Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils Blog Hop

Welcome to the Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous "Faces of Art" Blog Hop!  I hope you've enjoyed all the inspiration this week and that you've left loads of comments for a chance to win!

For my project today I've inverted a canvas and used the backside as my base.  The face from the Blossom Beauty stamp has been stamped in Archival ink onto Bazzill music paper and then painted with a wash of Distress ink and cut out.  I added  the flower stamp from the same set that was stamped onto a stenciled piece of pattern paper and then die-cut using the matching Blossom Beauty die.  My paper was stenciled with Mosaic Swirls in Distress paint.

The coral  pattern paper on the inside of the canvas was stenciled with more distress paint using the Damask stencil.

My edges were painted with Distress paint and then covered with crochet ribbon from May Arts.  The collar on my Beauty was created with Crochet trim from Petaloo.  I also added some painted flowers and butterfly from the new Burlap collection from Petaloo as well as a sentiment tag using the Dream Forever stamp.

Be sure to hop around to everyone's blogs today for a chance to win one of three prize packages:

 Stampendous Blog

Dream It Up! 

Rhea Weigand 

Jamie Martin 

Lynn Mercurio

Wendy Price

Alison Heikkila

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristi Parker Van Doren

Terrece Siddoway

Kristine Fossmeyer 

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Leadonna Kimmel

Kristine Reynolds 

Pam Hornschu

Jennifer Dove

Suzanne Czosek 

Asia King 

Tenia Nelson

Stampendous and Faber-Castell Blog Hop

 Happy Friday!  Its been a fun collaboration week and now its blog hop time for Stampendous and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft.  For today I created an 8x8 canvas with tons of mixed media layers! 

I began by coating my canvas with Faber-Castell Gesso and then let that dry.  Next I swiped on a heavy amount of Margarita Mix, Lavender, and Snow Cone gelatos in a semi grid pattern.  Using a wet paintbrush I carefully spread out and slightly mixed the overlapping borders to create my background.

 I used some Stampendous stencils to remove some of the gelato color with a baby wipe and then let that dry.

Next I added some stamping using my Cobalt Green Stamper's Big Brush pen with NK Studio Grunge and NK Studio Mish Mesh stamps from Stampendous.

Then I took another Stampendous stencil and added Gesso with a palette knife through the holes.  While that was still wet I sprinkled on Turquoise UF Pearl Glitter from the Sumptuous Stack Art Elements kit and some Melon UF Pearl glitter and Teal Mica Fragments from the Fusion Stack Art Elements kit.  The gesso not only added texture but also acted as an adhesive for the glitter and mica!

Finally I created a tag with a mini canvas pennant from Canvas Corp, colored it with Gelato, then stamped Life is Art with my Big Brush pen.  This was attached with 3 in 1 glue from Beacon, and I added a clothespin from Canvas Corp, some ribbon from May Arts, and a flower from Petaloo.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Stampendous' Creative Palette

Good morning from the snow covered piedmont of North Carolina!  This is the most snow and ice we've seen since my freshman year of college over 20 years ago.  Its beautiful but our area is nearly shut down, including no Starbucks! What?!!!

This week has been all about showing off the new Creative Palette from Stampendous.  Its a totally new and different mono printing plate that is similar to the gelli in many ways yet very unique.   I was so thrilled when Fran introduced it so I created tons of catalog samples with printed backgrounds.  Some were cards and others journal pages, like this one.

To use the Creative Palette just squirt on some acrylic paint, brayer it out, and you are ready to print.  For this background I built up many layers of prints using the same paint colors.  On some I printed through a stencil, some the reverse of the stencil, and some I stamped into the plate.  The result is a fun mix of fiery colors. 

After my color was laid down and dry I stamped Glance on a piece of book text with black paint, tore the edges, then adhered that to my page with Gel medium.  After adding more medium on top I added some paint for her hair and skin and cheeks then blended her into the background with more paint.

Finally I added the Live Creatively stamp in black paint, inked my edges with paint, and added some additional texture with the black paint using a hotel key card to make lines.

Suplies:

Stampendous

Glance

Live Creatively

Cherry Print

Square Illusion

Creative Palette

Other:

Stencils (The Crafter's Workshop)

Paint (Liquitex basics)

Gel Medium (Golden)

Brayer

Book text

lids, hotel key card

Mixed Media paper (Strathmore)

Stack Art Mania

Have you seen peeks of the newest rage to hit Mixed Media?  Stampendous' Stack Art is here!  The system has 3 different components and various kits for each component.  Then you can mix and match to your hearts' content!  There are chipboard kits:

Elements kits:

And Stamp kits:

These kits all mix and match for endless possibilities!  I have a Stack Art creation for you today that uses Stack Art kraftboard Regal Bird kit, Stack Art Rubber Stamps Regal Bird kit, and Stack Art Elements Sumptuous kit.

