Creative Expressions DT Project - Our Tomorrow's

This week my Creative Expressions DT project features one of my all time favourite stamp sets.

Sam Poole's - Butterfly Girl unmounted stamp plate.

 

 

Stamps: Sam Poole - Butterfly Girl

              Sam Poole - Art Sayings

Distress Stains

White Embossing Powder

Distress Gold Embossing Powder

Gesso

White pen

Perfect pearls for her wings



Old book pages
Tim Holtz Kraft Resist Paper Pad
Copics
Twine for her skirt
Creative Expressions White Crochet Ribbon for her top. I coloured it with copics.

Shary
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Creative Expressions - Moo Cards

My Creative Expression project for today are a set of three Moo Cards.

I cut some card to 1" x 2.75", now not too sure I got the measurements right as there is conflicting advise on the net. I couldn't remember as I hadn't made them in a while. So feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
The backgrounds have been done with TH disress inks. I stamped the lovely Sam Poole Art Houses onto some old book pages and cut out random bits. Inked the edges and adhered them to the card. Simple but effective!!

Shary
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Creative Expressions Project

This week's project for Creative Expressions is a sort of CAS card. It's using the gorgeous Sam Poole Art Houses and the background ruler stamps.

Here's my card and I've also done a little step by step on how to make it too.

1. Take your white card blank and lay down a piece of sequin waste along the bottom of the card. Using some sponge dab walnut stain and peeled paint distress inks over the holes.

 

2. Stamp out the house and key from the Art Houses stamp plate  onto white card , cut out and watercolour with worn lipstick and peacock distress inks.

 

 

3. Stamp the sentiment with black ink over the spots.

 

4. Using the ruler background stamp , stamp out a block and then cut up some of them and ink with the distress inks. Tear at one end to make them look like washi tape.

 

 



 

5. Now piece the card together.  I applied the house and key with 3D tabs. The "washi tape" was applied with a wet glue. I used the remaining waste pieces of ruler to attach to the "big" and the side of the house.





 

 

I hope my step by step was of some use to you :0)  I'll be back next week with another Creative Expressions project x

 

Shary

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Creative Expressions

Time to showcase a new set of stamps and embossing folder for Creative Expressions. We had 2 lots of Sam Poole's stamps and a fantastic embossing folder to play with.
The first set of stamps is a plate called  Art Houses , I love this one, the little houses are great. The second stamp plate is a background stamp called Ruler. The embossing folder was fun to use, I haven't used one in a while but it came out great. The folder is called Uber by Couture Creations.

So here is my first project, a card.

Stamps: Sam Poole - Art Houses and Ruler
Embossing folder: Couture Creations - Uber
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Inks

I've watercoloured the houses with the distress inks and also layered up some of the features.

I'll be back next week with another project using Creative Expressions products.

Shary
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Creative Expressions DT post

Friday again and it's time for me to show you my weekly Creative Expressions DT post. This month we are working with two new stamp plates and today I'd like to show you a project I made with the "If the crown fits" plate.

 

Firstly I went over the whole tag with TH distress ink in Peacock Feathers and then I spritzed the tag with a Dylusions spray ink. I then splattered some water over to give it some texture. I then stamped out the border stamp in black ink along the right hand side. I stamped two of the crowns onto shrink plastic, shrunk it and then coloured them with a clear star gel pen. I then stamped, cut out and coloured the lady stamp which comes from the Sam Poole Artful Ladies stamp plate. I adhered her to the tag and attached one of the shrunk crowns onto her head.The other went around the hole in the top of the tag.  I stamped the sentiment from the if the crown fits plate onto white card and cut it out, inking the edges too. I cut out each individual word to help it fit onto the tag.

More Creative Expressions projects next week.

Shary
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Creative Expressions DT Canvas

Morning time to show my 3rd piece for Creative Expressions and this time along with the Steampunk Christmas set I've made a canvas.

Firstly I sprayed the canvas with red and green spray inks. I then made a stencil using the "25" stamp and used gesso to make the 25 stand out. When they were dry and I went over them with some lipstick red distress ink. I achieved some lovely texture on them this way. I stamped the bird and light bulb bloom onto acetate and coloured the backs with red, green and gold perfect pearls then adhered them to the canvas. Next came some clear embossing powder mixed with frantage copper fragments around the edges.I decided I didn't want to waste the actual cut out from the 25 stencil so I put that over one of the gesso 25's and added a little gold pen. I stamped up a cog with black ink and randomly stamped it over the canvas. Finally I added gold pen around the edges, bird and bloom and splattered a little onto the canvas.

Don't forget to go over to the Creative Expressions news blog as we are currently showing a meet the team blog post once a week. Also we have a facebook page where we show all the DT projects. They really are amazing.

Shary
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Creative Expressions 2nd DT Card

Afternoon and here is my 2nd post of the day. This time it's for my DT card for Creative Expressions. As you know I picked out the Sam Poole - Steampunk Christmas for my monthly pick so I've put a different slant on the stamps this week.
I was inspired to make this card after seeing a set in Craft Stamper by Sarah Engels-Greer. I loved her 3 cards that she showcased last month.

