Joyeux Noel

Hi Lisa here today, sharing one of my favorite images from the Artistic Outpost Snowy Woods plate.  I just love this image for Christmas cards, all you need to do is add a bit of color for a quick holiday card!  Here I've paired up the image with papers from My Minds Eye, dying some Seam Binding and added Jingle Bells for embellies!

Don't forget today is the last day to enter your Artistic Outpost projects for the October Referral Program!

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Snowy Woods Ornament

Hi Lisa here today, sharing a quick and easy Christmas Ornament created with an image from the Snowy Woods plate.

Directions can be found in the December issue of Crafts 'n Things.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Halloween Night

Its almost here, the night when all the ghosts and goblins do their

Trick or Treating. My last card of the Halloween season

is dedicated to that special night Oct. 31st.

Stamps from the Vintage Halloween and Haunted Halloween plates.

Have a Safe and Happy Halloween everyone.

Designed by Lynn Stevens

If You Dare...

You're invited to come and visit...if you dare. This haunted house from Haunted Halloween is very inviting -- if you're a ghost. I kept the image in black and white to maintain that eerie feeling. I used the torn frame technique from Technique Junkies to frame the image. The sentiment is stamped and mounted to a mesh ribbon. The background is a piece of designer paper from Graphics45.
Have a safe and fun Halloween.
Barbara Washington -- Designer

London Abundance

I created a collage using 7 different stamps from Loverly London & London Underground on a piece of 7Gypsies Lille Paper.

The "Keep Calm" sentiment was stamped in Versamark on ivory cardstock & clear embossed before sponging with red Distress Inks.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

The Witches Cauldron

The Witches Caldron
"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog"
"Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing"
"For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and babble"
"Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and caldron bubble"
William Shakespeare

Just envison this adorable little Witch stirring the cauldron, mixing up her special receipes  Design your Halloween crafts with Artistic Outpost Rubber stamp sets:  Haunted Halloween and Vintage Halloween. 
Be sure to stop by our Gallery and see more amazing ideas
connie paxman

You are braver Tag

I created this tag with a verse from Typography

and frame from Whimsical Melange.  I stamped

and heat embossed the frame in black.  I freehand cut it out.

I cut the openingwith a deckle edge die template,

perfect size for the frame.

I've also used the music stamp from Ephemeral Backgrounds

on the tag.  Then added lots of inks and distressing

with Distress inks. I even colored the seam binding

with Distress inks.

Happy Stamping!

Judy

Designer - Judy Hayes



Fine & Dandy

The Typography sentiments work so well with many  different types of card. The verses inspired me to create an anniversary card.

 

The  dandy gentleman and lady from the Loverly London plate paired together with a bit of finery make a lovely couple.  The background is the flourish from the Whimsical Melange plate stamped in a pattern. 

The ribbon and doily were glimmer misted in blue to coordinate with the colors on the card.  Everything was framed with black to pop the lighter color.

Have a fabulous weekend! 

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

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Halloween Trick

Its Halloween time but its not always about the Treats.

Here's a little trick you may want to try.

Have a neighbor who's dog barks all night?

Or maybe it sounds like world war 3 next door.

"There goes The Neighborhood" door Knocker might be just the thing

to hang on their door this Halloween.

All in good fun of course!

Stamps are from Vintage Halloween and Haunted Halloween plates.

Designed by Lynn Stevens

Life is Good

 This week I was in a bit of a retro mood as I was creating my card. I started with my image from Generation Redux and paired it with the sentiment from Typography.  The image was colored using Copics and then cut using a Spellbinders die. I used ivory Flower Soft on the flowers behind her. The image is mounted on a doily die cut (Cheery Lynn). The background is a piece of designer paper from My Mind's Eye.
Yes, life is good.
Barbara Washington -- designer

Carry Beautiful With Us

This card features a favorite sentiment from Lovely Day stamped in Coffee Archival ink on the border of an aged piece of sheet music. I love the variation in color and how the ink sinks into the aged paper.

The dotted texture stamp from Generation Redux was used to add some subtle color to the Romance paper from the Bo Bunny Gabrielle Collection.

The butterflies were die cut from stiffened foam and then embossed with a brocade embossing folder for subtle texture.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

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Witch's Potion

A mix of Apothecary and Whimsical Melange stamps brought this Halloween creation together.  Notice how I added some little witch hats to the camoes in the frame?  A fun touch to an already fun stamp!   I framed it with some cool spider web paper and then added a witch's broom hanging from my ribbon to complete my piece.

