Another guest artist! It's Dolly, from Canada...

Here's the eye candy I received yesterday from Dolly. She was the lucky winner of the drawing for some Hero Arts stamps a few weeks ago.

Read the story behind this layout...it's so SWEET!! WARNING...Grab a kleenex~

Hi Wendy!!

As promised I inked up the Hero Art stamps AS SOON as they came!! Here is one example of what I made with them. I will have more but I was so excited to get this completed I just had to share it with you since you were in a big part my inspiration on this! I went a little grunge crazy! Okay LOL I went alot grunge crazy.

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This is an important LO to me as it is the capturing of our baby's first heartbeat! So it had to be full of Ranger!! Ton's of grungeboard, stickles and ton's of distress inks. Of course you will find the new beautiful Hero Art stamps in there along with several other stamps. Also some Hero Art pearls that Shari sent along!!

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Thank you for all your inspiration with the 3D grunge I had a blast with this!! And I LOVE the stamps that Shari sent (the card she sent with the stamps was the best smelling card I have ever received! and it was just beautiful!!)

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Agree?? SWEET story??

Thanks Dolly, for sharing this with us. It looks absolutely WONDERFUL!! Baby congrats to you!!!

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Tomorrow...another MUST HAVE tool. It's fun & not expensive...works like a charm...

See you then.

wendy

Introducing guest artist...Cindy Borcherding!!

Grab a cup of coffee & take a few minutes to look @ these beauties created by Cindy. She was the winner of the LAYERS book, which was written by my friend Shari Carroll. Cindy took my Ranger distress ink techniques class @ For Keeps Sake, in St. Louis, Missouri last month. You'll see that she used techniques she learned in that class & combined them with the inspiration she got from Shari's book, to created some totally cool tag art.

You're in for a treat...

Here's the cute note that Cindy sent...

I received my book on Saturday and it's WONDERFUL!!!!! I was feelin' a serious urge to CREATE yesterday after lookin' through my new book and I am so, so happy with the tags I made that I wanted to share with you because I used all of the AWESOME techniques that YOU taught me as well as applying the 'layers' concept. The best part? I just had so much FUN playing with the techniques and layering and painting and getting down and dirty!!

This is the first tag that she created for her hubby... to celebrate their 12th anniversary. I LOVE it!



This is really cool too. She used the "weathered wood" technique, developed by t!m.

Here you'll notice my favorite "spritz & flick" technique, also developed by t!m. She combined it with some grungeboard (layering) for 2 tags that look great.


More layering... the tag on the right uses another technique called "distress ink wrinkled'. Spritz & flick is on the left. I think she likes that technique too!



Thanks so much for the inspiration Cindy! Take a bow for a job well done!

Have a wonderful ARTY weekend!!!
wendy

Phew.....what a weekend!

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING is the perfect name for this store...
It has...absolutely everything!!! I shopped & came home with some VERY fun finds. Stamps, books, papers & WAYYY cool ephemera. I can't wait to take some time to play.

I did 4 classes in 2 days & met lots of fun new arty friends. Kate even took the time to show me how to solder. YIPPEE...that was really a treat!

I took my camera & actually USED it this time. Here's a photo of some of the gals in the fragments class. Each brought their own paper scraps to use and each created a unique masterpiece! At the end of the class we had "show & tell" just to give everyone more inspiration. This class is PURE fun.




Here's shy KATE (and a few friends in the background). She's the store mom! She has THE CUTEST and sweetest dog in the whole world and a GREAT store too.



And, as per TRADITION...I made wall art for Kate's classroom. I wanted my art to stay with my style...and this is my creation. LOTS of grungy stuff, Maya Road chipboard letters & numbers, crackle paint, distress inks and dots. This was fun. The photo is NOT the best...the flowers are broken china...I hope you can get the idea...

Luckily, Robin saved me the perfect spot right next to her.



That's the short version of the story... This old art chick is TIRED!

THANKS KATE & staff for a wonderful weekend. Thanks to ALL who attended my classes. You guys are sooooooooo fun, sweet & talented. Once again...THANKS so much!

Hmmmm......I got invited to teach again in November. Tell me what kind of classes you'd like. I aim to please.

I'll be back tomorrow & we'll draw the winner we talked about last week. Leave a comment here & we'll add your name to the hat.

