Summer Fair (by Marga)

Hello here I'm again with the beautiful new stamp Summer Fair.

I love the beautiful new stamps with the lovely faces.

I coloured this card with my pencils. 

Stamp I used: Summer Fair

Hugs Marga

It's summer, read more (by Dominike)

Hello everyone, remember at the beginning of this month, I introduced a new Art Journal with coffee filters.
The filters are just a part of my journal. I made tags too.
Summer is the time of our grandchildren. Last month, I bought a new book for my grandson Louis, 5 years old, Heu-reux ! by Christian Voltz. The beautiful story of Grobull, the king who wants to mary his son Jean-Georges with the most beautiful cow of the kingdom. But the prince does not want to be married to any cow, he preferes Hubert, the ram. The most important thing for him is to be HAPPY!

There are beautiful illustrations and I decided to make them with Louis. He is still little so I cut the bodies and Louis chose the eyes, the jewels and all the décorations. The horns are cherry stalks.

The backgrounds of the tags are made with brushos, the stamps are Chocolate Baroque : Summer Fair, Tangled Birch, Exquisite Owls.

 here is Shy

 Charmer

 Coquette

Delightful

Funny is not it ?
Kind regards.

Souvenez-vous en début de mois, je vous présentai mon nouvel Art journal réalisé avec des filtres à café. Mais ceux-ci n'étaient qu'un élément du journal, le reste étant réalisé avec des tags.

L'été est souvent consacré aux petits-enfants. Le mois dernier j'ai acheté pour mon petit fils Louis, 5 ans, le magnifique livre de Christian Voltz, Heu-reux ! C'est l'histoire de Grobull, le roi qui veut marier son fils Jean-Georges à la plus belle vache du royaume. Or le Prince refuse toutes les prétendantes et veut épouser Hubert, le bélier.
Les illustrations sont très belles et très inspirantes. J'ai donc décidé de les réaliser avec Louis. Comme il est encore petit, j'ai coupé les corps et il s'est chargé des yeux, des bijoux et des décorations. Ainsi les cornes sont faites avec des queues de cerise.

Les fonds sont réalisés avec les brushos et les tampons sont des Chocolate Baroque : Summer Fair, Tangled Birch and Exquisite Owls.

Amusant non ?
J'espère que vous aimez. A très vite.

It's summer (by Dominike)

Hello everyone, I am back with another Art Journal project made with coffe filters. After using the filter I washed it and let it dry.
It became brown and I was able to stamp on it the Summer Fair image.
Then I coloured the stamp with watercolours and a little brush.
I will need at least four filters, one per month and a lot of tags to obtain a beautiful book. I will put objects in each pocket to remember what happens each month.

Have a good summer. Kind regards.

Bonjour

Me voici de retour avec un autre Journal d'art réalisé à partir de filtres à café.

Après usage, je lave le filtre puis le fais sécher. Il est alors devenu marron.

Je tamponne mon personnage, que je mets en couleurs avec les aquarelles et un pinceau à réservoir d'eau.

J'en utiliserai au moins 4, 1 par mois et de nombreux tags pour obtenir un beau livre. Dans chaque pochette je mettrai des objets pour me souvenir des choses importantes du mois.

Passez un bel été. Un peu chaotique en ce qui concerne le temps par chez nous mais cela va s'arranger.

A très bientôt.

Four Seasons for Four Ladies (by Anne)

Good morning. I am so loving the new Four Seasons Collection of stamps. I love the new Tangled Birch too – will have to make something with that very soon.
Running behind with time to get my post done for you today I thought that I had better make something quick and easy with a clean and simple style (CAS). The stamps are so gorgeous in themselves that they really do not need much adding to them. I started with the gorgeous Summer Fair, simply stamped with Versafine (Onyx Black). I then quickly coloured the flowers and foliage by scribbling with watercolour pencils and brushing over with a water brush. Voila! A lovely CAS quick card – all I had to do was mount her on a card blank.

However …… those of you that know me, know that I struggle a little with this style. I am definitely a ‘more is more’ girl – tee hee. I thought … ‘well I have to do a set of 4 to include all 4 seasons’. Off I went to make the others with Autumn Medley, Spring Awakening and Winter Dawn.
But then I thought … ‘wouldn’t they look good with my Art Nouveaux style die cut frame’. This then involved die cutting, matting and layering. Cutting the oval from the stamped images also required a little bit of care as parts of the image overhung the frame. I have included a pic for those that are new to this technique. You need to snip into the image so that you can leave the overhang free from the die.

But I didn’t stop there! I then thought ….. ‘oooh, wouldn’t they look good with some of my die cut flowers and leaves’. So my quick to make single CAS card turned into a mammoth make. I did have fun though.

I hope that you like them …. And you could always stop at the CAS stage. Anne xxx.

Quick and easy Summer Fair (by Miranda)

Hello there,

Here Miranda with another version of the Summer Fair lady. The first time I did a lot of coloring and I can imagine that it sometimes encourages people who does not want to spent so much time in coloring.

 So just plain black stamping this time and I've added some die cut flowers which give a splash of colour. I have use the Crealies flower die nr. 24 and you can find it here.

I have stamped the Summer Fair lady using Versafine black and added the Poppy edges which is a perfect match. 

The sentiment is from the ' Butterfly dreams sheet'.

So as you can see it's possible to create a quick and simple card with this lovely stamp too. Hope to have you inspired!

Thanks for visiting and hope to see you next time!

