Go Where You Feel Most Alive -- Playing With Wendy Vecchi's Make Art Blendable Dye Inks

Hello friends and visitors! Today I'm sharing a tutorial at Frilly and Funkie for our weekly Saturday Showcase feature. I'll be shining the spotlight on Wendy Vecchi's Make Art Blendable Dye inks and sharing my techniques for making this gorgeous background and these life like leaves and bark. I hope you'll join me there!

As always, I'm thrilled you are here! Thank you for all your amazing comments! They make my day!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

Challenge Shares

Country View Challenges August 2018 - Sun, Sea and Sand This is reminiscent of and inspired by my recent hiking 'holiday' to Capon Springs, WVa. In fact, the bracket fungus was harvested from a dead tree found on one of our hikes.

SumMore Fun Mood Board Challenge #35 I was inspired by the colors and the tiles.

Scrapy Land Challenge #96 Anything Goes  I used a Sizzix die set.

Love 2 Create Challenge #11 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

The Artistic Stamper August's Creative Challenge - Anything Goes

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #140 - ANYTHING GOES + option LOTS OF LAYERS

Love to Scrap LTSCB #112 - Old School!

Aud Sentiments #210 Anything Goes + A Sentiment

That's Crafty Animal Magic

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Weeks #348- #349

Free to Fly With 3D Embossing

Hi! I've had a little more time to play with my Tim Holtz Lumber 3D Texture Fade yesterday. And I experimented with my Laurel 3D Impresslits embossing folder for the first time. How I love these 3 dimensional miracles, and they couldn't be more on trend! 

I used Distress Crazing Collage Medium, Distress paint, Oxide, and crayons along with the Lumber Folder to make my 'bark' background. If you missed my post on how to create faux barn wood using this embossing folder and similar supplies, you can check out my tutorial here.

I cut and embossed black card with the Lauren Impresslit and used one embossed side up and the other de-bossed side up. I colored them with Brushed Pewter Distress Spray stain, then applied a thin layer of Crazing, followed by Picket Fence crayon. I layered them over another pair of Laurels cut/embossed from white card blended with Frayed Burlap Distress ink.

 The butterfly is from the Botanical Layers pack, and I colored it with a splatter of gesso, a spritz of Brushed Pewter stain, followed by Antique Linen Distress Oxide. I edged with Frayed Burlap crayon.

I made a frame using Stitched Ovals Thinlits dies. I smudged on Picket Fence crayon and spritzed with Brushed Pewter. Again, I applied a thin layer of Crazing, and when dry, smudged with Black Soot crayon. I did the same thing to the black backing card.

I finished off with a Quotations Metallic Sticker blended with Frayed Burlap ink. I hope you enjoyed my mix of 'metal and wood'. Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

The products I used can be found at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

(MAY PRE-ORDER) Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Lumber	(MAY PRE-ORDER) Sizzix 3-D Impresslits Embossing Folder - Laurel	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set - Stitched Ovals by Tim Holtz 661188 (February Pre-Order)	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Botanical Layers	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Crazing TDAK47957 (February Pre-Order)
(JULY PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Antique Linen	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #5 TDBK51756	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #3 TDBK47926 (February Pre-order)	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Brushed Pewter
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Weathered Wood	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quotations Metallic Stickers