Afternoon Tea

Greetings everyone! Yvonne here with a Tuesday post for Artistic Outpost. My card is made from images from the newly released London Elements along with images from Loverly London. What breadth the new London Elements adds to the other London inspired Artistic Outpost plates! I was most excited that the softer side of London with the Afternoon Tea sentiment and this gorgeous teacup, spoon and sugar cubes are a part of this fabulous collection. It allows me to pull out cabbage rose background paper and soft, feminine embellishments as demonstrated in my card above. And yet, by selecting other images in the London collection, I can create cards with a more traditional, masculine bend. Just so versatile! If you have not had an opportunity to peruse the London Elements Artistic Outpost Gallery, why not brew a cup of tea, head over and be inspired to get inky with London plates by Artistic Outpost?

Thanks for stopping by!

Yvonne, Guest Designer

Be Inspired!

I love how this new Charles and Amelia set celebrates the adventurous spirit of the early flight pioneers! How could you not be inspired?  I made just a simple vintage style card using a number of stamps from the Charles and Amelia set.  I started by creating a faux post card with a stamp from Ephemera Backgrounds, one of my favorite go-to sets.  Then I stamped two of the stamps from the Charles and Amelia set on muslin, just for fun.  The newspaper type stamp of Charles Lindberg was stamped in Sepia and the Be Inspired sentiment was computer generated.  That's it - a quick and easy make for this week's sharing.  But I hope you will be inspired to have some fun with this wonderful new release from Artistic Outpost!

Linda Coughlin - Guest Designer

The Funkie Junkie

New Release - London Elements

Happy Saturday everyone! I am sure you are just as excited to see the new releases from Artistic Outpost this month as I was! I love them all! In the London Elements set, I was particularly excited to see the phone booth. I think it is because of the deep red color, but I have always wanted to have one in my home as decor! 

For this card, I stamped all the London Elements images directly on the 7 Gypsies Journal card (as well as the Prima flower) with Archival Ink and heat embossed with Black Soot Embossing Powder, except the phone booth. I stamped it on vellum with Fired Brick Distress Ink and heat embossed with Fired Brick Embossing Powder. The embossed sentiments are from the London Underground set, and the other London landmarks are from the Loverly London set and are stamped in Pumice Stone Distress Ink. It's fabulous that all the sets work together. I hope you get to experiment with the new sets soon. Have a wonderful weekend!

Anita Houston, Guest Designer

Adventure

Happy Friday!  Suzz here.

These adventurers were one of my favorite images in the new release.  The road signs and the maps are a backdrop for their adventure.

The images are from the new Diesel Punk plate, mixed in with the Route 66 plate and the sentiment from the Charles & Amelia plate.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Adventure Is Worthwhile In Itself

I have been using the fabulous new Charles & Amelia plate to create my hinged card.

• Add torn pieces of vintage paper to the background sections and colour with Gesso and age with vintage photo Distress Ink.
• Stamp the images from Charles & Amelia onto kraft card, cut out and age with vintage photo Distress Ink.
• Cut mini gears from thick card colour with Distress Ink and add Clear Rock Candy to the top randomly, do not cover the entire area.  Colour again with Distress Ink, the areas that are not covered with Rock Candy appear darker.
• Add propeller adding a copper brad to the centre.

The inside of my card also uses images from the fabulous Industrial Chic plate.

Thanks for stopping by.

Guest Artist: Tracy Evans

Artistic Outpost February Releases!

The wait is finally over.  Artistic Outpost is pleased to bring to you four brand new rubber stamp collections that are vintage, edgy, and extremely artful.

We are happy to present: Diesel Punk, Charles & Amelia, Industrial Chic, and London Elements.

What is Diesel Punk? What happened to Steampunk?  We still very much love the Victorian magic that is the rage of steampunk, however, we decided to advance the timeline and the trend to a more modern look.  It’s like steampunk but with a combustion engine.  To us, Diesel Punk is a style that blends the “edge” of steampunk with the art and culture of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. We think of motorcycles, roadsters, red lipstick, trench coats, jetpacks, and jet engines.  Three of our new releases evoke our interpretation of this style.

Diesel Punk:  Includes images of good looking guys, a beautiful dame, a kid ready to be a rocketeer, and fast machines to tempt their fates.

Charles & Amelia:  Images featuring the king and queen of the skies when flying was more than transportation – it was an adventure.

Industrial Chic:  Backgrounds for any of your projects – steam, diesel, or any other kind of punk.

London Elements:  More of our favorite images featuring the fun icons of London.

Be sure to stop by and visit our talented Design Team Members Blogs for inspiration using these new releases:

Gerrie Johnnic * Lisa Somerville * Suzanne Czosek * Anita Houston * Linda Coughlin * Tracy Evans * Yvonne Garner

Keep Calm!

