Sunday Stamper - Week 100 - Free As A Bird...PLUS Mega Candy :O))

...Morning Stampers and thank you ever so much for all your gorgeous Silver entries this last week. Now, last week was Week 98 - and this week is Week 100... I know I have had a lot on this week but don't worry, I haven't lost my marbles (well, not all of them!) Basically, I am doing a two weeker challenge theme - simple reasons... I am moving house on Tuesday (yay!) and I just know that if I don't plan ahead I will get caught out and end up bodging the 100th Sunday Stamper. So, this week we have Week 99 and Week 100 together and the challenge will remain open for two full weeks; closing date will be 23:00 on Saturday May 1st 2010. *May, already???* In honour of this special landmark, The Artistic Stamper and The Stamp Attic have both very kindly agreed to sponsor this theme. This special candy is on offer to one entrant, whose name will be chosen at random and announced on May 2nd 2010 Sunday Stamper post, will win a Gift Certificate for the value of £15.00 each from The Artistic Stamper and The Stamp Attic... and I will be adding my entry for this week as a little thank you too :O)) So, that will be £30.00 to spend on stash...how divine!!!




So, on with the challenge - the theme this week is FREE - which basically means you can make absolutely anything so long as you include stamping on your piece. If you want to, you can add in the odd bird or two as the song title is Free As A Bird...which is a Beatles one again...I do have a lot of theirs to chose from though LOL To join in with this challenge all you need to do is to make a piece of art, leave me a comment here with a link to the place you are showing your piece, then, if you aren't already, click to follow my Blog and finally, I have added a Logo for this event to my sidebar - all you need to do is copy it and paste it onto your Blog sidebar with a link back here. You can enter as many times as you like - each piece you make will mean one entry to the hat - so if you make 3 pieces, your name will be added three times - also ...and this is a biggy as it has never been done before ... if I get more than 100 comments left on this post then I will add in some stashy candy to the haul too :O)

Seeing as I have very limited time and limited craft supplies 'cos all my stash is in boxes, I did that "thinking ahead" thing and kept a few *snort* essentials out - allowed myself two hours to sit and make the piece yesterday evening - and here it is;





I made a Shadow Box, painted first with Traditional Tan paint (how could I ever have coped if I had forgotten to pop that into the essentials box!!) I then painted Rock Candy Cracklepaint randomly over the surface and set it aside to dry. I made a collage piece of cardstock, chopping it up into small pieces, colouring it with Distress Inks - this time I used Old Paper, Brushed Corduroy, Wild Honey and Walnut Stain. I then took a selection of Tim Holtz collection stamps and stamped with Timber Brown StaZon.




I pieced them all together on a base piece of card and left them to dry. I then went back to the frame - the Crackle wasn't 100% dry - and the beauty of the Rock Candy means you can heat dry it and still get crackles... so I did this for speed and then used Crafty Notions Quince colour spray - spritzing and heat drying at the same time to get a dappled look. I then added some Gold Perfect Pearls to a Mini Mister that had water and a drop of Brushed Cord Re-Inker in it...making my own pearly mist - which was then spritzed over the top to blend the colours together.




The Idea-ology was added to the frame and the centre of the collage - I added a little glass bottle filled with BeaDazzles and finally I used one of the little melt art hearts I had made a few weeks ago - smudging Gold Krylon onto the surface and then adding on some little resistors..I love these little things... don't panic Grim if you read this - the electrics are safe ROFL All of the products and goodies used on this piece are readily available from both The Artistic Stamper and The Stamp Attic.




So, there you have it.... Please feel free to join in as many times as you like .. it is a very generous prize and I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Jennie and Wendy for their generosity - and also to everyone who has joined in with the Sunday Stamper over the past 100 challenges. And... just got to add... I may not be able to get to see your art immediately this week; moving, changing emails etc, getting t'internet sorted will take a bit of time but hopefully, I will be back and blog hopping very soon...til then....TTFN...and ...thanks for looking!

Hels x