The Creative Journey Continues for the Adventurer

It is Not the Destination
By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 6.5″ x 5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Travel stamps (Clear Art Stamps)
Quote (Inkadinkado)
Flourishes (Autumn Leaves)
Papers:
White cardstock cut to 4.25″ x 5.5″
Black cardstock cut to 4.5″ x 5.75″
White pre-folded card 6.5″ x 5″
Inks:
Adirondack dye inks: (Ranger)
   Butterscotch
   Stream
   Wild Plum
Other:
Black colored pencil (Prisma)
Ruler
Eclipse Tape (Judikins)
3 Color Dusters (Judikins)
Paper cutter of [...]

Dusting Can Be Fun?

Darlene Domel, in her 2008 DVD Color Conversations, shows how any stamper can become an expert at dusting and taping. Of course, the DVD (from StampLand Chicago) is all about stamping and not housework. Darlene herself says, “I am so not a domestic goddess.”
The dusting in the DVD is all about color dusting, a technique [...]

Sketch, Paint and Sponge a Scene

Farm Friends
By: Kittie Caracciolo, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 5.25″ x 5.25″
I love to create scenes around stamped images. Sketching in a few lines with an artist pen and adding color with sponges and brushes takes a simple stamped image and adds a scene full of life and color. If you can write, you can sketch [...]

African Dress Birthday Card for the Inventor

African Dress Birthday Card for the Inventor
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size:  9″ x 4.25″
This month I made three cards in different styles using variations of the same basic technique (masking) and the same four stamps.  See my other designs for the Discoverer and the Adventurer.
This card uses a template as a mask for [...]

Faux Ripped Wallpaper for the Adventurer

Faux Ripped Wallpaper for the Adventurer
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
This month I made three cards in different styles using the same basic technique (masking) and the same four stamps.  See my other designs for the Discoverer and Inventor.
The basis of this technique is to mask off sections with a paper mask in a “Grid technique.” [...]

Distressed Flourish Card for the Adventurer

Distressed Flourish Card for the Adventurer
By: Jennifer Willis, Artistic Guide 
Finished Card Size: 5″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
 Artsy Victorian Stamp Set (Innovative Stamp Creations)
Perfume Label from Christmas Past Set (Time to Stamp)
Papers:
Cardstock: White (Paper Goods)
Cardstock: Cream (Unknown)
Textured Cardstock – Ochre (Paper Goods)
Inks:
Pigment Cat’s Eye Queue: Rich Rustics (Colorbox)
Pigment Stamp Pad: Ruby (Colorbox)
Pigment Stamp Pad: Roussillon (Colorbox)
Embossing Ink (Close [...]

Shattered Glass Card for the Adventurer

Shattered Glass for the Adventurer
By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: A2 (5″ x 7″)
Supplies:
Stamps:
Music #J13 (Great Impressions)
Gift of Music #60034 (Stamps Happen)       
Inks:
VersaMagic ink pads: (Tsukineko)
    Night Sky
    Turquoise Gem
    Aegean Blue
    Pixie Dust
    Thatched Straw
VersaFine -Onyx Black (Tsukineko)
Papers:            
5″ x 7″ note card (craft store)
Kromekote white glossy cardstock cut to 5.5″ x 3.5″ (Marco’s Paper)
Sizzix watercolors paper [...]

Layered Collage Card for the Adventurer

Layered Collage Card for the Adventurer
By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size:  5″ x 6.5″
I wanted to create a layered collage-type card, but didn’t want all the bulk of multiple layers of papers and embellishments, so I thought I would try to create something that looked multi-layered by using the masking technique. 
Note that the step-out photos showing [...]

Solitary Lion Card for the Discoverer

Solitary Lion Card for the Discoverer
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
This month I made three cards in different styles using the same basic technique (masking) and the same four stamps.  See my other designs for the Adventurer and the Inventor.
This card uses some simple masking of the horizon, with lots of ink-sponging, and blending for a simple and [...]

Shattered Glass Masking Technique for the Discoverer

Shattered Glass for the Discoverer
By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide
 Finished card size: A2 (5.5″ x 4.25″)

Supplies:
Stamps:         
Rollagraph wheel- Ignudo Border
Beethoven set (Artful Illusions)
Paper:           
Kromekote white glossy cardstock cut to 5.5″ x 4.25″ (Marco’s Paper)
A2 note card (I make my own by cutting an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of Georgia-Pacific white cardstock in half
widthwise, creating two panels of 5.5″ [...]

Shattered Glass Tank Top for the Inventor

Shattered Glass Tank Top for the Inventor
By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide
 Supplies:
Stamps:          
Abstract Flowers (The Stamping Studio)
Ink:                 
Fabrico Black ink (Tsukineko)
Reinkers:  Brilliance (Tsukineko)
    Moonlight White
    Pearlescent Yellow
    Sky Blue
VersaMagic (Tsukineko)
    Aloe Vera
    Pixie Dust
Other:
Blue painter’s tape (home improvement store)
Fabric Medium (Liquitex)
Palette or plastic plate to use for paint
Make up wedge (discount store)
Paintbrushes of varying sizes 1″ and smaller
Iron
Pressing [...]

Happy New Year!

 
Fireworks over Sydney Harbor, the Watch-Night bell in Tokyo, and the dropping of the New Year’s Eve Ball in New York City: all over the world, people celebrate the entrance of 2009 with noisemakers, cheers, and Auld Lang Syne.  Here at Stamper’s Quest we celebrate the New Year with the first monthly edition of Stamper’s Quest Magazine.
This [...]

Our New Address Card for the Discoverer

Our New Address
By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size:  6.5″ x 5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Home Sweet Home stamp set (Dream Impressions)
Sentiment, “Our New Address” (The Angel Company)
Papers:
Prefolded White Card (6.5″ x 5″) (unknown)
Ultra-smooth 100 pound White cardstock, cut in half to 8.5″ x 5.5.”  Keep one half and set aside the other half for another project.(The Angel Company)
Pinecone [...]

Creating Masked Backgrounds for the Inventor

Creating Masked Backgrounds for the Inventor
By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide
Supplies:
Stamps:
Butterfly and Definitions (The Angel Company)
Sentiment (Inkadinkado)
Real High Country Wildflowers (Hero Arts)
Solidago Sprig (Rubber Stampede)
Papers:
90 pound Watercolor Paper (Cranston)
Scrap piece of text-weight paper
Inks:
Palette ink pads: (Stewart Superior)
    Noir
    Sunflower
    French Lilac
    Reflection Blue
Other:
Masking Tape
Butterfly Masks (Heidi Swap)
Flourishes Grungeboard (Tim Holtz)
LePlume II Markers: (Marvy)
    #50 Ultramarine
    #49 [...]