July's "Stamp Artist Of The Month"
Martha Myers
Treasured Moments: A Mini Memories Album
Stamp Artist - Martha Myers
Image: gg designs & Stamp Zia
See instructions here September 1st. |
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"Great Love"
Stamp Artist - Billi Lin Sirvio
Images: Stampin Up & Hero Arts |
- Stamp image (Hero Arts, Love Heartprint, available from "Stamps
Inksite Me", on glossy white paper using Kaleidacolor ink
pad (I used Creole Spice).
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- Mount onto mulberry paper torn to match
shape of image ( put the adhesive on the back of the image, NOT
directly on the mulberry paper).
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- Tear a triangle from a coordinating
paper color (I used Navy) and mount the triangle on your card
(gold).
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- Stamp the word image (Stampin Up, Mother
and Child set: not a club vendor) on the lighter of the two papers
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- Mount heart image and mulberry paper
onto card front. (I use permanent MonoAdhesive from Tombo to
do all my mounting - it holds well with the mulberry paper).
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Supplies:
ColorBox CatEyes/assorted, Memories Ink/ Black,
Radiant Pearls/ Elderberry, Shimmering Pearls/ assorted,
Delta Ceramcoat Fine Crackle Finish ( 2 step), metallic rub-ons/
gold, dragonfly charm, dimensional glue, glitter
- Stamp words on sage c.s. using black
permanent ink. Apply Crackle Finish as directed. Let dry and
cut out. “Age” with black ink. Set aside.
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- Using DTP method, apply pigment inks
to a sage c.s panel. Stamp Queen Anne’s Lace with Radiant
Pearls. Stamp Woman’s Face and Dragonfly with black permanent
ink.
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- Adhere “Words”. Highlight
areas of the card with Shimmering Pearls and highlight edges
of “Words” with rub-ons. Layer to black panel.
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- Corner trim a sage panel and stipple
edge with black ink. Layer to a black card.
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- Apply dimensional glue to the wings
of a dragonfly charm and sprinkle with glitter. When dry, adhere
to card with popdots.
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"Words to Live By"
Stamp Artist - Linda Blackbird
Images: Live, Laugh, Love/ gg designs
Woman’s Face/ Mirkwood Designs
Queen Anne’s Lace/Chapel Road Artstamps
Dragonfly/ Commotion |
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"I Wish You Happy Days"
Stamp Artist - Janice Bryant
Image: Magenta - available from A Country Welcome |
"Calla Lily"
Stamp Artist - Deb Fay
Image: gg designs |
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"Calla Beauty"
Stamp Artist - Jolyn Safron
Images: Mini Plate - gg designs,
"Garden Graces" -Just Jhone,
"Ornamental Leaves" - Hero Arts,
"Long-Stemmed", Stampin' Up!
See card instructions here September 1st |
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"Shimmery Sea Shells"
Stamp Artist - Lynn Boushay
Images: Sea Shells - gg design,
Girl at Beach - Stamps Happen |
Using shaving cream technique (see below) with reinkers,
marble piece of white cardstock. Stamp assorted shells using
clear embossing pad & emboss with psychedelic (or opalescent)
embossing powder then cut out.
Stamp girl at beach onto watercolor paper using permanent ink
and heatset & allow to thoroughly dry. Color using watercolor
pencils and waterbrush. Apply a drop or two of glue pen to each
small shell & then opalescent glitter.
Layer the linen cardstock onto cobalt blue cardstock using doublestick
tape. Tear around the girl and layer onto linen using doublestick
tape. Layer sea shells onto lower part of linen cardstock , using
foam tape under several of them.
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Shaving Cream Technique
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This is a fun, sometimes messy, background I read about recently
and had a great time trying it!
Buy cheap, non-scented, shaving cream. Spray some onto a cookie
sheet, a sheet of aluminum foil, or such. Smooth it done with
a spatula, like frosting a cake. Using dye reinkers place drops
here & there on the shaving cream. On some I used one color,
others 2 or 3 coordinating colors (i.e.. yellow, mustard, tangerine).
Using toothpick, pencil, paintbrush handle, etc. swirl the color.
Lay card stock on the shaving cream, push down slightly, then
remove. Using the edge of a credit card, scrape off the shaving
cream & clean off cardstock with paper towel. You can reuse
the shaving cream mixture several times. If a corner or area
didn't get enough color, I just smooshed it in the shave. cream
again!
I did this with Fresco reinkers and also did some with regular
dye reinkers. Did see sample of it done with Radiant Pearls on
a website. Just went to a Luna Lights class & we did it with
them too. I had fun doing this technique. I did this in the kitchen
so I didn't have to worry about getting other papers, etc. messy.
Try it, you'll like it. - Lynn Boushay |
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"Good Luck Turtle"
Stamp Artist - Carolyn Summers
Images: Stampin FUNaddict |
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- Stamp turtle image on white card stock
with black dye ink and emboss with clear embossing powder. (The
dye based ink dries quickly and will not smear if you elect not
to emboss the image.)
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- Color image with markers. (I used Tria
because the small tips are easy to use in this detailed stamp.)
I used a small amount of clear glue and high-lighted the porpoise,
center fish and one other larger design and sprinkled them with
a mixture of gold glitter and shimmering enamel. Let dry and
then cut out turtle and set aside.
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- Select a corresponding cardstock to
match your colored design (gold) and cut a card approximately
4 ¾ by 5 ¾.
