May's "Stamp Artist Of The Month" is
Stamp Artist Sue Lacroix
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Supplies used:
- Cardstock:
1 sheet of black cardstock, matte finish
1 sheet of glossy black cardstock
1/2 sheet of metallic gold paper
1/2 sheet of white glossy card stock
- Adhesive pop-up dots
- 3 gold eyelets, 3 jump rings, and 3 tiny bells
- Decorative-cut scissors, paper punch, eyelet setter and plyers
- Zyron Machine, (or double sided adhesive tape)
- Luna Lights paints in blue, green, purple, silver and gold
- Gold gel pen
- Inks: purple ink pad, "Crystal" by Rubber Stampede,
teal ink pad, "Crystal" by Rubber Stampede
turquoise ink pad, "Stamp it" by Ranger Industries
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"Modern Antiquities."
Stamp Artist Sue Lacroix |
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Instructions: Ink the stamp in one of the three colors
and stamp it on the white coated stock. Repeat with the other
two inks until you have three vases stamped in three different
colors. Set aside to dry. Fold the black matte finish cardstock
in half and set aside. Cut the black coated stock in half and
set one half aside for later. On the other half sheet, swirl
and overlap the five colors of Luna Lights paints until it's
covered, then set aside to dry. Now you can use the other half
of the black coated cardstock. Cut into three squares that each
measure 2.5" x 3". Take the gold metallic paper and
cut a strip that will measure 8.5" x 2. 7/8".
When everything is dry begin assembly. Cut the painted cardstock
with the decorative scissors, along both of the long sides. When
finished, run it through the Zyron, then attach it to the front
of the black matte cardstock that you had previously folded in
half. Next, run the gold paper and black squares through the
Zyron and attach them to the front of the card like the picture.
Now you can cut out the vases, leaving a small white border around
each one. After they've been run through the Zyron, turn them
over and attach 4 pop-up dots in a line from top to bottom on
each. Now turn them back over and attach them to the centers
of the black squares. Use the sticky edges left by the Zyron
to stick the sides of the vase down and help the dots "bow"
the vases out so they look almost 3D.
This is the time to use the gold pen to trace the cut borders
along the front of the card. Then use the paper punch to punch
three holes at the bottom of the card. Insert the gold eyelets.
Attach the three bells to jump rings and hook them through the
eyelets. All done!
Rubber Stamp used: Zigzag Vase by Stampland, item #5612-26
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"Rose Garden Reverie"
Stamp Artist Beverly Shupp |
Supply List:
Staz-On Black Pad, Stampit daydream rainbow pad, Stampin'Up!
Green Galore, PSX Forest Green Pad, Crayola metallic paints,
Lumiere Emerald Green, magic markers, metallic gold paint pen,
metallic gel pens, sponge, black and coral card stock, white
glossy card stock. Fun foam or scrap rubber for mounting raised
image. sheet of computer paper.
Instructions:
On white glossy card stock: Stamp the Duty Dragon in Black Staz-On,
make a mask...
Stamp Grumpy Gail in Black Staz-On, over the masked dragon, make
a mask of Gail...
Stamp Rosepetal, in Black Staz-On, over the masked Gail and Dragon,
make a mask of Rosepetal. Cut a circle in the computer
paper, center it above Rosepetal and stamp the precious girls
face in rainbow daydream. |
Removing the computer
paper, keeping all masks on, rub sponge the daydream rainbow
for the sky, using touches of all the colors, blending into the
face. Then rub sponge the green galore for the grass.
Stamp the forest green grass blades. Remove all masks.
Color the rose with different markers in red, coral and pink.
Leaves are painted with lumiere and crayola paints. Dragon in
rose is done in kelly green marker and crayola light green metallic
paint.
Duty dragon is 2 different green markers for contrast. Gail is
colored in markers. Her clothes are done with the crayola paints.
Use metallic gold paint pen and gel pens for jewelry and Dickens
shoes. Dickens is colored in markers, stamped on a separate piece
of glossy card stock and cut out. Mount him on fun foam or excess
rubber,add last after the matting.
Cut your stamped panel to 3"x5 1/2" leaving the leaf
extension out of the frame.
Cut black card stock 4 1/8"x 5 3/4" Mount the glossy
card stock on this with 3 sides having a 1/8" border. The
leaf side cut an 1/8" up to leaf, cut around leaf leaving
1/8" black mat. Mount on coral card stock and add Dickens.
Rubber Stamp Credits:
Stampland/Rennaissance Art Stamps N-20214 Precious Girl Face
Enchanted Ink Dickens 1320-G, Grumpy Gail , Rosepetal 1460-Q,
Duty Dragon
Stampin'Up! Grass, scenery set |
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On white cardstock with blue pigment ink, stamp background with
fan, hats and shoes by designs ink'd.
