It's Party Time!!!

It's time to celebrate!!

What are we celebrating? Well, this is my very first post

for my new design team term at Stampotique Designer's Challenges.

Sounds like a great reason to party to me!!

What's a party without party guests? 

I've invited quite few of my favorite stamps to this little soiree. 

I made this altered canvas using the backside of it as a shadowbox

to give some depth and extra space for everyone. This canvas is a gift 

for a friend's 50th birthday. She's been a very dear bestie for many years. 

Like over 30 years. We actually went to high school together and have done

a lot of growing up together. I love that crazy chick. So the fact that she's

stuck around for so long means she deserves such an involved project/gift

for her old lady birthday.   

I began by using matte gel medium to adhere old dictionary pages to the frame.

Then, I used watered down brown acrylic paint to age and distress the edges.

Giving the entire a piece an ancient appearance of at least 50 years old. Hee hee.

It also allowed for a more cohesive feel to all the torn edges of the dictionary pages.

Then, I added some of my favorite stamps, 

Moth Fab (one of my very first Stampotique stamps), Schmurfy, Piling Thing,

Barkabe, and a dog from the Dog Cube.

  

This is Baby Cthulhu. He is one of my favorite Stampotique stamps.

I also managed to place the birthday definition in the background, as well.  

Over on this side we have more favorites, Karin, Batboy, Spider Girl,

more Piling Things, and a pup from the Dog Cube. 

The distressed and crackled chipboard number 50 is a great place for 

Moon Girl and one of the bat kids from the Halloween Cube #1 

to hang out and enjoy the festivities. 

The spider from the Birds and Bugs cube makes an appearance as well.

He is hanging freely from a web brad and some iridescent floss.

I worked the cake definition into the background up there, too.  

Kitty even decided to come out and see what all of the excitement is about.

Using the party definition in the background, I added the 

Happy, Happy, Happy banner to complete the party decorations.

Also most everyone is wearing party hats compliments of the

Happy Head Appliances Cube.     

All of the coloring was done with Copics, and most of the images were

heat embossed on Paper Trey Ink card stock. My favored paper of choice.

My friend loved her canvas! I had to give it her a little early for fear she'd see this

post before her birthday this Friday, and ruin the surprise.

Happiest of daze to you, Dani!!! 

Thanks for stopping by today and celebrating with all of us. 

Be sure to pop by the Stampotique Designer's Challenge (now a bi-weekly challenge)

and check out all of the other designer's makes for Team 2.

As usual, there are two $30 gift certificates up for grabs this month.

And you don't even need to use Stampotique stamps to enter either. 

But if you have some already, why not break 'em out?    

I'd like to enter this canvas in the following challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Create a Scene