Garden Home!

May is finishing up and June starts tomoorow. Summer is finally here! The Stampendous Design Team has been sharing some of our "beachy" images the last few weeks, and this week the theme continues with "Yo, ho, Yo ho..." to finish off that fun theme.  I am so lucky to design samples for such a generous company that provides these great images to me! 

Today my design is stretching the theme a little bit, ok, a LOT, but that's what keeps things interesting! Imagine Tinkerbell, or one of her little fairy friends living in this adorable Garden Home (W164). I can just see them flitting around this little garden.

Supplies
Stampendous
CRW164 Cling Garden Home
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
ASCRS03 Industrial Set
CRH322 Cling Home Forever
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
Acrylic Handle

Plus
Bazzill Basics cardstock 
Neenah Papers Classic Linen Cover Red Pepper #80
Copic Sketch Markers - R29, Y13, Y21, YG0000, YG93, YG95, G99, N8, E31, E44, E53, YR24, B12, B16, B18, 100, T2, T3
Double-sided tape
Foam tape

Instructions

Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/4" piece of olive cardstock in half to form an A6 top fold card

Step 2:  Place one of the background patterns from the Industrial set on an acrylic handle, use Memento Rich Cocoa to ink the stamp and stamp on card front, repeat inking and stamping until the card front is completely stamped

Step 3:  Use the same stamp and ink to stamp a 4" x 4 7/8"  and a 1 3/4" x 2 1/4" piece of red cardstock

Step 4:  Stamp the Garden Home on a 3 3/4" x 4 5/8" piece of Mixed Media White Paper with Memento Tuxedo Black and color with Copic markers, edge with black

Step 5:  Adhere the Garden Home to the red mat then to the card front near the lower right corner

Step 6:  Stamp the Cling Home Forever saying on a 1 1/2" x 2" piece of Mixed Media White Paper with Memento Tuxedo Black, stamp the pattern from the Industrial set with Rich Cocoa over the saying, color with Copic markers, edge with black

Step 7:   Use foam tape to add the saying near the upper left edge of the card

The sweet sentiment, Home Forever (H322), is gone from the Stampendous website now, but you can probably still find it at your favorite retail store or online store!

For today's list of designers, go to the 

Stampendous Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise

Soaring Heart!

WOW! We have had a fun week! Stampendous is working with the wonderful products provided to us by DecoArt for our projects. Our two teams have been sharing ideas all week with our grand finale today! Thanks for all the great comments, they mean the world to me!

Of course there are Prizes!!!!! 
Comment to win one of three HUGE prize packages that includes Andy Skinner stamps and DecoArt Media™ Paint plus more!  US winners only, see Stampendous Official Contest Rules here for more details.

Want to see all that’s in each prize package? Take a look below:

Stampendous:
ASCRS07 Cling Handle with Care ASCRS08 Cling Skuldoggery ASCRS09 Cling Unexplained
DecoArt:
Quinacridone Magenta Cobalt Turquoise Hue Cobalt Teal Hue Primary Magenta Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide Paynes Gray Carbon Black Titanium White Prussian Blue Hue Phthalo Blue	Quinacridone Gold Diarylide Yellow Pyrrole Red Green Gold Primary Yellow Media Mister Titanium White Antiquing Cream Patina Antiquing Cream 8oz Bottle Lamp Black Americana Acrylic Pain

Today I've created a little canvas that combines stamps from Stampendous' Andy Skinner collection, along with paints and other products from DecoArt.

"Soaring Heart!"

Stampendous:

ASCRS07 AS Cling Handle With Card Set
ASCRS03 AS Cling Industrial Set
FREG023 Frantage aged silver embossing enamel

Plus:
4" x 4" x 1" Canvas
Chipboard
DecoArt White Gesso
DecoArt media Fluid Acrylics - Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, Quinacridone Gold, Green Gold, Pyrride Red, Paynes Grey, Titan Buff
DecoArt media Antiquing Cream
DecoArt media Liquid Glass
Archival Ink - Jet Black
VersaMark 
ZipDry
Black Foam Tape
Fine Point Black Pen
Heat Tool

Instructions:

Step 1:  Paint a coat of DecoArt White Gesso over the canvas, and a piece of chipboard let dry
Step 2:  Paint the canvas and chipboard with the fluid acrylics and let dry thoroughly (or use a heat tool)

Step 3: Stamp the Peeled Paint image from the Andy Skinner Industrial set randomly on the canvas with Archival Jet Black ink, use a block behind the open part to get a better impression, heat set

Step 4:  Stamp the flying heart image on the chipboard piece with Archival Jet Black ink, heat set, cut out the image
Step 5: Cut some netting or mesh to fit behind the soaring heart image, it was too white, so I used some of the same paints to distress it a little, let dry

Some bottles I ordered one time came with this around them to prevent them from hitting together

I cut it open and stretched it out, fraying the edges a little, then painted it

Step 6:  Pat the upper left corner of the canvas with VersaMark, sprinkle with the aged silver embossing enamel, heat set
Step 7:  Pat around the edges of the soaring heart with VersaMark, sprinkle with the aged silver embossing enamel, heat set
Step 8:  Apply Liquid Glass to the heart area, let dry thoroughly, outline the heart with a fine line black pen

Notice that the heart isn't quite dry yet, but it was dry enough to work with it you are careful

Step 9: Determine the placement of the netting and soaring heart, use ZipDry to hold the netting in place, add a layer of foam tape to the back of the heart for more dimension, use more ZipDry to help hold the heart to the netting

Two of this week's canvases:

For a complete list of today's designers, see these blogs:

Stampendous Blog

DecoArt Blog

Happy Creating,
Louise