Wonderful webbing

Well I know you guys are thinking I have really been busy with all these tutorials I've loaded today. I was asked to do online technique lessons for a group I belonged to. So I started a blog and these lessons have just been sitting there being ignored and the group has disappeared so I decided to move them over here and close the other blog. So here is the last one.

Webbing!!

This is one of my favorite things to use. It comes in white, black, silver and gold. Black is my favorite. It makes the color pop. Most of the time I spray with the gold first and then one of the other colors. But as you will see they are great used alone. There is no need for a special technique. Webbing changes the look of things you may already have or on something that can be made in a few minutes. Here are the before and after samples.

Change the look of designer paper.



Jazz up plain card stock.




This is a piece of card stock that I just swiped an ink pad across a few times.





This is a piece that was sprayed with several Glimmer Mists. Use Color Washes or make your own spray with dye ink, water and Perfect Pearls.





Try sponging with dye inks and metallics.



Change the look of a technique. This is a piece using the shaving cream technique.




This is Polished Stone.



Give it a try with something you have. Remember to keep your arm moving. Spraying straight on will cause blobs of webbing. Give yourself some room. I like spraying in the yard but you can use a box. Just practice spraying scraps before you spray your projects to make sure you have the feel for the way it comes out. Have fun.

A Pigment ink technique

You will need several Pigment ink pads, heat gun, spray bottle with water, a piece of waxed paper all scrunched up and of course card stock.



First thing we are going to do is take the lighter color and push the pad into the card stock. Smoosh it all over filling the card stock.





Now use your heat gun to set the color. This is drying your ink because pigment ink does not dry fast.

Take the second ink pad and do the same thing. Cover it all over.





Spray with the bottle filled with water. You just want to mist it. You can go back and add water later if you need to.
Take that scrunched up piece of waxed paper and pounce all over your piece. Wipe off the waxed paper as it is filled with ink. This is where you can add more water if you feel your ink is not moving enough.






And here's your background.

Random Shadow stamping

This technique makes a fun background for using a solid type stamp as your image. You start out with a shadow stamp, your card stock and 4 light colored ink pads. I used Adirondack lights. Optonal is a metallic ink pad.





Don't have a Shadow stamp. No worries. Most of mine are made out of fun foam. Cut out your squares or really any shape and mount them on EZ Mount. For this project I used a 1 1/4" square.



Take your lightest color and stamp in a checkerboard pattern all over the card stock.







Take your next color and stamp 3 times forming a triangle shape.






Repeat this with your next color. Remember to stamp 3 times and in a triagle shape.


Now you will start to run out of empty spaces so stamp on top of some of your squares and fill in empty also using your last color.





Now this is the optional part. I repeated the steps first with pink Brilliance and then gold. Gives it a little sparkle.



Now you are ready to stamp your image using black.




Your background is now ready to be made into a card.

Sticker fun

Look at this cool idea. I am not a sticker person but someone sent me a stack of these stickers. They just sit here and I ignore them. Just can't get into stickers.



Take a piece of patterned paper and spread stickers all over it. I used pumpkins and acorns.




Now punch and cut out the elements for your card. The stickers add just a little pizazz.

I WON!!!!!!!

I won the I Brake for Stamps Sketch Challenge over at The Paper Crafts Planet. So excited.! A Thirty Dollar gift certificate for IBFS. Placed my order last night. Wait till you see what I have coming. Of course I had to buy a few stamps too. Couldn't resist. Next week I will be working on cards using my new stamps.

an I Brake for Stamps Challenge

Over on Paper Crafts Planet Della from IBFS is having a sketch challenge. The winner gets a $30.00 gift certificate. Since I LOVE I Brake for Stamps I couldn't resist and sat right down to create something. Here's my card.

It's time for the BEACH!

First I need to get some business out of the way. Here is my Mojo Monday sketch card. I went right for my new Flourishes rose stamp. This is quickly turning into my favorite stamp. I stamped it on water color paper. Took Copic # R 29 and colored all the shadows on the image. Then took # R 27 and blended out a bit from the first color. Then took # R 17 and filled in the whole image coloring over the other 2 colors. The leaves I just stroked all the veins with a dark olive green and filled in the whole image with a lighter green.




Now I have been feeling real beachy. LOVE!! my Cuttlebug and Spellbinder Beach sea shell and sea horse dies. Can't get to the beach myself right now to pick up shells so I have been using my background stash and punching them out with my Cuttlebug. Have a huge stack. So lots of shells without all the sand mess everywhere. The first card was made with a background called Frog in a Blender. What it is is the shaving cream tehnique only no shaving cream. Instead you use Future floor shine. You end up with a softer colored background. 3 different techniques on the shell, star fish and sea horse. And the shells at the top were stamped in Versa Mark and then chalked to blend into the background.



This next card started out being a collage that I was going to distress. It quickly went another direction. Again the sea shells on the side were stamped with Versa Mark and chalked. My sand castle and bucket are inked with daubers and distressed inks. The 3 sea creatures were cut from 3 different techniques. On both cards I used a mesh to hang everything from. Sort of a fish net type look. The beach images can be found at I Brake for Stamps.


And now before I have to leave for work I am hoping to get a few more Beach cards put together.