Home Encaustic Panel at Bella Crafts

Welcome back this week! I have a tutorial over at Bella Crafts Publishing today for making this Encaustic Panel using lots of Ranger goodies, and it's great for beginners learning to use heated wax. Here are some close ups of the project as well. Just click this link to see the tutorial.

 

 

 

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Love On St. Patrick's Day!

Happy happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! I LOVE this holiday, and all that it encompasses...the traditional and the commercial aspects. We do it up big at my house, and the family loves it. 

The challenge for the month of March at the Make Art Challenge Blog (Wendy Vecchi Style) is using her stencils. I've made a tag and combined it with some Dyan Reaveley goodies as well, and some new Tim Idea-ology too.  I love how it came out. Wendy has awesome stamps!!!

I used Wendy's technique for Archival Ink and Rubbing Alcohol for the background. I LOVE this technique...it just makes my Archivals more valuable to me!

Next came stamping Megan and another gorgeous flower on Specialty Stamping Paper. I colored her with Distress Markers. I LOVE her!!!

I misted a little Tea Dye on the tag...love this color!

I stamped the sentiment on one of Tim's tickets from the new Emporium Ephemera Pack, after I white washed the ticket.

I love this Suits Stencil from Dyan...the Club/Clover is very cool stencil. I used Fern Green to ink it in.

I added Dyan's letters using Jet Black.

I stenciled on Wendy's Alphabets in Glacier White in the shamrock, and in Cracked Pistachio in the background...seriously my new favorite stencil, and it is going on everything lately... and stamped around the tag with Wendy goodies. I like that it has a dollar bill type style...don't you think??? I also added some new Idea-ology goodies. Ranger's Liquid Pearls finished it off.

I hope you join in on the challenge! Just use any of Wendy's stencils, take a photo and load it on your blog or pic site, and upload it to the challenge post! You can win some great goodies!

Supplies:

#8 Manila Tag	2015 CHA Release - Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pad - Buttercup	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Fern Green	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain in Picket Fence	Distress Spray Stain in Tea Dye
Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Stencil - Suits (5x8)	Ranger Dy′s Alphabet Stamps	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Alphabets	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Cracked Pistachio
Ranger Pigment Ink Pad - Glacier White	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - A Passion for Art	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - All Occasion Art	Tim Holtz Distress Specialty Stamping Paper	Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
Ranger Embossing Powder in Clear	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Markers - Full Set	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Discover Art	Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Picket Fence	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack, Emporium
Liquid Pearls In White Opal	Ranger Liquid Pearls in Mint Green	Distress Paint in Cracked Pistachio	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Typed Tokens	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Star Fasteners
Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!