The Winged Queen... 490 Style...

... ok, so it isn't the bestest title for a blog post I have ever come up with but... it describes my latest Studio 490 Art Part creation perfectly... cos...erm... it is all about The Queen... and... errr... she has wings!!! So... as I may have mentioned 753 times, I totally lurve everything about Studio 490, including my art heroine, Wendy Vecchi... if you haven't been to visit her recently, CLICK ON HERE... believe me.. there are goodies in store on her blog at the moment because she is doing reveals in preparation for CHA at the end of the month... I am reeaaaallly hoping that us Studio 490 fans get to see the new products quickly... otherwise I may have to win the lottery, charter a plane and get myself to the US of A for a shopping spree!




Anyways... as usual, I digress... I should actually be telling you about how I maded this creation... so... I will! Before I waffle on, I will just say... the majority of the pieces used are Art Parts... my fave things to play with! The base of the piece is a large square frame, I coloured the frame part with Spiced Marmalade Distress Stain and over stamped with a large flower background in Plum Archival ink. The backing board is coloured with my least favourite colour in the Distress range, Dried Marigold. (I have the pad and never use it) However... I am now smitten with the Dried Marigold Stain... it is so pretty! Anyways... I overstamped the Squolka Dot using Yellow Ochre Archival - they go so well together!




I added the Starburst to the base too... stamping with Plum Archival (and the hanging down stars - totally thanks to Gillian, I saw her stamp the stars that way and... erm.. copied lol) Anyways... I re-stamped the stars onto cream card, cut a few out, stuck them on and added Glossy Accents over them to make them pop. I added the sentiment in Jet Black Archival - looove that sentiment!




The Queen herself is an Art Part, along with her crown - I stamped the co-ordinating stamp over her and her crown and then used Brushed Corduroy to gently add colour to her face and used a Cut & Dry Nib to add red to her lips, pink to her cheek and green to her eye - all Distress Inks... oh and then a teensy little white dot to the eye so it looks like it is reflecting the light. I used a crown from the Queen's smaller sister and turned it upside down and made it into whacking great big eyelashes... coloured with Gathered Twigs DI and overstamped with Coffee Archival. Her wings are Art Parts - coloured with Mustard Seed Stain... overstamped with Yellow Ochre and the lace background... and then edged with Gathered Twigs DI.. I then slapped a lovely thick layer of Rock Candy Stickles over to jazz them up. The little flower on her crown is another Art Part... with a little Grunge leaf behind it and a gorgeous resin bloom that Ellen got me for Xmas.


I used another Art Part .. this time the hand... coloured with Brushed Corduroy DI, touched with a smidge of Coffee Archival so it has inky fingers... and then I used part of a sentiment stamp that says The Queen... oh and I added a smidge of lace and pearls to make it look more regal. Finally... the star border... has to be one of my favest Art Parts...coloured with Pine Needles Distress Stain, overstamped with Plum Archival... and the flourish above her crown had the same treatment. The hangy bit is straight from Wendy's inspiration - an Idea-ology D Ring with a snip of Grungepaper to attach it to the back of the frame... and there you have it! All of the goodies I used are available from The Stamp Attic... just sayin' ;o))

Right... time for me to get back to my sample making... am having a ball with Art Parts, 490 Stamps, inks and Grunge... the only draw back is the state of the Room of Stash... eeek, it is a right old tip. Oooh and I nearly forgot... I have had a bit of a clear out of stamps... and they are on eBay at the moment... HERE is the linky thing :O)) Thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x

The Artists Collection Shelf....

...designed by the one and only Wonderful Wendy Vecchi.... and made by yours truly in the last of the classes last weekend. Can it be a whole week ago that I was sitting in the classroom with her? Cor blimey, where does time go to huh? Anyways... this is one of the most amazing classes... nay and thrice... it is THE most amazing class I have ever taken... and believe me, I have taken some pretty amazing classes in my time; double together the fact that Wendy can do no wrong, is THE most inspirational artist, along with being a mighty fine lady... well, you can probably hear the adoration in my words... and to be able to sit and make this spectacular piece in her presence... a dream come true indeedily!


