Inspiration Wednesday - Week 15

I love my Verday paints.  They make it so easy to achieve a patina finish on any material.  I've used mine on paper and metal and they both turned out better than I hoped. The hardest part about using these paints is waiting overnight for the reaction. You find yourself literally watching paint dry. These colors, by far, are my favorites.  I hope you enjoy them too.

Tim Holtz Tags of 2016 - July

The two techniques we remixed this month are Watercolor Resist and Layered Words. Both of these techniques are from our 2015 tags.  I enjoyed these techniques than and had a great time mixing them for this month because it's a Halloween theme.

After all it is my favorite holiday....

Inspiration Wednesday - Week 14

One of the things I'm loving about this years pages is that I've been getting to use all the "stuff" that I kept because someday I could use it.  I got to go though my ribbon stash for these pages, and I found ribbon I forgot I had.

I had a great time going through the box that holds my ribbon looking for the perfect ones to use, and even though my hands were covered in gel medium when I was done I was happy with how the pages turned out.

Inspiration Wednesday - Week 13

This week we got to attach 'Stuff' to our pages.  This is one of my favorite things to do because it adds texture and dimension to your project, and I get to go through my junk box to find the perfect pieces.

More Creative Chemistry

I'm just now getting caught up on my Creative Chemistry classes.  Last weekend was my annual trip to the Special Olympics so not only did I miss Tim's live chat but I didn't get my tags done.  So, I spent this past weekend catching up on the classes and watched the replay of the chat.

Here are a few of the techniques we learned over the past 2 weeks

The first technique is Marbled Stains

 

 The second technique is Stained Resist

And the third technique is Stamping with Perfect Pearls, Distress Inks.

Inspiration Wednesday - Week 12

WOW! We're half way through another year of Inspiration Wednesdays, and I'm having just as much fun as last year.

This week Donna had us making stencils using a glue gun. I was a little hesitant as I started my stencil but I was determined to do this even it turned out to be a total disaster. To keep it simple I just made connected circles. I made two stencils so I could put one on each page. Instead of using watercolor paint I wanted to see how it would look if I used spray ink.  I used Dylusions spray inks by Ranger.  I love these colors because they are so bright.

As it turns out I really love the way my pages look.  It's really cool that in some places there are white circles and in others even though the color got under the stencil you can still see the circle.

I don't know that I will ever use technique again but I loved the fact that I tried something totally different.

Tim Holtz Tags of 2016 - June

For this months Remix Tim used the Stencil Plaid and Tissue Wrap Collage techniques which I really enjoyed the first time we did it. I used Tim's Snowflake Duo die and winter colors for my background.  I wanted to keep my tag fairly plain since I didn't want to take away from the snowflakes. I covered the tag with plain blue tissue paper I had in my stash, and inked the edges with Gathered Twigs distress ink.

I'm off the craft room now to catchup on homework for Creative Chemistry.  Hope you like the tag!