Homemade Coasters with Stampotique

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by today. I wanted to show you some coasters that I made for my daughter and sister featuring Stampotique stamps and some Dylusions sayings.

I also want to invite you to come over to the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog and join us this week in our challenge. We always have some great prizes.

this project took me all of about two days to finish. I made two sets of 6 coasters for a total of 12. I created my backgrounds, two by two, all the same so that I could make two sets of coasters pretty quickly.

For the backgrounds I used mostly acrylic paint (since it's permanent and won't smear when I get ready to seal them)

If I used inks it was mostly Archival that I used. Distress or anything else would smear. I love to add washi tape and doodles into my backgrounds as well.

Most of my stamped images were stamped onto thinner cardstock and colored and then fussy cut out. (that what takes the longest in this process) 

The first set were made for my sister. She is a fun and sarcastic person so I used some of the Dylusion's stamped sayings on them.

The second set were made for my daughter and I used mostly Stampotique's sayings

Even though the backgrounds are the same, the coasters came out very different. 

This was so much fun and I loved making them. Time to buy some more blank coasters and make more!!!

(At the bottom of this email I will list with links, the Stampotique stamps I used.)

Don't forget about Stampotique's New ATC  swap on our Facebook page, there 

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Stampotique Images:

Starfish Cube, Dog Cube, Reggie, Rudy, lovelyarethesound, Friend, Bla Bla Bla = all by Daniel Torrente

Willow, Casper = By Tracy Scott

Phrase Cube - By Terri Richardson

Sealife Cube, Animal Cube, Agatha Flower, Ignis - By Magda Polakow

Wally - By Karen Hayselden

Design Cube 2 - By France Papillon

12 Tags of 2016 - My Version

Hi there and welcome to the blog today and Happy Easter to everyone!!

I haven't had much time lately to do one of my favorite things and that is to follow along with Tim's 12 Tags and create my own. I used to take part in this tradition every year and with me working full time, I just haven't had a chance to do them this year. I have a few days off and so I decided to go for it and create my tag for March. 

I love that Tim is doing a "remix" this year and this months tag is so fun. I also got to use my Distress Crayons for the first time too. 

Tim's tag is HERE if you want to check it out

For my tag, I began exactly how Tim did but I used some movers and shaper dies for my cardboard portion

I then added a few different colors or Distress ink to the background and added some white acrylic paint

I the spritzed some of the Dylusions Mica sprays over the tag. I used Dylusions because they are bright colors and my background is going to be bright colors

The sprays give a beautiful shine

for my second background I created my tag just like Tim suggests, also prepping it with a thin layer of gesso

after that had dried, I colored portions of my tag with the distress crayons and began rubbing it in with my finger

I started at the top but as I moved towards the bottom I noticed it wasn't smoothing out like I had wanted so I bang applying more crayon as I went. I figured out that applying crayon and rubbing and repeating like that works best. So apply then rub, then apply more then rub... I applied crayon all over and then tried to rub which I shouldn't have done it that way

(this is the photo where the crayon wasn't smudging like I wanted)

I applied more crayon and rubbed and it worked like a charm, I just kept applying and rubbing until it was the colors I wanted

I used some wire connected to a fuse for my butterfly's antenna

I have to say I absolutely love how my tag came out and once you get the hang of the crayons they work really well

Happy Easter Everyone, may you have a blessed day

Stampotique Challenge 218 - Blue and Brown

Hello everyone, so glad you could make it to the blog today. Thank you for coming by and spending this time with me. 

It's Wednesday and that means it's time for another challenge over at Stampotique.... thanks to all who joined us last week, it was fun hosting.

This week Gez Butterworth is our hostess and she is challenging us to use Blue and Brown in our creations. Here is what Gez says about this challenge

"Blue and Brown is one of my favorite color combos, I hope you have fun with it too"

I decided to decorate the outside of my smaller Dylusions journal. I use this journal quite a bit so I thought it was time to decorate the outside and what better way than to work with the cardboard cover as part of my background?

for this cover, I used a combo of acrylic paints, stencils, 

washi tape and die cutes. I also used Stampotique stamps:

Penelope - By artist Daniel Torrente

Art Junkie - By Artist Roc Nicholas

I hope you like my journal cover for this week's challenge. Please come by the Designer's Challenge Blog and join us. Each month two lucky random winners will get a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store.

