Wendy Vecchi Flowers Say It All Chippies Magnets

Hello All, and happy new year to you! This post is the start of new products launching with Ranger Ink, and there are so many more to come. Wendy Vecchi has just introduced her new Chippies! Did you catch her Live earlier today? She had so many wonderful samples using the new Chippies. They are just darling pieces of chipboard, five sets in all with Bases and Frames, Leaves, Blossoms, Wreaths, and Beverages. They all primed with gesso which allows you to use so many mediums on, and you can even dry emboss on them which I thought was the best technique using them, and that's what I've done on these magnets I made using so many of the Chippies, plus I painted on them too. I just love flowers, and I tried to coordinate these using them in different ways, and I think they will make great little Valentine or Birthday gifts. Enjoy!

Introducing Wendy Vecchi Make Art Chippies!

 

Select the Chippies you want to use for the magnets and cut if need be (I cut the wreaths for leaf swags.), and arrange the them the way you want. You might want to take a photo of your arrangements to help you in the planning.

Using Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Paint, paint over the cups, saucer, and tea bag tags. Paint over heart frame and spoons with Silver Metallic Paint Dabber. Ink over the solid heart with Mulberry Archival Ink and an Ink Blending Tool. Let all dry. 

 

   

Mask off stripe on the large cup with Sticky Notes, and ink in with Mulberry. Ink the flower centers or petals with Mulberry using the tool or a detail craft swab if the parts are too small. Use a Black Fude Ball Pen to color in the etched lines on the border of the stripe on the cup. 

 

 

Using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Star Bright Texture Fade, emboss the small cup (try to leave the inside of the cup not embossed by placing the cup on the edge of the fade), saucer, large tea bag tag, solid heart, and the handle of the largest spoon, doing each separately for the best image placement and run them through the machine three times each for nice detailed embossing. 

 

 Ink over all leaves with Pricky Pear first and then some parts in English Ivy Archival and the Ink Blending Tool. Ink in petals and centers of flowers with Golden Rod Archival. Leave some petal parts white. 

 

 

Ink in bow with Mulberry. Using the tip of your finger, add Mulberry Archival to the raised parts of the embossing on the little cup and saucer and large tea bag tag, by gently rubbing over the design to color it in to see it better. Do the same with the raised designs on the heart but use Antique Linen Distress Paint. Let them dry. Use a detail paint brush to paint in wispy lines over the petals of the flowers using Antique Linen. Add some more detail wispy lines to the flowers and bow with yellow and red Pitt Pens. Adhere heart to frame and some of the flowers to stems with Perfect Card Adhesive.

 

 Stamp 'Flowers Say It All' sentiment three times onto Ivory Heavystock using Black Soot Archival, from the set with the same name. Cut apart and ink the edges of the those with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Stamp small heart from Merci and More onto the small tea bag tag using Mulberry. Tie string to the tea bag tags. Figure out where you want the sentiments to go and add foam tape to the back of each. Assemble all three designs together using Perfect Card Adhesive, and ink any edges as you go with Black Soot or Gathered Twigs. 

 

Add sticky magnet sheet to the back of each design, making sure they stick well to the Stay-tion so you know they will work properly. Use Sunflower and Garnet Liquid Pearls to dot the centers of each flower and anywhere else you want using, and use  a stylus to help you make perfect dots by picking up the color from the Stay-tion and dotting it on with the stylus if you have a hard time controlling the Pearls straight from the tube. Let dry.

 

Supplies:  

(Stay-tion, Scissors, Ink Blending Tools, Detail Craft Swabs, Sticky Note for Masking, Embossing Machine, Detail Paint Brush, Stamping Block, Foam Tape, Stylus)

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Make Art Chippies: Base and Frames, Beverages, Wreathes, Blossoms 

-Ranger Paint Dabber: Silver Metallic 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Antique Linen 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink: Mulberry, Golden Rod, Prickly Pear, English Ivy 

-Ranger Fude Ball Pen: Black 

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Texture Fade: Star Bright 

-Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stamp, Die, Stencil Set: Merci and More, Flowers Say It All 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock: Ivory 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Perfect Card Adhesive 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower 

-Ranger Liquid Pearls: Garnet 

-String, Sticky Magnet Sheets

 

I'll be back again soon. Thank you so much for stopping by, and until next time, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Santa Snow Leopard Suit Tags

Every year I find a set of Christmas Gift Bags that I like, and I try my best to make matching gift tags for them.  This year I liked these vintage type bags with the Snow Leopard fur on Santa's hat and suit, found at Home Goods. They even had an attached Santa face image on the handle. Right next to the bags were two packages of these oddly sized black tags, 3.75 x 7 inches, 12 in a pack from Roobee by Mara-Mi (never have heard of this company) and I thought why not try them. Here is what I came up with. Enjoy!

When I opened the tags, they had a rougher, detail sand paper type of feel. I really liked the texture, but I was unsure about them. I thought I would try a test of these new tags along side with a Ranger #8 Black Tag, painting each with Candied Apple Distress Paint from Tim Holtz. I was shocked by the results. The Ranger tag really absorbed the red paint and turned the tag a dark brick color (on the right), but the new tag must have had a coating on top as the paint did not absorb into the paper so the color stayed on top and was vibrant and sharp, coloring the black quite well. It even dried pretty quick as well. I decided to add another coat to match the bags a little better...WOW, so vibrant. I looked for more online, but had no luck. I found some silver ribbon in my stash that closely matched the ribbon on the bag, and added it through the hole, but not tying it yet. 

I decided to try the Snow Leopard look, and just knew I already had ribbon that matched and would make it easy, but I didn't find any in the stash after searching for awhile. I did have plain white furry ribbon though, but it was too wide and the fur way to long. I decided to use what I had, and gave the fur a good hair cut outside, using super sharp Tim scissors. The hairs went all over the place...good I was outside...but I loved the result. Next, I needed black spots. I didn't want to use paint as I wasn't sure if it would dry stiff, so I tried a marker first. I used a Black Big Brush Pitt Pen from Faber Castell, and it worked wonderfully. I trimmed the fur to size and adhered it to the tags (I made 12 tags, and some without spots for a more masculine feel.) with Skor Tape. 

For the buckle, I die cut Tim's Silver Kraftstock with the smallest Stacked Baroque Thinlit from Sizzix. I used a craft knife to cut slits on each side of the die cut, and inserted black glitter ribbon through to be the belt. I secure the belt over the fur with tape.

 

For personalization, I used the Varsity Alphanumeric Thinlits from Tim and Sizzix for the initial of each recipient using Gold and Silver Kraftstock...letter jacket style. So super fun. Then I tied them on the bag handles just below Santa's face...perfect!

That is probably all for this year, as I just can't see myself having time to blog...lol! I want to wish each and every one of you a Happy Christmas or Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate or don't...just be happy. Thank you so very very very much for all the love and support over this year...it was not an easy one for any of us. God bless each one of you on this next year, and blessings on your health, wealth, and happiness of course. Until next year, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!