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What a fun tag to put together!

"Flapper Fashions" and "Windows and Doors"

work so well together!

I stamped and cut out the "window" and

popped it up with foam tape.  The tag and

gazebo are colored with Distress Stains.

Miss Fashion Icon looks so good next to it!

I added a stick pin with 1922 and a ribbon flower.

I created the ribbon flower by wrapping colore

seam binding around a glue dot.

Happy Stamping!

Judy

Designer - Judy Hayes

If you never did you should

Love the bridge stamp from the Windows and Doors Plate. It is so versatile and it works with several of the other sets beautifully! Look how dapper the gentlemen from SteamPunk looks lounging on the bridge. The bridge also can be stamped multiple times to create a longer bridge background. 

Sets used include: SteamPunk, Windows and Doors, Ephemeral Plate and Think and Wonder.

Have a Happy Royal Friday!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Puttin on the Ritz

Today I have another sample from one of the newest plates Flapper Fashions.

I teamed it up with a vintage photo frame, some lace, brown velvet ribbon

 and A flower with a touch of bling.

Designed by Lynn Stevens

Something for the Men

The Huck Finn stamp collection is a perfect set when looking to create cards for men or boys. I went with a CAS design for this card. I thought that the sentiment said so much. I stamped the sentiment and then die cut it using the Spellbinders label ten die. I cut another layer with the the next size die in blue. Both layers were lined using a gold pen. The background layer was embossed in a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

A Private Door

This wonderful Door & sentiment from the new Windows & Doors set were stamped on Memory Box DP with sponged Distress inks around the edges to frame the design.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Adventures of Hucklberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) was published in 1884 in England and 1885 in the U.S. The story takes place in the Mississippi Valley "forty to fifty years ago," or about the time of Twain's own boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a town much like Huck’s hometown, St. Petersburg, Missouri. Unlike his imaginative friend Tom Sawyer, who reads chivalric adventure stories and loves to play games of make believe, Huck is a realist.
The amazing images, narrative verses and words from Artistic Outpost's new stamp plate Huck Finn; bring the venturesome personalities of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer back to life. 
thanks for stopping by Artistic Outpost Blog
Connie Paxman

Huck Finn Card

I just adore this image from the Huck Finn plate.  I know I'll be using this a lot.   Although my son is not a little boy anymore, I still like to think of when he was and all the adventures he had.   So he'll be getting this card -- and lots more with these Huck Finn images:)

Designer:  Louise Granlund

Great Gatsby

Another great guy card!

This car and gentelman from Gatsby are such great images for guy cards!

I used just one ink color, Espresso, for all my stamping. 

To give the words a little more intensity , I clear heat embossed them.

I used a cork mat around the gentleman, so easy to die cut! For fun, I added

a check bow tie!   The papers are all from Graphic 45, A Proper Gentleman.

Happy stamping!

-judy

Judy Hayes, Designer

Daisy

Daisy has such a lovely face in the Gatsby Plate. She inspired me to create several projects with her image. First was a card where my DD dressed her up with some vintage flair.

I finished off the image and paired her with the flourishes on the frame and sentiment from Flappers Fashions.


Then I used a second image I had stamped to create an ATC. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

This Little House

Lynn here with a little hanging I made on a piece of Masonite using my favorite stamps.

The new Windows and Door images.

I cut a hole along the top and used the birds from Songbirds,

Added a piece of trim for framing for the roof line.

Theres just no end to what you can do with these stamps!



Secret Gate

It's wonderful how you can combine stamps from the different stamp sheets to create artwork. I started with an image from Windows and Doors and stamped it on white cardstock with grey/silver ink. I then masked around the window areas. In one I stamped Jane from Jane's Countryside. In the other I stamped the gentleman from the Steampunk sheet. I thought they made a lovely couple in a lovely setting. I used Copics to color the couple. I cut out the image and layered on a blue-green panel. I stamped the sentiment and layered it on a similar panel. The two panels were adhered to my background designer papers. Brads were placed along the edge. The elements were adhered to a white base card.

Adventures in Reading

When I was young, I lived at the library. Each book I read took me on my next adventure, including a wild ride down the Mississippi River with Huck Finn, so I thought it would be fun to combine the new Huck Finn images with a library card & pocket.

Discover ... Explore.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

The 1920's Famous Flappers

 

Flapper Fashions stamps by Artistic Outpost are the perfect images for this era.  The roaring twenties embraced all things and styles modern. A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, a shorter than average shapeless shift dress, a chest as flat as a board, wore make up and applied it in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs and epitomised the spirit of a reckless rebel who danced the nights away in the Jazz Age.

