DENIED!!

Over at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo! Group, the current challenge is to make some HUMOROUS ART.  You know, funny stuff.  Gut splitting.  Laugh till milk comes out your nose.  That kind of funny.  Using at least one of Wendy's stamps.  Now, her recent releases have some pretty funny sayings on them, I think!

Being a number cruncher myself, in real life, an idea popped into my head, and here's the result:

LOL!  I had a great time making this.

Meet George, a stuffy IRS agent. He's saying my art is not tax deductible! WTH??  Can you imagine the audacity?

I had meant to grab some used adding machine tape from work, but of course, forgot as I was rushing out the door in my attempt to leave work as quickly as possible.  So, I just cut some copy paper, and remembered Wendy has a background stamp that is all numbers, and, voila! an adding machine tape.

All the stamps are Studio 490 of course.

The "DENIED" is from my awesome P-Touch labeler.  I freehanded the convo bubble. 

You might not find this a gut splitter, but come on, admit it, you at least chuckled a bit.

Thanks for stopping by, if you have any questions on how I did something, just email me or ask in a comment, and I'll get back to you..

Have a great weekend!

Fun with Stamp and Die Cut!

I needed to make a card.
Er, wasn't that the whole point of this paper, ink, and stamp thing to begin with?  I vaguely remember that.  I was going to save money by making my own cards. Yeah, that's it.

I had purchased this....

a while ago, and said to myself, "that's it, I'm getting this out of the package, TODAY, dag nab it."  I'm not sure if those were my exact words.  The only one around to witness it was Rocky, and he's not talkin'.
Anyhoo, I started fiddling around with this, one thing led to another, you know how it goes, and I ended up making a few more cards than the original ONE I was intending to make.  I'm no Jennifer McGuire or Shari Carroll, but I think they turned out pretty good.  Let's just say that any future recipients will probably like them.  I left an area on some of them blank so I can make the greeting fit the occasion at any given moment.  Now, I know I'm not supposed to critique my work, but I've listed some of my OBSERVATIONS about each card under the picture. You can agree or disagree with me, I really don't care, but I'm filing these in some small part of my memory that might be left, for future reference.

Placement - ok. Colors - good. Should have left color off of edge.

I really like this embossed background. Placement - so so, not the best. Colors - good

LOVE the paisley background. Placement-really good. The middle of the big flowers are dimensional, you just can't tell. I think this might be my fave.

Note-do not use the swirl embossing with these die cuts. Too much swirly crap going on. Placement - good, colors - love.

The inks I used were distress inks, of course.  Quite frankly, I don't know why I have any other ink pads, I use these almost exclusively anymore. Although I still like the Adirondack Earthtones.  Need to use them more.  So, there you have it, it was nice just to get stuff out and play around.  Note to self - do more of that. lol. Hope you had a good weekend, and I'll catch you later!
Thanks for stopping by!

So sorry....

..that I haven't been around.  I can't really explain it nor excuse it. I just haven't been into making anything or checking cyber world for anything new.  Burn out, perhaps.  I think I just needed a little break.  At any rate, that doesn't mean I wasn't thinking of you all, I really was. I just couldn't make myself get online once I was home from work. Well, enough of that.

So, we're back into challenges on the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group....I just listed the first one of this year today, and I actually made something for it ahead of time. gasp!  I decided I still wanted to try some of the techniques Tim had featured during the 12 tags of Christmas, only Wendified, so the challenge for the next two weeks is from Tag #2.... kraft resist, picket fence stain, and some sticky back canvas.  Here's what I came up with:

Another one, I just used different stamps in the background:

I don't normally have kraft paper around (I know, I'm behind the times. I'm trying not to buy more paper.... much) but I did break down and buy Tim's kraft resist pad when it was half price somewhere. And, not wanting to use Tim's design for a Wendy card, I just took a page and used the plain back side. Yes, clever wasn't it? snort

Then I just chose some Wendy stamps and stamped in black archival. Dried thoroughly, and stamped two stamps and clear embossed them, hence, the resist part.

I used sticky back canvas to stamp and cut out the flower, the scroll design is also SBC, I just used a Sizzix die.  Colored the SBC with distress stains, dried thoroughly. Some enamel accents, for, ah, accents. Ta da!

Actually, this was my second attempt at this... the first went into the garbage.  Here's a tip... don't overdo the background stamping, or the resist stamping. Trust me. Just pick a couple and go with it. Bolder stamps work better with the resist part, too.

So, there you have it!  It is a fun technique to try, I love what shade Pine Needles distress ink turns over the Picket Fence distress stain...a really cool shade of blue green. Love it.

Thanks for stopping by today!