Wendy Love

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Hello and welcome back!  I hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day.  I'm sad it's over because I still have a lot of heart art swirling around in the creative portion of my brain.  I really wanted to do a few more Valentine projects and you might see a couple more before the end of February.  I made this over a week ago for Wendy Vecchi's Make Art heart challenge this month, but just haven't had time to share it with a blog post.  I'm a little fuzzy on the background details so I hope I will tell you the correct way I made it.  Anyway, I started with one of my jumbo manila tags, as I always do and then I laid it in my spray box and sprayed it with my new Lindy's Stamp Gang Van Dyke Sepia.  I had used this same spray box a few weeks before when I had sprayed four or five sheets of CS with Dylusions Post Box Red.  Of course, the Post Box Red was dry, but spraying over it again with the Van Dyle Sepia rehydrated the Dylusions spray and seeing all that  shiny red mixed with the Van Dyke Sepia was too much to resist.  I turned my tag face down in it and smooched.  Not only did it pick up splotches of red, but do you see those red vertical stripes?  They are the corrugated ridges on the cardboard surface - so cool - I absolutely loved the look.  

Next I took Wendy's Never Enough Hearts stencil and cut two heart masks which I arranged on my tag.  Then I stamped the tag with one of my favorite stamps - Wendy Vecchi's new Script background stamp.  It was also included in an older set and is a main go-to stamp for my backgrounds.  It stays on my desktop at all times.  The masks were removed and I used the stencil to trace around the unstamped heart space with a Stabilo pencil.  I stamped a couple of romantic sentiments from Tim Holtz's Stuff to Say set in jet black archival ink.  

For my focal point, I used the IndigoBlu Flitter Glue and Flakes.  I stamped Wendy Vecchi's sweet new stamp from the Bouqet SiSi with the Flitter Glue and applied the metal flakes.  I absolutely LOVE the way it came out.  The color, shine and style fit the background of the tag so well.  And I love the multi colored flakes that come in the kit.  I know the process probably sounds hart or intimidating, but it's actually very easy and almost foolproof.  Once I had my flaked stamping set, I decided the tag needed just a small touch more so I used a couple of Remnant Rubs  - the birds and TRUE LOVE on the tags.  I finished it off with a heart brad and a little heart key from the shop and inked the edges with Black Soot.  

This was an absolutely delight to make because I just played and played.  I didn't have a deadline and worked on it over several evenings when I needed a little break from the shop work.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Don't forget, my artwork is all for sale at low prices because it's stacking up in my craft room and I want to send it off to a good home.  Most cards and tags are just $7.50 which includes free shipping in the USA.  If you are overseas, please email me for a shipping price. 

The products below were used to make this tag and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Wendy Vecchi, Tim Holtz/Ranger and most other name-brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Lindy′s Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mist 2oz Bottle - Van Dyke Sepia	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Ink Spray - Postbox Red	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Script Background Stamp
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Never Enough Hearts	Bouquet Stamp It Stencil It from Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi
IndigoBlu Flitter Glue Kit in a Box	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs Botanical	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tiny Tabs & Tags BIGz Die	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Stuff to Say	8 Piece Small Metal Keys for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media