Spring

Welcome back to the STAEDTLER and Stampendous Blog Hop!  Today I decided to play with Fimo as part of my project.

I started from the special effects STAEDTLER Fimo in a lovely shade of blue. I rolled it out and stamped the Cling Minuet Bird stamp into the Fimo.  I spritzed my stamp first with water before stamping into the Fimo. After the imaged was stamped I covered the surface with gold paint and into the stamped image.  I used a baby wipe to remove the excess. I sponged the edges with gold ink.  I put a gold gem into the eye of the bird. I left this to dry.

I painted a wooden box with a mix of blue and gold paint.  I added a piece of gauze painted in blue paint.  I spritzed a piece of tissue paper with gold mist.  I crinkled it ad added a touch of brown dye ink.  I then stamped the Daisy Cluster onto white cardstock and colored with the STAEDTLER watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. I cut out the flowers and butterfly and attached to the tissue paper.  I then added a sprinkle of Oceanic Glass Glitter over the background.

Each  STAEDTLER designer is giving away this fabulous Sweet Summer prize package shown below!  To be eligible to win, please leave a comment on this blog post or on this post by Wednesday May 29th, 11:59pm CDT.  I'll use the Random Number generator to select a winner, and will post the winner here on my blog on Friday, May 31st.

The "Sweet Summer" Giveaway includes the following:

1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment

4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint

1 Mars plastic eraser

1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener

1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil

1 Pigment liner sketch pen

2 Creative idea brochures

  

Stampendous will be giving away a prize every day to one lucky winner!  The winner will be chosen from comments left on the participating designers blogs for that day. So make sure to hop over and see what everyone has created!

For more inspiration, visit the Design Team members who are participating in today's hop:
STAEDTLER DT:
Suzanne Czosek (You are here)  * Kellie Mowat 

Stampendous DT: Stampendous Impressions * Krissy Fossmeyer * Kristine Reynolds * Suzanne Czosek (You are here)* Lea Kimmel  * Rhea Weigand

Thanks so much for stopping by, 

Suzz

Boardwalk

I am thrilled to be sharing with you the latest release from Artistic Outpost!  The new release this month is called Boardwalk.  The plate  reflects the historic Atlantic City's boardwalk along with the bathing beauties and handsome gents you would find on the beach.

Artistic Outpost is also having a sale giving you 15% off all rubber stamps purchased between now and June 8th, 2013. No coupon needed.

Onto some samples I created using the new plate.  First up I decided to use a glass bottle sitting on my shelf:

 I stamped the images on vellum and cardstock and colored them using my  watercolor pencils, paint and mists.  I added a layer of sand and shells on the bottom and slipped in the images.  I stamped the fun sentiment and tied it to the top with a touch of raffia.

My second project used the painted backgrounds to stamp the beach huts.

I turned it into an easel card with a beach created from torn sandpaper. I layered it along the bottom.  I stamped the girls multiple times to cut out their swimsuits to coordinate with the huts.

I finished off the cards with a scene created using a few different sets:

I stamped the grass from the Keeper plate in brown ink along the bottom of my cardstock. I added a few layers of grass in the foreground and added shading along the ground with watercolor pencils. I then distressed the edges and stamped the girls and popped them up on the background. I added a few details with the baby shells and some twine. and the lovely sentiment.

Hop along to see all the other fabulous inspiration from the rest of the Design Team:

Gerrie Johnnic

Lisa Somerville

Suzanne Czosek (Me) 

Linda Coughlin

Tracy Evans

Alison Bomber

Terry Howell

Kate Yetter 

 

Thanks for Stopping By!

Suzz

Dream, Fly, Soar

Welcome to day 2 of the STAEDTLER and Stampendous Blog Hop!  The design teams from both companies are sharing projects all week long.  The STAEDTLER design team members have a sweet summer package to give away  and Stampendous is picking a winner every day to win a prize package.   

My project is a layout using the fabulous STAEDTLER watercolor pencils and a new set of clear stamps from Stampendous!

I stamped the Air Scapes balloons using black archival ink on white cardstock.  I colored with the STAEDTLER watercolor pencils and a waterbrush to coordinate with the pattern papers.  I stamped the words using the new Stampendous Big Top Type alpha stamps.

The background has a slight misting of glimmer mist in yellow and pinks. The photo is of my youngest from a few years ago. The background is mounted on green cardstock.

Each  STAEDTLER designer is giving away this fabulous Sweet Summer prize package shown below!  To be eligible to win, please leave a comment on this blog post by Wednesday May 29th, 11:59pm CDT.  I'll use the Random Number generator to select a winner, and will post the winner here on my blog on Friday, May 31st.

The "Sweet Summer" Giveaway includes the following:

1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment

4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint

1 Mars plastic eraser

1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener

1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil

1 Pigment liner sketch pen

2 Creative idea brochures

  

Stampendous will be giving away a prize every day to one lucky winner!  The winner will be chosen from comments left on the participating designers blogs for that day. So make sure to hop over and see what everyone has created!

