Wednesday stamper: Tim Holtz

When I first considered this wednesday stamper theme I wondered how Tim had an influence on what I make, and I immediatly thought of distress inks, so of course I started with a distress ink background, using the houndstooth background from the artistic stamper, but then I realised how much more of an influence tim had had, as I distressed the edges of my black card with my scissor blade and added some random ephemera.
The flourish and family stamps are also from the artistic stamper. This is my last official Artistic stamper piece as my term on the DT comes to an end this week, but I'll still be using the stamps plenty, especially the gorgeous backgrounds and the cute mabel lucie atwell images!!

Mable Lucie Attwell box card

These box cards are surprisingly easy to make, this was my first attempt. It measures 3.5"x5.5"x 1.25" so can be easily made from an A4 sheet of card.
The stamps are by the artistic stamper, and the background and front of the cards are done with spun sugar and tumbled glass distress inks.

The best thing about this style of card, is that although it's very dimensional it folds completely flat to go into an envelope

I am entering this for Crazy Amigos flower theme

tiny flower card/ tag

I have made this little card/tag using stamps from the artistic stamper. including the large flower,
stitchels leaves, sequin background, and white rabbit

Time for Tea

The theme at sunday postcard art is "Time for Tea". I knew straight away that I wanted to use this new Mabel Lucie Atwell stamp of the mad hatters tea party from the artistic stamper. The gingham bunting is made with the gingham background stamp from the artistic stamper, but I hand drew the triangles (that's about the extent of my drawing capabilties- dodgy triangles!!).
I have edged the card with tumbled glass distress ink, and decoupaged the bunting and teapot.

The effect of the scratching is where I tried to remove some stray ink, but I liked it so I added some more, lol

Mixed Media Monday: vintage children

I love the theme at MMM this week I could use vintage images of children all day long... but I decided to go a little bit different. I have just received the new Mabel Lucie Atwell Alice in Wonderland images from The Artistic Stamper. I decided to make a book mark (seemed appropriate) and used bits of pages from an actual copy of the book. I have also used the new large lace background from the artistic stamper I have edged the main image and stamped the lace with one of the new distress colours, tumbled glass.
I love all alice images but I like these ones from the 1920's version of the book as they are just a little bit different.

(Just to clarify, I don't have this book, was just showing a picture of it in casw anyone was not familiar with mabel lucie atwell's Alice drawings)

more lace stamping

I love the new lace stamps from the artistic stamper, I have used the smaller background lace here to make a flower by stamping the flower onto the stamped lace and cutting it out.
They have just released another bigger lace background which I now how, that should be really useful.

All of the other stamps are also by the artistic stamper as is the gem.

more new distress ink..

This time Barn Door, more of a true red than fired brick I think.
All the stamps and Ink are from The Artistic Stamper. And this is another of the new lace stamps.

New distress inks

The theme today at lots to do is distress, as luck would have it I took delivery of six of the new distress inks today from the artistic stamper, so I had to have a play. I have made this tag easel card using 3 of the new colours: stormy sky; pumice stone and crushed olive. All the stamps are also by the artistic stamper including the new lace stamp. (no that's not real lace, it's a stamp, realistic isn't it?)

oops I forgot to blog this one!!

This is a piece I made for the lace/fibres challenge for the gingersnap challenge, it's okay the challenge still runs until the 7th march.
The stamps are Artistic Stamper, as are the gems

gingersnap tutorial

Today on the gingersnap creations site I have done a tutorial on how to make these easy tag in a card sets. I'd love to see what people do with them, as I think they have scope for a lot of imagination.
I have used some of the new stamps from the Artistic Stamper

Gingersnap Creations’ Valentine Blog Hop

Welcome to the Gingersnap Creations’ Valentine Blog Hop and Hop Stop #5!
If you’ve already been hopping then hopefully you have just come from Jean at Bluebird Paperie . If you are starting here, welcome! It's a loop so you can start anywhere along the way!

At each stop, you need to collect a word! There are 9 stops in all starting and ending with the Gingersnap Creations blog where you can get all the specific information and get a peak at the the goodies in the Valentine Giveaway including some treats from The Artistic Stamper.

