A Little Experimentation Goes a Long Way

As I said in my previous post I was going to play some more and share the results. I have used stains, watercolour pencils and gelatos and I have a fair few things to share. I am sharing them before I turn them into cards. I think I am getting the hang of the gelatos too :) I have made some very light samples but I can always add more colour if I wish (good thing I have been taking notes on the back of the samples lol).

 Let's start with gelatos. My first attempt was to wet the watercolour paper first, then lay down the colour spritz again and blend with my finger . . . it didn't work very well (might be more to do with the colours I used lol) so I tried again with a brush. That's the sample on the bottom left. Colours used for these samples are Black Licorice, Chocolate and Butterscotch.

For the top sample I applied dry and spritzed three puddles of water on my mat. I started at black and worked to lightest blending with a paintbrush. I added a little too much water in some places so I used a wet brush directly to the gelato I needed to fix the problem . I had so much colour left on my mat that I got sick of wasting it and started using the lefovers on leftover scraps of watercolour paper. That's the image on the bottom right.

The next set were all made when I applied gelatos to a wet surface and blended with a paintbrush for the first gen (top pic). These colours seemed to go on very thick and allowed me to make the original plus two more samples. Colours are Blueberry, Boysenberry and Grape. The second gen, to the right, was made swiping the colours straight off the craft mat and third gen I sprizted the leftovers then applied them to the cs for the third gen pale look on the bottom.

The following two were made at the same time. I applied gelato to my ranger craft mat and spritzed with water to make a light wash. These have only one coat but If I had wanted darker colours I could have just made one and dried in between layers to darken the colours. I used the metallics in Melon, Grape and Mint.

Next up we have a couple done with distress stains. I used three colours for each, spritzed with water and blended them with my finger. When I blend using my finger I tend to work from lightest to darkest then flip and work from lightest to darkest to work the colours into each other and smooth them out. The top one uses Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough and Bundled Sage and has been flicked with water to get the cool droplet effect. The bottom one uses Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick and Worn Lipstick.

I only have two Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and for ome reason one of mine looked nowhere near the colour on the back :( It was supposed to be a really pretty pink but instead there was barely any colour there at all lol. The colour was supposed to be pink bubblegum. I added 20 drops of picked raspberry reinker and a spritz of Dylusions in Postbox Red. I ended up with a colour a bit darker than the colour I was supposed to have but very pretty none the less :)

I used a paintbrush dipped in the bottle and started painting each colour on from their respective ends and blended with my finger in the middle. The yellow is Lemon Zest.

Onto Derwent Watercolour pencils. Each sample uses the same set of colours applied directly to dry paper. The colours are 2, 7, 8, 10 and 12. I spritzed the top one with water then used my finger to blend the colours. I could have added more red but liked the washed out effect and decided to lave it as. The bottom one was blended with the Tim Holtz Waterbrush.

The top picture uses the colours 40, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47. I used a waterbrush and pulled colour directly from the pencils. I really like this technique. The middle pic uses 18, 21, 22, 24 and 25. I coloured right on the paper for this one and blended with a waterbrush. I spilled a  drop of the mist I mixed onto this one so I decided to make the best of it and used  the spray tube from the bottle to add some drips and lines, sprized again and rand some paper towel over the top to get that faded look.

The bottom pic uses 37, 38, 39, 40 and 44 coloured directly yo the paper. Not sure why I added this pic in the bunch because I cannot remember how I did it lmao.

This next pic uses inktense pencils. I used 1200, 1300 and 1400 straight from the pencil with the waterbrush for the top image and for the bottom one I used the pencils coloured right onto a tag and blended with the waterbrush. As you can see it is very streaky compared o others so water colour paper is definitely best.

I realised as I was typing this that i forgot to do a sample using the waterbrush from the gelato then onto the paper but anyways I am sure you get the idea. Hope this helps you in some way.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

12 Cards of Christmas T!m Holtz Style Card 5

As you can see by todays card I used the reindeer from a previous tag and combined it with todays background technique. My muse of course is T!m's tag 5.

Card 5

I grabbed another piece of packaging from a lifestyle crafts die packet ( I have a stash of these ). I then covered the plastic in Cranberry and Watermelon Alcohol Inks and some blending solution. I used more cranberry than watermelon.

I grabbed some christmas stamps from various sets. Mostly Inkadinkado and Fiskars sets. I used Forest Green Stazon to stamp my images one at a time on the alcohol inked side of the plastic. Then I used some paper towel and blotted the ink off after each stamp. When I did the smaller ones I did a couple at a time.

I glued my plastic to a sheet of cream cardstock and trimmed off the excess. If i could change one thing about this card it would be to use white cardstock instead.

I was undecided on what to do next so I started looking through my svg's. I found a deer that looked similar to the one T!m used on tag one. I flipped the image so it would be facing the way I wanted and cut it out of DCWV White Core in my ecraft on pressure setting 6.

I sanded around the edges and then added distress ink with my ink tool. Firstly in Antique Linen and then Frayed Burlap.

Looks pretty good but as I was looking at it I decided I wanted to add another layer. So out came the Snow Cap paint dabber. I used a cotton tip and one of my nail art dotting tools to addd some white highlights to my deer. I used a marker to add the eye.

The wreath is my leftover one from card 3. I adjusted the size til I got the fit I was after and glued it together behind the deers neck. I added seed beads between the leaves for some extra zing. I will end up doing that to card 3 as well :) lol.

I placed some chain and jump rings in a small zip lock bag and added a few drops of Bottle alcohol ink. I worked it all around til everything was well covered and tipped them onto my craft mat to dry.

I created a title using a stamp and a lifestyle crafts die with the same cardstock I created the deer from. As you can see in the pic I used carefully placed tape to hold my die in place. I sanded around the edges.

I the took Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap distress ink and added some colour around the edges.

I then took my green chain and found three charms to dangle from the ends. I coloured the ornament and tree with Bottle alcohol ink and the stocking with Cranberry. I added them to three different sized lengths of chain with jump rings. The tree is on the shortest with a red bead dangling off the chain as well. On the middle length chain I added the stocking and a green bead. Finally on the longest chain I added the ornament and another red bead.

I added dimensional foam tape to the back of the deer and sentiment to pop it off my card.

I grabbed a green brad and poked a hole in the upper right corner of my background. I used a jump ring to secure the three strands of chain together. Then added two more jump rings. I slip the brad through the third jump ring and then through a hole I pierced in the background. Because it is so close to the edge I had to trim my brad down after I opened it.

And there we have it, card five complete :). hope you like this one. I am rather proud of my deer!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple