Rainbow Maker - Online Card Class

I enrolled for the Online Card Class -Rainbow Maker a few days late, and I am trying to catch up, as well as doing lots of other things I need to be involved in right now. Here are a few things from days 1 and 2. It has been great fun, and very inspiring, there is so much more I want to try and I have only tried a few parts of the first two days.

I'm showing my experimental pieces and then where appropriate, the card made from that piece. I have used different inks and brushes, blending tools, stencils, water spritzer. Then to make the sampels into cards I used a variety of dies and stamps. It was aslo a good opportunity to make more use of the Distress Oxide ink pads.

 

 Day 2 Stmaping

I can recommend this class, and look forward to trying more.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Summer of Creative Chemistry - 103 - Day 6

Summer of Creative Chemistry 103 with Online Card Classes - Day 6

... And now for something completely different! - No classes for day 6 - but lots of information presented in an informative video and some homework in the form of a challenge. We were asked to revisit one of our favorite techniques from the previous classes or to try one which was new to us. Then Tim asked that we give it a twist by using any surface other than the traditional cardstock. 

I decided to have a go at the paper mosaic technique onto a grunge board, die cut mannequin shape. I mounted this onto burlap and I tried texture paste through a stencil onto the burlap directly and it worked well. I also tried using Alcohol Inks on plastic scrabble tiles.

Cardstock did feature in my finished layout as I used a small piece of Kraft Resist, with a Stamp & Archival Ink. I then inked this with several colours of Distress Ink.

Items used in this project:

• Patterned Papers - Kaisercraft Miss Empire and 75 Cents
• Ideology Paperstash - Kraft Resist
• Distress Paper Mosaic Kit
• Distress Inks
• Sizzix Sewing Room Die
• Grunge Board
• Layering Stencil - Measured 012
• Stampers Anonymous - Components Collection - Vogue 
• Alcohol Inks
• Blending Solution
• Scrabble Letters
• Buttons
• Crochet Doily
• Bakers Twine
• Sewing Machine Charm
• Decorative Pin
• Texture Paste
• Ribbon
• Press Studs
• Hooks & Eyes
• Lace
• Burlap

It is a shame the classes have now come to an end, but it's now time to revisit many of the techniques I have learnt and to make some cards and gifts. I will also be using them in my scrapbooking. I now have an amazing library of technique tags to refer to, with the details attached to the back of each one.
I can recommend subscribing to all of the Creative Chemistry classes on offer as they are still available to purchase and take part in even though they wont be live.

12/08/16 - edited to say - I have just heard that I was a winner of the Grand prize for Creative Chemistry 103! I can't quite believe it!! 
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Summer of Creative Chemistry 103 - day 5

Day 5 of Creative Chemistry is all about using Alcohol Ink and Yupo. This was a bit more out of my normal comfort zone for creating backgrounds and images but it was great once I got started and I think I will use these amazing techniques again.

Alcohol Ink & Yupo

Here are the six technique tags I made today:

1. Alcohol Ink Stamped Resist on Yupo

Alcohol Inks - indigo, honeycomb poppyfield & silver

Yupo Synthetic Paper

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

Rubber Stamps - Stampers Anonymous Wild flowers

2. Alcohol Ink Texture Resist on Yupo

Alcohol Inks - pool, meadow, juniper, denim, stream

Yupo Synthetic Paper

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

Embossing Folder - Couture Creations - Extra Confetti

3. Alcohol Ink Faded Layers on Yupo

Alcohol Inks - honeycomb, red pepper, cranberry, indigo, denim, stream & gold

Yupo Synthetic Paper

Layering Stencils - 006, 008, 012 & 026

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

4. Alcohol Ink Painting on Yupo

Alcohol Inks - honeycomb, poppyfield, cranberry, pesto, cool peri, juniper, espresso

Yupo Synthetic Paper

Rubber Stamps - Stampers Anonymous - Garden flowers

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

Archival Ink - hickory smoke

5. Alcohol Ink Liquid Landscapes on Yupo

Alcohol Inks - honeycomb, red pepper, cranberry, pesto, denim, espresso

Yupo Synthetic Paper

Rubber Stamps - Clarity Stamps

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

6. Alcohol Ink Splattered Florals on Yupo

Alcohol Inks - honeycomb, red pepper, meadow, juniper

Yupo Synthetic Paper

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

That's all for day 5, tomorrow brings something rather different and a break from the normal classes.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Summer of Creative Chemistry - 103 - day 4

Day 4 in Creative Chemistry 103 (Online Card Classes) was a busy one using Distress Crayons. Having tried these out recently on behalf of Papermaze - it was good lo learn some new techniques and to compare them with Gelatos. 

Day 4 - Distress Crayons 

Here is what I made:

In more detail:

1. Distress Crayon Smudge

Distress Crayons - Set 1 Brights
Texture PasteLayering Stencil - 002Collage Medium - Matte
#8 Manila Tag

2. Distress Crayon Gesso Fresco

Distress Crayons - Set 1 Brights & Vintage Photo
Layering Stencils - 008, 018 & THMM103

Gesso

#8 Manila Tag

3. Distress Crayon Textured Resist

Distress Crayons - Picket Fence
Layering Stencils - 049Distress Ink pads - Iced spruce, twisted citron, mustard seed, salty ocean, wild honey, scattered, rips persimmon

#8 Manila Tag

4. Distress Crayon Watercolour Resist

Distress Crayons - Set 3 & peacock feathers
Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

water-colour paper
Stampers Anonymous mini blueprints CMS150Distress Ink pads - walnut stain & frayed burlap

5. Distress Crayon Blended Background

Distress Crayons - Set 1
Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Framelits Die Set - Tag Collection

water-colour paper

6. Distress Crayon Layered Colouring

Rubber stamps - Non Sequitur - Old Fashioned Romance
Distress Crayons - Set 1 & 3
Collage Medium - Crazing
 #8 Manila Tag

Another fun day in the arty chemistry lab - back with Alcohol inks tomorrow.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x