April Make ART Challenge - Re-Inkers

Welcome to the April Make ART Challenge!!  WooHoo!!!  We're so excited to have you with us today and to be celebrating all things Wendy Vecchi!!  

Let's recap the challenge rules:

• Our April challenge opens today and anyone can participate!  Just link a photo of your project (on your blog or gallery), using the Linky Tool, at the end of today's post.  (If posting from your blog, please only insert the URL of the specific challenge post, not just your blog title)
• The challenge ends on Thursday, April 30 at midnight (EST).
• A random winner will be selected from all of our participants and announced here on the blog on Friday, May 1.  You may enter multiple projects, however, your name will only be entered into the drawing once.
• Each month we will have a sponsor and the sponsor will award the prizes.
• You must use at least one Wendy Vecchi product in your project.

This month's sponsor is...Stampers Anonymous!  Stampers Anonymou will be awarding one winner, chosen from a random drawing, a selection of Wendy Vecchi products!

 And now on to the challenge!

....This month's challenge is to use RE-INKERS on your project....

Grab any of Wendy's Archival Re-Inkers, in all of those beautiful colors, and show us what you can do with them!  Create a background, color some embellishments, color your stamped imaged, ribbon, and more!  We can't wait to see what your projects!  Interested in Wendy's beautiful creation?  You can read more about how she creates her yummy re-inker backgrounds below..

Archival reinkers are GREAT, useful tools. Obviously, their main purpose is to reink your Archival pads. They are also perfect to color embossing pastes before spreading the paste thru a stencil. Use your Mix & Store Jars to make and store custom colors…mix right in the jar so there is no clean up & NO waste of the paste! The jars keep the paste fresh!

One of my most favorite techniques is to mix a drop of Archival reinker with plain rubbing alcohol on my craft sheet…this makes an awesome background EVERY time! (See photo above)

Use lots of alcohol if you’re working on a manila tag or art journal page…use less alcohol if you’re working on Specialty Stamping Paper. The difference is that the manila will soak up the fluid…the Specialty Stamping Paper will not absorb the fluid…it sits on top...and that's what helps to create the beautiful patterns.

An extra benefit of using rubbing alcohol is that it will NOT warp or bubble the manila tag or art journal page or specialty stamping paper page...

Another tip…make sure to start with just one drop of the reinker, since it is VERY concentrated & make sure to mix the reinker into the alcohol…

Here's another one of my favorite art journal pages created with the Archival Ink/Re-inker technique.  Enjoy!

Interested in sharing your ART?  We'd love to see what you create with Archival Re-Inkers! To share, just add your blog post (the specific post, please) link below.  Once your project is listed, you'll be entered into our drawing.  Thanks so much for playing along this month!

March Make ART Challenge Winner

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this month's Make ART challenge, where we focused on using some (or all) of Wendy's beautiful stencils.  Also, thank you to Simon Says Stamp for providing this month's prize of a $25 gift certificate!  Ya-hoo!  This month's random prize drawing winner is...

Stephanie

Stephanie did a great job showing off one of my favorite stencils...Layered Tree.  And love how she added bits of design from a number of other stencils.  Thanks for playing along, Stephanie!  To redeem your prize, please email Kim at kim@eclecticpaperie.com.

Stay tuned for the April challenge, which will be announced on Thursday, April 2.

March Make ART Challenge - Stencils

Welcome to the March Make ART Challenge!!  WooHoo!!!  We're so excited to have you with us today and to be celebrating all things Wendy Vecchi!!  

Let's recap the challenge rules:

• Our March challenge opens today and anyone can participate!  Just link a photo of your project (on your blog or gallery), using the Linky Tool, at the end of today's post.  (If posting from your blog, please only insert the URL of the specific challenge post, not just your blog title)
• The challenge ends on Thursday, March 26 at midnight (EST).
• A random winner will be selected from all of our participants and announced here on the blog on Friday, March 27.  You may enter multiple projects, however, your name will only be entered into the drawing once.
• Each month we will have a sponsor and the sponsor will award the prizes.
• You must use at least one Wendy Vecchi product in your project.

This month's sponsor is...Simon Says Stamp!  Simon Says Stamp will be awarding one winner, chosen from a random drawing, a $25 gift certificate to their online store!

 

 And now on to the challenge!

....This month's challenge is to use STENCILS on your project....

Wendy has plenty of stencils to choose from, and yes, you can use Wendy's SiSi (Stamp It, Stencil It) products as well. The hardest part is going to be choosing which product(s) to use!  Wendy's beautiful project, shown above, uses FIVE stencils!  You can read more about Wendy's project on her blog.

Also shown with today's challenge, a beautiful creation from May Flaum, design team member for Simon Says Stamp.  May used Wendy's Three Fresh Flowers stencil on this project.  See more of May's artwork on her blog.  

Thanks so much for visiting and we look forward to seeing your ART! 

February Make ART Challenge Winner

It's been another art-filled month on the Make ART Challenge blog and we have been delighted with all of the beautiful projects that have been shared.  THANK YOU!!

This month's random drawing winner is...

