I think I can Fly

The image of the man trying to fly with his constructed wings reminded me of a dragonfly which inspired this card. He is floating around amongst the wonderful images on the French Flight plate.  The Paris Exposition is a perfect complement to this set and I added the Eiffel Tower in the background.

The images were stamped using a brown water resistant ink on pattern paper. I added colors using watercolor pencils and a water brush. The balloon was stamped twice and pop dotted to give depth and the wings on the man are also layered with acetate wings.

Have a wonderful weekend!  A Happy 2012 to you!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

The last of my Christmas tags

Yes the Christmas season is behind us but I have one more tag to share

Using the stamps from Frosty and Friends.

I wish you all Health Happiness and a New Year full of Stamping.

See you in 2012.

Designed by Lynn Stevens

Happy New Year

Here we are, just days from 2012, so I thought I'd send New Year's greetings with my post. I used stamps from several sets today. The focal image, the door, is from Windows and Doors. I just  stamped the doorway, added a little color with Copics, and highlighted with picket fence distress stickles for a touch of snow. For the background I stamped the snowflakes from Snowy Woods several times with tumbled glass distress ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I inked the whole background panel with iced spruce and stormy sky distress ink and embossed with clear powder again. The bottom snowflake border was die cut. I then stamped and colored the fawn and snowman from Frosty and Friends and cut them out. I die cut the banner and used my Dymo tape printer for the sentiment.
I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year!
Barbara Washington -- designer

Country Roads

Living in Iowa (and growing-up in Missouri), I never tire of the rustic images from the Home & Outpost sets.

I painted my landscape with glimmer mist ... I love the subtle shimmer and how the white spaces from the background paper that show through look like wispy summer clouds.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Happy Holidays from Artistic Outpost

From all of us at Artistic Outpost, we wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas!  We have many wonderful new plates coming your way in 2012! 

Happy Holidays!
The Artistic Outpost Team

Christmas Wishes!

I wanted to try out a technique I had seen where you coat your image in bees wax after you finish stamping and coloring.  I stamped the Snowy Woods Christmas door using a black water resistant ink.  I then colored with a touch of watercolor and blended with an aquabrush. While I was doing that I had heated up bees wax in a meltpot waiting for my image to be finished.  I cut my image to size and then dipped it into the bees wax. I held the image with my tweezers and had to dip it in and move the tweezers to cover the entire surface. 

I then let it dry and when it was dry I used my heat gun to heat up the was and dabbed off any excess using a thick wad of baby wipes to ensure I didn't burn myself. :)

After it was dried I highlighted with a touch of white gel pen and some sparkle on my wreath.

The sentiment is from Frosty and Friends and stamped on white cardstock which was sponged to coordinate with the image.

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Santa's Steampunk Toy shop

Steampunk might be a strange theme for Christmas,

But when Tim had his challenge for the 12 tag's of Christmas

I knew right away what I wanted to do!

I stamped up the three gents from French Flight,

Added A Santa and Elf hats on top of their heads and created

A Santa's Steampunk Toy Shop.

Hope you all Enjoying the Christmas Season!

Designed by Lynn Stevens

Happy Christmas

This week I created a Christmas tag using the stamps from Snowy Woods. I cannot let Christmas pass without using the stamps from this collection several times. I've always been a lover of vintage Santas. Santa was stamped in India Ink on watercolor paper and colored with markers. I cut out the face using a circle die and used him as the focal point of my rosette. The sentiment, also from Snowy Woods was stamped on a die cut tattered banner which was colored with old paper distress ink and edged with vintage photo. The background snowflakes, also Snowy Woods, were stamped with broken China distress ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. The tag was then covered with iced spruce distress ink and embossed again with clear embossing powder. The greenery was die cut using Core'dinations paper. The bling in the corner was a gift to me. All of the techniques used were based on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas 2011.
Sending warm wishes to everyone for a wonderful and Happy Christmas.
Barbara Washington - Designer

Songbirds on a Metronome

This card pairs the beautiful Songbirds with a light blue, grey, and ivory color palette inspired by last week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Winter Wonderland

Inspired by Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas last week, here's another tag I created with Artistic Outpost's Sleigh Ride, Ephemeral Backgrounds,  and Think and Wonder plates.



Using the Resist Technique, I stamped the trees from Artistic Outpost's Sleigh Ride set in White Snowcap and heat set.  To add the color to the tag, I smooshed lines of Iced Spruce, Evergreen Bough, Festive Berries and Crushed Olive onto my non stick craft sheet sprirtzed then smooshed the tag.  Doing it this way allowed me to have more of a scenic looking background.  The Post Card text is from the Ephemeral Background plate, the sweet children are from Think and Wonder.  The children are stamped on Vanilla card stock in Coffee Archival then colored with STAEDTLER Marsgraphic Markers and Karat Aquarell Watercolor pencils.  I roughed up the edges a bit to add some dimension then adhered them to the tag using 3L Adhesive Sheets.
Happy Holidays!

Designer - Lisa Somerville

May Your Christmas be Merry

 Another tag to share using the wonderful children from Sleigh Ride.

The background is created by mixing the Ranger Distress Stains - Picket Fence, Faded Jeans, Broken China.  I added a dusting of brown chalkboard mist to the surface and distressed with vintage photo.  The music (Artistic Outpost - Ephemeral Backgrounds) was stamped using the weathered wood Distress Stain. The children are from Artistic Outpost - Sleigh Ride and are stamped in black ink and watercolored to coordinate. The snowflakes are die cuts from acetate and painted with the picket fence distress stain. I added a row of glitter around the edges behind the snowflakes.  The little tag contains a sentiment from Artistic Outpost - Snowy Woods and uses the same background as the main tag. 


