Creative Chemistry Day 5 - Alcohol Inks

I love love love Alcohol Inks.  I've had yopo paper since Tim showed us at CHA.  Yup...in the collection. So fun to get it out of the package.  I admit, I struggled with the techniques, which is why I only have 2 photos.  I'll play more tomorrow.

Creative Chemistry Day 4

Today we got to play with Distress Crayons... Oh my.  I'm in love.

Creative Chemistry Day 3 - Mediums and Textures

Embossed Texture Paste

Day 3 - Truly time to use the 'collection'. I have had this stuff forever.  Oh so fun to put it to use.

Layered Collage

Texture Paste Coloring

Texture Paste Resist

Grit Paste

Creative Chemistry Day 2

Day 1, omg...exhausting.  day 2 - even more fun, new techniques and fun.  I loved every minute.

Paint Resist

Paint Lifting

Distress Stain Rub Resist

Distress Marker Spritzed

Luminous Mica

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - Micro Glaze Resist

Oh my...the possibilities.

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - Distress Washed watercolor technique

Micro Glaze - AMAZING.  Enough said.

I love this technique.  You watercolor your image, cover with micro glaze, and then spritz and watercolor around the image creating a sort of 'halo' around your image.  

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - Offset Stamping

The fun continues.  Off set stamping is where you stamp your first image with a light image, watercolor the image, and then over stamp with archival ink that is 'offset'.  Love the result.

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - Shadow Stamping

For our 2nd technique today we worked with Picket Fence Distress Paint as a shadow feature.  Love it!  

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - Distress Highlight Stamping

The second technique today was so cool.  Ranger finally came out with Picket Fence Distress Ink.  It is pigment...but...still distress.  It makes an amazing shadow as you can see below.  Basically, you stamp your first image, and then offset the picket fence with the same image creating a shadow.

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - DIY Hombre

Creative Chemistry Day 1 - DIY ombre.  Create your own ombre ink pad.  This is kind of a graduated color pad.  I used Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed.  Even though it's 100 degrees here,  I am still thinking fall.  I loved the colors and can't wait to make cards.

It's Time..Creative Chemistry 103 - Day 1

If you have signed up for Creative Chemistry 103, then you know the excitement we all are feeling as the week got started.  The review during the summer of 101 and 102 were just the primer to get our creative juices flowing!

Day 1 focused on Distress Inks, Distress Micro Glaze, Distress Stains, and watercoloring.  It was a busy busy day that made my head spin!

Ombre Ink Pad

Shadow Stamping

Micro Glaze Resist

Distress Washed Watercolor

Offset Stampinng

It was so fun to get all inky and messy today.  Can you 'feel' the smile on my face?

I have loved seeing everyone else in the gallery...so finally getting around to loading mine.  Have a look and let me know what you think.

Inspiration Wednesday - February

I enjoyed this week's challenge with Donna Downey - Inspiration Wednesday.  I love book text, music pages, etc.    I have an old recipe book I found at a yard sale many years ago that is my go to when I need some text pages.  It is spring, so flowers are showing up everywhere, and I couldn't resist adding a few here. The brown 'stain' on the first page of my journal is my first attempt at using Tim Holtz Distress Crayons.  Very fun and they really glide over the matte medium I put over the pages.

Inspiration Wednesday

We are now into February with Donna Downey's Inspiration Wednesday Challenges.  This weeks was another using the dripping paint technique.  I just cannot seem to warm up to that, so did my take on a color block idea a friend shared with me.  I had just received some Dylusions paint in the mail and was excited to see how the colors blended together.

Inspiration Wednesday - Week 2

Today is another journal page from Inspiration Wednesday with Donna Downey.  I used supplies that have been in the hoard for a long time, and something new.    First was texture paste/modeling paste to create texture on the page.  Second, is glazing liquid that I added some paint to.  This is a totally cool technique.  You paint the glazing liquid all over your page, and then remove the amount of color you want with baby wipes.  I loved the effect.  Here is this weeks entry....

Inspiration Wednesday...A new adventure for me

This year, my friend Shelann challenged me to try something completely different and out of the norm for me.  She introduced me to Donna Downey and Inspiration Wednesday.  Every 2 weeks during 2016, Donna releases a new video challenge for us.  To say this is a struggle is an understatement!  But a fun one.  I'm a bit slow to get started, but am vowing to speed up my art in the coming weeks.  Here.... is week 1.

I am into the drippy stuff...so not too pleased with this, but do love the bicycle and saying.  I am retired and truly enjoying every moment I get to spend outside.  Donna encouraged us to choose a word that describes our goals for 2016 - my word of the year is ENJOY.  

12 Tags of Christmas 2015 - Week 12

Whew,  I made it.  My last entry for this challenge was a fun one.  A very vintage looking gate fold card.  You can find all the details for this awesome challenge HERE.  Linda , owner of Funkie Junkie Boutique is the sponsor of this challenge and is offering some great prizes to those that participate.  Be sure to check out her boutique for all your stamping, scrapbooking, mixed media projects.

