ePlay Challenge–Wood!

Welcome to the April ePlay Challenge. Our challenges are about encouraging you to explore your creative journey and inspiring you to step outside of your comfort zone.  When you submit your artwork, share a unique card, scrapbook or journal page, a canvas, home décor project, or anything that you’re excited to share!  We’re looking forward to crafting with you! One project will be chosen at the end of this month-long challenge and will be awarded a $25 shop voucher for the eclectic Paperie store. It just might be you!

Good morning!  Sherry here with you today and it’s my turn to host the ePlay Challenge this month, which is Wood!  I chose to alter a wood box, but wood could be anything from a small wood embellishment on the front of a card, a chunky ATC made from a scrap of 2x4, or an old cigar box.  The possibilities are endless!

While shopping in one of my favorite junk stores one day recently, I ran across a footed cedar box
very similar to the one below.

Of course, in my haste to get this project started, I failed to take a before picture of the box I actually used.  I can say, however, that the condition of the box was much the same as this one . . . mine did not have a latch on the front, but did have wood feet.

The box was painted with gesso first, then given a few coats of gray acrylic paint (inside and out).  Once thoroughly dry, the top and sides were skimmed with crackle embossing paste.  Another layer of gray paint was applied to the dried crackle embossing paste.

As a finishing touch to the crackle, linen acrylic paint was mixed with a staining and antiquing medium, which was applied and wiped off the gray finish.

The flowers are old Studio 490 Art Parts – Florals and Leaves, which were inked with Wendy Vecchi Signature Ranger Archival Inks in Dandelion, Cornflower Blue, Red Geranium and Fern Green.

Using backgrounds from some older Studio 490 sets, Optical Art, Art by the Number, It’s More Flower Art and Dimensional Rose Art, the Art Parts florals and leaves were stamped in Potting Soil.

As a final step, the box was sprayed with a workable fixative to set the antiquing as well as add a little shine to the Art Parts and finishes.

I hope you’ll play along with us this month and incorporate a bit of wood into your project.  If you do, please come back and link up your photo or blog post, using the linky tool below.




Project Supplies:

Liquitex Acrylic Gesso Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490 - Crackled Texture Paste Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Red Geranium Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Orange Blossom Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Potting Soil Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Cornflower Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Fern Green Splash of Color - Palette Knife

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"Love" always and forever

Hello friends! Giovana here today bringing you a cute card, haven't made for eP in awhile, so I decided to make an elegant and simple one for you.

Here are the details:

• Make your card base from White Cardstock. This one is A2 size.
• Take a piece of Tim Holtz Watercolor paper, mist your cardstock. Add bit of Distress Inks to a acrylic block or sheet, I used Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Broken China and Tumbled Glass. Spray acrylic block and add the ink to your cardstock with a water brush.
• After your watercolor piece dried, cut out panel to 3.75" x 5", then cut the bottom part.
• Stamp Fancy Florals background image on Vellum cardstock in Versamark ink, then add White Embossing powder and heat set.
• Die-cut a circle to you watercolor piece, cut a piece of the vellum piece and adhere it behind it. Add the circle from the watercolor panel behind the vellum.
• Create a circle window from Blue cardstock and adhere it to panel with dimensionals.
• Spray panel covering the vellum piece with Sunflower Sparkle Mist
• Add lace and copper shimmer twine, glue a blue Prima flower.
• Add sentiment using Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs

Close-up of the embossed image, check out the pretty Sunflower Sparkle Mist.

Close-up of the rub-on.

 

 

Hope you like it!

Have a fantastic day.

eTeam Picks Challenge - Recycling

 Hello everyone, Tracy here today and I am soooo excited to be hosting the eTeam Picks Challenge this month.

The theme that I have chosen this month is . . . 

Recycling
It can be anything from your craft stash to tin cans, book pages, paper bags . . . the list just goes on and on.
All I ask is that you have a blast, create and let your imagination run wild!
  { list of materials and links at the end of this post }

All the details for participating in the challenge are listed at the bottom of this post, so be sure to scroll through and check it out . . . plus you could win $15 to spend in the amazing eP store..woohoo!! 

