Distress Paints and Cabbage Roses CAS Style

Hiya Just a quick one today :D This is a card I made for someone who wanted some nice simple Thank You cards. The card started with me playing with the first set of Distress Paints when I got my hot li'l hand on them (the rest of the collection should be winging its way across the seas as I write this!) and doing some practicing on a craft tag. I used a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous flourish stamp all over the tag with Picket Fence Distress Paint. I had used the tag for something else and had about half left so I got the idea to use it up. I admit I have a box full of "Creative Play" type things I need to start using more and this project was perfect for one.

Something I don't do very often is go CAS, what can I say I like to add things lol. But all I had was half a tag and a vague idea. If you know me, you know I love butterflies, so out came some butterfly dies. I chose the smallest from Spellbinders Nested Butterflies Two and Lifestyle Crafts Nested Butterflies and cut a few from my tag.

I then grabbed Tim Holtz' Movers and Shapers Tickets die and what was left of my tag and cut the smallest ticket for my sentiment. For the background I used white cs and the Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Cabbage Roses. I also did something I haven't done before which is to stamp a split type sentiment. I stamped just a note on the front and then on the inside to say thank you with archival ink. I finished it off by adding a bunch of baby pearls.
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Purple

Ps what a beautiful country I live in :)

Calalla NSW Australia

Creative Chemistry 102 Not So Industrial + Tarnished Silver

The title says it all... It's a bit girly to be industrial maybe? lol. Love the tarnished silver technique! If you love all things distress you really need to try the Creative Chemistry Courses! Awesome!

Industrial + Tarnished Silver

I originally left the tag and flowers off but it wasn't girly enough haha! But it looks much better with the extra touches!
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Purple

I am entering this at:
Try it on Tuesday - Texture. I have dry embossing + heat embossing as well as  metal elements.

Creative Chemistry Marbling + Crackle + Altered

Woohoo Managed to cram three day one elements into one project! Also manage to sneak in some more patina (ok so I like this technique), I know it's not in patina colours but Tim did say you could try any lol... I like to try!

Pretty in Pink! lol. I had another to post but it's not girlified enough! hahahaha I shall be back!
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Purple

Creative Chemistry Monoprint and Brayering

Wowser it's hard work trying to get some of these finished off to upload to the gallery but anyhow here we go with techniques from days 2 and 3 :)

I like this one! Simple and pretty :)
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Purple

Creative Chemistry 102 Day 5 Girly Grunge Style

  

So here we are at day 5 with a few more fun techniques. I have only done four so far as I don't have everything so off we go :)

Rusted Tag

Rusted Elements

Next I probably went a bit lighter than I should have for this, oh and I shouldn't have simmer misted the background! A bit too sparkly for pics! Unfortunately my glitter isn't showing up well. Maybe II should have taken the photo's later so the light hit the tag lol.

Sticky Glitter

Sticky Glitter Close Up

Lets get our shabby on next :)

Shabby Chic

 Last but not least I love this effect!

Tarnished Silver

So thats my 5 days of Creative Chemistry 102! I learnt a lot of cool new tricks! :) Now I just need to get them all finished off girly grunge style! :)
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Purple

Creative Chemistry 102 Day 2 Part Two Girly Grunge Style

Wow is it ever hard work trying to keep up... Falling more behind by the minute haha! For this next technique I need a stencil with a bit more open space . . .

Stamping

Not sure if this was supposed to be as beaded up as it was... Might have been the stencil I used? It was a KaiserCraft one.

Ink Monoprint

I really like how this one turned out :) Can't wait to finish it off! :) It is my second attempt though because I kept mixing up the instructions! Now I take my pad to the table so I can watch and do at the same time haha :)

Paint Monoprint

 Ok time to get cracking on day threes post. I am struggling with day three... Have yet to attempt day four and day five is up! *insert swear word of choice here!* ;) lol

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Purple

Creative Chemistry 102 Day 2 Part One Girly Grunge Style

I love how much we learn in Creative Chemistry! So many awesome ideas. Some of the designers really kick it up a notch too! So without further ado lets  get the first technique happening! This is my second attempt as my first didn't go so well lol. I used 3 sizes of punchinella for the spots. Crafters workshop and Prima stencils for the rest.

Mixed Media

I hunted high and low for something I needed to do this technique in the end I winged it with my ebosser! lol Again my first attempt was a major fail!

Embossing Take 1

Embossing Take 2

I didn't flick oops...

Embossing Through

Ok so that's it for part one :) Part two coming up shortly

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Purple

Creative Chemistry 102 Day 1 Part Two Girly Grunge Style

Back again with part two. I am so in love with the Eroded metal technique Tim showed but I don't have any metallic Distress Paints yet. Boohoo! So can't show that yet of course so we will skip onto the 5th Technique for day one... Well of course I got mixed up and did the first one slightly wrong, Hence the faded out resist . . . So I gave it another go! Oh and yes I stamped upside down! Oops lol...

Stamp Resist Attempt 1

Stamp Resist Attempt 2

The next technique I forgot I was going girly so I did man type colours but with the clocks I decided to layer another colour on top. And ok, so it doesn't look very industrial... lol but the others do!

Industrial Take 1

Industrial Take 2

I had forgotten to take pics of these so I have fallen behind in my blogging :( Trying to play catch up! It's going to be a long night haha!

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Purple

Creative Chemistry 102 Day 1 Part One Girly Grunge Style!

Because we are packing so many techniques into one class I have decided to break my posts up into 2 sections. I won't go into detail on the techniques though as they are all in Creative Chemistry 102. You need to complete 101 before 102 but it's well worth it. Especially if you are just starting out with Tim Holtz' Distress Products! As a matter of fact I redid all of 101 again to get in the groove for 102! I have decided to try and girl it up for CC02 as it is something I struggle with sometimes. I can make man cards easy peasy with distress but sometimes find it hard to make feminine ones...

Here we go with the first technique.

Distress Paint Marbling

Wow am I ever falling in love with distress paints! Onto the next technique! I overworked his one a bit, but I do like how it turned out with some hints of colour peeking out.

Coloured Crackle

I had to think outside the square for this one as I don't have what tim used so I took my tattered florals die and some black Shrinkies :)

Altered Surface

Well that's the mid point for today Hope you like my efforts so far! My fave out of all I have done so far is the first one! It's so pretty! :)
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Purple