Eclipse Thank You Card (and a few other samples)

To do the eclipse technique, die cut shape(s) are cut out of the decorated or printed panel and reattached after being layered/raised up so you have a continuous pattern across the whole card. I smooshed the background with ink and water and then partially stenciled a pattern which was darker/complete in the upper left corner and “trailed off” as I moved towards the lower right. The pattern on the portion of the card where I die cut my “thanks” is subtle, but you can see how the drops and splotches of color continue onto the raised letters. (I cut and layered four plain white die cuts under the patterned one to raise it up. You could also use a piece of fun foam.)

For the next two cards, I used patterned paper.

Both of these panels were made from different parts of a sheet of “Thoreau Flowers” (#505802) paper by Recollections. The “In A Word: Thanks Cutaway” die (#WW031CA) from Winnie & Walter is perfect for this technique. The butterfly die was unbranded.

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19Dec2019

Tea Bag Fold Birthday Card

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Tea Bag Fold Birthday Card

I was recently asked if there were ways to use the tea bag fold panels for a design other than for a Christmas tree, and this is one variation I came up with.

Paper used on this card is Snowflake Mix (#712257), Wooden Fence (#154484), and Textured Cream Sheet Music (#142950) which are all by The Paper Studio. The card base is Recollections heavy weight ivory. The greeting is a stamp from the “Banners” set from Joy! Crafts. Last year, I made a holiday card using the same papers.

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24Nov2019

Gel Medium and Stencils (with foiling, heat embossing, and glitter)

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Gel Medium and Stencils (with foiling, heat embossing, and glitter)

I tried some foiling with gel medium for the first time.

I applied the gel medium to my panel with a palette knife through a stencil and allowed the gel medium to dry. Then I placed a piece of transfer foil on top (of the dried gel medium) and ran the panel through my minc foiling machine.

Here is another foiled sample:

A similar effect can be achieved with embossing powder instead of the foil. While the gel medium is still wet, you sprinkle on the embossing powder as you normally would if you were stamping, shake off the excess, and then you allow the gel medium to dry. After it has dried, you heat set the powder with a heat tool.

Here is a sample panel done with embossing powder:

While the gel medium is still wet, you could also apply loose glitter (instead of embossing powder). Once the gel medium dries, shake/brush off the excess.

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13Nov2019

Stencil and Texture Paste Background

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Stencil and Texture Paste Background

I rarely use stencils or texture paste, but I decided it would be fun to play with both with my class.

While creating a few samples, I tried different methods of adding color to the white paste (while still wet or after it was dry). For the above sample (and the first one below), I added some Memento Bamboo Leaves ink to my craft mat, scooped a bit of the paste down on it, and mixed it up. It was very light and whitish which is not the way this ink normally looks, but it matched this patterned paper perfectly (I thought!).

When I sponged the Bamboo Leaves ink directly onto the dried paste (like on the middle sample above), the color was much closer to what I expected it to look like (at least in real life). For this method, I replaced the stencil over the dried panel to mask off the paper where there was no paste and then sponged on the ink. I also tried a water color wash (with the same ink and water from my craft mat) over the whole surface after it was dried (third sample above). That was probably my least favorite method of adding the color, but water color is not really my thing – lol! (My color was very diluted; maybe I would have liked this method better with more intense ink/paint.)

The patterned paper I used is called “Floral Border” by Recollections. I matted my panels with Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel card stock and stamped the greeting with a stamp from the “Banners” set from Joy! Crafts with PTI Ocean Tides ink.

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31Oct2019

Ho Ho Ho with Distress Oxide Inks (and a few other samples)

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Ho Ho Ho with Distress Oxide Inks (and a few other samples)

After trying alcohol inks the other night in the course I am teaching through the Haddonfield Adult School (as I mentioned in my previous post), we then played with Distress Oxide inks . I used these inks for the first time while preparing samples for this lesson. (I had watched several tutorial videos back when the inks were first introduced but hadn’t actually tried them until now. Not sure what I was waiting for!!) I love how cool the ink looks when it dries, how it reacts with water, and how easy (and fun!) it is to layer colors.

The background on this one was “smooshed” with Tim Holtz Faded Jeans, Cracked Pistachio, and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inks. I didn’t add water to my inked surface on this card because I wanted to see how the layered inks looked after they dried without the oxidized look.

The die cut is called “Ho Ho Ho Square” (#590-ZZ) from Impression Obsessions.

Here are two more samples made with the “smooshing” technique using Cracked Pistachio, Faded Jeans, Wild Honey, and spritzes of water between layers.

The floral die cut on this one can be found in the “Floral Square” die set (PFSA0118) by Pinkfresh Studio. (The “thanks” die was unbranded, but I’ve since found and purchased the “Gallery Frame 2” die set from Hello Bluebird which contains this “thanks” die, but bigger.)

and

The “Fancy Floral 2” die (PFSA0918) is also by Pinkfresh Studio. (There is also a Fancy Floral 1 which is the same design with thicker lines and could be layered under this one to create an offset mat. It could also be used on its own.)

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