Stretch Your Stamps OnLine Card Class Day 5

Day #5

Stamping with Markers for Highlighted Words Technique

Card #1:
I used Distress Markers, Vintage and Wild Honey to color the stamp where I wanted these colors to be.  Then i used a little sunshine stamp to complete the word Sunshine. I also used sparkle gel pens to highlight the word Sunshine and color in the sun stamp.

Card #2:
For this card, I used the same sentiment, stamped a couple of sunshine stamps at the end of the word Sunshine.  I then sprayed the whole card with Dylusions Lemon Zest. I put a sunburst template, centered over the sentiment, over the entire card and sprayed with Dylusions Squeezed Orange to give that sunburst effect. I colored the suns with Distress Orange Marmalade, and finished then with an orange sparkle gel pen.

Stretch Your Stamps OnLine Card Class

Day #3

Making Personal Note Cards, masking the name technique. 

I tried sooo many times to get this where it looked half way decent. I wanted to use this curvy Alphabet cuz I just adore it, but it done NOT lend itself to this technique. i do think block letters work better. But anyways, this is one that actually showed up ok, not great.  I used gel pens to add sparkle to her name, the sun, the embossed frame (cuz you really could not see it at all) and the black dots around the flowers

CC101 Monthly Challenge - Rusted Enamel

I absolutely love this technique and an added bonus, is the feel of the tags afterwards... like leather!!! I faux enameled the Tim Holtz Grunge Hinges as well as the tag. I used Broken China and Vintage Photo for the background.  Old Paper, Tea Dyed and Vintage Photo were the choices for the dictionary tear-out -- Time: and related words.  Ribbon is dyed with Broken China and Vintage Photo.

Stretch Your Stamps Online Class Card #1

Today was the 1st day of Classes. Different techniques were shown for using background stamps. I chose to use two on this card... shaded ink on the hearts and watercolor for the flowers. I made an "envelope" card, scored 2 twice at 5 1/2 from top and first score, leaving an inch fold-up at the bottom. Stamped and embellished it, leaving inside blank for a personal message... and wha-la... here it is...

CC101 BONUS Challenge "Seasonal Distress Pallet" July 2012

Spring Seasonal Distress Ink Pallet...

I had alot of fun creating this.  I started with watercolor paper, spritzed it with H2O, then sprayed Seasonal Spring Distress Inks I made with re-inkers, on the paper. I dried the background each time before tapping it back onto the craft sheet for more ink. When I had the background as I wanted, I lightly spritzed with water again, just enough to blend.

Using aTemplate, from the Shaded Lilac Ink Pad, I applied the yummy purple ink with the ink blending tool. I used another template to create the yellow sunshine using Squeezed Lemonade. I applied several layers of ink to get the color I wanted. I finished with another templates using  Peacock Feathers.  While the template was still in place, I traced the image with a white gel pen and finished embellishing for the look.

The ribbon was created with the sprays of Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade and Peacock Feathers. I punched holes in the tag, wove the ribbon thru, meeting at the top left.  Using a BBQ wooden skewer to roll the ribbon,  I heat dried it while on the skewer. With it still rolled up, I curled it around itself creating the rosette.

To color the baskets, I dragged a tiny paint brush across the Shaded Lilac Ink Pad and painted onto the stamped basket image. I used Squeezed lemonade mixed with Shaded Lilac to paint the brownish color.

For the butterfly, I "inked" the stamp with all the Seasonal Spring Distress Colors, using that very tiny paint brush again, stamped it onto watercolor pper, spritzed very lightly with water to blend slightly, cut it out, edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and applied to tag.

Techniques used:

Since I challenged myself to ONLY use the Seasonal Spring Ink pads I had, and Sprays I made, and not having the Markers,  I had to modify several techniques below:

Watercolor Marker - modified using tiny paint brush, ink to craft sheet, h20 for blending

Stamping with Markers - modified- used tiny paint brush to color the stamp after swiping brush across the ink pad

Watercoloring with re-inkers - modified - used tiny paintbrush dipped into re-inker sprayed onto craft sheet to color in the templates where needed after using the blending tool

Layered Misting Technique - modified - sprayed re-inkers onto watercolor paper in several layers, added additional color via Ink blending tool from the three Distress Seasonal Spring Ink Pads

Wrinkle Free Distress - modified - heat dried tag between re-applying additional ink by tapping tag back into the droplets on craft sheet

Brushless Water Color

Challenge #3 Pefect Splatter Distress

Created these tags using the Perfect Splatter Distress from Day 9 of the Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101 Class. 

I used Copper Perfect Pearls in this tag:

I used Pewter Perfect Pearls in this tag:

CC2C #10, Tissue Flowers

The current CC2C Challenge is using the tissue flower technique from Tim Holt's book, Compendium of Curiosities, Vol 2,  found on page 37.

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I used Dylusions Spray inks for the backgound,  TCW Template to H2O fade resist the background, Dylusion Stamps,  TM Distress Markers, Simon Says Stamp sentiment stamp, white buttons,  black and white string, and Pentel White Gel pen for highlighting.

I stamped a full sheet of white tissue paper with a TH Papillon background stamp, then cut the tissue sheet into 4X4 inch squares and followed the directions on page 37 of Tim's book. I then spritzed the flower with Dylusions inks to match.