Good Morning! I played in my cave for a while last night. You know when you get an idea in your head and it keeps banging to get let out?? ...
Al stamps are stampscapes some of the new ones that just came out. I colored this with copic markers and airbrushed the sky
CASE'd this from someone far more talented than I. I love Stampscapes scenes, especially for masculine cards.
This is a 6x6 Pion paper from Frantic Stamper, I just added the rocks/trees and the people from Stampscapes and some white snow
This card was made during a class held by annascreations. Thanks for the enabling anna!
Hello friends! I have a quick photo block tutorial to share with you today. It was fun doing a project focusing on photos, and since it is forest photos with many shades of green, it is a real feel-good project. I love forests, the trees, the colors, the sounds, the smells, the peace and quiet and the way in which they are so full of life. Forests and especially forests with lakes are probably my favorite setting in nature and luckily there are many forests close by (which is the case for a large part of Sweden). During January the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team has shared projects made with Eileen's newly released dies. I used Eileen's new Gift Box with Scallop Edges XL die to create this. It is meant to be a gift box, which can open, but I turned it into a closed block instead. It's pretty large, with each square being 3.8 x 3.8 in. You can do a photo block with any types of photos and it would also make a great gift. Start by die cutting two box parts from mat board. This is an XL die, so you need the Extended Cutting Pads. As you can see, the die both cuts and scores the mat board. I ended up not using the label. Cut four photos into 3.8 x 3.8. I wanted the top piece with the stamped sentiment to have a forest feeling, trying to capture the beautiful shades of green. This was done by smearing Distress Ink on a craft sheet, misting with water and repeatedly pressing the paper into the ink. Dry the paper in between each application. Finally, I splattered some ink on it with a paint brush to create even more texture. I only used the Distress Oxide towards the end of the inking process. Stamp sentiments on some of the photos too, using Stazon ink. The sentiment stamps are by Stampscapes. I used a stamp positioner, to make sure I didn't mess up the stamping. Sand the edges of the photos to reveal the white core and adhere wonder tape along the flaps. This is one of my favorite quotes, and such a great description of forests. And another quote by John Muir, who shared my love of forests. This is also a Stampscapes Scenic Sentiment stamp. The inky goodness at the top of the block. Beautiful moss-covered ground and roots. I take a lot of photos of mossy stones, so one had to feature on the block. And here is a very small Leo pointing at something across the water. If you want to display some of your favorite photos, or need a quick gift, this is a great project. You can also leave the top without adhesive so that it can be opened and use it as a combined photo block and gift box. This was a fun project to make and it reminded me of all the Artist Trading Blocks that I used to make around five years ago. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today! Happy crafting! Anna-Karin Supplies: * Please note: the links are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you. Sizzix Eileen Hull: Gift Box with Scallop Edges XL die Stampscapes: Scenic Sentiments 1, Scenic Sentiments 3
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It's been such a mild winter so far, but I'm OK with that. The swap themes have enough snow for me. The ice and mountains are from Stampscapes.
Here's my second card for today's Inspiration Challenge - to CASE or be inspired by something from our FAVORITES Gallery. I have not added to or looked at my FAV's for many years (!) - so it was good to go in and take a look! I found [URL=http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2300290?cat=fav]this gorgeous CAS creation[/url] by Karen Dunbrook that she posted on 12/16/2012 - and remembered why I loved it so! I used a Stampscapes stamp - Lakeside Cabin - that I've had for years, in a drawer - and pretty much just CASE'd Karens beautiful design - spotlighting the section with the cabin and coloring it with a red Copic - I used a sentiment from [url=http://www.waltzingmousestamps.com]Waltzingmouse[/url] - from one of my favorite Christmas sets - Alpine Christmas. So thank you Karen for the wonderful inspiration! and thank you Audrie for getting us back into our FAV galleries! my blog: http://www.createwithjulia.blogspot.com
Today I have two scenes to share and a very fun technique. Kevin Nakagawa from Stampscapes did this cool winter scene on pearlescent paper (...
