A Wendy Vecchi Flower For You!
Hi bloggers! Happy FRIDAY to you! I’m pleased to present you with a lovely tag from Wendy Vecchi as exclusive content for our blog today! This all originated from a ‘rescued’ tag of left over colors from another creation! If the outcome of this project doesn’t encourage you to recycle, I don’t know what will! :) Enjoy!
- I had a piece of manila cardstock that was used to wipe up some excess distress stain. It did nothing to inspire me & had been sitting there for 2 weeks. I came very close to dropping it in the trash…V E R Y…
- This is the piece that I rescued. Not real cute, it’s left over wild honey, peeled paint, scattered straw & broken china distress stains.
- I hate to waste things, so I used my new vintage mesh background stamp with cornflower blue archival & now it looked like this…BETTER already!
- The stamp didn’t cover the whole thing…& it worked well to have an unstamped area to work with, as you’ll see in a bit.
- Next, I cut a #8 manila tag to 5 1/2 inches tall. I am LOVING this size…try it! I inked over the tag with wild honey, broken china & peeled paint distress inks to create this background.
- Now back to my manila cardstock, I grabbed a small Fiskar’s hexagon punch & punched multiple pieces. (Or you can die cut this die. )Then, I started gluing them to my tag. I found that the pieces punched from the unstamped area fit in well!
- Next, I trimmed off the bits that were hanging off the edge, looking better!
- I couldn’t waste the cut offs, so I added 2 of them to the left side, but made sure to stop & not cover the whole tag.
- I inked over the tag edges with rusty hinge on a blending tool to darken them, and then went over the whole tag very lightly.
- I used the detail waterbrush & tapped it on my finger over the tag to dispense tiny water drops. You’ll see in the photo above that the distress inks/stains react with water & this added another layer to my background. You’ll also see that the mesh stamped image is still perfect, because archival is permanent when dry.
- Next, I wanted to look into the embellishing. Since it’s STAMPtember & Simon Says Stamp is celebrating, I thought a flower would be appropriate. The art parts flower was inked with rusty hinge distress stain, dried, then stamped over with orange blossom archival, using the ornate dots background.
- The art parts leaves were inked with bundled sage distress stain & stamped with fern green archival, using a text stamp. The small flower on the left was stenciled onto a scrap of Clearly For Art, that I covered with a vintage dictionary page. to add paper to CFA, Glue N Seal works like magic. I used orange blossom archival with one of the flowers on the create a flower stencil.
- I cut out the stenciled flower, heated it & shaped it to create the flower center and colored the center of the flower with the scattered straw marker.
- I used the art parts hand with the coordinating stamp to create the hand to hold the flower. I inked the stamp with jet black archival & pressed the coordinating art part onto the inked stamp, dried it, then added color with wild honey on a blending tool. I stamped ART with jet black & colored in the letters with the rusty hinge distress marker…and the shirt sleeve with the broken china marker.
The final outcome…
- Since this is my 3rd time participating in STAMPtember, I added vol 3 to the tag base…I bet you were wondering about that! To accent the art parts stem/leaves, I added some embroidery floss around the leaves, then added a screw eye to break up the black.
- the Blossom Bucket crow fit into the fall-ish colors I used and the tiny black Blossom Bucket star made a fun flower center. See above for the final tag with the finishing touches.
- So that’s the story of how one rubber stamp SAVED an ugly background from the trash!
Happy STAMPtember everyone.
remember to take time to…
make art!
wendy
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OH I LOVE how you used this to create this beautiful card. Good thing you didn’t throw it out. TFS.
Crafty hugs,
D~
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Love the hexagon trend! I must use hexagons more in my own designs!
Very pretty! I love the added layering of the hexies to your usual gorgeous style!!
Great tag! So glad we can finally find hexagon punches!
Great colors and love the hexagons!
what a fun tag – and i love the colors – the blue is perfect.
I just bought the hexagon punches! Thanks for the awesome techniques.
So pretty!! Thanks for sharing your amazing techniques!
c
wow this is amazing.. i love it.. very clever and AWESOME..
What a great technique, I will be using this in the near future. Thanks for sharing it.
I always seem to have leftovers…thanks for the inspiration. Love what you did with it!
Gorgeous tag! I love the greens and all the hexagons!
Oh, the Ranger crafters are always so inspiring! I am just a novice in distress inks but I love the effects! Please keep up with the awesome inspiration, thank you!
Great technique,Thanks for sharing!!
cool tag!!!
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As always, Wendy doesn’t fail to inspire me and remind me not to be in a hurry to trash things. Love the tag and can’t wait to try this myself! Happy Stamptember!
Great to see such a beautiful flower and made different from the flowers I have seen intil now!
Oh wow, this is just amazing!!
Love Wendy’s design process, gorgeous tag!!
love the tag
love those hexagons
Very pretty, love all the intense colors and how the hand touch the flower :)
You are a woman after my own heart! From trash to treasures is my motto. Great job, I just love it.
This is fantastic. Makes me happy I am saving all those scraps ;-) Off to have a rummage…..
This is AWESOME! Love the trashy background, lol! That flower is wonderful!
Love what you did with the hexagons! Great tag!
STAMPtember is fabulous because of all the great ideas and instruction such as Wendy’s inspiring tag today. I love distress inks and I have a couple of discards that might be revived with it’s use! Actually, I have more than that so thanks Wendy!!!!
I don’t like wasting paper too. I have so many scraps everywhere and I keep trying to find ways to use them. I love the hexagons :) great tag idea :)
Very cool use of something that was originally headed for the circular file…thanks for sharing! I follow via email and Feedly!
A great way to use the scraps!! Awesomeness!
I love the hexagons.
love hexagons!
So glad you didn’t throw out that sheet and shared what you did with us! Wonderful.
I love how your creative mind works! I am impressed every single time I read one of your tutorials or watch a video.
Oh that is so lovely, love the colours too!
Awesome thanks for sharing it with us
lovely tag today thank you for the inspiration today
Wow !!! I love the art work today thank you for sharing it with us.
tfs !!! what a beautiful tag today.
Great job upcycling that tag – love it!!
love how this is so “current” with the hexagons and fabulous Studio 490 products.
This is an absolutely gorgeous piece of art!
I am all about tags and this one is just beautiful with color and texture.
Great tag…such beautiful early autumn colors!
This tag looks great! I love the colors and the design, but most of all I love the fact that it was “rescued” from the trash and it became so so beautiful!!!
You’ve used some of my favorite colors, thrown in lots of distressing (another favorite) and used hexagons (my favorite shape of all time) and come up with a perfect project. It’s artists like you I’m holding responsible for never throwing anything away!!!! ;-) Gotta get that punch–it’s so much quicker to punch out than die cut numerous times. Thanks, Wendy.
Fabulous tag Wendy, love the hexagons, such a great idea!
Great tag love the colors!!!
Amazing love the colors and a great tag.
Brilliant and gorgeous in equal measures Wendy!
Love the outcome, the flower and the birdie.