All of the goodies on the shelf are made from Art Parts or Grunge... these two products are MADE for each other... and there's me saying "oh I don't think I will get that set of stamps" Ahahahaaa... that soon changed... now I have only a few more to get then ... erm... I have the whole collection. **that sentiment on the hand is just perfect!!** See, can't stop an addict... I am going to write a letter to Santa right this very minute and ask him if I can have the rest ... well, I will write it once I have stopped yakking here....




So... exciting as Sunday was, it had to come to an end :O(( Sad faces all around. However... when we got back to Ellen's in the evening the day got better again because... Ellen had heard me muttering to myself about letters, Santa and Studio 490 sets... and she had bought me another set! I am SO lucky... she is an awesome friend... and yes, I know I am very fortunate. And all of this is down to the wonder that is yonder t'internet... without me seeing Wendy's blog, I wouldn't have been introduced to the gorgeousness of 490, without Wendy popping a pic of my Rosey Heart Art onto her blog, Ellen would never have visited my blog... tis like it has come a full circle.





Anyways... enough waffling from me.. I am getting a little misty here... which means it is certainly time to say... thanks for looking and... TTFN!


Hels x



PS... Just remembered... I have put my new upcoming classes in my sidebar... all the deets are on The Stamp Attic website... oooops, I still need to get the pics to Wendy... am not lazy... honestly lol

So Forgetful!!!

...ah yes that is me!!! So caught up was I in all the things I have been doing the past week, I clean forgot to pick a winner for my taggy giveaway on last Wednesday post!!! How very remiss of me. As usual, I can't figure out how to get the screen pic onto here so I took a photo of the result from Random.org... which is #1 - which belongs to the comment from Helen from Stamping By H. Thank you ever so much everyone for the lovely comments :O)) Please can you email me your addy Helen and I will pop the tag in the post for you :O)) Here's a quick reminder of what the tag looks like :O))

Here's a quick reminder of what the tag looks like :O))

So... as promised, here's a piccie of the art we made in the first class on Saturday. It is called "Do NOT mess with the Queen" which is very appropriate cos we were actually WITH The Queen Patti of Inkn'Rubberland herself... I did do several rather clumsy curtsies in the hope that she would bestow a Princess-ness on me... thing is, never in a million years would I ever be mistaken for a Princess... and old Dame maybe... but never a princess lol



This class was like a taster for all things Art Parts... which I lurved already and now really LURVE, like totally LURVE... and me needs them all!!! Ok, I did bring *ahem* a few back with me but... there's still a few sets that need to come and live with me in the Room of Stash.




The next class was equally amazing... considering that Wendy and her lovely hubby Rick do ALL the kitting for these classes... and it isn't just like a square of Grunge here and a snip of card there... oh no, these kits are amazing... like reallllly amazing!!! I for one totally understand how convoluted kitting up classes can be.... and mine are on a small scale, these ones of Wendy's are mahooosive... and there wasn't a single thing missing from anyones kits... I said it before... she is, put quite simply.... amazingly awesome!




So... apart from being in awe of the kits and the finished piece, I did have rather a jolly time rootlling around on the floor under my desk! The old sausagey fingers had come to stay and I literally spent most of the class on my knees... which is just as well because Ellen got me GOOD and PROPER. Visualise this: there I am, sitting cutting things out... minding my own business, you know, being a very good girl... and then Ellen went and said three words that changed everything... now, they are a bit rude... so if I say them on here you may get offended... they aren't sweary rude... just funny rude... anyways... if you want to know them, email me lol So, she says these three words and I am GONE... like a huge snort outloud gone. Thankfully it was at this juncture that Wendy called a recess... so I shot off out of the shop like a bat out of a jam-jar... and let rip outside... mwhahaaaa... I am laughing here now thinking about it... **perhaps you had to be there lol**




The next class was called The Inspiration Station. A very clever idea combining an Art Parts Cover with an Idea-ology Ring Binder to make a little hangy uppy piece of art that can be added to with ideas etc. The page with the flower is actually a card envelope... and it also came with the cutest little cloth bag... which we were to alter but I love it so much as is, I have left mine plain... and I have also mislaid it... I have a feeling it is still in the bag of stash to be unpacked... anyways, this is an awesome project and... I LOVE IT!





