Creative Chemistry 101 - Day 8

Day 8


Finally got a chance to dabble in my inks again tonight, so I decided to work on Day 8. Please forgive the grainy photo, as I used my iPhone.  My good camera is in the bedroom and hubby is asleep and I didn't want to go rumaging around in my camera bag in the dark.

I'm limited in Distress Stain colors, so had to go with what I had.  The local JoAnn's only carries a total of 6 colors, most of which are pretty dark.  I'll have to go shopping on line if I want anything lighter.

For the first one with the Paint Dabber Resist technique I didn't have any sticky back canvas or Paint Dabbers, so I used white acrylic paint and worked directly on the tag.  I think it really loses something in the translation.  I really need to try this one over again.  Maybe this weekend I'll dig out my USArtQuest canvas and give it a try on that...although it is not sticky backed, it should work better than the paper tag!  This one is my least favorite of the three I did.

I'm liking the Crackle Paint Resist one even though it is the darkest of the three.  Because it turned out so dark, the background stamping really didn't show, so I grabbed some black rub-ons  to layer on top and I'm really liking the white ones, especially after I aged them a bit with vintage photo Distress Ink.

I like that Shattered Stains look on the butterflies on the third tag, but I think next time I need to go a bit thicker on the Rock Candy Crackle.  I thought I was putting as much as he showed, but the crackles ended up being tiny and the layer looking a lot thinner than I thought...so this one is one I'll try again.  I ended up with darker butterflies rather than bright due to the color of stains I have, but I still like the effect.  I didn't have any kraft tags, and didn't feel like digging out my kraft cardstock and cutting one, so I decided to ink up a tag.  I only have about a dozen or so colors of Distress Ink, half of which are browns and black soot.  (Again, this is a local supply issue...) so I dug out my Marvy Matchables of which I have about 30 different colors and used them along with my Distress Inks.  The Marvy Matchables don't seem to blend as well as the Distress Inks with the blending foam, but my stippling brushes were handy, so I pulled them out and used them.

Well my hands are all inky now, just in time for my Board meeting at work tomorrow.  LOL! They have such pretty brown and red tips!  I've scrubbed them with my ink scrubber, but my hands have been a bit dry these last few days, so the ink soaked in nicely.  Ahhh well, I'll give them another scrub in the morning. 

Busy couple of days coming up, so it will probably Sunday before I get to play again.  Board meeting tomorrow night....off to see a friend play and sing on Thursday evening as Leesburg's Bike Week ramps up.  We've got several friends in local bands and we will be going to see them play and going out on the motorcycle enjoyiing the wonderful weather we are having!

Well, it's off to read Blogs and relax a bit before calling it a night...can't wait to see what others have been up to today!

Comments

Jassy said…
I think they are great!
3:09 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tim Holtz -Tag Tags of 2013

Image
March When Tim posted his March tag for the 12 Tags of  2013  I knew I was going to have to do some major improvising because although I have a lot of Tim Holtz products in my stash, the only things I had this time was the Foliage and Memo Pins.   It took me a few days to wrap my head around it... but in the end I'm really happy with how my tag turned out  and it was nice to have some creative time at my art desk. Thanks for stopping in and feel free to leave me a comment and let you me know you stopped by! Anna I didn't have the Fringe Die so I  cut my grass by hand.  I looked at the picture of the die and sized my grass to match  Tim's.  I had Green Co-ordinations but not the Kraft one...so my grass is green on both sides of the fence.  I sanded the paper first and then gave it a good dose of Walnut Stain Distress Ink before cutting.  Then after I put it on my tag, I gave it a little hint of Picked Raspberry. ...
Read more

Project 30 - Day 16 - January 30, 2007

Image
This is Momma Cat. She adopted us a couple of years ago when she needed a home for her kitties. She's guarding a lizard that she'd been playing with and wasn't quite sure whether I was after it or not. We are having our two weeks of Winter these days with cold, gray skies and blustery wind. What a difference it makes down at the park... This is the same little willow that I posted about a week ago...only now it has been bitten by the cold and turned all brown and sad...
Read more

WOYWW #206

Image
What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? As always I'm running late posting my workdesk, but a busy day at work and then I had errands to run  which kept me away from my desk until late this evening. Once I finally had a chance to sit down I dug out my acrylics to work a bit more in my art journal.   My daughter brought me a snack of popcorn and I had to be careful not to eat my brushes or try and wash them out in the popcorn cup. If you look close on the right side you can see Momma Cat.   She thought I needed supervision and it was all I could do to keep her from walking through the wet paint! ...then when I wasn't paying close attention my other black cat, Sneakers, walked right through my little puddle of black paint.   Now THAT was fun trying to get it all off of his paws.   He wasn't too happy with me after that! and here's a little close-up of the journal page that I'm working on. Stamps are by Stamp Camp .   ...
Read more