Distress Powder Flower Power!

Well...not really, but it sounds cool! I absolutely HAD TO participate in the Making Art Challenge #7 over at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group, which is based on Tim's Distress Embossing Powder, because I missed the last one (No time!) and am going to miss the next. 

Why am I going to miss the next one you ask? Well...ahem...it's because...ahem...I AM GOING ON A TRIP TO ENGLAND WITH DEBBY SCHUH!!! Yes...I am soooo excited! Debby is the ultimate tour guide, and she twisted my arm real hard and made me go on this trip, and then twisted my hubby's arm to allow it all to happen! I am one of seven, and we have a week of adventures awaiting! I'm hoping for good weather! And I am really hoping to see Hels!!! We have a plan in the works, and I have the Cheetos's ready, among a few other things! So of course, I am linking this tag to her Sunday Stamper challenge this week for "Nature"...it will be the last one for a while. After England, I am taking a little super secret side trip that I will want you to guess about a little later! ;0)

Layers and layers of Distress Paint made the background! I love this stuff!

I painted Ranger's Specialty Stamping Paper with Mustard Seed Distress Paint, dried it, and stamped the Wendy's flower with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink. I covered this with Spiced Marmalade Distress Embossing Powder. I should have removed a little here and there...forgot. I heated and removed the release crystals when it cooled. I cut this out, and inked the edges in the same Distress Ink.

I thought using Wendy's new British Art Stamp Set was appropriate for this...hehehehe! I stamped the pen in Jet Black Archival, and poured Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Powder on it, heat, cooled, brushed...you got the picture. I love the green on the black. The pics do not do this justice. I stamped the Ford's Pen sign in Broken China Distress Paint.

I started stamped some of my favorite background images on the tag using various brightly colored Distress Inks. I messed up on stamping the sentiment with the Jet Black and got ink in places it shouldn't be, so out came the pen to help with doodles and such. I stamped the grass portion with the Houndstooth in Mowed Lawn Distress Paint.

I loved the Houndstooth so much, I kept going onto the ribbon.

The Blossom Bucket center needed to be orange for this, so Alcohol Ink came to my rescue. More doodling and outlining with Distress Markers helped the scene, and I finished the tag by inking the edges with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.

 

 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon! Cherrio Chaps!!!

A Very Strict Challenge!

It's Monday, and time for a new challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show, but sadly, we need to clarify some stuff on our challenges to those of you who are just not playing along correctly. It's time for us to be a little more strict with the rules crafters! First of all, APRIL FOOLS!!! (Did I sound mean? Hehehehe! That was hard to do, and I couldn't even go longer than three lines!) We could not do a regular challenge on April Fool’s Day. There is no fun in that! So this week it is absolutely "Anything Goes", and if that includes a joke or two, great!

Wendy Vecchi puts a lot of humorous quotes and sentiments on her stamp sets along with her fabulous images from Stamper's Anonymous. I thought it would be fun to make a birthday card using one of them, which would be perfect for April Fool's Day, but then I had this little canvas journal from Maya Road, so I thought why not make a whole journal type card using several of her funnies and images?!? Tim's Mini Birthday Blueprints worked perfectly here as well, and I've used lots of his Distress Paint by Ranger to color things up. 

I used a jumbo sized #10 Manila tag From Ranger. First, I folded it into the shape I wanted, then came stripes of Distress Paint and water to blend it in for side 1.

Side 2 received a layer of SAntique Linen Distress Stain first then it was pressed into dots of beautiful colors of Distress Paints. I loved the dots so much, that I went back to Side 1 and gave it some dots. It looks like confetti...very party ready!

This was going to be the cover of the card/journal so I wanted it to be tough, so out came the Ink Refresher. I misted both sides liberally.

I waded it up, unfolded it, and gave it a good drying. I love it! The texture is very much like leather, and super soft too!

I coated the spine areas with Glue N Seal just to reinforce them and make sure I wouldn't get any tears along the way. BUT then, I decided I didn't want the fold over cover like I had planned, and I cut the portion off with the tag hole and converted this into pockets for the inside, to be seen further down. I wanted them to hold coupon tickets for the birthday recipient.

I misted the canvas pages with water first and began adding paint and misting. I added more dots to the craft sheet and dipped the journal in. I tried to color each page different, except for one 2 page spread. The paints and the canvas work perfect together.

I sewed on some trim to each page, and then found the center of the journal and stitched it directly onto the cover, right down the middle of the spine.

The Glue N Seal helped to keep this nice and tough...no big holes here.

I was given a package of My Little Yellow Bicycle Canvas Shapes, and I decided to stamp Wendy's images onto them, as well as on the journal for a 3D look. The white makes them pop. I glued them onto the pages to match the images up. I stamped the sentiments and quotes right onto the pages in Jet Black Archival, which I used for the images as well.

I added Blueprint images to the front, first on the cover itself, then the label piece, then the canvas flower piece to match up when I layer them.

I added more color with Distress Markers, in a few choice areas to bring some things to life.

 

Do you like jokes or joking around? Is humor your thing? If not it doesn't matter this April Fool's week, because anything goes! Create any ol' type of Art you wish 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 for some fun, laughs, and entertaining Art!

 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!