Artist Trading Block Blog Hop is Here

It's a Block Hopping Day!

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I'm so glad you've stopped by to see my post today and wow what find if you were coming here without know about the Block Hop that's going on with Eileen Hull designed die cuts and the Inspiration Team. 

My block today is inspired by the Stampendous packaging for the same stamp set I used, Andy Skinner's Nature set.

I painted with DecoArt paints in Toffee and Butterscotch (funny I didn't realize I made a sweet base coat until writing this post) and stamped around the box using masks on the shed and one post end of the fence section. Hindsight? Paint the sky first then stamp is a better sequence because I ended up painting through the fence and doing touch up with a Faber-Castell PITT pen.

Here's all the other side of it repeating the fence, adding a tree and a flock of birds.

Thanks for stopping by! It's time to make the jump over to Tenia Nelson's blog.

A party needs some prizes, right? Yes, THREE PRIZE PACKAGES!  Winners will be picked randomly from the pool of commenters during our block party week. Two winners will receive the prizes shown in the banner below. One grand prize winner will receive the prize package below, a package of matboard and the Sizzix die to start creating Artist Trading Blocks!

If that weren’t enough, eligibility for these amazing prize packages has expanded to include our international fans too!

Each comment made on our Block Party blog posts is a chance at becoming a winner. Leave one thoughtful comment on as many blogs as you want, all of them for the best chance to be picked by the random selection tool from Monday, February 23rd to the Sunday, March 8th. Why the extra week of comments? Some designers received their Stampendous products through slow mail and we wanted to give them time to create and post their projects. Pssssttttt, Stampendous will be posting a cumulative hop list on the Saturday's during the commenting period so it will help you keep track of which ones projects are new. 

Supplies:

From Stampendous.com:
ASCR01 Andy Skinner Nature Set
STF082 Versafine Onyx Black Ink by Tsukineko
FRC13 Leaf Green Color Fragments
FRC03 Chiffon Color Fragments
SSH57 Jumbo Acrylic Perfectly Clear Stamp Set
CP811 Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate

Plus:
Eileen Hull's Box Die by Sissix®
Little Sizzles ™ Matboard by Sizzix®
Acrylic Paint by DecoArt®
Dazzle Tac glue by Beacon Adhesives
Paintbrush
Water and paper towel
Double-sided sticky tape

Instructions:

1. Cut out two box panels from matboard and paint a light color base coat (I used toffee and butterscotch paint colors).
2. Determine orientation of the panels as if it were a completed box and mark on the backside of each panel which is the front and sides of box.
3. Paint sunset on front panel and continue around box panels. Let dry.
4. Stamp shed from Nature Stamp Set onto front panel with black ink and make a second stamp on a sticky note for a mask.
5. Cut out mask and place over shed on front panel. Ink and stamp fence onto sides and back panel, leave a gap by the shed and again on the back panel. Use a mask to cover one fence post and to make a continues fence line.
6. Stamp tree and flock of birds.
7. Glue box together and paint in the scored edges for a continuous sky. 
8. Add scattered sections of Dazzle Tac glue around base of fences and shed. Sprinkle color fragments over glue and tap off excess.