Christmas Poinsettia

Designer:  Donna Duquette
Stamps:  DoodleFactory Backlit Blooms

Red Poppies

Stamps:  Large Silhouette Poppies

Another Sunflower

Stamps: Happy Sunflower

Watercolor Tulip

by Donna Duquette
Stamps: Large Tulip

Pink Peony

by Donna Duquette

Stamps: Large Peony

Flower Soft Blooms

Flowers created with Flower Soft

Stamps - Vases and Flowers, Sun Spirit Studios Sentiment
More details on my blog

Life is Beautiful!

by Donna Duquette for the DoodleFactory rainbow!

Stamps: DoodleFactory Valentines Remix, Big Weave background, (sentiment is cut out of a piece of printed paper)

Soft Flowers

by Donna D.

Stamps: Large Silhouette Asters
Supplies: Flower Soft

Good Luck

By Juliana Swanson

Stamps: Clover and Sentiment;

Sahara Silhouette

This card uses one of the silhouette flower images and the pretty background stamp. More info here on my blog.

Tutorial- Painterly with Copics

I got a couple of emails asking how I colored my flower in my moms birthday card. I thought I would put up a little tutorial on how I did it.

While you can achieve this effect using other products like pencils w/ gamisol, watercolors or chalks I prefer to work in copics due to their blend ability and more importantly for me because they are waterproof and do not pill up your paper. I can be pretty rough when I work and I love being able to go back and forth between lights and darks as well as being able to lighten up the colors with the blender and being rather impatient copics are so fast drying I have instant gratification, something not possible with water coloring.

This is how I made Mom's painterly flower...

1. Stamp your flower twice in Memento Coco ink (I'm stamping on PTI 110lb paper)

2. go over your stamped flowers using the copic blender (in case you are wondering no, copic blenders do not work with other brush art markers like Tombow or Marvy, they are water based, Copic is alcohol based)

3. Add in your first color, I used Frost blue for this.

4. Follow up with other colors, I used Buttercup yellow and egg shell.


5. go over with the blender again, lightening up some of the color and blending it all. The juicier the blender is, the better this will work.

6. I put my colored flowers and parts on 4" Stamper Magic Tape, a must have staple for all paper crafters! You get a whole lot of it on that roll, it lasts for a looong time, its strong and does complete coverage of intricate images.

7. Once your images are cut out, I like to edge mine with a matching ink color. I used Sand.

8. I cut out the top petals and bulb and layered them on to my flower for dimension, mine is pretty flat but looks great in person, its subtle but really pretty. You could use pop up foam for this step, if so don't bother to mount the bulb and petal to the stampers magic tape first.

I figured while I was doing this tutorial I would finish the project and make a card for a friend of mine. There is another magic tape tutorial in the tutorials section in the labels at right.

Mom's Birthday Card

Its a variation of one of the soft and sweet cards:

Soft and Sweet

Flower Serenity

By Juliana Swanson;

Stamps: Bees Sheet and Mini Positive Words;

Customer cards to share!

Please forgive what is probably going to be one of a few posts tonight. We have fallen a little behind on posting all the incredible artwork we have been getting in. We just wrapped up our last stamp show for the year and now have several months to catch up and working on new releases and samples.

Speaking of new releases we have just posted our newest release along some BLOG CANDY on our company blog: http://www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com/ Stop by and leave us a comment on the blog candy post to enter the giveaway!

It's already only 6 weeks until Christmas but before we jump in with both feet I want to share some cards with you. These first several cards are by one of our favorite customers Eva Andren:

Stamps: DoodleFactory Pip and Oggy

Stamp: DoodleFactory Num Num

Stamp: DoodleFactory Zeebo

Stamp: DoodleFactory Yapple

Stamp DoodleFactory Squirt

Stamp: DoodleFactory Rupert

Stamps: DoodleFactory Creatures -Large and Small Yapples, Rocket from Urban set

Now for something a little different and a whole lotta WOW! Check out what Erin Atkins did with our Orchid stamps! Is that the most complicated and incredibly detailed 3D flower ever?

Stamps used: Asstorted orchids from Tulip and Orchid sheet (available individually too!)

I KNOW, Halloween is over, but this halloween was such an inspiring time for all of us that the cards keep POURING in! Cards like this spook-a-rific design from Stephanie Summerer.

Isn't this just a deliciously colored wonderful project!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING EVA, ERIN and STEPHANIE!!!

new card to share

Here is a card I made late last night using the solid brick background and the autumn sunflower set:

Materials used:
memento rich coco pad, copic markers, versamark dazzle frost pad and colorbox pigment ink for mosaic tile technique (downloadable instructions on the website: http://starvingartistamps.com/mosaic_tile_instructions.html)

be still and listen

By Juliana Swanson

Stamps: tight weave background, sunflower and seeds(p20.11 and p10.12), and Sentiment from Faith sentiments set;

Bless You Embossed Flowers

Large Silhouettes Large Daisy FS-9 and branch from Leaves & Flowers 3 P1805.  Large Daisy is stamped with VersaMark ink & embossed with clear embossing powder. 

Sunflower and seeds

By Juliana Swanson

Stamps: Sunflower and Seeds (20.12 and 20.11) and Faith Sentiment;

Stitched Orchid

Stamps: Orchid, Stem and Stitches