 Sooooo what have I made?
As you all know Kim is opening a brick and mortar store . . . woohooohooo . . . I am so excited and wish I stayed closer, I would never be away, lol!
So with this in mind, I remembered I had a huuuge chunk of wood { 2ft tall } that I had picked up from the allotment over the summer that was drying out.
Why I hear you cry . . . because when I look at it, it reminded me of a tall house with a wonky tonky roof and I haaaaad to have it.
Being on the eclectic Paperie Team inspires me and pushes me to let my imagination go wild and this wonky tonky house is my take on Kim`s FABULOUS shop full of wonder and inspiration!

I started out cutting up some recycled cardboard into windows and a door, stripping the top layer off randomly and sticking in place with my glue gun.
Followed by Gesso all over . . . I would be lost without this stuff, I looove it!

 Next Embossing Paste along with a spatula to apply it through  stencil for a little more detail and texture.
The little metal fixing on the door came from my dolls house stash, yep I have a dolls house too,lol.

They were a tad too bright, so more Gesso was added and as I am sooo impatient I popped my heat tool on and I loooove how it bubbles up the Gesso.
You can see here that I had started to add color with Distress Stains in Fired Brick, I splodged some on my mat and applied with a brush.

 

After the Stain I pulled out my Pan Pastels and instead of applying with a Sofft Tool I used my fingers using Pans from Mixed Media sets 1 & 2 , adding and blending till I was happy and my fingers were colorful!

A little doodle doodle doo and a mixture of stamping, Rub Ons and a little German Glass Glitter was added.

I used a Sofft Tool and a Black Pan Pastel to go around the door to add some shadows and make it look like it had always been there.

 The windows . . .

 you can see the yummy texture of the wood along with the Embossing Paste Bricks now colored with Pan Pastels.

The Sentiment on all the windows are from

 Unity Stamp Co./ Donna Downey stamp set 

and have all been recycled from an old project as was the button.

The heartfelt creation words are from the back of Pink Paislee She Art Doily Rub On Packaging, nope I throw nothing away,lol!

A little Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs and Pink Paislee Doily Rub ons was added randomly to the windows as you will see below.

Do what makes you happy and paper, paint and memories . . .came from the recycled packaging. Ohhhh, that`s the brush I had ruined, it had became soooo hard and unuseable but hey it works great on here.

Ooops forgot to mention the background, I did use a Sofft Sponge to apply the Pan Pastels and to blend them together . .  I just kept applying colors until I was happy with the result. The sponges come in the Mixed Media sets.

 See the pretty paper strips . . . they are the borders from along 6x6 papers in the pads , a quick snip snip and a little Gel medium to fix in place . . .it`s amazing what you can use if you just look around your stash.

 Ahhhh now my roof, isn`t it deeelish!!!
If you have ever bought anything from the
 Pink Paislee Christy Tomlinson She Art Collection 
then you know how beautiful they are packaged and way too good to throw away.
My roof has been made from the back of the packaging . . . the same ones that I got some of the words from.
I stuck them to some more recycled cardboard to make it stronger before applying Gesso and a little Pan Pastel.

This is soooo mahoosive that it was real tricky to photograph . . .

. . . but I hope you get the gist of it all. 
I have been unwell since Friday night with a bad viral infection and sadly been unable to get out to my shed to finish the sides . . .
 I have a Tim Holtz little lantern that light ups and will be added on the side with a canopy to hide the battery.
I also want to add scraps of paper and a window or two along with a teeny tiny door for the wee fairy folk to enter . . . Yes . . . my imagination is still going while I lie here in my bed annoyed at being ill,lol!

Before I head off here is the information regarding the challenge -

The eTeam Picks Challenge is held on the third Thursday of each month and each challenge is an opportunity for you to be inspired by one of our eTeam’s creations and to be entered into our challenge prize drawing!

The eTeam Picks Challenge is all about inspiration and having fun!  During each challenge one of the eTeam members will share a topic, word, technique, sketch, or product that will become the foundation for your creation.  This challenge is all about mixing it up and just enjoying the creative process of feel free to share a journal page, card, scrapbook project, mini album….Anything goes!  We want to see your work and hear about your inspiration!   

