April's "Stamp Artist Of The Month" is
Stamp Artist Donna Dempsey
"Flower Dance"
Stamp Artist - Donna Dempsey |
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Flower Dance--- by Sunday International---by PSX #G1785
Dragonfly--- by Comotion rubber stamps #875 Star---by The Artful
Stamper Canada 3 Stars---by Comotion Rubber Stamps
- Krienik Iron On Ribbon, gold and black
Gold piece of cord
- Wooden picket fence from Craft Store.
- Papers- Smooth watercolour white, black cardstock, light
smooth, heavy textured.
- Gold and Holographic embossing powders.
- Gold Lumiere metallic acrylic.
- Gold sparkle glue.
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Directions:
- Stamp Flower Dance on smooth watercolour paper and colour/blend
with Tomboy watercolour markers. Cut out using exacto knife where
necessary.
- Stamp and gold emboss Moon on black smooth light cardstock,
fill in with gold Lumiere, cut out.
- Stamp Dragonfly on black light cardstock and emboss with
holograph embossing powder. Cut out.
- Glue/tape Flower Girl down on heavy black cardstock(the actual
card portion) , leaving the top half portion unattached.
- Stamp stars on heavy black cardstock (front of card) with
gold embossing powder. Add sparkle glue.
- Attach Moon stamp with a thick mounting tape.
- Wrap gold cord around hand and ravel up and around the Moon.
Attach a thinner mounting tape under hand.
- Attach vellum cut out saying, then frame with iron-on gold
and black ribbons.
- Attach dragon fly with mounting tape, tucking slightly under
flower.
- Attach wooden fence with glaze glue or silicone glue.
- Attach any remaining pieces of Flower Girl with thin mounting
tape\
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"Watercolor Hummer"
Stamp Artist - Bea Rosenleaf |
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Stamps by The Angel Company - All Things of Nature (T-907)
- StampZia Color Washes - Malachite/Tanzanite/Amethyst
- Twinkling H2Os - Summer Breeze/Blue Grass/Sweet Lavender/Jasmine
- 100# White Cardstock
- Black Cardstock
- White Watercolor paper
- Square Brads - Black
- Krylon Gold Leafing Pen
- Versa Mark Ink Pad
- Black Embossing Power
- Heat Gun
- Fine-spray water bottle
- Paint Brush
- Stipple Brush
- Adhesive of Choice
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Directions:
- Cut black cardstock to 5 ½" x 8 ½",
fold in half to create a card 5 ½" x 4 ¼".
Cut watercolor paper to 5 ¼" x 4".
- Create background using Color Washes. Starting with the lightest
and working to the darkest, spray colors on watercolor paper
and lift, tipping paper to allow colors to run (don't let run
too much or they will muddy, but just enough to blend nicely).
Lift off with a dry paper towel. If you want a darker background,
repeat the process - just let each layer dry well in between
or they will muddy. You can speed up drying with a heat gun if
you are impatient like I am! Let paper dry well when you get
the background to look like you want.
- Stamp Hummingbird with Flower onto the white cardstock cut
to 2 3/4'' x 2 1/4''. (Make sure you use the heavier cardstock
due to the watercolor process.) Using a paint brush and water,
color the bird with Summer Breeze, let dry. Color the flower
with Sweet Lavender, let dry. Now highlight the bird with Blue
Grass and spritz with fine spray of water - let blend on its
own (don't pick up paper). Repeat on flower using Jasmine. Let
this dry well. Use stipple brush loaded with Summer Breeze and
Jasmine and lightly stipple the background around the bird and
flower. (You may want to stipple a little paint off the brush
onto a scrap piece of paper so it isn't so dark when you do the
background.) When this is dried well, layer on black cardstock.
Set aside.
- Take verse and using versamark, stamp onto the background.
Sprinkle with black embossing powder and heat until melted. Attach
3 black brads centered across top of verse (set on point to make
them look like diamond shape).
- Create border with gold leafing pen around the background.
Layer on black card front.
- Attach the bird to card front at an angle.