Designed by:  Louise Granlund

Life is Good

I have two cards to share today from Favorite Book Whimsical Melange and Typography.  These images bring back wonderful memories for me as I spent a good portion of my childhood in the library and reading. I love the sweet images reading their books. I think Life is Good if you have a good book nearby that can take you away in an adventure.

Have a wonderful weekend and go the library and check out a good book!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Christmas gift bag

Have you started yet? I keep seeing great Christmas art on so many blogs.

Here's A little fabric Christmas bag I made using the new Stamps

Frosty & Friends.

A vintage Christmas hankie, doily and buttons

are the finishing touches for the gift bag.

Designed by Lynn Stevens

In the Spirit of Halloween

The haunting season is upon us so I decided to pull out my recently released Halloween Treats stamps and play a bit. The witch happily oversees the owl who is responsible for guarding the Halloween tonic. Looks like the makings of a very interesting party. My background, from one of Tim Holtz's Halloween texture fades, says it all. Barbara Washington -- designer

Blue Songbirds

This card combines Authentique papers with stamps from the new Whimsical Melange & Typography sets, together with the row of birds from Songbirds.

I used blue colored pencils to spotlight one of the birds and add a little color to the frame.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Spooktacular Witches

October is the popular month for celebrating Fall and the festive spooky season.
Jackolanterns, Witches, Goblins and carved pumkins cultivate landscape of the moon month.

Artistic Outpost has two stamp sets that will redefine your artistic cue to create those Halloween crafts...
Haunted Halloween and Vintage Halloween are wonderful to design and interchange with other Artistic Outpost stamp plates.
thanks for stopping by Artistic Outpost Blog and be sure to check our Gallery for more creations with these wonderful stamp sets.
Connie Paxman

Halloween Treats

With Halloween just a few weeks away, here's some ideas using the Artistic Outpost Halloween Treats plate for some spooky candy holders and a sweet cupcake treat holder!

What little goblin wouldn't want to receive treats in these Halloween holders!

ETA - the various containers were created using templates from Creations by AR, cut with the eCraft, feel free to email me if you need direct links to the patterns.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Explore and Discover

Happy Friday! 

How about exploring and discovering new places?  With the Artistic Outpost stamps you can travel to London, Paris and lots of other fun places. I pulled together a variety of images to create a masculine card for an explorer.

The sets used include: Artistic Outpost - Steampunk, Huck Finn, Paris Exposition, and Loverly London.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek 

Halloween ATC

I needed to make a Halloween ATC for a certain special someone.

I decided to pull out my Artistic Outpost

Halloween Treats and Vintage Halloween stamps.

Colored in with markers, a little bling and a creepy spider.

Hope she likes it!



Won't That Be Fine

I just love the new Typography stamps. They are so versatile. Here I stamped a sentiment from the Typography sheet on a die cut basket. The basket is layered over die cut lace and filled with flowers. A couple of rhinestone flourishes finish off the card. The sentiment says it all.
Barbara Washington - Designer

Prescription for Life

This card combines images from Apothecary & Typography with 7Gypsies paper.

I cut the globe apart from the sentiment, so I could stamp it repeatedly to create my background. Next I stamped the sentiment from Typography inside the Prescription pad from Apothecary to create my prescription for life ... what a great reminder.

Designer: Stephanie Severin

Let's Read

Hi, Lisa here today sharing a quick card made with the sweet little girl from A Favorite Book.  The image is stamped in Black Archival on Vanilla card stock, colored with Markers and cut using the Double Emboss and Cut Technique from the October Technique Junkie Newsletter.  Papers are from Graphic 45.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

An Erie Moon

I had some fun creating this for Lisa's Blogger Challenge sketch.  Just luv how the background came together. 

I embossed the background and then used Distress Stains and inks.

Gerrie Johnnic

Do More Of What Makes You Happy!

I've combined a few of the Artistic Outpost sets to create this 6x6 chipboard piece.  The sentiment is from Typography, the young boy is from Favorite Book and the banner is from Whimsical Melange.  I added the letters in my own writing for the banner and then added some Glossy Accents to give it a dimensional effect.

Artistic Outpost October 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 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 October, all links must be posted by 10/31, 11:59PM CST to be eligible for the October 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 November 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

September Referral Winner

Thanks so much for your continued support of Artistic Outpost with the sharing of your wonderful cards in our Monthly Referral Program posts, we always look forward to seeing your creations!

We used the Random Number Generator to select this months winner..

Congrats Kim Dellow!  Please email me by October 14th to claim your $14 Artistic Outpost Gift Certificate!

Watch for the October Referral Program post to be posted shortly!