LET'S DO THE POLKA.....DOT!

Hi everyone!  Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  

Time for another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

This week, we're all about polka dots or some sort of dots.  Just looking at polka dots makes me happy...don't they affect you that way, too?

I finally got what was one of the Hot Picks at CHA back in January ... an Envelope Punch Board and I used it to create this really fun and funky envelope. 

The envelope punch board is so cool and so easy to use!  Just figure out what size card you will fit inside the envelope, refer to the chart right on the Envelope Punch, cut your paper to the size you need, follow the simple directions and with a couple of punches and score marks ... instant envelope!  I love it!  My envelope is 5" x 7 1/2".  So I began with a 10" x 10" sheet of blue cardstock. 

Next, I decided to pull out another "toy" that I've yet to play with ... my GelliArts Plate.  Again, so simple and SO FUN!  I started with an iridescent blue paint and using a brayer, smeared it onto the Gelli Plate.  Then I laid down yet another new toy ... my 6x6 Crafters Workshop Mini Layered Beads Stencil.  I laid a piece of white Bristol paper on top of the stencil and rubbed across it with my hands to transfer the image.  

When that was finished, I pulled up the stencil and turned it over with lots of paint on the underneath side.  Then I laid another piece of paper over it and rubbed my hands across it to pick up the reverse image.  Very cool!

I was having so much fun with the polka dot stencil and Gelli Plate that I decided to see what Wendy Vecchi's Polka Dotty Stencil would look like.  Instead of iridescent blue, I used bright red and repeated the process all over again..

Here are the results.  How cool?!?

I added some Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink to the background of the red prints and cut up all of the Gelli Plate prints into various size rectangles.  

I edged with them with black and glued them into place on top of the envelope.

What would a polka dot piece be without Dyan Reaveley's Dependable Dotty? I altered her a bit though by adding Pondering Petunia's head on Dotty's body.  That is one thing I love about Dyan Reaveley's stamps; so many interchangeable parts.

I stamped the images onto Specialty Stamping Paper and colored them with various Distress Inks and a Detailer Water Brush.  I added Glossy Accents to her glasses, lips and boots to give them a little dimension and make them shine.  Finally, I matted her onto black cardstock and cut her out.  Her hair is various size polka dots that were punched out of the Specialty Stamping paper and some paper that I had embossed with Black Embossing Powder so that the black dots would be shiny.

Next I mixed some vintage with this funky card by adding Tim Holtz' Movers and Shapers Vintage Fan.  I cut them out of plain Grungeboard.  I embossed the bottom fan with Black Embossing Powder and then a light coat of Rust Antiquities Embossing Powder for a little rusty appearance.  Next I cut out another set of fan blades and embossed all of the blades with Liquid Platinum Embossing Ink.  I piereced a hole into the center of both fans and attached them with a Long Fastener.  

The fan blades will actually spin!  Love it!  Then I added some of the paint I used on the Gelli Plate background to the fan blades and splotches of it on the background; as if the paint came flying off of the fan and created all of that funky background.  

 I added the sentiment from Dyan Reaveley's Say What You Mean stamp set.  As I said in the beginning of this post, polka dots make me smile and this sentiment also gave me a reason to smile.  

So there you are ... all sorts of polka dots!  I hope you'll join us at Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge.  You could be the lucky winner of our weekly prize of a 

$50.00 credit voucher. 

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Here are a list of all of the products available at Simon Says Stamp that I used in creating this Polka Dot Envelope:

*PRE-ORDER We R Memory Keepers ENVELOPE PUNCH BOARD	*GelliArts GEL PRINTING PLATE	*Wendy Vecchi STENCILS For Art POLKA DOTTY Studio 490	*The Crafter's Workshop MINI LAYERED BEADS 6 x 6 Template	*Tim Holtz Idea-ology GRUNGEBOARD BASICS PLAIN Altered Art
*PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz VINTAGE FAN & GLOBE Sizzix Die Movers Shapers 657838	*Dyan Reaveley PONDERING PETUNIA Stamp Set Dylusions Cling Unmounted Rubber	*Dyan Reaveley DEPENDABLE DOTTY Stamp Set Dylusions Cling Unmounted Rubber	*Dyan Reaveley SAY WHAT YOU MEAN Stamp Set Dylusions Cling Unmounted Rubber	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD RIPE PERSIMMON Ranger FALL
*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger SUMMER	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD SALTY OCEAN Ranger SUMMER	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD SQUEEZED LEMONADE Ranger SPRING	*Tim Holtz Distress Ink PAD TATTERED ROSE Pink Ranger	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD SCATTERED STRAW Yellow Ranger
*Tim Holtz DETAILER WATER BRUSH Ranger Watercoloring TIP33080	*Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK AIP31468	*Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive	*Ranger Inkssentials 8.5 x 11 SPECIALTY STAMPING PAPER ISP32908	*Versamark CHAMPAGNE DAZZLE Watermark Ink Stamp Pad from Tsukineko VC252
*Ranger EMBOSSING POWDER BLACK Rubber Stamp Ink	*Ranger EMBOSSING POWDER LIQUID PLATINUM Rubber Stamp Ink	*Ranger RUST Antiquities Embossing Powder Industries EAJ00655

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