A Little Hanger

I have stalked Wendy Vecchi’s blog, Studio 490, for a long time, but had never had access to her products or taken the time to order some online.   I also wasn’t sure about creating these lovely pieces of art on my own   Well, after seeing her at Summer CHA and seeing her works actually in person, rather than online, I KNEW I had to get my hands on some of these.  My LSS, A Scrapbook Store & More, starting carrying some of the Art Parts and Wendy’s Studio 490 stamps.   I’ve now discovered that I LOVE this assemblage art.  It was a lot of fun not only building this little hanger, but exploring different inks, paints, stamps, and various techniques to create this.   This is just a little thing, about 5 x 6 (ish), but packs a lot in that little space.   I used a few Art Parts as well as some grungeboard and grungepaper.  Lots of Ranger Distress inks and stains as well as some acrylic pain and some Golden pouring medium.   The whole thing was put together with various Helmar adhesives.   I used Helmar’s Acid Free glue to adhere the pattern papers to the bases.   The trims, art parts, and metal pieces were adhered with Helmar 450.  The ink bottle was cracked with Ranger’s Rock Candy and then popped up with Helmar’s Liquid Scrap Dots. 

I also had some inspiration from the Everything Wendy Yahoo group I joined.  The challenge was to use a small stamp to create a background.  I used a small ink label stamp and randomly stamped it across all over my background paper with Brushed Corduroy Distress ink.   This challenge was from two weeks ago, but I’ve had some life things happening here and just now was able to post the details.  I do hope that since I am slowly growing my collection of Studio 490, I can participate with more of these fabulous challenges.   PS.  I would love to have a copy of Wendy’s Make Art Books Volume 1 and 2.  If anyone has one they want to sell, please let me know because I haven’t been able to find one.  

This lovely is temporarily residing at A Scrapbook Store & More, but will have a treasured spot on my wall here in my studio.  

Well, I’m off to paint a canvas today from a little sketch I made.  Hope you find time to do something you love this weekend. 

Thanks for stopping by today,