A Paint By Roses Valentine???

Uh...shouldn't that be "numbers" and not roses? Nope!  This tissue paper I received in a gift bag, screamed out to me to give it some color, which was perfect for the new challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show for "Getting Messy".  It is getting close to March, and they say that month starts like a lion right? So let’s roar and make some creative mess! Whether it's distress stains or paint splatters, tearing up a sheet of paper or making a layered collage, misting or a glittering, show us your beautiful piece of Art that you created by getting your hands a bit messy this week!

My hands certainly got a little inky making this very colorful tag! It certainly felt good! It's like battle scars that you are proud to show off...no manicured hands for me! Here's a step out of how I got my hands so yummy dirty, and I've used two new products that I received from a VERY NICE person at CHA who just gave them to me. SCORE!!! Thank you Heidi!

I adhered this gorgeous tissue paper to a Ranger #10 Jumbo Sized Tag.

I wanted to see the difference in Dyan's Dylusions Ink Spray in Bubblegum Pink from yonder year to the brand new Funky Fuchsia (Cool name!). It's a little hard to see here, but the Funky Fuchsia is definitely a hot pink and a little more electric than the Bubblegum.

I used Ranger's Waterbrushes filled with Dylusions to color these in. You can see the difference better in the Bubblegum (left) and Fuchsia (right) much better. I allowed for bleeding of the colors.

I was so excited about using Tim's new Distress Paints, and I was not disappointed. They are VERY different than regular paint. They are thinner, and water can manipulate them while they are wet, BUT once dry they are opaque and are PERMANENT. They are easily blendable, and they smell wonderful...kind of sweet. I used a paint brush to paint in the two remaining roses with the Spun Sugar Distress Paint. While the paint was wet, I misted water into my hand and spritzed the whole tag. The Dylusions of course bleaches out, and so does the Distress Paint! COOL!!! I need all the colors now!

I traced around all the rose lines using Black Soot Distress Stickles. I let this dry several hours before working on it again.

I stitched around the tag, and hand wrote along some of the lines of the roses for added interest. I inked around the edges in Black Soot Distress Ink as well.

Using Tim's Sizzix Vintage Lace Die, I die cut the border piece and coated it with Glossy Accents to strengthen it and give it sheen. I do this a lot when using this die. I adhered this to the tag bottom.

I ink sprayed a scrap piece of Ranger's Special Stamping Paper with Crushed Grape. When dried, I stamped Tim's Stamper's Anonymous X and the O in Jet Black Archival. I cut them out, set eyelets into them, added jump rings, and hung them from the tulle in the hole of the tag. I did add a little foam tape to the back to keep the O in place.

I used the Funky Fuchsia to color the zipper ribbon.

How about those messy inky hands? Woohoo!

Sometimes you just need hot glue. It really makes some things a cinch! I filled the center of the flower with Glossy Accents and added some loose beads in it.

I painted these Prima Roses straight with the Distress Paint and then dipped them into the Distress Stickles Dry Glitter...perfect sparkle! I added these and the zipper flower to the tag bottom and stuck in a little tulle and a couple of stick pins to form a make shift corsage look.

 

 

Do you love to get your hands creatively dirty like I do? If so, create your work of Art and enter it into our challenge. You just might be the lucky winner of a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp. You can also be named as one of the "Top Three Picks" for this challenge. Good luck, and please visit the other DT member's blogs to check out their fabulous projects from this week. You won't be disappointed!

 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

January ATC's Received

I've received a wonderful post...my January trades from the All Things Tim Yahoo Group.  The challenge is "Things With Wings".

This from Donna Jean Eno (Gorgeous shimmery butterfly wings, and the wrinkled background is fabulous!)

This from Pamela Preston (Gorgeous UTEE Enameled rose buds! So romantic looking1)

This from Claudine Criner (This tot is precious with those gorgeously colored wings! Love the shimmery background as well!)

This from Kathleen Leanna (A Valentine lovely for sure! Love the grungy wings on the mechanical heart!)

And here is mine again.

 I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Love Is In The Air

We should show our love everyday and not just Valentine's Day...right? Of course, but, it's fun to make extra special things to give to those whom we don't often tell, or to those we don't necessarily love but that we are fond of and thankful for. I suppose over commercialization has corrupted the whole idea of the holiday, but the whole premise of Valentine's Day is pure and simple...it's all about "LOVE"...and chocolate! ;0)

Here are some tags I've made to give to some of my friends.

I am submitting this reinvented Umbrella Man, now Cupid, tag to Inspiration Journal's Monthly Challenge of "Love".

I applied Claudine Hellmuth's Gesso to a #8 tag to strengthen it. After it dried, I sprayed (No photos, sorry.) Dyan's Funky Fuchsia, Bubblegum Pink, Crushed Grape, and Postbox Red Dylusions Ink Spray to the tag. I dried it thoroughly. I flicked water on the tag and dried it again. Then, filling a Mini Mister with Picket Fence Distress Stain, I flicked some Stain on the tag as well and dried it. I finished the background with Perfect Pearls Mist.

