PaperArtsy Competition

If anyone is interested in how I made this
I have lots of pictures of Ferro and
Fresco Paints being applied so I will
Make that my next blog entry.

So this is the Tag I am entering for
the PaperArtsy Competition.

This is my Second only entry for a competition.  The reason I am putting in this entry is because I have admired PaperArtsy for a while from afar, ever since and actually just before I saw Leandra Franich at the NEC I could stand and watch her for hours doing her paint demoes.  I love paints, always have and she reminded me of this.  The Fresco paints are some of the best I have ever used, they are easy to manipulate, dry very quickly and the irridescent paints are just a joy to work with.  Being on the SplodgeAway Design team I have been mixing up my Inks and the SplodgeAway masks with the paints and they work really well together. That is the combination of products I used on the Tag I did at Michelle's house.


This was going to be my entry
but it doesn't photograph very well
it looks too crowded.

So that brings me to the reason I am entering this competition - there is a question that goes along with the compeitition "How has Michelle Webb influenced you" - Well I became a fan of Michelles a while ago, I used to envy her the skills she had with her paints  - Altered Art isn't a new thing it is revived and modernised and I have always felt it was just slightly out of my skill level. Than I did a show with Tom from SplodgeAway and Michelle came up to say Hi - I was so excited and that is when I discovered she lives exactly 5.5 minutes drive away from me in slow traffic!!!  Even more exciting she invited me round to have a play!!

This is the Tag I made
at Michelle's House

Well I was just in heaven, not for the lovely long worktop she has or the shelves that seem to house everything she needs them to, or for the lovely lovely products, paints, stamps, etc that she has hung up or has sitting on the shelfving in front of her, but for the walls - you look around and there is her work, the work that has been on the blogs, some of her DT work and her personal work.  I felt slightly out of my league.  But Michelle is lovely and made me feel very welcome.  We had a play and she taught me to push my boundaries a little on the amount of layers I played with, taught me to go in a different direction than just "down" a tag, and taught me how to do those little finishing touches that you notice the least but that make the biggest difference.  So thank you Michelle and I hope we can get together again!!! 

I made two tags for this competition but am not sure if I am completely taken with either of them, however I really enjoyed working on them and thrive to get them to the standard of the Tag I did at Michelles house.  That is one thing I absolutely cannot do without is my large PaperArtsy Tags.  So I made my little sayings up and then decided which one to enter and my entry is "You Looking Down On Me!".  It would be great to win this cometition because the prize is a set of PaperArtsy Stamps!!! http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2013/02/welcome-back-michelle-webb.html