Anyways... I thought I had defied the old jet-lag, I had an early night on Weds and a good long sleep... and Thursday was spent being very gentle and watching TV - oooh, Strictly, ooohlala... I love Robbie's dance!!! However, it is now gone 2am and I am wide awake ... so I thought I would come and do some blogging and maybe then I will be tired enough to get to sleep... either that or I will just do some more Art Part-ing. Thanks for looking... TTFN!


Hels x

Simon Says.... Wendy....

...aha, the theme over at Simon Says Stamp & Show this week is to show some Wendy Vecchi stylee art. Well, of course, au naturellement indeedily, I lurve Wendy Vecchi and anything Studio 490 stylee... so I set about making a little something as an entry... and then... lo! I got a block! I know, how can I lose the old Mojo half way through playing with Art Parts and 490 stamps!!! But it happened, so, I walked away from the desk and sat and growled for a while, sulking in fact.




When I returned, the old Mojo was still being reluctant to show its face, so, being as I am a bit stubborn, I decided to crack on anyway and just enjoy myself with all the goodies I had assembled on my desk. So, Clearly For Art... love the stuff... can't get enough of it... and my little clear butterfly was looking rather splendid, stamped in Coffee Archival and all that. Then I had an attack of the sausage fingers and managed to wipe all the stamped bit off... so I was left with a rather manky looking butterfly. But! Layered over the top of a Grungeboard one, he looks kinda goldy in colour, so he stayed.




I had tried to do a bit of muted stamping on the base of the Art Part circle and bodged that too... it isn't very visible... so instead I just stamped a dictionary def. text in black Archival and that covered up that oopsie-daisy. I stamped the Spider in the wrong place, he is covered up by the Ornate Plate... all in all this is so not how I wanted it to turn out but... I kind of like it! The hand has a rather blinging bright diamond on it to go with the lacey cuff... I broke up an old brooch I got in a bag of junk from a car boot sale... I wonder if it is a real diamond, that would be cool, there are about 30 stones in the brooch lol




Check out the watch.... behind it are three Memo Pins that I have popped a 4, a 9 and a 0 behind and filled with Glossy Accents (thanks to the Wonderful Wendy for that idea!!)



I have to say... Art Parts... they have to be my favest bases to work on... I have used Distress Stains on them and corrr, they smell divine when the heatgun is drying the ink... like fireworks (mind you, I have always been a bit strange, I like weird smells, like diesel and plastic paddling pools and the inside of those big catalogues you get from Argos... told you, strange indeedily lol) So, this is my entry for the challenge... a whole lot later and a whole lot different than planned but nevermind, I had a whole heap of fun making it. Oh and I nearly forgot... all of the stashly goodies I used are available at The Stamp Attic... (just being an enabler ;o))


I best get a move on... I need to make the Sunday Stamper for tomorrow... haven't a single clue about the theme this week so be prepared that it may be a bit of a wacky one... or a repeat of one we have already had lol Thanks for looking... enjoy your Saturday! TTFN

Hels x

Starlight...

... yesterday was a moobag day for me... you know, do you ever have those days when you feel like a moobag, look like a moobag and mope about like a moobag? Well, that was me... mainly because the stooooopid pain levels are getting high and the even stooopider pain meds aren't quite working... anyways... I flopped about and huffed and puffed my way through the day and eventually found my way into the Room of Stash. Now, I can never be moobaggy when I am in the Room of Stash and I soon found myself getting thoroughly inky and messy and making this little Art Parts hanging. So... no more Mrs Moobag for me, the pain might still be here but I am not letting it get the better of me...



Anyways, it is no secret that I lurve all things Wendy Vecchi and Studio 490 stamps are my faves... in fact, the whole Studio 490 range are my faves, they can do no wrong!!! Naturally, because I cannot seem to craft without Distress Stains at the moment, they have made an appearance on this piece too... what I really should be doing is leaving them alone for a few days and remembering my other inks but... alas, I have found THE perfect inks in the Stains... I just need ALL the Distress Range in the Stains now :O))




So, this hanging is made as part of my DT for The Stamp Attic... oooh and while I think on... goodly news from The Stamp Attic DT... Ruby 2 Shoes has joined the team... her cards are fabbylush... HERE is a linky to the Stamp Attic blog where her latest card is showing. Oh... and... Wendy has just got some brand new brass charms in... they are to die for gorgeous... HERE they are... be warned though... stocks are getting low and they are so lovely you will want them all... (unlike me who didn't buy a single one.... no, I didn't... well, ok, I might have popped a few into my basket but sssshhh, that's between you and me lol)



Right... enough of the going off at tangents and digressions... this Art Part is one of the large Circle Frames and it was covered with Crowded Attic cardstock which was then given the Distress Stain treatment... using Broken China, Wild Honey, Fired Brick and Dusty Concord. The hanging stars stamp is totally inspired by Gillian... I saw her use them this way and I had to use them this way too!!! Aren't they just FAB? The star border is an Art Parts piece, covered again with paper and then coloured with Wild Honey and Fired Brick. I went a bit bonkers with Rock Candy Stickles - did I ever mention they are my faves?? Probably, I seem to repeat myself a lot.. I do... you know, repeat myself ;o))




The leaf is another Art Parts piece... coloured with Peeled Paint Stain... stamped with Olive Archival. The flower is layered up using Grungepaper and Clearly For Art (another fave product...) The centre of the flower is an ickle Maya Road Resin Bloom and there are some Maya Road Trinket Pins behind the flower. The hanging is actually an Idea-ology D Ring... yep, I saw this idea on Wendy's artwork and borrowed it... the idea... not the artwork (although that would be awesome!!) There are some Idea-ology Snaps on the stars and a Memo Pin with a Tassell hanging off it.. oh and an Ornate Frame... and a little Clearly For Art butterfly that has a chopped down Maya Road Heart Trinket Pin for a body. Phew... I think that is all...



Anyways... did I mention that I am popping away for a few days at the end of the month? I am sure that I must have mentioned it once... or...erm.. several hundred times... anyways... the countdown clock has hit 8 days!!! EIGHT DAYS!!! Chuffing chuff!!! I am all prepared too... I have my flight bag sorted, my tickets, my hotel and I am just about to go and make a Passport Holder... well, I was mooching around Accessorize on t'internet and saw some fabby ones that were like £12 and being as I am a skinflint I thought I would have a bash at making one... you might see it if.. and it is a big if... if it works well... otherwise, forget I ever mentioned it lol Right... time for me to go and get creating... tis gonna be a late one... thanks for looking... TTFN

Hels x

Blackout...

... have you tried it yet??? You know, that HEAVENLY new Clearly for Art... Blackout version... corrrr, I have a new fave crafty product. I got all creative last weekend making a book using some old book covers that Ellen brought with her... these have a library page stuck in the front which is dated 11/27/22 - which in English is 27th November 1922 - BTW, me and Ellen figured out why we write the date differently... cos over here we say 24th of February and in the USA they say February 24... see, simples explanation... still makes me boggle a bit when I try and understand the exact date but I am getting better at it!





