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Aqua Shimmer Pen, Painting Ideas

5/31/2019

What is the Aqua Shimmer Pen?!?

Aqua Shimmer Pens are made by Tonic/Nuvo. They are shimmery brush pens with a VERY FINE iridescent glitter that runs through it. The glitter is SO FINE in the pen it is hardly seen... but as you catch the light you can REALLY SEE the shimmer come to life!!!

We carry the Aqua Shimmer Pens in 2 colors... Glitter Gloss (which lands more "silver" in color) and Midas Touch (which has a more "gold" tint to it)

For Demo this week, we talked about painting with the Aqua Shimmer Pens!!

Check out these fun ideas!!!

One of the EASIEST ways to paint with the Aqua Shimmer Pen is to use Color Burst!!

In an empty watercolor palette, add in a few particles of Color Burst. I decided to use these warm tones for coloring my flowers!!

Because the Aqua Shimmer Pens are wet on the tip, you can easily pick up the Color Burst Powder and start watercoloring!!

When I watercolor with the Aqua Shimmer Pens, I always start where in the "shadow" might be... in the corners or edges of the flowers...

To do a color-wash, I squeeze out the shimmer from the pen into the palette so it thins the Color Burst. Then I take my Aqua Shimmer Pen and paint with the diluted color to fill in larger areas!

I LOVE this card!! This stamp set, Everlasting Happiness is from Altenew and the images are just STUNNING when watercolored with the vibrant Color Burst!!

I also LOVED the idea of watercoloring with the Distress Oxide Spray Inks!! To do this, just spritz some color into your blank watercolor palette.. Then use your Aqua Shimmer Pen to watercolor like usual!!

Just look how VIBRANT these colors are!!

I like to stamp and heat-emboss my images with the Ivory Embossing Powder from Stampendous.. When you watercolor over the white embossing the images COME TO LIFE!! When I was done watercoloring my image, I still had some ink on the tip of my brush and I flicked the brush over the paper and added a SHIMMERY SPLATTER across the entire page!!

I used an X-acto knife to cut out the middle of the card so I could add in my own sentiment!!

One of my favorite ways to watercolor with the Aqua Shimmer Pen is to color DIRECTLY from the watercolor palette.. HOWEVER if you do this keep in mind that your water colors will be SHIMMERY FOREVER!! (I have dedicated one of my watercolor palettes to be a "shimmery" one because I love this effect so much!)

I always pick up the color and then start with the underside of the image so the darkest colors are the shadowed areas!

When I was all done painting the strawberries I squeezed out some shimmer so I could do a color-wash on the background.

Just LOOK HOW SHIMMERY the paper is!!!

This Three Strawberry stamp from Impression Obsession is PERFECT for Summertime!!!

Did you know you can also watercolor with the Distress Oxide Inks?!?!

To do this, just smoosh the inks onto a piece of Acetate (or a craft mat) and then watercolor as usual!!

You can always squeeze out some of the shimmer to thin the inks to get dark and light tones

I love this Vulture stamp colored with Distress Oxide inks Wild Honey and Faded Jeans

I LOVE Distress Oxide Inks because they are SO VIBRANT on the white card stock!!

This swan stamp is such a beautiful image!!!

I like to do the mirror/reflection stamping technique for creating the 2 swans looking at each other... you can view that technique by viewing one of our past blogs!! https://www.stampadoodle.com/stampadoodle-blog/reflections

Now for using Distress Inks (yes, the standard ones!!)

Did you know that if you stamp with Distress Inks onto Kromekote Paper that the image becomes resistant to water?!?! The reason is because the surface is "permeable" meaning the image falls BELOW the glossy finish.

This is great because you can stamp an image.. LET IT DRY... then smoosh inks onto Acetate (or a craft mat) and watercolor the image you just stamped. What happens is the ink you stamped in IS PERMANENT and won't move!!

So you can stamp and watercolor with the SAME INK.

I also love watercoloring with Tombow Markers.... this is my personal favorite way for watercoloring!!!

Color onto a piece of Acetate (or a craft mat) and spritz a little bit of water. Then, watercolor like usual!!

I always start my watercolors where the shadows might be (for example, the underside of the swan) and that is where the ink will be darkest.

Once again, I did a color-wash here with the Tombow Markers and the Aqua Shimmer Pen and it is SO SHIMMERY!!!! I just love the effect!!

You can also PAINT ITEMS with Acrylic Paint!! I like to squeeze out a *tiny bit* of Acrylic Paint onto my craft mat and then paint with my Aqua Shimmer Pen.

Below, check out how I painted one of these Wood Veneer Flying Keys with a little bit of Black Acyrlic Paint and the Aqua Shimmer Pen... the Flying Key is now SO GLITTERY!!!

