Guest Designer on Sin City Stamps Peggy Oliver

Sin City Stamps!

Supplies used today are: 

Sin City Stamps 

Bingo Collage Art Rubber Stamp

Wings

ribbon spool (optional)

Ink

embellishments 

acetate 

cardstock 

Die (TH in this case)
embossing machine

patterned paper

double sided tape

wet glue

double sided foam tape

Hello! Welcome, I want to share with you my passion for mixed media stamps and Sin City Stamps delivers.  Today I am guest appearing for Sin City Stamps by far one of my favorites.   

 I used double sided tape to adhere my unmounted red rubber background stamp from Sin City Stamps to an old ribbon spool. 

 I used versafine black ink on my patterned paper. I rolled my stamp onto my paper and also used second and third generation stamping in any empty spots.   Then crinkled it all up and glued it to my plain cardstock.  I let it dry and ran my die and paper through an embossing and cutting machine. 

 I used Memento black ink for the wings on acetate and cut them out. 

  I glued my embellishments with foam tape and wet glue  and also attached a chain at the top.

This might just end up on around a nice bottle of wine as a gift.

Thanks for joining me!

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Steampunk Shadow Box

Hello! Peggy here to show you how I made my shadow box out of a serving tray. This month we partnered with Walnut Hollow Prooducts to showcase Siin City Stamps.

Products used today are

Sin City Stamps

Walnut Hollow Serving Tray

Acrylic paint brown/black/gold/silver

sandpaper

Metal tape

Chipboard lettering

Chipboard gears

Tim Holtz Chipboard clock

Gold Embossing powder

Cardstock

Patterned paper

Foil embellishments 

chain

Versa Mark ink

heat gun

Distress ink

I started by painting my box brown with a large brush in the same direction of the grain.

Second coat was watered down black acrylic paint appied with a cloth

This is my result. Next distress paints in gold and silver lightly appied to the edges and outside. Now for some sandpaper to further distress the edges.

I hand cut a butterfly by folding a piece of cardstock in half and cutting half of a wing leaving the center in tact. When opened I had a matching wing butterfly.

Next I cut small pieces of metal tape and applied it solely vertically and horizontally. Then I glued chipboard gears and lettering and covered with metal tape. I used the bottom of a paint brush to bernish all indentations. I also ran some black acrylic paint over the lettering and rubbed off creating shadows in the crevasses.

Below I stamped background journaling stamps from the Terri Sproul collection as well as some steampunk images. I also distressed the edges with distress stain.

I found the perfect spot to stamp the thee headed lady by Sin City Stamps. I also needed a steampunk airshiship and balloon which I stamped on black cardstock with Versa Mark ink and gold embossed using my heat gun.

One more stamp embellishment a steampunk pocket watch stamped with stazon ink on metal.

Put it all together with chains hanging from the ballon and on the handles. A few more metal gears on the outside and thats it!

I hope you enjoyed todays tutorial! Please stop by Walnut Hollow and Sin City Stamps for your crafting needs.

Sin City Stamps and Cottonwood Arts

Hello! Peggy here to show you a two page journal with a jingle kinda theme...I'm just in that kind of mood lately ya know with the tree an all already up. Haha So, this month we are partnering with Cottonwood Arts. 

B2 Coldpress Notebook (6.75x12)

Sin City Stamps - Terri Sproul Art Journal 2

Molding paste

Stazon blue ink

White gesso

Gelatos 

Water colors

Cardstock

Dictionary paper

Copics

glue or matte medium

The first thing I did was sketch out a santa face so I knew approx. where he would be on both pages. Then I got out my stamps and white gesso. I stamped randomly with my unmounted stamps using gesso as a resist. Next I watercolored a blue background.

I used red gelatos to bring out that resist. More background stamping this time with blue stazon ink.

Time for texture! But before this stage I used dictionary paper for a mustash. Next the molding paste. Like icing a cake! 

 I used copic markers to color his face

 More stamping with white gesso, rolling my stamp over the page with a brick background. And now embellishments with some fussy cutting and glue.

I hope you have enjoyed my goofy side as much as I had fun making it! Thank you to Cottonwoodarts our november sponsor

I hope I have inspired you to create your own goofy side!.

