October's "Stamp Artist Of The Month" is
Stamp Artist Esther Janney

"Asian Spread"
Stamp Artist - Esther Janney |
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Stamp Zia: Small Ginko and her 4 Asian Chops
Stampin' Up! - Chinese Symbols
- Black Acrylic Paint
- Halo Gold and Citron Lumiere Paints
- Paint Brush, cup of water, papertowels
- Oriental Papers
- Transparencies
- Pop Dots
- Chinese Coins
- 4 pages in an Altered Book
- Craft Knife
- Black Staz On
- Mod Podge
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Directions:
- Paint a left and right page of the altered book with black
acrylic paint, let dry.
- Cut out windows with craft knife that were a little bigger
and a bit skewed then the actual size of the stamp.
Used black Staz on and stamped the asian images onto transparencies.
Let air dry for a few minutes to prevent any smudging.
- Lined up oriental papers under the windows, glued down with
Mod Podge on left and right papers under the back acrylic.
- Stamped Ginko leaf with citron lumiere paint randomly on
black paper (applied paint with paint brush).
- Stamped Chinese Symbols in Halo Gold randomly, let dry.
- Cut out the asian chops and glued them to the back of the
black paper with Mod Podge, let dry.
- Placed pop dots all along the asian chops, and then pressed
the pages down. This created a very cool window effect.
- Glued Chinese coins on, and once dry, oooohhhed and aahhhhed!!
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Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Turkey/Eureka!
Distant tree scene,foreground tree/Beeswax
Stones/ThirdCoast
Saying/A La Carte
Supplies
- Leaf Punch
Permanent Black Ink
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"A Peaceful Thanksgiving"
Stamp Artist - Beverly Shupp/Primodragonfly |
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Directions
Turkey was stamped and masked. Foreground tree stamped and
masked. Grassie knoll and trees stamped in the background/ masked.Then
rocks are stamped/masked. Keep all masks on.. Sky was sponged
in a Denim colored ink. Foreground was sponged in carmels and
ginger colored inks. Take masks off one by one and color with
markers. The smaller trees and some leaves on the large tree
were painted with H2O's. Scene frame was mounted on black card
stock and then on a bright golden yellow card stock.
Happy Thanksgiving was stamped in black pigment ink and embossed
in black. This was mounted on black card stock, glued to the
card and then yellow domed eyelets were added.
Fall colored acrylic paints were randomly "smooshed"
onto glossy cardstock and allowed to dry. Then maple leaves were
punched and applied to finished card.
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Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
all images Non Sequitor rubberstamps
- Ink: Archival Ink - Jet Black
- Paper: White glossy paper, black and orange cardstock
- Other materials: Radiant Pearls and brads, double sided adhesive
paper, black glitter
Directions
Stamp the collage image with black in on white glossy paper.
Apply several colors of Radiant Pearls to the panel as shown.
Let dry. Ink the edges with black ink. Stamp the text on white
glossy paper, apply Radiant Pearls and let dry. Cut the panel
into mosaic pieces. Cut a piece of double sided adhesive paper
into a L-shaped panel. Layer the mosaic pieces to the adhesive
paper and apply glitter. Mount to a black panel. Mount to an
orange panel and then to a black card.
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"Collage"
Stamp Artist - Eli Persson |
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"Trick or Treat"
Flip Tag Halloween Card
Stamp Artist - Linda Carson |
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
Supplies & Rubber Stamps:
- Rubber Stamps
Flying bats - Beeswax
Large bat & Moon - ggdesigns
Trick or Treat - Stampabilities
- A2 Orange card
- Black, orange & metallic silver cs
- Glossy cs
- Black, Grey, Pumpkin Stazon Ink
- Versafine Black ink
- Adhesive
- Sponge
- Black Brad
- Black Fiber
- Paper Cutter
- Craft knife
- Scor-It\
- Hole punch Slot punch Corner punch
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Directions:
- Stamp orange moon w/large black bat & flying bats on
2 1/4" square glossy cs. Sponge grey Stazon to make the
night sky. Mat on 2 3/4 X 2 1/2" black cs. Set aside.
- Cut a black tag measuring 3" x 4 3/4". Use a corner
punch to decorate tag. Use a hole punch in the center for brad
& fibers. Set aside. Stamp flying bats on silver metallic
cs that measures 3 7/8 x 5 3/8". On the back of this piece
pencil a rectangle 3/4" in from top & sides. Use ruler
& craft knife & cut two long sides. Cut the bottom also
between the two lines. Do not cut the top edge which creates
the flap.
- Turn back to the front side. Use the Scor-it to make a valley
fold at the top flap between the cut lines. Measure 1 1/2"
down on the flap & make a mountain fold. Measure 7/8"
from this line & make a valley fold. Now assemble. Take the
inside tag & adhere to the bottom of the flap only.
- Apply adhesive along the bottom & edges of the background
piece. Do not adhere the top so the tag can move. Attach to the
orange card. Adhere the large bat & moon piece sightly above
the valley fold. Make sure the piece is adhere to the flap only
& can move freely as the tag is pulled upward.
- Use a slot punch on the top of the orange card to help grab
the black tag w/fibers to lift. Lift the tag up to stamp Trick
or Treat to the exposed
orange card.
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