She Who Stamps & Scraps

Compendium Challenge - Faux Patina

I have never done Tim's faux patina technique before, and I don't know why not... I can't believe how quick and easy it is! I have to send a shout out to Linda Ledbetter for the inspiration.  I've used the technique on the (formerly copper) ornate plate and brads.

Linda's leading a weekly challenge based on techniques found in Tim Holtz's new book, The Compendium of Curiosities, Volume 2.   

I don't know how you'd classify this... it's a tag, an ATC, and a ticket all rolled into one.  I made the tag with distress inks, the Artistic Stamper grid stamp, and one of Tim's Sizzix embossing folders. The ATC is stamped with black archival ink and dipped in beeswax. I was inspired to play with beeswax and my Melting Pot over the weekend thanks to Linda Cain. Beware.... you can easily lose yourself and spend hours over there admiring all her fantastic creations!

The ticket is the latest craze over at the All Things Tim yahoo group, where Stephen (one of the group moderators) has sparked phenomenal interest in using a very small die as a base for art. He shared this video and a whole lot of us started rethinking how to use the Sizzix ticket die.  I've used part of an Acey Deucey stamp on mine, colored the main image with Tim's new distress markers, applied the Glossy Accents, and then inked the remainder with Distress Inks.  I made a bunch of tickets over the weekend and will be using them in days to come.

The bottom of my tag is cut with Tim's Sizzix ornate On-the-Edge die and I've added a bit of rick rack and ribbon.  The ticket is attached with a trinket pin, also altered with the faux patina technique.

I'll add this to Sarah's April Mojo Monthly challenge and to the butterfly challenge at Our Creative Corner. I'm loving the creative sparks we're getting from Linda each week and hey, you've gotta love a butterfly hat. I so enjoy gathering inspiration from lots of sources and pouring them into my own thing. I've got another butterfly coming for OCC later in the week, but I couldn't resist adding this one... the lady's headgear cracks me up!

Wishing you a wonderful week!

Marjie 

Grungy Monday 11: A Twist on Embossing

This week's Grungy Monday challenge at Studio L3 offers a neat twist on embossing.  Grungy Monday is a weekly challenge hosted  by Linda Ledbetter and focused on using the techniques and products of Tim Holtz.

GM#11 is based on a technique found here on Tim's blog. It's a real eye opener on something you can do with embossing.

I used Tim's Papillon stamp set and several of Ranger's distress inks (dried marigold, rusty hinge, fired brick, walnut stain and black soot.) I stamped the butterflies (Tim) and flourishes (Hero & Hampton Arts) in jet black archival.

I really love the way you can see through the butterflies to the technique below.   I used Tim's distressor on the edges and then covered them with black soot.  Last, I spritzed the dried tag with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls and called it  a day.  

 

I'll be using this one as a bookmark.  Simon Says Stamp & Show has a distressed edges challenge going on this week, so I'll throw my tag into that one as well.

Thanks for visiting.  Please also take a moment to pop by my blogging buddy, Gerri Herbst, who is having a very generous give-away indeed!  Hope you have a great day.

 

SSS: Show us a Word

 

There's a fun challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp & Show. The theme is One Word.  Well, I received one word in the mail this weekend... the new "Dream" die from Tim Holtz.  I wanted to play with it as soon as I had a chance and when I saw the theme for SSS, it took about 5 seconds to decide on my word.  I decided to go with another oversized bookmark for this one.

I cut the word out of this gorgeous Fancy Pants Designs paper.  Loved it but it looked a little flat. Decided to do it a second time with the paper glued to some thin foam so the word would stand out a bit. I used Claudine's multi matte medium and it worked like a charm.  No buckling or ripples.  Stamped a few of my dream-theme stamps and inked the edges in faded denim DI.  Added a couple of punched stars to spread out the blue from the FP paper.  The orange base is also FP.  

Thanks for visiting!

 

 

Ginger Rogers Bookmark

One of the best things about participating in online art challenges is getting to see so much gorgeous artwork from everyone who is playing along.  Over the weekend I was blog hopping and found Alison's blog where I learned about another site that has a monthly challenge.  As you probably have noticed, I like doing different challenges!  Inkurables (and don't you love that name?) had a February challenge with a Bookmark theme, and they extended their deadline to March 12 so I was able to make this and enter it: 

The lady is an Acey Deucy stamp, and I used several border & collage stamps, distress inks (wild honey, spiced marmalade, black soot) and Black Stazon & Black enamel accents.  The sentiment is Inkadinkadoo. This bookmark measures 11" X 3" which is quite large!  I think it'll be great for marking pages in magazines because it's oversized.  I may have to go and make her some playmates.

Have a great day!