That's a horrible idea by Elisa Ablett

Hi Stamp lovers!

My turn up on the Viva Las VegaStamps blog today with my latest inspiration for you, a fun Artist Trading Card or ATC featuring loads of Viva Las VegaStamps.

I just love Bicycle Man stamp, so many possibilities for a fun and snarky card or art journal page.

And that sentiment...well that's me all over. 

Here are some close ups of the ATC and I have included a step by step for you as well to see how it came together!

Viva Las VegaStamps products:

SKU 5439 Crackle Background

SKU 18077 Nesting Gears

SKU 20282 That's a horrible idea

SKU 4665 Bicycle Man

https://vlvstamps.com/plate-1495.html

Other products:

AB Studio paper collection, Sepia and Black Versafine ink pads, Uniquely Creative Cityscape Die Cut, Polaroid Die cut, Distress Oxide Inkpads, Distress Ink pads, Decoart Extreme Sheen Paint, Cream Cardstock.

STEP BY STEP:-

Grab your selection of Viva Las VegaStamps, for this project I have included a list above with direct links to the website for VLVS. Stamp your sentiment and Bicycle Man stamp onto cream heavy weight cardstock using Sepia archival ink. Fussy cut your images out and using watercolours and Distress Oxide inkpads and a paint brush, add colour to your stamped images.

Next step is to cut two pieces of cream cardstock around 4 x 6 inch in size and another piece of patterned card to fit on one of the background cardstock with a small border showing. The second piece of cardstock is to use to cut your dies...The cityscape and Polaroid dies.

Add some splatters of distress oxide ink to your background and also around the edges. Colour your city scape die cut as well as a few pieces of ephemera including tickets and music paper. I like to add colour by scraping my inkpad over a craft messy mat and spritz the ink with water until it beads. then I dip my paper and tap it in the colour on the messy mat and dry with a heat gun.

Paint your polaroid die cut in a lovely bronze paint and then once dry, stamp your crackle background over the top of the painted die cut. You can also heat emboss it with black embossing powder at this stage here as well for that extra texture.

Using Aged Mahogany stamp pad, stamp your Nesting Gears Stamp over the bottom half of your ATC, you can see that i have run my ATC through my sewing machine roughly around the edges as well. 

On another piece of spare cream cardstock, using the swipe and smoosh technique for distress oxide ink pads as discussed in the steps above, add a bit of colour to the cardstock, let it dry or heat to dry. Then once dry, stamp using the mixed media edge stamp above using black versafine ink. Then fussy cut it out.

Add some stitching to your tickets and cluster on the left hand side of your ATC and glue to your background.

Start your layering, adhere your cityscape over the tickets then using 3D mounting tape or squares, adhere your polaroid frame over the top as shown above. Then glue your fussy cut Bicycle Man stamped image to the bottom right hand side. 

I decided to re-stamp my quote onto a patterned background and I also added more colour to the quote before adhering to my ATC.

Glue your sentiment onto your ATC and using a black fine tip marker, trace around the edges to make it stand out a bit. 

And you are finished!!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave some love!

Elisa x

Be Creative - Art Journal Page by Elisa Ablett

Paper Rose Studio - Design Team

Hi Crafty Friends,

My turn sharing inspiration as part of the Paper Rose Studio Design Team today. 

I created a colourful, somewhat abstract Art Journal page featuring loads of Paper Rose Studio products including their NEW Inky Antics paper pack.

Paper Rose products used: Mandala Stamp, Arty Love Nats Arty Scribbles, Inky Antics Paper Pack, Morrocan Lattice Stencil

Other Products - Shipping Tag, Baby Wipe, Black Cardstock, Washi Tape Stickers, Distress Oxide Ink Pads, Gold Foil, Black Thread, Butterfly Washi Tape, Black Embossing Powder. Versafine Embossing Ink Pad

To Create the Tag First - Stamp and Emboss in Black the Mandala Stamp, then using Distress Oxide Ink Pads in different colours - Smoosh ink onto your craft mat and dip your embossed image into it then flp over hit with the heat gun while spraying it with water. add gold foil leaf to the bottom using a cheap glue stick then brush excess off using a stiff brush after the glue has dried. Using a sewing machine attach a recycled baby wipe to the back of the tag on the right hand side. Glue to a piece of black cardstock. 