I've painted some of my Kraftboard with Silks acrylic glazes, then for other pieces I used the enclosed pre-cut adhesive on the Kraftboard and then added glitter from the Elements kit.  These kits are so much fun to create with, you should check out more info on them at Stampendous Impressions and while you're there get links for other projects the team has made!

Stampendous Sneak Peek: Bonjour Kitty

Are you ready for more Stampendous peeks?  Here's one of my new favorite stamps called Bonjour Kitty.  I have him colored with my Copics to match the paint backgrounds that I created with my Creative Palette.

I put dabs of Liquitex paint on my CP then brayered it on, added some stencils and then created the monoprints.  I also stamped into the paint on the CP and then onto the prints.

Here's a closer shot at Monsieur Kitty:

A bit of Stampendous style Mixed Media

Welcome back to sneak peek week for Stampendous! Fran designed some really gorgeous Mixed Media Stamps this round including the new Mixed Media Dress Form stamp set.  Below is a snippet from one of the journal pages that I sent in for the January catalog using Dress Form plus a few other new stamps.

I began with my Creative Palette and some Tim Holtz Distress Paints, brayered them on and lifted a print using templates from the new Mixed Media sets.  I continued to add more paint and more layers with the templates as well as the background from Dress Form as well as stamps from some of the new Stack Art rubber stamp kits.

The Dress Form I stamped last using Versamark Ink and Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel.

Here's a closer shot of how part of the background turned out:

Be sure to keep checking out the Stampendous blog for more peeks this week!

Nathalie Kalbach's new Mixed Media stamps for Stampendous!

Its catalog sneak peek time for Stampendous and the team is showing off the new January CHA releases.  When we got the stamps a few months back I was so thrilled to learn that my friend Nat Kalbach would be releasing her very own line of Mixed Media stamps through Stampendous!

                                      

This is a journal page that I reproduced in my journal after the one that I created for the January catalog using Nat's stamps along with the new Creative Palette.  I just love the grungy yet organic look of her stamps!  They are also the perfect accompaniment to the Creative Palette (similar to the Gelli Plate).

These stamps, like all the newest Jumbo stamps from Stampendous each come with a free template (stencil).  I began by brayering paint onto my Creative Palette and using her stencils to lay down the first layers on my page.  I also brayered paint onto my CP and stamped directly into that to transfer to the page.  

                                               

Supplies:

NK Studio Grunge (Stampendous)

NK Studio Mish Mesh (Stampendous)

NK Studio Wired (Stampendous)

Live Creatively (Stampendous)

Creative Palette (Stampendous)

Paint (Liquitex)

Brayer (Ranger)

Stampendous and Maya Road Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampendous and Maya Road Blog Hop!  I hope you've had fun this week checking out all the cool projects from both teams :)

Today I have a Mixed Media layout to share with you:

1. Spray Radiant Rain over Mod Spirals stencil onto a 12x12 sheet of watercolor paper.

2. Heat set.

                                                     

3. Paint Hand and Hearts chipboard shapes and Costers from Large Square Coaster Book with Silks acrylic glazes.  Heat set.  

4. Stamp Dream Text onto coasters, hearts, hands in Archival black ink.

5. Edge pieces in black with pad or marker.

6. Spray a scrap of watercolor paper with Radiant Rain.  Heat set.  Stamp just sayin' from Smashing Notes set in archival ink.  Punch out.

7. Adhere coasters to page with Fabri-tac adhesive and dimensional tape.  Adhere other chipboard shapes with fabri-tac.  Add tab with glue stick.

8. Stamp journaling using Tiny alphabet.

Supplies:

Dream Text (Stampendous)

Smashing Notes (Stampendous)

Tiny Alphabet (Stampendous)

Large Square Coaster book (Maya Road)

Hand and Hearts chipboard (Maya Road)

Mod Spirals stencil (The Crafter's Workshop)

Watermelon Mist, Teal Zircon, Carmen silks (Splash of Color)

Ginger Flower, Spanish Moss, Teal Zircon Radiant Rain (SOC)

Archival Black pad (Ranger)

Faber-Castell Brush marker

Fabri-tac adhesive (Beacon)

Glue stick (Ranger)

Dimensional tape (3L)

Watercolor paper (Strathmore)

And, of course, there are PRIZES!! Maya Road will have one grand prize you can win by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page. We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have two chipboard and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address. Let’s get HOPPIN’

Asia King

Cyndi Bundy

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Stephanie Lee

Suzanne Czosek

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Fun at Donna Downey's Studio

OK, so Betty, Caroline, and I signed up for a Doodling class with Joanne Sharpe last Friday night at Donna Downey's Studio.  Turns out the storms were so bad that she missed her connecting flight in Detroit so Donna improvised at the last minute and offered to let us take her Poppy class if we still wanted to drive down.  Well, duh!

