The Roc Nicholas Design Team

I am thrilled and honored today because I have been asked to be a designer for the Roc Nicholas Design Team in 2015!! how cool is that? I am so excited to join the list of wonderful designers with this awesome team.

Here are the Blog Links to the rest of the team

cathy parmelee - pure one impressions - www.pureoneimpressions.blogspot.com

corrie herriman - madebychook - www.madebychook.blogspot.com

samantha read - the pink dog blog - www.crafty-sam.blogspot.com

karen hayselden (guest designer) - kassa - delight in the detail - www.kassadh.blogspot.com

You can find Roc's stamps on the Stampotique website HERE
There are so many fun and quirky stamps and they are so versatile and all Roc's stamps work so well together.

I wanted to show you how well these stamps work on any project and how they perform so well together, so I have made a few projects for the post today

The list of Roc's Stamps that I used on these projects will all be listed at the end of this post as well as with each project

For my first project I decided to do a postcard, this one was so fun to create and bling out with my white gel pen

I used the stamp Blessed Skellie for this project

For my background here I used tissue paper and stamped Blessed Skellie's head over and over again. I simply covered the rest of the stamp with sticky notes, inked it up and then removed the sticky notes and stamped

I then adhered the tissue to the background of my postcard, I then spritzed with different colors of spray ink and whalla!! you have a fabulous background to build upon

For my next project, I decided to make a keychain
I used the stamp Scooter Girl for this project (Scooter Girl is one of my favorite stamps)

All you do is stamp your image onto some Shrink plastic, color her with some of your favorite colored markers and then cut her out (I recommend using permanent markers for this)

 I colored the back of my girl and then shrunk her down, this is what she looked like previous to shrinking her. I made two holes, one in her bun and the other in her wheel, in order to hang a charm from her

I love how she turned out, she is going to be so cute on my keychain!

 For my next projects, I wanted to work in my journal so I did two different journal pages here
I did not do tutorials for each but I can explain what they entail
For my first page, I first stamped Roc's new release stamp Love Chandlier and then I created a background using Washi tapes leaving that blank space where I stamped my chandlier. I used the stamps Art Junkie and Scooter Girl on top of my washi tapes. I think this turned out to be a fun, bright and cheery page

For my next journal page I used some stencils, tags and rub on words here and there, I just drew the circles and triangles on the side
My focal point on this page is the fabulous Bird Lady Stamp 
Bird Lady is the perfect stamp for my GIRL POWER page!! haha!

For my last project, I made a fun jumbo tag, I created my background with various shades of archival inks and white and black paint, I also used a brick stencil (you can see the stencil is very subtle on the blue and lower red areas)

I used the following Roc Nicholas Stamps on this tag:
Blessed Skellie
Stacked Boxes
Bird Princess
Bunny 
Dog

I wanted to show how awesome these stamps work together and how you can use portions of the stamps.
 I stamped my Stacked Boxes, Bunny's tail and my Bird Princess's dress onto printed craft paper and cut them out. I only used the tail from Bunny. I stamped my girls head, the Dogs and also Blessed Skellies Flower onto white paper and colored those and cut them out. As you can see here, I have paper pieced my Bird Princess together, with her dress, bird, flowers and head all being different paper

This is the outcome of all these stamps! 

So I hope you have enjoyed all my projects today using the wonderful Roc Nicholas stamps and I hope you will stop by Stampotique Originals online store and check them out.
 Also come by Roc Nicholas blog and check out more inspiration and all the wonderful things she and the rest of the team do with these stamps, I can't wait to get started posting with the team in January, I'm so excited!

Again here is the list of stamps I have used:
Blessed Skellie
Stacked Boxes
Bird Princess
Bunny 
Bird Lady Stamp 
Scooter Girl
Art Junkie
Love Chandlier 
Dog

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and have a wonderful day!!

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014 - August

For the new Tim Holtz Tag for August Tim wanted us to explore our "muse" and create this month's tag using our own creative style and "muse". 

I love this and I really love the idea of just creating using our own unique creative styles. 

Of course if your following along with my blog, you know that I have decided to make postcards instead of tags this year. I really like the idea of the postcards because my 7Gypsies craft tray is looking so full and I just love it AND I send one every month to a crafty friend of mine, what better way to get some "happy mail" than to receive a postcard

For starters I gathered some of my favorite Tim Holtz products to use

Next, using multi matte medium I adhered my tissue paper and tape onto my background

I also used Tim's stamps and archival ink to stamp my images 

I created the rest of my background using Tim's tutorial HERE

Make sure to check it out

For my finished postcard, I used Tim's Idea-ology trinkets, tissue tape, tissue paper, dies, grungeboard, embossing distress powder, stamps and so much more.