Anyways... before I went waffling on about dates etc, I was extoling the virtues of Blackout... seriously, if you thought that the Clearly For Art clear was good... you are so going to love the Blackout. Now I have a bit of a thing about black and white - like the combo of these two colours... it can be black and cream too... I like those too... and I sometimes like to add in a splash of colour.. but never red.... don't like red that much... think it is a result of being so very aware of red signals when I was a train driver... anyways... the colour scheme for this book just kind of flowed without me thinking... so there is red... but it is a nice red, not a bright scary one LOL






The cover has an Art Part Pocket Watch - OMG, you have to get these... they are seriously coolio! I added on some little Art Part flowers and then got playing with the Blackout - which was stamped with Gold StaZon and then moulded whilst hot... and if you don't like the way it has moulded, reheat it, it goes back to flat and you can start again. If you nip onto You Tube I think there is a CHA video on there with Wendy explaining about Clearly For Art... very clever stuff :O))



The pages are made from mountboard which was then covered with Jenni Bowlin papers... both the 12" and the 4" ones were used... they are lush... I have been covetting them for over a year now and it was time for me to cut into them...




I won't put all the pics on today ... I did 5 pages front and back... plus some ickle files that open up too... so there are looooads of photo's... oooh, what I did mean to say was... the embellies - the chippie bits and some of the flowers etc are all from a huge box of stash that THE Wendy Vecchi was selling on her blog the other week and my stash mule (Ellen) dragged them halfway across the world for me... bless. The other bits are either Art Parts or Maya Road. oh and all the stamping is Studio 490 (except for one sentiment but that is for another day)



I thought I had better write this post tonight while I am still relatively calm... you see, I may have muttered something about this before but... do indulge me... tis... less than 10 hours now til I am doing the Artsy Crafts class with the Duke of Distress himself... nay and thrice, I should give him his full titles... the Sultan of Stamping... the Viscount of Vintage... anyways... I am going to go to bed now...



Actually I was going to bed about 45 mins ago and then got sidetracked faffing in the Room of Stash... and then I decided to blog cos I probably won't get chance in the morning... and now I have got my second wind and I know if I don't at least try to go to sleep now that I will be looking rather worse for wear in the morning... not only has Henry decided to reappear... I also have a gremlin that sneaks into my bedroom of a night, used a pot of extra strength mousse to muss my hair up and then uses a sink plunger to make my face puff up... poor old Grim, he has a lot to put up with already, but me, first thing on a morning... yikes.. poor bloke! Right, I am deffo going now... beauty sleep and all that... if you are going to the class... see you there... if not... have a good day! TTFN

Hels (and Henry Zit) x

Work... ...

...In progress... oh yesh indeedily, inkiness abounds and I am thoroughly covered in ink... I am a happy bunny to have my Mojo back... I am trying to make the most of it just incase it decides to slope off again LOL So, I have seen that the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge this week is to use a new stamp on your entry... well, it just so happens... *ahem* that I have a few new stamps to play with; namely some Studio 490's that I have been saving up for.




I have had this idea floating about my noddle for a while now... you know those Art Parts that Wendy Vecchi has designed??? Well, I happen to be rather enamoured with them - in other words I totally love them, need a constant supply of them and they are now my favouritist bits of hardware to play with. (oooh, that sounds a bit rude LOL) So, I have been using the Art Parts to make some hangy pieces but I wanted to do something a little different. Now, the Art Parts are just as the name suggests... parts for art... and it just so happens that there are some lovely scalloped borders that have holes already punched in them. They look lovely as a border along the top or bottom of a piece.. .but what about on the side??? With some book rings threaded through so as to make a... book!




Well, I finally got around to starting this project last night... starting off by making a larger version of the "mini heart" flower that I made earlier this week. I am so happy that I have a hot glue gun because it has made life soooo much easier when it comes to putting together a fiddlesome thing like the flower. To make the flower, I stamped 25 mini hearts onto Grungepaper and then cut them out. I separated them into two piles, one for the outer layer and one for the middle. They were covered with Distress Ink and then assembled and finally, I popped a little red UTEE heart I made using a mould and some... erm... UTEE. Whilst the flower is a bit fussy, I do like it... nay and thrice... I love it!!! I can see that these will be these popping up all over the place now. I am working on a metal version of one too... but that will have to wait until I have this book is finished.




