The Word is Art!

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 Hello and welcome!  I hope you are having a great week.  I'm back from a little vacation and busy getting The Funkie Junkie Boutique moved into it's new quarters.  We will be re-opening at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday with a 10% off sale for one week.  The coupon code to get the 10% discount is stockupforsummer and you type it into the coupon code field on the shopping cart page.  Hit apply and you should see 10% of the total price deducted.

I did find a little time to play in my craft room and made this piece for the Funkie week of Sue's Words, Words, Words challenge over at Frilly and Funkie.  I started it a half of a sheet of 8.5x11" Specialty Stamping Paper.  I scribbled a little Dusty Concord distress paint onto my craft sheet and misted it just a bit with water.  Then the paper was blotted onto it.  I did that several times, drying the paint each time with my heat tool.  Then I repeated the process with Antique Linen DP.  

 Next Dusty Concord DP was dabbed onto the flower part of a Wendy Vecchi flower stamp and randomly stamped.

 A piece of canvas was cut to size and the edges frayed a bit.  Dusty Concord paint was used to ink the flower part of the stamp.  I started to use Bundled Sage DP for the stems, but it didn't seem dark enough so I mixed a couple of drops of Mowed Lawn distress stain into it.  The stamp was inked with the distress paints using a paint brush and stamped on the canvas.

An oval mask was cut and laid over the flower and then the script stamp from Wendy's _____ set was stamped in Jet Black archival ink.  The mask was removed and I added a little embossing to the corners with Wendy's white embossing paste and a Prima stencil (no longer available, sorry!).

Once the embossing paste was dry, I sponged Vintage Photo over it and all around the edges of the piece.   The messy ART stamp was stamped with Jet Black archival onto a torn piece of velum, a couple of buttons were added and I made a little dangle charm from beads in my stash.  It's held on with a scrap of crinkle ribbon (rayon seam binding) dyed with Vintage Photo distress ink.

I love the way this came out.  IRL the colors are so pretty and the stamp has such a beautiful delicacy to it.  After being out of my craft room for a week, it felt great to get my hands dirty again!  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you will play along with us over at Frilly and Funkie.  There is still another week to create something for this challenge!