For more inspiration, visit the Design Team members who are participating in today's hop:

STAEDTLER DT:
Suzanne Czosek (You are here)  * Kim Stewart: * Kellie Mowat

Stampendous DT:
Stampendous Impressions * Tenia Nelson * Cyndi Bundy * Suzanne Czosek (You are here)

Thanks so much for stopping by, I'll be back on Thursday with another STAEDTLER/Stampendous project.  Be sure to check the Stampendous Blog each day this week for links to the participating blogs.

Suzz

Sweet Plum

This week at Simon Says stamp and Show we are sharing our favorite ink pads.One of my many favorite ink pads is the lovely Sweet Plum from Memento.  It wasn't easy to pick a favorite. Much of my inspiration is driven by color and I have a large selection of ink pads.

I decided to create a background by inking up the craft mat with the lovely plum color and spritzing it with water until it was liquid and dragging my cardstock through it.

After the background had dried I cut it to size. I then stamped the flowers up either side using a gray ink.  I added a touch of shading with gray watercolor pencils around the edges and a touch of purple around the edges.

I died seam binding to match by the same method as the background. I used the same ink on the craft mat with water and dragged tissue paper into the ink. I let this dry and then stamped script over the surface with gray ink.  After this was dry I die cut two butterflies from the tissue paper. I wanted a glossy finish on my butterflies and I inked them up with versamark watermark ink and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I accented the butterfly with two stickpins and a charming gem.

To finish off the card I added a banner with the sentiment on the top and mounted the image onto a white cardbase.

Products: Stampendous Jumbo Cling Hollyhocks, Stampendous Cling Calligraphy, Memory Box Darla Butterfly Die, Memento Sweet Plum, Versafine - Smokey Gray,  
Maya Road Trinket Pins, Gems,  Stampendous Birthday

Come join in and show your favorite ink pad for a chance to win a gift certificate from the ever generous  Simon Says Stamp.

Have a wonderful Monday!

Suzz

Message Center

The Stampendous current release has a lovely vintage telephone image. I was inspired to make a little message center using the image.

I had a wood alterable with three dangling wood attachments and I decided to paint them all using a mix of green and white Fresco Finish paints. (Paper Artsy)

I stamped the Jumbo Cling Border along the top and bottom of the main panel using Ranger Archival Ink.  I stamped the word Messages using the new Stampendous Big Top Type.  I stamped the telephone image 6 times. :) I painted cardstock to coordinate with my background and stamped on the painted cardstock. I cut out the images and pop dotted the center of the phone to add layers.

I created pockets for the post-it notes and for pens/pencils. I stamped on the pocket for the pencils and pop dotted the images behind the pocket.I didn't have any white post-it notes so I put the blue ones on to show how they work. :) 

Onto a week in review... I have lots of fun posts happening this week on my blog... Tonight the Simon Says Stamp Challenge will post with another chance to win a gift certificate!  All this week the Stampendous and STAEDTLER  team are joining up to host a blog hop with inspiration from both teams and opportunities to win prizes!  In the midst  of all that Artistic Outpost is also releasing a new plate of stamps which I will be sharing with you on Wednesday! 

I might also have a giveaway for the STAEDTLER & Stampendous hop here on my blog too.. (Hint Hint)

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Suzz

Faith, Hope, Love

How about some happy bright colors?  All of our spring flowers are blooming and I wanted to embrace the sunshine and the newly green grass.  I had just received this new DarkRoom Door Shadow 3 Up frame stamp, and wanted to play with blending three colors together on the frame.

I started by inking up the middle of the stamp with a yellow dye ink.  I quickly added the orange along the top of the stamp and the green dye ink along the bottom.  Then I spritzed with water to allow some natural blending along with increasing the coverage of my colors.  I stamped onto white cardstock.  I then let it dry.

I stamped the flowers from the Garden Greetings set using Versamark over each panel.  I sprinkled on the white embossing powder, shook off the excess and heated it up.  After that I just cut the word panels from the Wordstrips out to attach on each panel.

Now this probably should have taken about 5 minutes to make but it took me multiple iterations to get the effect I wanted. 

Have a fabulous Saturday!

Suzz

Extra Extra Read All About It!

Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Monthly Blog Hop!  This month we are featuring Masculine projects.  My DH has a special birthday coming up and I wanted to create something special to celebrate.

I started with a leftover paperbag that I thought would be fun to use as a big pocket for a series of tags.

I asked each of my kids to write down a series of memories they shared with their dad and I filled out the remaining ones to equal 50 special moments of time.

I cut out pieces of lined paper to use on the front of the tags.  I sprayed gold glimmer mist over stencils on the white paper to give different patterns and effects.  I stapled the paper to tags which were glimmer misted to match.  I distressed all the edges with brown dye ink.  I stamped the Paperboy in the bottom corner and colored with the image with watercolor pencils and waterbrush. I added a few stamped Extras randomly.

Each tag has stamped images mixed in with the journalling. 

The bag uses a combination of Glue Paste and gold Glimmer mist.  I stamped the boy from the PaperBoy onto the envelope.  I added a mix of the Newspaper words from the Paper plate and the ledger plate from Ephemera Backgrounds. I added the clocks from Auld Lang Syne along the top right of the pocket.

Hop along to the other fabulous inspiration from the other DT members:

Gerrie Johhnic 

Lisa Somerville

Suzanne Czosek (me) 

Tracy Evans

Linda Coughlin

Alison Bomber

Terry Horrall

Kate Yetter

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz