4 flower photos for you...

OK...back to the "my collections" book. I HAD to have a spread dedicated to...FLOWERS! These tiny butterflies are Maya Road stamps, that I stamped on a plain sheet of grungeboard, cut them out & formed them to make them dimensional. I like the look because they are so small...

On to page 2........


Here's a closeup of the large flower. It has a rough texture due to the distress embossing powder. A little grungeboard & a ribbon slide finished it off. Once again...that ribbon slide looked like a flower center to me.



And here are the others with a little crackle paint and some Stickles ( cinnamon) added to the trinkets blossoms.


Michelle will be back home today...we'll see what she thinks about sneak peeks of studio 490 stamps...Anyone interested in seeing them??
Talk to me...or...BEG Michelle! ha!!
wendy

Darkroom Door cards...

I was asked by my Aussie friend, Rachel Greig, to design a few cards using stamps from Darkroom Door. Rachel makes great stamps that come in a very cool storage tin, along with some other COOL products, made from her wonderful photos. You can shop here.

I actually stopped @ simple with this card. Normally if there is an 1/8th of an inch that's naked...I HAVE to cover it. But, I really like the simplicity of these stamps. They didn't need much...just a little faded jeans and some peeled paint...



I showed this peek before, but the whole card is posted on Rachel's blog today. This tulip was perfect to stamp on grungeboard.



Check out the Darkroom Door here...there are complete instructions for making both cards.

The report from Rachel is that business is booming & stamps are flying out the door. I'm NOT one bit surprised!

CONGRATS to Rachel & Stew!!
Here's to continued SUCCESS!
CHEERS!
wendy

I REALLY do...

HATE BUGS!

One of my CHA assignments for Maya Road is the suitcase binder album. This is a fun size...it's about 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 and it has 8 pages.

My title is "garden journal" and this is one of my favorite pages. Pretty simple...chipboard, vintage photo & black, but it gets my message across. The bugs are by Jolee's & I added a tiny bit of Glossy Accents to make them more noticable.

I can't show the cover yet...there are some "secret" products on there, but here's a tiny little peek. This thing is loaded with embellishments and dimension. Just what I LOVE!

Happy arting!

wendy

From the "my collections" book...

the page opposite the other face page I posted earlier.

If you look @ the flower on her face...notice that you can cut a few petals off the chipboard flowers, for a different look. I liked the flower, but didn't want to cover her eyes.

No time for chit-chat today...

Off to studio490...the TO-DO list is still really LONGGGGGGGG...

Enjoy your weekend! Get inky!

wendy

A GOOD report and a CHA project peek...

We just got back from the eye surgeon & Rick is released back to NORMAL life! YIPPEE. There's only one small issue...the pressure is still a little high in his eye, so we'll get that rechecked again in a month. He is like a kid @ Christmas, just wanting his horses back home. I'm happy that he can resume his hubby duties & help me again with the wife stuff too, since these next few weeks are VERY busy here.

So...if you ever have major eye problems, we highly recommend DR. PETE LAGOUROS, from the Illinois Eye Institute, in Peoria, Illinois. I told him I'd give him a plug on my blog. GREAT guy, who did an excellent job for Rick!

Back to the business of art...

Here's what the whole large layer book looks like. This is one of my assignments for Maya Road, for display in their CHA booth. This is my favorite project...so far.



And here's a look @ the cover. I used Ranger's black crackle paint on Maya Road's chipboard letters & numbers. Then after it was dry & cracked, I inserted tim's tonic pick into the crackle & pried some off down to the chipboard. Then I added a big dose of vintage photo distress ink to make it look like old rusty metal.
FUN STUFF!


Ok...break is over. Time for some arting.
Have a GREAT weekend!
wendy

Collections and rainbows...

Thanks for the comments on yesterdays peek.

Here's a BIG peek from the same book. It's Maya Road's large layer book & the title I used is "My Collections". Besides collecting face stamps, I love alphabets of all sorts, including chipboard & stamps. More on that tomorrow...



Yesterday I got 3 projects done using studio490 stamps! I had so much FUN!!!!

I mean...

I got lots of WORK done...(whatever)...

And this makes me laugh...I posted a studio490 stamp peek a few days ago & not one single person caught it! ha!!! Gotta pay attention...you never know when there will be a quiz!

You just know it's going to be a good day when you wake up to this...

Happy Thursday!
Make it count!
wendy

It's official...

CERTIFIED RANGER EDUCATOR!!! Yippee!

What a fun fun weekend. I'm embarrassed to say that I took my camera, but failed to use it. My excuse??? TOO busy learning & laughing. My roomie ( Dyan Reaveley) was from the UK and she was an absolute riot. She had me laughing from 5am 'til midnight every day.

Special thanks to the Ranger FAMILY...Alain, Justin, t!m, Patti, Mario, Claudine and Suze for the wonderful experience. Ranger treated us like royalty and they are an extremely GENEROUS company, as evidenced by the fact that I was over the weight limit coming home. That suitcase was LOADED with Ranger goodies. We even got NEW UNRELEASED products...but my lips are SEALED! Check out the booth @ CHA next month. I'll give you a hint...AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! You'll LOVE them all...FOR SURE!

We even got a bottle of Stickles right off the production line. That is such a thrill. The factory tour is just SOOOOOOOOO COOL!

We learned melt art from Suze...got to use Claudine's new products & we had t!m teaching us for 2 full days. Life is GOOD!

I got to meet some new friends that I'll get to see soon @ CHA. Hi to Sharon, Kim, Keychain& Pearl. What sweethearts they are!

Ok...here's a little sneak peek of a Maya Road project for CHA.



I created an inchie! Shari Carrol was @ Ranger U too & asked some of us to do an inchie. I had NO CLUE what she was talking about. But...let me tell you...these things are REALLY fun. At first I thought it was way too small to do much with. But, I got 3 stamps on that baby. Check it out on the Hero Arts blog.

Time to work on getting my CHA LIST done.
Enjoy your day!
wendy