Sunday Stamper - Week 101 - Brand New Key + Candy Winner!!!!

Morning Stampers...WOWZERS!!! Thank you ALL for all your lovely entries and comments, we got a total of 124! Which means that as well as the original shadow box I made, plus the £15 Gift Certs from The Artistic Stamper and from The Stamp Attic, you also get some Hels' Candy too :O)) [Oh, and while I think of it...MANY THANKS to Jennie and Wendy for their generosity and sponsering the Sunday Stamper Centenary :O))] I will be sorting out some alterable bits n bobs and will send them to the lucky winner, chosen at random by putting all the names into a bowl, those who entered more than once had your names put in for the amount of times you played, then one name was picked out... who just so happens to be... *fanfare please!!! I have been practising my trumpet skills all day for this moment LOL*

CHARLI - Thanks for your entry and please can you email me with your details so I can tell you all about how to claim your prize :O))

This week we have a brand new theme - as usual I am using a song title for the theme - and this week the challenge is to use a KEY on your art. To join in all you have to do is make a piece of art that includes some stamping and the theme, leave me a comment here with a link to the place you are showing your work of art and then I can hop to see you :O)) *Now, for those of you far too young to remember this song, it was by Melanie, but the version I remember more was by The Worzels - go on, look on You Tube, I bet you can find it there ROFL*




Now, I may have mentioned on the odd occasion recently that I have moved house - moved Counties indeedly, and guess what!!!! Grim went into the town centre today and phoned me to say there is a QD store there! Excitement city or what!!! QD is a really cool store that is really erm...what's the word I am looking for??? Cheap? Nah... great value! To the point that he came home with three boxes that nest inside each other, so I altered the medium sized one for my entry this week. And... the three of them only costed £2.99! Cheap or what!!! I am guessing I will be paying QD a visit in the next few days, I mean, it would be rude not to and... after all, I have hardly anything to alter already LOL




I used a generous coat of Traditional Tan paint to cover the box - I would normally have Gesso'd it first, but...er, the Gesso is still packed away in a box - so the two coats of Trad Tan did the same thing. Once this had dried, I coated patches of Rock Candy cracklepaint onto the surface and set it aside to dry. Whilst the drying was going on, I used some of the new Lost & Found papers from Mr T'Holtz - oh wow, if you haven't seen these already...they are LUSH! And, they are my faves out of the three sets - a little treatypoo for myself for being ever so goodly and moving house without moaning and talking about it all the time *tongue firmly in cheek there I am afraid :O))* Matching up some Idea-ology Fragments so they covered the box lid, I popped some onto the papers and then some were stuck onto card that had been DI'd and then stamped with more of Mr T'Holtz's stamps.




Once the Crackle was dried, I spritzed and heat gunned the surface with Walnut Gold Glimmer Mists - then added some Cherrylicious Crafty Notions spray - blending them together as I went, so I got a lovely mottled and old look to the box. I also did the inside of it as I intend to decorate this at some point too! The outside then had a bit of stamping done on it - mainly just lightly so the box looks a bit worn out.





The Fragments were then stuck onto the box using Glossy Accents as glue *tis THE best for this job* and I added a little bottle and an Idea-ology Key and finally added a little UTEE heart I made using the Melt Pot and some red EP's - made yonks ago and saved for future use - actually, I think I used one of these on the other Sunday Stamper piece, again, winding some Resistors around it... wait for it... cos I can't.... resist-or a heart! *groans*

Right, that is all from me - the new theme will run til next 23:00 Saturday May 8th *where is this year going to????* and is open to all :O) thanks for looking - have a grand week... I have finally started to arrange the stuff in Room One 4 - erm, it is all still in boxes but at least the furniture is built - many thanks to Grim for doing that for me... although, I think the constant nagging has ground him down ROFL And, a few peeps have been asking after AlfieCat and how he moved. Well, he looks like he has always lived here, is totally at home and now has a new tag on his collar - and here is a piccy of him, I just went and woke him up, hence to slightly daft look on his face :O))




Thanks everyone... for the lovley comments and all the support whilst this move has been going on, I am nearly back to normal so hopefully will be able to start blogging and hopping daily again :O)) TTFN

Hels x