Simon Says Stamp and Show - Hey Girl

Hello Blog Friends

Here I am posting two days on the run, but when I saw the challenge over at Simon Says I thought it might be fun to enter.  This is my first time entering this challenge so I am a wee bit nervous.  The challenge is to create something for the girls, something feminine and the challenge is called Hey Girl.

When I was a little girl, many moons ago, my Mum (in the late 50's) had a pair of pink glasses with a big flower on the side and what I thought was a real diamond on the side.  She had wonderful blue eyes and always wore bright lipstick so this piece is designed around how my Mum looked in those days.

I have made a very chunky ATC from a block of wood 3.1/2" x 2.1/2" by 1.1/2" thick.  I have made a few of these now and anyone who visits me regularly may remember the others.  Here is the finished result:

I painted the block and the bead feet and top with black acrylic paint.  I took a large piece of card, covered it with picked raspberry distress ink, spritzed and flicked with Perfect Pearls and then overstamped with a chicken wire stamp which give the background a slight crackled look.  I cut the pieces to size, edged them with black distress marker and glued them to the block leaving a little of the black paint showing underneath.

The stamp is by Inkylicious and is my current favourite.  I stamped in black archival ink, coloured the eye with peacock feathers DI and lips with picked raspberry DI.  The lips were then coated in glossy Accents.  The glasses were cut from a pattern I made for a ATC swap at WOYWW.  I coloured the glasses with picked raspberry and black DIs, added a small flower from a flower punch, then applied glossy accents over the whole of the glasses before adding a sparkly gem.  On the back of the block I did the same but left the glasses plain black and added fired brick DI to the lips before coating them both with glossy accents.

For the sides of the block I added some spotted vinyl flowers from my stash and added sparkly gems to bling them up.  The feet are wooden beads and for the top I added a pink Swarowski crystal to a black wooden bead.  Here is a side view:

You can see the spritz and flick a bit better on the side.

As I said above I am entering this into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge where a random winner will receive a $50 voucher from Simon Says!

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