from this to THIS...

it's the weekend!

yippee!

and only 3 weeks 'til I leave for CHA...

YIKES!!!!!!!!

phew...

I thought I'd show you some quick ways to alter some of my Blossom Bucket resin pieces 

with some of my most favorite 

tim & Ranger products...

here's the cute little Blossom Bucket bouquet, right from the package...

in the photo below, I used the dried marigold marker & the rusty hinge marker to color in each flower...

and I used the forest moss marker over the raised areas on the stem...

then accented the flower centers with 

the black Sakura glaze pen...

2 minutes = total transformation...

make sure to dry these with the heat-it tool...

leave them on your craft sheet to heat them...

they do get a bit warm...

let them cool before taking them off the chart sheet...

you may need to dry them several times...

now it looks like this...

for this next example 

I used several different colors of markers, 

to create a multi colored bouquet...

HEY...

stop the press...

a whole peek???

remember...

what happens on the blog...

stays on the blog!

I showed you the bird before...

again...he was colored with the distress markers...

the tiny dots are vermillion archival...

this piece is fun to alter too...

but a little different ink was used here...

I used Ranger's butterscotch PIGMENT ink...

& applied it with the craft nib...

the flourishes were inked with lettuce PIGMENT ink...

you'll see it creates a much more chalky effect...

whereas the distress inks are translucent...

the pigments are much more opaque...

I randomly stamped on the raised areas with jet black archival...

and accented the flower center 

with the black Sakura glaze pen...

and now it looks like this...

for the next piece...

 back to the distress markers...

I use stormy sky on the petals, and peeled paint on the flourishes...

you'll see the flourishes are a bit darker...

that's because I added a bit of rock candy distress stickles...

when I did that, the stickles activated the distress marker & made the color darker...and rewet it...

pretty cool in person...

this fun piece is glued to the small art parts pocket watch...

which I inked with pumice stone distress stain...

and there's a hint of a word stamp below...

which was colored in with the bundled sage marker...

other altering possibilities???

I didn't have time to make samples of them...

but you can also alter these with alcohol inks...

and archival inks...

use the refillable pen with the alcohol inks & a craft nib tapped onto the archival pads to add color...

now with the expansion of the archival colors...

we have LOTS of fun choices...

think aquamarine...saffron...french ultramarine...

so the moral of today's post 

is that you have to look at the possibilities...

how can I easily make this coordinate with my project?

altering is FUN...

and speaking of FUN...

I hope you'll take 3 minutes & click on the link 

to see a very cool video...

it was created by Michele Hamilton, one of the owners of 

Scrappin Girlfriends, 

in Twin Falls, Idaho...

I'll be there in August & the video is their invitation to attend the event...

NEVER. EVER. 

have I seen such a cool invite...

EVER...

sure made my day!

with the attention to EVERY detail in this video...

I AM CERTAIN that this will be a very fun weekend...

I had a sneak peek of what's planned & I LIKE IT!

I hope you can join us...

ok...time to head into the studio...

gotta make (LOTS of) art!

wendy

ps...the Blossom Bucket prize package, from the previous post,

 is still here...

if I don't hear from the winner by Monday @ 7am...

I'll ask Cindy to draw another winner...

stay tuned!