Glue your Inky Antics piece of printed paper to your art journal page, Stamp and ink around the edges. Add washi tape stickers or tape before you add your extra distress Oxide ink . Stamp and Emboss your sentiment using black embossing powder.

That's from me today,

Thanks for stopping by the blog.

Elisa 

xx

Who left the bag of idiots open ? Card by Elisa Ablett

Hi Stamp Lovers!

My turn to share another project for Ink Art Designs to end out the month of January.

To mix things up a bit I created a snarky funny card (or art journal page) combining a few stamp sets and a snarky sentiment. Sometimes you just have to mix things up to achieve the result you want lol ..

I am again having a load of fun playing with the Katzelkraft Stamp Sets from Ink Art Designs, I find the facial expressions and antics of the animals in these stamp sets are just made for creating a card with humour.... I have a bit of a quirky sense of humour so don't worry if its not your cup of tea so to speak. 

Lets take a look at the products used from Ink Art Designs shop:

I have included the links below to make things easier if you want to have a look through the shop.

  

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/frogs/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/farm-animals/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stamps/visible-image-stamps/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stencils/

To create the card, I used a watercolour ink background along with a tree stamp and some stencilling to create hills. I heat embossed with black embossing powder for my stamped images and then used watercolours to add colour.

TIP: stamp a few images and play around with mediums to achieve the look you want, sometimes a happy accident of combining a few products can achieve the very look you didn't know you where looking for!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave a comment to let me know you have passed by the blog!

Hugs

Elisa 

Beautiful things are never perfect by Elisa Ablett for Scrap FX

Hi everyone,

Elisa here again with my next inspiration post as a guest designer for Scrap FX.

Today I am sharing with you a nature collage- art journal page featuring loads of Scrap FX products.

Here are some close ups for you:-

      

Start your project by adding Writing Collage Paper in strips to your page using a glue stick, by far the easiest way to attach rice paper in my opinion.

I stitched my quote to my page and added more stitching along the sides to add some texture.

I love adding a bit of distressed gold leafing to 'Zoosh' up and add bling to my pages.

Adding some bold line marking stamping to the right hand side balances your design out and the Circle Collage stamp is perfect for adding some flat texture to  your page.

Here are the products I used from the Scrap FX Store along with the links below: -

   

 

Bunch of Flowers Stamp

Circle Collage Stamps

Line Marking Stamp

Art Words Transparency

Writing Collage Paper

Ripples Stencil

Other products - Distress Inks, Washi Tape Sticker, Colour Blast Artists Ink in Soot, Black Versafine Ink, Black Paint

Gold Leaf, Black Marker

Thanks for Stopping by the blog today,

Elisa x

Zombies - Art Journal page by Elisa Ablett

Hi just sharing my latest Viva Las VegaStamps creation here with  you!

I created an Art Journal page featuring loads of Viva Stamps in a crazy collage.

I have included a few close ups showing the fun I had stamping and colouring each layering of the collage and including some mulberry coloured craft wire and stitching.

Love this Creepy Bald guy stamp, so versatile, I can definitely see myself using him again and again.

And I find myself using the Rows of Numbers and X Circle stamp over and over in my backgrounds. 

Make sure you head to the website to check out the new plates of stamps and also I have included a list with direct links to the stamps I used to create my journal page.

I used the following Viva Stamps:-

Warning - If Zombies..

