Layers . . .

Today is Monday and that means another challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show. This week's theme is layers and you will have until Tuesday September 7 at midnight to turn in your entry.

Here's what I did for the Simon Says Stamp & Show DT:

 

 

I started out with the idea of doing something Halloween-ish with Graphic 45's Halloween in Wonderland.  So I bought a white pumpkin and canvas and took it home but when I got it home, nothing hit me until . . . I started going through my Graphic 45 stash and ran across Transatlantique.

Bill cut the pumpkin in half for me and then the fun began!

First, painted the pumpkin black using Tim Holtz Dabber paint

(out of the bottle and with a sponge brush).

One coat will do because it was going to be covered anyway.

Then I took the map paper from Transatlantique and cut it into 1/2" strips.

I knew that using paper on a convex shape would be too difficult to cover

unless it was cut into smaller pieces.

I chose to use strips so that you could still see the map itself.

However, this can certainly be collaged and will look fabulous!

After cutting the map into strips, I distressed the white cut edges with

Distress Ink.

Once that was done, using Claudine Hellmuth's Matte Medium

I glued each piece onto the pumpkin

starting at the pumpkin stem and working my way down.

Again, because of the convex shape,

unless I overlaid each strip

there had to be space in between - which is ok.

After everything was adhered and dried,

I covered the entire pumpkin with

Claudine Hellmuth's Matte Medium.

Then filled the in-between spaces with black Stickles.

 

 

Now it's canvas time:

I painted the canvas with

Claudine Hellmuth's Studio Line acrylic paints (Tan).

Once the paint was dry, I used Distress Inks to edge the canvas

making the edges a bit darker.

 

After that was painted, I felt it needed a little something more.

So I grabbed a Tim Holtz mask and decided to put a deeper color

on the canvas (using Distress Inks) in a subtle pattern.

You can barely see the pattern but it made me feel better!

Using a trusty glue gun,

the smaller canvas (5x7)

and the pumpkin

were adhered to the larger canvas.

And then the layering began with all that luscious

Graphic 45 Transatlantique

adhered to the canvas.

Added twisted wire and a blinged up fern leaf to the top of the pumpkin

and

Tim Holtz corners to the top

and

Tim Holtz feet to the bottom corners.

(not Tim's actual feet - you know what I mean!)

and a hanging Idea-ology charm
 

and some spinners

 

I've been very fortunate to travel a lot when I worked in the

corporate world.

This is an ode to my travels.

 

Enter the LAYERED contest here.

And just so you know

the winner

will be chosen by a random computerized drawing

and

you can win a $25 gift certificate to our sponsor's store

Simon Says Stamp

and

you don't have to have a blog to enter!

If you'd like to enter this contest

simply upload your image to

Flickr

then create a link on the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge blog here.

 Stop by and see what my very talented fellow DT members created.

What a great challenge!

 

 

 

Comments

[Nancy Crissinger]

Love this, Nancy! I love the Graphic45 paper, what you did with the pumpkin/globe - and I'm glad you didn't use Tim's actual feet! *lol*

[Lori]

Really brilliant, Nancy, using that pumpkin, I wondered how you did that! Really great piece!

[Donna]

This is awesome Nancy!! Love that globe, and Graphic45 paper is the best!!

[Terry]

This is totally amazing!! Love what you did for a globe!

[Linda Coughlin]

Oooohhh, Nancy, your project totally ROCKS! Thank you so much for sharing the photos of the process you used. I was totally stumped on how you created the globe - very ingenius. I love EVERYTHING about this fabulous piece!

[willow]

This is one awesome piece, Nancy! I love it!! This was my first time on the SSSC blog and I saw Nancy W. and wondered if it was you, and then I saw the childhood photos and KNEW it was you!!! Thanks for sharing your incredible creativity with at least some of the cyber world of art!!! Hugs,

[rhonda]

the pumpkin is brilliant, now I'm looking for what I can cut in half. Thanks for inspiring me the challenges are fun to do with my SIL Kat.

[Stephanie]

Wow!! Nancy this is stunning work! I love the 3D effects and the layering is simply brilliant!

Thank you for your continued gorgeous inspirations for Simon Says Stamp!!!

*mwah*
Steph

[Sue]

This is brilliant Nancy, I know how easy it is to fall for the Graphic 45 papers, they talk to me too..... x

[lynnef]

Nancy....this is such a WAY COOL piece....and what great instructions!!! AWESOMENESS!!

[Marjo]

THis is Awesome Nancy! What a gorgalicious creation. This is simply fantastic.

Hugs, Marjo