Please Welcome the New Speshink Design Team

Welcome and thank you for stopping by. x

Today I am extremely excited to announce and introduce my new design team that will be focusing on using my stamps that are available at Chocolate Baroque or you can find them by clicking on the shop tab at the top of my page.x

With this new team I have tried to find people with styles that vary so there should be something for everyone, Mixed Media, Card Making, Copic Colorists etc. Some of the team are people I have known from the beginning of my crafty journey and some are new crafty friends who's work I have fallen in love with and hope you do too.

The aim is to have a new Speshink DT post every Monday rotating through team with the occasional guest stopping by in between, so keep popping back to see what new crafty goodness the team have come up with. And having seen several of their first makes, I can not wait to share them with you.

Ok, Enough of my rambling, Please say Hello to the new Speshink Design Team. xxx

Gloria Palmer-Steiger

My name is Gloria, but some know me by my other moniker, Creepy Glowbugg.

I have had the extreme pleasure of working with Mark artistically, for quite a few years now.

I am proud to call him, "a friend", and "my brother from another mother". So much so, that I jumped at the chance to be a part of his latest journey.

I've been creating art since I was a kid, but really found my niche with the darker side of art and Halloween art. I can make pretty things, but I have always been drawn the dark side and I like my art to reflect that weird facet that most people turn their heads away from.

Now let's see what I can do with Mark's incredible images... 

You can find Glo Here.

http://creepyglowbugg.blogspot.com

http://www.etsy.com/shop/glowreahhh

   

Louise Partridge

Greetings Friends I am Louise and the fact is everyday I am captivated by all thats colourful , messy, inky,and artsy crafty. Its started the day i got a colouring book age 7 and never stopped. Its led me to paint loads and i have created botanical  watercolours, pen and ink drawings collages journals patchworks and photography. But small squares of card and miniature work is always my quick relaxing Art Fix. I am so excited to be part of the DT with Mark and feel truly inspired to share my Artsy Stuff with everyone "LETS THE JOURNEY BEGIN "

Sent from my iPhone

You Can Find Louise Here.

https://www.bloglovin.com/@loppyloucards

Neil Walker

Hi, Neil here. Journal maker, mixed media crafter/designer/artist/teacher. 

I've been fortunate to spend time sharing my passion over the years and love all things creative. Happy in my crafting "Man Cave studio" at the bottom of the garden I am looking forward to sharing my takes on Mark's brilliant stamps and hope to inspire your creativity along the way too.

Will send you my first project soon.

Catch ya later.

Neil

You Can Find Neil Here

http://neelzexpressionz.blogspot.co.uk/

Jane Collman

I enjoy all types of crafting and have been involved in teaching and demoing for over 10 years.  I’ve also been lucky enough to have projects in a number of magazines in the past.  

I have a large cabin at my home in Surrey, which is my workroom and classroom.  It is overflowing with all sorts of products....like any true crafter and always in a mess!!
Stamping has always been my favorite, so I’m thrilled to be working with Mark and the DT, using his amazing stamps.

You Can Find Jane Here

http://janescards.blogspot.co.uk/

Saadia Nawaz

I'm a doctor by profession, live in Pakistan. I used to make clay flowers and resin jewellery but later shifted to scrapbooks and art journaling.

You can find Saadia here.

https://www.drsaadianawaz.blogspot.com/

https://www.instagram.com/drsaadianawaz/

https://www.pinterest.com/drsaadianawaz/

I hope you will all agree with me that this is an awesome team and hope you can all stop by each Monday as they get busy being creative with my Stamps. 

I hope you enjoy their makes as much as I am and maybe if you have time stop by their blogs and spread some love xxx.

I look forward to seeing you back here next Monday for the First post by one of the DT xxx.

My Very Own Stamps - Chocolate Baroque

Welcome x.

It's a very happy day today for me as I am extremely happy to announce I have my very first set of stamps released today with the fantastic Chocolate Baroque. 

I can not thank Chocolate Baroque enough for the opportunity to design some stamps with them and I am over the moon with how they have turned out. The stamp quality is amazing and I love the size (A6).

I have had the idea of what I have wanted in a stamp design for some time and I have been heavily influenced by the tattoo, comic book and Steampunk style of art that I love.

It took me a while but I managed to find a local tattoo artist (Lance Steele) that I could work with to make my ideas a reality. He managed to take my ideas and reference material and come up just what I wanted and I hope you all like ;)

The vintage look to the Neo Traditional style of tattoo is what inspired this release of stamps. I like to work with one focal point image when getting crafty with the back grounds being more layered and aged effects so the focal point doesn't get to cluttered and faces work really well for this.

Links for each stamp can be found below xx.

The Aviator:

She has been stamped onto a large Acylic tag and painted with Decoart Media Fluids. The background was made using papers from the Authentique Hero's range. The gaps were painted using blue and silver to make it look a little like the sky.

Sailor Jim:

He has been stamped onto some 240gsm card stock and coloured with Copic markers in a sepia tone. He was fussy cut out and glued to a tag that had been covered with design paper from 7Gypsies

The Tim Holtz word tag was added and some Decoart Media antiquing cream was added to bring out the words. This was tied to the tag with some rusty wire which I picked up from my crafty friend Hannah Oxberry who has a lovely online store.

The m Aviator at the top of the page was also done this way.

Gypsy Rose:

She was stamped onto an Mdf tag from That Craft Place and I then carfully painted each section careful not to go over the lines.

The back ground was painted using a sun burst stencil and Decoart media fluids, the script was also stenciled over the top. 

Some aging was done using colour washes and the circles were stamped with paint using an old bottle cap.

She was finished off with a coat of Satin varnish.

The Gent:

I used an off cut of wood and used the Decoar Acrylic Media Misters to create the cosmic looking background.

The Gent was then stamped over the top and carefully painted over the top.

Once dry a shabby checker stencil was used to create a little more background interest.

The edges were distressed with black archival ink and the whole piece was given a Satin Varnish.

This tag was covered with some paper from 7Gypsies and as above the image was carefully stamped and painted on top. The wreath was coloured with copics to give a more translucent look and the Tim Holtz stars were added.

Thank you so much for stopping by, it's a;ways very much appreciated.xx

I hope you like the stamps and I am looking forward to seeing what will be created with them xx.

Decoart Media Antiquing cream tutoria for De Stempelwinkel

 

 

 Afternoon all. Thanks for stopping by. Today I am sharing a little tutorial on using the Decoart Media Antiquing Creams on the De Stempelwinkel blog.
I show how to use the creams for a qouple of different effects and how to make these tag back grounds.

 

For my main tag I used my background tag I made using an embossed Tando-Creative media board, Decoart Media products including the Antiquing Creams. Stamping on Acetate with stamps from De Stempelwinkel and finishing with an embellishment I also used the creams on.x

 

I would like to enter my tag into a couple of challenges.

 

Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge is Summer themed, Like May I decided to go a little away from the norm, nice summer colours but tinged with a subdued theme as I have to spend most of my summer working outside Gardening. ;( instead of making the most of it. 

 

Forever Dark are having an Anything Goes theme, as long as it's on the dark side. I'm skirting with the theme again as this is not as dark as I normally like to go ;)