Archive for the ‘tutorial’ Category:
Misting with Markers
I learned this great technique using Alcohol Pens from Beate at Split Coast Stampers. She’s made a fabulous video tutorial. Beate uses Copic Markers in the tutorial, but I also tried Fillable Adirondack Pens. I’m just learning, and she does a better job teaching, so check it out!
2 Comments »
Subscribe to the comments for this postTinted Paint Technique
The TECHNIQUE I’m sharing with you this evening is for the hearts in the photo. It’s fun to make full sheets of this Tinted Paint background paper and use it for die cuts, tags, and more.
INSTRUCTIONS:
You will need the following:
Nonstick Craft Sheet
White Acrylic Paint
Several Colors of Reinker
One Sheet of Cardstock (I cut this into mat size pieces, for ease)
Optional – homemade pearl mist, or Glimmer mist
Got everything in place?
Drop reinker around on the paint, various colors.
You can even spritz some homemade perfect pearls mist in it for some shimmer.
Use a piece of cardstock to really smear the colors around, then lay the cardstock on the paint, to coat your paper.
Apply more paint/ink as desired.
Let your paper dry.
Once completely dry, it has a neat almost leathery feel, and if you turn it over, you’ll see the original ink colors you added, in a fun mottled pattern.
Die cut or use as desired.
Repeat as desired.
Hope you’re having a FABULOUSLY creative weekend. Happy Crafting!
THIS JUST IN! Perfect Pearls arrive at Croppinsville.
NEWS FLASH!!!
Need a little SHINE in your projects?
Perfect Pearls are here!
| You can create dazzling pearlsescent effects with Perfect Pearls™ and Perfect Medium™. Specially developed with a built-in resin, Perfect Pearls™ Pigments are easy to use wet or dry. Mix with watercolors, inks, acrylic paints, Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel™, embossing powders and other mediums for radiant results! I have even mixed it with nail polish to give your nails a little extra sparkle, and with Claudine Hellmuth’s Glossy Gel Medium to sparkle up my finish on a collage! |
Perfect Medium is now available in pens! Perfect Medium works with Perfect Pearls™ Pigments and more! Perfect Pens work great as a resist ink, embossing ink and watermark, too! We now available individually, and in our Pearls Combo Starter Set.
We also carry the brushes open stock. We accidentally received ONLY the fine tip – we’re waiting on the duster brushes. Oops, these things DO happen. I blush to think of the number of orders *I* when I have made a lil BOO BOO!
Pearls are simply GRAND for all your scrapbooking and paper crafting!
Can’t tell, without the show… You know, SHOW n TELL, I did that sort of backwards! How about some great Demos from Tim Holtz, Senior Educator for Ranger:
PERFECT PEARLS MIST Learn how to make your own sparkling, inky mist … like Glimmer Mist. The combinations are endless.
PERFECT DISTRESS Create a fabulous tag. You’ll use some homemade mist, so watch the first video FIRST.
Okay, if you’re totally hooked and want even MORE education… learn from Jennifer McGuire – she did a little bit of brushing using the pearls and Distress Inks. Here is a video with more information on these fabulous pigment powders.
Ready to shop? YOU CAN SEE OUR PEARL COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE… every beatiful color, every marker, ink and brush… http://www.croppinsville.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?search=action&category=PER0
AND, if that wasn’t enough, my friends at Ranger were kind enough to offer a SHOW special (yes, OUR summer CHA orders are still rolling in) and I received a demo pack, so if you would like a little demonstration, just ask me next time you’re in. You know that I am always happy to stop and play with the toys.
Happy Crafting, or should I say, SHINE ON!
Wrapped with Love
I am a big fan of Kate’s Paperie. I have bought some PRETTY cute stuff from their shop – like vintage glittered postcards, and more.
I was browsing their site, they’re having some cute events, and saw this article on gift wrapping. It was too cute not to share, and since we’re approaching the season of gifting …
here’s another gift wrapping tutorial
Hope you find yourself wrapped in LOVE!
Happy Crafting!
Try Something New
I was inspired by a technique shared by List Mom Gloria, on All Things Tim. If you paint metal and then emboss, you get a fabulous enamelware look.
That wouldn’t work for my word sticks, so I experimented. If you take a word stick, or any other metal embellishment, and ink it with dye ink, then sprinkle some clear embossing powder on it and heat… you get this cool hand hammered look to it. A little color still sparks through, too.
Before I inked, I rubbed paint into the areas where the letters are. Then, I rubbed off the excess with a damp paper towel.
Stamps – Life Adventure and Just Thoughts by Tim Holtz. Inks and embossing powders by Ranger. Tag by Creative Cafe.
So, be brave, try something new. Encourage your hopes, not your fears.
Happy Crafting!
