Showing posts with label The Outpost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Outpost. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Leaves are Falling

Happy Fall! Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Monthly Blog Hop!  This month the Design Team created Fall themed projects to share.

I really like when the weather is crisp and the sun is shining.  That is perfect fall weather for me!  The leaves start to change and there are so many beautiful trees in varying shades of colors.  I started with those beautiful leaves as the inspiration for my project:


I stamped the beautiful leaf from The Outpost plate. I inked it up with a variety of colors from the distress inks.  I used yellow, orange, red and brown dye ink  to create the leaves. I inked up from lightest to darkest colors on the stamp.   After the leaves were stamped I hand cut them. (This took time but I like to do this busy work while watching TV)  After they were cut I sponged the edges with brown dye ink.  To finish them off I added a layer of Distress Crackle Paint.  I stamped the house and tree using black ink and added color with distress inks to the tree.  I stamped in the background the ledger from the Ephemera Backgrounds. I finished off the scene with several layers of clear embossing powder.

The sentiment is from the Flower Market.

When I finished my first project I had some of the beautiful leaves left and decided to create a tag.
 My inspiration was a nest of leaves for a bird.  I decided he needed a tree in the background and stamped the tree from The outpost along with the ledger.  I added the sentiment from the Kudzu Kafe. 

Products: Artistic Outpost Birds of A Feather, The Outpost, Ephemera Backgrounds, Kudzu Kafe

For more inspiration hop along to the rest of the design team:


Have a wonderful day!

Suzz

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Artistic Outpost May 2012 Release - Kudzu Kafe

Today is the May release day for Artistic Outpost!  The new set being released is called Kudzu Kafe.
The new plate includes nostalgic images featuring a roadside cafe, children from the early 1900's,
and Thoreau sentiments  which work beautifully with so many of the
other collections.



I was inspired by the Kudzu Kafe stamp shape to create a mini book:


The book partially opened to the center:


The first two pages:


I used the birds from the Bluebird set along with the Kudzu Kafe images. I added a little banner along the side from the Country Life plate.



The images and backgrounds are from Bluebird, The Flower Market and Kudzu Kafe.
 
The last two pages on the inside use The Outpost, The Flower Market, and the Bluebird set. 

 

The back cover is from The Outpost and I  love the contrast from the store to the scenery.

For more inspiration and fabulous creations take a peek at what the rest of the DT has created!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Artistic Outpost - Blog Hop - Lovely Day

Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Blog Hop!   Today the Artistic Outpost Design Team  is sharing projects featuring Lovely Day!

I was inspired to create two different projects using the plate. My first project uses the sweet girl from the Lovely Day plate:

 My second card started from inspiration of the bicycle...

I am sure you can guess what that bicycle reminded me of... :)  I pulled out the Oz Collage. plate and stamped  the background on the two smaller panels using brown ink.  The sentiment is also from the Oz Collage.     The main panel was stamped using the flowers from Lovely Day.  The farm is from The Outpost.  I had so much fun creating the montage of images from the Wizard of Oz.


To see all the other fabulous projects from the design team:


Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz