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!

Fly Fly Fly!!!

The recent challenge at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group is from Wendy's Book 3, page 33, which is a 'circular base with 3 buttons'.  I decided to turn my circular base into a hot air balloon, and my buttons are apart of the gear mechanisms.

I adhered newsprint to the a circle Art Part, and then stamped the image on it in Coffee Archival Ink. I inked the edges in Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

The gears where inked with Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean, and Mowed Lawn, but then I changed the later to Fired Brick, before stamping all of them with the definition in Jet Black Archival. The faucet handle was inked in Vintage Photo and stamped in Jet Black as well.

I adhered the newsprint onto kraft cardstock scrap and stamped a portion of the balloon image in Jet Black Archival.

I cut out and adhered the balloon to the circle and colored it in with Distress Markers. I backed a piece of Graphic 45 hounds tooth paper to black cardstock and adhered it to the balloon. I stamped the sentiment on and adhered the Fly x3 on, and then added the gears, buttons and faucet.

 

I am submitting this to the Sunday Stamper's challenge of "More Than Words".

Supplies:
From My Stash- newsprint , black cardstock, kraft cardstock, buttons, black thread, Graphic 45 Times Nouveau paper

Wendy Vecchi Art Parts Timely Pocket Watches Large	Wendy Vecchi Art Parts In Steampunk Gears & More	Wendy Vecchi Mechanical Art Stamp Set	Ranger Archival Ink - Coffee	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
Ranger Tim Holtz Summer Seasonal Distress Ink Pads	Distress Ink In Mustard Seed	Fired Brick - Distress Ink	Ranger Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool-With 2 Blending Foams	Remnants Stamp set
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Markers - Set of 37

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!