Sunday Stamper - Week 209 - Pretty In Pink

Gooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! Thank you so much for all your lovely Patriotic entries for last weeks challenge... I do so hope Her Maj has seen them all! Anyways, on with this weeks theme... a nice girly one... which is to use PINK. To join in is simples: make a little something - it can be anything you fancy. Add in the theme and some stamping and then pop 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, you can join in using Facebook, Picassa/Flickr/etc or you can email your piccie to me. The challenge will remain open until 21:00 Saturday June 16th 2012.



Oooh, my entry this week is a special one. Remember the other day when I was bemoaning the lack of Mojo and went on an inspiration hunt and ended up HERE? Well, I decided to have another play using the same techniques learnt from Paula. And I have made a celebratory piece for our wedding anniversary which is at the end of the month - TEN YEARS!!! Poor Grim, he is a patient bloke.


So, the papers used on the canvas are 7Dots - I LOVE those papers sooo much and have been covetting them for so long, it seemed apt to cut into them and use them on this piece. I also had some of the die cuts and stickers so they made their way onto the canvas board too. No matter how many times I have tried to get pics of this piece, I cannot get it to show the shabby chic look that I achieved... it looks a lot nicer in the real lol


The wash of paint over the top is a mix of Trad Tan and Shell Pink Dabber... and I used Matte Medium to give a good waterproof coat over the top. Next I mixed Terra with Shell Pink Dabber paint... wow, it really did take the colour - I thought it would be a bit of a wishywashy but no, how cool is that!!! I used a stencil to pop the Terra through to make some patterns and textures on the piece.



The blocks were edges with a Stabilo All pencil... and a babywipe to smudge it into the crevices ( I love that word lol) Then I set about adding embellies... always the bit that takes the longest with anything I make... fiddling and faffing... and it still needed something... so of course, I added a paper rose - cut from Tattered Florals and assembled with some rusty wire spirally things behind it.



Right, that's all from me for today... I am in a state of excitement because... tis my birthday this week... did I mention that already? Aha, probably, I usually start making noises about it about 6 weeks before the big day! Have a lovely rest of the weekend... thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x