The Stamp Man Challenge - Alter It

This time the challenge is right up my street I love to alter things. I found these wooden door hangers on ebay and immediately thought about this challenge and using one of my recent acquired Stampendous stamps from the new collection.

Materials I used are;
Plain wood - Door hanger
Stampendous Cling - Steampunk Owl
Darkroom Door - French Script
Lost Coast Designs - Spiderwebs
Tim Holtz Alterations Movers & Shapers  - Mini Bat and Skull
Ranger Archival ink - Jet Black and Coffee
Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Ink - Van Dijk Walnut Sepia
Ranger Alcohol Ink - Eggplant
Glossy paper - White
Uni-Ball Signo - Gold
Guinea feather - Purple
Computer printed image
Recycled - Handmade natural paper

The Stamp Man Challenge - Bling it on

My project is a 2 parter, Mail Art altered envelope and a matching card. I did make more than one envelope because I got hooked, I will post them later :)

I started with the distress inks in the new summer colours on the envelope (front and back) and card, then sprayed the glitz spritz to give it a shine and watery (drops) effect. I stamped my mermaid image and added a net effect using the mesh background stamp.

On the bottom of the envelope I used one of the Artemio stamps to create a sand like texture using Versamark and  Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder.

Well I have to admit that I hate colouring stamps, although I love to draw and paint colouring 'existing images' (stamps) is not my favourite technique but I thought it will be good to come out of my comfort zone and do something different.

For this I used my wax crayons and Inktens pencils to get a painterly effect and I have to say I actually enjoyed it he he. To finish I used a white pen and for the bling effect a silver and gold pen :) I framed one of the mermaids using spellbinders dies and added it to the card using dimensional stickers to lift it up a bit.

Materials I used are;
Stampendous cling - Mermaid
Artemio Clear Stamp Set - Distressed Backgrounds
Aspects Of Design - Mesh Effect Background
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry
Ranger Archival ink - Jet Black
VersaMark - Watermark Ink Pad
Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Glow's Glitz Spritz - Royal Lapis Lazuli Fire
Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Glow's Two-Toned Embossing Powder - Desert Moon Copper Pine
Card stock - Kraft, White
Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Watersoluble wax pastels
Derwent Inktense Watersoluble Ink Pensils
Uni-ball signo pen - white, silver, yellow, gold
Faber-Castell PITT artsit pen - black XS
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Petit Ovals Large & Petit Scalloped Ovals Large
Recycled - Kraft Envelope

You can find some of the materials at The Stamp Man

The Stamp Man Challenge - Card for a queen

After long thinking and a lack of royal inspiration I came up with a 'Gift for a Queen' instead of a card. Do you think these are suitable for the Royal knickers drawer?

Anyway something different to use your stamps with,
Stamping On Fabric.

Lavender Sachet 1
Stampendous By The Sea, Aspects Of Designs

Lavender Sachet 2
Stampendous Butterfly Post

Lavender Sachet 3
Stampendous Butterfly Post

Lavender Sachet 4
Artemio Butterfly Collage

First I coloured my fabric with the ranger dye inks - after adding lots of water to the fabric - by applying the ink to my non stick craft sheet and wiping it up with my fabric. One piece of fabric I left the natural tea died colour.

Let the fabric dry and stamp the images with stazon ink (also works with the Ranger archival inks) on the fabric. Some of the stamped images I have outlined with embroidery thread and embellished with beads.

Next step is sewing the little bags and filling them with the dried Lavender. After the bags are closed I stitched the button hole stitch all around with embroidery thread (using 2 strands). To finish it I added an crochet edge by using the button hole stitches to attach my crochet stitch. Lavender bag 4 has also a ribbon woven into the crochet stitches.

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Materials I used are;
Stazon ink - Black
Ranger Adirondack Dye Ink Pads - Stream, Lettuce, Cranberry, Butterscotch
Artemio Clear Stamp Set - Butterfly Collage
Stampendous Clings - Butterfly Post
Stampendous Clings- By The Sea
Aspects Of Design - Shipped Script - Ship and Map
Cotton fabric
Texere - Embroidery threads Kingfisher blue, Stardust glitter
DMC - embroidery treads, perle cotton 5
Vintage seam binding ribbon - cream
Beads
Dried Lavender


You can find the materials at The Stamp Man -