WATERCOLOUR BOOKLET

This technique will be run over two classes as there are 7 atc's to be made as well as a folded booklet that's made from an A4 sheet of paper.  We are using only one colour of Ranger Distress Ink Pad (shock, horror.... how can you choose only ONE colour!!!) and a metallic acrylic paint, I used Ranger Distress Paint in Brushed Pewter for my samples.  The idea behind this booklet is to let the sentiment (or word stamp) be the focal point with a 2nd focal point being your image stamp.  I love how simple and clean these look and can just see this being made as a birthday booklet for someone.  My first example has Rusty Hinge as the only colour and Brushed Pewter (silver) as the metallic accent colour.  Of course you'll need a Ranger Archival Black Ink Pad to do the stamping.

 

Here's the booklet completed...

 

 

Front Cover ...

 

Inside pages 2 & 3 ...

 

Inside pages 4 & 5...

 

Inside pages 6 & 7...



Single atc...

 

These next two are two individual ones for my next booklet.  This

colour is "Peacock Feathers" and I've used the Brushed Pewter

Distress Paint again as a contrast metallic.
 

 

These last 3 are from the previous Rinse Aid class.  LOVE Canvas Pad Paper.

"Too fast"...

 

"Heart sing"...

"Fairy whispers... 



RINSE AID RESIST... RE-VISITED

Rinse Aid Resist is a technique that I first learned about from Claudine Hellmuth's Collage Discovery Workshop Book and I last taught a class using this technique in 2007 and then again in 2010 so I figured it was time to touch on it again.  Here's a link to the previous blog posts about it.  This time I have tried using the Ranger Distress Paints with the dishwashing Rinse Aid and it still works great with these paints!  Last time I was using Jo Sonja Acrylic Paints or any other normal acrylic paint that had been watered down to create a more runny consistency to create the resist effect.   The Distress Paints work just fine with this technique and I've found using baby wipes to remove the dried paint on the Rinse Aid works the best to show up the lighter areas.  Here are the first 3 samples from this technique.

 

"Now what"...

 

"Blood Night"...

 

"Day-dreamer"...

 

These last two atc's are from my previous class  -  Gesso Stencil Spray Stains.

 

"Happiness"...

 

"Soul"...

 

More samples to come from the Rinse Aid Resist class and hopefully I'll have my cover done for this book in the next fortnight too!

Rinse Aid Resist Cover

Here's the pictures of the Rinse Aid Resist cover for ATC Technique Book #4, as well as a few more samples.

The cover page is 20cm x 15cm (8" x 6")...

A close-up of one of the small tiles which has been cuttlebugged for texture, painted black then rubbed with Silver rub'n'buff to bring out the texture, then a fuse wrapped with metallic thread around it.

"Sanctuary"...

"Remember"...

"Wife/husband"... (at the top of this atc is a piece of the new 10 Second Studio metal that we now stock at Scraptivate. It has been run through the cuttlebug and then sanded to reveal the silver - it started out as a beautiful mocha colour).

"Dream"... (this one also has some of the 10SS metal down the left hand side - same treatment as the one above - cuttlebugged then sanded back. The word "Dream" was stamped onto the right side of the metal, then I used a stylus to impress the word into the metal then sanded it back so the depth of the word keeps the aqua blue of the metal while the remainder is silver.)

The previous class was Mosaic Embossing and this was an atc that was made using that technique. I sometimes like to do a card as well to show the girls that they can take any of the techniques learnt in my class and apply it to whatever else they want to do. So below the atc is a card using the same image and the same technique.

"Ethereal"...

Card...

Tomorrow I'm planning on spending the day doing up my samples for the next class - Metallic Cardstock BUT I'm also going to make a start on the art doll for the class that I've been promising the girls I'd run. This art doll will be stitched, stamped, stuffed, beaded and generally embellished within an inch of it's life! I'll also be showing them how to make ~shudder~ "flowers" to add as embellishment - maybe hair??? Don't fear girls, they will be shabby, grungy flowers. Might make this first art doll up in vintage white/cream but there will definitely be a darker version as well.....have to have SOMEWHERE to put my little silver and black skulls that I bought! lol

Rinse Aid Resist - Book #4

Today's first class is the cover for the Artist Trading Card Technique Book #4 that I'm teaching at Scraptivate - Rinse Aid Resist. It comes from one of Claudine Hellmuth's fantastic books....wonder how she figured out that simple dishwashing rinse aid can act as a resist for paint? Maybe she accidentally spilled some on a canvas that she was working on in her kitchen and realised the properties of the rinse aid would cause the paint to resist where the rinse aid was placed?


So of course I don't have a picture of the cover yet, it doesn't scan well and I'm running short of time this morning to upload the photo's from the camera but it will be in the post in the next few days. Here's some samples of atc's done with the rinse aid resist as the background on canvas paper.


"Plain Lust"... (the corner pieces up the top are my faux metal technique)





"Make-believe"...

"Paper Queen"...

"Love Hate"...

"Make no mistakes"...

Because this particular technique looks as good as it does (much better in the flesh!), I don't like to cover it up too much. You'll see how little I've covered up when I post the pictures of my cover....just a few chipboard tiles with bits & pieces on them but the background is the star and I like to keep it that way. Check back in a few days for more pics. ;-)