Sunday Stamper - Week 223 - Tie A Yellow Ribbon

Goooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all. As ever, hooooge thanks for all your gorgeous riotously coloured entries for last weeks challenge. This week is a nice simple theme... RIBBONS. To join in is simples: make a little something, it can be anything you fancy. Include the theme and some stamping and then hop back here to leave me a comment with a link to the place you are showing your entry. If you haven't got a blog/web-photo-hosty-thingy, you can also enter via Facebook or by popping an email over to me. The challenge will remain open until 21:00 Saturday 22nd September 2012.


My entry this week is totally inspired by the creative goddess that is Wendy Vecchi. Now, you all know I make no secret about my hero-worshipping tendancies when it comes to Wendy (yes, I could be described as bordering on the stalker-ish lol) Well, I happen to have a couple of the new 490 stamp sets here in the Room of Stash - along with some deeevine Art Parts that Wendy very kindly sent me. Having had a very busy month so far, I found that I had inadvertantly lost Mr Mojo somewhere on the way home from my Dabble Day yesterday at Busy Bee's in Sheffield. I am imagining that the old cad Mojo is holed up at Leicester Forest Services, sipping a Frappuchino and sniggering darkly to himself. That doesn't help me when I have a Sunday Stamper to make now does it?


Being as I am uber organised (snort) I had already picked the theme for this week after hearing the song on Smooth 70's the other day (and yes, I had a lovely little sing-a-long to it too) Well, what's a girl to do eh? The Cad Mojo has naffed orf and I am here, in the Room of Stash, shoving bits of card about and huffing loudly. Then I spied the insert sheet that comes with the Studio 490 stamps. "Aha!" says I. "I shall recreate that there tag..." Which is what I sort of did. I do have Wendy's new book... but it was downstairs and my bone-idleness gene has kicked in so I just sussed it out for myself. It is a bit of a hybrid of two tags actually. But... that said, I had the best time playing and am even more in lurve with those new stamps than I was before! Big big thanks to Wendy for her continued inspirations...


I used Distress Inks/Stains to create the background (Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge and Gathered Twigs) and used a Black Soot Distress Marker to ink patches of the honeycomb stamp so it was a bit random on the tag. Check out the Tag Topper Art Part... I LOVE these... and need more... they are a brrrrilliant idea, just adding that extra bit of dimension without being too OTT. Apologies to any arachnophobes... there just had to be two spidey's on the tag... because I have two "pet" spidey's out in the garden. They are both proper garden spiders and every night I am mesmerized by the industrious nature of their web making. I have taken to going out after dark with a torch and just standing and watching them... tis a feat of engineering! As for the mahoooosive big black hairy spiders that have decided to invade the house... well, one word for you lot... AlfieCat! He is being a proper little predator and catching them for me, well, better that than a mouse.. or a bird!


Anyways, I have waffled enough for one day. I reckon it is just about my bedtime now - I am a smidge late with the posting on account of me spending an hour searching for Mojo. So, what do you have planned for today? I have a Skypey sesh with Ellen this afternoon, I thinks we might be tempting old Mojo home with a recipe or challenge. Whatever you are doing today, I hope you have a good one. As ever, thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x