I die cut several Tim Holtz Sizzix Umbrella Men and Cupid in black cardstock. I added foam tape to the umbrella top and the top hat and added another layer there. I attached the arrow and bow to the Umbrella Man's hand as if he is hiding it behind his back. I snipped the wings from Cupid.

I ran the wings through the Wings Texture Fade, and inked the raised parts with Snow Cap Pigment Ink From Ranger. I misted them with Biscotti Perfect Pearls for a little sheen.

I stamped Tim's image of the City on the tag in Jet Black Archival and added a little to the bottom to mimic a shoreline from afar. After I added my new Cupid, I added some doodling and rhinestone hearts raining down. The sentiment was computer generated.

 

 

 

Supplies:
From My Stash- heart rhinestones, ribbons


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Ever After...Well Sort Of!

It's time for another challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show. Design team member Anna-Karin wants to see a fairy tale inspired challenge. So here we are, and off we go to Neverland , or anywhere else you please for "Ever After". Whether you go with a classic tale, use a quote from a story, or just tell a once upon a time kind of story in your art journal, we can’t wait to see what you do. There are no strict rules here. You could be inspired by a story, a character, even an idea or color scheme. From stories of princesses to flowers that talk, faraway places to under a rock, embrace your sense of whimsy this week and see where inspiration leads you.

 

You are probably wondering why you are looking at Frosty given the theme of the challenge, but when I kept thinking fairytale, fairytale, fairytale in my head, this popped up, and it's a diddy!

  Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul,
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
And two eyes made out of coal.
Frosty the snowman is a FAIRYTALE, they say,
He was made of snow but the children
Know how he came to life one day.
There must have been some magic in that
Old silk hat they found.
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around.
O, Frosty the snowman
Was alive as he could be,
And the children say he could laugh
And play just the same as you and me.
Thumpetty thump thump,
Thumpety thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.
Thumpetty thump thump,
Thumpety thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.

Stamps aren't just for inking anymore!  You can also use them to make images in molten Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel, which I learned at Ranger U. It looks scary, but it's really very simple.

Place a Melt Pot onto a Craft Sheet...this baby gets hot! Turn it all the way up. Pour UTEE into the pot up to the fill line, and cover it until it's melted. Add a few drops of Melt Art Heat It Ink (I used Sapphire.), and give that a little stir with the spatula the pot comes with.

Add a thin line of UTEE in a metallic (I used Platinum.) but don't stir this time. It will marble around by itself.

Select your stamp and place it onto a stamping block. Pour the molten liquid and immediately apply your stamp image into it. You can do this directly on the craft sheet or pour it onto a Melt Art Texture Fade like I did. Wait about a minute or two until your UTEE is slightly hardened and not as hot, and remove your stamp. Wait another minute and then remove the whole blog and trim as needed. Allow it to cool and harden thoroughly.

Use Distress Markers to color in the image. Permanent Markers can be used as well. The finished piece will be fragile, so no throwing it around. Mine cracked a little, but some Glossy Accents mended it back up.

I had some left over wood pieces from my Christmas Village, so I thought I would use them to make a plaque. I colored the background with Tumbled Glass Distress Stain because I wanted to still be able to see the wood grain. I used Picket Fence to dab on the bottom to make it look like heaps of snow. I dried it thoroughly.  I stamped Snowflake images using Snow Cap Paint Dabber.

I applied Glue N Seal to some millinery netting to apply onto the plaque. You can also use the netting you get from bundles of fruit or other things.

I actually did the next picture part first, but blogger made it too difficult to reverse the photos...sorry. I added a little bit of Wendy's Embossing Powder (Have I mentioned I want to eat this stuff?) to the bottom part to mimic the texture of the snow. While it was wet, I sprinkled a little Distress Stickles Glitter over it. Glistening snow city!

I die cut white cardstock using the Tim's Sizzix On the Edge Snow Flurries Die. I ran this through a Snow Flurries Texture Fade. To give it strength and sheen, I applied a nice coat of Glossy Glue N Seal. When this was all dry, I adhered it to the side of the plaque.

I painted some balsa wood strips with Silver Paint Dabber. I trimmed them with my Dremel after I measured them to fit the plaque. Love him! Don't be alarmed at my plastic mat...I never clean it. It's like having scars that this chick digs. ;0)

I used Picket Fence to color in the letters. The beaded wire (Computer components...who knew? Thanks Linda Cain for helping me figure out what they were.) was attached to the metal and added to the plaque.

I wanted the faucet handle to match the bright blue arrows and words in the Snowman, so I  used Alcohol Ink to color it. I added a layer of Glue N Seal to it to seal in the Alcohol Ink and prevent it from evaporating off, which it sometimes does on metal. I colored in the letters of LIFE with Picket Fence Distress Stain, and used the wire to attach it to the faucet.

I inked up the plaque, hammered in the brads, and adhered the back part which will be the stand.

 

 

So what is your Happily "Ever After"? Is it something you like to share? If so, create your work of Art and enter it into our challenge. You might be the lucky winner of a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp. You can also be named as one of the "Top Three Picks" for this challenge. Good luck, and don't forget to see what the other DT members conjured up this week...pure magic!!!

 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!