This was such a fun postcard to create, with all the wonderful layers and depth, what a thrill!! I hope you will try your hands at making the 12 Tags of 2014 for August because it's a blast!!

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope to see you soon

CHEERS!

Music As Inspiration - Postcard

Welcome back to another Wednesday with me. If you follow my blog you know that Wednesday's always mark another fun challenge at Stampotique's Designer's Challenge Blog.

This week Kathi is our wonderful hostess and she has chosen "Music As Inspiration" as her theme. I love listening to music while I create and so this is a great challenge

I chose the song "Hey Jude" by the Beetles (one of my favorite bands ever) It's one of my favorite Beetle's songs.

For this project I used Stampotique Stamps - 

Phillip - By Artist Magda Polokow

Girl With Heart Purse - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Here is my finished postcard -

Hope you like my project for today and we hope you will come by and join in on the challenges at the Challenge Blog 

Have a great week

Bows - Stampotique Designer's Challenge

Hello all and thanks for coming by this wonderful Wednesday afternoon. 

Wednesday marks another new challenge over at Stampotique's Designer's Challenge Blog

Jackie Payne is our wonderful hostess this week and she has challenges us to use "Bows" on our project. 

Bows are super cute and they always look awesome in any project, weather it's a dimensional bow or something as simple as a stamped bow

This also is my day for posting over at the Stampotique's Designer's Blog, make sure to stop by and check out my post and leave me some feedback :)

Here is my project for this week's challenge

For this project I used Stampotique Stamp

Moth Fab - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

I used a stencil in the background and Dyan Reaveley sprays to make that spider web. I also used the sprays to color the ribbon for the bow the same color. 

Hope you enjoy my postcard today.

Have a wonderful week

12 Tags of 2014 - July - Altered Trading Block

Hello all, welcome back to the blog. For today's post I have been working on the 12 Tags of 2014 for July

Make sure to check out Tim's blog for the awesome tutorial

So for this month's tag I had such a great time making the postcards (remember I'm doing postcards each month?) that I thought, this would make a perfect Artist Trading Block too, there has been an Artist Trading Block Craze lately, thanks to Eileen Hull and Sizzix for making these, they are so fun to play with.

If your curious make sure to check out the Artist On The Block Blog  for some fun and amazing ideas and inspiration

I must say that Tim really put so many techniques into this month's tag and I had such a great time experimenting.

For the background I started with my postcards and they turned out so beautiful, I just love the way the layering of Distress paint and distress inks and up looking like water

I didn't take many photos of my process because Tim explains it all on his site HERE but I did take loads of photos of the finished postcards and Artist Trading Block

For the Top side and back side of my block I used the "Waves" embossing folder and the other sides I used the "bubble" folder

Of course I had to do my postcards as well 

I just really love how these turned out, I think this month is my very favorite of this year's tags so far

Using Magazine or Newspaper - SDC155

Hello all, it's that time again, time for another challenge over at 

Stampotique Designers Challenge. This week our wonderfully talented Magda Polakow is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "Use a piece of magazine or newspaper"

You would think this would be an easy challenge

but for me, I don't use newspaper or magazines

very much. I mostly use stamps in my backgrounds

so this was tough for me.

Needless to say I scoured over my newspaper from the passed few days looking for a good piece.

I found something in the Michael's add of all places haha! 

SO I decided to make a postcard for my piece and I went with the following Stampotique Stamps:

Hazel Jester - By artist Linda Peterson
Clothes Text - Also by artist Linda Peterson

I used a piece of printed card stock for my background and added the "flowery" piece of newspaper that I tore out of my Michael's add
This is what it looked like from the start

I then added some painting and washi tape
I heat embossed my text and Hazel and colored them with colored pencils (I made my Hazel a bumblebee to show her in a costume)
Lastly - I added a flower with a button center

Here is my finished postcard

Because Bees like flowers I just love my magazine piece in the background there. 
I hope you have enjoyed my project for today, please come by the Stampotique Designers Blog and check out my post there and while your there you can check out previous posts from designers. There are some awesome ideas and truly creative projects! 
Cheers!!

