Gutter Girlz: September 2009

We have a couple things to bring you on this end of the month Mojo!!

AN HONORARY GUTTER GIRL
A BONUS PRIZE SPONSOR
A SWEET TECHNIQUE!!
WINNER and our NEXT GUEST GUTTER GIRL!!
OUR DT Sponsored PRIZE!

HONORARY GUTTER GIRL
Our honorary Gutter Girl is someone I came across here on the web a while ago. I'm not even 100% sure HOW she and I because contacts, but we did. I'm SO GLAD we did!! I totally enjoy her spirit, and all that she creates!! Plus, she has a shop called DIRTY LAUNDRY. I mean seriously. How could the gal who runs GUTTER GIRLZ not LOVE that!?!? Please help me welcome Beth Perry!!

Hi! My name is Beth and I live in St. Louis. I love creating, painting, making fabric jewelry and anything else that I feel like trying to learn on any given day.
Thank you for having me. This was such a blast creating from this prompt!
Lyrics from song: Just stop and take a second
As soon as I read those words in that song, I KNEW what I wanted to do. I have been wanting to make some kind of wall hanging with the awesome old lake photo I found at an antique mall in Paducah, KY.
Technique: blotted lipstick on Jenni Bowling sticker and covered with Crackle Glaze. After drying, put one more coat of clear drying glue (I used Zip Dry). The lace, star material and sewing bobbin are also antique finds.
blog: I LOVE DIRTY LAUNDRY
etsy shop: DIRTY LAUNDRY
I took the chance to ask Beth a few questions about herself!!
What is your favorite art medium?

It would have to be gesso and spray paints. I love adding texture to my projects with the gesso and I am very much addicted to Glimmer Mists right now.
What inspires you creatively?

I love mixing metal hardware, with its industrial feel, to vintage objects, such as lace and material. There is something so inspiring about mixing the the hard edges to soft textures.

How long have you been creating?

About 4 years now.

When did you open your shop? What gave you the idea?

Just recently actually.(couple of months) I started making yoyo necklaces and had quite a few orders, so I decided to open a shop. I had also started making some custom albums for a friend and figured I could put them in there too. I know there are a lot of people that would just rather buy an album then trying to make one. (no, I don't understand these people. lol...but, that's ok by me!)

Who do you draw inspiration from?

There are so many people and blogs I draw inspiration from. But, a few of my recent faves are these:

I love love LOVE the shabby chic jewelry by Beth Quinn. (cool name, too)

Pam Garrison's amazing sewing skillz never cease to wow me.

Tara Anderson uses alot of the mixing soft pretty things with contrasting black paint or metal embellishments (as mentioned in what inspires me creatively). Grunge meets frilly, if you will.

Apart from owning a kick ass etsy shop, are there any other websites we can find you on?

I have online galleries here:

Flickr

SIStv

And you can become a FB fan of Dirty Laundry HERE:
This is the AWESOME piece that Beth created with our Sept Prompt!!

BONUS PRIZE SPONSOR
Is Beth's Shop DIRTY LAUNDRY!! When we draw our winners next month, we'll give away a prize sponsored by Dirty Laundry to a second lucky girl!! The winner will be getting a handmade yoyo necklace (the one beth is wearing in her photo above!)

SWEET TECHNIQUE!!
This technique is brought to you by CHRISTI!!
Lace up your Chucks, ladies, we're about to go old school!! For this truly simple technique, all you'll need is a compass (the kind you used to use in school with a pencil, not the kind that tells direction), some paper, an ink pad if you want to edge your scallops with color, and a pair of scallop-edged decorative scissors (remember those?)!

Use your compass against your background cardstock to determine what size you'd like your circle to be. DO NOT touch the pencil to the paper at this point, just adjust the angle and move the point of the compass until you've got the circle size you want.

Now trace the circle onto the back of your patterned paper...

Use your decorative-edged scissors to cut out your circle, then ink the edges, if desired. Seriously, people, it's THAT easy!!

At the end of this process, you may notice you have one small spot where the pattern doesn't match up. Don't worry, you can easily cover that up as you can see in my finished layout.

And the great thing about this technique is that not only can you make scalloped circles of almost any size, but you could use different deco-scissors as well! Experiment and have fun...can't wait to see what you come up with!
WINNER

Our prize winner of LARA'S prize offered in Aug. EOMM by random number generator...

Ashley said... hope this link works Congratulations, Ashley!! I think I have your mailing information, so I'll pass that onto Lara!!
NEXT GUEST GUTTER GIRL!!
We ask one of our GIRLZ who take part in our challenges to be our guest every month, and this month, I'd like to invite:
papirdiva said... I just loved this prompt so much, I got up in the middle of the night last night and did it - at 3am! My layout
Margrethe!! We'd LOVE to have you be our guest next month!! Please shoot me an email using the CONTACT button in the left sidebar. Put OCTOBER GUEST in your subject, and let me know if you're interested in playing along!!
OUR DT Sponsored PRIZE
Post a comment with a link to your Gutter Inspired creations from our Sept. 15th Prompt, and the upcoming Oct. 15th Prompt, and be entered to win one of TWO prizes, as well as be submitted to be chosen for our next GUEST!! Thanks to CHRISTI, who is offering a prize from her etsy shop Coffee's Shoppe!! This prize is her Autumn Mini Kit!!

So how was your SUMMER?!?! Did it fly by for you as FAST as it did for ME?!? I have had NO time it feels like!! Yet somehow, we ended up at the end of summer, and SCHOOL has started!! lol I totally haven't been able to get in a challenge in FOREVER... ::sigh::

THE PROMPT:
I'm not ur bitch, BITCH
THE SONG:
U and Ur HAND by Pink
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE:
Lipstick

I really REALLY wanted to get this one in... lol because I HAVE SHIT to get off my chest, man. SHIT. lol Maybe I'll have to play along and comment later... For now, you'll have to be happy with THE GIRLZ and our GUEST GUTTER GIRL!!
Our guest this month is AMY!!!

Hello fellow Gutter Girlz! My name is Amy or as most would call me - Ames! I am a SAHM to 3 lovely kids and wife to my High School Sweetheart, Travis. Oh, and I am a Scrapbooking freak! I will scrap anything....seriously, I will! I would like to say a big Thank You to the Gutter Girlz for the opportunity to be their Guest Gutter Girl for the month of September! It's truly an honor, you ladies are so freakin' awesome and a true inspiration!

Glenda
I used some of the lyrics from Pink's song to describe how I feel when I get pissed off. It is something I try to work on alot but have major room for improvement on!!! I had fun posing beside this power pole that had a big "danger" sign on it to really show how nasty I can get. It's a constant struggle for me to control my temper and my mouth but I refuse to stop trying.

Kristy
This was inspired by the fact that things at work panned out and it came out that my was being covered for. Glad that's OVER!

Becky

Lara

Patti

Nikki
For the lipstick I kissed a tag and wrote "oh yeah and kiss my ass too!"

Susan
I've been thinking a lot this past week about a longterm friendship that went bad which sparked the journaling. This lo is to all the people in my past that I let use me and abuse me and toss me to the side. Now that I'm in recovery I'm so much stronger inside and can see my motives and others more clearly. I'm no ones free ride or wet blanket and I won't help anyone at my own expense anymore. The 80's punky feel of my lo really started when I added the lipstick.

Kris

Remember!! There's ALWAYS an angle to our prompts that fits YOU, because our challenges are ONLY to get the ideas running, and get you to create something you might not have thought to.
Lara is providing our PRIZE for this month!! Posting a link to your project in our comments here will put you in the drawing for her goodies!!