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)

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)

Gelli Printing with Tim Holtz Distress Paints

Good morning!  I'm up today on Paper Craft Planet with a tutorial for you using my Gelli plate and the new Tim Holtz Distress paint colors.  Here's the finished journal page that I did in my Dylusions Mini Journal:

First you need to gather your supplies.  I used my Gelli plate, Tim Holtz Distress Paint, Tim Holtz's new layering stencils,  and a brayer.

Even though the Distress Paints have a dauber on top its easier for this technique to open the lid and pour out a few drops.  Be careful, the distress paint is more fluid than most paints you would usually use for Gelli-printing so it pours out quickly!

Next brayer the paint into a thin coat, slightly mixing the colors but not too much.  You still want to see the variegation.  After I brayered it out I used a spatula (that I cut grooves into) to create some texture.

Place your journal or other paper onto the Gelli plate and rub.

Next I cleaned the rest of the greens off and brayered some reds. I added a stencil on top then pressed my page over the gelli again.

This is what it looked like at this point:

Next I added darker greens and a new stencil and transfered that to my page:

Then it looked like this:

I added some background stamping an inked y edges with the dark green paint:

Finally I added some Dylusions images that I stamped on watercolor paper and colored with a waterbrush and distress paint:

Supplies:

Gelli plate (Gelli Arts)

Brayer (Ranger)

Aged Mahogany, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, Bundled Sage Distress Paint (Ranger)

Black Archival pad (Ranger)

Christmas Backgrounds, Christmas Borders, Christmas Words, Day of the Heads Dylusions stamps (Ranger)

Distress Watercolor paper (Ranger)

Dylusions small journal (Ranger)

Copic multi liner

Do you have a gelli plate that you bought and then stashed away?  Pull it out and try it!

Gelli printing in my Dylusions Mini Journal

Here's a page for you that I did in my Mini Journal a few weeks ago but never got around to blogging about for some reason. 

I began by playing around with my Gelli plate for the first time...yeah me!!  On top of the Gelli background I stamped a small border in Archival then added some cut outs from new Dylusions sets...This Old House, Day of the Heads, and Pin Up Queen.  I stamped my images on watercolor paper then colored them with Dylusions ink.

Hope you enjoy!  I'm at a weekend of classes with Dyan Reaveley, Wendy Vecchi, Canvas Corp, Petaloo, Maya Road and more!  Pics to come soon!

Stampendous Jumbo Leaves Journal page

Today I have a journal page that I created last week featuring the new Jumbo Leaves from Stampendous.  I wanted to play with mixing Glimmer Mist sprays and my Pan Pastels and the clear FREE masks that come with the new Jumbo stamps were a perfect pairing!

I began by placing the leaf masks over my blank journal page and then spraying Glimmer Mists on top then moving the masks and repeating.

I then swiped some light color Pan Pastels across the page and then sponged more Pan Pastels through the Quatrefoil stencil from The Crafter's Workshop by Ronda Palazzari.  Here's a closer look at the masked effect on the finished page:

I also stamped a few of the Jumbo Leaves on the background in Distress ink:

On the side of the page is a piece of Kraft damask cardstock from Canvas Corp that I sprayed with more Glimmer Mist, glued to my page with Beacon Fast Finish, and continued my Pan Pastel stenciling onto.

Finally for the focal point I stamped a bunch of the leaves onto a text print from Bazzill in Versamark and then added a mix of Aged Spice, Aged Scarlet, and Aged Bronze Embossing Enamel to and heated.

I cut these leaves out and added them as a cluster to my page and added a sentiment cutout from Canvas Corp.

Hope you enjoy!  Be sure to check the Stampendous blog for links to more of our DT's fall peeks this week!

Pan Pastels meet Ronda Palazzari's Fancy Feathers

Sunday I taught my first Pan Pastels class at Betty's and we had so much fun!  I wanted to share one of the pages from my teaching journal with you today before I label the page with notes for my next class.

When demoing this page I wanted to show layering with lighter colors of the Pan Pastels then adding Versamark through a stencil with a slightly darker color.  The first part of the page was working beautifully, then the next layer I added looked kind of yuck.  But as I kept adding the feathers to the page and blending the colors, I ended up loving the final piece!

The Fancy Feathers stencil is by Ronda Palazzari for The Crafter's Workshop and it was perfect for the background of this technique.  I kept moving the stencil around and adding variations of the same color combo through the different feathers.  The top versamarked layer was done using one of Jaime's stencils from TCW called Tile Texture.  (There is also a small portion stenciled from Dyan Reaveley's newest Leaf Flourish stencil.)  Stamped images from Tim Holtz set's Way with Words and Classics #4

Art Journal pages from Dyan Reaveley's classes

 Thought I'd pop in today with a couple of the pages that I completed from the classes last weekend with Dyan Reaveley.  We started many pages during her classes but these are the ones that I deemed finished, LOL.

First up is my fav from the weekend, I did this one during her "Anatomy of a Page" class:

Next one of the ones from the Doodling class:

And one more:

Hope you have a great Thursday and check back in tomorrow for the Dreamweaver Stencils/ Woodware Hop!

First pages in my Dylusions Small Creative Journal

Happy Friday morning!  I still haven't shared the first few pages that I created in my new Dylusions Small Creative Journal so I have a handful of them for you today.  I was busy creating for Betty's booth at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour with our newest products followed by a long weekend of classes and fun with Dyan Reaveley herself so I'm a bit behind.

