HOLY COW a tutorial!!!! PURE halloween distress!

That's right! i am finally back to doing some tutorials for y'all! today's is actually the October technique challenge issued by T!m Holtz over on his blog - that man is just inCREDible!! he did a tag as usual so i expanded on it and came up with these little goodies:

these are jars i am going to fill with hallowen nonsense and send to my brother and his friend. i think they will get a kick out of them. we will be using crackle paint - an amazing product that i just adore!!

Let's gather supplies: Crackle paint (only one color is necessary but i did several projects at once), cardstock, stamps, black soot distress ink, coordinating colors of distress ink (two is nice to use as opposed to one), foam ink blending tool, black paint dabber, fragments charm (brand spankin' new!), patterned paper, glossy accents, brad or eyelet, ribbon or fiber, stickles, grungeboard - all of these items can be found on my website except for paper and ribbon.

Start by painting on the crackle paint - it will take awhile to dry. Shake the paint well and then paint it on with the brush cap - just cover SOME of your cardstock - not all of it. Put it on a little thick so the cracks are nice and noticeable - i don't find it curls my paper too badly once it is glued down. i did gift bags too which will be a project posted later this week....

i did two pieces of cardstock and two bags. The top one uses shabby shutters and dusty concord. this one uses antique linen and black soot.

next let's do our fragment so it can dry. these come in a package with a wide variety of shapes and sizes. choose one that fits nicely over a portion of your patterned paper you want to highlight. squirt some glossy accents on the back of your fragment.

Place the piece over the patterned paper and press down from the center out gently - wiggle it a bit if necessary - so there are no air bubbles. Let it dry and then trim it out.

Also - optional - choose some grungeboard (i used "boo" letters but the seasonal set has some great halloween ones too. color your grungeboard - you can ink it directly with an ink pad, cover it in stickles, paint it, use perfect pearls shimmer mist and let dry if necessary.

Once the crackle paint is completley dry choose a couple ink colors and blend them over the unpainted portions of your cardstock. it doesn't matter if you get it on the paint too. the best way to use this tool is to dab it on the ink pad, then start off the edge of your piece on the craft sheet and begin rubbing in a circular motion with light pressure. gradually move onto your cardstock.

Next stamp you background stamps with black soot distress ink. using a slightly damp paper towel GENTLY rub the stamped image off of the painted areas:



Ink your main image(s) with the black paint dabber - rub across to knock the peaks of paint down. stamp it.

Last step - using the foam ink blending tool again - rub vintage photo distress ink or similar dark brownish color along all the edges. use a distressing tool along the edges for added distress look if you want.

Here is a close up of one of the jars.

Attach your fragment charm with ribbon or fiber using a brad or an eyelet. glue grungeboard pieces on.

To make the jar i attached my paper pieces with mod podge and used alcohol ink on the plastic lids.

crackle paint is GREAT stuff but especially for halloween!! i am hoping to get a wooden halloween plaque done using it too.........

i hope you enjoy this project -if you choose to do it i hope you come back and share a link with me so i can see it!! remember all of these great products can be found at http://www.pezadoodle.com/ !!

mini tutorial (just a good idea) and some splitcoast challenges

This is the weekly sketch challenge over on Splitcoast Stampers (SCS). I love this one because it gives a nice big area to do some stamping. In addition the color challenge this week was monochrome so i threw that in too on one of the cards :)









So here is the monochromatic one:

I stamped little Dancing Pezzy using the blues on one end of a kaleidacolor pad (Baby Powder) but the variation doesn't show well in the pic. the music notes are swirly pop bead pops and the glitter is ice stickles. i am very into my stickles right now. i really want to make a card that is just entirely stickled but i can't figure out how to do it without it being ridiculous........

Next up - i discovered a new favorite technique - faux watercoloring the September technique challenge over on T!m Holtz's blog:

i had JUST gotten this stamp set from SU and had yet to ink it up - it is perfect with this technique. i tried some other stamps but only have one more i really like that i hope to make a card with this week. on T!m's blog he used adirondack inks of course but i used the memento dew drops because they are just so perfectly sized and shaped for multiple inking on one stamp. this is definitely where having ALL the colors really helps! as a quick rundown - you ink up with several different colored iks. then spritz with water using the mini mister so there is a fine mist and stamp onto water color paper (so glad i had some lying around). for the spattered background i just inked up a spot on my craft mat, picked it up with a very wet aquapainter and then spattered it on. the top purple piece is velvet cardstock run thru the cuttlebug.

the bottom border is my mini tutorial/good discovery for you. it is done using some of that doodlebug crushed velvet flock which i love. so supplies: tacky glue, flock (could work with glitter too), stencil of some sort, cardstock, foam ink blending tool, and repositionable adhesive.

I used a fiskars border punch to make my stencil, i am thinking the cricut could make good ones too. attach your stencil to your cardstock with repositionable adhesive to make a mask. apply a generous amount of glue to your foam and smoosh it onto your cardstock. do it up and down so it doesn't move your stencil and be sure you get it into all the cuts.

quickly pour on the flocking and smoosh it into the glue with your finger.