Welcome to Artistic Outpost! Yvonne here with a post. Today I am sharing an altered wood frame that I made using various images from London Underground and Loverly London plates for the recent Design Team blog hop. I really enjoyed making little vignettes with the images and tucking famous London landmarks from the plates amongst them. There are so many possibilities with these two plates! For my color scheme, I chose to use red, white and blue with touches of black for drama. Speaking of the color red, there's still time to enter Artistic Outpost's February Referral Program for a chance at a wonderful prize, by making a project with Artistic Outpost images and the color red. For more great examples for using these gorgeous London images, please see the other Design Team Members' inspiration pieces:

Robyn Sharp; Gerrie Johnnic; Lisa Somerville; Susanne Czosek; Anita Houston; Linda Coughlin; Tracy Evans

Thanks for stopping by!

Yvonne, Guest Designer

London Town

Hi Lisa here today and I'm taking you on a virtual trip to London, using images from the Artistic Outpost Loverly London and London Underground plates.  For my focal image, I stamped and masked images from Loverly London on Vanilla card stock then cut with Spellbinders Circle Dies. I added a bit of color to Big Ben using STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, then added some clouds by sponging STAEDTLER Chalk Pastels around a Scallop edge. On the pattern paper panel, I added the postmark script from Loverly London, on the middle panel the text comes from London Underground, and on the sentiment panel, the sentiment from London Underground is stamped in Black, with the buildings from Loverly London overstamped in Cocoa.

We've gotten some wonderful enteries for this months Artistic Outpost Themes of Red Challenge, there's still time for you to play along for your chance to win an Artistic Outpost Prize package!  See full details here!

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Suffragette City

This week, I chose to work with the Loverly London set and used the national colors of Britain for my card, combining them with a good dose of kraft. The bottom layer is Night of Navy embossed with the Tim Holtz Patchwork folder and then swiped with Picket Fence Distress Stain to give it a chalky white effect. I created a post card with a stamp from Ephemeral Backgrounds and used it to carry the British suffragette slogan "Votes for Women" made with Tim Holtz's Chip Block alphabet, cut from black CS and coated with Crackle Accents. I made a little ballot holder with a kraft sleeve and ran it though my printer to print the word Ballot on it, then stamped LONDON across it with a stamp from the set. I made little ballot on my computer to slip into the BALLOT sleeve. The suffragette was stamped with Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink on white CS and sponged with Vintage Photo distress ink. I cut the edges with deckle cut scissors. The double rosette was cut with the Mini Rosette die and at the last minute I cut a strip of red with the Vintage Lace die and adhered it along the top edge of the post card. I thought the card was a bit stark and masculine looking and I wanted to make a statement that women are equal to men, but we don't have to sacrifice our feminine side to that equality.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!

Linda Coughlin, Guest Designer

The Funkie Junkie
 

Mind The Love Gap

Since I have the privilege of being a guest designer, I get to participate in this month's Designer Blog Hop. I was thrilled at the London theme, as these two stamp sets Loverly London and London Underground have taken over as my new favs. I cannot stress enough how wonderfully detailed these stamps are, and the images are so unique and fun! You can use these on so many different themes besides a London one, as I have sort of done on my card titled "Mind The Love Gap".

All the background sentiment stamping was done in Tea Dye Distress Ink, and London images on the gold cardstock, were stamped in Mustard Seed. All of the rest of the AO images were stamped in Walnut Stain Distress Ink and then heat embossed with Vintage Photo Distress Embossing Powder. I thought this SteamPunk Debutante Graphic 45 paper really set off the stamped images beautifully. The Maya Road chipboard pieces were so fun to stamp and embellish on. This would be a perfect card for your significant other or for an anniversary. 

Don't forget to visit all the other designer's projects on this blog hop as well. They are all absolutely wonderful! This group is heavy on the talent! And...it's not too late to enter the February Referral Challenge "shades of  red". I hope you have a wonderful inky Saturday crafters!

 

Anita Houston, Guest Designer

Royal Diamond

Happy Friday!

I am sharing the lovely Diamond Fold card using the London plates.  When the card is standing up it looks like this:

 

 When you open up the card completely you get a view like this:

 

 I love how the elements of the Loverly London, London Underground, Neverland, and Windows and Doors worked together so beautifully. 

I had fun creating little scenes on each panels and pulling it all together with the same color scheme. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

London Calling

Artistic Outpost are holding a blog hop this month and we are showcasing the London Underground and Loverly London plates, perfect for me as in the UK we have the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics so these sets are absolutely perfect for celebrations this year including birthdays too. These UK letters seemed perfect to showcase these fabulous sets.  Pop along to the blogs below and be inspired along the way.

• Robyn Sharp
• Gerrie Johnnic
• Lisa Somerville
• Suzanne Czosek
• Anita Houston
• Linda Coughlin
• Tracy Evans (ME)
• Yvonne Garner

Don't forget we are also holding our monthly Referral Program and this month the theme is SHADES OF RED for more details click HERE.

Thanks for stopping by.

Guest Artist: Tracy Evans

London Town - Artistic Outpost Design Team Blog Hop



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 We're excited to share a new feature with you here on the Artistic Outpost Blog!  Each month the Artistic Outpost Designers will be participating in a blog hop showcasing some of the Artistic Outpost plates.  This month the designers created projects using images from Loverly London and London Underground.

Be sure to stop by the Designers Blogs to see their creations using these two plates:

Robyn Sharp * Gerrie Johnnic * Lisa Somerville * Suzanne Czosek * Anita Houston * Linda Coughlin * Tracy Evans * Yvonne Garner

Pip Pip, Cheerio!

