Oh my, only two more pages of techniques to play with after this challenge. It's going to be so strange to not be looking forward to Saturdays for this challenge series!
This series of challenges, based on the contents of Tim Holtz's book, Compendium of Curiosities, VOl. 3, is hosted by Linda Ledbetter from her blog Studio L3, and she is assisted in this challenge by a design team of eight talented artists, two stores and the team of Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi II. Linda and the design team put together their interpretations of the bi-weekly challenges, the stores offer gift certificates for winners in alternating weeks (challenge #32 challenge is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique) and Tim and Mario have donated a cache of goodies form which another prize is assembled.
The rules are simple:
• One must work from the book and not reveal Tim's techniques (If you don't have the book, you can get one, autographed, from Tim)
• You need to link your creation to Linda's blog
• You need to visit the design team's blogs and leave comments on their interpretations.
This week’s challenge is to implement the technique described on Page 59 of the book: “Frosted Film”. I had never used the products specified in this technique and, in fact, had to order some of them, but they came in time and I played around with the technique. My first attempt was just satisfactory (Using Tattered Leaves 656927, and Archival Inks “Leaf Green”, “Fern Green”, “Aquamarine” and “Chrome Yellow”). I went with spring colors as I wasn’t in the mood for Autumn yet again and it still doesn’t feel like Summer has arrived!
This series of challenges, based on the contents of Tim Holtz's book, Compendium of Curiosities, VOl. 3, is hosted by Linda Ledbetter from her blog Studio L3, and she is assisted in this challenge by a design team of eight talented artists, two stores and the team of Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi II. Linda and the design team put together their interpretations of the bi-weekly challenges, the stores offer gift certificates for winners in alternating weeks (challenge #32 challenge is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique) and Tim and Mario have donated a cache of goodies form which another prize is assembled.
The rules are simple:
• One must work from the book and not reveal Tim's techniques (If you don't have the book, you can get one, autographed, from Tim)
• You need to link your creation to Linda's blog
• You need to visit the design team's blogs and leave comments on their interpretations.
This week’s challenge is to implement the technique described on Page 59 of the book: “Frosted Film”. I had never used the products specified in this technique and, in fact, had to order some of them, but they came in time and I played around with the technique. My first attempt was just satisfactory (Using Tattered Leaves 656927, and Archival Inks “Leaf Green”, “Fern Green”, “Aquamarine” and “Chrome Yellow”). I went with spring colors as I wasn’t in the mood for Autumn yet again and it still doesn’t feel like Summer has arrived!
But the leaves were too large for my tag and didn’t lend themselves well to any composition I could come up with so I tried again, using the Mini-Branch & Leaf Set (657208) and the same inks. Better, although shaping these smaller leaves is a lot harder!
Since they were spring leaves, it seemed that they needed a branch to be attached to, so I used the same die set, brown cardstock, “Gathered Twigs” Distress Ink and “Gathered Twigs”, “Black Soot” and “Vintage Photo” Distress Markers to create that branch on my tag. Still, it needed more so I searched my stamps and found a bird on a limb of the right scale in the French Connection set (CSS27850). I stamped the image in “Vintage Photo” so that it looked like it was part of the cardstock branch and colored the bird with “Gathered Twigs”, “Black Soot” and “Fired Brick” Distress Markers so it became “the first robin of spring”.
Now we needed something in the background so I tried two different techniques: the one Tim used in his April Tags of 2015 (“Iced Spruce” and “Evergreen Bough” Distress Markers using the Distress Spritzer) and, over that, a stencil (“Blossom” THS031) and “Iced Spruce” and “Tattered Rose” Distress Inks.
I then blended “Tumbled Glass” and “Antique Linen” Distress inks onto the edges of the tag to soften the stark white of the card stock. Now it looked like there was a flowering tree behind my bird and branch, partially obscured by a morning fog.
That set the scene for the branch being part of a flowering tree! So I dug out my Petaloo “Color Me Crazy” paper flower stash and sprayed some of the smaller blossoms with Distress Spray “Festive Berries”, making sure that only a few of the blossoms were saturated with color. After they dried, I auditioned them on the tag so I could place my leaves and sentiment properly. The sentiment, a Hero Arts stamp “Spring” (C3037) stamped in “Fern Green” went in the lower right corner of the tag, the leaves were attached to the branches using Glossy Accents, the sprayed flowers were then scattered through the branches and drifting to the ground (each centered with a dark red 11/0 Czech Glass Seed Bead). I died some crinkle ribbon with “Tumbled Glass” and “Broken China” Distress Ink and, voila!
Product used was:
- Archival Ink - Fern Green, Leaf Green, Aquamarine, Chrome Yellow
- Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Iced Spruce, Tattered Rose, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Antique Linen
- Distress Markers - Black Soot, Vintage Photo, Iced Spruce, Evergreen Bough, Fired Brick, Gathered Twigs
- Stamps - Hero Arts “Spring” (C3037) and "French Connection" set (CSS27850)
- Stencil - “Blossom” THS031
- Crinkle Ribbon, Czech Glass seed beads and Petaloo “Color Me Crazy” paper flowers
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