The STAMPlorations Giving Thanks Blog Hop!

Hi there!
Today I'm taking part in the STAMPlorations 3rd Annual giving thanks blog hop!

I created a 3D assemblage using one of my Whimsygirl stamps, and some amazing images from STAMPlorations!

There are prizes to be won along the way on the hop.....

Prizes for commenting on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs:

• THREE (3) winners randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blog will each receive a $25 certificate to the STAMPlorations store

Prize for liking, commenting, tagging a friend, and sharing our post on the STAMPlorations Facebook page post:

• ONE (1) randomly drawn winner will receive a grab bag consisting of new products (valued at $25 MSRP) + another grab bag of the same value to the person he/she tags

Prizes for linking up to the STAMPlorations Wishlist Linky Party:

• TWO (2) randomly drawn winners will each receive products in their wishlist (up to $40 MSRP)

Prize for commenting and re-posting our Giving Thanks Blog Hop and Wishlist Linky Party post on the STAMPlorations Instagram page:

• ONE (1) randomly drawn commenter will win her choice of Giving Thanks stamps (Thankful & Blessed; Wonderfall Time; Words of Gratitude; OR any 2 Typografia Thankful stamps)

Commenting on the blogs and linking up to the Wishlist Linky party ends on November 30 at 11:55 p.m. Pacific

Winners will be announced on December 10 in the November Challenges and Hops winners post. Winners have until December 31 to claim their prize.

 

There are a huge 36 stops along the way, with some amazing inspiration to be found! Good luck, and have fun hopping! 

Paperbabe blog hop!

We are very excited to announce a guest artist in the Paperbabe Stamps family and to celebrate we are having a little blog hop...

The very talented Chris Dark has designed a collection of beautiful Garden Fairies Stamps, the Butterfly Catcher, Butterfly Emerges, Butterfly Fairy, and Musical fairy, they are a larger set and each includes a beautiful sentiment.

To add extra fun to our blog hop... we are offering up a prize! 

of the whole garden fairies collection to one lucky winner.

Here are the details:

• A winner will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the designer's blogs and the PaperbabeStamps Blog to win.
• Just leave a comment on any of the designer's blogs listed below or the Paperbabe stamps blog for your chance to win! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight on Sunday, 2nd April to leave a comment.
• Please check the Paperbabe Stamps blog on Wednesday, 5th April to see if you are one of our lucky winners.

Here's a sample from me...

Today, we’ve enlisted some super talented designers to inspire you with ideas on how to use these beautiful new garden fairies! Hop along for lots of fun and inspiration! 

Chris

Kim
Delphine
Terri
Kerrie

Carole C

Trish

Carol

Jane

Paperbabe Stamps

Have fun on the HOP!

A Vintage Journey

Hello!
Long time no see!

Real life has a habit of taking away every last second of time, and unfortunately the result has been a very neglected blog :(
However..... Today I am thrilled to be a guest designer for A Vintage Journey!
The current theme is 'Words That Are Special', and my project is all about one of my favorite words.. 'star'.
There is a full step by step over on the Vintage Journey blog today, so I'll share just a sneaky peek with you here now!

I would love it if you would hop on over and take a look... HERE is the link.
Take care!
Trish x

The STAMPlorations Giving Thanks Blog Hop!

Hello!

I'm so thrilled and honoured to be representing the Craft Stamper Take It Make It Blog challenge in today's Giving Thanks Blog Hop!

 

STAMPlorations are having a fabulous blog hop today, all about Giving Thanks! Lots of designers have all created a project using one of the Giving Thanks bundles, a great set that includes stamps, a stencil and dies!

I used the Oh So Grateful Bundle: 

And used it to create this....

Admitedly, not your usual Fall or Thanksgiving colours :)

I used the stencil to create a texture paste design as my background...

This was sprayed with a variety of inks to give a multi coloured look!

The pumpkin was stamped onto purple and teal painted card, then cut out using the matching die! I used the purple leaves on a the teal pumpkin..

The words I used are a combination of stamps on their own (Oh, so) and stamps and a die (the black stamped 'gratetful', cut out using the matching die)

As you can see, I also added one of my hand drawn Whimsy Girls! I think she looks very grateful for her fabulous teal pumpkin, don't you?!

