Monday 3 October 2011

Celebrating The Wendy Vecchi Style.................

For Simon Says Stamp and Show this week, and as I am beginning to think about Christmas now that we are into October this weeks piece reflects that with the use of Wendy Vecchi's Art Of Making It Merry set of stamps to decorate the Art Parts Artful Shrine. The shrine was coloured with Distress Ink Fired Brick, stamped with the text background from Wendy's set and the inside decorated using a piece of the Kraft Resist Christmas Paper Stash. The leaves are from Wendy Vecchi's Funky Flower Art set, coloured with Distress Ink Peeled Paint. Embellishments include a Christmas Muse Token and JOY added to Memo Pins adhering with Glossy Accents.

The Christmas tree was stamped onto white card four times and cut out.  I then added the background text stamp from the Art Of Making It Merry set onto each tree using black Archival Ink. The trees have been coloured with Distress Ink peeled paint and then each tree was adhered one on top of each other to give dimension to my piece.
I coloured a piece of white card with Distress Ink fired brick and then stamped the poinsettia four times with black Archival Ink, cut out and layered my pieces together. Distress Clear Rock Candy has been added to each piece. Once dry I added a co-ordinating brad from my stash to the centre.
To complete I added a heart shaped button threaded with Bakers Twine to the bottom of my shrine along with the sentiment "Make It Merry" from Wendy's set.  I really enjoyed creating this piece and it is one less Christmas card to create for family, RESULT!

Pop over to the Simon Says Stamp and Show blog and take a look at my fellow team members they have created some inspirational projects and remember there is also the chance to win a $50 prize from Simon Says Stamp.  I always look forward to seeing your creations each week.


Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment, much appreciated.  Enjoy your week. Tracy x x 

25 comments:

cheryl said...

oh tracey hun this is,stunning gosh you always come up with stunning designs and this is just brilliant love that tree hugs cherylxx

Helen said...

great Wendy work - I hope to be able to play this week with this theme!!

Paula Whittaker said...

Have to agree with Helen - great work.

Laura said...

Great creation and I love what you have done with the Christmas tree. It stops it looking so flat. Great idea!

Sandy said...

So so beautiful Tracy.
Love them.

Juls said...

oooh this is just gorgeous!! Hugs Juls

Sarah Anderson said...

ok, I now need that tree! And what a gorgeous shaped project...love it :)

Heavens2Betsy said...

This is just lovely. I particularly like the postcard text used as a background. Very clever. penny

Brenda Brown said...

A fabulous project Tracy, great colours and elements and the tree adds that extra dimension you were after - brilliant.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

Suzanne C said...

Beautiful rich colors and love the depth with the framed effect and the tree. Lovely!

Candy C said...

Hey Tracy! I love your tribute piece to Wendy! Your shrine is so pretty! Love the very traditional fired brick background for your vintage red and the green dimensional Christmas tree...so cute! Love your dimensional poinsettia and the JOY pins...very very cute! Love your detail...even down to the "GREETINGS" muse token! <3 Candy

Belinda Basson said...

Hey Tracy, This is a great project. Very tasteful.

Unknown said...

Fabulous project and I love the little christmas tree 3d effect - will have to give this a go. Thank you for the inspiration :)

hazel said...

Fabulous work Tracy, I love the flower.
xxx Hazel.

Emma Williams said...

Another wow from me and another fabulous creation from you, Tracy ~ so much detail and all of it absolutely perfect!! Lovely work, as always!!
Hope you had a great weekend.
Love Emma xxx

Kim Dellow said...

Wonderful Tracy! Just love the tree! Kim

Lori said...

This is gorgeous Tracy! Just love the colors and that flower is gorgeous!

Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie said...

Awesome job on the Wendy piece this week Tracy! The colors you chose are just wonderful and I really love the way you made your tree 3-D. I never would have thought to do that and it is so effective and I especially like the way you stamped it with a text stamp. The poinsettia is really wonderful too. Now you've got me thinking that I need that set too :)

Have a wonderful week.

Hugs,
Linda

Gillian .... said...

Love those shines to work with Tracy, this xmas inspired WV DT project is just fab, love the rich colours. x

email: Steph@SimonSaysStamp.com said...

Just a beautiful holiday creation, Tracy! I love the layering to the poinsettia and tree!!

You would undoubtedly make Wendy very proud!! ;)
*mwah*
Steph
Simon Says Stamp

Lynn Stevens said...

Love your shrine Tracy, Where on eath did you find the base? or did you make it yourself? In any case its Gorgeous!!!!
hugs Lynn

Terry said...

Hey there Tracy, You made an amazing holiday Project from The Wendy shrine, love the poinsettia and the colors that you have used, wohooo absolutely amazing Thankss for sharing sweetie I just know that the Wendy will love it. Hugs Terry xxx

Marjie Kemper said...

This is gorgeous! Love the way you've done the tree... I've not seen that before and it is fantastic.

Sarah said...

A really beautiful ode to Wendy and shrine Tracy. Really loving the deep colours and clean lines. The tree looks just fab and the flower is so lush, layered and twinkly. Got my shrines - still just looking at them!

Sarah said...

A really beautiful ode to Wendy and shrine Tracy. Really loving the deep colours and clean lines. The tree looks just fab and the flower is so lush, layered and twinkly. Got my shrines - still just looking at them!