Anything Goes!!!

Good morning and welcome to La-De-Dah on yet another "what happened to the weekend?" Monday morning...! I'm really glad that's it's an "Anything Goes!" theme at Simon Says Stamp & Show this week because whatever your creative mood, style or passion, you can join in and show off your artwork... Ready for lots of flowery pics...here we go!

It didn't take me long to dive into my Wendy Vecchi suitcase, pull out some goodies and have my very own Art Parts Party! I did my usual thing of laying them all out on my desk and experimenting with ideas... A few months ago I created an altered piece for Craft Stamper magazine with the Artful Shrines and I fancied trying out a new modern, flowery version of it.

l started by colouring the two shrines with Fired Brick Distress Stain and then stamped them with the number stamp in Coffee Archival ink. I cut one of the shrines in half so I could glue it to the other to create a dimensional summer house. Then I set it on a large flower and glued the leaves inside the base. I had sprayed the leaves and flower with Dylusions Spray ink for a blast of colour.

I could kind of see in my mind how I wanted things to turn out so when I was eventually done it seemed that this sentiment was the perfect fit! Then I set to work on colouring and stamping the flowers....

More Cut Grass Dylusions for the stems, white Claudine H white paint on the heads and then Wendy stamps in Ranger Monarch Orange or Saffron Yellow Archival inks. A little Distress ink on the petals and a washer for the centres. It's a tough piece to shoot, but hopefully you can see my whimsical house. I used lots different of smaller Art Parts including a frame piece,

a scallop, wings and mini-flower. I covered the scallop with a book page coloured with Rusty Hinge Distress ink. I added Tim's Idea-ology Ruler Ribbon, a Time-piece and spinner. The triple wings were a happy accident. I was a bit wild with my Dylusions spray and the extra wet ink caused them to split into three. So I thought, well, colour them all!

The flowers are stuck to the base, house back and leaves and have been trimmed slightly to vary the height and get a straight edged bottom. Glossy Accents, a firm hold and patience are a necessity!

Of course if there's flowers then a flutterby is not far behind so I stamped a couple of double layered butterflies onto design paper and set them on the base...

and on the top which I had adorned with two floral Art Parts and metally bits. The big Dots are an old background stamp of mine and the smaller polka dots come from this set.

I think my Art Parts tour is over... hope you enjoyed the journey. Maybe the sentiment on my house will inspire you too. So just start imagining and creating! Remember it's ANYTHING GOES! Great fun and there's also the fab $50 voucher to be won. Thanks for calling by...
Sarah.

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