There are SO MANY IDEAS for painting with your Aqua Shimmer Pen!!!

Stop by to see us to get inspired!! We would LOVE to see you!!

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Sprays: Ink, Oxide, Resist

2/24/2019

Last week for Demo, we learned about the world of SPRAYS!!!

Most of us are familiar with the Ink Sprays. Here at the store, we also carry the Distress Resist Spray and the NEW Distress Oxide Sprays. Did you know you can also create your own sprays?!

Check out some of these great ideas!!

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sprays, traditionally most ink sprays are a dye-based ink. The ink in a spray is meant to allow large coverage of a surface with minimal effort..

Here, I stamped and heat-embossed a stamp from Impression Obsession that says, "7 billion smiles and yours is my favorite" in clear ink and clear embossing powder. When I heat-set the image and spritz Ink Spray onto the paper, the stamped image acts like a resist and the words magically appear!

If you have a home die-cut machine, you can use Spray Inks on your Embossing Folders!!

Here, I used the Flourish embossing folder from Sizzix. If you spray ink down and just PRESS a piece of paper onto the design, you will transfer the design! (like a mono-print)

Or, you can spray ink on your Embossing Folder and then put a piece of paper in the folder and run it through your home die-cut machine! When you do this, the ink transfers AND the texture of the embossing folder transfers too!!

** Make sure when you run your embossing folder in your home die-cut machine that you cover your embossing folder with a piece of paper towel. This will help keep ink off of your die-cut machine!!**

*Always wash/rinse your embossing folder AS SOON as you are done so that the ink doesn't stain your folder!*

Another idea is to cut out a die-cut image (like this Butterfly from Hero Arts) and lay it on a piece of card stock, then spritz the ink and remove the die-cut... a great way to create your own "stencil" or "mask" !!

You can even die-cut a larger image and THEN spray ink on an Embossing Folder and THEN pur your die-cut in the folder!!

The stark-white paper now looks mottled and interesting!!

I LOVE this next idea using the Distress Resist Spray!

Resist spray is basically a spray-resin. MAKE SURE YOUR NOZZLE IS CLEAN before starting!! AND make sure you spray inside a box... because wherever the spray gets will dry and is impossible to clean up!!

To make this AMAZING galaxy background:

Use a piece of white card stock
Die-cut a starry background using your home die-cut machine and the die-cut from Sizzix, Snowy Stars
IN A BOX, lay down your paper and spritz some of the Distress Resist Spray. Use a heat-gun to heat-set it.
Now, use your Spray Inks and coat the paper in color!!
Mount the design on a piece of white card stock to bring out the stars!!

Isn't this effect WONDERFUL?!!? I LOVE how it looks like nebulas! And texture is WONDERFUL!

Ok, now THE FUN STUFF!!

NEW Distress Oxide Sprays!!

Oxide inks are WONDERFUL because they show up on dark papers AND light papers!! Just look how fantastic this effect is when you use a stencil!!

The Oxide ink sprays are great because you can spray them are darker patterned papers.. like here we took a dotted paper and then added some Oxide Spray Inks to make a more Galaxy-themed appearance!

You can even create your OWN INKS!!!

Here, I took a tiny dab of Bleed Proof White ink and mixed it in a Ranger Mini-Mister and used the new Wave Stencil from The Crafter's Workshop..

I love how soft the Bleed Proof White spray is!!! I recommend mixing some spray, and to make it more vibrant you can add a little more ink.

You can even use your spray on Suede Paper!!

You can also put some fresh bleach into a Ranger Mini-Mister and use that!!

Bleach REMOVES COLOR from paper... and every paper reacts differently to bleach! Some papers DON'T REACT to bleach.. so recommend doing a test piece of paper first by swiping some bleach on with your finger or synthetic paint brush.. the bleach takes about 3 minutes to create the FULL EFFECT so don't be surprised if you test a piece of paper and nothing happens right away!!

Many of you have probably used your spray inks for "Shaving Cream Marbling" ...Did you know you can create that same effect on BLACK PAPER using the new Distress Oxide Sprays?!!?

There are SO MANY THINGS you can do with sprays.. .we would love to show you these ideas in person!!

Stop by to see us 7 days a week to get inspired!!

Give us a call if you have any questions
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Tuesday with Wendy, February 19th

2/22/2019

What a FUN WEEK at card making class!!!

We really enjoyed having the students join us this week... and the ideas were just FLYING!!!

