Day One with Guest Designer Holly Simoni

We are very excited to welcome Holly Simoni this week as a guest designer. Holly is the queen of mixed media projects as you will see from today's project. You can also check out Holly's blog http://www.hollysimoni.typepad.com/ for more great inspiration.

Here's Holly:

I'm so very honored and excited to be a Guest Designer this week for JustRite Stamps! They always amaze me with their new releases and each time they just get better and better. I'm a mixed media artist at heart and love to use JustRite Stamps in my altered projects.

Today I have altered a vintage medicine bottle. I call my Butterfly Dreams Medicine Bottle. It reminds me to keep dreaming, keep creating and keep mixing art mediums. (My two little girls think it looks like a magic bottle that would be in a Fairy's house.)

I began by pouring a little Glimmer Mist inside the bottle and rolling it around and heating it up. Then I dropped in Mica Flakes and adhered some to the bottom of the front of the bottle as well. I tied ribbon and twine to the top of the bottle.

I just adore this swirling stamp in the JustRite Stamps Butterfly Dreams set. I inked the stamp with StaZon black solvent ink and used the stamp without a stamp block, so that I could wrap the stamp around the bottle. It worked perfectly. I love the aged look of stamping on glass.

I also used the Butterfly and the word DREAMS from the JustRite Stamps Butterfly Dreams set. I stamped them both onto vintage paper using black ink. Copic Markers are great for coloring in the Butterfly and around the word DREAMS. I painted on a thin coat of Glimmer Glaze and then added some Stickles onto the Butterfly as well.

3D Foam Squares were used to adhere to word DREAMS. I also bent the wings of the Butterfly and used another 3D Foam Square to adhere it to the bottle. When the bottle is laying down you can really see all the fabulous dimension. It's almost as if the Butterfly is about to fly off the bottle!