As Seen From the Boardwalk

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Introducing Boardwalk................ 

For the love of the Jersey Shore and Atlantic City's historic boardwalk, this stamp collection features an ATC sized collage featuring the Steel Pier, bathing beauties, a handsome gentleman, and other summertime elements sure to stir up your creative side. 

                                

Don't ya' just love it!

I saw something like this done as a larger piece at a craft show earlier this year, and just had to try my hand at making one for myself.

My little houses were painted with distress paints....all in a haphazard way on watercolor paper.  The sand was painted with a brush.  The frame was bright red when I started, covered with gesso, then ultra thick get medium was applied.  While wet, I pressed in a texture plate for the design.  When dry, I swished on different distress paints and sprayed them with water.  Here's a little close up.

This is truly a fun set to add to your collection.  Right now enjoy new stamps and a Memorial Day sale with 15% off all rubber stamps at Artistic Outpost.  No coupon code required. Your discount will be reflected in your shopping cart. Stock up on some new designs and enjoy your summer!  This sale ends June 8th.

Be sure to stop by the other designers and see what they are up to today...

 Lisa * Suzanne * Tracy * Linda *Alison * Terry * Kate

So Sorry For Your Loss

A dear friend recently lost her husband.....difficult times are so hard to create for... This week at Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps the challenge is wood or stone, I used the Never Give Up set, the Grunge Cross Background and the Grunge Cross die to create my card. To simulate wood, I embossed the blue panel with the wood texture embossing folder and distressed further with inks. The inside of the card is stamped with the Lift Up Our Hands set.

Thanks for stopping in..........


 

It's a Guy Thing

This month, the Artistic Outpost Design Team is doing a masculine blog hop. Be sure to scroll down and see what everyone else is doing this month.

I used the Charles and Amelia set this month, and have some bad allergies and an eye infection thingie going on.......vision is limited, so I'm using this as an excuse to use the very masculine Amelia stamp instead of sweet Charles, lm-o!  I didn't realize this until my son looked at what I was working on and said something to me.....so.............laugh and enjoy, it's just to late to start over!!

I decided to do pink and blue Steampunk for the hop, the bg paper is a piece of junk mail, stenciled, embossed and inked.  Wings are a piece of stenciled scrap that I embossed.

I was trying to be funny Steampunk when I started, but now the laughs on ME!

Stop by and see what the other designers created
 Lisa * Suzanne * Tracy * Linda *Alison * Terry * Kate

Thanks for stopping by.............

 

Happy Mothers Day!!

Wishing us all a wonderful day! I wanted to play in Lisa's Blogger Challenge this week and make a tag using some of the stencil tech's I've been seeing. I used some lightweight spackle on the dress and colored it with distress inks. The little octagons are made using white paint and then brushed lightly with pink distress ink. Humidity is high today, so it took a while to dry...even using my heat gun, but worth the wait.  If you look close, you can see a feather in her hat.

Enjoy your day........hugz

Tropical Canvas

I made this for a swap (1/1) on a FB group I belong to, and am so happy how it turned out that I'm going to make one for myself.

I started with a 4 x 12 canvas, painted it with distress and regular paints, added a vinyl cut from my Cricut, and stamped the birds and the palm fronds on the sides.

I could think of a lot of things that I may "vinyl up", now that I've tried it.

Thanks for stopping by, hugz

The Artistic Outpost Woman Joins This Month's Blog Hop

This month the Artistic Outpost Design Team is featuring women and/or flowers for the hop.  I'm using the Picture Star sheet a rubba'...Everything with red is parts of a Gelli Plate paper which I took out of my stash of papers.  She is a STAR!





Be sure to stop by the other Designers Blogs to see what they created!

Lisa * Suzanne * Tracy * Linda *Alison * Terry * Kate



 

Artistic Outpost March Design Team Hop

It's time for some monthly Artistic Outpost fun, stop by and check out what the team is playing with. This month it's Backgrounds, Typography and Sentiments.

I started with a piece of white journal page that I colored with some new Distress Inks and water then added some distress ink to the page.  I stamped the bg with different stamps from the Whimsical Melange plate.  I added a word from Kudzu Cafe and a saying from Quotes & Quotables.  I love how our stamps work so great together.

Stop by the rest of the team and say hello................hugz.....


Gerrie (you are here)* Lisa * Suzanne * Tracy * Linda *Alison * Terry * Kate