January 2016 Creative Challenge

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016!
 Over on The Creative Team blog, we are kicking off the new year in style with some fabulous artwork from some of the Creative Team, and myself.
Here is a little sneak peek of a journal page I created using Dylusions black journal page and some dylusions paints , and some new masks which will be availbale in 2016!

I do hope you will join in, as anything goes as long as it has rubber stamping in it!

Have a fabulous start to the new year

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Mad as a March Hare- New Creative Team Challenge

The Spring is coming, and those flowers and leaves are popping their heads up through the soil, and the sun is getting warmer, and yes! March is here along with the spring!!
It's time for another challenge over at The Creative Team Blog, and yes you have guessed it.. the theme is Spring is coming!
I have created a journal page entitled Mad as a March hare.


© The Artistic Stamper

I sprayed the page with Dylusions Sprays in blues and greens, and then added a Crafters Workshop stencil with PaperArtsy Fresco paints in Hey Pesto and Yellow submarine. I then added stamps from Botanical Plate 1 ( the daisy) and also the simple swirl from the Simple Swirls plate. I also added the bubbles from Borders A6 2 . The birds from Birds of Feather were embossed in black for that touchy/feely touch to the page... I like to be able to feel texture on my journal pages!



© The Artistic Stamper

I then cut out the Hare , which I downloaded from The Graphics Fairy, and added him to the page and hid him behind one of the flowers, which I carefully cut around.

© The Artistic Stamper

I do hope you like my contribution to the challenge, and go on join in, you know you want to! You can find the new challenge here.
Have a very creative day
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Tweet Tweet!

Hi,  if you haven't heard The Artistic Stamper are releasing new stamps tomorrow, and I am getting excited about you seeing them:)
Last night I taught a small journaling class, and got to play with paint, Stencils, and the new stamps, and created a sneaky peek for you on one of my journal pages.

I hope you like it, and do check back tomorrow to see the new stamps
Have a creative day
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Upside down, backwards, or inside out

Hi! Welcome to one of my rare posts on this neglected blog of mine! What's the hardest thing you have to do creatively? One of mine is when facing a blank page with not an idea in my head, especially when journaling. I have just started a new journal given to me, and believe me, I have lots of blank books, I just seem to collect them! I started inside with this page and have started a couple more ...it is going to be an alphabet journal ( inspired by Joanne Sharpe) .

 So I thought  , I am making time to create the  cover which was a blank canvas type. I started off with the new Crafters Workshop stencils and some Cosmic Shimmer Clear Texture Paste. I carefully spread the paste which I had mixed with some mica powder paints that we used to sell, through the stencil , on both the front and the back cover. Loved it , beautiful , let it dry, and sprayed on top with Dylusions sprays and blotted off. Then I closed  the book and looked at it, as you do ....oops major #fail!! I had made the cover upside down and back to front! Not a happy bunny:(  So back to drawing board . I could use it backwards or re bind it..not really an option...(I am kind of has to be the right way kinda girl) or redo the cover . So back out with the stencils and the paste, and add more , this time the right round! One cover..with a little bit of a blip!

 

Question is? can you spot the mistakes....lol
Have a creative day

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