Mollys Scrapbooking

Mollys Scrapbooking has sponsored StampARTic with lovely kits.

 

Hi, my name is Lilo, and I am the owner of Mollys Scrapbooking. Mollys started as a kitclub, which I thought we needed in Sweden. The name comes from our budgie, who’s also the model for our logo!

After just a few weeks from opening our business we grew very popular, and had many customers subscribing to our kits. A lot of them wanted us to sell other products together with the kits, so they only had to visit one shop – and that’s how our online shop was born!

Now we have an online shop bursting with products, and our monthly kit club with two sorts of kits; colourful and shabby chic! Welcome to visit our shop and blog!

Visit Mollys:

Mollys scrapbooking webshop

Mollys inspiration blog

Mollys Facebook page

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A BIG thank you to Mollys Scrapbooking who sponsored us this month!!

Inspiration from the team with Mollys products:

Malin

I made two card from this lovely kit, called Shabby Linnea

and this is what I made:

Maissi


I got this wonderful kit called "Shabby Iris"





And here's what I made from it




And from the inside it looks like this








Åsa

I got to play with the "Hey Snowman".

And here is what I made:

Thank you Lilo at Mollys Scrapbooking, for sponsoring us with these gorgeous kits!

Metal leaf the Artsy way and DT welcome!

I dagens artikel visar vi hur man kan använda bladmetall på olika sätt. Detta vackra men ack så flyende material. Bladmetall är namnet på äkta metall som hamrats ut väldigt tunt. De vanligaste sorterna guld, silver och även koppar har vi nog alla sett men det finns även i tenn och aluminium. Denna form går även att äta då det går rakt genom kroppen utan att tas upp. En liten fin pralin dekorerad med bladguld är så fin att man knappt vågar äta den.

Slagmetall kallas den icke ädla formen och är legerad av zink och koppar. Förutom de vanligaste metallfärgerna finns den även i variegated som är en brokig, flerfärgad variant i exempelvis röda, gröna eller blå toner.

Vanligtvis förekommer de som väldigt tunna blad men de finns även som flingor som dels är enfärgade och dels vackert flerfärgade.

För att fästa slagmetallen finns flera möjligheter. Det lättaste tycker jag är att använda dubbelhäftande tejp eller dubbelhäftande limark. Men du kan även använda sprejlim, limstämpeldyna, sticky embossing powder som blir klibbigt när du värmer upp det samt olika lim som är ägnade åt det såsom duo embellishing adhesive.

The Artsy team article today is about metal leaf. Metal leaf, also known as composition leaf is a really thin foil made of real metal. Gold is commonly known but we also have silver, copper, brass and aluminium. This is eadible since it passes through the body without uptake. This way, we can enjoy a beuatiful chocolate piece with some gold decoration!

Imitation leaf is what the name inclines - an imitation, not made from the expensive material, but rather a alloy (mixture) of zinc and copper. Variegated is the name of a mixture of colours in red, blue or green.

We find them as very thin sheets of metal but also as metal flakes.

To fasten the metal leaf I find the easiest way is to use double sided tape. But there are lots of other products, spray glue, glue pad, sticky embossing powder of one of all the glues made for this work such as duo embellishing adhesive.

Enough said about that. We have had a DT-call and we would like to welcome our two new members to the Artsy team. To be fair, we picked one from Norway and one from Sweden!
We look forward to see a lot of their artworks and we are excited to have them on our team!

New members to our ARTsy team!
Welcome to Hanne and BellaMio!

Hanne's blog

Hanne from Norway is more known as limogglitter and this is what she tells about herself:

My name is Hanne. I started to make cards in 2004. I love to make my own backgrounds on my cards. Looking forward to be a parta of Team Artsy.

Jeg heter Hanne og har laget kort siden 2004. Liker godt å lage egne bakgrunner på kortene mine. Gleder meg till å være med i Artsy Team!


An equally warm welcome to Maria, Bellamio that also tells a little about herself:

Bellamio's blog
Bellamio's videos

Hej allihopa!
Jag heter Maria men kallar mig oftast BellaMio på olika forum. Jag är mamma till 3, sambo med 1 och matte till en kissemisse. Jag har pysslat med denna underbara hobby i drygt 7 år nu och älskar varje sekund av det!!! Min favorit är att göra själv! Tycker om att skapa egna papper, dekorationer, blommor m.m. Jag älskar att prova nya saker, så fort det kommer nya medium, mallar, stämplar m.m så vill jag köpa och prova! Jag är så otroligt glad över att få vara med i detta härliga ARTistiska team och jag hoppas att jag ska kunna inspirera er.
My name is Maria but I often go by the name BellaMio on forum. I am the mother of three, partner of one and owner of one kitty. I've been doing this wonderful craft for more than 7 years know and I love every second of it! My favourite is to make my own...I like creating my own papers, decorations, flowers and so on. I love trying new stuff. As soon as new medium, stencils and stamps comes on the market - I want to buy and try! I am so happy to be in this ARTistic team and I hope I'll be able to inspire you.

