Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day!

just a quick hello...

I'm off on a road trip with my favorite sweetheart to celebrate Valentine's Day...

but I wanted to show you a fun product...
it's not new...
I've had it a long time, but just recently started playing with it again...


look how fabulous it is for art journal pages...

it's matte, but very rough & textured...but still flat & PERFECT...

I test drove it over a specialty stamping paper art journal page...
the background is the archival reinker background technique...

here's a link to a video showing the technique...





the embossing powder is really cool & adds so much interest to the background...

I'm discovering that  older products work well with art journals...
& I find myself using lots of older stamps too...
it's been fun...


this art journal page seemed appropriate for today...


NEW ARCHIVAL colors, combined with the first 6...




keep the candy...

I'd rather have this...


loads of no cal treats!


CHEERS! 

have a great day...
I hope it's full of LOVE and INK...

so you can...

make art!
wendy

26 comments:

  1. That looks awesome!! And yeah, no candy...just toys!!!

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  2. Oh yum! That is definitely better than chocolates!!

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  3. Wendy, I'm with you.....send me the products and no candy.
    stamping sue
    http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

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  4. Happy Valentine's Day to you and Rick!!! I hope you have a fab time out and about!!1 Your page is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. I hope you have a great Valentine's Day! Love that embossing powder, and now, since you've shown it on your blog, it will be sold out everywhere. LOL. Hey, the older stamps are great! I love them! (New ones are great too)

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  6. Happy Valentine's Day Wendy. Gorgeous pieces of art. I love the older stamps too. Enjoy your weekend. Tracy x

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  7. You know I am with you, forget the candy! I am getting paste for Valentines day! So happy!

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  8. Enjoy your day out with Rick! I'd prefer to have inky candy too :)

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  9. This is so much better than candy:-) Hope you had a great Valentines day. Awesome piece of art you made.

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  10. Hold the candy bring out the inks! Lovely technique with the Archival re-inkers.

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  11. Happy Valentine's Day yo you & Rick!

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  12. Love the look of that embossing powder. Yep, I'm with you. Save the candy & give me some crafty goodness instead.

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  13. Gorgeous projects!! And yes, that is definitely better than candy!! I hope you and your hubby have a very happy Valentine's Day :)

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  14. I just love your kind of candy too! The re-inker technique really does work so much better with the Speciality Stamping paper. Your journal pages are beautiful. Have a happy Valentine's weekend. Anne x

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  15. Happy Valentine's Day! Love the eye candy and the fabulous journal pages. EP and paste - a match made in heaven. Thanks for yet more inspiration. Jenny x

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  16. Happy Valentinesday! LOVEly new pages :-)

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  17. Wheee! I'd be happy with just a couple of bottles of reinkers! LOL
    Guess I'm stuck with my box of chocolates :D LOL

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  18. yeah ... that is a good treat ... but I like the chocolate too!
    Thanks for the inspiration!
    hope you enjoyed your trip!
    Sandra ltb

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  19. Weathered white EP ... Gotta remember that on my next Ranger order. Love it!

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  20. Just tried weathered white ep recently! Lovely journal page.

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  21. Beautiful journal page Wendy. Thanks for reminding me that I have 'weathered white'. Nicola x

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  22. Oh my!! Fabulous art work.... and a fabulous box of treats.... I hope you had a lovely road trip.

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  23. Thanks for inspiring me to get my Weathered White EP out! I really love the embossed checks with the archival ink. The piece you made with it is just fabulous. Hope you had a lovely Valentine's trip!

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  24. You can make such great backgrounds with stencils, pastes and embossing powders. I have some ideas now on using some of these things that have been sitting for awhile.

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  25. Love your gorgeous art page, simply stunning. Thanks for the inspiration!!}

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  26. Who needs candy when we've got that gorgeousness to drool over?? Such beautiful projects, I'm fascinated by how dimensional they look & yet they're flat - wonderful.

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