I though it was about time I put all my Scenics in one Gallery. The Stampscapes page has all the info on scenebuilding, the stamps and so on. Entries for the Stampscapes Facebook Challenge, March 2018, Spring in your Area. These are from late 2017, early 2018. Uses: 144F Cabin with fence 149F Waterside Bluff Right 196F Pine Tree 244E Tree Cluster 144F Cabin with Fence 359G Snowy Creek 068D Reeds, Large. 144F Cabin with fence 148F waterside Bluff, Left 068D Reeds, Large 196F Pine tree( Just top portion). All the scenes stamped out in black dye based inks. 088F, Tree Trunk Trio( Right hand trees) Partial stamp 372F Mossy Trunks sm( Left side) 244E Tree Cluster( Partial to create bushes) 323C Rocks & Grass Large 251C Sedge Filler 282F Eerie Moon 355G Hanging Branch, used upside down at the front. 358I Snowy Brook- by adding Sedge Filler stamp, and colouring in Greens, snow becomes a meadow! 251C Sedge Filler- behind the Brook, to create the hill. 244E Tree Cluster for bushes again 068D Reeds Large 196F Pine tree (top portion) 063G Mill large 057G Meadow large- stamped on either side of the Mill 225D Flock in Water 057G Meadow Large 250E Sedge Cluster (for the Riverbank) 215G Country Chapel-( Appears discontinued as a single stamp, available on Nature Sheet 7) 332F Cobbled Path 251C Sedge Filler 244E Tree Cluster 049G Lakeside Cove- stamped twice side by side 295C Lilley Grass 225D Flock in water 054F Ledge 016B Cattails small 018E Cumulus Cloud 020E Cloud with Lightening 073G Rocky Creek Large 054F Ledge 016B Cattails small 144F Cabin with Fence 251C Sedge Filler 332F Cobbled path 217G Star Birth 049G Lakeside Cove 188F Rocky Peaks 049G Lakeside Cove 147F Lakeside Cabin 150E Pine Row 196F Pine Tree Ducks not Stampscapes. Lavinia Stamps, Ducks. 188F Rocky Peaks 049G Lakeside Cove 217G Star Birth 147F Lakeside Cabin 054F ledge 016B Cattails small 195G Pines and Rocks, stamped 3 times 197E Cloud with Rising Moon 049G Lakeside Cove 147F Lakeside Cabin Lakeside island- only available on Nature Set 4 049G Lakeside Cove These two pieces are done on Stampbord. Both 049G Lakeside Cove, Blue version sprayed with Iridescent Glitter spray, Crafters Companion. 147F Lakeside Cabin Lakeside Island 273G Spooky Branch 054F Ledge Now, some non- Stampscapes scenics. Lavinia Stamps: Dandelions Three Fairies. Sentiment. Inkylicious,Cat, butterfly &Essential Grasses. Tree Branch, 230G Oak Branch,Stampscapes. Fence, Hobby Arts In the Country. Bushes- Hobby Art British Countryside, partial stamping of trees. Stamp plate 71C from Non Sequiteur, called Winter Solstice. Available from De Stempelwinkle. Cat, Butterfly & Willow twigs, Inkylicious. This was a digi stamp, can't remember where from, sorry. 196F, Pine Tree Stampscapes. Not sure who the birds stamp is from, may be Inkylicious. Agapanthus Cluster, Stampendous. Birds, Lavinia Stamps. Sentiment- sorry no idea. A cling stamp bought from EBay. Top, Spooky Branch. Stampscapes. Moon Fairy, Lavinia Stamps. Fairy House, Lavinia stamps. Most of these are only loosely described as 'scenics'
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Hello How is your day? I have another collection of Stampscapes cards for you today. These cards have all been layered on square bases, and have been created in the same way as the previous Stampscapes cards. Card 1 features lake reflection, oak branch, log in water, loon, reeds, crescent moon, and cloud bits. Card 2 is rocky peaks, old mill, pine duo, cloud strips, and migrating birds. Card 3 uses glowing orb, trees and hills, country road, cascading falls, boulders with trees, soaring eagle, hiker and child. I have also added a stampscapes sentiment. Card 4 is old barn, fence, windmill, cow pair, duck trio, leafy branch, cobbled path, bush, and tall grass. Enjoy the great outdoors Till next time be happy BaRb
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Hello Here is the second group of Stampscapes cards created, and the stamps used for each one. Card 1 features Cloud Rising Moon, L...