Check out the cards Wendy created:

The first card that Wendy designed was inspired from this Hero Arts stamp/die set, New Day Butterflies and this Stencil from Tim Holtz, Honeycomb

To make the card:

Start by taking a piece of dark blue paper. Use the new Distress Oxide Ink Spray, Wilted Violet. USE A BOX for spraying your ink in so it doesn't get ink everywhere!! On your piece of dark blue paper, lay down the Honeycomb stencil and hold it in place with one hand. With your other hand, spritz 1 OR 2 sprays of Oxide Spray Ink over the stencil. YOU DON'T NEED A LOT of ink!! When you remove the stencil you will see the image has transferred in a very soft pattern
Then, stamp the flower images (from the butterfly stamp set) onto the honeycomb stenciled image we just created. The flowers are stamped with the Versafine Clair Medieval Blue ink
Then, take a little bit of Bleed Proof White ink (a SMALL AMOUNT like 1/8 t. amount) in a little dish and apply a spritz of water and use an old tooth brush to pick up some color. Point the bristles of the tooth brush towards the paper (the honeycomb-stenciled paper) and lightly spread the bristles. You should see some specks of white transfer to the sheet of paper in a light splatter effect.
Next, stamp your Butterfly Images onto lavender card stock ALSO using Versafine Clair Medieval Blue ink. Use Tombow Markers to color your butterflies! *The Versafine Clair Ink does not bleed when you color with markers*
Use the Butterfly die-cuts to line up the images and use Washi Tape to hold the die-cuts in place. Run the die-cuts through your home die-cut machine
Now put your card together. The card base is a bright yellow card stock. On the front of the card, the honeycomb-stenciled paper we created will be on the left and a piece of decorative paper will be on the right side. Wendy used a narrow piece of purple ribbon to separate the 2 papers.
Then, Wendy glued down the CENTERS of each butterfly and then curled, bent, and raised the wings of each butterfly to give the idea of the butterflies about to take off!

I LOVE how this card turned out!! The tones match the patterned paper from the right side of the card PERFECTLY!! What a fun idea!!

The next card that Wendy created for card making class was ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!!

The card was inpsired from the Ocean Waves, Bold Prints image from Hero Arts as well as this die-cut message, Thanks also from Hero Arts

To make the card:

Start out by taking a piece of Solar White card stock and apply a rainbow-ombre across the sheet of paper using the LARGE Picket Fence Blending Brushes (The ULTRA SOFT ONES!!). Wendy used some fun colors of Distress Inks to create the rainbow... Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Broken China, Wilted Violet, and Festive Berries

Once you have laid down a nice rainbow ombre on your card stock, stamp the Ocean Waves image onto the rainbow background using Versafine Onyx ink
Finally, cut out the sentiment in black card stock AND light weight Stardream Lagoon paper AT THE SAME TIME. Use the Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere the sentiment on the front of your card creating a shadow effect with the Stardream paper behind the sentiment

I LOVE THIS CARD!!! It is so beautiful and I LOVE the movement!!!

Check out some of these other ideas... Some of the gals had the idea of stamping the background a second time in the OPPOSITE direction... what a fun effect that created!!

Other gals decided to leave out the background stamp and just create a fun focal point with the Distress Inks and Picket Fence Blending Brushes!! SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!

The last card that Wendy designed was inspired by the NEW Heron from Whimsy Stamps!!

*We just started carrying this new company and we are SO IN LOVE with their designs!*

To make the card:

Start out by stamping the image using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and your Tim Holtz Stamp Platform onto ivory card stock
Use Distress Inks and the SMALL Picket Fence Blending Brushes to color your image. The brushes are small enough and pick up *just enough color* of ink from the Distress Ink Pads to make it look like a watercolor effect! Take your time picking up different colors and shades to create the look you are after

Once you have colored your Heron image, fussy-cut around the image to bring out different parts of the image (like the trees along the top or the lily pads on the right side of the heron)
Use a piece of Handmade Paper that has a marbled image on it. Cut a small piece for the top of your card.. this is meant to give movement to the card.
Your card base is a piece of dark grey card stock. The layering piece is a piece of dark purple card stock. On this layer, at the top, adhere the small piece of marbled paper. After you adhere the marbled paper, adhere the Heron image to the purple card stock at the bottom. USE A POP DOT behind the heron and tress to give the card some dimension. Mount the purple piece of card stock to the front of your card base.

This is a BEAUTIFUL card!! Great for men's cards or for ANY occasion!!

Check out some of these other cards the gals made in class... I love how everyone cut out their Heron Image a little differently than the next!!

Card class was LOTS of fun this week!! We would love for you to join us at NEXT CLASS!!

It will be offered on March 5th. Give us a call to sign up!! 360-647-9663

Aqua Shimmer Pen, Painting Ideas

Sprays: Ink, Oxide, Resist

Tuesday with Wendy, February 19th

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