All of those who play along with our challenge will be entered into a prize drawing for a $15.00 gift certificate to the eclectic Paperie store.

So grab your supplies and play along! 

 Here are a few things to keep in mind for this challenge…

 -You do not have to use products sold in the eP store…but we do love it when you do!

-Share a direct link to your creation, not just your blog, using the Linky Tools feature at the end of this post.  If, for any reason, the Linky Tools doesn’t cooperate, please add a link in the Comments section of the blog.

-When uploading to any online galleries, please use any of the following keywords; eP, eclectic Paperie or eTeam Pick Challenge.  Link your creations to the eP blog.

-If you’d like to be considered as one of our featured projects and be entered into our prize drawing, please be sure to add your link no later than 6pm EST on Thursday  September 26th.

I hope you enjoyed my looooong post today and thank you for looking.

We can`t wait to see what you all create!!! 

Happy Crafting

List of materials recycled and from the eP Store
just click on thee links below -
Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso
Unity Stamp Co. / Donna Downey - Art and Possibility Set
My very first Wendy Vecchi Stamp Set - Kim has loads to pick from Here
Unity Stamp Co. She Script Stamp
Pan Pastels Mixed Media sets 1 & 2
Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste white
Faber Castell Gel Medium
Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs Words , Elements
Pink Paislee She Art Christy Tomlinson Doily Rub ons
Stencil - check out the shop to see some amazing designs
Tim Holtz Distress Stain Fired Brick

an old cardboard box to make windows and doors of course
Packaging that I have been hoarding because it was way too pretty to bin
an old paintbrush that I had ruined but just had to keep
an old button
the borders from the tops of 6x6 paper pads . . . no I throw nothing away,lol

Love doesn`t need to be perfect with Wendy Vecchi Stamps . . .

 Hello everyone, it`s Tracy here today and I am sooo excited to be sharing a little project I popped together using an off cut of wood along with the most

DEEELISH set of stamps by Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 . . . 

. . . aren`t they the most swoon worthy stamps you have ever seen . . .I looove them!! 

I have sooo many ideas popping out my head from wedding invites, save the date . . . I could go on and on and on . . . 

But I better get on with my post for now,lol!

 Soooo, I started with a chunk of wood and gave it a quick once over with

 Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Paint 

before getting out my Pan Pastels to add a little touch of color.

Don`t be scared to get messy with Pan Pastels, if something doesn`t look right just keep on adding until your happy with the effect . . . I know I`m getting it when I get a tingle in my tummy,lol!

Time to ink up the stamp with an Archival ink pad and get stamping.

 Have I mentioned how much I love this stamp . . . 

Soooo, next I used a combination of 

Tim Holtz Distress Stains along with watercolor paints and Pan Pastels before adding a little doodling along the way.

 I do like to doodle doodle doo . . . 

 I stamped out two of the sentiments from the stamp set, snipped it up and fixed in place.

Okay here is a wee look into my madness . . .

So, as I was sitting in my shed swooning over the stamps and trying to choose a chunk of wood out the pile

in the corner, this sentiment 

LOVE doesn`t need to be perfect . . .

but what it does need to be is TRUE 

picked the chunk of wood itself . . . oh yes it did, how?

Well like love, creating doesn`t have to be perfect and if you look at the wood you will see it`s all rough and it has a big old crack running down the middle and then my tummy got that tingle and that was that!!!

 A quick sprinkle with clear embossing powder . . .

 . . . and a little metal buckle I found down in the deep dark depths of long forgotten stash and I was done.

All that`s left to say is . . .

Thank you all very much for taking the time to look

Have a great weekend whatever you are up too

Till next time

Tracy

xoxox

Materials from the eP Store, Just click on the links -

Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 - Lovely Art Stamp Set

Pan Pastels Mixed Media set 1

Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Picket Fence

 Tim Holtz Distress Stains - Fired Brick, Weatherd Wood, Broken China

Archival Ink - Jet Black Ink Pad