First I took a 12x12 piece of cardstock by Tim Holtz from the Kraft Resist pad and cut it to make a 6x6 card. I then brushed over a little gesso randomly. Next using the tree stamp from the Sam Poole Steampunk Christmas stamp set I stamped it out using walnut stain distress ink and then I shadow stamped it with another burgundy ink. I then stamped a few cogs out in the same walnut distress ink. A piece of tape washi was put along the bottom. I took a kraft tag and stamped out some cogs with distress ink and then let it dry. I then stamped out some more cogs and embossed them with clear powder. I then ripped it in half. I did the same with the sentiment and the "25" but using a burgundy ink and edging with the walnut. Next I arranged the pieces onto the card and run stitching over them randomly. I then inked and embossed some cogs onto Kraft card and cut them out and arranged them on the page. Finally I added the twine.

Come back next week to see what I create using Steampunk Christmas again.

Shary
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Steampunk Christmas

My first DT card for Creative Expressions and I've used the gorgeous new set from Sam Poole called Steampunk Christmas.

 

 

Here's my card

 

 

 

To start with I used the tree stamp as a background. I masked off the stand of the tree and used an embossing ink pad and clear embossing ink. I stamped one in the middle of the card and then arranged more of the image around it.

Using a worn lipstick TH distress pad I rubbed over the card , pressing harder in some parts. I then took a damp baby wipe and swiped over the ink to make the embossed bits "pop".

I then stitched around the edges with a brown ink.

Next I gold embossed the grid stamp around 3 of the corners.

I stamped out the bird and coloured him in with walnut and worn lipstick distress inks. I added some gold to the cog in his hat and a red gem to his eye.

The small cogs were gold embossed and I added a little triangle to the top of the cogs with a gold pen to make them look like baubles. I split some threads up from bakers twine and added them to the baubles and attached them to his beak, adding a little bow to the top. The bird and baubles were then adhered to the card with 3D pads.

I didn't have red bakers twine so I ran the worn lipstick ink along it to make it appear more red. I added it to the bottom of the card.

I then randomly swiped a little walnut ink over the card to tone it down a bit.

Finally I gold embossed the sentiment onto some card, cut around it and used the worn lipstick to swipe over and edge it. These were also adhered with 3D pads.

 

I found this set really versatile and easy to use.

 

I'll be showing more projects using Creative Expressions products very soon.

 

Shary

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Remember the 3 tags from the post at the bottom of the page? Well there were 6, I used 3 and now I've created the other 3.

The backgrounds have been done with Dylusion spray inks and acrylic paint and stamps. The foregrounds have all been made with Sam Poole's Creative Studio stamp range. The figures have been coloured with Copics and the stamped embellies have been stamped out of a Prima Fairy Belle pad.

Stamps: Creative Studio  Art Sayings, Butterfly Girl, Artful ladies.

Paige & Sketch Saturday

I have another one of the new Emma Canning digistamps to show you today. All of them are availabel from Polkadoodles.  This one is Paige and I've used her to enter the Sketch Saturday Challenge.

Here's the sketch

And here is the card I made.

Digistamp: Emma Canning - Paige

Sentiment & Roses - Creative Studios Sam Poole stamps Art Sayings & Butterfly Girl

Papers: My Minds Eye - Love me

Cute Card Thursday meets Mojo Monday

Today I'm showing you the promised card featuring Sam Poole's Creative Studio stamps. It's for both my DT card for Cute Card Thursday and I've also followed the sketch on Mojo Monday Challenge blog.

So the theme on Cute Card Thursday is

Pink and Green

Mojo Monday sketch looks like this

And my card looks like this......

Stamps: Sam Poole-Creative Studios -  Butterfly girls & Art Sayings

Papers: First Edition - Bird Song

I have stamped and then embossed the flowers and swirls with white embossing powder. Love the effect on these. I've paper pieced the girl and added gems and a Stardust gel pen.

As always the CCT DT have made some gorgeous projects and you can see them here.

An ATC and Creative Studio stamps

Over the last few days I've bought some stamp sheets from Creative Studios. I've shown you one card that I've made and I have one to show you this Thursday for my DT card on Cute Card Thursday. Well today I wanted to show you an ATC that I made.

I've used two sets Artful ladies and Art Sayings from Creative Studio. I am very impressed with the customer service that Sam supplies. Each time I've ordered the stamps have arrived the next day. And they are great to work with! Love to sit and cut out the images from a sheet, the rubber smells so good!! Weird I know!

So back to my ATC here are the supplies I've used

Stamps: Creative Studios - Artful Ladies & Art Sayings
Background: Dylusions spray inks
Embossing powder: WOW white
Colouring medium: Copics

A quick tag

Just wanted to show you a quick tag I made this afternoon.

Paper: Tim Holtz Kraft resist pad
Inks: Dylusions spray inks
Stamps: Sam Poole creative studio
Paint: Do Craft acrylic paint

Sam Poole stamps and Sketch Saturday

Just this minute finished this card. I took the Sketch Saturday sketch

and the Sam Poole Creative Studio stamp plate Butterfly Girl and made this card

Stamps: Creative Studios - Butterfly Girl
Papers: Basic Grey Out of Print
Acrylic paints - Docraft Inks - Memento, Stazon, Distress Ink
Pens - Stardust clear and white

So I've paper pieced the girl with the Basic Grey papers and just brushed a little paint over her. Her wings are acetate and I've used a clear stardust pen on them. You can't see very well on the pic but I've also used paint on one of the stamps to stamp onto the papers, it's a dotty one in the set. I've also paper pieced some more of the stamps and used them as embellies, inked the edges and added a little paint.