Celebrating Mad Hatter Month!

When I was asked if The Artistic Stamper would like to sponsor The Altered Alice blog challenge,how could I refuse? I mean , we have Alice in Wonderland stamps by Mabel Lucie Attwell, and June is Mad Hatter Day, and we have the Mad Hatter ....I mean how could a girl refuse?!!So to celebrate and to join in, I have brought my teapot to the party.....

There is still almost a week to join in, so pop over to The Altered Alice and see the absolutely stunning artwork that the team have done!
Have a very creative day!

Sleep well tonight!

I cannot believe that it is the last day of May! Time is slipping by fast! It is also my time on The Creative Team blog too!, and this month we had Mabel Lucie Attwell beautifully created by all of the Team. If you would like to see all of my creation, pop over to the blog, and leave me a comment, and don't forget to check out out the Creative Team's absolutely gorgeous pieces!



Have a creative Tuesday!
 

Have you seen....

...our Creative Team blog lately? Over on The Artistic Stamper Creative Team blog,
we have a Mabel Lucie Attwell month going on! All of the girls have been busy creating wonderful artwork using the nostalgic Mabel Lucie Attwell images.... I often hear how these stamps give stampers that " oh it takes me back to my childhood...."
If you haven't seen any of the gorgeous artwork that the Team has done, pop over and say hi, we love comments :)) and followers :))) Don't forget to scroll down to the older posts too!
Here is a little taster for you....

I am off to teach a class in shrinking plastic today, so should get a move on or I will be late!
Have a sunny creative day!

Sneaky Peeks....

As you know I love a sneaky peek once in a while....I am a very nosy person..lol
I have been busy designing some new stamps, alongside a very special guest designer ... and this week I will be showcasing some of them :)))
They will be available on Monday from the shop, and at Ally Pally Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show all weekend! I know you say it isn't fair, I won't be at Ally Pally.... but there will be a chance to win some on this 'ere blog :)) You know, next to my love of stamping, I love to give away!! All you have to do is comment.. and I will give away a stamp a day! Did you know that this is the surefire way to keep the doctor at bay?
So today here is the first of the sneak peeks...



Have a very Creative and lucky day..

Mad Hatter Blog Hop

Welcome to the Gingersnap Creations’ Mad Hatter’s Day Hop and Hop Stop #10!
The Gingers are celebrating Mad Hatter Day and hope that you will hop along with us!
If you’ve already been hopping then hopefully you have just come from Sharon. If you are starting here, welcome! It's a loop so you can start anywhere along the way!
At stops #2 through #9, you will need to collect a word! There are 10 stops in all starting and ending with the Gingersnap Creations blog where you can get all the specific information and get a peak at the the goodies in the Mad Hatter Giveaway.
When you get all your words, 8 in all, unscramble them to form a quotation from the beloved classic, Alice in Wonderland. Once you have your guess at the quote, email it and your name to gingersnapstamp@gmail.com by June 25, 2010. We will be picking one lucky winner at random from the correct entries to win the Mad Hatter package! We’ll let you know who won on June 29, 2010.
If you visit all the stops, you should end up right back at Gingersnap Creations with 8 words! Unscramble the words to come up with the correct quote and email it on to gingersnapstamp@gmail.com. That's all there is to it!
I don't have a word for you to collect, but I do have a hint! The quote you are looking for can be found in Chapter 7 of Alice in Wonderland, "A Mad Tea Party".

Your next stop on the hop is Gingersnap Creations where you can find out all the details and get an outline of the entire route. Have fun and good luck!

Simple Stamping Technique

This is my first play with the new Alice in Wonderland stamp by Mabel Lucie Attwell, and I wanted to stamp on top of this piece, Help, but couldn't find a stamp that said help, or even any letters that I could spell out the word! So I used one of Mr Holtz's sayings which I thought apt. This is an old fashioned piece of stamping using the mask technique, and distress inks. I used only the new colours, Rusty Hinge, Crushed Olive, Pumice Stone, Wild Honey.