Hello As mentioned previously, here is another collection of cards created using Stampscapes stamps. Card 1 uses trees and hills, cloud with sun, country stream, single pine, geese in flight, ducks in water, lillygrass, and hikers. Card 2 has tall rock with falls, palm cove, water ripples, cloud strips, gulls, rowboat, frond, and pebbles. Card 3 is cloud with moon, autumn brook, water pattern, lilly grass, rocks and reeds in water, oak branch, loons, and solo duck. Card 4 is rocky peaks, lake cove, cloud cumulus, oak branch, reeds, ducks in water, and duck trio flying. Card 5 is snowy covered bridge, snow texture, spruce, and pine duo. A white paint pen was used to create the falling snow. As with the previous cards, stamping was done with archival ink on to white gloss card, then coloured by sponging on distress inks. Distress glaze was used to seal panels. Image panels were matted on to white card and then to card bases. Pearls or gems were added. Till next time be happy BaRb
Hello. I have been practising my brayering again. Need lots more practice. I used a stampscapes set and timholtz distress inks...Loz
Stampscapes For anyone who hasn't seen these stamps, they were (and still are) designed by Kevin Nakagawa.This is a link to his Stampscapes website,where you can see all the stamps, plus dozens upon dozens of galleries featuring artwork.This link will take you to the UK site, where you can also purchase the stamps, but there is no gallery. This link will take you to the You Tube Stampscapes Channel, where Kevin demos some awesome artwork. Basically they are scenic stamps, as you can see in this photo, landscapes, mountains, waterfalls, sky scenes, cloud bars, trees, branches, people, animals, buildings and water scenes- every kind of image you could want to create a scene. I know at first glance the idea of building a scene using these stamps may be a bit daunting, especially when you look at some of the scenes created on the Stampscapes site. What I am going to show you here is how I do it, and trust me, if I can do it, anyone can! This is a selection of my wood-mounted ones, and I also have a number of u/m stamps too.The beauty of these is that individually they make a beautiful scene, like this card here. This stamp is called Lakeside Cove lge,049G,which you can see at the back of the wood mounted stamp photo. The card above is 15cm square, so you can see the image is quite a good size, it stamps out at 11x7 1/2 cm , or 4 1/2 x3 inches. Another beauty of these stamps is that many are available in two sizes, most of the lge are similar dimensions to this one, and the other size is slightly smaller at 3 x2 inches. You also have the added bonus of being able to build up scenes, using 2,3 or more stamps to create pictures. You are not just limited to Stampscapes stamps for this, any image which fits your project, both in theme and proportion can be used. Northern Lights Technique- see FULL POST for how-to. HERE for these two cards Building A Scene I have two ways I use to build up my scenes, and the first is by using a Stamp Positioner. This enables me to place the images EXACTLY where I want them, rather than guessing and maybe being a little 'off'. The second part of my way of building up a scene grew out of using the stamp positioner- I realised it would be cool to be able to try out different images together, before committing myself to stamping them. I happened to have some sheets of OHP( Overhead Projector Film) / Copier Transparency Film which I often use in card making, as you would use acetate. This can be purchased quite cheaply from office supply stores, Staples for example. To give you a price idea, they are around £10 for a box of 100 sheets- and 10p a sheet isn't bad- a lot cheaper than acetate! So what I did was to stamp some of my images using Black Staz-on, onto the transparency film, like this. I cut the images out in blocks when they were dry. Well, most were dry- you can see a few smudges where some weren't as dry as I thought. But it does not matter, they are only for inspiration. By the way, the Wolves image is not a Stampscapes stamp, its by Coronado Island, and is called ' The Howling'. This method allows me to select a number of images, stack them up in the order I want to stamp them, and see if the scene works. So, I take my first image on transparency,and lay it down on paper- any scrap or plain paper will do, it is easier to see what you are doing on a white background, rather than a craft or