Ranger designer challenge in SOMERSET!

This made me yell...

YIPPEE!!

The September/October issue of Somerset arrived the other day & I quickly flipped thru after I ripped open the package.

I had completely forgotten about this...

Ranger challenged some designers to create a house for their CHA winter 09 booth display.

We were each given the same ingredients & we were asked to make the house in OUR style.

Our supplies were a 8 1/2 x 11 paper mache rectangle, a piece of chipboard and Claudine's sticky back canvas, multi medium and her cool studio paints.

The results were absolutely amazing & so different.

You'd never know that the basic ingredients were the same for each.

YIPPEE...it made Somerset!!

Here is tim's creation...totally awesome, just as you would expect!

And Claudine's is so whimsical...

that it just HAS to make you smile.

There are 5 other houses in the article...

they were done by Bernie Berlin ( a tribute to A PLACE TO BARK), Debbie Tlach...(hers is a LIT halloween haunted house, INCREDIBLE)

Jane Wynn, Amy Powers and Carla Sonheim.

Here's a photo of just a portion of the Ranger display.

I think there were about 25 or 30 houses??

The photography is great.

THANK YOU RANGER & SOMERSET!!

That was fun...

NOW...

Back to the questions...

I got this one twice yesterday...

Hi Wendy,
Love your grundgepaper flowers. I was wondering how you get the colors so vibrant. The grey seems to make mine very subdued. We need white grundgepaper!!

Reinking your distress pads is KEY. The other thing I do is I rub the blending tool into the pad instead of tapping it on the pad.

This puts more ink on the foam and makes it quicker & easier to ink the grunge.

You know me...I have NO patience...at all...

And there were 2 emails about not being able to find the replacement foam pads for blending tools.

I checked & found them here.

Thanks for your comments & emails about no facebooking & no twittering...

I'm happy to know I'm not alone...

That's it for today...

you know the drill...

make art! ...and have a GREAT weekend!

(GO BEARS!)

wendy