Thanks for coming by and have a great day!!

Roc Nicholas Design Team

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today is the 7th of the month and that means it's my turn to make something for the Roc Nicholas Design Team

Make sure to check out all of Roc's stamps over at the online Stampotique Store

They are so fun to use, I just love them

For today's post I decided to do a journal spread. I used my Dylusions larger journal today so I'd have plenty of space for all of my stamps

This page started out as just a mess of paint and crackle paste and all kind of things. LOL

You can see the white crackle paste better here, I love it!

I used all of Roc's sentiment stamps that I have in my possession for this. (except one) I simply stamped them onto paper and added them to my background

Capture the Magic

Art Junkie

Unleash Yourself

Learning to Fly

Stacked Love

Just B U

Artiste Block

I can't tell you how much I just love this page now that it's done. The colors are bold and all the stamps really give the page life. 

I hope you have a wonderful day!!! 

Altered Puzzle Week 4

Welcome back to the blog today, I'm actually posting the challenge this week on time haha!! 
We are onto week 4 of the Altered Puzzle Challenge 

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Our Facebook group is here:

Facebook Group

This week, since we aren't worried about the pieces being flat, I decided to do some embossing and add some embellishments.

I started out with my first piece, painting the background a light brick sort of color

I then used embossing ink and two kinds of powder, I just dabbed the pad directly onto my puzzle piece here and there and added the powder and heat set

Once I was finished I wanted more so I added more....

This was how it was when I finished

I wanted to add a bird of some sort so I used a Dyluisions set and stamped my bird onto some patterned paper

I used clear embossing ink for the bird and cut him out

I added some ink and stenciling to the background

(guess I should have done that before the embossing, o-well)

Next I wrote the word Imagine onto the same paper that I stamped the bird and tore it out and inked the edges with brown archival ink

I then punched a hole in each side of the word so that I could add brads

I adhered everything to my background and whalla!! I love the way this piece came out

For my next piece I used DecoArt media paint in a burgundy color

The color was a little bright for what I wanted so I added a bit of a darker color

After that has dried I used a stencil and black embossing paste to add some texture

I really love how that texture came out

I set that aside to dry

for the next step I glued some Tim Holtz paper onto cardboard

and used a butterfly mover and shaper die to cut out

I edged my butterfly with a black marker and I want my wings to stand up so I bent the butterfly right down the center a tad

Next, I grabbed some Tim Holtz ideology flowers and put them together with a brad

I'm going to use this in one corner of my piece

I stamped my sentiment onto that patterned paper and embossed and tore out

I also edged with brown Archival ink

I also wanted to use some pearls on my piece but I didn't want white pearls and that is the only color that I have at the moment. This is a perfect trick - Use your copic markers to color the pearls whatever color you want!!! 

After my background was dry I added everything, I only applied glue to the middle of my butterfly here so that the wings can stand up

and here is my finished puzzle piece

and the two together

I hope that you like the two pieces for this week, they are different but so fun!

This is what your first row should look like now... next week we start on the second row.

Have a great week everyone, see you next Monday!!

A Journal Spread With Dylusions Paint

Welcome back to the blog today and thanks for stopping by.

Today I am using the new Dylusions Paints to create a journal spread. I will be working in my Dylusions Large journal for this.

I started this page by glueing some leftover printed paper here and there

I then chose a few of the Dylusions colors for my background
These paints are very fluid and go on somewhat transparent, so you should be able to see the paper through the paint once it's applied

I used lots of Dyluions stencils and paint, you can still see the paper on the edges even though I used several of the Dylusions colors over it
I just love how the background turned out here, Dyan's colors are so vibrant and beautiful

Here is my finished complete page
I used the black paint and a few stencils to create my girl

Thanks for coming by, I hope you got some journal inspiration :)