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Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
A La Carte Art Stamps -
- Deco Altered book instructions #0102E
- Stardream bronze mica 2-1"x1.50"
- glass
- Distress inks Galaxy Gold Brilliance
- Hawthorn punch-Punch bunch Spellbinders
- Ornamental Reflection B
- Wizard Copper tape ribbon
- solder soldering iron ephemera
- jump ring
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"Altered Lives"
Stamp Artist - Viki Banaszak |
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Directions
- Take a page from a book and crumple it up. Use water and
distress inks to age it to your taste. Attach to ATC made from
Bronze Stardream. Stamp Altered and over symbol using Galaxy
Gold Brilliance ink and heat set.
- Attach a piece left over from the Ornamental Reflections
B to the bottom of card. I chose a red swirl piece.
- Add 2 distressed Hawthorn leaves near the top. Use distressed
inks on a piece of ephemera of 2 children.
- Clean your glass and sandwich your ephemera between the pieces.
Apply the copper tape to the edges of the glass.
- Apply the solder over the tape and attach the jump ring with
solder.
- Tie a small ribbon to the top and attach to the card.
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"Colorwash Shaker"
Stamp Artist - Lisa Somerville |
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps|
Summer by the Sea (boy)
Linen
Simply Said (sentiment)
All supplies Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted
- gold beads www.innovativesampcreations.com
- window sheet
- coluzzle - rectangle (local stamp store)
- ink - white craft, basic black, black stazon, pumpkin
- watercolor crayons
- aquapainter
- colorwash jewels - www.stampzia.com Malachite and Sapphire
- bleach
- scotch double sided foam tape (local hardware store)
- saran wrap
- Cardstock - close to cocoa, taken with teal, pumpkin, watercolor
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Directions:
- Spritz Malachite and Sapphire colorwash onto watercolor paper,
while still wet, scrunch and unfold saranwrap and place over
watercolor paper - let dry completely.
- While that is drying - using coluzzle cut a rectangle from
your close to cocoa CS, using DTP apply white craft ink to cardstock
and adhere a window sheet to the back side. Place scotch double
sided tape along all 4 sides on the back - place gold beads inside.
(Shaker piece)
- Working with the now dry colorwash watercolor paper - stamp
image in black stazon. Let dry. Using aquapainter filled with
bleach, remove color from the image that you want to color. Using
watercolor crayons and a waterfilled aquapainter, color as desired.
Layer onto Taken with Teal cardstock. Remove adhesive from the
Shaker piece, and adhere the taken with teal/colorwashed image.
This now completes your shaker. Attach shells as desired with
hot glue.
- Stamp Linen with Pumpkin ink on Pumpkin cardstock - brush
edges with white craft. Layer onto Taken with Teal and Close
to Cocoa cardstocks that also have the edges brushed with white
craft ink.
- Stamp sentiment in black onto pumpkin cardstock. Layer pumpkin
on teal then cocoa cardstocks. Layer your shaker onto pumpkin
cardstock.
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Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Lady Luck by Stampers Anonymous
- Inks: Black Versafine Ink
- Zig Photo Twin Markers (Soft Hues Set, Natural Hues Set &
Cheerful Hues Set)
- 1 Playing card (that was slightly smaller than 3 ½
x 2 ½ ATC size)
- Sharpie Pens (Turquoise - Lime - Pink)
- 91% rubbing alcohol in a spritz bottle
- Micro Hole Punch 1/16"
- 5 Micro brass brads 1/16"
- Fingernail sanding sponge block
- Black cardstock
- Sturdy white cardstock
- Discarded CD
- White craft felt squares
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"Folding ATC"
Stamp Artist - Evelyn Duncan |
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Directions:
Inspiration:
I like making fun and unusual Artist Trading Cards (ATC's) and
I've recently started stamping art dolls; so, I decided to create
this unfolding art doll that would still be considered an ATC.
Once folded, this piece fits the traditional ATC size of 2 ½
x 3 ½ inches. Attaching the parts with brads to a playing
card base gave me the necessary format to achieve the goal.
Instructions:
- I stamped the doll onto sturdy white cardstock.
- Then colored the various parts with the Zig Photo Twin Markers.
- Next I distressed a playing card by scuffing it with a fingernail
sanding sponge block.
- A slight "polished stone" effect was created on
the card surface.
- Scribble Turquoise, Lime and Pink sharpie markers onto three
separate sections of an old discarded CD (do this on the shiny
side of the CD).
- Spritz the 91% alcohol onto the CD to wet the scribbled Sharpie
inks
- Spritz a white craft felt square with alcohol and rub it
through one of sharpie colors on the CD then daub it onto several
sections of the playing card.
