Grunge goes Pretty - CC2C Challenge 14

Hello Peeps

Tonight I am sharing with you my piece for the Compendium of Curiosities II Challenge.  The Lovely Linda asked us to turn to page 39 of Vol 2 of Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities book and follow the instructions which involve glassine and alcohol inks.  I cannot share the technique with you so you will have to purchase the book!  This week the Challenge is sponsored by the lovely people at The Funky Junkie Boutique! There is a prize of $25 worth of goodies!

Here you can see where I have used the glassine, mixing it with pretty papers to make a flower to go on a box.

Some beading too, as well as some pearls around the scalloped circle.  

And here is what is going inside the box, to give to my Quilting Group as a raffle prize for our Annual Summer Hope Lunch.  I have been making raffle prizes for a few years now and usually my raffle prize goes first.  Let us hope this prize goes down well with the Group.

Don't forget you have time to join in the Challenge as it doesn't close until Thursday.  

Thanks for looking and please leave me a comment so I know you have been. 

See you all soon.

Hettie

GM32 - Tag 7 - Watch the Birdie!!

Hello Peeps

I have just realised that this is my 150th post!  Woo Hoo!  Who would have thought I had enough stuff to talk about in 150 posts?  And who would have thought that in those 150 posts I would have 60 Followers - 60 people daft enough to want to read what I put on this Blog?  Thank you to each and every one of you for following me as I know if it wasn't for you I would not have kept this blog going.  THANK YOU!!

Tonight's post is to show you my lickle tag which I made as my Gungy Monday piece with the lovely Linda!  Grungy Monday 32 and I don't think I have missed one.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

Now this week, the lovely Linda has asked us to make a Tag using one of the lovely Tags that the wonderful T!m made in his Twelve Tags of Christmas 2011!!  But with a twist.  It is not to be a Christmas tag! 

This week Simon Says Stamp is sponsoring this week's Challenge and if you have not bought anything from Simon Says Stamp you really should pop over there as in my opinion they have the best selection of stamps and other stuff available for crafting. I can even say that the post is worth paying as the selection and the speed of arrival is great!

I have chosen Tag 7.  When I watched T!m using the Kraft Glassine I just knew I had to have a go and after Christmas I ordered a pad of the Glassine which arrived last week.  Thanks Linda for giving me the perfect opportunity of using it...

Well, I couldn't order the Glassine without any other "essentials" now could I?  I also ordered the Christmas stamp set which I have been wanting ever since I used Hels' text stamp (it has been used on this tag honest), as well as some more Distress Stains, two of which (Frayed Burlap and Chipped Sapphire) were the main colours on this tag.  Other colours of ink I used were Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo.

I am afraid that on every attempt to take a photo of the flower, the camera flashed but it does show just how much reflection you can get off the Glassine once you have used the alcohol inks on there.  Here I used Denim and Silver along with blending solution, and once I crinkled the flowers, I used Faded Jeans in the crinkles and a Laura Ashley brad.

The Post Card stamp is from the Christmas stamp set and the Photographer's stamp is from another of Tim's sets both using Archival ink .  A little dictionary paper behind the Glassine just to pick out the edges of the paper and some film strip.  The little birdie charm I got out of my box and wired and then I coloured some seam binding with the Distress Stains.  Distressed the edges using Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo.

Now don't forget to pop over to Linda's blog to see some of the other pieces which people have made and of course, why not pop over to the Wonderful T!m's blog for even more inspiration and ideas.  At the moment you can have a sneak preview of some of the new products being released at CHA too!  Boy my visa card/Paypal are going to be warm when they come over to the UK!

TTFN and thanks for reading my post.

Hettie