Stampotique Christmas

It's Christmas time! 

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I had purchased these wonderful MDF Christmas trees from That Craft Place and decided to create a Stampotique Winter Wonderland

 Applied DecoArt Media Modelling paste heavily and allow to dry overnight 

 Apply DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Cobalt Turquoise Hue and Phthalo Green-Yellow

 Darken on one side with Prussian Blue Hue

Once dry antique with washes of Quinacridone Gold

 Highlight with Gesso from left to right a bit like heavy dry brushing

Highlight the trees and base with Flower Soft Polar White and Cosmic Shimmer Glimmer Jewels Iced Snow 

The snowballs were made from white paper clay covered in glue and rolled in Polar white 

The Characters were stamped, cut out and coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noir pens 

Stampotique Stamps

Vic

DT Snowman

Holly Wally

Santa Baby

Oh My Dear

DT O Joy

Reindeer

Snowy Fran

Mini Christmas Ornaments Cube

Piling Thing

Towering Gifts

Text Star

Merry Christmas

x

Stampotique Naughty or Nice Challenge

Its the second week of the current Challenge theme  "Naughty or Nice".. 

Have you been naughty or nice this year? Are you on the naughty list? Will Santa bring you some coal or a few goodies for Christmas?? Well, either way we want to see your best "Naughty or Nice" projects this week.

I used Karen's gorgeous Tree and Magda's Reindeer and Whatever stamps coloured with watercolours

You can find more details on joining the challenge here

Human with Animal Head New Challenge

Goat in a Coat!

Stampotique's new challenge is animal head mash up!

Let's switch it up this week, litteraly!!
Give one of our human stamps an animal head and have fun with it!!
Click here for more details

As its autumnal and getting colder, Gloria goat put on her coat and went out to jump in the leaves!

I stamped Mokiwea, Gloria Goat and Fofe. cut them out and reassembled and coloured with watercolours

The tree was stamped on to A4 and colour washed with watercolours, stamped the leaf and coloured with watercolours and distress inks

Stampotique 

Gloria the Coat

Mokiwea

Fofe

Tree

Leaf

Mixed Up Magazine-Peacock Hues

I am so pleased to be included in the second issue of Mixed Up magazine
here's a sneaky peek!

You can find the full tutorial using lots fabulous DecoArt products, the magazine is packed with tons of fabulous features, tutorials, goodies and much more.:)
Follow the link for more information on getting the latest issue,
www.mixedupmag.com

Stampotique Halloween Challenge

Trick and Treat under the Twisted Tree

Its the second week of the Stampotique Halloween Challenge

click here to find more info on taking part

Heres how I created my Trick or Treat gathering 

Applied DecoArt Modelling paste thickly with a palette knife the tree is from That Craft Place

Allow to dry overnight

Apply DecoArt Media Fluid Acyrlic Carbon Black, once dry highlight the texture with Metallic Lustres Black Shimmer, Copper and Orange

 The Lettering is from Calico Craft parts and was covered with DecoArt Texture sand and painted black and once dry highlighted with Cadmium Orange Hue and Diarylide Yellow.

 I stamped all of the Stampotiue characters and critters onto 300gsm card except ghostie where I used tracing paper

These were all coloured with  Promarker Alcohol pens

They were all adhered with Cosmic Shimmer glue and double sided tape, the bats water fixed onto thin jewellery wire

Stampotique Stamps

Fofe

Tetewea

Ghostie

Mokiwea

Friend

L'il Tetewea

Angel Boy

Molly

Jasper Fruhling

Patio Lights

Batty

Fruit bat

Halloween Cube 1

Halloween Cube 2

Stampotique Challenge- Favorite Quote

Frederick's great at Parkour! but it plays havoc with his crown too!!

Stampotique new challenge to use your favorite quote! How to decide!

you can find more information on taking part here

I love this little Stampotique crown and quote stamp

and wanted to create a grungy graffiti cityscape as Freidrich's new hobby was Parkour!

I applied modelling paste with the CWS Stencil Subway 

 then randomly applied DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Medium Grey value 6, Dark grey value 3

and Diarylide yellow

Stamped Brick road, Upholstered and Barcode in both Stazon Ink Cloudy Sky and Titanium White Acyrlic

Stamped NYNY, Raindrops and Barcode in Stazon Black and highlighted with a white pen and DecoArt Transparent white acrylic

 Freidriche was coloured with Promarkers and his crown with Metallic Gold acrylic

Stampotique Stamps

Freidrich Tries Ballet

Crown

Crown Quote

NYNY

Brick Road

Upholstered

Barcode

Approach with Caution

Raindrops

Word collage

Stampotique Challenge- Put a Bug on it!

I stencilled with DecoArt Crackle paste using Dutch Doobado Stencil, once dry I coloured with DecoArt Media Fluid acrylics wiping back with a wet wipe, I stamped Nether and Mr Stripes onto Card and coloured with Kuretake Pens

You can find more information on the Stamotique Challenge click here

Stampotique Challenge- Put a Bug on it!

