Feeling Rubbery.....

November 26th 2016
My post today is revisiting some "rubber stamped" creations I've made!! I had fun picking out some of my "favs" for this post - realised I love to create with lots of different style of images and using lots of different mediums to complete the creations!

Mixed media cards using Prima Bloom girls - great large stamps to create with and I loved colouring them with different mediums!





 

 

Lost Coast Designs have some great stamps to create with this is a little mini mixed media journal page which I think started as a bit of a "mop up" page for excess paints and ink on a background stamp and was worked on from there.

 

Below is one of my favourites from ICAD this year - just love the bird stamp and had so much playing with paint and making the circles.

 

Love the texture of this next page and the addition of the lace and braid scraps I attached with my sewing machine and great medieval style stamp.

 

Below are some creations using Stampotique Stamps - such quirky stamps available!!

Firstly a mixed media double page journal spread - this was so much fun to create with paint, stamps and embossing powder for a December/Xmas theme!!

 

And below are two sets of stamped ATC's made for swaps - LOL the first set were nix and match - using several stamps and cutting them up and making a new character and of course the 2 under that are Halloween themed!!!

 

 

And a few rubber stamps from JessicaLynnOriginal. Altered index cards below combine the rubber stamped coffee cup with collage images and mixed media background!

 

Love to create tag art and this Boston Terrier rubber stamp worked perfectly with the background for this and matching elements! I coloured this image with pastel pencils - always love the effect from these pencils.

 

A couple of dog themed "Moo's" - using toy dog stamps - stamped dogs directly to the Moo and coloured with pencils.

 

Altered playing cards with textured and ink backgrounds and stamps coloured with copics - I loved how these turned out - the colours are vibrant and I love the backgrounds.

 

Rubber stamps are so versatile and it was great to look back over my past creations with them and add this post to my blog!

Shabby Chic ATC's

January 3rd 2016

These ATC's were made for a Stampotique Tatttered/Shabby ATC challenge during 2015 at the Stampotique Facebook Group! I love Stampotique stamps - lots of quirky designs!

 

I'm really happy with how these came out and the recipients liked them too which is always a bonus!

ICAD Week 3

September 14th 2015
Finally getting around to sharing my Week 3 card - I hope to catch up one day LOL!!

Day 15 : Route 66

 Collage images from Art Tea Life and Freubels Freebies

 

Day 16 : Greeting Card

 Collage images from Lisa's Altered Art

 

Day 17 : Wabi Sabi

 Digital stamp from The East Wind. Patterned papers from Japan.

 

Day 18 : Treehouse

 Birds from Lisa's Altered Art and I cannot remember where the digital stamp is from!

 

Day 19 : Snow Globe

 Background patterned paper from SLS Lines and gorgeous digi stamp from Michelle Perkett.

 

Day 20 : Colour Wheel

 Rubber stamp from Stampotique.

 

Day 21 : 1970's

Digital dancing ladies from Digi Design House.

Metallic/Shiny ATC Trade!

June 19th 2015

These ATC's were made for another fun trade at the Stampotique FB Group - theme was Shiny or Metallic! I ran some ordinary alfoil through my Big Kick in a star embossing powder and added some alcohol inks for a bit of colour. Just love the gorgeous Stampotique stamp with wings added from another Stampotique Stamp - love to combine stamps LOL!!! They have made their way overseas to their new homes!

Photo Bomb ATC Swap!

May 25th 32015
Sharing a pic of the ATC's I made for the April Stampotique ATC Trade! Had so much fun with these ATC and there was such a great variety from all the participants.

 

I started with an acetate base for my ATC and used my Silhouette to cut a camera design and I added a Stampotique character the letters "Say Cheese" and the "fingers" were part of an Oddball Stamps Digi - LOL just couldn't resist!!!

 

If you are a fan of Stampotique stamps and you are not already a member of the Stampotique FB Group you should consider joining and having some fun!

Stampotique "Swaperoo" ATC's....

May 7th 2015
Sharing my "Swaperoo" ATC's made for a swap for the FB Stampotique Group - I have to tell you this swap was soooo much fun.

