Friday 25 February 2011

Show your Stripes - and Thank You

This week Simon Says challenges us to Show some Stripes. Quite by chance I received on Tuesday, the Tim Holtz Retro Grunge paperstack which has lots of funky patterns including stripes. 

It's taken me a while, though to decide what to do for this challenge. 

In the end, I covered a piece of square chip with some of the stripey paper - I chose the green version - and stamped two of the Wendy flower that is lately my favourite flower stamp! on grungepaper. I coloured it with wild honey and then spritzed it with a home made perfect pearl (copper) and reinker (spiced marmalade) combination and the leaves with Kiwi perfect pearl.

Fnished it off with some idea-ology.

I want to say a BIG $50 thank you to Simon Says -or the random generator anyhow - for picking my tag from last week for their prize!!  It may surprise you to hear that I managed to choose some goodies for my prize, from their online store and am now eagerly waiting the postman (again!)

Go and check out the other stripey art on show, one of which will get a $50 prize again this week.

Whilst I am thanking people, I received a OWOH door prize this week from Pia (liquidbrick.blogspot.com) so thanks to Pia too.

11 comments:

Gez Butterworth said...

Gorgeous Helen. Your flowers are beautiful :) Enjoy your goodies.

flutterbycrafter said...

Gorgeous piece and well done on winning with your tag, bet you enjoyed choosing your goodies. xx

Netty said...

Oh how tiresome to win some money to spend on craft goodies....lol Congratulations.
Your flowers Helen are beautiful, so love these. Annette

Carmen said...

Oh how gorgeous - I love that sentiment Helen - so true!

Well done on the OWOH win too :D

Anonymous said...

Great little piece Helen! Don't wanna make you jealous, but Tim was awesome! xx

Lesley Edmonds said...

Well done you! And this is a great piece too.
Happy Weekend.
Lesley x

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

Great piece Helen and I agree this flower is fabulous. Love the colours you chose. Congratulations on your wins too. Tracy Evans x

Kaz Hall said...

Gorgeous makes, loved looking at your blog......lots of yummy things xx
kazx

Vicki B in OP NY said...

Your recent work is beautiful. The WV flowers are adorable. Congrats on all your wins!
Hugs, Vicki
A little inkling

Lori said...

What's this "quite by chance I received the retro grunge stack?" stuff, huh? lol! I don't think you ever get any stash just by chance, do you? lol! This is a great piece Helen, love the Wendy flowers on that paper...thanks for joining the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge! Glad you found something to spend your $50 on! lol!

Anonymous said...

Spectacular!