Art Impressions week: AJ and cards

hi, 
Gio was another one challenged with the Art Impressions stamps, but I'm sure you will agree that she did amazing!!
Art Journal page to start with... bearing in mind she is Italian, she HAD to get the Vespa stamp... not that the character on here looks anything like  Gio, but the idea is there. 
Love the cat in the basket... looks pretty freaked out if you ask me... 
See what I meant yesterday when I said you can relate to those stamps? Gio even has a cat (who probably think she is crazy too LOL)


oh and remember the Chiffon Fran-tage Fragment from last week? Here they are again.. Another clever way for you to use them!

I stamped the image using black StazOn on a piece of tissue paper, since I needed the image on reverse.

The background of the page is made "cleaning" the masks and stencils from a previous project.

I glued the image to the page using Claudine Hellmuth white gesso or Multimedium. I coloured the image with several Distress Inks using a Zig waterbrush.

Tip : 

to prevent the ink from smearing, before colouring it , cover the stamped image with one or two layers of Multimedium.

I put some Frantage Chiffon Fragments on different little containers, then I poured in some drops of Ranger Alcohol inks. When these were dry, I drew some swirl on the background using Glossy Accents and I adhered the fragments. I doodled on the page and I added the journaling with Sakura Identi-pen: black.

Then Gio made a couple of cards

(I told you she's enjoying making cards now, there is no stopping her)

1 : I glued down the stamped image on the tissue paper to a piece of white cardstock using Claudine Hellmuth Multimedium, spreading the glue under and above the image. I coloured it with several Distress Inks using a Zig detail brush.

I created a swirl on the cardstock with Glossy Accents, then I poured some coloured Fran-tage on it. I tapped the card to remove the excess fragments.

I cut out the stamped image and I adhered it to the card, and I stamped the sentiment.

2: I glued down the stamped image on the tissue paper to a piece of white cardstock using Claudine Hellmuth Multimedium, spreading the glue under and above the image. I coloured it with several Distress Inks using a Zig detail brush. I cut out the stamped image, leaving only the Vespa and I adhered it to the card. I glued down some coloured Fran-tage under it. Then I stamped the cat on the side of the card inking only a small part of the stamp. I glued under it the little basket.

Art Impressions character stamps Art Impressions quote stamps Woodware Single stamps Artcoe Bluebell books Distress inks Claudine Hellmuth mediums Ranger Alcohol inks Glossy Accents Frantage Mica fragment Sakura Identi-pens White tissue paper StazOn ink Gesso Zig BrusH2O Waterbrushes

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Product details

Art Impressions rubber stamp: Mad rider

Woodware clear stamp: Alphabet background

Adirondack alcohol ink - purple twilight; sunshine yellow; raspberry; pool

Distress Ink pad: Spiced marmalade-Worn Lipstick-Broken China-Barn Door-Tattered Rose-Dusty Concord

See you tomorrow

Art Impressions week: card

Helloooo, 
I hope you had a lovely weekend. 
Were you one of the lucky ones able to attend the Extravaganza? I hope so!


This week, we will be featuring the lovely and funny Art Impressions stamps.
This is a stamp range we have added recently on our website (and in the shop of course) and it's sure to bring a smile on your face. When you go through them, you can't help but think "oh, I can relate to that"... "oh, that is soooo me" ... etc... 
With the doom and gloom that sometimes surround us, it's nice to have a laugh and those stamps will sure do the job, whether you use the characters or the quotes (which I personally love)


Here's a few of the stamps we sell. There are A LOT more on the website. Click here to find them

 

We are going to start our week with Neil... 

Now, I must share something with you. Don't think for one minute that it is an easy task to be on the Craft Barn DT... you might see it as "oh, it's cool, I get to play with a lot of craft stuff"... Well, that's very true... but it's still not that easy... 

First you have to put up with me LOL. Nahhh, I'm not that bad really.. I care for them very much ♥.

Then, you might end up working with stamps or products you would NEVER have picked up because they are just "not you" ... Not everyone can do this... but I have the most AWESOMEST (as my DD would say) Design Team who is ready to take up any challenge... (or close enough)

And yes, Neil is definitely one I knew I would challenge with the "Art Impressions week".... Isas'Art is the other one... but still, they did amazing as they always do... wait until you see Isa's sample, I'm sure you would NEVER have thought of using AI stamps this way... 

So back to Neil... a lovely clean and simple card... Distress free (can you believe this?), coloured with Copics. The kind of card we should all make ever so often, even if "you are not in that kind of things" because I'm sure there are people around you who would love to receive it!! 

Also, colouring is very therapeutic. I'm sure that many of you out there will agree with me.

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Here's my card for this week. AND NOT A DISTRESS INK PAD IN SIGHT so don't faint 

Those of you who know me will realise that this is not really my "style" of image. Still I have to admit that I enjoyed the opportunity to dust off my copic markers and do a spot of colouring.

When I first saw the stamps, this is the one that caught my eye immediately. And possibly because my daughter was sitting watching sex and the city for the umpteemth time while I was in the room the words I've used popped into my head so I thought I'd better jot them down before I forgot them.

To make the card I stamped the image onto white card and coloured in with copics. I cut out the image and mounted onto blue card. The quote was printed and mounted on the same blue. I glued some ribbon along the bottom and attached the sentiment on top of it before adding the main image. Some sparkle gems either side just finished it off nicely too.

Colours of Copics used:

E93 - Skin

BV23 glasses

YR 23, E57 and R46 - Hair

B60 - shadows on the white

R85, B95, V15, G14, R46, YR23 - clothing etc.

Links to products

Art Impressions character stamps Copic markers Archival inks Coloured A4 card Ribbons

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See you tomorrow

Embossing and mica challenge

Hi, 


Well, another week of inspiration has passed, with lots of techniques and different ways to use the Fran-tage products. Now it's time to see if you have been listening carefully to your teachers LOL and get those Mica flakes and enamel embossing powders out.

For this challenge, we will ask you to 

use embossing enamel and / or mica flakes on your project. 

You don't have any Fran-tage? (well, you should lol)... you can use other brands... UTEE or the Cosmic Shimmer for the enamel for example. But if you do have some Fran-tage, please use this first.

Project can be anything: 

Card, Art Journal page, Scrapbooking page, ATC

altered object etc... 

Challenge is open to all countries

and will close on 

Sunday 15th July

Please, post your entrie(s) on your blog and link it

(Permalink please, not a general link to your blog) to the blue frog below.

If you don't have a blog, you can email me a picture of your entry (the name of the file should be your name) and I'll post it for you.

The other option, if you don't have a blog is to post it on your Facebook and link it from there.

I should think it would work with Google + or Instagram too for those of you who have those accounts. Remember that your picture has got to be public for it to work.

HAVE FUN

Can't wait to see what you come up with