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- Stamp Chinese symbol to the top right
corner of the cardstock with black pigment ink and emboss with
clear embossing powder.
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- For the bottom left image, I took one
of my Chinese coins and glued it to a cork and then stamped the
coin with black pigment ink and embossed it. You could also use
another symbol of your choice.
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- Adhere gold cardstock to a slightly
larger piece of black lightweight card stock; glue these to a
slightly larger yellow cardstock. ATTACH TURTLE using two double-sticking
foam circles to the gold panel at an angle that provides depth
to the image. The card face is now ready to GLUE to a white folded
card.
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I hand drew
the body parts since I don't own any of those cool stamps for
stamping them. Cut them out and then randomly stamped them using
Red Castle's Kimono stamp.
I also stamped an Illuminated C (by PSX) twice on her chest area.
Drew the face.
Using a needle and black craft thread I stiched her hair. Glued
on beads for earings.
Dye based ink using Direct to Paper technique was used for coloring
her body parts.
Her clothes consist of a piece of Magic Mesh and two cream colored
skeleton leaves.
Next I stamped the background on natural colored cardstock using
Red Castle's Rango Zoo I. |
"All Dressed Up"
Stamp Artist - Donna Fleischli
Image: Red Castle |
Color the critters with
Lyra watercolor crayons. Layered this onto off white textured
cardstock. Glued the woman onto the background putting the bird
in her hand.
The final piece was layered onto a black folded piece of cardstock. |
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"Celestial Kirah"
Stamp Artist - Verna Angerhofer
Image: Time To Stamp |
Stamp "Kirah" image onto glossy cardstock with Black
Memories ink.
Color the image in with Marvy Brush markers.
The background papers are glossy cardstock which I brayered with
Big n Juicy - Soothing Sunset Pad.
Mount image to black cardstock, and then to brayered glossy cardstock
and then to black cardstock, which I punched the corners out
with Punch #0058LCE by All Night Media.
Finally this was once again mounted to the card which I had brayered
also.
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"Asian Collage"
Stamp Artist - Roxanne Vierra
Image:Asian Collage stamp by Rubbernecker,
available from A Stampers Paradise |
Take Clear Actate and stamp Asian Collage stamp on it with permenant
Black ink.
On the unstamped side, take gold leaf adhesive and brush on the
back of the stamped image.
Take gold leafing flakes and apply to adhesive (you can select
certain gold flakes for certain areas of the collage as shown).
Use whole punch and punch corners.
Wrap cord around as shown and mount on card stock as shown.
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I colored the stamp image, directly to the rubber with Marvy
brush markers, did a little blending and left a few tiny spaces
without color.
With a fine mist spray bottle, I sprayed the stamp until water
could be seen on the surface and then stamped it on a piece of
140 lb. watercolor paper.
I then moved some of the color around with a small brush dipped
in plain water. Where I needed more color for the background,
I striped the same colors on a piece of waxed paper and picked
them up with my brush and more water.
The completed image was mounted on a piece of colored cardstock
and then added to the card which I marbled with chalks. |
"Peruvian Lily Watercolor"
Stamp Artist - Ida Abshier
Image: gg designs |
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"Renaissance Treasure Card"
Stamp Artist - April Williams
Image: Magenta - available from A Country Welcome |
I used the Renaissance background stamp from Stampa Rosa for
the large background.
Stamp with Versa Mark clear ink and embossed with sticky embossing
powder.
Brush on some gold leaf in various colors and then added some
Pearl Ex in different colors.
Pieces of the spring Magenta background stamp were embossed and
cut out and adhered to the front.
A key charm was used as an embellishment. This was glued to bronze
sparkle paper, then glued to the blue sparkle paper card.
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Make masks out of the 2 stamps, Large Leaf, & Panda.
Place the mask of the Large Leaf on cream colored paper &
stamped the panda bear over it using just black archival ink.
Then stamp the first leaf where the mask had been. Now mask the
panda & randonly stamp large leaf, using "Herb Garden"
Big & Juicy rainbow pad.
Mount to black cardstock & edge with a gold leafing pen,
embelish with fibers.
Mount on a layered piece consisting of black cardstock, layered
with gold metallic paper w/deckle edge, and a piece of decorative
art paper layered on top of
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"Panda"
Stamp Artist - Sue Pieper
Image: "Large Leaf" - gg designs
"Panda" Rubber Stamp Avenue |
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"Still Life With Espresso Pot"
Images: Espresso Pot, Basket - gg designs,
Bramble Leaves - Meer Image |
Stamp gg
designs Coffee Pot (It's actually her
espresso pot)on creamy Manila colored cardstock. Stamp Basket
a little to the right. I used 2 colors on the pot
and the basket.
I found I could just overstamp the Bramble Leaves on the basket
without masking, also slightly overlapping the coffee pot, and
the basket showed through.
I tore around the design
from the front to get a rough edge, and applied to a waxed paper
resist background.
Resist Background:
Using a sheet of Waxed Paper larger than a sheet of white glossy
cardstock, fan fold the Waxed Paper from one corner. Open paper
up and iron onto white cardstock, glossy side up, using newspaper
between the iron and waxed paper.
Color with markers in rays to accentuate the fan shape. Glue
onto Wine colored cardstock. I use Yes Glue for all gluing.
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"In Flight"
Stamp Artist - Holly Handcock
Images: A Stampers Paradise
Large Monarch #2, Small Square Shadow, Banner Shadow Shape, Med.
Rectangle Shadow Shape
See card instructions here September 1st
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