BellaMio's cards

White cs, embossed coloured and punched borders. Spray glue and drizzled on gold flakes.

Gold flakes on the edges. Coloured with distress, embossed and stamped.

Hanne's cards

Gel medium on cardboard and stamped when wet. Left to dry, put on Lumiere and silver leaf. Stencil and fiber paste is used to make the swirl.

Old wrinkled note paper glued to cardboard. Distress ink, gold metal and Inka Gold.

Totoro's cards

Lizard made of polymer clay and covered with gold leaf. Background with distress and colour wash spray. Leaves from old plastic plant.

Decopauge background colored with acrylic paint. Black rub ons, flowers painted with gold leaf.

Siljes kort

Background with distress stains water, stamps and glimmer mist. Metal leaf on tape, rubon and on the edge of the picture.

Inger's cards

Serendipity background with distress and acrylic paint dry embossed. Gold leaf. Bead made with fimo clay and gold leaf.

Background with candy wrappers. Brads made with fimo clay and gold leaf, alco ink and gloss.

Hope this have been an inspiration to you and don't forget to show us what you have done, we really would like to see your creations. And maybe you have found yet another way to use metal leaf or metal flakes! In the next few days we will post our cards in our own blogs and tell a bit more about them so check them out. If you have any questions we are happy to answer them!

February challenge

Hi, everyone, I hope you are ready for a new Challenge here at StampARTic. We have started a new year, and todays challenge is: Do something new.

I don`t mean you have to invent something that hasn`t been done before, just do something that is new to YOU. Maybe a new way of coloring, a new folding technique, a new style, a kind of box you haven`t tried before, make a new kind of decoration for your project etc. Just mention in your post what you did that was new to you. And if you need some more inspiration, we have a lot of tutorials here at StampARTic:)

We are lucky to have Pysseldags as a sponsor for this challenge.

Please take a look here for our Pysseldags article, and DT creations.

DT had a lot of fun playing with products and techniques we haven`t tried before.

 Here is what we have created.

Marianne

I have colored the image on green cardstock, and that is new to me. I have used my Prisma Colors a lot on white and craft cardstock, but I have never before colored on a green background. The shape of the card is also new to me.

I have used image from Stempelglede, papers from Pion Design and texts from Kreativ Hobby and

North Star Stamps.

Malin

I have never tried out making this card before so for this challenge I just had to do it ;)

(Don't know the name of it either ;)

Henrikke

I´ve never made a pop-up card before so this is was a big challenge for me. It was a lot of hard of work, so many images to color. I´ve used Maja Designs paper and here new stamps from the Vintage Winter Collection 2011. It´s so beautiful and so easy stamps to color. The "santa-stamps" and the sentiment are also from Maja Design.

Eva

I´ve tried out Metal Tape Art, a technique that´s brand new for me and I just looved it!So FUN!  This I´ll definately do much more of :). ( And the text is not referring to January 1970 as my husband first   thought, it´s my dad turning 70 :) )

Jannhild

I made a basket I never have tried before. I fond the tutorial at Lena Katrine's lovely blog. You can find her tutorial HER. I used the lovely paper from Pion design - Från Mitt Hjärta II for my basket.

Åsa

I´ve done a card in a completely new size to me. I usually only do 15x15 cm and maybee 10x10 or 10x15.
This one is 20x11,5 cm.
The stamp is a digi from Tiddly Inks and the papers are from OA - Farmhouse.

Maissi

I made a babycarriage with shabby chic style. I haven't made babycarriages before but it has been on my mind for a long time.




Lene

I have for long time wanted to made a tea dispenser.
This tea dispenser tutorial I found
at Mariannes blog

Bettina

I have made a pop up card.
I have seen them in blogland and just loved how they look, so this was a perfect chance for me to try out something new and something that i have wanted to try out for a long time.

I had so much fun making this pop up card and it really wasnt that hard either.

This is how it lookes at first...

and when you pull the tag the image pops up like this...

Minna

I have made this book card for the first time. Actually it has been in my mind almost a one year and now it was a good time to make it:)  I don`t ever have tried any different folding technique ( my cards are always really "everyday" so I had so much fun to make this one.

I hope you will join our "do something new" challenge.
Please use Mr Linky to participate, deadline for this challenge is midnight February 8th.
Good luck with your new projects:)