Day 3 Creative Chemistry with Tim Holtz

The past three days have been amazing, doing the online classes with Tim I have learned so much. Today I managed just two of the three projects in around 3 hours.  I have so many ideas rolling round in my head to use these processes for other projects.

For the archival resist technique we stamped colour archival onto gloss card. I only had 2 Brilliance archival inks and none of Tim's texture stamps so I used sequin waste as a mask and then flipped it over to 'stamp' the residue ink onto the card.  I love the strong black image in contrast to the briht colours, the photo really is a washed out version of my original.

I loved playing with alcohol inks, and discovering how much they moved when the solution was added.  Again the picture is a bit paler than my version.

Day 2 Creative chemistry

Today we got down to the business off getting messy with distress inks.  As I have quite a few in my box it was great to actually use them in different ways.

Blended Spritz and Flick - says it all really :)  A great background.

Wrinkle free Distress

This one was interesting because at first I didn't know where it was going, now I've tried it I realise I can control the final effect by my choice of colours and where I place my card.

Brushless Watercolor - A really simple and effective technique, I think I'll be using this one over and over again.

Taking the butterfly one flutter further.

I would like to enter the following card into Emmas Crafty Challenge for March.

After trying the mosaic technique on the butterflies for Tims challenge I decided to see where else it could go. I attempted to cut grungepaper with double sided sticky sheet adhered to it using the largest spellbinder butterfly die in my big shot.  Unfortunately the machine didn't want to go through all the layers but this turned out to be a happy accident.  It went through far enough that I could cut around the outside easily.  Leaving the  on the sticky side I removed the backing paper from just the cut out areas the die didnt quite cut through, leaving behind the sticky.  I then brushed on some blue mica powder into those areas before moving the rest of the backing paper leaving the rest of the butterfly sticky.  I followed Tim Holtz tutorial to mosaic the butterfly before brushing in a vintage green mica powder to the grouted areas.

Most of the scraps came from off cuts of the papers I used to piece into the debossed area of cardstock embossed with the Geometric Special Touch Mica Mask.  This was matted and layered onto some metallic card and then onto a5 size white card that has been embossed with butterflies.
The sentiment is from a Creative Expressions set I won last year.  I stamped with versamark then embossed with a red WOW embossing powder, I then brushed over parts of the embossing with the same mica powders used in the butterfly, heating between each application, this gives a colour changing effect not quite seen to its best extent in the photo.  I finished off with a strip dicut with spellbinders, some pearly glue dots and 'hat pins'.

March tag and Ideaology challenge

Shades of blue box for Emmas Crafty Challenge

I hope I stuck to the brief here. 

This little case started out in paper mache brown.  I first painted it in blue then distressed it using two different blue distress inks.  The paper on the front is from a Tim Holtz range.  The letters were cut from kraft card then inked with the blue distress inks before being coated with glossy accents. The pocket came from a pair of my grandaughters jeans and it actually functions.

12 Tags of 2012

I finally felt inspired enough to join theTim Holtz 12 tags of 2012 challenge so heres my February offering entitled 'key to my heart'.  I haven't copied Tim's instructions, but I've used  them for inspiration. 

Sewn cards

I wanted to combine my love of sewing with cardmaking.  I found these fab stamps from clear art stamps and combining them with some Tim Holtz papers have made my first sewn patchwork cards.  I hope more will follow soon.

I deliberately chose this picture because it shows the dimension and cracked clear embossing on the tag better.  The greeting I have chosen for inside is 'a family is a patchwork of love' from creative expressions making it an ideal Mothers day card.  I Also used aged mahogany distress ink on the cardstock and vintage ribbon plus some sari silk which co ordinated beatifully.

A more masculine version