At the moment I have the front cover completed... and I have the back cover half done... just needing some florally embellies to be popped onto that... and then I have to work out the sizings for the pages... I have some greyboard which I can chop up for those so that isn't such a big deal but this is going to be one of those projects that I am not going to rush... so I can add to it over the next few weeks so it ends up exactly how I want it. I am thinking three pages inside but knowing me, that will grow and I will end up with more LOL All the stashly goodies I have used are available from The Stamp Attic



Oh, you remember when I said one of the New Years resolutions was to keep the Room of Stash tidy... and to tidy away after each crafty session? Well... it's like this... I erm... have... broken that three times over... the room is back to the state it was a few weeks ago when it took me 11 hours to tidy up again... you'd have thought that I would have learned but I do have a really good excuse for today - why I don't have to tidy up my mess... well, we just got a new freezer and... the old one needs defrosting... *I have a feeling I have used this excuse before but this time it is true!!!* so I have to spend the day at the ice-face, chipping away the eqivalent of the north face of the Eiger... either that or I could just turn the freezer off, bung a few towels in there and then get inky again and carry on with my book...oooh, decisions, decisions LOL Thanks for looking... have a grand weekend - ooo and don't forget - a brand new Sunday Stamper theme tomorrow... and I have a guest challenge setter who has chosen a FAB theme!!! TTFN

Hels x

Sunday Stamper - Week 135 - This Charming Man

Goodly morning Stampers and welcome to the first Sunday Stamper theme for 2011. Now before I go waffling on about the new theme etc, I have the winner of last weeks' candy to announce. The numbers are given to each commenter - if you enter your name gets two numbers - I popped the numbers into Mr. Random.org and he told me that #38 is the winner... and that number talllies with ...

JOANNA - Thank you for your entry and please can you email me your deets etc.




On with the new challenge theme... this week is a double one so you can use either or both... and the theme is: CHARMS/MEN. To join in with the challenge, all you need to do is make a piece of art, be it a card, ATC, tag, altered art - tis up to you - add in the theme and some stamping, leave me a comment here with a link to the place you are showing you art and I can hop on over to see. The theme will be open until 21:00 Saturday January 8th 2011.
I decided that it was high time I had a play with some Art Parts, Distress Inks and Studio 490 stamps yesterday and had a ball getting inky and messy and making this little hangy piece. The Art Part frame and base were covered with Paper Artsy Thorndon Hall papers (have you tried these yet??? THEY ARE LUSH!!!) Once I had stuck the paper to the frame, I gave it a good slap of Rock Candy Cracklepaint and set it aside to dry. I coloured the base paper with Bundled Sage and then overstamped with a ledger stamp using the same colour and then did a watercolour effect seed head stamp over that before stamping the sentiment in black Archival.




The Studio 490 stamps are fab for making dimensional flowers... I love how versatile these stamps are - you can have so many variations depending on how you layer them, colour them and overstamp backgrounds onto them. Oh and before I forget, all the bits and bobs used on this piece are available from The Stamp Attic.




As well as making the layered flowers, I also hit on the idea of making a different flower layer by stamping the mini love heart six times onto Grungepaper, cutting out, colouring front and back with Wild Honey, stamping dots onto the back, using a mini Fastener to pinch in the bottom of the hearts so they are more dimensional and then attaching them all together in a fan shape. Whatcha fink? I love this and will deffo be doing it again... think of the possibilities - metal, canvas... oooh, I want to play now LOL




My entry is the "charm" part of the theme, hence ten tonnes of bling, baubles and metal charms hanging from the chain and the scalloped base - I love this kind of thing though... you see, I make out that I am not at all girly and I only ever wear black or grey but deep down inside I do like a bit of sparkle...don't we all??? Anyways... I could sit here and waffle on alarmingly again for the next hour but that won't be getting me my beauty sleep (oh, and.... resolution #4 is still broken... even worse now - I haven't put away the basket of Maya Road charmy bits yet...) Right... time for bed... thanks for looking... have a brilliant day! TTFN

