INKtober

Hello, welcome to my post for The Artistic Stamper. This month is INKtober month!! Which is perfect for us stampers.

So here is my make...

I first stamped the butterflies from the Insects and Butterflies stamp set with brown distress ink then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I made the background by mixing a blue and green distress ink with water on to a craft mat, then swooped a piece of white card through the ink.

I then used The Artistic Stamper Random Dots 6 x 6 stencil with oxide ink and stamped over the top with the ring stamps from the A4 Swirls, Splats and Dots stamp set with oxide ink.

I then used the Decay Alphabet Lower Case set to stamp the sentiment onto another piece of card with the same ink, then matted and layered it.

Thanks for popping by,

toodles for now,

Lisa xx

Pop over to The Artistic Stamper website to see everything I have used.

              

Colour it Blue

Hi folks, today I am posting for 

The Artistic Stamper. 

The theme this month is 'Colour it Blue' which for me, is quite "normal" as blue tends to be the most popular colour I go to. (mmmm.... I think I need to stop doing that...

I chose the fabulously crazy Birdz stamp set by Neil Walker to play with. Along with a selection of 3 x 3 stencils and a selection of blue Oxide Distress Inks. 

I first used the stencils with the selection of blue inks on white card creating a background.

I then stamped the Birdz and coloured them in with the Oxide inks and water.

I then stamped the phrase 'free as a bird' using The Artistic Stamper Decay Alphabet stamp set. 

Everything I used is below and available on The Artistic Stamper Website.

Thanks for popping by.

Toodles for now,

Lisa xxx

                   

Background Hello @ The Artistic Stamper

Hello folks, welcome to my latest creation for The Artistic Stamper. This month, our theme is 'backgrounds'.

Each member of TAS Design Team are working with the new collection of Tracy Scott background stamps. I used #8 in the collection. 

I started with some white card cut to 7" square and coloured it with a couple of different yellow Distress Oxide inks.

I cut a piece of white card to 4.5" square and used a couple of red Oxides and did the same with a rectangle piece of card with orange Oxides.

I used Tracy's Background #8 stamp and stamped the three pieces of card with the Oxides. 

I also used Mini Backgrounds #1 stamp set on the yellow piece of card which I stamped using a selection of the Oxide colours. 

I adhered the red square on to the yellow background. I used foam pads to attach the orange rectangle to add some depth.

I then stamped 'hello' in the bottom right corner with the A5 Decay Alphabet lowercase stamp set.

To finish, I mounted the large background on to a white 7.5" square. 

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please leave a comment if you wish, I love to hear your thoughts.

Toodles for now,

Lisa xxx 

Here are the stamps I used... which are available on The Artistic Stamper website.

             

The Artistic Stamper Birds and Bees theme... with a twist

Hi folks, I'm here with another creation for the Birds and Bees theme this month. But with a twist... I've used butterflies.

I used The Artistic Stamper A5 Insects and Butterflies stamp set, which has a gorgeous collection of winged creatures. 

On my last creation for this theme I used birds and the previous one, I used bees. So, this time I went with a more pretty version of a winged creature - butterflies. I love butterflies! I have quite a wide variety of butterfly stamps and even though I have many, I still continue to collect them, as you can never have enough!!!

Here is my creation...

I coloured a piece of white card with Distress Inks using Mustard Seed, Cracked Pistachio and Blueprint Sketch. 

I then sprayed the inked background with water and left to dry.

I used The Artistic Stamper 3 x 3 Harlequin Mask with the same colours of ink to add some depth.

I then stamped the butterflies from the Insects and Butterflies stamp set on to white card and coloured them them with Carved Pumpkin, Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks.

I adhered the butterflies at different heights coming off the background.

I then stamped the word 'fly' using black Versafine ink then 
over-stamped with Carved Pumpkin Distress Ink, and lightly brushed Blueprint Sketch ink over the top. I matted the word on to Kraft Card and glued it to the  bottom corner of the background.

To finish, I matted the background on to Kraft Card.

Thanks for popping by.

Toodles for now,

Lisa xxx

The stamps and stencil I have used are available on The Artistic Stamper website. 


         

Stencils in Bloom @ The Artistic Stamper

Hi folks and welcome to my blog post for The Artist Stamper. 

This week the theme puts The Artistic Stamper stencils in the spotlight. 

I chose the 6 x 6 random dots stencil to use for this project.

I coloured the background of a white piece of card with Distress Oxide Inks then used the random dots mask with some white texture paste, which I coloured with one of the inks I used for the background.

I used the same mask with more texture paste on a small greyboard tag and added colour with the ink. 

I coloured some flowers with the Oxide Inks and added them to the tag with some sisal.

I stamped the word 'bloom' with the decay alphabet stamp set on to a white piece of card then inked the edges to match the colour palette.

Thanks for popping by my blog today. 

Leave a comment if you wish, I love to hear your thoughts. 

Toodles for now,

Lisa xxx 

Here are The Artistic Stamper products I used... which are available on the website.

     

Roses are Red.... with The Artistic Stamper

Hi folks and welcome to my post for The Artistic Stamper. This weeks theme is "Roses are Red" as of course, Valentine's Day is around the corner.

Personally, I am not a lover of the commercial aspect of Valentine's Day. I prefer a nice card with some heartfelt handwritten words rather than a typical bunch of dwindling red roses. (I've never been a follower of tradition...) 

So, for this project I used the Neil Walker Heart stamp and the Mini Backgrounds #1 set 

Here is my creation...

I took a piece of card and coloured it with Distress Oxide Inks - Candied Apple, Abandoned Coral and Fired Brick then stamped the Heart stamp using Oxide Black Soot multiple times over the card. 

I then fussy cut all the hearts out and added some 3D foam just down the centre on the back of the hearts. 

I stamped the dots from the Mini Background #1 set on to white card and cut out two leaf shapes and a stem shape. I crumpled the leaf shapes to give them a more realistic look. 

I took a piece of 7" x 7" white card and inked the edges with Candied Apple Oxide ink. I adhered the stem and the leaves to the card. Then adhered the hearts on top of each other, layering them to give the look of petals.

For the sentiment, I used the Decay Alphabet - lower case stamp set and stamped 'For You' on a separate piece of card in Black Soot Oxide ink and inked the edges with Candied Apple and Fired Brick Oxide ink. 

Thanks for popping by, leave a comment if you wish, I love to hear your thoughts.

Toodles for now,

Lisa xxx

Here are the stamps I used on my creation which are available from The Artistic Stamper website.

        

Love is... @ The Artistic Stamper

Hi folks and welcome to my post for this weeks challenge over @ The Artistic Stamper. This week's theme is 'red'.

Here is my creation...

I cut a piece of 350gsm white card to 7" x 7" and used Distress Oxide Inks - Candied Apple, Abandoned Coral and Fired Brick to ink the background. I applied the inks with ink blending brushes to have a nice covered area of colour. I then went around the edges with Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.

I used the Mini Background #1 stamp set with the 3 colours of red Distress Oxide to add some patterns to the background.

I tore 3 squares from the white card just bigger than the heart stamp, then inked the the same way as the background.

I then stamped the heart on to the three torn squares using black VersaFine ink and adhered them to the background.

I used the Decay Alphabet - lower case to stamp the words directly on to the background.

To finish, I mounted the card on to a piece of 7.5" x 7.5" black card.

Thanks for popping along today, 

toodles for now...

Lisa xxx

If you would like to play along with the challenge, the link is here...

Here are the stamps I used available at The Artistic Stamper.

Mini Backgrounds #1

Heart (Neil Walker)

Decay Alphabet - lower case