The Hat Makes The Pumpkin!

Before I get started, I have some major thanks to send out.  First, I send out the biggest thanks possible to Mr. Tim Holtz after honoring me with a little blog recognition. WOW!!! I really have no words to give this justice properly, but it meant the world to me. Thank you truly Tim! WOW!!! Second, even more accolades to all of you fantastic regulars for all the emails and comments about this, as well as get well wishes (Yay for antibiotics, but still not 100%..ugh!). Again, no words good enough! Lastly, thank you to all the new peeps who decided to visit and/or follow me after Tim's post! I am overwhelmed, and my cup runneth over!!! You all are awesome!
I hope you visited the other blogs listed as well...all fantastic, and two I didn't know about and now follow myself! There is loads of inspiration to be found from every single one! The same kind of inspiration I get when I visit all of your blogs as well! That is the beauty of all of this...the sharing! There is so much talent out there in blog land...more than I could ever hope to have, and I am so happy you all share it with me! Thank you!
Okay, enough with the mushy words! Let's talk Art! Did you see Wendy's fantastic 3D Sticky Back Acorn Tag on the Ranger Blog the other day?  Her Clearly For Art is on the back of Claudine's Sticky Back Canvas, and that is what our new Making Art Challenge is based on at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group this time.
Of course I had to add lots of Art Parts! They are my favorite Wendy treat...uh I mean product! So I am submitting this to Simon Says Stamp & Show's challenge of "Favorites".

Stamping with Archival Inks and Paint Dabbers using lots of Wendy stamps, transformed this Art Part base.

More stamping with Paint Dabbers, and this time with a few Tim stamps. I also stamped Wendy's light bulb in StazOn Orange onto Sticky Back Canvas cover Clearly For Art. I inked it with Distress Inks and then heat the CFA to shape it. That light bulb makes the perfect oblong pumpkin! Glaze pens highlighted the pumpkin patch.

I heat embossed the plaid image and then added color using Dyan's Dylusions Ink Sprays and a white Distress Marker. I stamped Wendy's numbers on the fence Art Part using Snow Cap Pigment Ink. I inked over that with Walnut Distress Ink, and then wiped off the Walnut from the Snow Cap. It acts as a resist...a technique Wendy teaches. I stamped the boy on his coordinating Art Part and colored him in with Distress Markers.

I don't have stamps for these, do I just diecut Tim's Sizzix Mini Pumpkin and Acorns onto canvas covered CFA, inked and stamped a few designs on them, and then heat to shape them. Blossom Buckets adorned Mr. Wise Ol' Pumpkin, along with a distinguished mustache Art Part, and of course some hands and legs. He wants out of there!!!! Who wants to be carved up?

Another Sizzix Mini, Tim's wood grain image and Wendy's money money money image, along with some Distress Ink made for the sign! The sentiment was stamped on Ranger's Specialty Stamping Paper, and finished with Distress Ink and Tim's Seasonal Chit Chat Stickers. Twigs and leaves given to me by Linda at The Funkie Junkie Boutique in my last order gussied up the plaque. It was finished with twill that was colored with Ranger's Color Wash, Perfect Pearls Mist, and a little Antiqued Bronze Distress Stain.

I am also submitting this to Unruly Paper Arts Reader Art Quest 1 for "Paint".

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From My Stash- wooden dowel, twig, canvas twill ribbon


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Rusted ScreamPunk?!?

It's my turn to do the Saturday StepXStep at Frilly & Funkie.  I really didn't know what to show you, as my sickly mind (;-D) has not been focused on crafting lately, but since the challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show was "Rustification", I decided to do a tutorial on how to create an old rusted look using Distress Ink and Ranger's Clear Fine Embossing Powder, called...and appropriately I might add...Distress Ink Enameled Rust, that I learned from Tim at Ranger U, but with a few addends. I initially wanted to do another video, but my throat and head said no way, so instead there are mounds of pictures! Here are all the finished projects that I created making a Masterboard, but to see how I created the rust look, head on over to Frilly & Funkie. 

I was able to make six holographic ATC's, to be swapped at the All Things Tim Yahoo Group, and...

...two #8 tags, one of which goes to the talented Sandra of Made By Sannie for a little side swap (Sounds shady!) we have going. The postcard is pretty much the same as the tags, but it was made from a separate rusted piece I was experimenting with before the Masterboard. It is for a swap from another Yahoo Group I'm in, and is for Elena of  My Name Is Elena.

The background of the tag before the ScreamPunk  (A name I read on someone's blog.) Guy was added.That someone was Shelly. Remember her ScreamPunk Pop Up Tag?

 

 

His goggles are made of Liquid Pearls, and I added his spine bones to hold his neck tie and skeleton key.

This is the postcard, although it could never be mailed like this! I just can't help it...it needed lots of stuff!

I decorated the back, and here is the stamp I made.

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Live For Today's Autumn Beauty!

