Monday, April 30, 2012

CC2C Week 3 Marbled Stains

A bit early for the 4th of July, but I thought I'd try the CC2C Seasonal Stains challenge with just a few colours, three in this case to see how it came out. The background words were done with Pumice Stone distress ink. I like the contrast of the marbled background with the sharpness of the Statue of Liberty image.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

CC2C Week 1 Custom Foam Stamps

My entry in the Week 1 of the Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge: Custom Foam Stamps. The trick I used here was to stamp using Matte Multi-Medium over the Distress Ink Marker coloured butterflies. This acts as a resists, and I then coloured the background with a variety of Distress Inks. Add some spritz-and-flick, an Archival Ink stamped sentiment and some distressing around the edges.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Dream Tag


This week's Simon Says Stamp and Show is Show a Tim Holtz Technique. I first made the flower by gluing some tissue wrap to grunge paper and then die cutting. I coloured with Alcohol Inks since tissue wrap has a slightly "waxy" finish it takes water based inks only very lightly. I applied some Distress Stickles on account of I made this on Monday when the latest Extreme Stickling episode came out.

The tag was made by spraying a Kraft tag with Ink Refreshers and then crumpling. Background was coloured with Distress Stains, then highlighting Brushed Cordoroy Distress ink and some Perfect Pearls. Stamped image using Olive Archival Ink

Sunday, April 8, 2012

12 Tags of 2012 April

A fun little tag from Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2012 April edition. I made some modifications from his original: The musical notes reflections background, and the Philosophy "listen" tag instead of a word stick.