Hello there ... What a fabulous job you all made of last week's challenge ... Don't forget to watch out for Wednesday when the winners will be announced! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show some Metal! If you want to join in ... all you need to do is ... Interpret the theme any way you choose then come back here and link up so we can all see what you made! The challenge will close next Sunday at Midnight ... to get you on your way ... here is some more inspiration from the Design Team ...
After submitting an entirely metal piece for last week's challenge, Dan decided to take a different route this week - stitching on his project with copper wire and creating a custom embellishment. Needless to say, lots of other metal managed to find it's way onto the project too! Dan used lots of
Tim Holtz stamps and
Distress ink pads!
Lynne mixed things up... she used
Alcohol Inks on the fabric and
Dimensional Pearls on the metal and she said she loved the end result. She also created some inchies from
Ten Seconds Studio Metal, which she placed in the background. She ran them through various
Texture Fades and coloured with Alcohol Ink. Finally the edges of the paper were run through the
Distrezz-It-All for the finishing look!
Nancy said she loved this challenge as it got her working with
Ten Seconds Studio metals again. She used a
7 Gypsies 4x4 mini-book to create the cover and pages. Added
Tim Holtz Idea-ology and then decorated the inside with the new 7 Gypsies Conservatory Collection using the 8x8 for the pages and the 6x6 pad for the embellishments. Did you know that you can run some of the Ten Seconds Studio molds through your
Big Shot?
Katie said "I wanted to alter this little notebook very simply, so covered the book in some K+Co paper, used
Distress Inks to make a sky-effect on some plain cardstock and used a
Hero Arts stamp for the background. I picked out some of the details with
Copics and then clear embossed the entire panel a few times with
UTEE. I then added a metal frame and some letters and ribbons to complete the design."
A few things inspired Kim's piece, she had some metal vintage clock work bits which reminded her of mechanics; Tim Burton's film Nine and the whole Steampunk genre. So she tried to create faux metal with scraps, yes all the
grungepaper scraps from die cutting... pieces form
Caged bird die has some fabulous negative shapes, as does the
elegant flourishes and there's a piece from the centre of
heart wings. Kim has used some of
Wendy's Art Parts... she even adhered a scrap of diet coke can! The front frame is inked with
Distress inks, she has attached a few
mini fastener's and sanded all the edges to give an aged metal look. After adhering each piece with faux rivets and
holes she brushed on a little
gold and
copper perfect pearls. Then attached a
metal corner and
D ring to hang!
Lori found a cool shadowbox frame at her local big box craft store in the clearance aisle, all because it had a few dings and the glass was broken. She removed the broken glass, and replaced it with a piece of chipboard covered with
Ten Seconds Studio metal embossed with their
molds, molding paste, some embellishments made of more metal and
UTEE ... a lovely home decor piece!
Like Nancy C I decided to make some jewellery using some of
Tim Holtz's Idea-ology pieces. I grabbed my
Compendium of Curiosities and set to work recreating one of my favourite pieces from the book. Once I finished my necklace off with one of the new
Timmy Baubles I went on to make some bottle top embellishments with the small pictures from the
Lost and Found Stack. The Idea-ology ball chains are just perfect for these heavy duty pendants ... so I made another one ... inspired by
Tim's earlier book ... to add to my collection!
So now it's over to you ... The Design Team are looking forward to seeing your interpretations of this week's theme! This week's wonderful prize donated by our wonderful site sponsor
Simon Says Stamp is a $25 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by the In links Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Ohio time on Sunday 17th October 2010 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work related to this theme ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made! And who knows ... if you don't win this prize ... your work may be selected for the much sought after Top Three Blinkie.
Have fun everyone :0)
