You Rock Allison! (LPS sketch challenge)

This post is inspired by & dedicated to the Fabulous Allison (whose birthday is this week--I won't say the day, just in case I shouldn't) ... I'm so grateful that Allison is one of my longtime blog friends. She has been nothing short of a hero of mine ever since I met her online & she continues to wow me with her extraordinarily rockin' personality--no exaggeration!



1...the Birthday Girl's rockin' sketch challenge
2...layered stamping on a wierd label shape (& a lacquered guitar)

Happy Birthday Allison!
You just plain ROCK!!!!!!
(and here's a hot sketch she made that proves it)

Lurve how it uses the rule of 3rds perfectly! (and how it makes me feel all smart for a change, since it's perfectness lets me talk about the only design rule I know, ynuk ynuk!)

Use Allison's sketch & you could win two digital stamps
(link up your card on the LPS blog):

...create layered stamping & a weird label shape
(plus making a lacquer guitar)

• Black & turquoise cardstock
• Sharp scissors
  
• White pencil crayons & SU markers (turquoise & teal)
• Waterbrush
  
• Stamps (used here: LPS {Rock Star})
  
• White craft ink
• Heat gun
  
• embossing buddy (or anti-static bag/ol' dryer sheet)
• Silver embossing powder
• Crystal Lacquer
• Green seed beads
• Silver marker (dollar store)
  

Step 1} Create a funky mat shape- A) fold a piece of paper in four & cut a shape in it B) Cut & unfold and recut until you like the shape C) Trace it on your cardstock



Step 2} Cut the (weird) mat shape out. ;o)



Step 3} Stamp an image (I used the skull from the Little Paper Shop set {Rock Star} in white Craft ink (from S.U.)



Step 4} Dry the ink with a heat gun (so it won't pick up embossing powder with the next layer



Step 5} Rub the cardstock with an anti-static bag (aka embossing buddy) to prevent extra embossing powder sticking)



Step 6} Stamp a second image on your mat--over the other layers. I stamped 2 guitars (one for the whole guitar and one to use just the strings & guitar neck for dimension)



Step 7} Colour with white pencil crayon to make a base for the image colour



Step 8a} Add marker colour over the white pencil crayon (this may look a little sloppy now, but it looks better later, honest.)



Step 8b} Shade with a second colour, if you like



Step 8c} Water-based markers will let you blend shading with a water brush



Step 9} Cover the guitar with Crystal Lacquer

Step 10} Adhere the silver embossed guitar neck to the lacquered guitar.

(I also glued on some green seed beads on for the tuning pegs & splattered silver ink from a really wet dollars store marker.)


Thank You for taking time out of
your busy busy day to check this out!


P.S. I'll re-take better photos of this & post them on the blog later today, so you can actually see the details. The light was bad, but I just didn't want to miss the Little Paper Shop Monday mornin' post. :O)