HUGE congrats to LADY DY...

she's celebrating her store's 10th birthday!

her store is ...Art From The Heart...

Lady Dy is my counterpart across the pond...

she is Ranger's senior educator in the UK...

her style is quirky & eclectic...

it's REALLY OUT of the BOX...

and actually,

I'm quite certain that Dy doesn't even know

that there IS a BOX! LOL!

LOVE YOU DY!

Want to know more about the celebration?

then head over to Dyan's blog for all the juicy details...

to Celebration, Dyan is having 5 birthday blog hops.

You should have reached my blog from

Dina's blog...

and you are on the RANGER blog hop

inspired by Dy,

I challenged myself to come up with something unexpected & a little out of that box...

it's a new fun way to use some art parts...

here's my result...

look closely & you'll see that I used some art parts wings

and an art parts mustache to create this flower...

tada...

turned upside down & stained green...

the mustache looks like it belongs on the flower!

if you'd like to play along...

grab a beverage, your craft sheet & let's get inky...

use tea dye distress stain to ink both pieces of the large art parts flower pot...

dry...

tea dye stain used on art parts looks like vintage terra cotta...

I LOVE IT!

use peeled paint distress stain to ink

the mustache & the stem...

dry...

ink a pair of small art part wings &

a medium pair too,

using tumbled glass distress stain & dry...

I applied a second layer on the larger wings to make them a bit darker, since they are in the background...

add shading to the flower pot with rusty hinge,

using the blending tool...

use the blending tool with walnut stain to add shading to the right side & right lower corner of the flower pot...

and add a tiny bit of that walnut stain, to accent the wing tips...

use sepia archival to stamp

the lace background over both flower pot pieces...

dry...

the flower pot should look like this...

use olive archival to stamp the background over the mustache & the art parts stem/leaves...

dry...

use french ultramarine archival to stamp

the screen background over the larger pair of wings...

dry...

use french ultramarine to stamp the polka dot border over the smaller pair of wings...

dry...

paint a small wood block with the black paint dabber & glue to the back of the flower pot, about 1/8th of an inch from the bottom of the flower pot...

this creates a nice base & allows the flower pot to stand...

using grungeboard, die cut a label from

tim's bookplate die & use just the rectangle center piece...

ink with broken china distress stain &

edge with the gold paint dabber...

dry...

use jet black archival to stamp "make art"...

dry...

add some shading with walnut stain...

then glue to a memo pin...(I trimmed a bit off the end)

glue the flower pot pieces together...

assemble the flower as shown in the photo below...

I "swiped" some flower stamens from a silk flower & glued them

in the center of the flower...

thread a button with coordinating thread & glue to the mustache as shown...

add a small gingham bow to the stem...

glue the stem to the back of the flower pot...

add the memo pin saying...

the finished piece will look like this...

mine is displayed on a shelf & it's standing on 2 vintage shut off valves...

kind of reminds me of a venus fly trap... LOL!

***Before you move on -***

you will need to collect a letter from me which is I

This is part of an anagram of a RANGER product

Once you get back to Dys blog,

please email your answer to Ben.

So after leaving me a comment, you will want to move on to

Georgina...her blog is here...

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and that you are inspired to...

think outside the box and then...

make art!

wendy

ps... I almost forgot...

one random commenter will win little "something" from me...

good luck to all!

I played and made this, shopping alert & other random news

I have been drooling over this one lonely flower since the day it arrived about 6 weeks ago. I only got one of the "jewel ribbon blossoms" in my Maya Road goodie box and it was making me crazy trying to find just the right spot for it. Yesterday I decided to actually USE it & not hoard it, just so I could admire it. This is by far THE COOLEST/classiest ribbon flower on the market. Trust me...I do know flowers!



I started by swiping a sheer round scallop page with a Peach Bellini dabber. How cool is that name? Sounds like a dessert & makes me want a huge bowl...anyway...back on track.....

Once again...more of the trinkets elements metal flowers and blossoms, scrolls from the Vineyard tin, and the stamp is from my friend Rachel Greig. I got that baby and the one on the back, personally delivered @ CHA last summer. The background is one of my most favorite/most used Stampers Anonymous stamps...newspaper scraps # U2-943. LOVE it!

I used a journaling piece from K & Co as the base for the thanks stamp.

Here's the back. The number border stamp on the bottom is also from Rachel. The stamped round chipboard is from the Maya Road foundations tin.



Now here's what you REALLY need to see...a closeup of this jewel ribbon blossom. Do you agree?? TO DIE FOR BEAUTIFUL??





Now for the random news.......

I just tracked my box of CHA samples...MEMPHIS?? WHAT??? That's the wrong way, Mr Fed-Ex...California is WEST! SCARRY!!

I talked to ART GODDESS Robin Beam the other day & got this Ranger CHA scoop...

They are coming out with a new pigment ink! Adirondack Pigment Ink Stamp Pads will start out with the coordinating Lights/Brights/Earthtones for the following colors: Cranberry/TerraCotta/Butterscotch/Bottle/Denim/Eggplant/Pitch Black & SnowCap. She loves them & told me they are perfect on chipboard. You apply them with the same Inkssentials blending tool that's used for the distress inks. Definitely added to my shopping list.

Ranger will also be selling an Inkssentials Craft Spinner, which will hold eight of the Inkssentials Blending Tools and tidy up your work space. CHECK... on my shopping list too. I like tidy.

Check out Robin's blog to see what cool things she's doing...

HERE IT COMES......................

*** SHOPPING ALERT***



*** SHOPPING ALERT***

If I haven't given you enough ideas for spending your $$, here's another. I have no affiliation, nor do I know her...but I LOVE this book. TONS of eye candy. You can find it here. It's well worth your $$.


5 days 'til I head WEST...yikes...still have plenty to do.
I better get going on more business cards.


I hope you've enjoyed these samples & that they inspire you. Use them as a starting point, add your style and...

MAKE ART!
Wendy