Fabric ATCs on the PaperArtsy Blog

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This Life Is Pretty Amazing Art Journal Page

Hi There!!!  I've got a couple things going on here.  First I was inspired by some videos by Marta of Maremi SmallArt.  Second, I was also watching the Week 2 videos from The Summer of Creative Chemistry at Online Card Classes and wanted to include some of that also especially using Distress Stains and Stamping for the Week 2 Challenge.  I did take a few pictures as I worked.

This first picture shows my little scrap box and I've pulled out some things to use.

I attached strips and pieces to some Ranger Watercolor Paper using Collage Medium Matte and then did a light coat of gesso.  

Next I brought out the Distress Stains and a spray bottle with water.  Doesn't it look great!!!

Ok, a few things.  I didn't keep track of the exact colors of stain but I did also include a metallic, the brushed pewter.  I used a heat tool to dry as I worked and then when I decided it was done... the problem was it wouldn't dry completely.  I used the heat tool A LOT and I even left it sit.  I'll need to experiment further to see if it's because they're over gesso or just what it was.  At one point I even took a dry paper towel and lightly wiped over it at which point I lots the pretty drips, but that was ok.  I eventually sprayed it with Workable Fixative and then continued on.

I used Distress Crayons and also a little bit of Stabilo All pencil on the background.  For the tag I did the marbled stains technique, stamped the quote with Jet Black Archival, tore the tag, stamped the flourish with Watering Can Archival, inked the edges with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and used a white gel pen in the flourishes.  The butterfly was stamped with Jet Black and inked with Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade and Picked Raspberry and cut out.  .  

All put together.  The Tim Holtz doily is cut from plain Tissue Wrap and then some Picket Fence Distress Stain brushed over it.  Stamped Flourishes again.  Some Matte circle things and some blending of color around them.  Finally

Friendship Card

Hello and Happy Monday!!

  It's my turn on the Quietfire Creations blog today!!  Pop over HERE to find out how I created this card.

Circle Journal #3

This is my page in Hazel's Journal, front and then back.  Again, and I know I say this with every journal but it's true, I had lots of fun working on this.  I just love getting the next journal in the mail and seeing how it was made and what's been done so far!!!  All the pages for people to create in Hazel's were different and we get to choose whichever one we want to use.  I flipped through the pages 3 times before I could choose which one, LOL!!  Fun, fun, fun!!!  

On this side of the paper, the partial image that I've colored red in the bottom left corner was already there.  I could tell it was a PaperArtsy Sara Naumann image that I have so I got out those, and other Sara stamps, and began.  I stamped the circle image around the page.  I painted in the partial heart image with, I think, Cherry Red and the circles with White Fire Fresco Finish Paint just using my finger.  Next I stamped the script with White Fire.  Then out came the Infusions!! Oh, these are so much fun!!! I blotted most of the infusions off the metallic circles but not all of it and dried it.  Next I stamped the heart image on another paper, painted it with my finger and cut it out.  I wasn't sure how I wanted to proceed on this page so I flipped it over and started the second page (explained below).  When I came back to this side, I next stamped the new little love image from the Quietfire Design Jewelry Words Set of Stamps in each of the circles.  The hearts were glued on with Ranger's Collage Medium Matte.  I painted around the hearts with Snowflake Fresco Finish Paint by putting a little paint on my brush, setting the brush up against the heart and brushing outward in small strokes.  When that was done and dry I used a black All-Stabilo pencil around the eharts and blended it with a water brush.  I stamped the words on a scrap of white, cut them out, edged them and blued them on.  Finally I added dots of White Fire on the hearts and painted the scallops at the bottom with White Fire.  

