Happy Friday, everyone! Today, the eclectic Paperie E-Team is celebrating papercrafting and multimedia goddess, Wendy Vecchi! One of the most-beloved educators and innovators in this awesome industry, Wendy has written four books, produced numerous cool stamp sets and created a line of innovative Art Parts that's an absolute blast to play with!
I used Wendy's Art Parts "Residences" set for this little village. I coated the houses with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso and used an old credit card as a palette knife to create a faux stucco look. Once that dried, I painted them with a mixture of half Altered Orange and half Traditional Tan Studio Paint.
The roofs were painted with Distress Crackle in Peeled Paint, then colored over with Distress Stain in Weathered Wood. The little scalloped pieces at the top and bottom are Art Parts from the Sample Pack tinted with Vintage Photo Distress Stain and sprinkled with Terra Cotta Adirondack Embossing Powder. The tiny doors were decorated with Adirondack Embossing Powder in Lettuce. The text inside the windows was stamped from the new Studio 490 Celestial Art set.
The background is regular chipboard painted with Weathered Wood Distress Crackle, then tinted over with Vintage Photo Distress Stain. The flower is made from Wendy's Clearly For Art Modeling Film, backed with papers from Tim Holtz's Retro Grunge Paper Stash. The face is a little pewter bead that's been floating around in my "parts box" for a couple years!
My E-Team sisters outdid themselves yet again, making some of the most magnificent art I've seen yet! Please hop around and visit them... and be sure to leave a comment at each blog. Daisy, from eclectic Paperie, is giving away a new Studio 490 stamp set, some Art Parts and other fun surprises, to TWO randomly selected winners from among those who comment at each blog. She's also giving away a $25 gift voucher for one lucky person who leaves a comment at the eclectic Paperie blog! We're accepting entries through this Sunday, so take a moment to say "hello" and you just might score some sweet Wendy goodies!
The E-Team is:
Daisy Sparks, of eclectic Paperie
Linda Ledbetter (That's me!)
Thanks so much for visiting! I hope you enjoy our new projects, and feel inspired to create something yourself with the fab Studio 490 products!
106 comments:
You little village is gorgeous. Love your colour choices. That Claudine paint mix is just right.
Marilyn
I am now quite intrigued by these little art parts.
LOVE this Linda! Of course, I'm a big fan of Wendy myself, so this hop is awesome! Love the art parts, don't you? Great stuff. Your piece is fantastic, love those houses!
Oh, this is sweet!! LOVE it!
I am loving the art parts and this is just so scrummy hunny. How are you after your Trip to Ranger? hope your OK
Love Dawn xx
Your houses are adorable! I love the words in the windows. take care, gerri
You made such a welcoming little neighborhood! These Art Parts are starting to look even more intriguing to me! LOL!
Very nice! Love the warm colors. Your very creative!
What a great piece. I love the face in the sunshine flower.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your village! The faux stucco is amazing! Hope you're settled back into normal life and have a great Race for the Cure! Wishing Boise was closer to Baltimore....
Hugs, Ellen xx
It's a little Tuscan village! I love it, the stucco effect is fab.
I like the flower & the colors of the whole project.
Love the words in the window, so cute. Loving all the things you can do with the art parts. Thanks for sharing.
Cute little houses! Love the colors!
Pam
Hi...luv this! and Wendy adn her art parts...my collection will grow...ty ty ty !
Love the little houses, Wendy. So dimensional!
I love little houses and the words "embrace the possibilities" are a fav of mine. Thanks for sharing and giving us the opportunity to win our favorite stamps.
ohhhh Linda, this is too cool.... I love love love how you stamped the sentiments and love the techniques..... this would make a PERFECT housewarming gift. Actually this would look really really good by my front door, :-).
I love it!
PS: Left Tim a comment to say HI to you while at RU.
I just love the stucco houses with the crackle roofs!! So cool!! And the face in the "sun" is awesome!!
Your little village is adorable.....love it!!
I think this is a wonderful table topper. Terrific job!
Your little village is adorable. Love all the colors.
Susan
This is so cute, I would love to make one for my living room!
Absolutely adorable! I love this little village, the colors, everything about it! Thanks so much for sharing some inspiration!
Lovely use of the residences, love the decoration, text and colours. Great piece Linda. Hope you have recovered from your trip to Ranger. Take care. Tracy x
Dear Linda - You continue to inspire me with your amazing creativity. I love what you've done with the art parts. Can't figure out why they intimidate me. They yell at me from my cupboards all the time, and i never pull them out. Today may be the day :-)
What a darling little village! I agree, this would be the perfect housewarming gift. Maybe add the recipients name in the windows! Marijane
I love our houses so cool and perfect for a housewarming gift!
Great fun. Love to see how all these products are used. Have ideas for the "Residences" and love the little words in the windows!!! Enjoy the weekend
I love the houses ! They have to be one of my favorite art parts !!! Love the project.
Adorable! I love the way you worked with this challenge!!!
Homes sweet homes! You created a wonderful piece. Thanks for all your inspiration.
Such fun uses of so many great products...love the details.