If you have never masked before, then here's how. Stamp your stamp onto a post-it note, or scrap piece of paper, and cut carefully out. Use a knife to get into those hard to reach places. Stamp your mage on your main piece of card or background, and lay the mask on top of the stamped image. I carefully added a VERY SMALL touch of glue to mine to stop it slipping, while I did the background. I then added distress inks all around it , and across it, making sure I inked right up to the mask.

 Before removing the mask, stamp anything else you want. I used the new Lace background for the table cloth , and stamped it in one of the distress inks. Remove the mask, and you should have one stamp , on a coloured background. Any missing areas, I touched up with a waterbrush and the appropriate colour ink. I coloured in the image by swooshing the distress inks on my non stick mat, and used a wet paintbrush to apply colour to the image. I love distress inks for this purpose, but any ink that is water based will be fine. Finally I added the sentiment in Rusty Hinge.

Don't forget if you comment on this post, you are in with a chance to win this particular stamp! I will draw the winner tomorrow :)
I hope you like, and have a simple Creative Day
Hugs

Curiouser and curiouser!

I have had very little time to create anything even a journal page, as by 9pm, I am on the sofa falling asleep! We have had masses of deliveries this week, and if you are on my email list, you will have seen all the new goodies on the website!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland were beautifully drawn by Mabel Lucie Attwell for Lewis Carroll in 1910, and I have had access to some of the drawings, and there will be more, but I have pre-released some of them for you here. They will ship at the end of the week.
There are some amazing quotations and anomalies associated with Lewis Carroll, and in particular Alice, and needless to say in our mad world here at The Artistic Stamper, we often find humour ...so I wasn't surprised to find one of our robins entering the mad world of Lewis Carroll and Alice yesterday afternoon!  Just to say no more than my DH has a very warped sense of humour! lol

Have a great Sunday and pop over to Hels blog for the chance to win some candy at the Sunday Stamper.

Jolly Old Tag!

As part of the Tim 12 Tags of Christmas splinter group*grin*, I have duly made an alternative, almost the same, as a Tim tag! All the elements are there, perhaps not exzactly the same, but with the same techniques! I have used a "Jolly Day out" for the car, and resurrected an old stamp of mine ( the Fir Tree, available if you email me ) as the tree. Oh, and the Season's Greetings comes from one of The Artistic Stamper Christmas plates.  I used snow writer as the snow (and heated it to get a better effect ( mine has dried up in the tube!)

I have spent a very pleasant hour or so, following instructions, and making tag 6!
Looking forward to seeing yours...

Pixie Alert!

The title of this post is totally obscure, but I spent a little time using the new Nature's Little Helper by Mable Lucie Attwell yesterday, and so wanted to add flower petals where the daisy is. I stamped the pixie onto a distressed background on one of the Maya Road Chipboard Houses, and then masked the pixie, to add the stamps ( Houndstooth and Chicken Wire) in distressed inks.
I painted the pixie in distress inks by wetting the brush and smooching the ink on my non stick craft sheet, and picking up the colour. You can get a good amount of colour to paint this way. Crystal Stickles went on the wings..love this effect! For the flower, I coloured up in distress ink ( painting them the same way) a white flower from Prima. A yellow button added the finish.

Let me know what you think. All answers on a postcard to... lol

The Holly and the ....

Over on Hels blog , this week's Sunday Stamper is "The Holly and the Ivy", and as luck would have it I spent yesterday making a card using the new Mabel Lucie Attwell stamp featuring Holly! I cut out the image, and coloured it in with distress inks and Prismas, and used the fabulous ruby slippers stickles for the holly berries. I did think it needed a lift so added glossy accents on the pixie and the leaves. The whole caboodle was layered on some Bazill Dotted Swiss Phoenix ( the kind of card you really want to stroke all the time!) , and then layered on a black card.

In case you wondered, the Merry Christmas is from a decoration, I picked a couple up in my favourite store, Heselden Hats, a must come and see place if you are ever in Faversham.

