Treasure From the Beach

 

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  FOOD AND DRINK Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

 

This week the challenge is: AT THE BEACH

You never know what treasure you may find washed up on the beach. One day a bottle shaped like a lighthouse and encrusted in barnacles, shells and treasures washed up. 

 

My son gave me a wine bottle shaped like a lighthouse to alter. I mixed paint and vollage medium and poured it insiede to give the bottle a turquoise hu like the ocean. This took quite awhile to dry, but once done, I applied molding paste onto the bottle and embedded all the treasures - ubbles, gears, shells, beads, pebbles, etc. Again, I let that dry completely. I went over evrything with white gesso, then added paints and waxes. Final step was adding in some tiny beads glues in place with Glossy Accents. 

I was inspired by the beauttiful works that Finnabair crates.

Video of the bottle showing all sides... 

Photos capturing all angles of the bottle... 

Details... 

Lighthouse Treasure from the deep

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

Molding Paste 

glass Bead Gel Medium

Ranger Glossy Accents

Tim Holtz Bubbles

Tim Holtz Gears 

Tim Holtz Industrial Gears

White Gesso

Dina Walkley Acrylic Paint - Turquoise and Cocoa

Tim Holtz Metallic Paints

Finnabair Honey Metallique Wax

Finnabair Bronze Metallique Wax

Tim Holtz Collage Medium

shells, pebbles, beads, lighthouse wine bottle

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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Food and Drink

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Masculine  Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is: FOOD AND DRINK

I am always up for a cup of coffee with a friend! 

 

I did a  bit of ink smooshing, and stamped my coffee cup and message.

 I used watercolor to color the coffee cup.

I decided I wanted more texture in the background, so went in with this fun bubble stamp. 

 I stamped and colored this cute bird. Do you think those eyes will get my message across, or does it just look over caffeinated?

I added some white dots to the cup, as well as the bird.

 

I am ready to grab a cup of coffee with you, so let's make plans! 

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Coffee Friend

TIm Holtz Bird Crazy

Paper Artsy Alison Bomber EAB55

Simon Says Stamp Nocturne ink

TIm Holtz Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink

Canson Watercolor paper

Watercolors

Water Brush

Simon Says Stamp Everyday Scissors

Silicon Mat

Ranger Mister bottle

Simon Says Stamp Foam Squares

White Pen 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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Masculine

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Add a Rainbow of Color   Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is: MASCULINE

The Curious Professor 

I began the tag with a layer of tissue paper collage, leaving plenty of open space. 

Next, I added stamping to the tag. 

I whitewashed it with a thin layer of paint to tone down the black. 

Time for some ink smooshing in yellow and orange. I added water drips and lifted to make it more interesting. Then, I dried this layer. 

I randomly did some blue ink smooshing over the yellows. I wanted to keep my colors separate. 

I stamped Curious on a salvaged tag and popped it. 

I stamped the professor, then his top hat (which could have been a bit lower), then just for fun, I added the propellor to the tophat. 

I love all the layers of collage, stamping, and color that pop through. I also distressed the tag edges with ink, and scraped the scissors along the edge  (be careful!)

THE CURIOUS PROFESSOR 

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

Tim Holtz The Professor

Tim Hiltz Inquisitive

Tim Holtz Observation

Simon Says Stamp Nocturne ink

Tim Holtz Ground Espresso ink

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ins - Salty Ocean, Fossilized Amber, Mustard Seed

Tim Holtz Collage Paper Archives

Tim Holtz Salvaged Tags

Dina Wakley tag

Simon Says Stamp Foam Squares

Tim Holtz Collage Medium

Ranger Mister Bottle

Silicon mat

Simon Says Stamp Everyday Scissors 

white paint

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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