A Passion for Playing with Tattered Angels Products...

 

Art Inspired Studios in Brentwood had their two year anniversary crop last weekend, and they asked if I would do a Tattered Angels Make & Take for them---of course, I said yes!  So I spent the day sharing the Tattered Angels love with the talented ladies at Art Inspired!  I wish I had taken pictures of their projects.  I love how we can all use the same products but come out with different beautiful results!

 We went from this familiar composition book….

to these altered composition books:

all were done with the help of a little gel medium, some tissue, a few flowers, a little gesso, and then LOTS of Tattered Angels Plain Jane products for all of the coloring:  Dark Turquoise and Red Stained Glass, Ivory and Clay Baseboard, Taupe and Aqua Simply Sheer Mists, plus various colors of Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze,  and of course, one of my favorites, Chandelier Glam!  

A few close-ups of these two projects…

For this one, I bunched up my ephemera, Anna Dabrowska style...

And here’s the very first one I did last year when the Tattered Angels Plain Jane products first came out, using the same technique but incorporating Bo Bunny pattern paper from their Timepiece line.

Fun stuff! I just love playing with all the Tattered Angels products!  

I’ll be teaching some of these projects at Scrapbook Island very soon!

A Blog Hop with May Arts and Tattered Angels

Tattered Angels and May Arts have joined together in a blog hop this week.  

In addition to this "Hello Friend" card I posted on the Tattered Angels Educator blog,  here's another card I made for the blog hop.  

For this card, I used Versafine Onyx black ink on TatteredAngels’ “Notes from the Garden” stamp.  I wanted a nice black image, so I pressed really hard on the stamp – a little too hard as you can see in the middle of the heart.  Good thing I’m planning on cutting that part out.

I used Key Lime Pie glimmer mist to color the stamped card.  I noticed when I sprayed the glimmer mist, that the ink made a bit of a resist and left areas near the stamped area uncolored, which I like.  Once the card is dry (I used my heat gun), cut out the center of the heart, keeping the black outline from the stamp.  I removed the little swirls at the top of the heart and then used a black pen to modify the black lines to make a continuous heart shape.

I cut around four of the flowers from the  white sheer woven rosettes  ribbon.  I first misted the flowers with Snow Angels  glimmer mist which I knew would be too light, but I wanted the flowers to have a little bit of color and be wet so that the colors would blend better when I applied the darker Cosmo Pink Glimmer Mist to the top of the flowers.

Once your flowers are dry, open your card and place dry adhesive (I used my atg gun) all over the inside of the card.  Attach the misted flowers to the “inside” of the card so that they show through the heart shape you cut out.  I cut one of the four flowers in half so that the entire heart area was filled with flowers.  Once the flowers are arranged, close the card shut, lining up your card edges.  Make sure your flowers are dry before doing this step or the glimmer mist on the flowers will bleed through to the front of your card like mine did.  To fix mine,  I used white chalkboard mist like “white out” and dabbed a little bit of the white chalkboard mist on to the areas and then resprayed a little Key Lime Pie over it.

Attach the folded heart card onto another card so that it opens.  I stamped a “happy birthday” phrase onto glimmer misted paper, cut it out and turned it into a banner.  The banner was attached diagonally across the bottom of the heart.

For the last step, I fan brushed Chandelier Glam over the entire card, including the flowers.

I love the dimension the May Arts ribbon flowers give to the card!

Glimmer Glam and Glimmer Mist Textured Backgrounds

Today, I posted this beach project as my monthly post for the Tattered Angels Educator’s Blog. You can see the steps for preparing the glass for this project HERE.

Here on my blog, I will show you the steps, in pictures, to make the textured background. The steps are the same for both the beach project and the halloween project pictured here. Only the colors used were different, as well as the project background. For the beach project, I used a microscope slide holder (which is several layers of chipboard pressed together). For the halloween project, I used a recycled Tattered Angels Embossed Chip Tile. I also tried this technique on regular chipboard, but it buckled in the middle. I will try using regular chipboard again, but next time, I’ll be sure the layers are completely dried before moving to the next step.

Here's how I made the textured background for the halloween cover.

Start with a Tattered Angels Chip Tile (I recycled used ones from Expo).



Use a paint brush to add Glam to the edges (be generous)....



Heat until bubbly...

Add a second glam color...and a third color if you want (which I did)

heat again until bubbly

Spray some glimmer mist on top and heat to dry quickly...

Add a couple of more glimmer mist colors that compliment your project...and heat to dry...

I got a little heavy-handed with that Fully Purple Glimmer Mist, so I added a little more Paprika Glam and heated it again. Basically, you just keep layering color until you like it...



And after that last addition of Paprika Glam, I liked it...so I stopped!

 I did the same thing for the backside of the chip tile. Except, this time, I decided I didn’t need to put glam all over the chip tile, because I’ll just be covering it with a picture. So, instead, I first attached a black mat to the chip tile (and you’ll have to hold this down with your scissors or something while heating, otherwise the heat will want to lift the mat---remember that for the next time you’ve glued a paper to your project and then decide you don’t want it there…use your heat gun to get it off).

 
and the end result using the same layering technique..

