Butterfly Perch

Today is another hopping day for the Stampendous DT.  We are still showcasing the fun SIMI Creative Wee Scapes products along with the Stampendous stamps.

This summer my husband picked up free mulch from our township.  When the township trims the trees or cleans up other wood debris they keep the mulch and pile it up.  All you have to do is haul it away.  Well the mulch that they provide usually has a bit more texture than the store bought mulch. :)

My project uses a piece of that mulch:

I was walking with the dog around the house and spied this rather large chunk of wood and brought it in the house to use for a project.  When we received our package of goodies from Wee Scapes I knew I was going to add some moss to my piece of wood.

The next step was to create a few butterflies to perch on the wood.

The butterflies are from the Jumbo Cling Butterfly Trio and the Butterflies set. I smeared yellow alcohol ink onto glossy cardstock over half of an 8 1/2 x 12 sheet of paper.   I stamped the butterflies using black Archival ink.  I colored the blue  with a waterbrush and  alcohol ink.  I poured the alcohol ink on my craft mat.  I used the waterbrush to paint the sections.  Be careful the alcohol will cause the ink to smear. After they had dried I added a coat of Versamark Ink and heat embossed with shimmery embossing powder.

My perch uses the Wee Scapes Green Cluster Foliage and some lovely little flowers.

For more inspiration hop along to the rest of the DT blogs (Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a prize):

Annette Witherspoon

Jennifer Dove

Jennifer Ingle

Lea Kimmel

Melinda Gleissner

Suzanne Czosek

Wendy Price

As always thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge - Not on Paper

Here is a little different project. Louise's tag challenge this week is to create a tag not on paper. 

We went to the beach on Lake Michigan last Saturday. We don't do it that often but I threw the idea out last week when one of the cousins from Texas was staying with us. We didn't manage to make it to the beach with him but decided to head over as a family. 

The water is sooo cold.. The weather with the heat index was over 90+ but you step into that water and freezing! The kids went in for awhile and came out with blue lips. :)

Sorry I digress... My youngest daughter Tanya and myself love to pick up the stones because they are so beautiful and as we were doing that I found a piece of wood that had been smoothed with the constant ebb and flow.  So my tag this week not on paper is from this little driftwood found at the beach.

Sometimes when I take pictures of my projects they look better on film and other times they don't look as good on film.  This is one of those that doesn't look as good on film. :)   I think it is because you can't see how soft the embossing looks on the wood and the texture.

Very simple project of stamping and embossing on the wood. I used my piercing tool to drill two holes into the wood to make my string to hang this. I ended up making it a wall hanging as I thought it was pretty enough and my youngest has already asked me for it.

I added a touch of iridescent gold to the flowers petals and the edge of the wood.

Hope you have a blessed Sunday.

Suzz