Thank you for joining me! Stamps and Stencils and much more can be found at Sin City Stamps

Sin City Stamps Art Journaling with Terri Sproul

Hello and welcome! Today I made a double page journal using Cottonwood Arts Coldpress Notebook and SinCity Stamps.

Todays supplies include:

Sin City Stamps Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2

Cottonwood Arts Coldpress Notebook 6.75 x 12

Stencils

Dictionary Paper

Molding Paste

Matte Medium 

Watercolor Paints

Lindy's Sprays 

Grey Stazon Ink

Black Stazon Ink

Gesso

Magazine Picture

Cardstock Flower

small lid

This month we are teaming up with a fabulous sponsor Cottonwood Arts. They have produced a line of coldpress journals and notebooks that can handle a large amount of medium for mixed media projects.

Today I am showing a double layout journal page featuring 

Sin City Stamps.

I started  with some ripped dictionary pages.  I placed small pieces horizontally and glued them down with Matt medium.

Next I used stencils with some molding paste. I knew roughly where I was going to place my focal image and worked around it.

With Grey Stazon ink  I started stamping with the background images from the Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2 line.

I also wanted these images in white so I used white gesso with my stamps. Keep in mind Gesso is an Acrylic so cleaning your stamps immediately is a must.  I used my finger to apply the gesso directly to my stamp. I used a small lid with white gesso to create  circles.

Next I started laying down some color with watercolors. I got a really cool resist effect when coloring on top of my stamped images.

I glued my focal image of Marilyn down with matte medium being careful not to get any medium anywhere but under my image as it will resist any colors I place on top. I wanted to tone down my colors so I created a wash with water and gesso and covered both pages. Seeing my focal image is black and white I wanted some darker colors. So I brought out my sprays and went to town with green, gold and browns.

More Stamps! Layers, layers, layers! Brick background stamp in black stazon. Next more stamping with gesso. I stamped the background words, I also stamped "My Favorite Things" beside her coffee cup.

I placed a cardstock rose in her hair and I made some of my texture pop by outlining certain elements with a black fine point pen. 

I hope you have enjoyed todays tutorial. I have to say I added alot of water and medium to this coldpress notebook and there was no piling or warping. Very impressed with this fabulous journal/notebook from Cottonwood Arts.

Check out Sin City Stamps for Journaling and crafting needs! Stamps, stencils and more....

Warmly, Peggy Oliver 

Tags with Sin City Stamps

 Hello! Peggy here to show you my tags made with some fabulous stamps! As soon as they arrived I had to play!

Supplies used today:

• Sin City Stamps Pam Bray Fall Collection
• Sin City Stamps Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2
• Tags
• Gelatos , orange , yellow, black
• Distress Inks, broken china, peeled paint
• Lindy's Sprays yellow, blue, red green
• Color Box Ink
• White acrylic  paint
• Ribbon
• Clear embossing powder 
• Heat Tool

I started with some shipping tags 4 3/4 x 2 3/8 and sprayed yellow, red and orange with Lindy's. Next I layered some texture on top with background stamps from Terri Sproul's Art journal 2 set. As I put the color box  ink down with my flourish stamp I quickly poured clear embossing powder on top and heat set with a heat tool.

Next I stamped my sentiment and edged my tag with white acrylic paint.

Below I made my second tag with Lindy's Sprays  the same as the first but I added green at the bottom. I layered another background stamp from Sin City Stamps Pam Bray's Fall Collection. When stamping this background I used my stamp unmounted. I stamped many times to give the illusion of distance.

 I used two sentiments  one from the Fall Collection and one from the Journal collection.

Below I made an Autumn tag mixing both collections of stamps. Terri Sprouls fabulous background stamp of bricks in disress ink peeled paint. Pam Bray's leaf and autumn were used also using distress ink. The leaf was colored with red and black Gelatos. Using my disttress inks I shaded the whole tag. I used white acrylic  paint on the edges.

Here are the stamp sets used:

Art Journaling with Terri Sproul 2

Pam Bray's Fall Collection 

Here is the progression of layering a background using one stamp. Rocking portions of the stamp unmounted. Some layers darker than others using one distress ink. Next I colored the flower and leaf with gelatos. 

I edged the tag again with white acrylic  paint.

I added some hand dyed ribbon to match.

I hope you get a chance to pick up these great stamp sets, I can't wait to play with them again!

Pick them up here Sin City Stamps