ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 2 Tag

This ATC is inspired by Tim Holtz's 2008 Day 2 tag (12 Tags of Christmas). For the background he uses the Twisted Alcohol technique, which I did back in Dec 2008 and several other times.






Spread a generous amount of Metal Mixative on craft sheet and added drops of several colors.

Squirt blending solution over this mixture, the more blending solution, the lighter the inks will paper.

Place glossy card stock down into the inks and twist. You can add more depth and color by placing the same card stock back into the inks and twist again and again until you like how it looks.

Here's my first one, there is still lots of ink on the craft sheet, so I'll grab more glossy card stock.

Here's the second piece.

Added more blending solution to the inks on the craft street and got these two sheets of glossy card stock done as well.

For this ATC, choose the second background. Stamped trees in watermark ink, covered with black embossing powder and heat set (make sure the alcohol inks are dry before proceeding to this step). Stamped snowflakes with black Archival ink.

Placed more Metal Mixative on craft sheet, used an old toothbrush to splatter this over the card.

Colored edges of card with iced spruce Distress ink. Added white swirl rub-ons. Colored recessed areas of dragonfly and word metal piece with slate alcohol ink. Adhered with Glossy Accents. Added metal snowflake with white brad.

So fun to be reminded of this great background technique!

ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 1 Tag

 This ATC is inspired by some of the techniques Tim Holtz used in his 2008 Day 1 Tag (12 Tags of Christmas). I want to continue to be inspired by these tags, since Christmas is past, I decided to go for a "time" theme for the New Year.





Placed a large clock mask over an ATC sized piece of a Manila folder. Added Distress inks being careful not to move the mask.

While mask was still in place, stamped on  a smaller clock image and the backward numbers with black Archival Ink.  Then carefully wiped the ink off the mask. Let the black ink dry.

 Remove the mask and spray the ink with a mister, let the Distress Ink bleed into the previously masked area. When you're happy with the amount of bleeding, use a heat tool to stop further bleeding of the ink.

 Stamp image on grunge paper with black Archival ink and cut out with scissors. Colored sides and edges with blue Distress ink

 Filled letters in word piece with black Enamel accents. Cut a game piece arrow to look like clock hands.

 Used distress tool to distress edges of ATC and colored edges with grey Distress ink.

 Added pieces with Glossy Accents. Added black brad to clock hand and word piece. Added metal clock bits to man image with metal rim blue rhinestone brad.

So Happy!

Very Excited that I won one of the 12 Tags of Christmas prize packages for posting my creations each of the 12 days! Big thanks to Tim for the prize and most of all the inspiration!!!!

Frosty De-boss (not quite)

If you haven't seen Tammy Tutterow's post on Frosty De-boss, it's worth checking out!!!
I was going for a different look (not winter), but had trouble with keeping most of the crackle paint in the de-bossed areas. Oh well, I like the background I made and want to give this another go another day.
I colored a piece of Manila folder with Distress inks and some gold acrylic paint and let it dry.

 Placed in an embossing folder so the image is de-bossed.

 Generously spread rock candy Distress crackle paint over the surface working it into the de-bossed areas. Used piece of cardboard to wipe off most of the crackle paste from the surface of the card (leaving crackle paste in the de-bossed areas). Tammy recommends using a piece of chipboard to scrape off the crackle paint, that might be the reason I didn't get enough of the crackle paint scraped off.

 Here's a close up after the crackle paint dried.

 Sprayed with a home made mister with brown ink and perfect pearls.

 Stamped text over the surface with dark brown StazOn ink. Then coated the surface with a thin layer of q. azo nickel gold acrylic paint.

Book Study - Shaving Foam

 On NGS group, we're doing a study of Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran Wilson's book "Surface Treatment workshop" This week we're looking at the section using shaving cream. Spray shaving cream onto a plate. (The authors use the back of a plastic plate). Use palette knife to spread the foam evenly. Place drops of dyes, inks or paints onto the foam.

Swirl the inks into the foam. Place paper into the foam (the authors place the foam side of the plate down on to the paper) and lift off.

Use the palette knife to gently scrape the foam off the paper. Continue to use the colored foam until the colors become muddy.

Another thing to do with the colored shaving foam is to use with stencils. First I painted card stock with black acrylic paint and let dry. Tape stencil onto the card and dip into the colored foam and lift off.

After lifting off the stencil don't wipe off the colored shaving foam, but lay it down onto another piece of card stock and press down.

Here are my results.

Another thing to do with the shaving foam is to use interference colors. I added some iridescent  inks that went with my already blended colors.

Instead of swirling these, used a notched tool to mix the colors.

Wish the photo showed the shimmery colors.

With the next batch, dropped on gold and copper iridescent inks.

The authors give more suggestions in using shaving foam.

Growth Chart

I had fun making this quilted growth chart for my grandson Nicolas.

Christmas ATC Inspired by Tim's 2007 Day 12 Tag

 Tim Holtz's 2007 Day 12 Tag uses a variety of images with square and rectangular fragments and look like mosaic tiles. I don't have those fragments, but thought I'd try to make something similar.
Colored card with old paper Distress ink and let dry.

Cut out a variety of vintage Christmas images from a scrapbook page, colored the edges with vintage photo Distress Ink and adhered to card. I was going to coat each piece with Liquid Glass, but decided I like how this look and didn't want to alter it anymore.

 Colored the edges of the atc with the vintage photo Distress ink and added a brass colored tree brad.

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