Sunday Stampers - Week 138 - Push The Button

Goodly morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all... and, as ever, huge thanks and muchly appreciations for your entries last week! This week I have done something that I never have done before... I have... made my entry before I have chosen the theme! Risky business but it worked out very well... apart from the song title being by the Sugababes ROFL So, the theme is... BUTTONS. To join in with the challenge all you need to do is... make something, (card, ATC, tag, altered art etc), include the theme and some stamping, leave a comment for me here with a link to the place you are showing your entry and I can hop on over to see you. The theme will remain open until 21:00 Saturday 29th January 2011.




My entry this week was heaps of fun to make... starting with a wooden frame and altering it by painting with Old Paper Cracklepaint and once the paint had crackles, doing a black colourwash over the top with Dabber and water. Once this had dried, it got bashed with a hammer and sanded down and then stamped with Black StaZon using a small script stamp.




The backing paper is from the Lost & Found stack and has been inked and stamped a bit more with Walnut Stain Distress Inks. I added mini canvases which had been covered with old papers and inked with more Distress Inks... I added the handmade letterblocks from yesterday's post and popped a little Monopoly doggy on the top of the A




The buttons are from another of my eBay finds... I got these yonks ago and have been saving them for a rainy day... one of the buttons is really special... it is from the London, Midland & Scottish Railways... and because it is "posh" I believe it to be from an old drivers uniform (actually, I mean that the uniform is old, not the driver, although, admittedly, he may well have been ... I shall shut up now ROFL) The spoon is another eBay find... like I said before, I have been amassing artifacts (ok, bags of junk that no one else wants) in order for me to make some altered art and also for the Configurations boxes I am working on. The 41 is on an old bingo counter... I used this because I am 21 + VAT this year so it kinda works for me! (for readers who are fortunate NOT to live in the UK, you probably don't know that our VAT rate is now 20% - don't get me started cos I will go on alarmingly about taxes etc... all I will say is this... if I were Prime Minister I would make it the Law that Stash and Stashly goodies would be VAT free and if you spent over £30 in a single transaction, you would automatically get some free money to spend on more stash... now, how do I go about getting voted in?? ROFL)




So... what have you got planned for today??? I will be having my weekly Skype session with Ellen this afternoon - not sure if we are doing a challenge thee "live" but I have a little project up my sleeve ready to be put into action. Have a FAB day and thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x