Thanks for the inspiration sweetie
blessings to you, Dawn ll
I love how you took all those little parts and the colors and everything to create this wonderful little village. Love all the aspects of it!
Wonderful!
Sandra ltb
The charm in the center of the flower really adds something special to your row of houses. I also really liked how the words fit perfectly in the windows.
I just love your village!!!
I love anything house! Your colors and the words you used are lovely.
Love those little houses, I'm so loving those little pieces of art.
Darling little village. I need to research all of these new products some more!
darling little village, in the spring meadow, waiting for the art girls to come calling. very cool
Your project is just great! Love the way you did the stucco. I always love little houses. They are always so welcoming.
Carole Gatza
I love Wendy's art parts, and what you've done with them is beautiful! Everything I've seen so far on this hop has been wonderful.
What a great project!! I love the houses and the sun just wonderful!!
I love little houses, and the flower sun is so clever!
Gorgeous village, Linda. Fabulous job! TFS
I really like this. I like all of your creations,they are grungy, usually. I like that:) I dont usually make comments, but I really like Wendy Vecchi Art parts:) Sheila B
I just adoew those sweet little houses!! Just rather wonderful! TFS
kazx
I just love what you created - it's marvelous!
How awesome! Love the coloring and the stucco on your pretty houses!
what a cute little village. looking at it makes me happy.
Great idea about creating a stucco finish - how did you come to think of that? Colors are cool.
Super sweet! And I love the color palette!
Fabulous piece Linda! I have not got my hands on any art parts yet, nowhere near me sells anything like them. I just read your Ranger re-cap, sounds just heavenly:)
Love your project.
I love the houses...seems like a lot of scrappers are using them--I have to get me some too. Thank you for sharing. KSH
Ah, this is so different. Love the houses and all the texture that you applied. Oh, and the face in your flower. How did you do that? You didn't mention it in your blog. What a cute idea. Thank you for the inspiration.
This is such a fabulous piece with wonderful sentiment, Linda. I really love it. :) xoxo Theresa
Thanks for all the lovely comments, everyone! Joan, to answer your question, the face is a little pewter bead I've had for a long time. I just updated my post to include that info. :-)
Love your little house trio, Linda--beautiful!
What a darling project! I love the face in the flower.
Love your houses, the crackle roof rocks!
This would look lovely in my house, Linda! Thank you:)
Love the distressing. It creates a lot of depth.
What a sweet village, the colors and soft and
are a perfect choice. Thanks so much for sharing, love it!
Fab!!!
Oh your village is darling! Beautiful use of the different mediums.
Darling village Linda! Lots of distressing. Great job :). Linda Duke
It takes an artist to create a village! This is cool!
love your little village. thank you for sharing.
Linda - Totally awesome project. Will have to get some of those art parts.
How awe3some this is. Your project is so cute and makes me think of my grandmas house!
I love the houses!! I'm so enjoying seeing all the creativity!
A lovely village you've created, Linda! Love the colors.
Wonderful project, Linda!!!
I love the colors and the words placed in each house. Thanks for sharing.
What a darling little village! I love it, Linda!
Lovely village! I'm sure a bird will gaily sing while living there!
I love Wendy's houses! They are next on my list to purchase. You've done a wonderful job on yours. Thanks for the inspiration.
I relly like the colors and textures you have used to make this darling wall art
Love the art parts! Hmm I wonder when if ever a local store will stock these. Should just mail-order them.
Aloha, Kate
What a lovely little village. I love this, it's so pretty.
Love your little village, it is so wonderful.
Thank you for choosing the little village, i always wonder who is inside?
Fun and happy art inspiration!
I love your village piece! Great color combo too!
DeniseB
What fun! I've seen the residences art parts and wondered "what would you do that those?" Now I know! Thanks for sharing!
What a simply darling little village. as always i love your style!
Adorable! stefrick@optonline.net
AWESOME project!! I LOVE the colors and the details are PERFECT!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
The crackle paint and faux stucco on these houses is just fantastic. I love all the texture that you gave this piece. I think you definitely did justice to Wendy's Art Parts.
I just love this amazing piece.........what you did with all the different techniques and pieces was awesome.........have a great mothers day.........Therese
Super cute and very creative. Love the colors and textures through out your work. The sun is totally fab with that cool the brad!
Love the big flower in the sky! Great job!
Your little village is very cute! I just want to reach out and touch it!
These would look great on the top of my bookshelf. Wonderful project. Thanks so much.
Stunning work! Love this beautiful village in these pretty colors! Very creative!
Rockin the aRt parts Linda!...love your project
Linda
The textures you achieved are awesome and I LOOOOVE the sun-flower!
Linda, this is great! I was loving the different words on each house and then when I double clicked the pic and saw the face I was amazed.... so cool and clever!
Love your take on the houses! I have them and need to make some creating time with them.
Cute houses!!!
I love your take on the houses and what you did with the flower.
cute village...thanks for sharing and the chance to win...
Fabulous village--I like your painting.
Wwhat a wondereful village. So fun to see how everyone is using the Arts Parts pieces.
What a great way to put the house parts together. I can't wait to start using mine.
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