- Repeat spritzing and transferring of color as many times
as needed to get a pleasing background on your card.
- Additional blending can be done on the card by lightly spritzing
it with the alcohol and daubing the colors with the felt pad.
- Position doll parts on playing card and punch holes in appropriate
location with a 1/16 micro Hole punch.
- The doll parts were attached to the card with 1/16"
micro brass brads.
- Mat the playing card with a 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch
piece of black cardstock.
- Fold parts into the card so it can be stored in a traditional
ATC sleeve or sheet
Folding Instructions: Fold Arms in first then head then legs.
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"Dreaming"
Stamp Artist - France Chevalier |
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Zettiology Clown (30-148-E)
R&P Stamps Torn Weave (RP149 Med)
Krafty Lady Art Mould (AM149 Lge Clover)
- Memories inkpad: Black Brilliance inkpad: Victorian Violet
- Lumiere Paint: Pearl Violet (569)
- Delight modelling compound (or medium of your choice)
- White matte card White gloss card Black matte card Portion
of a black page from a notebook (could also be done with black
card and a hole punch)
- Paintbrush Water in a spray bottle Double sided tape and
gel medium (or other adhesive of your choice)
- newspaper or similar to cover your work area
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Directions:
- Cast the shape from the art mould and let dry thoroughly.
- When ready to paint the mould, have your cardstock ready
as well.
- Paint the mould casting with the Lumiere paint.
- When you are finished painting, stipple your paint brush
onto the white gloss card, leaving a good amount of white space
showing through (if you need more paint, use more paint, but
I usually make these backgrounds to clean off my paintbrushes
with minimal waste!).
- When this is done, spray a generous amount of water onto
the matte card, and swipe your paintbrush across the cardstock,
you can leave as much or as little white areas as you wish for
this one.
- Let the cardstock and painted casting dry (and clean your
paintbrush properly now).
- Stamp Zettiology image onto a piece of gloss white card.
Trim inside the postage stamp markings leaving a thin black border
around the image.
- Stamp the Torn Weave image onto the violet matte cardstock
using the Brilliance Victorian Violet inkpad.
- Mount the Clown image onto the matte card, then onto the
black piece, then onto the gloss violet background and finally
onto your black card. Adhere the embellishment with gel medium.
Let dry.
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Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps:
Card: Strawberry Fields (Fabian) by: Rubber Poet
Paperclay Embellishment: Heart by: Stampfrancisco
- Pink, White Glossy, and Gold Glossy cardstock
- Stazon Ink Pad: Blazing Red
- Brilliance Trio Ink Pad: Aurora
- Palette Ink Pad: Gold
- Acrylic Paint: Gold
- Colorwash jewels (Stamp Zia or homemade) Yellow, Red, Orange
- Gold Mesh Fabric
- Double-Sided Tape
- Paperclay
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"Strawberry Fields"
Stamp Artist - Susan Chong |
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Directions:
- Cut pink cardstock 5"x10". Fold in half to make
5"x5" base card. DTP Palette Gold ink onto base card.
Distress edges with Blazing Red Stazon ink.
- First layer: White glossy sprayed with yellow, red, and orange
Colorwash Sprays until you acheive look you want. Cut to approximately
4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch square. Edge with Blazing Red Stazon ink.
- Second layer: Gold Glossy cardstock. Cut to approximately
4 x 4 inch square. Edge with Blazing Red Stazon ink.
- Third layer: White glossy Colorwash piece cut to approximately
3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch square. Distress edges with Blazing Red Stazon
ink.
- Image layer: White glossy cardstock. Randomly sponge Brilliance
Trio Aurora Ink onto cardstock. Let dry. Randomly sponge a very
thin layer of Gold Acrylic paint over Brilliance ink. Allow to
dry thoroughly. Stamp image onto paper using Blazing Red Stazon
ink.
- Paperclay embellishment:
Roll out thin layer of paperclay. Stamp image into clay, tear
clay into desired shape and let dry. Using Gold Acrylic Paint
and Blazing Red Stazon ink, color paperclay piece until you acheive
the look you desire. Allow to dry.
- Assembling the card:
Wrap gold mesh fabric around first layer and tape into place.
Tape first layer onto base card. Aligning to the left side of
the card, tape the second, third and image layers on top. Gather
gold mesh fabric and then tape paperclay embellishment on top.
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