For this Card I used Alcohol inks, Gesso and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Sprays.

Thanks for stopping by Artistic Outpost

Connie Paxman

 

Round the Corner

I combined images from Gatsby and Windows & Doors

for this masculine card!  The car is from Gatsby,

the verse and street light scene from Windows & Doors.

I chose a simple color combination of black, white and gray

with mats of red.  An easy card to create with simple stamping

and no coloring!  Just a little bit of time to cut out the car.  

I hope I've inspired you to combine some of these great images

from Gatsby and Windows & Doors! 

Actually, all the Artistic Outpost stamp sets

work so well together!

Have a great day!

Judy

Judy Hayes, Designer

The Lost Generation

The Gatsby Collection makes such wonderful masculine cards!  Here, I've paired up this handsome image with some great papers from Graphic 45.  After stamping the image in Black Archival, I used the Burnt Edges Technique with Distress Inks, to distress the image and all the pattern papers.

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Private Doors

Happy Friday! Suzz here.

What a lovely sentiment from the Windows and Doors plate and it coordinates wonderfully with the beautiful doorway.  The doorway was stamped on watercolor paper and colored with watercolor markers and an aqua brush. The background pattern paper is stamped with the beautiful flourish from the Serenity plate.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek

Easter Egg Hunt- I'm Late- Chunky ATC's

I have many memories of Easter morning searching the yard for hidden eggs

the Easter Bunny had put out for us. Filling our baskets with colorful eggs.

Later to become Egg salad sandwiches.

When I first saw this door stamp from the newest plate

Windows and Doors. I knew it would make a perfect backdrop for my chunky atc.

A little nest of eggs and some grass fiber trim finish off the Easter Egg Hunt.

Designed by Lynn Stevens

There's still time to get in on the Altered Alice challenge. Artistic Outpost is the sponsor this month and you can win a GC.
Heres my Chunky ATC using the Wonderland stamp images.



The Lost Generation

Today my card features  Jay and Daisy from the Gatsby stamp sheet. Each was stamped on a tag. The backgrounds of the tags were colored using the new distress stains from Tim Holtz. The card background was done with design paper cut at an angle and overlaid on the card. The card was stamped with the champagne bottles using Versamark ink as watermarks. I love the stamps from this set. You can truly imagine the setting in which The Great Gatsby took place.

Barbara Washington-Designer

No Time

Remember, Artistic Outpost is sponsoring this month's challenge at the Altered Alice Blog ... if you play along & link up your card by Friday, April 22nd at 8pm EST, you'll have a chance to win a $14 gift certificate to Artistic Outpost.

The Challenge this month is a color challenge ... blue & yellow.

The rabbit from Wonderland Collage was stamped in navy on a piece of yellow Basic Grey DP. I added some colored pencil shading and of course a cotton-tail. I used a decorative brad for the hands on my clock and finished with a wrap of some opalescent thread for a bit of shimmer.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

The "1920's" The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1, opening words

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

Be inspired to merge and mingle images from the Gatsby Collection with Flapper Fashions. This era lends applause to be versatile with many  of  the Artistic Outpost stamp plates.

My background was created using a technique from Shelley Hickox using Gesso and Alcohol inks..Embellishments are from Tim Holtz Alterations line.
Thanks for stopping by Artistic Outpost blog.
connie paxman 

He Just Could Not Resist The Crown

The background is made using a new "resist" tech I just learned, certainly befitting the King of Gatsby.

Gerrie Johnnic

Huck Finn Pocket

I've had this jean pocket (confiscated from my son's old blue jeans) for ages, knowing someday I'd find the perfect thing for it.  The Huck Finn set was just right.  I stamped onto sticky backed canvas and then colored with Copic markers.  I also stamped the word Dream from that set onto a metal tag to add to the top.

I love when a saved item comes in contact with the right project!

Designer:  Louise Granlund



Flappers on Stage

These stylish women from Flapper Fashion

inspired me to create this card!

They are just so fun to color!

For this card I imagined them on stage

showing off their style!

Judy Hayes,  Designer

The Explorers Club

Happy Friday. Suzz Here.

When we were young, my brother and sisters spent a lot of time outside coming up with games and adventures. No hand held electronic devices for us. :)  When I saw the wonderful Huck Finn plate it reminded me of those times and inspired me to think of creating a journal for an explorers club. 

