Category: Creative Chemistry 102

Summer of Creative Chemistry 2016 - Week 8

7/23/2016

In Week 8 of the Summer of Creative Chemistry 2016, we were to review the technique lessons for Days 3 and 5 of Creative Chemistry 102.

Day 3, Distress Differently, covered six varied techniques shown here on my practice tags: Smudge Stamping, Brayered Stains, Photo Tinting

I didn't have a real photo to tint so I used one of the "Found Relatives" For some reason, it took the red marker really well but rejected the blue...

Faux Cracked Glass, Distress Glitter Rock Candy and Distress Glittering

Day 5, Embossing Effects, covered six more techniques shown here on my practice tags: Rusting, Sticky Powder Glitter, Sticky Powder Leafing

I didn't have the right color of Distress Embossing powder for the Rusting" so I substituted "Shabby Shutters". The stamp I was using was too fine for the two Sticky Powder techniques so white there is glitter on the blue snowflake and the foil did stick to the gold one, I consider these three tags "fails"...

Shabby Chic, Tarnished Silver and Chalkboard

A little better luck here with Shabby Chic and Tarnished Silver but the Chalk was another fail...

Our challenge for this week of review was to use both distress inks and embossing powder. Given my lousy luck with the Day five techniques, I decided to go with Tarnished silver for my challenge tag. I used a chipboard piece from my stash. Scrap papers, die cut leaves and a butterfly were added to enhance the embossed frame:

Products sued in making this tag were:

Stamps: Framelits “Limitations” (660189)
Dies: Framelits “Limitations” (660189) and Thinlits “Tropical” (661207)
Chipboard ra=rame: Joann’s Chipboard Pack
Inks: Distress Pain “Black Soot”; Distress Ink “Spun Sugar”, “Wild Honey”, “Tumbled Glass”; Archival “Jet Black”; Versamark
Embossing Powders: Creative Beginnings “Silver-regular”; Mark Enterprises Deep Impression “Clear”
Papers: scraps of green card and white card and patterned papers; #8 manila tag
Adhesives: Viva Las Vegas “Miracle Tape”; ranger Collage Glue Stick

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Summer of Creative Chemistry 2016 - Week 7

7/15/2016

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Week Seven of the summer of Creative Chemistry focuses on Day 4 of Creative Chemistry 102: Alcohol Inks. The techniques demonstrated in that class (and my sample tags): Faux Patina (A fail for me); Tarnished Tinsel (another fail) and Ombre (didn't work out really well either):

Monoprint and Faded Layers (I had better luck with these):

Since my success was limited with the test tags, I went with the technique that came out best for me of rtes challenge - to use any of the techniques shown. I selected "Faded Layers" (but I really need to learn to select my colors better --- the "Indigo" and "Oregano" were definitely too dominant in the final result:

Still, the faded areas from the "Wildflower" layering stencil do show up a little. I decided to mirror these wildflowers with Archival Ink and the new "Mini Bouquet" stamp set:

but the contrast was too low so I doodled with a fine-line gold pen on the stamped images to make them stand out a little...

Products used in making this tag were:

Stamps: "Mini Bouquet" (CMS264)
Stencils: "Wildflower" (THS035
Inks: Archival "Jet Black"; Ranger Alcohol Inks "Willow", "Oregano", Indigo" and "Sunset Orange":, Ranger Alcohol Ink Blending Solution
Papers: Ranger Glossy Card; # 8 Manila Tag
Adhesives: Viva Las Vegas "Miracle Tape"

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Summer of Creative Chemistry 2016 - Week 6

7/8/2016

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In Week six of Summer f Creative Chemistry, our assignment for week five was to review the techniques described in Day 2 of Creative Chemistry 102: Layering Stencils The techniques demonstrated (and the sample tags I made) were: Mixed Media Layering, Embossing with Stencils, Embossing through Stencils

Stamping, Sketching, Ink Monoprint

and Paint Monoprint

Our challenge was to use any two stencil techniques together from Day 2.

I decided to use Embossing with Stencils and Stamping for my tag, and followed the instructions as given in the Day 2 class notes.

I used the Honeycomb layering stencil to emboss a scrap of Co-ordinations card stock, and used sand paper to bring out the details when I made my sample tag for Day 2 of Creative Chemistry 102. I had some of that embossed card left-over and so I recycled it!.

I then created a background on a #8 manila tag using Pumice Stain Distress Stain. I used a blending tool loaded with watered down “Barn Door” Distress Paint through the same Honeycomb stencil onto that background. Then, after taping the stencil down securely, I stamped in Archival “Jet Black” through the stencil.

I matched the honeycomb pattern on the embossed card with the stenciled pattern on the tag, taped the card down and trimmed it to fit. I added some honeybee images to the embossed card using Archival “Jet Black”, a Snowman extra fine gold paint marker and a Pigma Micron 05 black pen to get this tag:

Products used in making this card were;

Stamps: Stamping’ Up! “Bugs and Slugs”; Serendipity Stamps 465G
Stencils: Layering Stencil “Honeycomb” (THS005)
Inks: Archival ‘Jet Black”; Distress Stain “Pumice Stone”; Distress Paint “Barn Door”; Pigma Micron 05 “black”; Snowman extra fine “Gold”
Adhesives: Viva Las Vegas Miracle Tape.

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Summer of Creative Chemistry 2016 - Week 5

7/6/2016

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In Week Five of Summer f Creative Chemistry, we moved on to the techniques demonstrated in Creative Chemistry 102, the online course Tim Holtz taught in 2013. Our assignment for week five was to review the techniques described in Day 1 of Creative Chemistry 102: Distress Paint. The techniques demonstrated (and the sample tags I made) were: Distress Paint Marbling, Colored Crackle, Altered Surfaces:

and Eroded Metallics, Stamping resist and Industrial:

For this challenge, we are to use any of those techniques at at least three Distress Paint colors. I elected to combine Industrial and Colored Crackle techniques (two techniques I have mixed results with --- in fact, they didn't work as well in this tag as they did in my sample tags a week ago!) and four colors: "Black Soot", "Candied Apple", "Blueprint Sketch", "Twisted Citron" and "Fossilized Amber":

Products I used to make my challenge tag were:

Inks and Paints: Distress Paints “Black Soot”, “Fossilized Amber”, “Blueprint Sketch”. Candied Apple” and Twisted Citron”, Distress Marker “Black Soot”; Clear rock Candy Crackle Paint
Papers and other substrates: #8 Manila tag; Ranger Foil Tape; miscellaneous chipboard pieces
Embossing folders: Alterations “Blueprint & Gears” set (658580)
Adhesives: Mukti Medium Matter; EK Tools 3D foam dots

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