 I decorated a small Calico Craft Parts MDF house with DecoArt Media Fluid acrylics and stamped Daisy Daisy, Romantic Text and Oodles of Doodles and topped with Medium Bee

More details on the Stampotique challenge click here

Stampotique Mail Art Challenge

Sent with Love

Second week of the Stampotique Mail Art Challenge, you can find more information on taking part here

This is my first go at Mail Art and I loved it, such a wonderful idea and I would be happy with a plain card if I received some of the wonderful envelope art work that my Design Team Collegues have produced you can see them over on the Stampotique Designers blog

After some research, I knew that I wanted to create something that had lots of colour and overlay patterns with relief highlights of white

I Stamped Lovelyarethesound, Pen, Calender and Tree Topper in Black Stazon

Masked them and stamped Daniels Hearts & Tenticurls with multicoloured Stazon Midi Inks

Colour washed with watercolours

Over stamped swirls and stalks in black ink and DecoArt Titanium white brushed lightly onto the stamps and further highlighted with a white pen

Stamped around the edges of the envelope and the Daniel Torrente styled heart address label with Oodles of Doodles and Black Distress Ink

Stampotique Stamps

Daniels Hearts

Hanging Hearts

Tenticurl

Writing Pen

Stalks

Oodles of Doodles

Lovelyarethesound

Daniels Tree Topper

Calendar Squares Cube

Ribbon Curl

DecoArt Fossil Tag

Andy Skinner's Fabulous Fossil Stencil, it Rocks!

I applied a coat of Gesso to a large MDF Tag from Fernli Designs, and then stencilled with Carbon Black Fluid Acrylic

Once dry, I off set the stencil and applied DecoArt Media Crackle paste

Allow to dry naturally for a couple of hours

I applied Green Gold and Cobalt Teal, blending gradually

Followed by Payne's Grey and Dioxadine Purple, spritzing with water to blend

Once happy with the colour balance allow to dry

 Stamped around with Stampotique Spiral Daydream

Blended Payne's Grey to add depth

and Cobalt Teal and Dioxadine Purple

Highlighted the crackle areas with Interference Paint Violet and Turquoise

DecoArt Peacock Eyes Canvas Tutorial

Peacock Eyes

Tons of Texture and a Mass of Metallic 

Apply torn paper to a Canvas with Matt Medium, I was using an existing canvas that I had already applied colour to which wasn't necessary but it added a colour cast!

 Applying Modelling Paste and Crackle paste through a variety of Stencils

 Apply Modelling Paste directly and texture with a palette knife, allow to dry for 2 hours

 I planned the layout and applied Gesso to the area where the face was going to be located, once dry I stencilled the face with Carbon Black Media Fluid Acrylic

I cut approximately 30 Feathers and applied with 

Matt Medium, and applied a coat over them and the face

 I started by applying watered down Media Mister Violet, darker around the edge with Quinacridone Violet

 Then worked Dioxadine Purple blending one colour to the next

 Repeat with Carbon Black

 Followed with Phthalo Blue working out to the edge of the Canvas

 Started to wipe back the paint on the raised areas with a baby wipe whilst still wet

 If you wipe back to much just brush a little more colour, I also highlighted the tips of the feathers with Cobalt Teal Hue

 Once dry the next step is to dry brush the raised texture areas with Metallic Silver

The colours were toned down with a wash of Carbon Black 

I applied lots of the Silver Metallic to the feathers, building up gradually until desired effect is achieved

Materials

Matte Medium

Modelling Paste

Crackle Paste 

Media Mister Violet

Quinacridone Violet

Dioxadine Purple

Phthalo Blue

Carbon Black

Cobalt Teal Hue

Metallic Silver

Stencil Girl- Pretty as a Peacock by Andrea Matus DeMeng

Spellbinders Peacock Feathers

DecoArt Dandelion

Stampotique Challenge-Polka Dots

A fabulous new Stampotique challenge to use Polka Dots, always so pretty, striking and versatile

Here's my polka people! I learned this technique to make a wire frame and stand when I took a class with France Papillon recently and thought it would be a really cool way to make a multi photo frame

I stamped my Stampotique family onto 2" circles and coloured with watercolour mounted onto lengths of thick wire with some tape and the same with the wire frames

Stencilled silver metallic onto black card for the background

Stampotique Stamps used from left to right

Skiddy, Arnold, Marsha, Buru, Smile, Kamona, Dwindled, Wilbur, Checkers,  Bowtie, Eric and Winter

Looking forward to seeing you Polka Projects

:)

Stampendous- DecoArt

New Stampendous stamps from Tando Creative

Using one of Tandos Creative large Arches, embellished with paper clay embellishments and Calico Craft Parts

Stamped dance Macabre on to card and coloured with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics as washes and splatters of

Cobalt Teal Hue, Burnt Umber, Carbon Black, Green Gold and Quinacridone Gold

Applied Crackle Glaze, and then applied Burnt Umber and Carbon Black Antiquing cream
finished with a coat of DecoArt Ultra Matte Varnishe

Applied DecoArt Crackle Paste to the frame and DecoArt crackle paint to the embellishment and adhered

Once dry I applied Burnt Umber, Quinacridone Gold, Teal, Green Gold and Carbon Black and blended and wiped back to expose the embellishments these were further highlighted with DecoArt Metallic Lustres Lavish Green and Orange Flicker