The base of the journal is a composition notebook.  Cut a brown paper bag(from the grocery store) to cover the front and back.  I had an old map which I had purchased at the libraries book resale store for a quarter. (Great place to find materials) Cut map to size and tear middle section to show the paper bag on the cover.

Stamp several of the fun images from Huck Finn onto watercolor paper using pigment ink. Color images using watercolor markers and an aqua brush. Cut them out. Sponge edges of map and paper bag with brown die ink.

The rest was a combination of layering stamps and images. All the images and stamps are from Huck Finn and Ephemeral Backgrounds.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Explorer

With spring almost here I was reminded of a time when my son would

venture out into the yard to Explore all nature had to offer, collecting bugs in his bug house, gathering feathers and twigs, all those things little boys do.That was my inspiration for this Explore card.

Using the images from the newest plates from

Artistic Outpost Huck Finn.

I stamped the main image on a scrap of muslin, added some twine and feathers and

mounted all to a torn book page. Not to worry it wasn't a Huck Finn book!

I hope your spring is full of new adventures!

Designed by Lynn Stevens



Fun Fold Flapper Card

Front of Card

Inside of card

I had such fun with the new Flapper Fashions stamps. These ladies are so elegant. They deserve an elegant background and design, don't you think. I started by using the tall accordian fold technique from Technique Junkies. I pulled out a piece of double sided paper that I had been hoarding in my paper stash. The floral turquoise and green is one side; the gold metallic is the other. For the front I added several images, a sentiment label, and a rosette. For the inside I used the Flapper description stamp, two of the gorgeous flappers and several of the decorative stamps. These stamps sure are the "bees knees".
Barbara Washington

Steampunk Gatsby

I love the wonderful masculine images in the new Gatsby plate.

This one is combined with Graphic45 Steampunk Debutante papers and several wraps of brown twine.

Designer ~ Stephanie Severin

Wonderland Collage and Altered Alice Blog Hop

The April Sponsor for Altered Alice Blog is "Artistic Outpost".

The Altered Alice challenge this month is to create something that is predominantly blue and yellow, the colors associated with Alice! Enter by Friday, April 22 at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00) and the winner will be posted sometime on Sunday, April 24.
For this card I used images from Wonderland Collage and Happiness stamp plates.
thank you for stopping by Artistic Outpost Blog.
connie paxman

Flapper Fashions Card

I love the stamps on the Flapper Fashions plate.  I thoroughly enjoyed creating this card from that set with  its feminine, vintage images.  I  added a piece of costume jewelry to embellish it.

Designer:  Louise Granlund

The Lost Generation

Hi, Lisa here today, sharing a masculine card using one of the new images from the Gatsby plate, released this past week.  Don't you just love this bold handsome image!  I just added a little sponging around the edges and paired the image with some Graphic 45 papers!  Makes for a wonderful masculine card!

Designer  - Lisa Somerville

Artistic Outpost April 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 April, all links must be posted by 4/30, 11:59PM CST to be eligible for the April 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 May 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

March Referral Winner

Sorry for the day delay in posting last months Referral Winner.  Being April Fool's Day yesterday, I didn't want you to think I was joking around with the winner picked by Random.org!

There were a lot of wonderful cards shared for last months Referral Contest - we just LOVE seeing what you are creating with our stamps!  Just a reminder to make sure you include a direct link back to www.artisticoutpost.com when you mention our stamps in your post, please also try to limit your projects to Artistic Outpost images only.

The random number generator selected....

Congrats Jo!  Please email me to claim your Artistic Outpost Gift Certificate!

The April Referral Program post will be live shortly!

Thank you for your continued support of Artistic Outpost!

Gatsby and Flapper Fashion

All the Artistic Outpost Stamps are FAB, but with this new release I'm tellin' ya'......these are must-must haves!  Here's a little Flapper Fun, Steampunk style followed by the Gatsby Dapper's...........

for more info, you can check out my blog....hugz, Gerrie

From the Bride

Happy Friday! Suzz here.

When I saw the handsome man in the fabulous Gatsby plate I immediately thought of making either a card for the groom from his bride or a set of cards for the men in the bridal party that could be given with the gifts from the happy couple.

 

I paired the wonderful images with some wonderful gray and and white striped pattern paper. The sentiment is from the  Song Birds plate and the lovely flourish is from the Flapper Fashions plate.  Very clean and elegant with a touch of lace, stick pin and Prima flower.

Have a fabulous weekend! 

Suzz

Designer: Suzanne Czosek