Sunflowers & Dragonflies

Getting Creative with Chipboard–alcohol ink

Many of you asked me for more tutorials using alcohol ink, and today I’m going to show you how easy it is to jazz up your chipboard with alcohol inks. More alcohol ink ideas can be seen in two of my tutorials entitled, Painting With Alcohol Inks and Batik Mulberry.

Southern Ontario has been cool over the past couple of nights.  Sweaters have to be worn by the lake as there is a chill in the air.  Ahhhhhhhh, my favourite time of year.  Today’s inspiration came from the fall that is in the air.  I’m even cooking like it’s fall.  Last night I made my daughter’s favourite–shepherd’s pie.  Mmmmm.  My secret ingredient–poultry seasoning.  Yup, that’s right, poultry seasoning.  Let’s think fall today, shall we?

Supplies:

• Acrylic paint
• Chipboard
• Alcohol ink
• Blending solution
• Felt and handle, or cotton ball

Paint your chipboard.  Here I used green because I wanted some green to show on the leaves.  Place dots of alcohol ink on your felt pad and stamp all over.  I did four pieces of chipboard at a time.  After I placed the alcohol ink on the pad, I then added blending medium and a few more drops of colour on the same felt pad and blended on more colour.

Don’t these leaves remind you of autumn?

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Get Your Creativity On With Chipboard–getting dotty with it

Today is the first in the series of Get Your Creativity On With Chipboard, and today we are going to get dotty with it.

Supplies:

• chipboard
• acrylic paint
• paint brushes

With a damped brush (too much water will warm the chipboard), paint chipboard with acrylic paint. Let dry. Repeat until chipboard is covered well. Let dry. With the tip of your paint brush, dip into the acrylic paint and lightly place a dot onto the chipboard. With each dot, redip the tip of the paint brush into the paint. This will give you even dots. If you would like teeny tiny dots, as seen below, then use the tip of a stylis to create the dots.
 
 
 
 

This piece of chipboard was painted green, and pink dots were made.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Shh, this recipe is secret, but the secret to making dots isn’t so secret any more.

Everyone loves a good cupcake now and again, and today is no exception. The large dots were created by using the tip of a paintbrush, and the smaller dots were created by using the end of a stylis. A toothpick would work just as well.

Why not create a lacy border. There are so many wonderful colours of paint, try your hand at creating cool chipboard.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tomorrow I have something special in store for chipboard, so don’t forget to drop by again.

All images are Odd Bird Planet.

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Tutorial Tuesday-Utee Brightz

Here we are again–it’s Tutorial Tuesday and I have another fun technique for you to try. Ranger has a new line of Utee Brightz, and for the stamp artists in my area, you will be happy to know that Lasting Impressions carries this line in their store. This technique is quick, and adds a touch of elegance to any card. Have fun!

SUPPLIES:
Utee Brightz
VersaMark
Heat gun
Cardstock
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Stamp VersaMark onto the cardstock. You can make the covered surface as large as you like by moving the stamp over the cardstock.

Sprinkle Utee Brightz over entire prepared surface. Next, heat emboss until Utee is melted. Repeat this step by stamping VersaMark over the surface you just prepared, and heat emboss once again. This step should be repeat five times.

After the fifth layer has been added, immediately place your rubber stamp gently onto the melted surface and leave sitting for about 30 seconds. Leaving the stamp for 30 seconds ensures a good embossed image will appear.

Here is the embossed image.

Cut out your image quickly before the Utee is allowed to harden completely. I used my Cuttlebug with a round Nestability. Very gently peel back the area of Utee you do not want to use so that you do not crack your embossed image.

The embossed image is so elegant and adds nice texture. Have fun embellishing with your embossed image.

Be sure to check back on Thursday for a week long “Ways To Use It” series.

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Summer Days Are Here

Are you are having a fabulous weekend. I spent the entire weekend in the studio working on Odd Bird Planet assignments, and now they are ready to be mailed. Today I played with my new camera and the uploading system, where there are numerous new tools to play with, including cropping out unnecessary background. While I was able to crop the background out, I wasn’t able to fix the blur, so I apologize for the poor quality. It took numerous attempts just to get this photo. Why? Because some how I set the camera to count down from 10 before it took the picture, and then it took two pictures back to back. Need I tell you how frustrating this was?

This SU flower was stamped out three times with VersaMark, onto designer paper, and was embossed with Wild Plum. Layers were separated with pop dots. Butterflies were stamped out using Adirondack’s Lettuce and then pop dots were added to make them pop. This card is 5 1/4″ x 5 1/4″.

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Kick it up a Notch

In four short months the Christmas season will be upon us, and this is the time of year we need to think about the cards we will send out. To help get you started, I listed 12 ways for you to kick it up a notch. The card below gives you a close up view of the embellishments.

12 Ways To Kick It Up A Notch

• Create a unique folded card such as a gift card holder as above, criss cross card or waterfall card
• Use Twinkling H2O’s on your card
• Create die-cuts with your Cricut, or purchase pre-cut diecuts or chipboard
• Incorporate 3-D designs such as Jolee’s Boutique, with your stamped image
• Add crystals and jewels
• Embellish with holiday ribbon
• Glitter and Stickles add sparkle and shine
• Use lots of layers –5 to 7 are good
• Sew stitch lines, or create stitch lines with a fine black permanent marker
• Emboss with the Cuttlebug
• Stamp more than one image on the inside of your card. Decorating the area around the sentiment is fun, and so is adding another image on the opposite side of the sentiment
• Finish your card with a personalized “stamped by” image on the back of your card

Get Your Personalized Stamp In Time For The Holiday Season

• If you are interested in ordering a personalized custom design, please e-mail me at scrapbook4ever@yahoo.ca with Stamp Order in the title

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