Artistic Outpost February Referral Program - Shades of Red

Artistic Outpost is excited to bring you a new and revamped Referral Program for 2012! 

Our challenge for the month of February is to use the theme Shades of Red along with any Artistic Outpost images.  The challenge will be open for the entire month, and you can enter as many times as you wish, provided you follow the challenge rules.  The winner of the monthly Referral Program will receive an Artistic Outpost Prize Package!

Here's some inspiration from our Design Team using the Shades of Red Challenge Theme

To be eligible for the Artistic Outpost February Referral Program, please use Artistic Outpost images along with the challenge theme - Shades of Red.  When uploading your image to your blog or online gallery, be sure to  include stamp credits with an active link to www.artisticoutpost.com/ then leave a direct link to your creation using Link Tool feature on the months Referral Program post here on the Artistic Outpost Blog to be entered into our monthly drawing. Please try to limit your projects to Artistic Outpost images only.

Note, links left here on the Artistic Outpost Blog need to include a direct link to the project you have uploaded. Projects can be posted on blogs or online galleries, but links left on the Referral Program post must be direct links to your projects. Links left with general links to galleries/albums/blogs will not qualify as our time is limited and we cannot search through pages of entries to see which upload uses Artistic Outpost images.

Please use this post to leave your links for February, all links must be posted by 2/29, 11:59PM CST to be eligible for the February Referral Program. The winner will be chosen through a random drawing and will be posted here on the Artistic Outpost Blog, be sure to check back in March to see if you've won. Remember entries must be for the current month in which you are posting and must follow the challenge theme. We're looking forward to seeing your creations using Artistic Outpost images.

**Artistic Outpost reserves the right to remove non direct blog links

Romantic Valentine Wishes

Greetings! Yvonne here with another Valentine card that uses a combination of images from the Gatsby plate and a Valentine image stamped in multiples and sentiment from the Cutie Pie plate. London Fog Memento Ink gives a faded, vintage feel to this loving pair. I really enjoyed making these two a couple and with some doilies, pearls, lace and ribbon, my card was complete!

Thanks for dropping by Artistic Outpost!

Yvonne - Guest Designer

Cutie Pie

Greetings!  Linda here, back again to share a fun card I made with the Cutie Pie set.  I love retro Valentine's Day images and loved this set from the moment I set eyes on it!  I stamped the background in red with various stamps from the set and then again to clear emboss it on red CS and clear embossed, just to give a little variety.  I stamped the "Be Mine" one more time, trimmed it out and used it as a little banner for the heart.  Cutie Pie herself was colored with Copic markers, fussy cut and popped up a bit. Hope she made you smile!

Linda Coughlin, Guest Designer

The Funkie Junkie  

Amour C'est Magnifique!

Amour c'est magnifique!  Here is a card that can be used at any time of year and not just Valentine's. All the stamped images are from the Paris Exposition stamp set. I love all the images on this set, especially the hot air balloons, which I have turned into a floating heart on this card. I had a super time dressing up Madame.  She is wearing a  vintage, zebra printed, mink stole with a diamond brooch brad. She has the perfect shaped head for millinery, so she had to have this black burlap cloche, because it donned a huge grosgrain rose. Even Coco would approve!

The balloons were stamped on transparency with StazOn and colored in with permanent marker. The Eiffel Tower is stamped with Distress Ink and crackled over, along with the Amour. All the background images on the craft paper are Distress Ink stamped and heat embossed with clear UTEE, which the picture is not showing at all. Watercolor pencils were used on Madame and the sky, and all of Madame's make-up was done with Glaze Pens, as well as her gorgeous blue eyes. Distress Ink borders all of the cardstock. I created the rose by tying lose knots in the ribbon and gathering it into a circle, finally adhering it at the bottom.

I hope you experience some joie de vivre in your crafting today!

Anita Houston, Guest Designer

Robin Triptych

I am sharing a fun triptych featuring the robin from the Birds of a Feather plate.  I mixed in images from Whimsical Melange, Songbirds, and Home.

The stamps include: Artistic Outpost - Home, Birds of a Feather, Whimsical Melange, Songbirds.  Other products: Ranger distress inks - Walnut Stain, Rusty Hinge, Glimmer Mist - Jazz z Blue, Watercolor pencils, Ranger Archival Inks - Black, Coffee, Stampendous Bronze Glass Glitter. 

I used a triptych template and modified the shape to follow the lines of the house.  The background was stamped multiple times using the script from the Birds of a Feather plate.  I added a touch of glimmer mist to give a hint of blue.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

I'm Late, I'm Late I'm Late.......

I have created a card once again with the fabulous Wonderland Collage coupled with the Weathered Clock die.

I thought the Weathered Clock worked pefectly with the Rabbit image and the sentiment I'm Late.  I also think the Rabbit would work so well for Easter Cards.  A little dimension has been added with the addition of circular fragments. My background has been stamped repeatedly with Couriouser and Curiouser and then sponged with broken china ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Enjoy your day. 

Guest Designer: Tracy

Ready for a Little Football

Football is almost at it's end and I couldn't let the season go by without posting this great, vintage image from the Cutie Pie set.  My pennant tag is fast and easy today, just water colored with distress inks....and isn't it adorable!

Gerrie Johnnic

Please Be My Valentine!

