In keeping with the requirements of this week's challenge, the background and flower layers are colored with Distress Stains: Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Twisted Citroen, Broken China and Peacock Feathers. The stem and leaves are embossed: I used a Ranger Perfect Medium embossing pen to form the design of the stem and leaves, and used emerald green glitter embossing powder.
This one project is my submission to the Week 6 Challenge: Use two or more layered stencil techniques on the same card, tag, project, etc.
I used the following techniques: Emboss With, Emboss Through, Layered Stencil Sketching, and Monoprinting. I hasten to say that I am not happy with the quality of my work; I would have done better if I had not consciously been trying to use so many techniques. However, here it is; I used four techniques in the same project.
I used the Rays layered stencil to emboss a tag. I then replaced the stencil, colored the rays with Mermaid Lagoon ink, and monoprinted another tag. I embossed with clear embossing powder and a heat gun. I then colored the tag (which was white) with Mustard Seed ink, after which I outlined the rays with a fine-point black Pitt pen and sketched bubbles with a Worn Lipstick Distress Marker between the rays. Finally, I used Mustard Seed ink with the Clockwork stencil on the monoprinted tag.
The little embellishment was die cut on a Big Shot embosser from a piece of grunge board covered with washi tape.
Distress Paints used: Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Candied Apple, Broken China, and Antiqued Bronze. When I was finished with the paints, I used stickers from Crowded Attic Salvage Stickers by Tim Holtz Idea-ology. I applied Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress Inks to the stickers. Then, I distressed the edges with the book cover with Black Soot Distress Ink.
When I discovered the 9/11 sticker in the book of Tim Holtz stickers, an idea began to develop that I would make this book cover look like it had been salvaged from the remains of the NYC World Trade Center.
I altered the bookcover of Unforgettable Musical Memories which is a book of music scores. I use the pages as backgrounds for my butterfly tissues when I am making cards.
This is my third submission for the Week 5 challenge. In this submission, I embossed a deep blue metallic card with a fireworks embossing folder. I then used Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, and White Picket Fence Distress Paints to intensify the fireworks display.
Other examples of the Industrial challenge:
Antiqued Bronze Distress Paint used to intensify embossed surface.
Twisted Citroen Distress Paint used to intensify embossed image of peacock.
Location: Beautiful Bentonville, Arkansas, USA, nestled in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains.
Submission #2 for the Week 5 challenge in Tim Holtz's Summer of Creative Chemistry 102, Day 1. I created a card using Rock Candy Crackle Paint. I colored the background and figures using the following Distress Paints: Mustard Seed, Wilted Violet, Glacier White, Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, and Mermaid Lagoon. The crackle paint I used was Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy. As a final touch, I covered the butterfly, bird, and two flowers with Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles. I used dimensionals to raise the principle figures above the marbled background.
Location: Beautiful Bentonville, Arkansas, USA located minutes away from some of the most beautiful scenery in the world!
Tim Holtz Summer of Creative Chemistry 102, Day 1, Paint Marbling
This is my first challenge submission for Week 5. To create the marbleized background, I used the four Distress paints included in the picture: Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Candied Apple, and Glacier White.
Summer of Creative Chemistry, Week 2, Day 8, Technique 2, Use Crackle Paint
The "House Built on Sand" is crumbling in the storm due to 1) well-documented bad architecture, 2) rising sea levels, and 3) Distress Rock Candy crackle paint aided and abetted by Distress inks and markers, and Micron pens. Notice the crackled monster rising with the storm surge. I think I read and watch too much science fiction.