Hels x

Getting Arty & Artsy

...ooooh, COR BLIMEY... I have had great larks playing with some new stash... Art Parts... and Paper Artsy papers... which, I have to tell you, are totally DEEEEVINE and beautiful and heavy and gorgeous .. oh and they smell lush too LOL I altered some of those utterly perfect Art Parts to make a hanging *erm... yep, me, a hanging, that sounds about right ;o))* All the deets on how I made this piece are over on The Stamp Attic Blog... which is HERE... and if you click on that there word (HERE) I have arranged for a fox to trot with you over to the blog for a nosey (mmm, you can tell i have been watching too much Strictly LOL)



Have you seen the time??? It is nearly 4am and I am still awake, tapping away and chattering on alarmingly when I should be tucked up in my bed... Grim is on those dratted earlies again and he has just gone to work so it is deffo time for me to get my very much needed beauty sleep. It is typical he is on those earlies this week - just when I'm A Celeb is starting, I saw the first five mins of it last night and had to turn off before I got too engrossed laughing my socks off at all the newbies into the jungle... we will be watching it when Grim gets in from work thanks to the powers of Sky+... I suppose I could watch it by myself but it isn't the same is it? Sitting there, taking the mick out of scaredy-cat celebs who are frightened of an ant - nooo, not that Ant of Ant and Dec fame... no, a real ant... you know, one with six legs and nippy nibblers that bite... where was I??? Ah yes, taking the micky.. is so much funnier when you have some one to take the mickey with isn't it?




I just noticed... I am so impatient I hadn't waited for the Glossy Accents to dry in the Idea-ology before I took the photo... and... the way the hand is positioned... it looks like it is poking her in the eye... well, that is better than picking her nose I guess LOL Right... I have to go, I am starting to talk drivel... whatcha mean nowt new there then??? ROFL Thanks for looking.. have a FAB day! TTFN

Hels x

The Hangman's Tree...

...or... the Smashing Pumpkins... **groan** I know, I know... I have been wanting to use that name ever since I got converted to all things Hallowe'eny earlier this month... is it really only a day til Hallowe'en??? I got a "joke" on my moby last night... a lovely kind... *ahem*, friend said that they were having a Hallowe'en party and would I do them a favour and come around and look through the window to scare the... erm... *moderates the text to non nawty words* pants off them.... cheek of it... I will be faaaaaar too busy... flying on my broomstick and cackling ROFL



Anyways... all that waffling again... today's offering is... a double whammy... it is my day for The Artistic Stamper Creative Team and I am going to enter this piece into the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge.. .which this week is Spookay. So... all the deets about how I maded this piece are HERE - with more pics too... but please, tell me here... what do you think of my pumpkins? *no matter how many times I try to type that, it still sounds vaguely rude!!* I loooooove my pumpkins... and my Fly Agaric too... oooh, yes indeedily, I got very carried away with this clay modelling and made some toadstools... ah, yes, which reminds me... did I ever tell you I used to have a boyfriend who was a toadstool? Yes, he was.. a really... fun~gi!!! (oh dear, shall I go and sit in the corner ROFL)





I have to admit... the pumpkins did have a little teeeeeensy bit of help... my hands aren't what they used to be and that Fimo stuff can be a bit hard to get pliable... so in stepped my hero Grim, to assist in the Fimo neading stage. I stank the house out cooking the pumpkins and toadstools too... I don't that that those whizzy halogen ovens are the right thing to be cooking Fimo in, but it worked... mind you, saying that... reading back what I have just typed... mmm, maybe those fumes got to my head!! I have to say... THANK YOU to Joanne... for sending me the FAB skelingtons... as soon as I saw them I knew that they would be playing with Art Parts *speaking of which - I LURVE these!!!*... and also Lynn Stevens for helping me to release my inner witch :O)) Right, time for bed... late night tonight *gotta make sure the old broomstick is ready and waiting... and... just for Linda... which witch is the witchy which witch?* ;o)) Thanks for looking and have a very goodly weekend... oh and... don't forget.. new Sunday Stamper theme will be here tomorrow... I haven't got a clue what the theme is... but I will make it a nice one LOL TTFN

Hels x