Book Study: Batik Resist Technique 3

Here's my third card using this technique. This time I stamped a clock face and some numbers onto mulberry paper with the embossing ink, covered in clear embossing powder and heat set.
After spraying the mulberry paper with water, sprayed with walnut ink.

Then sprayed with Bronzite Brass Color Mist and let dry.

Stamped some words and clock bits with black Versafine ink and a different clock face with coffee bean Brilliance ink onto the mulberry paper.

Added black brads to the clock parts and attached to a piece of light brown paper and then to a black card.

Book Study: Batik Resist Technique 2

This is my second card, using this technique. I stamped some butterflies with a watermark pad, covered with clear embossing powder and heat set.

I sprayed the mulberry paper with water, then choose three mini-misters with left over homemade color sprays and sprayed over the paper. Then let dry.

After ironing off the embossing powder, stamped some more butterflies with lavender Brilliance ink and heat set.

Stamped some words onto the mulberry paper with both black Versafine ink and repeat with denim blue Distress ink. Layered onto white paper then attached to purple card. Glued on three silver dragonfly charms.

Book Study: Batik Resist Technique 1

We're doing a Book Study as a group on NGS, using Nancy Curry's book "Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping". This week we are looking at her project "Love is Blue". Nancy demonstrates the batik resist technique using mulberry paper and dark intense watercolor paints for a fabulous look. Check out her book for her gorgeous card and detailed instructions.

I tore out a piece of mulberry paper and stamped on three bold flowers with a watermark pad, covered with clear embossing powder and heat set.

Following Nancy's instructions, placed the stamped mulberry paper on top of waxy palette paper and sprayed the paper with water to thoroughly wet the paper.

Used two colors of Dr Ph Martins Iridescent colors (one at a time) to brush on color. Then let dry.

Placed the mulberry paper between two sheets of copy paper and ironed off the embossing powder.

Layered the mulberry paper over a slightly smaller piece of white paper with yellow dots. Used silver brads to attach the mulberry paper to the white layer, then adhered to a purple card. Die cut out letters j-o-y from silver metallic card stock. Added a pink/purple ribbon with yellow dots attached with a silver flower buckle.

Quilted Tablecloths

I rented time on a long arm machine to quilt these two tablecloths, finally got the bindings done. Loved the black fabric in the top quilt and couldn't bring myself to cut it into small pieces, so found this pattern with large blocks to show off the gorgeous fabric.

We had a long wet gray spring, so I grabbed these fun bright fabrics and made this colorful tablecloth. It will cheer up the room any day of the year.

July Quote of the Month Swap

The July Quote of the Month on ccswaps is, "The man who has no imagination has no wings" Muhammad Ali. I thought this would be a great use of my butterfly background paper I made earlier. To go with the page, I cut out two butterflies with a Cuttlebug die out of some glittery paper that had been in the bottom of my spray box. Then ran the butterflies through both the bubbles embossing folder and the traditional butterfly image embossing folder. Colored the raised areas and the edges with purple ink.
Trimmed down the butterfly resist background paper and colored the edges with a gold leaf pen. Cut out an image of a man along with a boy on his hands. Added one set of butterfly wings to the boy and adhered to the background along with the other butterfly. Wrote out the quote on the same paper I used to make the butterflies, cut out the words and adhered to the background.

Decided this quote and my creation would make a great cover for a sketch book. To make the sketch book, cut two pieces of light purple mat board to 8" x 6". On the front, stamped some typeface words with black Versafine ink and stamped french script with light blue Brilliance ink.

For the back cover, stamped light blue Brilliance ink over sequin waste, stamped the french script with light purple Brilliance ink, and a saying & dragonfly images with black Versafine ink. Then inked the edges of the mat boards with the black Versafine ink.

Cut sketch paper to fit inside the book and bound it with the Zutter Bind-it-All. Glued my quote of the month creation to the front cover.

Had some left over fairy scrapbook paper in the mauve color, thought this went along with the imagination/wings theme, so used this paper to make the inside covers. Added some words stamped on with black Versafine ink. Inked the edges with light purple Distress ink. Front inside cover:

Back inside cover:

Added a winged vintage image to the back cover:

Hope the recipient enjoys this sketch book.

More backgrounds

For these backgrounds, I wanted to combine the gold leaf resist, the acrylic paint resist and the resist technique I learned from Bernie Berlin last fall. On watercolor paper, I stamped flourishes with a mixture of white and silver glitter acrylic paints and let dry.
Used a gold leafing pen to add dots.

Used watered down blue and purple acrylic paints to make a wash over the paper and let dry.

Stamped large butterflies with clear embossing ink, covered with clear embossing powder and heat set.

Then painted over the whole sheet with black acrylic paint and let it dry. Then used a iron and copy paper to heat the embossing powder to remove the acrylic paint from the embossed butterflies. I'm not sure if it was the black acrylic paint I used (golden) or that I let these sit for a couple of hours before doing the ironing/removing step. Some of the sheets I couldn't get the acrylic paint off, maybe I didn't get enough embossing powder on the images. Hmm.... Anyway, here is one of the better backgrounds. I have a plan to use it.

Rena's It gift

Rena is the "IT" girl on Art-Venturer's for July, and she choose the theme of Children. I decided to make her a embossing folder holder (or it can hold photos or whatever she decides). For the front cover, stamped some flourishes with a mixture of white and silver glitter acrylic paints over a sheet of paper that had been in the bottom of my spray box.
Trimmed the sheet down and ran it through a Cuttlebug embossing folder of bubbles.

For the back cover, choose another sheet that had been used in the bottom of my spray box, sponged on some of the whites/silver glitter acrylic paint mixture, stamped on some flourishes with purple dye ink and ran it through the same embossing folder.

Found some more paper that had been in the bottom of my spray box, again sponged on some white/silver glitter acrylic paint mixture , stamped on the flourishes with light green dye ink, and ran them through the same embossing folder.

Printed out some vintage images of children. On two of the photos, stamped the same flourish with green dye ink, and added a rub on saying to the photo of the children in the tub.

Bound the finished covers with 4"x6" plastic photo holders (they are a great size to hold the large Cuttlebug embossing folders), using the Zutter Bind-it-All. On the front I added a photo of two children in a framed ATC mat along with a small stamped butterfly, cut out and glued to the photo. Stamped a saying with black Versafine ink onto a sprayed sheet of paper, stamped on some of the flourishes and layered on to black paper.

Inside front cover:

Inside back cover, added a saying:

Finished back cover, stamped on a butterfly with black Vesafine ink and layered a vintage image onto black paper.

Hope Rena enjoys this.