Let me tell you, if you ever have a chance to take a class with this fabulous woman DO IT!  She is beyond talented and yet so down to earth.  She's full of energy and inspiration and you will leave feeling like you're an artist!

So above is a pic of Donna that totally sums her up!  Below she's helping me with a question.

Here's Caroline and I having a blast.

And had to share this one, LOL, Donna is covering up the Tim Holtz logo on Caroline's apron!

Here's a pic of what my canvas turned into.

This is my oldest daughter Taylor and her boyfriend Cole from Prom this year.

Here's a closeup of all the fun texture on the piece:

We played with lots of layers using tags, paints, gesso, molding paste, book text, and lots more.  Had a blast and I'm so glad we went!

Playing with {Prima} Paper Dolls

Happy Monday!  I had a fun weekend of classes at Donna Downey's studio and I'll share pics from those later this week.  But in the meantime I wanted to share with you some tags that I created for Betty's store using the Prima Doll stamps and Splash of Color mediums.

For the first one I colored her dress in with Silks acrylic glazes from Splash of Color.  My tag was first colored with Silks and then I stenciled more silks through a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop and also stenciled Graphite Ferro through a different TCW stencil.

I added a cutout from one of the new ATC Collage Sheets from Splash of Color.  My flowers are from Petaloo colored with Silks and lace trim is by Prima.

For the second tag I again used Silks for the background and the stenciling.  Her dress was paper-pieced with LYB Poppy.

Her crown and the words came from one of the Collage Sheets from SOC.

And her skin was shaded with Gelatos from Faber Castell.

These little gals are so fun to piece and color! I can't wait to play with more of the new ones :)

Scrappy Sunday with stencils

 Happy Sunday!  I am up today for this week's Scrappy Sunday Challenge at Paper Craft Planet!  Today I am challenging you to use stencils on your layouts!  Here's my page for today:

I used the 12x12 Microbial stencil from The Crafters Workshop along with Silks acrylic glazes from Splash of Color in Bolivian Blue, Teal Zircon, Carmen, and Spiced Pumpkin.

I also pulled out some fun chipboard from Technique Tuesday thats been sitting in my stash forever and painted these with the same colors of Silks.

Be sure to head over and join our challenge this week and give us a link to your creation so we can see what you've been up to!

Stenciling on Canvas with Silks and Primary elements Tutorial

Good morning peeps! Today I am sharing a little canvas with you that started as a "mop up" and then it kept calling me to finish it!
                      

 

I began with a small 6x8 canvas which I prepped with Matte Gel medium, Tim Holtz tissue paper, and then more medium.  The background is a color wash of Silks acrylic glazes in African Jade, Moonbeams, and Stargazer) from Splash of Color.  The silks are a luscious semi-transparent shimmery paint that dries almost immediately. 

    

 Next I prepped two piles of Champagne Modeling Creme by adding Primary Elements pigment powders to each (one with Teal Zircon, the other with Ocean Waves).

 

I masked the words off of the top of my Urban Landscape stencil from TCW with painter's tape and then spread the creme mixture through the skyline.

 

This is what it looked like at this point: 

 

  I used the other color of embossing creme that I created to stencil the Subway stencil onto the background.  I heated both parts for a few seconds with my heat gun since I'm so impatient.

    

 On a scrap of pattern paper I stenciled one of the cameras from the Picture Perfect stencil with a black Pearl pen from Viva.  I made a small puddle on my craft mat and then laid it over the stencil with a makeup sponge.   

 

My skyline looked a bit lost so I traced the edges with a black pen.

 

OK. so this adorable little "Today" diecut?  I know I cut it at a workshop with Jaime but I can't find it on the TCW website so maybe I'm sneaking you a peek of something top secret!  (The watercolor paper was sprayed with Radiant Rain before being die cut)

 

Finally I added a few words to my canvas.  I unmasked the words from Urban Landscape and stenciled them with the same black Pearl Pen then cut them apart and glued them on.

 

I used the cute little Prima doll stamp by Julie Nutting for my focal image.  She was stamped once on text paper and then again on a sheet of Art Journal pp from Prima.  The dress and headband were cut out and then I ran a thin layer of Moonbeams silks over both of these pieces to add a touch of shimmer.

I placed her on a partial #10 tag from Ranger...this was first painted with Twinkling H2Os in Lucky Apple and Sea Spray and then I stamped the globe from Tim Holtz's Travel Blueprints stamp set in archival black ink.

 Hope you enjoyed my little adventure! My local girls are already asking when this will be a class, so I will whip up a few more similar samples and schedule that soon!