Shake off the excess and peel off the mask so it doesn't dry on to your cardstock. cool huh?

posts may be slim next week IF studio G arrives like it should - i will be buried under shipping supplies!

hugs and happy stamping!

SFYTT

hi all!! today's card follows Jen's Sketch For You To Try:











And the card:

not sure if i completely love this one - first time using the little hardware pieces and had no idea what i was doing!! i DO like the center stamped part alot tho! i had another batch of kaleidacolors come in and one is called Autumn Leaves. so i used one of the Inkadinkado Foliage Trails stamps and stamped randomly. then i cut it with my nestabilities and rubbed the edges with versamagic using my foam ink blending tool. the background uses one of the new cuttlebug embossing folders which i really like. i lightly rubbed the vine and leaf parts with thyme brilliance ink dew drop.

i have been mulling over some ideas for my website for some time now and will have some changes and a big announcement Monday so be sure to tune in!!!!!

ooops! a little late for technostamper...but i have a tutorial!

hi all! i know it's been a bit sparse here lately but i have been SO sick! very frustrating as i rarely get sick because i don't have TIME to be sick! but i did manage to get some shipping done (woo hoo!) and a little play time in.


Today i have TWO cards for you based on MJ's sketch (yes i am WAY behind as her next one comes out tomorrow!) the second card includes a tutorial on another way to use dimensional pearls and the ranger foam ink blending tool. so here is the sketch:

I was SO excited when my latest Inkadinkado shipment arrived as it included the Halloween Trails clear stamp set that has been on back order. It put me in the mood to pull the whole stack back out again and play with them.

So here is card #1:

The bats and spiders are both from Halloween Trails and the pumpkin is from the Cats and Bats set and the little spider is from the Creepy Crawly set - you can order them all here. the two background panels are stamped with lightening black brilliance ink - stamps black but has a gold shimmer - perfect for halloween or what?!?! the little spiders are stamped with gold encore ink. the inks can be purchased here. The pumpkins are stamped in black memento, also available with the other inks, and colored with copics. the glitter around the pumpkins is stickles and the other glitter dots are the new $1 studio G glitter glues only available on the web here.

And now the second card:

In addition to the Inkadinkado order a Tsukineko order also arrived and it included more of the gorgeous kaleidacolor ink pads. I just knew Autumn Leaves would look stunning paired with the solid Inkadinkado stamps. Take a look at these wonderful pads here. And now for the tutorial on the two background panels above.


Gather your supplies: 2-3 colors of dimensional pearls acrylic paints, ranger FOAM ink blending tool, white cardstock (yep that's it!)

Squeeze a generous amount of each color onto your foam. (Really a bit more than you see here). I used Lettuce, Terra Cotta and Butterscotch for nice fall colors.

I applied the paint two different ways to get two different looks. For the first panel I stroked the foam tool diagonally across my cardstock piece. I wanted the colors to stay somewhat separated. I added more paint and continued down until the whole piece was covered. On the second panel I dabbed the foam onto the paper in a random motion similar to applying alcohol inks. experiment and see what YOU come up with! (My Ranger craft sheet is HEAVEN when doing stuff like this because i can make a big mess and then wipe (r scrape) it right back off and keep going.)

Next I stamped my imagge using the Kaleidacolor pad. These pads are great because they keep the colors separated when you are not using them:

After I stamped my image i took the ink blending tool and a fresh foam pad and smudged Terra Cotta ink around the edges of the white circle so it was not so harsh. I LOVE this tool because of the soft gradient look it gives with almost no effort.

i plan to have another tutorial with the foam blender and dimensional pearls up tomorrow so be sure to check it out!

hugs and thanks for stopping by!!

OCCC challenge - another reinker tutorial...

Here is the sketch challenge from OCC for this week:

And my card - playing with my SU stampin wheel again! i only have two wheels - it is fast becoming apparent to me that i need more.... Dots are dimensional pearls again.


Here is a close up of the piece i am going to show you how to do - the portion where i stamped the flowers started out as blank white cardstock.

And here is another LO that i used a couple pieces on too:

The primas have been waiting for just the right moment :) i have had them since winter CHA! title is cut with the cricut storybook cart. i used the Studio G black $1 glitter glue on the title and flower centers. ALSO learned how to swirl my text!!! the LO is for a contest over on the Paper Patch Craft message board (where the primas also came from).

SO gathering our supplies: reinkers, mini mister full of water and perfect pearls (i used pearl), FOAM piece (not felt) and the ink blending tool, white cardstock.

I inked the foam piece with reinker in much the same way you ink a felt piece with alcohol ink. a couple tips i read recently on T!m's blog - leave space between the colors and choose colors that are next to each other on the color wheel or at least NOT direct complimentary colors since mixing complimentary colors makes the color "mud" - next spritz with the perfect pearls mix.

Now dab the sponge onto your cardstock in a random pattern turning the applicator at different angles. the reinker does not go as far as the alcohol ink so if you do a whole piece of paper you will need to reink and spritz several times.

Here is a close up of one of the pieces on the LO. hard to capture the shimmer with the camera since it was not very sunny when i took the pic.

i hope you all give it a try!!

have a great day!!!