamper Background Stamps, all fabric orientated.  You can see the individual designs on my blog.  I machine stitched in white around every square to give it a patchwork feel. 

Debs

Here is a faux fabric mini book, made using the Fabric 2 background plate and prints from my Gelli Plate using Dylusions paints and stamping onto the Gelli plate.

Titbelsoeur

This is a fabric book page, the support is from an old bed sheet, and I have stamped the leaves from Leaves size A5 © Katy Fox with watercolor markers, and the sentiment with archival ink.

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

Poe Inspired Tag by Gemma

Hi All

 I made a tag based (very loosely) on a Poem by Edger Allen Poe called The Raven. The quote I have taken from the Poems is "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing".

I used a giant manilla tag, for this piece. I painted over the whole tag with white, black and paynes grey acrylic. Adding more white paint to the centre and more black and paynes grey paint to the edges. I then put some card through a Sizzix Frameworks die and painted it black. While that was drying I looked in the scrap paper box for some suitable scraps which I scrapped some Gesso over before glueing into place behind the die cut. This was then cut into smaller sections and glued to the tag.

On tissue paper I stamped out the large bird from the Fly stamp set,dabbed some black and orange paint onto the waste from the diecuts and glued that in place. I then stamped around the edges with cogs from the Tick Tock stamp set. On a piece of book paper I stamped the large light bulb and the small bird from the Fly stamp set. Once I had cut that out and glued it in place I went around the edges with a black paint pen, also painting a line to the top of the tag so the light bulb looked as if it was hanging. I then filled the light bulb with glossy accents.

To finish I stamped out the words onto book paper, glued them in place, and edged then in parts with a black pen.

Thank you for reading, all of your comments are really appreciated.
Gemma (inkykitty)

Item used from The Artistic Stamper

Large Light Bulb

Fly Stamp Set

Tick Tock

Dragonfly ATCs by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here, 

I've created four ATCs with Artistic stamper Dragonfly stamp and Dylusion paints.

I've taken few photographs while making ...

I attached old book page, tissue paper and  artistic stamper stamped butterfly image to the base and applied a coat of white gesso.

For applying colours I used various Dylusion paints

I used many text and texture stamps and archival inks for creating layers.

I also stamped Dragonflies on another white paper and cut them to adhere on ATCs.

Here they are

Have you liked them, do let me know if so...

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Products used from Artistic stamper: 

 stamps:  Butterflies #2, Calligraphy Mat 8, 13, Mini Lattice wire, Numerical plate

Dylusion Paints- Bubblegum pink, fresh lime, Lemon zest, Melted chocolate, squeezed orange, vibrant turquoise

Ranger Archival Inks- Jet Black, Forget me not, coffee

Franswar stepper card by Debs

Hi All

Debs here with another project for you, thought I would do a stepper card for you

This card is really easy to make providing you get the dimensions right to start with. I used a piece of Ranger Manilla card for this one which is not a standard UK size but it works the same with an A4 piece of card. Below is photo of the dimensions I used.

The key is to pencil mark of the size of the left hand panel and then work from the top of the card make a mark at 7cm then 14cm, 18cm, 22 and 25cm.

These marks then need to be scored so that the card folds easily. The second fold line needs to go right across the card the others only want to go as far as the pencil line you have done for the side panel.  The pencil line needs to be cut from the first 7cm to fold to the last but not right the way down. 

Once this was all done I coloured the card with Distress Inks using Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge and Ground Espresso. I used three colours on the tag as well I used a Tim Holtz stencil for the background on both the tag and the card. On the tag I used two sets of the Time stamps - Time and Keys and Tick Tock and used the cogs to add some extra background. I also used the cogs to stamp onto shrink plastic with Timber Brown Stazon ink cut them out and heated with a heat gun to shrink and make some embellishments which as I had run out of Tim Holtz ones was quite handy as they were the perfect size.  I also stamped Happy Birthday on to a piece of card using Ground Espresso on Rusty Hinge.

I stamped the cogs over the top with Ground Espresso Distress Ink once that was dry I stamped Neil Walkers Franswar Over the top and coloured it in with the same three colours of Distress Ink Pens

As always don't forget we do look forward to seeing your creations

Debs

xx

Label by Titbelsoeur

Hello happy labellers ! 
Let me tell you the way I made this label :

First, I "watercolored" the background with 2 Distress inks, then I stamped words and clock from  Tick Tock A5 in Time with the same inks so that it is in matching shades.

After that, I stamped the dancer and the sentiment from Dance A5© Siuox Jenneys  in Dance with Plum Archival.

I glued it on to a cloth label to strengthen it and highlighted the dancer inside with white Posca and shaded it outside with a red pencil.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated, 

here, on my blog, or on the Artistic Stamper's Facebook page.

I hope that my label did inspire you and that

you will participate in our October challenge

 to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps.

Titbelsoeur

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my Facebook page