Monday, July 30, 2012

Hanging' Out With Stephanie Ackerman (OK not really)

Actually, I've been hanging out on Stephanie's blog site. Which is probably about as close to Stephanie as I'm ever gonna get....but, whoah is she an amazing artist!!

I absolutely LOVE her style! You know, cuz it's all TIM HOLTZ and all! ;-)

Anyway, I decided to make a few things a la Stephanie and this is what I came up with.

On the left is a simple kraft tag. I ran it through the Cuttlebug, distressed it; cut a wonky heart from Sticky Back Canvas, distressed it; ripped some lines from a book and distressed it. (If you can't see the words, they say: "Live close to the soil and live close to the sky!")

And then sprayed the whole thing with my brand new Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist.

On the right is a piece of junk wood. I followed Stephanie's tutorial for this one.

I glued on some Tim Holtz paper and tissue tape, some 7 Gypsies paper (the bird and the numbers at the top), and a tag from those one-serving coffee bags (the sunrise). Between all that, I distressed and distressed and distressed some more.

I'm REALLY loving this.

Yes I am.

I will have to open an Etsy shop and sell stuff to pay for my latest addiction.



Happy Monday!! =D


~Cynthia

2 comments:

Bonnie said...

Both of these are just beautiful, Cynthia! Watch out Etsy!

farmhouse-story said...

i'm catching up, cynthia! these are so lovely! have a great week:)