Pen, Paint Pen or Marker

Good afternoon all, I'm so excited about this week's challenge over at Stampotique's Challenge Blog

Magda Polakow has asked us to use a Pen/Paint Pen or Marker on our projects and I have to tell you, I love using all of those on my creations. 

Spring has definitely been on my mind lately and I'm SO ready for some burst of heat and sunshine so this postcard was for a "Spring" swap that I joined

Come on over to the Stampotique Designers Blog and check out my postcard

For this postcard I used Stampotique Stamps -

Carol's Flower Large - By artist Janet Klein

Carol's Flower Small - By Janet Klein

Jasmin - By Artist Jo Capper-Sandon

In the background I used Tim Holtz distress paint and inks and I also used Tim's stencil called splatter

I added bits of tissue tape here and there

I used Tim's new Framework die called "lattice" to create my green pieces in the background. 

I simply stamped the Stampotique stamps onto separate white paper and colored everything with copic markers, I then cut them out and glued them onto my background

I drew the flower stems with Pitt Pen Black marker and then went over them again with a white gelli pen

I drew scratch marks here and there with the same two pens

I wrote my sentiment out and cut it out and glued it on

As always I love/cherish your comments and am so excited to get feedback.  Thanks for coming by and take care

Cheers!!!

A Masculine Postcard

Happy Wednesday and thanks for coming by the blog today

It's Wednesday again and we all know what that means, it's my turn for a post over at the Stampotique Designer's Blog

I hope you all are liking my posts over there, it's been awesome being able to showcase the wonderful stamps from Stampotique

So the challenge over at The Designer's Challenge Blog this week R. Maria Sabina is challenging us to do something in a masculine theme

I encourage you to link up your creation over at the Designer's blog for a chance to win a 30.00 gift card to Stampotique Originals

I only used one Stampotique Stamp this week

Are My Pants Too Tight - By artist Daniel Torrente

Unfortunately I didn't do a full tutorial this week but I can tell you how I started this project...

I started out by using some gesso on a credit card to create some lines and scratches

I then added some Matte Goosebump spray - but instead of using the sprayer I opened the container and smudged some on

I then used a combo of Tim holts Distress Stains and Dyan Reaveley Dylusions Sprays to create the color in my background

I added some stenciling with black archival ink 

I used paint for scratches and the circles

lastly I added washi tape - Even the "Hello" word is wash tape

I hope you have enjoyed my project - please feel free to email me if you have any questions about any of my projects.

Cheers!!

Roc Nicholas Postcard Exchange

Hello all, Happy Valentine's Day to you (tomorrow)

I hope you all have a wonderful day with that special someone in your life

I recently joined a postcard swap in my Facebook group dedicated to Stampotique's  Roc Nicholas,  she has a wonderful Facebook fan page and it's so neat to see all the great art that is created with her stamps

For this postcard I used Roc's stamps

Scooter Girl

Stacked Love

Here is my postcard for this swap

I went with a Valentine type theme with the hearts and Love. I wanted my Scooter girl's clothing to match the wash tape so I colored her outfit the same colors.

I used Tim Holtz distress glitter for the hearts and the new Memory Box  stencil (honeycomb) for the background. I am really loving those new Memory Box stencils, they are fun.

Have a wonderful day tomorrow everyone!! Take care and Cheers!!

Another take on Dry Embossing

I have been having a lot of fun making postcards lately. I just can't stop myself until that 7 Gypsies recipe tray is totally full. Luckily I've been trading quite a bit with some friends too so my tray is getting pretty full

Remember that tutorial that I showed you last week regarding the dry embossing with patterned paper?

Here is the tutorial

Dry Embossing

At the time that I made that postcard I started another one with the same paper just a different embossing folder

and this time I used Claudine Hellmuth's black gesso on the background instead of the distress ink

I really love the coverage that I got with the black gesso 

I also used a Stampotique Stamp by 

Roc Nicholas called 

Blessed Skellie

and I colored her with copic markers

I then cut her out and adhered her to my background

I used a Wendy Vecchi stamp for part of my sentiment and part of it I just wrote. I also used a Sizzix strip die for the word "you" this one is called Vintage Market by Tim Holtz

I made my Skellie a girl by drawing some eyelashes on her

Have a look:

I think this background came out more vibrant than the one last week

 

What do you think? Even though the background printed paper is the same, each background gives off it's own unique look using the different ink and paint

Thanks again for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!

CHEERS!