With my Sara stamps out, I decided to just continue using them on this page.  First I used Infusions on the paper sprinkling them on, adding water, and then lightly brushing in vertical lines.  The leaves were stamped with Archival Ink Watering Can and colored in with markers.  I drew the black scallops along the bottom with a Pitt Pen and then colored them in with Gel Pens in pastel colors.  The bird was stamped directly on the background and again on white card.  I cut the main bird from the paper, colored it and glued it over the bird on the paper.  Over the eye I added a drop of Glossy Accents.  The All-Stabilo pencil was used around the bird.  The words were stamped and embossed and then yellow ink was added in that area to just make them pop more.  Little pink flowers with Liquid Pearl drops in the center and an idea-ology word band with ribbon tied on finish it off.   

 

Happy Birthday Tag - Creative Chemistry Summer 2016 - Dimensional Flowers

Happy Tuesday!!!  It's a very exciting, somewhat nervous day today as I will be teaching a class for the first time at Memory Bound store in Ankeny.  The focus of the class is dimensional flowers on cards/tags.  This tag is going with me as an extra sample.  One of the flowers we are learning today is the pansy.

However, the tag itself began with inspiration from The Summer of Creative Chemistry over at Online Card Classes.    Way back when it was first offered I signed up for Creative Chemistry 101 but didn't manage the time to actually participate.  So far I've managed the first week of Summer 2016 Creative Chemistry and hopefully I'll keep up all summer with 101, 102, and then 103.  

The challenge with Week 1 was to use 4 or more colors of Distress to creative something with a technique from class.  I've used the colors Squeezed Lemonade, Shaded Lilac, Abandoned Coral, and Cracked Pistachio and the technique Wrinkle Free Distress as the first layer on this Ranger #8 tag.  I'm so sorry I didn't take a picture at that point because it looked fab!!!  Over that I've used a Tim Holtz stencil along with Shaded Lilac Distress Paint.  Next I die cut the bricks, colored another tag with Cracked Pistachio Distress Stain, and glued the tags together.  I then glued some of the bricks back in, just because. 

Happy Birthday is a Quietfire Design stamp and I've stamped it with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The Pansy Flower is an Elizabeth Craft Designs die set.  I cut all the pieces from Ranger's Watercolor paper and added color with Distress Markers and Stain.  Shaped the pieces, glued them to the tag and added a sticky back gem to the center of the flower.  Some 1/8" yellow, satin, ribbon finishes it off. 

Birthday Card

Happy Friday!!!  Are you looking forward to the weekend!!  We have a graduation party to attend on Saturday for our very good friend's youngest child.  

It's also my step-daughters birthday on Saturday  and this is the card I made for her.  The background is white cardstock sponged with Distress Ink Cracked Pistachio... I Love this color!!!... and then flicked with water, blotted and dried.    The doily and flower are both Sizzix Tim Holtz dies.  They were both cut from white cardstock.  The doily was left white, trimmed along the right side and glued to the card with Collage Medium Matte (Ranger).  The pink on the flower is Distress Paint Picked Raspberry.  The green is Distress Marker Mowed Lawn.  There is also a little shimmer on the flower done with Wink of Stella Gl. Clear.  That wonderful happy birthday is a Quietfire Design image from THIS set stamped with Archival Ink Magenta Hue (Ranger), cut as shown, the edges sponged with Magenta Hue and it's attached with foam tape.  

Paula Cheney Classes

Way back in April Paula Cheney came to Memory Bound in Ankeny to teach 4 classes and I was very blessed to be able to take all 4 of them.  She also brought a friend with her, Richele Christensen.  The picture above is Paula, me, and Richele.  

Paula is a wonderful teacher and I loved every class!!  I had also taken classes Paula taught the year before at Memory Bound (that post is Here) and was happy to sign up and take more this year.  

Paula talking about Collage Medium.

Richele and Paula!!

Richele sat down behind me for a short break and to Instagram so I snapped a picture (isn't her smile beautiful!!!) to put on Instagram. 

Before a class.  Richele is talking to Kellie, one of the owners of Memory Bound, and Paula is talking to students. 

And now for project pictures.  Some things I was able to finish in class and others I finished at home.  I'm not going to talk about the projects but I would definitely encourage anyone to take Paula's classes if you can.