Creepy Bald Guy

Rows of Numbers

Chevrons 

x circle stamp

Sawtooth Stitching Lines

Other products used: 

Archival Ink

Blue Fern Chipboard

Colour Blast Watercolour Ink

Black Thread

Versafine Ink Black

Dina Wakely Scribble Sticks

Gesso

Scraps of Patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by !

Elisa x

Ridiculously Awesome by Elisa Ablett - Paper Rose Studio

Hi crafters,

Elisa here with my first post as part of the Paper Rose Design Team. I am super excited to join this team with their versatile and innovative stamps, dies and paper packs. 

For my first project I created a grungy boy mixed media scrapbooking layout featuring loads of Paper Rose products which are listed below.

I also provide a quick run through of how I created the simple yet effective background and general 'white space' design.  By layering your stamping and dies you can create a background that looks 'lumpy and bumpy - full of depth and texture' but actually sits flat apart from your photo and dies. 

Let's take a look at the close ups!!

Products used : 

Paper Rose Products 

Black and White A5 Paper Set, Awesome Words stamp set, Awesome Layered Die, Texture 3 Die, Arty Love Arty Alphas stamp, Arty Love Mark Maker Stencil, Hud 6x6 Stencil

Other Products: House of Paper White Heavy Weight Cardstock, Black Cardstock, Distress Oxide Ink Pad, Versafine Black Ink Pad, Distress Blending Tool.

To create this design ...

To start the background, smooth Distress Ink through the  Paper Rose Hud Stencil to create your circles behind your photo. 

Smooth Versafine Black ink with a blending tool as above through the Arty Mark Maker stencil onto your background. 

Mat your photo which is 3 x 4 in white cardstock then again in Black and White stripes. 

Die Cut the Paper Rose Texture Die x 2 in black cardstock. 

Then Stamp and Die cut your title out using Awesome words and Die sets. 

Using Versafine Ink pad in black stamp randomly over and around your stencilled areas with Arty Love Alpha Stamp and Awesome Words Stamp set. 

Cut strips of black and white paper in stripes and the crosses paper and staple to your page. 

Using a thin black pen add scribbled lines around the stamping. 

Adhere all your elements to the page using glue and staples.

Use my main photo as a guide to where you stamp and stencil OR try a different design with your Paper Rose goodies. 

Thanks for stopping by today, 

Hugs 

Elisa x

Out of Chaos comes Creativity - Art Journal Page by Elisa Ablett

Hi Crafters,

Happy New Year from me, 2020 is going to be a huge year!

How many of you made resolutions or goals for this year ?

Most of mine are crafty goals, creating in my art journal more, trying new techniques and seeing my crafty friends more. 

To start the year for Ink Art Designs, I created an abstract mixed media art journal page using Visible Image Stamps and Stencils with a bright watercolour ink background and the use of white space.

To add extra interest in the background I also used a few of these old washi tape stickers I had laying around in my stash. 

Products used from Ink Art Designs:

If they are not in stock at the time of the blog post, 

just pop a message into Dot who can order them in for you !

 

 

/darkroom-door-stamps

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stamps/visible-image-stamps/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stencils/

Other Products used include:

Colour Blast Colour Artist Inks

Versafine Ink - Black

Distress Tool

Hessian Thread

Let's take a closer look at the details :-) 

With such a busy background, to make the main focus stand out a bit more (the large flower) I left a small white border when I fussy cut the flower out. 

To keep the flower theme going, stamp the smaller flowers in the back ground, keep the receding away into the distance if that makes sense? Add colour to the centre of the small flowers.

Adding a bit of abstract grunge to the page by stencilling, stamping and drawing thin black lines and scribbly writing. Another tip is to stamp using the lid from your ink pad to add a frame underneath your large focal point. 

and the finished product!

That's it from me today, thanks for stopping by the blog, make sure you say hi in the comments !

And don't forget to visit the https://www.facebook.com/groups/InkArtDesigns/ Stamping Playground group on Facebook. Enter a card or project in the monthly challenge for your chance to win!

Hugs

Elisa