This weeks tag was a complete Wendy Vecchi inspiration.  I loved the style, but most of all loved the holly stencil and distress techniques used on the inside of the card.

 

I used 2 Wendy Vecchi stamps for the backgrounds of front and back.  Gotta love those polka dots in Geranium Red!  For the inside, I used Pine Tree Distress Ink pounced through the Holly Stencil.  I used Red Stickles for the holly berries.  The saying is from a Tim Holtz Christmas set.  I cut some holiday greens using the Tim Holtz Die, covered it with Distress Paint in Pine Needles, sprinkled with distress glitter for shimmer.

I hope everyone had a great time seeing the cards I made and learning more about Funkie Junkie.  You really need to check it out to see the great products and amazing prices.  You won't be disappointed!

12 Tags of Christmas 2015 - Week 11

I am really cutting this close....I simply lost track of time finishing up my tags.  I hope I get them in before the deadline.  Here are the details of the challenge:  12 Tags of Christmas 2015.  Linda's boutique, Funkie Junkie Boutique, is sponsoring the challenge as well as offering some great prizes to those that play along.

This weeks tag had such beautiful colors.  That is definitely what inspired me when I was putting the elements of my tag together.  I used Broken China, Tattered Bronze, and Salty Ocean Distress Stains over the Crackle paint background.  I love how the cracks are accentuated by the colors.    I used Tim Holtz's Layered Snowflake die and texture fade for the focal point.  I rubbed Salty Ocean Distress Ink over the high spots of the snowflake and added some sparkle.

12 tags of Christmas 2015 - Week 10

I think week 10 is now my favorite...Gold and White are such a wonderful combination.  I was inspired by everything on Linda's tag this week - so I stuck very close to her design.  Linda, over at Funkie Junkie Boutique, is sponsoring the 12 Tags of Christmas 2015.  The boutique is also awarding some awesome prizes to folks who contribute to all 12 weeks of tags.

I am such a fan of gold and white.  I used texture paste to make the dimensional background.  Everything was really pretty simple.  I cut and texture embossed the snowflake using Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake die and texture fade.  I rubbed embossing ink over the high spots and embossed with Judikins Egyptian Gold embossing Powder.  I had some gold netting in my stash that I crumpled and bunched up under the snowflake.  I also tucked in a little piece of Holiday Greens cut out of shiny gold paper.  Lastly - I used Tim Holtz Holiday Script words to cut out Peace on Earth.  I edged the card with Champagne ink from Encore.

12 Tags of Christmas 2015 - Week 9

We are rockin' and rollin' now.  Only 3 more weeks to go.  I loved, loved this weeks tag.  I am a long time coffee drinker, and the new die cuts by Tim Holtz have been so fun to use.  I definitely used them as my inspiration for this week, although, I pretty much copied her tag completely.  To see Linda's tag, hop on over to her Blog.  Her online shop, Funkie Junkie Boutique, is generously sponsoring this 12 week challenge, and offering amazing prizes as well.  I am having a blast creating each week as well as waiting with anticipation every Monday Morning to see what Linda has created to inspire us.  A BIG shout out of Thanks to Linda!

This card just looks like Christmas Cheer to me.  What better than to celebrate with a Peppermint Mocha.  I followed Linda's example almost completely.  I used the Tim Holtz holiday words stencil and texture paste to make the background.  Once it was dry, I sprayed it with Barn Door and Mowed Lawn Distress Stains.  I also rubbed Treasure Gold over the top for some sparkle.  I cut the mini fresh brewed dies from Coordinations Red cardstock which was sanded to expose some of the craft underneath.  I used some texture paste to simulate whipped cream.  The holly and saying are both from the Tim Holtz collection.

12 Tags of Christmas 2015 - Week 8

Can you believe it's week 8?  I can almost believe I'll catch up :-)  If you don't know by now what I'm talking about - check out the Funkie Junkie Blog for details.  This weeks tag contained many elements I did not have - but I think my improvising worked.  My inspiration from Linda's tag was the 'Believe' license plate.  For me,  Believe is more a part of my faith during this time of year.  We are waiting with anticipation through Advent for the birth of our Savior.  

I loved the Wendy Vecchi style of this weeks tag.  I again pulled out several things in my collection that had been completely neglected over the years.  Sometimes I think that's the problem with seasonal items.  They look great, you buy them, but then the season is over and you (okay, ME) forget about them.  This is my first year with Linda's challenge, and I am loving getting out all my stuff and rummaging through for fun items that were long forgotten.

I started with manila cardstock colored with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.  I did a little spritz and flick as well as adding some holly stenciling with Pine Needle DI.  The paper banners were scraps in my box.  The bells were cut from TH mini bells.  I pulled out my Believe license plate stamp by Wendy Vecchi to use as the greeting.  Pretty simple this week, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Be sure to stop by the Funkie Junkie Boutique to see all they have in stock this holiday season.  They are sponsoring this challenge, and giving away some very fun prizes to folks who enter each week.