cutting mat. Then I take my second image, in this case Rocky Peak, and position this so that it overlaps the Moon & Clouds. Next I add my third image, Lakeside Cove, positioning it so that the treeline hides the base of the mountain. Now I know the picture works, I can begin stamping. There are two ways I can stamp this picture. Firstly, and the one I use most often, is to start stamping from the top down. Because I will be stamping onto white card, and adding colour to the images afterwards, any areas of the mountain that the sky image shows through will be hidden with the colours. If I was stamping onto a brayered/inked or oil pastel background, I would do it by masking, which I will come to later. Here are the three stamps I will be using, an A5 sheet of white card and the Stamp Positioner. At this point, consider how you will be colouring the image, to decide which ink is best to use. I generally use Staz-on, although Versafine, Memento or Archival are good too. One point I must make: Don't stamp onto the acrylic stamp positioner plate with Staz-on! You will need Staz-on remover to clean it, and that gradually destroys the plate, making it crackled & cloudy. You can guess how I found that out. Just use Versafine, or similar for that bit. The first image is stamped towards the top of the white card. You do not need the Stamp positioner to place this image. Now to add the Mountain peaks. Place the positioner plate into the 'L' angle, then ink up your stamp. Position the stamp right into the corner of the 'L', and press down. Don't worry if you do not get a perfect crisp image on the positioner plate-you will still be able to see where to place your image in the picture. The stamped image on the plate. Move the plate into position over your stamped Moon & Cloud. When you are happy with it, place the 'L' around THE SAME CORNER you had it when you stamped the plate. Re-ink your stamp, then hold the 'L' in place firmly with your left hand. Take the plate away and stamp your mountains, guiding the stamp into the corner of the 'L', just as you did when stamping onto the plate. Now you have your Mountains and sky. Repeat the process again using the Lakeside Cove: Stamp onto the plate, position the plate over your picture so that the treeline covers the base of the mountains, put the 'L' around the plate, hold the 'L' in place & move the plate, then stamp the cove. Your finished picture ready for cropping & colouring : Moon & Clouds sky, Tall Peak & Lakeside Cove. Here I have created another picture, this time using Star Birth instead of Moon & Clouds, but created exactly the same way. Masking Earlier, I mentioned using masking to create a picture if you are working directly onto a background you have already coloured. If you look closely at the two pictures above, you will see that in the open spaces of the mountains you can see parts of the stars or clouds. If you are going to colour the image, you will lose these details in the colouring, so it does not matter. If you were going to stamp onto a brayered background,for instance, and add little or no extra colour, then you would still be able to see these patches. So to avoid this, we will this time stamp the Mountain first, mask it, then stamp the sky. These are the three stamps I will use this time- I have swapped Lakeside Cove for Rocky Creek lge,073G. Firstly stamp the mountains in the centre of the white card- the stamp positioner isn't needed for this one. There should be enough ink left on the stamp to stamp a mask. I use pads of oblong post-it notes for masks, and stamp once onto the top note, peel off half a dozen post-its all together, then cut them out as a block. That way I always have spares. When you position your post-it mask, place it JUST BELOW the outline of the mountains- you can see the black outline of the mountains here. This will stop you getting a 'halo' around the mountains, caused by the tiny 'step' the paper of the post-it causes. Stamp the Moon & Clouds onto the positioner plate as before, then line it up where you want the image to be. In this case, I want the moon to be partly behind the mountain peak. Stamp your image, using the 'L' as before. Then remove the post-it mask. Now you have your Sky and Mountains, with no overlap or halo. Stamp up the plate with the Rocky Creek stamp as before, and line up the plate over the stamped picture. You want the treeline to hide the base of the mountains, as in the previous picture. Here are all three stamped