AND..make sure you come back....we'll have more guest artists this week. Now that email is working (for the moment) I got some scans from the gals who won the Stampers Anonymous drawing & Shari's Layers book.

You'll like what you see.............that's a promise!
wendy

From the bottom of my heart...

THANK YOU ALL!!!

WOW!!! What a fun weekend. Here's the stats...

There were 2383 visits to my blog. HOW!! COOOOOOL!

157 folks commented. A TON of personal emails... Hmmm...that tells me you like FREE stuff. (hint...keep reading...)

Thanks so much to Shari for the invite to participate on the new Hero Arts blog and to Aaron (Mr. Hero Arts) for his donation of the great blog prizes.

So...wondering who won??? Picture this...me scrolling thru the comments, from the bottom to the top......and Rick, with his back turned said...STOP. Pretty scientific huh??

These 3 cool stamps go to..............SCRAPTHAT...

Here's her comment...




Scrapthat said...
I just love your work! You inspired me to try the grunge flowers, and now I am headed out this afternoon to pick up a supply of blank Grungeboard!
Love love love all your work. The hero arts stamps would make great grunge flowers as you have proved and I solemnly swear to get them inky within moments should I be lucky enough to win them! LOL
Again thanks for always having great inspiration!
April 11, 2008 12:13 PM

edited @ 8:30 am...Hey...I already heard from a winner...she's from Coquitlam BC

Here's her note...I think she's excited.

Hi Wendy!!
I was so surprised when I opened your blog this morning (as I do every morning!) I popped in Tim's blog, then over to yours and I"M SO EXCITED!! I never win on blogs! I was just making some grunge flowers yesterday...thinking I need more flower stamps! What fun! And I do promise to ink them up immediately. I have wanted to thank you for some time for all the great inspiration you provide!

I will for sure send you a scan of the work I create with the stamps!!

Thanks again!!
Take care and I wish you inspiration galore!:0)
Dolly



And Layers will be going to live with... borcherding.

Here's her comment...


borcherding said...

Yet ANOTHER reason I am so happy that I bought those scalloped sheers - what a BEAUTIFUL card!!! (and the first one ain't too shabby either, LOL!!!) BOTH of them are just so pretty!!! Hmmmm....that Layers Idea book looks pretty amazing!!! And I always LOVE me some Hero Arts stamps!!!
April 11, 2008 7:11 AM

EDITED again! Ms. Borcherding just emailed me....
This make me laugh...here's her email...

HOLY FREAKIN' COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so doing the HAPPY HAPPY dance!!! Thank you Wendy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you see my comment?? hee hee.....

Oh, happy day!!!!!!!! I practically fell out of my chair when I saw my name and then after I typed my comment I went back to the post and couldn't find my name, thinking you WERE pulling my leg but I didn't scroll down enough. (I'm still in shock!!!))WOOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!! SO FREAKIN" HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got out my grungeboard this weekend and made a kick a** plaque thingy for an anniversary gift and if I do say so myself...it was pretty da** good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)


THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cindy Borcherding

CONGRATS to both winners...send me your address & I'll get them sent off to Shari. Then...just sit by your mailbox & wait for your packages to arrive!

SCRAPTHAT...we'd LOVE to see what you made with your new stamps. Send me a scan & I'll be happy to post it here. You can be the "guest artist".

And speaking of that...

Remember last month we gave away 4 Stampers Anonymous stamps?? Well, yesterday I got the first scan from one of the winners. WOOHOO! She used her stamp. Deborah Lewis will be the "guest artist" tomorrow.

Stay tuned...

Once again.....THANK YOU ALL for all the sweet comments. I appreciate them all!
wendy
ps...one more thing, just to see if you are still paying attention...... Let's keep the comments coming. Does anyone want the sheer scallop card I made??? Let me know...I'll give it away next MONDAY...it only takes a comment to win....

Just a little vintage photo...

makes me soooooooo happy! Vintage...it's the real me!!

5 stamps used on this guy. It's all about the layering.....

Hmmm...reminds me of a book by my friend Shari Carroll. Check it out if you haven't seen it. I've been bugging her for the sequel. Haven't seen it yet. But then again, I've been bugging Ginny for another Art Continuum...haven't seen that happen either! HA! Think these 2 friends will take this gentle hint??

Stay tuned..I'm enjoying this "card a day" stuff!

Back to my stamps. They listen.
Wendy