Clearance Stamps/Stencil Set

Why do clearance items "call my name".

 I don't think I would have been interested in this set, except that it was in the clearance bin at JoAnn's. I cannot find the name of it on the label: just THMM102. I supposed that somehow goes with the text on top, Mixed-Media Stamps/Stencil.

The Ranger tags were on clearance too, so I had a chance to see how they held up to water and ink and gesso. You can see from the image, there was some warping of the paper. The size is about 6-1/4 inches tall by 3-1/8 inches wide.

I used wrinkle free distress technique with oxides:

abandoned coral

picked raspberry

twisted citron.

Then I added gesso over the bricks. When dry I sponged some brown ink on the edges and also with the crackly stencil. I think the brown color might be frayed burlap-I have been using that a lot lately. Added a black paper wildflower die cut from Tim's Wildflowers #2 thinlits. The friend definition stamp is from Stampin Up!.

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Altered Playing Cards

Inspired by Hetty's Altered Playing Cards, here are my altered playing cards.

I painted the cards with gesso as suggested by Claudine of Claudine's Art Corner.
Claudine introduced an Altered Playing Card Challenge
and has a Facebook Group for it.

When my gesso was dry, I painted with
Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers, Aqua and Raspberry. 

(If your dabber paint has become a clump, you can add water to thin, then use a paintbrush.)

Stamped Michael Strong Leaves with broken china and fussy cut them.

Cut words from velum and glued to leaves.

Used Lifestyle Crafts Goosebumps LACE embossing folder, 

cut a section then distressed with broken china.

Cut leaves flowers from printed paper scraps, gluing them as shown.

Stamped edges with a Club Scrap Textiles and Notions unmounted stamp 

using Stampin' Up! Lovely Lilac ink.

Color pencils used on Michael Strong Star stamp.

Added Clear Star Gelly roll pen for some glitz, which doesn't show in the image.

Laughter sentiment, unknown origin.

Happy Gals from ERA graphics.