Suzz


Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Frosty Tag

Happy  Holidays

I created this Frosty tag for the 12 Tags of Christmas

using the Frosty & Friends stamps

with a retro feeling.

Designed by Lynn Stevens 

Sending Christmas Wishes

Each year I have my favorite go to stamps at Christmas time. This year it is definitely the stamps from Frosty & Friends. A short time ago I was challenged to make a card using the twisted easel technique (Technique Junkies). I decided that Frosty and Santa were the perfect images for this technique. The result is a Christmas card which will fold flat so it can be sent through the mail, but when it is standing, it makes a perfect home decoration. This one will be sitting on my fireplace mantle.
Barbara Washington--Designer

Out of Print Birthday Adventure

I used the fun image from Artistic Outpost's Adventure set, together with papers from Basic Grey's Out of Print Collection, for this masculine Birthday card.

I added a bit of color to the dog's tongue & eye with colored pencil, as well as a green brad to the compass to pull out the green in the background paper.

The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Bring on the Bling!

Hi, Lisa here today sharing a few more holiday tags, inspired by Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas.

Stamps - Artistic Outpost Think and Wonder, Ephemeral Backgrounds, French Flight, Whimsical Melange

Stamps - Artistic Outpost Snowy Woods, Ephemeral Backgrounds

Stamps - Artistic Outpost Snowy Woods


Thanks for stopping by!
 
Designer - Lisa Somerville

Joyeux Noel - Tag

I too have been very inspired by the tags and created one using an embossing folder, gold embossing powder and distress inks.  The focal point is the beautiful Santa from Snowy Woods placed inside of at timepiece.  After all Santa is timeless. :)   The background music is from the lovely Ephemeral Backgrounds.

The sentiment is also from the Snowy Woods plate and is stamped on white cardstock with the music background.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Playing with 12 Tags of Christmas

Hi Lynn here.

Have you been following along with Tim's 12 tags of Christmas?

I have ! Here's my tags from day 6 and 7.

Tim didn't do any stamping on day 6's but I though my tag called for a little text

Stamped Joyeux Noel from Snowy Woods plate.

My day 7 tag. Didn't have anything Tim used so made it my own.

Stamped the text and holly sprig from Snowy woods plate.

Par Avion

The stamps in the French Flight collection are fabulous for collaging. My card was done using the antique bookplate technique from the current TJ newsletter. I stamped the script three times for the background. I overstamped using the balloon man and the sentiment stamps. The border was hand drawn and the edges of the panel were distressed. I think the antique look goes so well with these vintage stamps.
Barbara Washington--Designer

Steampunk in Paris

I loved fabulous paper from Graphic45's Steampunk Collection, so I added several stamps from French Flight, Paris Exposition, and Steampunk to create a whimsical one-layer monochromatic collaged scene.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Holiday Tags

Inspired by some of Tim's 12 Days of Tags, here's a few I've created using Artistic Outpost Stamps

Details:

Stamps - Artistic Outpost Frosty and Friends

Ink - Ranger Coffee Archival, Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Iced Spruce, STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils

Card Stock - Core'dinations, Vanilla, Chocolate, Olive

Other - Tattered Pinecone Die, eCraft, Hot Glue, Tinsel Embossing Powder, Prima Distresser, Seam Binding, Non Stick Craft Mat, Spritz Bottle, Heat Gun, Dimensionals, Music Sheet, Stickles, Dazzling Diamonds, SCAL software, Gamsol

Details:
Stamps - Artistic Outpost Sleigh Ride
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Stone Wash Alcohol Ink, STAEDTLER Marsgraphic Markers, Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, Peeled Paint Distress Stain
Card Stock - Clear, Manilla Tag, Olive, Black, Vanilla
Other - Ink Blending Tool, Blending Solution, Seam Binding, Pine Cones, Tinsel Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Non Stick Craft Sheet, 3L Adhesive Sheets, Gamsol, Blending Stumps, Xacto Knife

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Flight Tags

I love the way the colors came together in these French Flight tags.   I incorporated lots of stamping with the new FF release and added my tags to a 7 Gypsies ephemera card.

Designed by:  Louise Granlund

Artistic Outpost December Referral Program

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Here's a monochromatic Christmas card

created with images from Snowy Woods.

I used Raisin ink for stamping.  To my larger

St. Nick, I added a touch of color to his face with Copic markers,

and completely colored his coat. The twigs are coated with

 Distress Stickles with dimensional paint dots.

 The dark red mat was stamped with the fern branch.

I used Distress inks to age it all.

Have a creative Saturday!

-judy

Designer:  Judy Hayes

A Vintage Star Decoration

This star is a recycled star decoration from birthday decorations. It was turned over and used as the base for my vintage star decoration. It measures around 12" x 12" from point to point. :) 

I started with two layers of pattern paper on the bottom. I distressed them with dye inks and acrylic white paint.  After that the edges were glittered with crushed glass.  I then created a circle for the center and framed it with some crepe paper glimmer misted in the blue tones. 

The center circle is stamped using the map from Route 66 and the wonderful Santa image & sentiment from Snowy Woods.

Have a wonderful Friday! 

Suzz 

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Santa ATC

In need of a quick ATC?

This can be done in the wink of Santa's eye.

 Start with some DP. Stamp Santa image from Snowy Woods plate.

Color in with markers.

Add a few springs of greenery and some trim and its done easy peasy!!!

Designed by Lynn Stevens