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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Enjoy The Journey

Hi Everyone! Happy New Year! I trust you will enjoy the journey of 2016. Here is a New Year tag I made inspired by Tim Holtz's January tag for 2016. You can see his demo here. He combined two previous techniques on his tag. For my chalkboard technique I used white embossing powder and lightly brushed white chalk over the images.

For the industrial technique I used Staz On jet Black ink since I did not have any black paint. It worked well!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope 2016 is your best year yet!

Challenges entered:

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016: January

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Oldies Technique #2 -- Chalk Popping

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my Oldies technique #2 -- chalk popping. It has been a very long time since I have used this technique. I really like the softness of the look.

The supplies you will need are:

Versa Mark ink pad

chalks and applicator

solid or bold outline stamp

card stock

Stamp the image on the card stock using Versa Mark ink.

The image does not show up.

Now start chalking over the image using small round motions. I found that one brand of my chalks did not work well, so you might need to try another if you are having problems with blotches. The applicator may have a play in it too. My second set of chalks had small cotton balls to apply the chalk with and it worked much better. I started off with a light hand and then went back and added more color until I got the look I wanted.

This is such an easy technique and gives a soft look to your cards. I hope you will have fun trying this.

Have a wonderful and blessed day.

April

Challenges entered:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: All Things Bright and Beautiful

Top Tip Tuesday: Favorite Color Combo (love pink, black and white together)

TIP: To make a soft image use the easy chalk popping technique above.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Bountiful Blessings

Hi Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your day. It has turned quite cold here. I guess it is about time! I want to share the tag I made for Tim Holtz's tag challenge for November. November is the time to count our blessings and we sure have plenty to be thankful for. Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here?

Tim shared a chalkboard technique that has a little twist to the normal chalkboard technique. You can see it by clicking here.

I used the Sparkle N Sprinkle Pumpkin Stack and saying from the Fall Harvest set. The leaves are from Inkadinkado and the script stamp is a Hero Arts stamp.

The leaf at the top of the tag was made by heating copper mesh with a heat gun. The mesh turns beautiful colors. Then I adhered an outline leaf sticker to the mesh and cut it out. You can see a better picture of it here. See the pretty colors the copper turns?

I pop dotted the bottom pumpkin on the pumpkin stack as well as the label with the saying. To color the label and tag edge, I swiped Distress Inks on my craft sheet, spritzed them with water and placed the tag and label in the inks and rubbed them around. I always love the blended look of this technique.