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 yeah, this is awesome , I love it, and heck yeah I pinned it !!!
This is fabulous Wendy! I also love to use my inky scrap papers and this background you created is so cool. Love the embellishments too.
This turned out fabulous wendy! Love the results!
great color great way to use scraps
Wow! I love how this turned out. Great way to use up “recycles scraps” :)
A miniature work of art! Gorgeous.
I love the colors. Great tag and ideas.
Thank you so much Wendy for sharing this with us.
Such a great tag! I love those colours and I’m so glad you didn’t throw it away!
Great story. Great tag.
Gorgeous tag Wendy, love your background colours and the hexagonal patchwork is very eye catching. Love the flower and the bird sitting on the hand. Tracy x
Beautiful design! x
Awesome tag! I love the crow. Thanks for sharing a tip on how to use up some of those scraps.
Wendy this is so cool!!
So pretty! I really like the background and the colors.
AMAZING!!! Thank you so much for all the directions – love it!
Very cool! Love all the layers and cors.
Great tag!! What a great way to use up some of the scraps!
I love the tag, I really like the colors.
WOW that is gorgeous! Thanks for the reminder to always take another look at things before throwing them away!
Fantastic tag. Thank you for the details of its creation. I love the way you used your clean up card. I have quite a bit of this card sitting around.
This the most amazing tag. I LOVE it!!
Love the colors, hexagons and flowers.
So pretty! LOVE the colors and that flower!
love the step by step
Absolutely awesome!!
Wow!! I love this FUN Design!! Such a GREAT Rescue and repurpose of products!! Thanks so much for sharing and for the awesome discount code!! ;) have a Fabulous Weekend!! ;)
Gorgeous tag.
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Wow, this card is amazing! Beautiful colors and layering!
Fabulous results!
Beautiful! This post will make me look twice at what I am throwing in the trash. Great ideas! And how cool is that stamped hand? Awesome!
So creative and beautiful colors!
I love the hexagons and the combination of Distress Ink colors on them.
I don’t know why you thought the background was ugly – I think it’s pretty great on its own! Love this.
Wow, I LOVE how you used your scrap paper!
It seems that a scrap is never a scrap:) Very beautiful layout, i really like how you embellished the tag. TFS!
I’m horrible about throwing things away! This is one example where you shouldn’t! Gorgeous! I follow via email!!
Love the final look. Great way to use what we have.
Gorgeous! I am going to try this!!
Love, love, love your tag! It all came together so beautifully!
What a wonderful tag! Love that you used a “scrap”
What a awesome recycle!
This is so great! I love the octagons and all the extras! What a fun project!
STUNNING!Love it!
What a beautiful use of “leftovers!”
WOW! Just gorgeous! ~God bless~
Such a clever design! TFS
Great idea to re-use something that would have usually ended up in the trash.
It’s shabby chic. You would never know it started out as a piece waste material. Very striking gift tag.
Awesome tag! Thanks for sharing your technique :)
One of a kind, stunning project. Thanks for sharing great technique.
Wow what a cool tag I love how it came together!