pictures, cropped ready for colouring. The top left is our first stamped picture. the middle picture is the one that was masked- you can see the different effect of the moon rising from behind the mountain. This is not the only way to use these stamps- you can work without the stamp positioner, just using a bit of guesswork. This is just how I work- if you want to see a lot of fabulous artwork using these, go to the Stampscapes site & view some of the galleries. There are many pages of lessons from different artists on the site, including Kevin himself. A few more scenes I have stamped up ready for colouring. Here is a scene that shows how you can achieve a different look with the same stamps.Both use Tall Peak, 182G, and lakeside Cove. in the scene on the left, I have stamped each image once. In the scene on the right, each image has been stamped twice, joining them up using the stamp positioner. It needs the sky adding yet- but you can see how different they look. This is the same scene, but in the lower image I have used a second mountain stamp on the right hand side- Rocky Peaks, 188F, again joining them with the help of the Stamp Positioner. Applying Colour to your Pictures. There are a number of ways of adding colour to your images, the one developed by Kevin uses a tool called a Tonal Applicator: There is a very specific way of using this stamp, and for the best instruction go to the Stampscapes lesson video Here. I am still trying to perfect this, and whilst there is no denying that the effects are wonderful, I do find it very time consuming. You can add colour by using a Colorbox Stylus tool,or cut & dry foam. You can stamp your image onto card that you have coloured first, either by sponging, brayering, stippling or spraying. I am not going to give directions for these, rather I will point you to the Stampscapes site, where you will find dozens of video and pictorial 'How-To's', all done far better than I could. You will also find a number of videos on You-Tube. One of my favourites is using oil pastels, and I have given instructions for this on my Oil Pastel Backgrounds page. These images I am still working on: I am sponging colour onto this, but keeping a white/light area in the centre for the moonlight. Tried this one using a Stylus tool - needs more work yet! And practice with the stylus tool, lol. The background for this was brayered with various blue Adirondack inks, so far I have added Espresso & Latte to the rocks. The mountains and greenery still need work. Again stamped onto a brayered blue background, browns added to the rocks, now I need to bring in some greens. This uses the same Rocky Creek as above, also on a blue brayered background, this time with the addition of Rocky Peaks mountains in the background. I just love how these stamps all scale together perfectly- the same trees that are tall against the boulders in the creek above, seem dwarfed by the mountains in this one. This one has Pines & Rocks, 195G, stamped in Black onto a background brayered with lemonade, Sunshine Yellow & Sunset Orange Adirondack ink. Here I have stamped Star Birth onto Glossy card that has been coloured with Stream, Denim, Stonewashed,Purple Twilight & Eggplant Alcohol inks.Then the image has been cropped ready for matting. This time I have used much more Blending Solution, and some lighter Alcohol inks-Cool Peri, Pink Sherbet and Stonewashed.I also added some Eggplant and and Purple Twilight Adirondack ink using the Tonal applicator,then stamped in Denim Adirondack.Just waiting to be cropped now. As I mentioned right at the top, you can buy Stampscapes stamps either Wood mounted, or as Unmounted Sheets. When you buy an unmounted sheet, they are themed to work together, and you get a colour sheet with them, showing the stamps, with info & illustrations to give you ideas for how to use & colour them, like these: I think this is such a brilliant idea,giving you inspiration for scenes and colours. They also slip in postcard size examples of artwork: For everyone who has difficulty with Mens cards, for instance, these stamps are brilliant. Not only do you have the scenics, which by themselves are great, you also have a man fishing in a boat, canoeists, hang-gliders, surfers,hikers/backpackers and mountain bikers. You can even get a selection of these on one themed sheet. I hope this has been a little bit of help, and maybe given you a few ideas. More of my Stampscapes cards- I've moved most of them to the Stampscapes/Scenic gallery
