Sunday Stamper - Week 103 - Red Light Spells Danger... PLUS Candy Winner!

Morning Stampers... and a very big THANK YOU for all your entries last week - it was great to see so much fabby art :O)) This week the new theme is RED. To join in is simples *those MeerKats again peeps* ... Just make a piece of art that incorporates the theme and some stamping... once you have blogged, leave me a comment here with a link to the place you are showing your art and I can come and visit you :O)) Last week I was offering some Candy as a thank you for all your loyalty during my move. The winner has been chosen by using the very techernical way of writing all the names down *peeps who joined in got in there twice* onto paper, folding them up and popping them into a bowl (I don't possess a hat!) The name that was first out was... *dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dahhhhhhh*

Liverpool Lou - Congrats hun, thank you for joining in and please can you email me with your snail mail addy :O))






Now, plenty of you will know that I have just moved house... ergo, I have a new Room of Stash... and plenty of you will know that I am *very grudgingly* sliding towards 40 - in fact it is exactly 4 weeks til the big day and 'cos of the new room and the lack of things on the walls, I decided to make something to commemorate the milestone in my life, at the same time as using all my fave things and little bits of junk I have been hoarding for yonks.



Remember a couple of weeks ago I was almost weeing myself with excitement cos I found a QD store here? Well, I made a visit to said QD and bought this AMAZING 12" square shadowbox frame - and it costed the princely sum of £5.99! Cheap or WHAT!! It would have been very rude of me not to buy one... and you know how much I loooove making Shadow Boxes.




I used a piece of 12" square white cardstock, chopped up randomly and then coloured with Distress Inks; Old Paper, Fired Brick, Brushed Corduroy and Walnut Stain. I then used only Tim Holtz Collection stamps for the er... stamping... it was nice to go back to the original ones he first brought out instead of just using new ones or mini ones. And, cos this is a 12" piece, I could use some old faves on it too.




The frame was painted with Trad Tan (I know, am now on 16th pot ROFL) and then I applied a generous coat of Rock Candy Crackle... Once this was dry, I spritzed on a combo of Glimmer Mists; Peppermint Stick, Chocolate, Starfish & Walnut Gold and using the heatgun *everyone .. you HAVE TO read Lin's post HERE about heat guns!!!* to dry the mists as they hit the Crackles... this makes them soak into the crackles, which looks fab. As I said, I have been hoarding pieces for yonks and a few years ago won on eBay, a bag of junk that had been dug up by some bloke with a metal detector... well, in this bag was a British Rail button and an old ASLEF badge - goodness knows how old these are but how utterly perfect to add to a piece of art that is especially for me :O)) *for those who didn't know .. I used to be a Train Driver*




Anyways, that is enough of my waffling for one day - please feel free to join in and grab the logo for your sidebar too - the challenge will be open until 22:00 Saturday 22nd May. Have a fab week everyone :O)) TTFN

Hels x