Four seasons by Veronica

 Four cards using the lovely new seasonal ladies stamps - big stamps that are an absolute delight to colour in.
The first uses spring awakening, stamped with black versafine, clear embossed, and coloured with pencils.
Die cut, then mounted on a 7" square white card blank randomly stamped with an old flower stamp from my stash using old paper distress ink.(Briar rose butterfly,  can't find it on the website at the moment, but it is avaiable from the Craft Channel website)

 Summer fair is the next stamp, again stamped in bl;ack versafine and clear embossed before colouring with pencils. I stamped a mask using masking tissue and masked the image before adding a gelli plate background uisng distress inks.
Again an oval die cut, and a 7" square white card blank stamped with a stamp from poppy meadow across the bottom using peeled paint distress inks.

 Autumn medley also has a gelli plate background added after colouring and masking the image, this time using acrylic paints and leaves from the garden.
This time the mount is an 8" square white card.
The wood -effect background is thanks to a link from Eileen Godwin.

Last lady is winter dawn, stamped with versamark onto light blue card and embossed with silver. Coloured with pencils again, white chalk marker, rhinestones added to the snowflakes.
Base card was 8" square in silver pearl, randomly stamped with a snowflake stamp from a child is born using silver pigment ink.
The mats are dark and light silvers.

My teamies have made some wonderful creations, so keep checking to se them all!

Spring and Summer Beauties (by Julie )

Hello and welcome. Today I have two more cards created with the fabulous new Seasonal Ladies.

My first card is with the lovely Summer Fair lady which I stamped onto Kraft card and coloured with Polycromos pencils. The base card was stamped with Pretty Poppies and coloured with Polychromos pencils. I wanted to create a washed out, bleached kind of look so added Picket Fence stain to the main design and base card. To finish off I added a die cut butterfly coloured with gilding wax and a piece of gold cord threaded with beads.

I have loved working with the Polychromos pencils and Kraft card so for my last card it will come as no surprise that the lovely Spring Awakening lady has been created in a similar style. I have just added die cut flowers around the main image and stamped bubbles from the Rustic Fragments in the background to add some extra interest. To finish off I have added dabs of Crystal Stickles and sentiment.

That's all from me this month, but please pop back very soon to see some more Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx

Summer Fair lady (by Miranda)

Hi there,

When I first saw the new designs of these women faces ...I was in love........so I was very happy to be able playing with them and this is my first one.........she is called 'Summer Fair' and I have combined her with one of the lovely ornament stamps called ' Palm Fan Baroque ornament'. 

I stamped the lady using light coloured inks than masked her and stamped the ornament using a grey ink. 

Than the fun part started.....colouring both with color pencils, took me a while..........When I was finished coloring I gave some accents using a gold gelly pen and a white marker.

Hope I did inspire you with this one and I will be back with more of these lovelies soon.........in the mean while enjoy all the beautiful artwork of the DT!

Thanks for visiting and till next time,

Summer Fair ( by Magda)

At last the summer has arrived with the nice weather, and Summer Fair is the perfect stamp of the Four Ladies new stamps to be used.
Here below you can read how I made this project :

1. Stamp Summer Fair with Versafine Onyx Black on a watercolour cardstock, twice
2. Colour the face and neck with watercolour markers and cover the image with drawing gum
3. Sprinkle your chosen Brusho colours on the stamped image, spritz with water and dry
4. Rub the drawing gum away when everything is completely dry
5. Colour the butterfly and some poppies from the second stamped image with a watercolour of diluted Brusho
6. Cut the pieces and glue them as decoupage onto the Summer Fair image
7. Assemble the card

I hope you like my colourful project.

Magda

Fair Lady of Summer (by Asha)

Good morning, everyone. I'm back with a project featuring one of the new seasonal single cling stamps. This one is called Summer Fair. The little flowers around her is a stamp from an older set called Seasonal Fragments.

I stamped the image onto heavyweight cold press watercolour paper with VersaFine Onyx Black. Next I wet the paper and applied red and green water colour around the image and let dry completely before colouring the lady.  To add interest to the background, I stamped the little flowers from Seasonal Fragments with VersaFine Satin Red ink.  Finally I mounted the finished piece on a 6 "x 4½" top folding card.

Over the next couple of weeks you'll see more amazing projects from my team-mates; so please swing by often. Meanwhile, you can find details of tools and products used above over at my blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Beijinhos,
Asha  

Absolutely Fabulous new stamps launch today (by Lesley)

I am almost bursting with excitement as I am so proud to be bringing you five new designs from Sue that will blow your socks off!  

Today we are launching our Four Seasons Collection, plus a new tangled style stamp, and boy are these something.  They are all A6 size individual unmounted stamps, although they are available as part of our cling and cut service for a small additional charge. Anyway enough of the boring stuff here are the images you are waiting for.

The Four Seasons starts with Spring Awakening

followed by Summer Fair

then Autumn Medley

and finally Winter Dawn

I am sure you will agree that Sue has created something really unique with these stunning images and for all colourists, in any medium, they will be an absolute dream to play with. You can purchase these individually or we also have our usual money saving multi-buy available.

The fifth new release is entitled Tangled Birch and is another outstanding design.

All five of these stamps are so new we don't even have any finished artwork yet, but I really didn't want to keep these hidden any longer so I have released them ahead of time. Please watch out for loads of inspirational artwork to come from the Design Team who, I might add, have all nearly fainted with excitement at being able to work with these glorious images. 

Looking at these I am not sure which I would purchase first, but suffice to say that I remain in envy of Sue. Being able to draw this kind of beauty and quality of image is a wondeful talent to have and we are lucky enough to be able to share that in these exquisite new stamps. I am sure you will all agree.

In the meantime please don't forget to keep dropping by to see tons of inspirational and colourful artwork from our equally talented Design Team.  Now which one should I play with first!