Everything 490..

....corrrrr, I have had a lovely time indeedily... I have been playing with Studio 490 stash and have made my entry for the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group... the challenge this week is to use only one set of Wendy's Studio 490 stamps... ooooh, now this was harder than I thought it would be! I am lucky to have a lot of the sets and didn't realise just how many sets I can use on one project! So... I started out making a pretty tag... and didn't like it at all... so I chucked it onto the other desk and sulked for a short while... and then set about making a different tag, more "me" - you know, blue, brown, cream and grungey (not me personally, my style... that would be too weird if I was blue and brown and grungey... )




Anyways... this here is the tag I made using just the one set of stamps... the set being Dimensional Rose Art... which is one of my faves (ok, they are all my faves but you know what I mean LOL) I stamped the numbers in Traditional Tan paint and then slapped loads of Distress Stains onto my craft sheet and dipped the tag into them and dried it, then dipped again... and then just blended around the edges with Faded Jeans DI and then Walnut Stain DI.



The flower is made from Grungepaper, stamped, cut out and then coloured with Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge DI. I stamped the leaf and coloured this with Peeled Paint Distress Stain (from now on... it is DS... typing Distress Stain all the time is a pain and... I keep typing Distress Srain for some reason lol)



Now, I bodged the base of the tag up... I stamped the sentiment right onto it...and it was... yep, you guessed it... wonky! So, out came the Journal Tickets and over it went... sorted! The chippy bits are Maya Road and the birdy's wing is a petal from the main flower... and the birdy's "head-dress" is from the other flower on the sheet... with just three petals cut out.




So... I was in the mood for more 490 and I felt sorry for the abandoned tag... so I started working on it again and dragged it back from the brink of being filed in the big grey thingy and went back to the original set that I had chosen for this ... which is Botanical Art... another of my faves :O))




Actually, I love this set because it has a spider on it and I am a freaky weirdo and happen to like spiders.. I know, you are probably shaking your head in disgust and shuddering but I can't help it... they are... cute!! Right, this tag, loads of DI's smooshed onto the craft sheet, spritzed, dipped, dried, dipped, dried, blended... then Coffee Archival rubbed as opposed to tapped onto the text stamp, makes it a bit more patchy... and I didn't want to overload the delicate colours of the tag... the flower (which was the reason why the tag got chucked in the first place...) was made from cardstock (yikes! not Grungepaper!) I stamped it again three times and then layered it up and added a little Idea-ology flower. The butterfly is stamped twice on cardstock and then once on Clearly For Art and then assembled... finally... a row of pearls... and I am happy with it!!



And more Studio 490 yet... I have made an Art Parts piece for The Stamp Attic... tis over HERE if you would like to see more pics and how I made it and the sets I used ... it is called Home Time because I used part of an old ruler I had at school... and that is all I used to think about when I was at school... home time, not rulers ROFL



I got Grim to chop the ruler down to size - well, I did try to do it myself but I think Grim was concerned about the garage getting covered in blood!!! Oh and speaking of Grim... thanks for all the lovely comments about his moon yesterday... you know, the photo's of the moon... what else did you think I meant??? lol Right, tis time for my bed... I have had a headache for the most of yesterday and it is still here... I have even resorted to wearing my specs instead of my lenses... I hate my specs... they are nice, don't get me wrong but...they annoy me cos they keep slipping down my schnozzle... and I look like an old hag in them(whatcha mean I do anyway lol) Right, bedtime... thanks for looking... have a very goodly day! TTFN

Hels x

Scroll & Chips..

...is the recipe for the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group challenge... did you know there's a Yahoo Group dedicated to ...erm... everything... Wendy Vecchi? If you lurve Wendy's style and all things Studio 490 and would like to join the group, click HERE ... all the deets are there! Anyways, Lori - who is the List Mom (Mum for us Brits) organises this cool challenge every week... I won't go into too much detail cos you can read all about it when you join... all I will say is that the challenge focuses on Wendy's books... which, BTW, there is a #4 book out now... and... I am a very lucky Hels... because last week I won a copy of Book #4 - all I had to do was join in with the challenge, and let's face it, that is easy seeing as I have a bit of an...erm.. addiction to all things 490.



So... waffling aside... my card... right, our cousins in America use a different size card to our basic A6 one, a size that I rather like... so, I chopped down a square card and made my own version, I think it is a bit bigger than the US ones but still, it makes a nice change not to make a square card... the centre piece was cut using one of Tim's Alterations (can't remember the name of it and I am too bone idle to go and check ROFL) I made a wrinkle free distress on my craft sheet... and yes, there is pink in there... I used to love pink... (hence the http of my blog) and I had pink phones, camera's, clothes, hair accessories, hangbags, jewellry... and then one day I woke up and vomitted (no, I didn't really but I could've done I was sooo pinked out!) Anyways... the pink is Victorian Velvet and Worn Lippy DI's... along with Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Broken China and Chipped Sapphire... loving the Chipped Sapphire mixed with Victorian Velvet, it has gone mauvey in colour.




The stamping is a technique I learned from one of Wendy's books... ink the background, smoosh said inkpad onto sheet and spritz, stamp into it and then stamp onto card... cooolio or what!! Thanks to Wendy for sharing that cos I use it alll the time! Now, there is a scroll on the card, just under the flower and behind the chips... I should have stamped it further into the middle of the card but that is just me being a dipstick and stamping before I have the embellishment ready. Oooh, and ... if you love Studio 490 and would like to see some new stamps and stash in your mailbox, The Stamp Attic have the whole new range... stamps, Art Parts, Clearly For Art etc... *just saying ;o))* Right... I have a special project on the go... I will be back later (if it works, if it doesn't you won't see me for dust rofl) time to get inky!! Thanks for looking... TTFN

Hels x