Hello! Yvonne Garner here with my very first post as a Guest Designer with Artistic Outpost. I am so excited and honored to design for Artistic Outpost for the next several months. Since the very first time I saw Artistic Outpost's stamps, I have been drawn to their vintage style. I especially enjoy how many of the stamp plates can be intermingled to make unique projects. For this first post, I have combined images with the Cutie Pie plate along with an image from the Think and Wonder plate. A doily, some vintage buttons, bits of twine and watercoloring with Ranger Distress Ink in Festive Berry complete my card.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Yvonne - Guest Designer

Happy Belated Birthday!

Hi ,Lisa here today, sharing a card created with the White Rabbit image from the Artistic Outpost Wonderland Collage plate.  Don't you think he works great for a belated birthday card!

The background was created with Staedtler Chalks using the Chalked Emboss Technique.  White Rabbit was stamped in Ranger Coffee Archival on Confetti card stock, then colored using Statedtler Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, blending wtih Gamsol.  I added some Chalk Pastels to fill in the background behind the image, and clear embossed both panels.

Have a great day!

Designer - Lisa Somerville

It's a Lovely Day

Linda Coughlin here and it is definitely a lovely day as it's my first post as guest designer here at Artistic Outpost.   I'm a long time admirer of Artistic Outpost stamps and I'm so excited to be joining this amazing team and fantastic company for the next few months.  For my first post, I chose Lovely Day and have used soft, spring-like colors blended in with vintage style and distressed elements to support the artsy feel of these wonderful Artistic Outpost stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!

Linda Coughlin, Guest Designer
The Funkie Junkie

Steampunk Tag

The images were stamped with Archival Ink, cut out, colored with watercolor pencils, and layered under embossed metal. Highlighting was added with Glossy Accents.

 
Hello everyone. I am Anita Houston. I am super thrilled and honored at the same time to be apart of Artistic Outpost as a Guest Designer. The AO stamp line is unique, vintage, and super detailed. I fell in love with them the first time I saw a set and had to have it. I used this set, "Steampunk", to create this keepsake tag that I will put in my personal scrapbook to remind me of this special milestone. I hope I can inspire all of you, with the projects I make using these gorgeous stamps. I hope you have a wonderful creative day!

Anita Houston, Guest Designer

Going Places

Happy Friday!

I covered the entire box inside and out with piece of map from an old Atlas I purchased at a garage sale. I distressed it with white acrylic paint and brown dye ink. 

I stamped a variety of the Artistic Outpost Route 66 and the Home stamps using brown ink.  I colored them using watercolor pencils and waterbrush. I added sentiments from Artistic Outpost Huck Finn plate and the Route 66 plate.

I finished it with some strips of leather to make a frame on the cover. 

Have a wonderful day! 

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Wonderland

I have created a card using the wonderful Wonderland plate.

I love these images from Wonderland, ideal for male or female cards. I love adding parts of an image to my pieces as highlighted with the use of Fragments in one corner for dimension.

Thanks for stopping by, Tracy x

Designer: Tracy Evans

Sneak Peek #3 for February Releases

Our last two collections for February include Charles & Amelia and Industrial Elements.  I'm so excited with all four of our February Releases. Charles & Amelia, Industrial Elements, and Diesel Punk are all meant to be used together.  We'll let you know when these are available for retail purchase from our website.  Retailers who are interested in carrying these lines, should email us at artisticoutpost@gmail.com

Thanks for stopping by,
Robyn

Sneak Peek of February Releases #2

We visit the city across the pond again with London Elements. Designed to go with our Loverly London and London Underground collection, this collection features images to further embellish and provide wonderful backgrounds for your Anglo-inspired designs.

Sneak Peek of February Releases #1

Though we still love steampunk, at the Outpost, we decided to hit the fast forward button for technology and move on into the "diesel" age.  Motorcycles and roadsters and the guys and dames that drove 'em are highlighted on this collection coming your way in February!

2012 - It's going to be a great year!!!

2012 brings with it new releases from Artistic Outpost. We have had a blast designing new collections of vintage, edgey, and FUN stamp collections beginning with a release of FOUR new sets in February.

Here is a sneak peek at what the first half of 2012 has to offer.

Over the next four days, we'll show you one of the four new collections available soon. 

Excitingly,
Robyn

I'm Late

I loved mixing the images from the Wonderland Collage  plate to create a fun card about time with Alice and the rabbit.  It would be a fun card for a late birthday card.

The only other stamp that is blended in the background is the ledger from the Ephemeral Backgrounds.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Introducing the 2012 Design Team and 3 Month Guest Team

Artistic Outpost is thrilled to welcome back the following Designers

• Gerrie Johnnic
• Lisa Somerville - DT Coordinator
• Connie Paxman
• Suzanne Czosek

We are also excited to welcome the following Guest Designers who will be joining us for the next three months

• Anita Houston
• Linda Coughlin
• Tracy Evans
• Yvonne Garner

Please help us in welcoming these talented designers!  Each designers name is linked to their personal blogs, so be sure to stop by and give them a warm welcome!  We can't wait to share their artwork with you using our new and past collections!

Vintage Circus

The Circus is here in the Suncoast of Florida.....what wonderful memories I have of the Big Top.  I choose the collage from the Vintage Circus set to reflect on fun, family times.  The center piece is done using the Cracked Glass Technique. 

Gerrie Johnnic