Archive for October, 2007:
Tutorial Tuesday – Clear Resist Techniques
Supplies:
Clear Resist ink pad
Variety of coloured ink pads
Glossy cardstock
Stamp
Sponge
Ink your stamp into the clear resist pad and stamp it onto your glossy paper. Let dry approximately 10 minutes. You can use your heat gun to speed up the drying process.
Tear a scrap piece of paper, making sure it is long enough to cover your card.
Lay your paper over your card, leaving an inch to ink with your sponge.
Continue to ink your card.
When finished, you are ready to complete your card.
Sponging colour randomly with a sponge is another way of decorating the card.
See what happens when you don’t wear gloves?
I thought I would try a little vintage with this technique to show you how versatile this technique can be. When using a photo-like stamp, the image looks like a negative, so to give a nice detail of the face, I restamped the image onto cardstock and glued it on top of the resisted image.
Here I chose to add embellishments. I wanted to keep the “art” look of the card and stamped a flower onto a piece of polished stone paper. After cutting out the flowers, I adhered them down the spine of the card with glue dots.
I kept this as a one-layer card. There is so much one can do to make the one layer card interesting. By adding a sentiment, stamping over top of the resisted flower with a coloured flower, and adding dragonflies, there is enough interest without having to add embellishments.
Subscribe to the comments for this postCupcake Anyone?
Did you have a nice weekend? Here is a justjohanna cupcake for you. A Happy Birthday tab was added. Stickles are sprinkled on the top of the icing. Yum!
To Someone Special
How’s your weekend going? Are you ready for Halloween? My front yard is all decorated with scarecrows and mums, and the candy is bought.
Stacy’s colour challenge, over at the Stamp Shack, is to use burgundy, cream, black and gold, which inspired me to go classic. Inside I added a Happy Birthday sentiment.
Have a great day!
Tagged–again, and again
Thank you to all the wonderful ladies who tagged me this week:
Life has been hectic today–my DD and DS were in a car accident (thankfully they are fine). The car they were driving was totalled by a driver who turned left right into the oncoming car DS was driving. DD knew I was going to start crying when I saw her in emerg in a stretcher, with a neck brace, so she kept saying, “it’s okay mom, it’s okay, I’m okay, I’m okay.” Pretty sad state of affairs that DD has to calm me down! How precious my children are to me!
Okay, on to business.
If you could have 100.00 worth of scrapbook paper or assorted embellishments, which would you choose? Only $100? What’s with that?! I’m a paper piggy so it would most definately be paper. I love colour, colour, colour!
If you had to choose between using only stamps or rub-ons, which would you choose?
Stamps, of course!
If you knew how to do both awesome cards and layouts but could only do one for a whole year…which would you do?
Most definately cards. My viewers want cards and techniques, so I give them what they want.
Would you rather own a scrapbooking store or have your own scrapping room at home…(can’t have both he he he) Store, and I’d sneak in lots of stamps.
And last but not least, what is your CURRENT cardmaking or scrapping style. Very colourful and funky. Of course I’m using loads of techniques too.
Now I get to tag. I’m tagging:
Have a great weekend folks.
Altered Art
Last night I went to my local scrap and stamp store, Lasting Impressions, and this is what we made in class. Five minutes before I was to be out the door, I ran downstairs and looked through my altered art box and found all these lovely items. The beads were left over from my sister’s bedroom curtains she had made. The key came from a scrapbook package (sorry, I threw out the packaging), and the butterflies came from my favourite flea market, “Pete’s.” Tucked inside are twelve little index cards I made with scrapbook paper and tabs. I’m thinking this would be an excellent box to hold monthly birthday reminders. I purchased three more boxes to alter for Christmas presents, and I’ll show you those when I have them finished. Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by.
Tutorial Tuesday – Bargello
Supplies:
Ink pads in a variety of colours
Small rubber stamps
Pencil crayons
Exacto Knife (not shown)
Metal Ruler (not shown)
Cutting Mat (not shown)
Cut your cardstock into a variety of widths, then stamp images onto cardstock. You may wish to colour areas on the images and this would be a good time to do that.
Lay strips of cardstock onto a double sided sheet of sticky tape carefully so there is no space between the strips. Trim edges that are hanging over.
The next step is to cut your strips. Turn your cardstock so the strips are horizontal, and using an exacto knife, cut strips into various widths. I cut in widths of 1/4″, 1/2″, 1″, 1 1/2″.
Starting from the centre, lay your pieces down onto cardstock. This can be done with glue, spray adhesive or double sided sticky tape.
Turn your piece over and trim edges with an exacto knife
When your bargello piece is cut to the size you want, finish it off by matting it.
These are the items I made with my bargello: two cards and a cheque book cover.
Try This:
- Stamp a large image in the same colour as your paper, and then use a smaller image and stamp in a co-ordinating darker colour
- If you do not have double-sided sticky tape sheets, Elmer’s spray adhesive can be substituted
- Use a roller stamp with ink and cartridge
- Use those dollar-store clear acrylic stamps; there are many small flower images
- Use up your scraps. If you have different sizes of cardstock, simply butt the ends to join the two pieces
And A Partridge In A Pear Tree
Do Not Disturb
Eat Cake
Good Saturday morning. The Do Not Disturb sign is on my door and I ain’t coming out! Although I spent the entire day working feverishly in my studio yesterday, I only skimmed the surface of the to-do list. Here is a sneak peak into what I am up to this morning. This darling stamp is from justjohanna. Their images are way too cute. Background colour is sponged on, and of course I just had to use my Cool Caribbean again.
Kim Hutchinson and I are up to something too. We are going to show you just what it is sometime soon, so keep watching. Okay, you want a hint? It’s something altered. And, speaking of something altered, anyone who is local has just a few more days to sign up for the altered box class at Lasting Impressions on Wednesday, October 24th. No altered art experience is necessary, and it will be a ton of fun–because I’ll be there–LOL. This is one project I’m keeping for myself.
Okay, back to “The Piano” soundtrack by Michael Nyman (which was an exellent movie by the way), my coffee, and creating. Have a wonderful weekend.
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