Long Distance Love on Valentine's Day

Greetings and Happy Valentine's Day to each of you! When I thought about what I wanted to share with you today, it seemed only fitting that it would be a Valentine. As I looked through all the gorgeous Artistic Outpost plates, it came to me that I wanted to create a Valentine that tells a story. I have always been drawn to the sweet image of a young girl in the Generation Redux plate. She seems so wistful somehow. With her chosen, I searched for the man of her dreams. I found him in the Gatsby plate. My story is one of two lovers, she stayed back home to help her parents with their family business, he went off to an Ivy League school to pursue law. Though there are many miles between them, and culturally they live in two different worlds, he cannot stop thinking of her, nor she him! That's my story and I'm sticking to it! As for other supplies, the hand cut heart was cut out around the "Be Mine" sentiment, which comes from the Cutie Pie plate. All the images were stamped with Black StazOn ink and distressed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Thanks for stopping by Artistic Outpost today.

Yvonne, Guest Designer

Every Little Thing

Hi, Lisa here today, sharing a card created with the Artistic Outpost Birds of a Feather and Typography plates.  The girls (Birds of a Feather) are stamped in Black Archival on Confetti card stock, then colored with Staedtler Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils/Gamsol, cut out and adhered to the pattern paper. The sentiment is from the Artistic Outpost Typography collection, stamped in Black on the pattern paper. To embellish I added bits and pieces of Zva Creative Pearl Flourishes, a Seam Binding Bow and a Zva Creative Peach Rose.

Be sure to join us on Wednesday for a Design Team Blog Hop, featuring projects created with the Artistic Outpost London Plates.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Beyond the Sea

I love this Beyond the Sea set and really like the way it looks with the Vintage Photo and Stormy Sky inks.  It's matted on a vintage songbook page that I sponged with Stormy Sky. Then I randomly stamped some of the images from the set on vanilla CS in Stormy Sky and sponged it with Vintage Photo.  A port hole type of effect was die cut, then stamped with more images from the Beyond the Sea set in Vintage Photo and sponged with more Stormy Sky.  A kraft paper twist ribbon was unfurled, cut in a strip and gathered to make a ruffle that was glued to the back of the porthole.  The main image of the couple in the boat was stamped with black archival ink on vanilla CS and then sponged with Vintage Photo.  I hand cut the sentiment banner, stamped it and then embossed it with just one coat of UTEE.  I knocked off any loose embossing powder, heat embossed it and then sponged it liberally with Vintage Photo creating a cool bumpy blotchy look.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you are having a crafty weekend!

Linda Coughlin, Guest Designer

The Funkie Junkie

An English Valentine

Hello Artistic Outlook lovers and happy Saturday to you! I have always loved long length cards, but they are so difficult to find in the stores anymore. There is just something unique and different about them. I thought this shape would be interesting to make into a Valentine, so I gave it a go. After all, handmade is better! 

I made this card using three different sets of AO Stamps: London Underground, French Flight, and Loverly London. These stamp sets really coordinate well together. I stamped the flag image on vellum with Pumice Stone Distress Ink, and colored it in with watercolor pencils. I cut it out in the shape of a heart and stapled it to the doily. The other images were stamped with Jet Black Archival Ink and cut out, except the Cheerio sentiment which was heat embossed in Fired Brick.  The heart was strung to the doily with wire ribbon. Sparkle and shine are a must on a Valentine, so stickles and a gel pen fit the bill.

Don't forget about our Monthly Referral Challenge for "shades of red". There is an awesome prize package giveaway that awaits a winner (yummy AO stamps and Tim Holtz goodies)!

I wish you a super stamping weekend!

Anita Houston, Guest Designer

London 2012

 

Continuing with the theme of SHADES OF RED to coincide with Artistic Outpost's Feburary referral theme I have created another patriotic card using the London Underground and Loverly London plates.

I used grey board in the background which I painted with Gesso and then coloured with Distress Ink brushed corduroy and added Cheerio in coffee Archival Ink. I cut out hearts from white card and stamped the images in vermillion Archival Ink and sponged with brushed corduroy, adding vintage photo to the edges. I added the flag and Cheerio to the centre. To complete I added London 2012; this would make a great card for anyone's birthday taking place during the Olympics.

Thanks for stopping by, Tracy.

Guest Artist: Tracy Evans

Cheerio!

I've got this framed and hanging on my wall.....but had to take time to share it with all of the Artistic Outpost readers. I had fun playing with the London Underground and Loverly London sets to put this together. The gold piece is embossed metal.

For more info, see my blog..........Gerrie Johnnic

Cutie Pie, Please Be Mine!

Greetings! Yvonne here with a sweet Valentine suitable for a sweetie pie on your list. The big day is almost upon us, and I find myself returning to the versatile Cutie Pie plate quite often! The majorette and puppy were stamped with Black Memento ink and watercolored with Distress inks. The hearts and sentiments were stamped with various Distress inks and Stickles Glitter Glue was added, here and there, for sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Yvonne, Guest Designer