Stamp two of the corset (rubber stamp ave), cut them out and
color with blue Kimberly colors.
Cut out lace and glue between the two corsets. Adhere to background
with mounting squares.
Glue to light blue cardstock leaving a 1/8 inch border. Mount
on a dark blue card.
Rubber Stamps used:
Designs Ink'd & Rubber Stamp Avenue |
"Blue Corset"
Stamp Artist Marlys Runkle |
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"Under the Sea shrink plastic bracelet"
Stamp Artist Stefani Kelley |
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I did not come up with this idea- I adapted it from a bracelet
by Lisa Vlach which was shown in the
June/July 2003 issue of Stamper's Sampler. :)
Cut out 7 squares of black shrink plastic. The article did
not specify a size, so I made mine 2.5"
square. Clip the corners with a corner rounder. Punch holes in
the squares with a 1/8" hole punch; 2
on each side, except for the 2 end pieces which will only have
1 hole on one of the sides. Shrink each
piece of plastic with a heat gun. Immediately after shrinking,
press down into the plastic with a textured
stamp. I used French Letter by Stamp Oasis, but just about any
will do. When cool (not too long to wait)
dab a little halo blue gold Lumiere paint onto your finger, and
rub onto the square into the impressions
made by the texture stamp like you would rub 'n' buff. Set aside.
Now cut out 7 pieces of white or ivory shrink plastic, slightly
smaller than the black squares. Again, the
article did not specify, so I guessed at 2" square (which
turned out to be a wee bit big, but still useable). Apply blue
and green shades of chalk randomly to the squares. Not too much-
when it shrinks, the colors will become darker. On 2 of the squares,
stamp Butterfly Fish from Meer Image with black Staz-On ink.
On 2 more, stamp Butterfly Fish ii from Meer Image. On the remaining
3, stamp Staghorn
Sumac (I think it looks a little like coral) from Meer Image
several times in a pleasing pattern. Shrink the
pieces. Use a black Sharpie marker to edge all 7 pieces and to
draw little bubbles coming up from the
fish. Seal with a decoupage sealer.
Because I misjudged the 2 sizes of shrink plastic when I cut
them I could not fit jump rings in between the 7
black pieces and still fit the smaller pieces on top. So instead,
I threaded 22 gauge craft wire that was
colored blue-green through the pieces to join them together as
a bracelet. Then I glued the smaller pieces on top of the black
pieces in a pattern that was pleasing; in some spots this covered
the wire holes. Snip the loops off of 3 silver sea-themed charms
that are flat. Glue the charms onto the pieces with the coral.
Finish off with a clasp of your choosing.
Rubber Stamps: Meer Image: Butterfly Fish, Butterfly Fish ii,Staghorn
Sumac
Stamp Oasis: French Letter
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Supplies:
- white paper black uncoated cardstock
black glossy cardstock white glossy cardstock
- white Memories inkpad Kaliedacolor Calypso inkpad
- fleshtone colored pencils Blo-pens
- small heart punch clockface
charms & brads gold cording
- scissors awl, ruler
- 1/8" double stick tape sheet double stick tape
- paper cutter brayer
- pink and purple Marvy markers Lumiere paints in various colors
- sponge black and gold fiber for bow
beading tray Suze Weinberg's Disco Ball Beads
- Pearl-Ex in various colors Gum Arabic
mixing tray and paintbrush
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"Mardi Gras Ladies "
Stamp Artist Rebecca Langsdorf |
1. On glossy black cardstock, sponge
various colors of Lumiere paints. Set aside to dry. When dry
cut to outer dimensions. Out of excess, punch 3 small hearts.
2. Brayer white glossy cardstock with pink and purple Marvy markers
in stripes. Let dry. Use variouscolors of blo-pens to create
a confetti look. Cut to 4-1/2" x 6-7/8" and mount to
background created in Step 1.
3. Stamp Stampland stamp #4147-39 "At the Masked Ball"
with Kaliedacolor Calypso ink on white paper. Color skin areas
and faces on skirt with fleshtone colored pencils. Carefully
cut out and mount to 3-1/4" x 5" black cardstock previously
stamped with the same image in white Memories ink. Trim as shown.
Mix Pearl-Ex with gum arabic and water and paint some areas of
the black cardstock. Mount a little to the left leaving the lower
area large enough to hold the hearts, charms, clockface, and
bows. Attach these as shown. Note: One bow is of a black and
gold fiber, the other is from a thin sliver of paper trimmings.
4. On each corner of the confetti background, pierce a tiny hole
and insert a small brad. Wind gold cording around the brads to
create a frame for the piece. The beaded inner frame is made
by using thin double stick tape and Suze Weinberg's Beadz.
Rubber Stamps used:
Stampland #4147-39 "At the Masked Ball" |
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"A Bouquet of Love"
Stamp Artist Patty Neu |
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