Bloom and Grow--Flower Girl

Artwork by Cathy Edgar, DT member

Stamp Plate:  Bloom and Grow

Sit in Reverie

Isn't this lighthouse from Beyond the Sea beautiful? 

What a great image with so much detail!

For this card, I colored it with watercolors on watercolor paper. 

Created by Judy Hayes   

Seaside Collage

I had so much fun creating this piece with the New Images from Beyond the Sea. I hope you like it as well.
Designed by Lynn Stevens

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

I'm just lovin' the newest released from Artistic Outpost. Here I used some masking to create the scene.  To add color, I used the Glimmer  Mist Watecolor Technique for the background, then added color to my images using Distress Inks.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Artistic Outpost New May Releases and Special

Artistic Outpost is located in a part of the US where we are fortunate enough to experience all four seasons.  Springs are rainy, falls are crisp, and winters are unpredictable from year to year.

Because of these experiences, it is no wonder why our releases are influenced by what is going on right outside our front door.  Summer is no different, and really means two things, gardening and the beach.

We just finished planting broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, squash, zucchini, and cucumbers in our yard. We don’t have a garden, but we do have a nice strip of soil in front of the azaleas, perfect for growing veggies to munch on during the summer.  Too bad, the squirrels already enjoyed the strawberries. Next year, there will be a cage around them.  Wish us luck!

Now to the fun stamping news…

Artistic Outpost is excited to release our newest rubber stamp collections:  Beyond the Sea, Bloom and Grow, and Country Life.  To us these stamps represent the good life:  love, growth, and friendship. (and a pig thrown in just for jazz).

Beyond the Sea was inspired by the Bobby Darin song, “Beyond the Sea”.  It features interchangeable main images including the perfect lighthouse, alluring couple, and longing clam digger. Perfect for cards, shadow boxes, and scrapbooking your seashore visits.

Bloom and Grow and Country Life represent are two halves of one whole.  Bloom and Grow features more feminine elements including a perfect seed frame that you can use with so many of our stamps.  Country Life includes a little more fun “boy” imagery including the cutest little pig, chickens, and little boy.  Mix and match both of these collections together or with our other collections such as Lovely Day and Home.

You will see in our galleries how our designers have mixed and matched these two sets to create one of kind pieces of art. 

Be sure to stop by our Designers Blogs to see what they've created with these new releases

Lisa* Gerrie * Cathy * Judy * Lynn * Shelly * Toni

Enjoy all three collections together for a special price.  From now until June 4^th, purchase all three sets together for $36, that’s a savings of 15%.  Simply use coupon code:  SUMMER2010 at check-out.  Just a note, you don't have to purchase all three of the new plates to get a discount, the discount will be taken off ANY of the THREE NEW RELEASES ONLY, simply add them to your cart, and use the coupon code at checkout, just remember this offer is only valid through June 4th.

We are excited to see what you all create

Have wonderful, safe, and happy summers...(or winters if you are in the southern hemisphere!)

-          Robyn Phelan Sharp, chief gardener

*note images on our blog are watermarked, the watermark will not appear on your rubber images

Steampunk & Gears

How about a little fun! Gerrie

Baseball Season

Tis the season for baseball season.....

I made 2 cards using stamps fromCracker Jack
except for the film strip

which is from Happiness.

I had a few scraps leftover so......

......I made this card.  It's my favorite of the two......

funny how aquickly put together card with scraps

is sometimes the one I like best!

All coloring is done with watercolors.

Designer - Judy Hayes

Summer Afternoon, Summer Afternoon...

I created this tag using the Clear Coat Collage technique from the Technique Junkie newsletter. The stamps are from one of my favorite sets - Keeper. It contains so many great images for summer-themed art!

Shelly

SteamPunk and Old Grist Mill

Using both SteamPunk and Old Grist Mill, I interchanged the images to create these two masculine cards.

Thanks for looking,

Robyn

Fun with Alice

Thanks for lookin' at my Warhol I tech, Gerrie

Playtime

I used images from the Playtime plate for my tag to celebrate 52 weeks of Tag making!
Designed by Lynn Stevens

Vintage Alice in Wonderland Cards

Thanks for looking,
Robyn

Great Day for a Bide Ride

Gerrie

Fortune Teller Layered Card

Thanks for looking,
Robyn

Play Ball!

Artistic Outpost images make for some wonderful Warhol inspired cards.  Here I used images from the Cracker Jack plate, perfect for those who love the sport, or perfect for a masculine card!

Designer  - Lisa Somerville

IRL, the Red stamped panel is not blurry, for some reason the Red stamped panels always get blurry in transition.

I'm Late

Yes I'm late but better late than never and of course what this Rabbit is famous for!
Designed by Lynn Stevens

The Conductor

A quick and easy card using images from the SteamPunk Plate.  The train station from this plate looks wonderful when colored or just stamped on pattern paper and used as a background.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Vintage Baseball Cards

Baseball season is here! I love the game. Who wouldn't? It's our national past time.

The backgrounds on both of these cards were created using Distress Inks, a mini mister full of water, and my heat gun. So much fun to play around with and see what happens.

Stamps are from AO's Cracker Jack collection.

Thanks for looking,

Robyn

Paris Exposition

I think this collection is one of my all-time favorites! The gorgeous background was created using the Antiqued Glimmers technique from the Technique Junkie newsletter.

Designer: Shelly Hickox

Father's Day Card Share

Thanks for looking,

Robyn

The Crown Fits

From the New Wonderland collage.
Designed by Lynn Stevens

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

Don't you just love this collage image of the White Rabbit from the Wonderland Collage plate, I think he's my favorite image on this plate!  Here, I've embossed him on a piece of card stock that I applied Glimmer Mist to and distressed.  I added colors with Markers and an H20 Brush.  He'd make a great Belated Birthday card.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Joie de Vivre

Stamps from Paris Exposition.
Thanks for looking,
Robyn

BlueBird

Stamps from BlueBird, one of my favorites as well.
Thanks for looking,
Robyn

Wonderland Collage

Artwork by Cathy Edgar. DT member

Stamps:  Wonderland Collage

I don't know why but the Do-Do Bird was one of my favorite characters in the new release. 

A Lovely Day

Thanks for looking,
Robyn

Artistic Outpost May Referral Program

When you create artwork with Artistic Outpost images and upload to an online gallery/album/or blog - you could win a $14.00 Gift Certificate to the Artistic Outpost Store . To be eligible for the Artistic Outpost Referral Program, each time you upload a creation using Artistic Outpost images, include stamp credits with an active link to http://www.artisticoutpost.com/, then leave a direct link to your creation using Mr. Linky on the months Referral Program post here on the Artistic Outpost Blog to be entered into our monthly drawing. 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 May, all links must be posted by 5/31 to be eligible for the May 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 June to see if you've won. Remember entries must be for the current month in which you are posting. We're looking forward to seeing your creations using Artistic Outpost images.

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

April Referral Winner

Thanks so much to everyone who entered artwork for the Artistic Outpost April Referral Program, we love seeing what you create with out images.

I had the random number generator pick the winner

Congats Vicki, please email me by May 8th, to claim your prize!

We're looking forward to seeing your artwork for the May Referral Program, we appreciate your continued support!

Three Spring Cards

Using one color palette, and the new Distress Ink colors of Victorian Velvet and Wild Honey (now available in our store), I had fun creating these three cards.
Thanks for looking,
Robyn