Gabrielle

Gabrielle - Thank you for sharing your delightful art journal pages...Love them!  You've won a $25 gift certificate from The Funkie Junkie Boutique! (Think of all the Wendy's goodies you can get!)  Please contact me at kim@eclecticpaperie.com to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated and please feel free to share your artwork on Wendy's Make Art Facebook page.

Our next challenge will be posted on Thursday, March 5, 2015.

February Make ART Challenge - Hearts

Welcome to February's Make ART Challenge!!  WooHoo!!!  We're so excited to have you with us today and to be celebrating all things Wendy Vecchi!!  

Let's recap the challenge rules:

•  Our February challenge opens today and anyone can participate!  Just link a photo of your project (on your blog or gallery), using the Linky Tool, at the end of today's post.  (If posting from your blog, please only insert the URL of the specific challenge post, not just your blog title)
• The challenge ends on Thursday, February 26 at midnight (EST).
• A random winner will be selected from all of our participants and announced before our next challenge (beginning on Thursday, March 5.  You may enter multiple projects, however, your name will only be entered into the drawing once.
• Each month we will have a sponsor and the sponsor will award the prizes.
• You must use at least one Wendy Vecchi product in your project.

This month's sponsor is...The Funkie Junkie Boutique!  The Funkie Junkie will be awarding one winner, chosen from a random drawing, a $25 gift certificate to their online store!

And now on to the challange!

....This month's challenge is to use HEARTS on your project....

Wendy has plenty of heart products that you can use on your project...stencils, stamps, and embellishments...take your pick!  Wendy's project, shown at the beginning of today's post, features her new Splattered Plaster technique!  You can read more about her project and the plaster technique on her blog.

Also shown with today's challenge, a beautiful creation from Sue Carrington, design team member for The Funkie Junkie.  See more of Sue's wall hanging on her blog.  

Thanks so much for visiting and we look forward to seeing your ART! 

Embossing Paste Challange Winner

Wow!  What an amazing start to our Make Art challenges!  A great big THANK YOU to everyone that participated in the challenge!  It was a delight to see all of your beautiful creations; thank you so much for sharing your artwork.

The winner of our random drawing is...

Tanja

Tanja - You've won a prize package from eclectic Paperie!  Please contact me at kim@eclecticpaperie.com to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated and please feel free to share your artwork on Wendy's Make Art Facebook page.

Our next challenge will be posted on Thursday, February 5, 2015. 

Make ART Challenge #1 - Embossing Paste

Welcome to the very first Make ART Challenge!!  WooHoo!!!  We're so excited to have you with us today and to be celebrating all things Wendy Vecchi!!  Today we're talking about embossing paste and Wendy has a beautiful project to share with you, which features....NEW products!  Even more exciting!!  Before I talk about Wendy's project, I want to recap the challenge rules:

•  Our challenge opens today and anyone can participate!  Just link a photo of your project (on your blog or gallery), using the Linky Tool, at the end of today's post.  (If posting from your blog, please only insert the URL of the specific challenge post, not just your blog title)
• The challenge ends on Thursday, January 29 at midnight (EST).
• A random winner will be selected from all of our participants and announced before our next challenge (beginning on Thursday, February 5.  You may enter multiple projects, however, your name will only be entered into the drawing once.
• Each month we will have a sponsor and the sponsor will award the prizes.
• You must use at least one Wendy Vecchi product in your project.

This month's sponsor is...eclectic Paperie!  eP will be awarding a product prize of the Ornate Dots Overlay stencil, Ornate Dots Background Stamp, and the Floral Frame Stamp It, Stencil It!

....This month's challenge is to use EMBOSSING PASTE on your project.... 

Now on with Wendy's project!!

Wendy is demonstrating a new technique with today's project...FAUX GILDED art parts!  This project shows how to alter one of Wendy's stencil binders.

To start, lay the NEW spotlight frame mask (the solid piece) on the cover & use your finger to spread a very thin layer of gold embossing paste over most of the showing cover…but leave the art parts edges unpasted.

Allow paste to dry…

With the mask in place, add Potting Soil to the cover, using a blending tool…the edges will be darker & more vintage.

With the mask still in place, use the NEW small filigree stamp with watering can & stamp randomly over the cover.

Apply silver embossing paste thru the NEW Alphabets Stencil (I'm giddy over this one!!) in 3 random areas.

With the stencil in place, (the stencil has the opening) ...it’s easy to ink just the center & add some stenciling (NEW Vintage Quilt stencil) to only the center.

Spread a thin layer of silver paste on the craft sheet…tap the Polka Dot stamp into the paste & add random stamped embossing paste dots. CLEAN the paste from the stamp before it dries!

Here's a closer look...sooo pretty!!  (Can't wait to see those new products!!)

PS - This photo is showing the NEW Mat Minis Flower Pot & Magic Mat die cut embossed flowers!! (These products will be available at eclectic Paperie and other online retailers soon...)

For a tiny bit more inspiration...here's my project for this month's challenge.  Yeah...so much fun!!  Details on my blog.  Scroll down for the Linky Tool...simply click and add the URL to your project!!  ENJOY!!