The technique at Linda's Compendium of Curiosities II Challenge is from Tim's book by the same name, page 59, for "Alcohol Ink Resist". I love this technique and have used it several times, but this time it's for Autumn leaves.

 

 

Supplies:
From My Stash- metal ribbon from Hobby Lobby, Vintaj Leaves (discontinued)


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

R.I.P. Witch Hazel...Or Not!

Won't you take me to... Funkie Town?!?  You know what that means everyone! This time I am hosting the challenge over at Frilly & Funkie, and I want to see a tag, but not an ordinary one...no way no how! Show us A Different Kind Of Tag (Plus A Theme).  I love making tags and there is sooo much you can do on a tag, BUT sometimes I need a slight change up. So this fortnight show us a tag, BUT alter it somehow. Change it's shape, cut it up, add several to make a book, flip it upside down, whatever, just don't let us see a regular tag. Repeating..."No regular tags this fortnight!" Let's see how creative you can be, AND use Autumn or Halloween as your theme.

If you need some altered tag inspiration, check out the other F&F DT's work.

 Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Marjie Kemper - She Who Stamps and Scraps 

Teresa Kline - Paperie Blooms

Terry Horrall -  Terry's Work In Progress 

Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style 

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

This is not exactly how I envisioned this to come out, but that is how it goes. I wanted to have Hazel pop up every time you open the coffin (Thus, not resting in peace!), but I just couldn't finagle it. I've been a bit under the weather lately, got a little better, but now feeling pretty yucky, so maybe that is why Witch Hazel is so ugly...she matches how I feel! The coffin really needs more grunge, but my swollen tonsils and feverish head keep telling me to get back in bed.

Hazel was made by stamping Tim's skeleton in Adirondack Snow Cap Pigment Ink onto black cardstock, then heat embossing it twice using Ranger's Sea Foam Embossing Powder. Below are the steps to make the coffin out of three tags.

I'm always saving packaging from unusual items. This one is from a double dose of Smooch Spritz. It work's perfectly with a #8 Tag. I traced it onto a kraft tag, and used dotted lines just inside the traced lines so I would know where to cut.

I glued these two tags together so that my tags would be stronger, but I did not add glue to the traced out area, so when I cut it out, I had two complete pieces to use for something else.

I glued the plastic into the cut out hole between the glued tags. This will be the bottom of the coffin.

Using the third tag, I measured at 1/2 inch from the top in as well as the bottom, at 1 1/2 inches from the top down, and from another 1 1/2 inches from there, doing this on both sides. I drew dotted lines to connect all these points. This will be the top portion of the coffin.

I cut on the dotted lines, and this formed a coffin shape. I placed this tag on top of the glued tags with the plastic piece, and then trimmed around it.

I found some strips of pressed Balsa Wood on sale at Hobby Lobby. Using only Tim scissors, I trimmed it to go around the perimeter of the bottom part of the coffin. Be careful...this stuff is sort of like fiberglass...it's itchy, so wear gloves.

I embossed the top part of the coffin as well as the left over center pieces from the bottom portion, using Tim's Wood Texture Fade from Sizzix.

I inked them in Rusty Hinge and Walnut Stain Distress Inks, then dabbed all of them with Claudine Hellmuth Studio's Multi Matte Medium. By dabbing it on, it made great raised texture parts. After it was all dried, I used the same inks over it again.

Using those two extra tag strips of wood, I cut them into 3/4 inch strips, and glued them onto my Balsa Wood pieces. I used Rust and Pitch Black Alcohol Ink to give my hinge and lock the worn and buried look, and then attached one side of the hinge onto the bottom of the coffin, directly into the Balsa Wood.

I had some scrap red velvet, and I glued it into the coffin. I trimmed around it, and gave it a good inking with Walnut Stain. I attached the side part of the lock into the Balsa Wood on the opposite side of the hinge.

I stamped only the Witch Hazel portion of Tim's stamp, using Jet Black Archival onto the door of the coffin. I stamped Hazel's eye portion from her face stamp onto Specialty Stamping Paper, colored it in with Distress Markers,cut it out, and adhered it to the back of the tag's hole, so Hazel had a peep hole.

I attached the top portion of the lock onto the door, and then attached the hinge onto a scrap piece of kraft paper. Then I glued the scrap paper onto the coffin door where it needed to match up to the bottom portion of the coffin. I needed to cover all of this up, and I didn't have anymore velvet or white silk, so I used white tissue paper instead. Everything received a coat coat of both Rusty Hinge and Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

To make Hazel's broom, I used a Starbuck's lid stopper (I don't know what you call it!) and colored it with the Alcohol Inks as well. Then using some pulled strings of jute, I cut them and glued them onto the bottom of the stopper. I also used the jute as Hazel's hair after I colored it green with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. Hazel's wand is just a piece of twig from my oak tree, and her hat is just black cardstock.

  

 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!