 
Here are a couple of other pages from the book...

and a few close-ups...

 
Hope you enjoyed this and will give it a try...now go play!

Birthday Wishes with Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glaze

Today I'm working on my MDDD project which I can't show post yet. For a little history on that project, HERE is the "before" picture of my last MDDD project, and the after picture is HERE.

So instead, I'll share this month's Tattered Angels project that I posted on the Educator's blog.

If you want to see the step-by-step instructions I posted to make the background for this card, check out the Tattered Angels Educator blog HERE .

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been in a bit of a creative funk lately, so I've just been working on a little bit of this and a little of that, and then putting it onto a big binder ring which has been very relaxing.

Here's a picture of my next class at Scrapbook U...





















Here's a peak at the Interactive Calling cards that I made as my February project for the Tattered Angels Educator blog. I have detailed instructions on how to make these on the Tattered Angels blog - HERE




































And here are some pictures of a few of the other "little bit of this and that"...

Impromptu Mail Art

Here’s the "mail art" I did Saturday...very last minute...so last minute that I had already sealed it and wrote the address info on it (I’ve blurred that info on the pictures), and was getting ready to put on the postage when I realized just how big and "BLAH" it looked! I’ve been playing with my glimmer mists, so any white surface just screams out, "spray me, glimmer me, make me pretty!" So I carefully unsealed the back of the envelope, grabbed three colors of glimmer mist (patina, copper and gold) and started spraying away.

I recently watched Heidi Swapp’s glimmer misting magic video (here)
where she put her glimmer mist stencil on top of the glimmer mist (instead of on top of a bare surface and then glimmer misting over the stencil), put a paper towel on top of the stencil and then brayered over the paper towel. It made the glimmer under the stencil look darker because some of the color was absorbed by the paper towel. I really love that effect.

So I pulled out my large glimmer screen scroll, placed it on top of my glimmer misted envelope -- placed a large tissue (deli tissue) on top of it instead of a paper towel (because that’s what was closest to me at the time...I told you this was impromptu!), and went to reach for my brayer which I THOUGHT I had put back into its proper spot (remember, I was cleaning earlier), but no, it wasn’t there! So I grabbed the jar of modeling paste that I had been working with earlier and used that as my "brayer". I removed the stencil...nope, it did not look like Heidi’s scroll stencil...so I tried again. I misted a little heavier, took my "brayer" to it, plus I pressed down on top of the stencil with my fingers to help make the impression. I lifted the stencil and it still did not look like Heidi’s, but I was definitely liking the effect I was getting! I could see swirls, but not so pronounced, and it gave a nice, subtle background effect (click on the image to make it larger)...I liked it...and my "tissue" paper was pretty as well :)

Jose was headed to the mall with Kathryn shortly, and he was going to take this piece of mail with him. I had promised Liz I would get it in the mail that to her that day. By now, my envelope was quite wet so I hurriedly took the heat gun and started drying it, front and back. Of course, some but not all, of the color had soaked through to the back of the envelope, so I sprayed the white spaces on the back as well and continued heating until the whole thing was dry. Then I grabbed my swirl and text stamps (by Tim Holtz) inked with Versafine Sepia and stamped the edges of the envelope. Then I stamped the bird on the branch and the crown (both from Tim Holtz’ acrylic set sold at Michaels) with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I very lightly scribbled (so it would dry quickly, especially with the help of my heat gun) Diamond Stickles on some of the swirls and on the crown tips too. I used my gold Krylon marker on the outside edges of the envelope. When I went to seal it, the back looked pretty but needed some stamping too, so I grabbed an assortment from my stamp wall and quickly stamped away -- no time for thinking...just stamp! Here’s the back of the envelope.

The whole thing took about 10 minutes -- and I finished just in time to put the stamps on and hand it to Kathryn to take to the mall for mailing. She’s so sweet...when she saw the envelope she said, "I bet that’s the prettiest envelope the post office has ever seen!"

So Liz should be receiving that envelope today—I hope she likes it. In addition to the things I needed to send to her, I also sent her a card I made and the "Smile" ATC that I posted yesterday. Liz has taken some classes from me and always sends me such sweet and inspirational emails after class. She also brings me the most amazing origami art made from money as "thank you" gifts. Here’s an origami starfish she made from a $20 bill (there’s no way I’m taking that apart!) And the paper mold fish card is adorable .

Liz told me she made the fish card a long time ago, back in the days when she was feeling creative, and now after taking a class from me, she said she was feeling creative again! That little bit of information was the greatest gift to me!

And the other two ATCs I posted yesterday...I'm going to give the "Dream" ATC to my friend Veronica...that’s "her word" that she occasionally lets me "borrow" heehee (it’s one of my favorite words too, along with Believe, Wish, and Inspire...ok, so I have many favorite words!)

I still have the "Relax" ATC, so if you’d like it, just leave me a comment, and I’ll get it to you.