Sunday Stamper - Week 106 - The Letter

...*ahem* Morning Stampers...apologies for another late start to the new challenge theme... I am afraid that I have to report that I have a very erm, sad reason for being so late... basically... instead of making my entry last night, I sat and watched... the final of Britains Got Talent ROFL And, *woe is me again...* I think I must have eaten something dodgy because I have been doing that yukky thing with a toilet during the night too - enough already! First of all, many thanks to all who joined in with the challenge last week, I have hopped all over the world to see all your gorgeous creations...so inspiring and beautiful wings out there.



The theme this week is... LETTERS. The song title - The Letter - is an oldie but fave song of mine by The Box Tops - from way back in 1967 - click HERE if you fancy having a little listen to it :O)) To join in with the challenge, all you need to do is make something, include the theme and some stamping, blog it, leave me a comment with a link and then I can pop and see you. The theme runs until 22:00 12th June 10 (oooh, that is sooooo close to my birthday, I just had a little wibble of excitement!) Now, my entry is a little bit off the wall - actually it is for the wall... and it is a big MDF letter H - which stands about 12" tall and has been altered using Ten Second Studios metals, some Terra which has been stamped into... and that is as far as I have got with it so far - I plan to go and shower my stinky old carcass and then get cracking and finish it this morning, then I can post the pics later on...

Til then... TTFN and I will be back LOL

Hels x





LATER.. A WHOLE LOT LATER.....

Right then... here I am .. erm... just the odd 50 or so hours late! Apologies for the delay in posting my finished piece... said "bug" actually was literally a real bug - here is what happened... we have massive trees in our back garden which the Mosi's love lurking under. I got bitten on the top of my leg on Saturday evening... spent most of Sunday being icky and with a raging temperature and a bite mark that was... I kid you not... the size of an orange... red hot, really painful and left me feeling very sorry for myself. Anyways.. I am back, still feel a bit grotty but a thousand times better than I was! So, the altering of the H took longer than anticipated but here it is - not exactly how I wanted it to be - the old Mojo is taking a holiday this week too!




I used a combo of Terra and Ten Seconds Studio's metals... painted them, coloured them with Alcohol Inks... added some Precious Metal gold paint over the top... then I made some little Memory Frame embellies. The stamping inside the tall Memory Frame was done onto gold metal and then I stamped the cog background stamp (The Artistic Stamper), puffed out some of the circles, then poured clear UTEE over the top so it sat inside the frame making a bubble cover. Check out the Memo Pin attached to the top - how cooooool is this idea which I have borrowed from Mrs Vecchi - she is just soo clever and inspiring... basically, get a Memo Pin, add a little letter or piece of art, lay it flat on a craft sheet and fill up with Glossy Accents... she is just soooo clever isn't she!!! Go and have a looksee at her Blog, amazing art on there :O))





I did the same again with the UTEE for the inch size Memory Frame but added a Salvage Sticker "h" to the middle before filling it up with the UTEE. The Coggy embelly was made by inking up the cog stamp with red StaZon, pouring clear UTEE over it and letting it set - then adding some more Precious Metal paints to the surface to add definition.



Right, enough wafflings from me... thank you all for joining in so far and being so lovely and patient.. next weeks Sunday Stamper will be a really special one :O)) That is all I am saying at the moment! Thanks for looking... am off to scratch my bite now ROFL TTFN

Hels x