 Thank you Hels for the challenge, and if you read this , I really NEED that gorgeous piece you made! lol

Have a great Sunday!

New Mabel Lucie Attwell stamps!

Firstly a BIG thank you to everyone who joined in the guessing game! What wonderful comments which gave me a smile every time I read them!
I know you want to see what the new stamps are and I do hope we haven't disappointed!
This is Nature's Little Helper

 Followed by Holly

closely followed by "Care to Dance"

The winner of the first stamp is Sid for guessing correctly the stamp.. Congratulations!

The winner of the 2nd stamp is Katherine Yah! Congratulations!

And, the winner of the third stamp is Carolands Step onto the podium! Congratulations!

Please email me your snail mail addresses, so I can get the stamps into the post for you.

I have to say I wish I could give a prize to everyone, but if you want to look at the stamps, and the most wonderful goodies that are new on the website go here

We have the most fantastic sets of Prima Flowers, the new Claudine Hellmuth Craft Bucket, the new Utee colours from Suze Weinberg, Tim Holtz stamps and idea-ology, and lots of Maya Road Chipboard! We also only charge £2.25 for goodies under £20.00 and FREE postage over £20 to ANYWHERE in The World!

Finally I got arty last night and made a little tag/bookmark using the "Care to Dance" Fairy!

Have a great day!

Final guess!

This one is quite easy (at least I think so, but then I know what they are! lol), however to win this one you have try to guess what this actually is. I am horrid! lol

By the way yesterday there was a correct guess! I am sure that you will get this one very easily.

Have a Brilliant day!

Guessing Game Day 2

Well I am amazed as at least one person came up with the correct answer for yesterday with a 2nd close behind...lol This one is maybe a little more difficult.. up to you! Have you been trawling all those long forgotten Mabel Lucie Attwell books of yours?
You can still have a guess on yesterday's post if this is the first time you have visited, and there will be one more tomorrow. I love this because it gives me an excuse not to make any artwork, but I will be back!

If no-one gets it correct, I will give away to the nearest guess! You can post as often as you like.
Have a great day!

Can you guess and win!

On Friday we are releasing new stamps for our popular Mabel Lucie Attwell Range. Here is a chance to win one of them, and a chance to win them all through this week, by guessing the sneak peek. I love what everyone writes, so take a wild guess and if you guess right, the stamp is yours!

Happy Guessing!

Revealed!

Finally the day has come! It is so hard to keep a secret, especially one like this!
I can reveal that The Artistic Stamper has the licensing rights to the children's artist

Mabel Lucie Attwell

to manufacture rubberstamps worldwide . For those of you who have not heard of her, she was a well known illustrator during the early to middle part of the last century, illustrating annuals, and books including J M Barrie's Peter Pan in 1921. Her work is nostalgic, and humorous, and I just love her cheeky style!
We have 6 designs initially , with more to come each month, so you can build up a collection.
These are now available on the website here as unmounted natural red rubber stamps. Of course if you are coming to Ally Pally, then you can get them from us!!
I know you would like to know who has won the sneak peeks, so
Day one is Crafty Chris, for guessing a tyre.. this was the "Jolly Day Out" Stamp.
Day two the winner is Paula, for guessing Scamp's Tail!
Day three was Becki for rightly guessing that it was a fairy in a balloon. This stamp is the "Its My Balloon one!
and finally on Day Four, Helen has won the "Rainy Day" stamp!
Please email me with your snail mail addresses, so I can send you your stamps.
Congratulations everyone, and thank you for your wonderful comments, they made me smile:)
I made a quick tag with my Rainy Day girl, and used alcohol inks, for the background, and coloured her in ( badly, was in a hurry) with alcohol ink pens. The Flowers are the Prima e-Line and will be available next week on the website.

Watch out for more artwork from the Creative Team, as theirs will be so  much better than mine!, and later today Hels also has artwork, which I know is fabulous!

Happy Creating and don't forget to pop by and see us at Ally Pally where we have a great offer on Mabel!