Bleach Block Tag

Over at the Craft Stamper Magazine blog they are sharing a technique called bleached blocking, which basically means removing ink from a water based background using damp foam distress ink pads.

I used seedless preserve, picked raspberry, faded jeans and broken china distress inks on the background, then took some of the colour out using a damp blending pad. As I haven't used lonely girl for ages, I decided to give her an outing.

I didn't feel that much of the ink had lifted off on the first tag, so I tried it again on a different type of paper, and this one definitely did take ink off, although I forgot to take a photo as it looked pretty good!! Again another Dina W stamp that I've not used for a while and the Traci Bautista one in the background over some tissue tape.

Canvas Atc's

Remember the pieces of canvas that I coloured previously here, well today I used some of them. I stamped the dragonfly image in versamark and heat embossed it with black wow powders. The images down the right are stamped in black stazon from a Traci Bautista stamp. I then coloured the wings and circles with distress inks, seedless preserve, dusty concord and faded jeans.

I again embossed the D stamp, top right and stamped another TH image down the left but it's very faded.  I stamped the PA image onto a separate piece of card, coloured it with Victorian velvet and added some wings. I tried to add some machine stitching, but had stuck the canvas to the backing with red liner tape and the needle kept getting glued up and the thread snapping, so I gave up!!

Have a Heart Canvas

Taking another of my new stamps 'Have a heart' by Lynne Perrella for Stampington & Co. I stamped onto crackly tissue paper with black versafine, which incidentally took absolutely ages to dry. Coloured the heart with festive berries distress paint as I wanted it really red, turned it over and pained the back with snowflake fresco paint. I cut really close up to the tissue and glued it onto the canvas with mod podge. Using little black dress fresco paint I stamped directly onto the canvas with my favourite and one and only Traci Bautista stamp.

Close up of image and painted heart.

One of the side panels.

And another.

Day 4 - Ombre

Day 4 of the CC102 class was based around alcohol inks.  I chose to try out the Ombre technique. Again can't go into too many details but if you want to know more, you'll need to take the class.

For this tag I used a combination of sail boat blue, cloudy blue and stream.

I decided to use oriental images on this tag from LP and Personal Impressions for the coin.

I used water melon, wild plum and currant on this tag.

And for the images, Dina Wakley and Traci Bautista stamped in black archival with a few PA mini splats.

I think this one came out as my favourite, using sunset orange, butterscotch and caramel.

And a combination of T!m and PA stamps, images stamped in black archival.

And finally citrus, lettuce and meadow for the greens combo.

And Stampotique images used for this one, tree, group of shrooms and the mini bee.

And here they are all together.  They look so different with images on compared to the very first photo where they were naked!!!

Thanks for another great class T!m.

Polka Dots

This week over at Tag Along they are asking to see polka dots.

Close up of stamped dots outlined in white posca pen.

A Bright & Cheery Tag

I wanted to make this tag bright and cheery as it's for a twitter pal who's just come out of hospital after having an op.

Stampotique have a theme of 'tag, you're it' this week and Dragons Dream TIO have a recipe of paint, ribbon and a stencil, oh and don't forget, at least one real stamp.

Mdf tag was initially primed with snowflake fresco paint and then coloured with limelight and zesty zing.  The diamond stencil was used with beach hut.

Image stamped with black stazon, coloured with pens, masked off and stamped the background using my Traci Bautista stamp in lots of different colours of distress inks, picked raspberry, salty ocean, mowed lawn, rusty hinge, peacock feathers and probably some others.

I used my white posca pen to doodle on the background and the black for the edges and to outline the main image.

The sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp.

Carly Plaque

I used one of the large mdf man plaques and one of my new stencils, mini Sally & Carly to create this.  I put grunge paste through another new stencil, mini confetti, top and bottom.  Painted the whole thing in snowflake fresco paint a few times as I wanted a bright white. Took the negative of Carly and filled in with French roast fresco paint.  Once dry I used the positive as a mask and stamped in timber brown various Dina Wakley and Traci Bautista stamps.  I took the negative along with a white posca pen and wrote all over the image. I finished off by adding onyxite treasure gold with a brush.

Happy Birthday Helen

It's my Twitter friend Helens birthday today and we actually met earlier this year when Emma and I went to Ally Pally. 

 

I know the 'lonely girl' image by Dina Wakley is one of her faves, so I decided to use this along with fresco paints in shades of blues and browns to decorate this mdf plaque as a birthday gift for her.

I am also entering it into the Hobby House Challenge as their theme is anything goes and also Our Creative Corner using the recipe

• List A - Ribbon 
• List B - MDF/Wood
• List C - Paint and Ink

And PanPastelUK are asking to see loads a layers, well loads were used to build up this background!!

Traci Bautista

Emma paid a birthday visit to AftH on Thursday to take a journal class with the lovely Kate Crane.  Little did I know that she was scheming and she bought this wonderful Traci Bautista stamp for me. I'd been pondering over ever since I saw it at Stampington.

Using white as the background colour I spray the Dylusions squeezed orange and let it drip.  I stamped the TB image in purple stazon down the left hand side and top right, and just using the scribble for bottom right, I inked up in black stazon.  I edged the tag in seedless preserve distress ink.

I used a kraft coloured tag for this one and coloured it with various shades of pinks, purples and blues in pan pastels.  I used a circle stencil and used white pan pastel, then bumped it with a light blue shade. I stamped in black stazon using parts of the stamp.

And finally I made an atc and used the top script from the same stamp and the background is lightly stamped in purple stazon.  The main image and the bottom text is from the PaperArtsy Wings #2 plate.  The reason for this is because over at the PanPastelUK blog, they have a theme of animals, so I thought the funky chicken fitted in well!!

Have to say that these are lovely stamps but are a bit Dina Wakley-ish, even down to the packaging!!!