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!

Happy Scrappin'

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! :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Sketchy Fun with KaiserCraft Seaside Collection and Creative Stamping

This weeks challenge at Eclectic Ellapu is a sketch for the Purple team. Scroll down to the bottom to find out about our awesome birthday blog hop!

So recently I found a store selling out old Kaiser Collections and a lady was selling stamps from various magazines and things.  I bought 3 KaiserCraft pads one being the Seaside Collection. I love the colour combo in this pad but it's not one I would normally pick for myself.

I coloured the boy and girl image that came from a stamp set from Creative Stamping mag with a bunch of Copics and some Atyou Spicas as well (my new favourite toy!) on White Quill Cardstock from Officeworks;
Hat & Flowers: Y38, Y35
Skirt & Bow: R27, R24, Red Spica
Girls Shirt: B32, B34, Lemon Spica
Boys Shirt & Belt: B97, B95
Hat: Y38, Y35, Y28, Gold Spica, B97, B95
Boys Hair: E21, E23, E25, E29
Girls Hair: E57, E53,YR20, E51, E50,
Boy Skin: E13, E11, E00
Girls Skin: E00, E000, E0000, RV10
Boys Shirt & Ground: E33, E31,
Ground: C2, YG03
Sky: B00, B000

 

I then chose some co-ordinating ages from the KaiserCraft Seaside Collection 6" pad. I decided to use a square card base so cut my layers to fit this. No scientific measuring lol, I just went with what I thought looked good!

I then grabbed two die cuts from the back of the paper pad and used foam tape to give them dimension. I also used the red Atyou Spica pen by copic to add a little sparkle on the red bits.

I also added some bling to give the card a little bit of a lift! I meant to cut a hibiscus flower with my ecraft to add but I forgot! Naughty naughty lol... Here is a pic showing the dimension!

Now onto the important things! Don't forget the birthday bash blog hop TREASURE HUNT starts on the 1st of October!
Look at what you could win!

Prizes prizes galore! You don't want to miss it!.. Anyways I best get back to my crafty endeavors. I have a couple more posts to post but silly me has forgotten to add pics ;) I will get there in the end.
Have a great weekend!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Little Ray of Sunshine with Letterpress Celebrations

Hi everyone :) This week at Eclectic Ellapu for the purples challenge we are using song titles as inspiration! I was going to do bridge over troubled water as a sympathy card but then I looked at something I got with a new toy and everything clicked into place... We have a craft chain in Australia called spotlight and I am lucky enough to have one in my town.
Anyways they were clearing out Letterpress's :O and accessories so I snapped one up! I also got some inks cards and envelopes for letterpressing. The letterpress papers expensive and hard to buy here so I am going to cannibalise the envelopes as card fronts :) Best of all my sis bought it for me for my birthday :)

I was looking through my craft stuff looking for stuff to take to my friends and the Celebrations plates jumped out at me and my mind just clicked . . . I absolutely adore this song and it is perfect for this challenge! The song is called Little Ray Of Sunshine by Axiom. I watched an interview with Brian Cadd recently and when asked about the song he replied that the song was about the little girl of some friends who were going through a bitter break up. You can read what he said here. The group have never revealed who she is and I think it takes a whole lot of integrity to keep that secret over 40 years! The words and pins are from the Baby Letterpress plates. I ran the letterpress through the cuttlebug, it didn't go all the way through I had too run it back the opposite way... Anyone else had this happen?

Next I chose an image from the Peter Rabbit stamp set made by Leisure. I chose the mother and babies image and coloured it with Copics. I then die cut the image with Nesting circles by Lifestyle Crafts.

I also cut a scalloped circle. I colour matched a copic (RV25)to the letterpress ink I used  and coloured around the diecut. I then layered the two together with foam tape under each layer.

I then used copics to colour  the edges of some I am Roses and some bead string to co-ordinate with the card. Oh and a butterfly I decided to leave off the card lol . . . I used some glue to adhere the embellies. Wasn't happy with my ribbon/flower placement  but the glue dried to fast for me to fix it haha!

FYI checkout the month long blog hope we will be having at Eclectic Ellapu during next month :) Loads of awesome prizes! Check it out here.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed my first attempt at using the Letterpress! Been a little under the weather the last few days :( I think I have the flu! Time for more sleep . . .
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

PS a quick tip! The gold letterpress ink takes quite a long time to dry....  I didn't realise this and wrecked quite a few by stacking them on top of each other after I thought they were dry enough. Lesson Learned! I imagine the silver would be the same.  But I will still use the  background. I will just add a raised image to the middle to cover up the words! lol

Fast Cards with Best of K & Co Too

Today I want to show two cards made from one piece of K & Co paper. They are super fast to make and you can do this with any paper that has different image squares or rectangles on it. For example I have some KaiserCraft Christmas papers that have square images that I could do the same thing with.

First step is to choose which squares you want to highlight and cut them out with a craft knife. Make sure you leave enough uncut to make you card background. Next up choose what colour your card base and mounting squares will be. Make the mounting squares slightly larger than your chosen images and tape them together. Tape your background to your card base and then add your squares with double sided tape. For the first card I found squares with a travel theme, for the second card I used love themed ones (not as obvious as the travel ones). I can either add  sentiments ot leave as is and stamp the inside of the cards.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple