Farewell OCC...With A Little Color!

Lori Rider of the Diva Stamper, is hosting this week at Our Creative Corner, with a color challenge. Use the five colors Lime, Poppy Red, Pink, Black, and White, along with fabric and/or circles.

The inspiration this week for this challenge is just wonderful! Please take a peek at the Design Team's creations. 

 Linda Coughlin- The Funkie Junkie

Vicki Burdick- It's a Stamp Thing

Sue Butler- Scrumplescrunch

Ann Marie Hile- Stampin' Anne

Wendy Janson-  It's All About Stamping

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Holly Kean- Kean On Paper

Irena Kowalczyk (aka Rudlis) - Love, Life and Crafts

Meihsia Liu- Simply Paper Crafts

Tui Nathan- Stampin Time

Lori Rider- The Diva Stamper

Kristin Tierney- Lilly Beth Boutique

Sharon Wheet- Designs by Sharon

Lisa Minckler - You Made Me Ink

Kim Price - Inkcognito

Paula McClane - Scrap Addict's Attic

Liliana Inguanti - Stampin' From Home

Chris Barnes - Dot Dot Stamping Designs

This is my last Design Team project with OCC. Sadly, I am moving on, and leaving room for some new peeps. It has been my absolute pleasure to be apart of this fabulous Design Team! All of the ladies have been super wonderful to work with and I will treasure the new friendships I've made there, and I go away having learned mounds of creative goodness from them! I am sure I will continue to join in the action occasionally...they can't get rid of me that easy! Thank you OCCDT...I will miss our weekly creative adventures and I was so honored to have been apart of it!

For my tag, I wanted to do the Tim Holtz Wrinkled Distress Ink Background Technique, and I have done a little tutorial for it. I think the sentiment is very appropriate for this occasion.

Swipe Distress Ink directly onto the tag from the ink pad. Plug in a craft iron and allow it to heat up on high.

Very gently start crumbling the tag up in your hand, taking care not to make any rips into the tag.

Unravel the wadded up tag and mist the whole thing with water very liberally. Dry somewhat with a heat tool.

Go over each area again with the ink but this time use an ink tool to apply it. Really push the ink into the tag so that you can see the wrinkles really well.

Flick some water onto the tag to cause droplets.

Iron the tag very well to make it completely flat, using the craft iron. Be very careful not to burn yourself. The wrinkles will continue to show, but the tag will be smooth. It will have a super soft feel to it as well. People will wonder how you achieved this unique look.

 

 

Supplies:

From My Stash- tulle, ribbon, lace, buttons, beads

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Winter 2011 Distress Ink Pack	Distress Ink In Spun Sugar	Distress Ink In Shabby Shutters	Inkssentials Water Mister (FJ)
Ranger Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool-With 2 Blending Foams	Black Soot Distress Ink (FJ)	Specialty Stamping Paper (FJ)	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Words For Thought Stamp Set
Jump Rings - Idea-ology

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

June Tags Received

Love me some happy mail!!! I received my tags from the Creative Block - Stamper's Anonymous Yahoo Group June tag swap for "Dream A Little Dream".  Even though we all used the same Tim stamp, they all came out totally different. WOW!!!

Liz Vellali (Love the green painted background...great texture!)

Susan Salyer (Oodles and oodles of embellishment here...fantastic! I love the monocle!!!)

Deborah Barnhill (Love the added paper on the tag...great size and feel. The background color is stunning...like sunset!)

And here is mine again.

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Different From The Others

Not enough time is often a factor for me when it comes to getting things completed before they are due.  I know so many of you out there can relate. So when there are challenges I really want to partake in, and I don't have enough time to complete each one individually, I combine them, and in the case of this one, I Wendified it! This time I am combining (1) Unruly Paper Arts Reader Art Quest 2 of "Marvelous Mermaids", (2) Studio L3's Compendium of Curiosities II Challenge of using Tim's "Guilded Kraft Glassine" technique, which is also being sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique this time, and (3) Simon Says Stamp & Show's challenge of "Hey Girl". Phew...that was a mouthful of challenges. 

Here is the background. All the images are Wendy's stamped in Archivals, and then Salty Ocean Distress Ink was added along with Perfect Pearls in Interference ( I love this stuff!!!). I wish you could see the wonderful sheen they give. Bubbles were made with Glossy Accents.

I combined two of Wendy's stamps to make the mermaid except that I elongated the tail. I just kept stamping extra hair for a wonderful coif! I colored her with Distress Markers and then covered her tail with Guilded Kraft Glassine scales.  She needed some embellishment so I gave her a Liquid Pearl treatment, and of course a crown.

 

Supplies:
From My Stash- crown, fibers

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Archival Ink In Emerald Green	Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Sentimental Art Stamp Set	Ranger Tim Holtz Summer Seasonal Distress Ink Pads	Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink (FJ)
Wendy Vecchi Art For Men Stamp Set	Ranger Perfect Pearls Kit In Interference	Glossy Accents	Uni-ball pen - White	Inkssentials Specialty Stamping Paper
Wendy Vecchi The Voice Of Art Stamp Set	Distress Markers (FJ)	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft Glassine Paper Stash	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink Applicator, Stamp Handle and Felt	Pink Sherbet Alcohol Ink
Adirondack Alcohol Ink In Mountain Rose	Liquid Pearls In White Opal

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!