As well as the fabulous eye candy to be seen along the hop (more about that in a minute!), there are also prizes to be won!

Giving Thanks Hop

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs will receive a $50 gift certificate.
• THREE (3) winners randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs will each receive a $20 gift certificate to the shop.
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from our Facebook page will win a $15 gift certificate for herself and a $15 gift certificate for one friend she tags in her comment.
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from our Instagram account will win her choice of Giving Thanks bundle (Be Thankful, Oh So Grateful, or Many Blessings)/

Commenting ends on November 30 at 11:55 p.m. Pacific

You can also create your own 'Giving Thanks' project, and link it up over on the main STAMPlorations blog, there are prizes to be won that way too!

Giving Thanks Linky Party

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all entries linked up will receive the Be Thankful bundle (stamp set with coordinating die, word die, and stencil)

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all entries linked up will receive Oh So Grateful bundle (stamp set with coordinating die, word die, and stencil)

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all entries linked up will receive Many Blessings bundle (stamp set with coordinating die, word die, and stencil)

[Players have until November 30 to link up their projects to the linky party.]

Link Ups can be made here: 
http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2016/11/giving-thanks-blog-hop.html

Winners will be announced on December 9 in the November Challenges and Hops winners post. Winners have until December 20 to claim their prize.

Phew :)
Have a great hop everyone!

Trish xxxx

Capture the Moment!

Hello!
Today I wanted to show you one of my new WordGirl stamps, along with a step by step tutorial!
This new release (shop link in the tab at the top!) is by popular request :) My 'Dream Big' WordGirl has been popular, but people seemed to want her without her words as well... so here she is!

Now, of course you could add a decorated dress to her simply by cutting one out. I thought I would show you how to use the stamp as a stencil, to give you a flat final stamped image with no glued on bits :)

Firstly, stamp the image twice..

(I just use a glue stick to stick the bare rubber to my block!)
Next, cut out the dress of one of the images...

As I like to use wet media to colour the faces of the girls, I always give things a coat of clear gesso to seal the underlying paper/cardstock first. That way no pilling/warping or distortion will occur when water is added! So... add clear gesso to the 'whole' image...

Once this is dry, place the 'stencil' on top. As I knew the girl was going to be cut out, the surrounding area didn't matter. So, I just glued the stencil around the edges and stuck it to the bottom image!

Start to decorate the dress! I sponged on paint...

Then did a little stencilling with sequin waste...

I then selected some circles from THIS Simon Says Stamp set, and added some black stamping to the dress...

More stamping, this time with some Simon Says Stamp dots and stars...

At this point, I decided less was more, and removed the stencil!

So now you have a girl with a decorated dress!

I coloured her face and hair (tutorials for this can be found in the video tutorial link tab at the top of the page!)

And then I added her (with a tiny clay heart attatched!) to the frame!

The background is a typical Trish painty mess (again, tutorials in the tab at the top)

And it was finished off with a chipboard phrase...

I hope you like it!
I am entering this piece into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week: Stamp it!

See you soon!
Trish xxx

Paperbabe Stamps Blog Hop!

It's Paperbabe Stamps third Anniversary month and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paperbabe Stamps JULY 2016 release with you! 

FOUR new mini stamp sets and Three new substrate kits will be available to purchase on July 30th. You will find our new products HERE once they go live. 

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! 

Two prizes - 

The Paperbabe Stamps entire July's release and

a £25 gift voucher to choose what you like in the Paperbabe Stamps online store.

Here are the details:

• Two winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the designer's blogs and the PaperbabeStamps Blog to win.
• Just leave a comment on any of the designer's blogs listed below or the Paperbabe stamps blog for your chance to win! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight on Sunday, 31st July to leave a comment.
• Please check the Paperbabe Stamps blog on Monday, 1st August to see if you are one of our lucky winners.

Kim has asked some great designers to join in our birthday hop...

Chris

Delphine

Terri

Dawn

Kerrie

Keren

Aimes

Katy

Trish <<< that's me!

Kim

Kath

Paperbabe Stamps

I hope you enjoy our fun hop!

I have used the fabulous animals in a 3D scene today.....

I had that 'whistle while you work' thing in my head... a whimsy girl helped out by her woodland creature friends whilst she hangs the washing out!!!

The animals were stamped, cut out and then glued to the corresponding MDF shaped pieces. Nice and chunky for that 3D look!