When you get all your words, 9 in all, unscramble them to form a quotation about love. Once you have your guess at the quote, email it and your name to gingersnapstamp@gmail.com by February 20, 2010. We will be picking one lucky winner at random from the correct entries to win the Valentine Giveaway package!

If you visit all the stops, you should end up right back at Gingersnap Creations with 9 words! Unscramble the words to come up with a love quote and email it on to gingersnapstamp@gmail.com. That's all there is to it!

If you get lost along the way, you can see the entire route at Gingersnap Creations.

My word is "becomes".

Your next stop on the hop is Laura at As Happy As.... Have fun and good luck!

my little hanger is made with stamps from the new artistic stamper range.

shaped tag

second post today, and again I am playing with The artistic Stamper's new releases.
The theme at created by Hand is "anything but a square or rectangle"
For christmas one of my presents was a lovely pack of tea, which had on it the most gorgeous shaped labels which I kept to use as a template, and that's what I have done here.
I love the sequin waste background stamp, it's actually a full A6 size, so you can use it on large areas or just pick out small areas with masking.
The theme at lots to do is different shapped tags so I am entering this there as well.

Sugar is sweet, and so are you!

This week the new challenge at Gingersnap creations is romance. The challenge is being sponsored by The Artistic Stamper. I decided to make this little gift with some of the new releases from the Artistic stamper.

Make sure you take part in the challenge, there are stamps to be won!

4x4 friday a boy and a bird

If, like me, you are thinking "hang on didn't 4x4 friday stop ages ago?": you are right. This is a new 4x4 friday challenge and it looks really good. This week the challenge is a boy and a bird. it's strange but I actually have very few boy images.
strange why? 1) because I have thousands of stamps, so by the law of averages, quite a few of them should be boy stamps.
2) I have 2 sons so you'd think I'd collect boy stamps.

Anyway, this boy was taken from a much larger "family values" stamp from the artistic stamper. I have also used some Stitchels stamps and a word stamp all from the artistic stamper.

Karin's tiles....finally

These are the last of the 2"x2" tiles for the collaborative challenge. This time they are for Karin.
All stamps are by The artistic stamper, I have used a flower, a quote and a speckled background.

I am entering this for Gingersnap's embossing challenge, as I have used blue embossing powder for the speckle.

theme thursday: hearts

The theme at theme thursday is hearts, so I decided to use stamps from The Artistic Stamper to create a heart background and heart hanging feature on this card using mabel lucie atwell stamps.

This second card is also made using stamps from The Artistic Stamper. This one was for Carol's birthday.

Saucy "Christmas Stockings" Card

I wanted to make my husband a cheeky christmas card, so I used this nude wearing stockings from the artistic stamper. The background and gem are also from The Artistic Stamper.

I finished the image off with some white flower soft around her feet and the top of her stockings.
I also used a strip of velvet ribbon, for a lovely tactile element.

Tim's Tags day 6: the cute version!

I really like the techniques tim used on his tag today, so I decided to do my own version, as you can see, it's nothing like Tim's really, but the inspiration is there!

Tim's Tag (day 6)

I don't have any of the sparkly fluff, that Tim used, but you know what works just as well?
why, polar white flower soft of course.

The stamps I used are mostly from The Artistic Stamper, except the tree (and I'm not sure where that's from)

just a couple of things

Just a couple of things that I made this week that I didn't get round to blog.
Another easel card made using more of the Mabel Lucie Atwell stamps and K&co papers


and a hat I knitted with random stripes and a detachable flower.

New Mabel Lucie attwell stamps

If you visit the Artistic Stamper blog you will see the new Mabel Lucie Atwell stamps. I was lucky enough to receive these pre-release, and have had a quick play with them.

I used "care to dance" to make this tag card

"nature's little helper" to make this acetate card


and "Holly" to make this canvas back decoration, from a tiny canvas. (The mounted holly is from the same stamp.)

All other stamps used are also by the Artistic Stamper