Dyan's new Small Creative Journal is 5x8 and simply adorable!  Its perfect for traveling or when the larger journal size is just too much blank canvas for you to work with!

First up is a page using stamps from some of Dyan's newest sets.  I placed one of the houses from  This Old House onto the legs from Boney Maloney...snicker!  Also the cobweb border is from the new Day of the Heads set.  I'm linking you straight to Dyan's store Art From the Heart so you can see the sets in full, but also we have all the newest Dylusions products (available at this time) at my local store, Betty's Stamping and Scrapbooking Room, if you're in the US and you'd like to give her a call.

Next is a page using one of the little monsters from Monster Mash along with the fence from This Old House.  I created my skull lights with the Oh Christmas Tree stencil.  I'm loving how the monsters from the last release will mix with all the new skull stamps!

And a slightly more subdues page using the Flossie stencil from the Couture Collection.

I have more to share another day plus pages that I created during Dyan's classes so be sure to check back!

Twinkling H2Os meet Silks

Good morning!  I am up today with the Monday tutorial on Paper Craft Planet.  Today I wanted  to share some fun techniques with Twinkling H2Os and Silks from Splash of Color!  Twinkling H2Os have been around forever and we all used to watercolor with these gorgeous shimmery paints.  But there has recently been a new resurgence of love for this product since Splash of Color (formerly Creative Imaginations) took over the product line from Luminarte.  Now its all about the possibilites of using these babies in Mixed Media!

Please head HERE to see the tutorial on how I created this background in my Art Journal.

I left this background as a base in my Art Journal and I will add to it later.  When Art Journaling sometimes I just love to create backgrounds, sometimes I am experimenting with new products or techniques, other times I add some doodling or journaling when I find a fabulous quote.  My journal is always an ongoing project!

Products Used:

Key Lime & Raspberry Wine Silks (Splash of Color)Think Pink & Summer Fun Twinkling H2Os kits (Splash of Color)

Vines & Honeycomb stencils (The Crafter's Workshop)

Dylusions Art Journal (Ranger)Claudine Helmuth paint brush (Ranger)

Stampendous and STAEDTLER

This week's Stampendous catalog release theme is Balloons AND we are doing a collaboration with STAEDTLER all week!  There are multiple prizes up for grabs so be sure to read all the way through :)

For today I wanted to do something a little different from everyone else so I created a page in my Art Journal.  STAEDTLER sent me a gorgeous collection of red and pink Soft Pastel Chalks so I used three of those to create my background.

I rubbed 2430-2, 2430-24, and 2430-25 onto my page and then smudged them with my finger, blending slightly where the colors overlap.  You do need a fixative to set the pastels and I just happened to have a bottle of Spectrafix that worked perfectly!

Next I stamped a series of hot air balloons on my page in Versafine ink using Hot Air Trio and Airscapes.  I added a touch of color to the central balloons with STAEDTLER Ergo Soft Aquarell watercolor pencils.  This layered beautifully over the pastels AFTER they were set.

I added one of the borders from the Airscapes set, a bit of doodling and then stamped Dream Text below the horizon that I created.  The doodling was done with a STAEDTLER 0.5 Pigment liner.  Finally I added more pastel chalk around the edges and sprayed the page again.

The Stampendous prize package will include one prize package per day (total of 5 packages) from those folks commenting on our bloggers that day. Our package will include SSC1171 Hot Air Scapes Perfectly Clear Stamps and our SSC1170 Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps plus a Jumbo acrylic handle for use with them.

STAEDTLER prize package will be awarded at the end of the week, one for each of their bloggers from all commenters on that blog that week 

– package includes:

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

Be sure to stop by all the blogs below for today's new posts:

Stampendous Impressions 

Suzanne Czosek 

Kellie

Tenia Nelson 

Kim Stewart

And don't forget to leave comments on all these posts plus the rest of the ones from this week for more chances to win a prize package!

Art Journal Challenge

 I'm hosting the 3D challenge over at Paper Craft Planet this week and I hope you'll join me in creating an art journal page!  This is one I've been meaning to get around to forever about my Starbuck's addiction :)

I started with some Ranger Distress paint and Adirondack paints on my page then added a bit of Cotton Candy Gelato through my Hexagon stencil from TCW.  Next I added a corner of the 12x12 Cityscape stencil and one of the Casey Penelope silhouettes and sponged brown paint around these.

Added more Cotton Candy Gelato (Faber-Castell) on the brown areas, did a sketchy outline with my Med tip Faber-Castell Pitt pen.  I used the same pen to journal inside my chick.

I've been picturing sticking the coffee sleeve on my page forever and was inspired to finally do this when I saw Mou Saha's upcycle challenge for Faber-Castell.  I peeled the inside corrugated layer out then trimmed it up to tag size and painted and stenciled on that too!

Monster Mash

Morning peeps!  I'm sharing a journal page I made a few weeks ago and forgot to share.  We get together once a month on Sundays at our "Dylus-a-thon" at Betty's.  always lots of inky fun and chatting :)  Who needs crops anymore?  Now we can art journal together!

For this page I finally got to play with Dyan Reaveley's new Monster sets...Monster Mash and Mischievous Malcolm.  Oh my word are they cute and fun to color!  All images were colored with Dylusions inks in Ranger waterbrushes.

LOVING that spider!  And I had to have some little monster heads peeping in from the sides :)

Looking forward to taking Ranger classes all day in just over a week!!

OK,  that's it today! Short and sweet :)  Have a great one!

-Cyndi