Friday, March 11, 2016

Andy Skinner Stamps and DecoArt Blog Hop Finale!

Stampendous and Media March 2016 Blog Hop-01

What an incredible week this has been! 

The Stampendous design team has been playing with our friends at DecoArt. Mixed Media Artist and DecoArt International Education Coordinator Andy Skinner has designed some fantastic stamps for Stampendous, and we’ve been showing them off all week long.  
Andy, along with his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson have been playing too!

Of course there are PRIZES!
The FABULOUS Prize Package!
You’ll want to get your commenting fingers ready…so put down your paintbrushes! Each comment on a post this week will enter you to win a fabulous prize package! (one comment per post, per person) Contest open to everyone!!

We have THREE packages and each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle.

Yesterday I shared a Mixed Media piece with you (click here to see it!). Andy's stamps and the DecoArt products lend themselves perfectly to the Mixed Media style, but sometimes you need to created a quick, fun card with a more "Shabby Chic" look! 
That's the style I'm sharing with you today:

The beautiful Cling Shabby Chic stamp set (ASCRS05) contains 6 great, versatile stamps that can be paired with the background stamps from the Cling Toxic Stamp Set (ASCRS06) as I show here.

The DecoArt MEDIA fluid acrylics are an ideal media to use on our Creative Palette to create backgrounds or an "ink pad".


I mist my Creative Palette with a little water to move the paints more

Drop on your colors, mine were Cadmium Red Hue and Titanium White


Use a brayer to smooth out and blend the colors as much or as little as you want
Place a piece of white mixed media cardstock over the wet paint and immediately peel it back off, transferring most of the paint to the paper.  Use the brayer to spread back out the remaining paint and use it like an ink pad with the stamps you are using. Be sure to was your stamps right after stamping so the paint does not dry on the stamps.






The stamped images and backgrounds were die cut using the Fitted Frames A Cutting Die Set (DCP1005) from Stampendous, size V. Some pretty background paper, a wonder ribbon from May Arts and you have a beautiful card. I think this would be a pretty birthday or shower card.

We have so many great designers sharing today! Here's the list:

Louise Healy

We hope you have enjoyed this week of hopping with us! Hop over to Facebook and LIKE our pages!

Happy Creating,
Louise

40 comments:

P Beatty said...

Great project using the gelli plate.

LynzCraftz said...

Beautiful card!

Bunny said...

Love the colors, scallops and bow. Beautiful.

Salnclts said...

I love the ribbon and how you layered the dies!

Becca Yahrling said...

Beautiful shabby chic card. Love the colors, love the stamps, love the ribbon!

Kristiina said...

Lovely! Thanks for sharing :)

Unknown said...

Such a lovely card - the stamps looks super! j.

Late Blooming said...

Nice work. thanks for sharing.

Sabrina said...

Very lovely card!!

barbara macaskill said...

WOW! It is not often that I am speechless but you have accomplished it! This is gorgeous!! LOVE all the details on this simple yet stunning card! TFS!

A Pink said...

A really lovely CAS card with touch of Shabby Chic . x

Lieve said...

Beautiful card ! And you make it look "do-able", thanks ! ;-)
Great colours, great stamp choice !
That creative palette looks like a must-have.
Thank you for sharing your creation !

TangledBlueRose said...

Gorgeous red you made! Love the layers and wonderful texture. Thanks so much for sharing!~kim

Teresa Godines #6857 said...

Pretty card. Love the paper you paired with the images. TFS

Unknown said...

That looked pretty messy..lol your card is beautiful!

Karen Petitt said...

A gorgeous mixed media card that is clean and beautiful too! Thanks for the awesome art and wonderful blog hop too Karen x

Suman Pandit said...

beautiful!!

Jane said...

Great fun and a lovely card

Barbara Rankin said...

TFS some great ideas for this lovely card. By stamping with the same paints, you assured a perfect color match. Love it.

Celia said...

Great way to make a sploggy background

Cocofolies said...

Oh, this is a very pretty card indeed, and thank you for showing how you used your remaining paints after brayering them again to get such perfect stamped images! Love it!!
Wishing you a lovely week-end, what a fabulous blog hop, thank you for this second inspirational piece :)
Coco x

Judy said...

Gorgeous! Love those soft colors. Thanks for sharing.

Robin said...

So very pretty! I love the paper you used. It goes so well with the color you created. Hugs, Robin

Susanne said...

Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing!

Merethe A said...

Yea, you are right.. this is fun and love Howe you do it.

This has been a lovely bloghop, so many great tips trix and tutorials.
(✿◠‿◠) Ma (Merethe)
http://majaapia.blogspot.no/

McStamper said...

Love your beautiful card.

Viki Banaszak said...

What a great use of the Creative Palette! I was wondering how you got such wonderfully matching card stock.

Jean said...

Such a fun use of the Gelli! :Love the colors!

Rebecca/Sydney's Sentiments said...

Very pretty! I love this stamp...makes me think of my niece who just had to have a corset to wear on Halloween.

~Lady B~ said...

I will have to look into the Creative Palette. I've never heard of it before, but it sounds wonderful and gives a great result. Your card is so delicate and pretty. Love it!

Angela aka Lady B

P'tite Plume said...

Beautiful card!

Tina M. said...

Such a pretty and girly card.
/Tina M.

Mary Holshouser said...

I like how you layered the cards.
Fun project.
thanks for sharing.

Jackie PN said...

Louise, What a lovely card!

D.Ann C said...

Fab custom color!

Arianna Barbara said...

Wow! Very cool!!! Love your project!

Vee said...

Nice job!

Birdie said...

Love the clean look and how fun to mix the color to what you want.

Purple Diva 6 said...

what a cool technique love the idea of mixing the exact colour you need. Thankyou

Jean Bullock said...

Very cool! Thanks for sharing your technique!