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".

Supplies:
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.

Supplies:


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!