The hearts and the 'smile' word are also MDF shapes, attached to wires to add that extra bit of detail.

I drew a whimsygirl, and added her into the scene. I think she rather likes her critter friends!

Your next stop along the way is the amazingly talented Kim Dellow!

Have fun, and good luck!

Trish xxx 

Just Breathe....

Hello!
3 posts in three days.. must be some kind of record :)

My new series of rubber stamps has just launched over in my Etsy shop, so I thought I would share a couple of examples of art created with them!
The first is a little 3D creation, another StarTrishdesign/Rubber Dance collaboration!

 

I coloured WhimsyGirl 3 in soft pastel shades, but kept the Rubber Dance flowers black and white. I think the flowers look stunning without colour, and add a pefect backdrop... is she dancing through the daisies?!

My second creation featured another Whimsygirl, this one is Whimsygirl4. Very pink and summery I thought!

Her pink hair and dress are echoed in the mainly pink, smeared paint background!

Have a wonderfully creative weekend!
Trish xxx

StarTrish Design Stamp shop HERE
Rubber Dance Stamp shop HERE

Live your dream Wordgirl!

Hello!
Today I'm sharing another Rubber Dance/Startrish Design collaboration!
Bibi from Rubber Dance has also created some fabulous projects.... here a little look:

You'll find more projects, and more information on how to buy this amazing Textured Flowers stamp set (along with many more fabulous designs!) over on her blog HERE!

My project today features another girl from my WordGirl series 'Live Your Dream- Wordgirl4

I chopped off the bigger flower she was holding (in case you were wondering!), and glued on a smaller daisy from the Textured Flowers plate by Rubber Dance.

 The frame holds another painty background, all the stamping on this is also from the same Rubber Dance plate.... which is why I love it, so versatile!

I took the leaves from the plate and stamped them 4 times onto a scrap of painty card, cut them out and turned them into a butterfly!

I think it works well :)

Check back tomorrow..... there will be a sneak preview of my NEW WhimsyGirl series!!
Have a lovely day
Trish xx

StarTrish Design stamp shop HERE
Rubber Dance Stamp shop HERE

More girls!

Hello!
Things got busy :)
I really REALLY meant to do more posts with art work to show off my Whimsy Girls!

Anyhoo... I'm here now!
Bibi from the amazing Rubber Dance stamp company and I have decided to do a little collaboration. I've created a few art pieces using my stamps alongside THIS fabulous plate from Rubber Dance! My girls will be appearing on some Bibi created, Rubber Dance art soon!
Here is the first creation:

As ever, there is a smeared, messy paint background involved! If you've ever wondered how to do these, I've made videos :) Check out the links on the tab under the banner at the top of the blog!
The fabulous flowers were put onto the background using the stamped tissue technique...

The line drawing style just goes so well with the girls!

My 'Make A Wish' Wordgirl4 was actually given a sensible hair colour for once! Don't know quite what happened there!

I'll be back tomorrow with another Trish/Rubber Dance creation!

StarTrishdesign Stamp shop HERE
Rubber Dance Stamp shop HERE

Love Trish xx

And breathe.... :)

Hello!

I have a special announcement :)

Regular viewers here may notice the old blog has had a bit of a makeover.... why?

Well.......

Today I am launching my first ever range of rubber stamps!

It's very very scary, but also a bit exciting too! As you all know, I've been addicted to rubber (stamps!) for hundreds of years :) I thought it was about time I actually stopped thinking about creating my own, and actually DID something!

So, my range of whimsical girl stamps is launched today! I'm launching the first 5 in the Wordgirl series first :) There will be lots more to follow....

The Wordgirls are my hand drawn whimsy girls that you may have seen over the past couple of years, all with a zentangle-y phrase in their dresses. My 'poster girl' is below..... she seems to sum up today for me!

The stamps are unmounted, deep etched red rubber, and are a nice chunky size (round about 6cm by 12cm depending on the design) Perfect for Art Journalling, putting on canvases or any other kind of art panel.

Speaking of art panels....

Just another example of art work I've created with the girls, there will be lots more from both me and some talented friends over the next few days!

My stamps are now available to buy over on Etsy HERE. They cost £6.99 each (not including shipping)

I think I need a lie down in a dark room........

Love Trish xx