I used 5 different Stampotique stamps to make my little Swaperoo Character! LOL he's travelling "incognito" as I added a moustache and glasses to each ATC. I just loved how these turned out. I paper pieced the body bits and pieces. ATC backgrounds were done with sprays and texture paste.

These tags using another Stampotique Stamp were what I sent to my partners along with the ATC's.

Stampotique ATC Halloween Trade....

December 20th 2014
LOL I know it's the wrong time of the year but I am sharing these ATC's I made for the Stampotique FB ATC Trade in October - I'm a bit behind sharing so am trying to tidy all my 2014 creations up and be ready to start 2015!!

I made these "protective" pockets on the Silhouette so the ATC's would arrive at their destinations safely! Just love the owls!

"Naughty" ATC Swap!

December 16th 2014

These ATC's were made for the FB Stampotique ATC Trade in September - I nearly forgot to share them here on my blog and I'm trying to catch up on posts for 2014!

Stampotique Xmas ATC Cards...

December 8th 2014

Some little ATC"cards" made for the Stampotique ATC Trade in November. These little cards are ATC size but open like a card. I made little folders to send them in because they had to go overseas and I had some damaged so now I make sure the actual ATC is well protected!

Also linking up to the Unruly Paperarts 12 Days of Christmas Link Up Party!

Hi There in Black & White....

November 8th 2014
Keep forgetting to share my ATC's made for the Stampotique FB ATC Trade! These are the two I made for the August Black & White themed trade! Just love creating with Stampotique stamps!

Stampotique Xmas in July!

July 25th 2014

"Aark! The Herald Angels Sing...."

 



This week's challenge at the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog is "Xmas in July" [SDC #157] - seems to be a popular theme at the moment - is that a hint that half the year is over and xmas is coming???????

I've used a somewhat scary angel from Stampotique "Daniel's Tree Topper" and as you will notice I change "Hark" to "Aark!!" - you know like crows go "aark aark" - my humour - supposed to be funny - you may or may not "get" it LOL!!!

Background for both pages is acrylic paint - I used a little sponge roller to apply the paint - both red & then blotches of yellow - love to get painty & inky fingers!

I used some texture paste & a stencil down one side of my first page and then covered with gold UTEE with a bit of glitter added. I used a Tim Holtz textures stamp to make the "lines" at the top and the bottom of each page and some of the lines I embossed with gold embossing powder. The first page has 3 angels printed, coloured & fussy cut then adhered to the page - I also added some glitter to the wings & dress.

On the second page I used letter stamps to spell "December" down the side of the page, more of the texture stamp & embossing and angels printed directly to the page in black.

To finish off I added some little gold star gems for even more glitz! I have to say that I really love this 2 page spread!

Now I am also entering these pages in the current "Sparkle N Sprinkle" Creative Challenge which is always anything goes using, glitter, embossing powder and/or flocking - I've certainly used lots of embossing powder and even put some polysparkle glitter in with the gold UTEE!!

The Earth Laughs in Flowers......

July 17th 2014

Sharing a journal page made for the Stampotique Challenge (SDC 155) Newspaper/Magazine theme. I followed Janet's idea for adding text to my page at her blog - Vera Lane Studio - I love Janet's images which I have used on this journal page available at Stampotique. Gorgeous flower f=girl image is "China Belle" and the Emerson quote is also a Janet Klein image.

I bought a Cameo Silhouette a few months ago and can you believe I only got it out of the box about a week ago - LOL - I am time poor - but I am loving it - still working it all out of course but did manage to cut the cherry blossom branch and flowers - I was very excited!!!!

Background is acrylic paint and I used Asian newspaper pieces and Janet's technique to add the text to the page - probably need some more practice with that but my first effort so I'm still happy! Image coloured with Copics and everything adhered with Gel Medium. Love getting painty and sticky fingers in the name of crafting!!!!

This page is also inspired by the Journal 52 Week 13 prompt: "How does your Garden Grow" - this is a Japanese garden in the making!