Category: Fred Mullett

Tuesday with Wendy, July 16th

7/20/2019

The cards from the last Tuesday with Wendy class were so WONDERFUL!!!!

The first card that Wendy designed was inspired from this stamp from Hero Arts, Border Messages as well as this stencil from The Crafter's Workshop, Script Dots

To make the card:

Start out with 2 colors of Colorburst, Wendy chose a purple and a blue. Squirt out a FEW PARTICLES onto your silicone craft mat. Spritz the particles with water and then smoosh a small piece of white watercolor paper (If your watercolor paper has a torn/deckled edge, that's even better!!) onto the surface of the silicone craft mat. This will pick up the color from the mat onto your watercolor paper. Heat-set the colors with a heat-gun so the paper is COMPLETELY dry.
Next, put on some gloves! Put some fresh bleach into a mini-mister. Place your Stencil on top of the paper you just decorated with Colorburst. Now spritz your Bleach Mini-Mister on top of the stencil/paper. When you do this, you will SLOWLY see the circles appear and they will be a slightly lighter color than the rest of the colorized paper. **The reason why this works: The pigment of the Colorburst actually DISAPPEARS when bleach is applied to it, removing the colorburst from the paper**
Now, stamp the sentiment, "Thank you" with Versafine Clair, Nocturne ink onto white card stock. Rip the paper above and below the sentiment so it creates a rough edge. Then take a purple ink pad (Wendy used the Distress Ink Wilted Violet) and rub the ink pad along the ripped edge of the paper, giving the sentiment a nice, vibrant border above and below.
Adhere your sentiment to the front of your colorized background using double-sided tape or Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive. Mount this onto a piece of black paper and mount it all onto a piece of light blue card stock as your card base.

I love how vibrant this card is!! What a fun and creative idea!!

The next card that Wendy created was inspired from this embossing folder from Cuttlebug, Mary Ann Embossing Folder as well as this die-cut from Memory Box, Scribble Frond Background

To make the card:

Start out with a piece of the Maid 'O Metal Goldtone decorator foil. Cut foil in half so you can cut your die-cut leaf frond out of the gold decorator foil. Now take ALL 3 PIECES of the decorator foil and put them in your embossing folder and run it through your Home Die-cut Machine. This will texturize the goldtone foil as well as the foil leaf.
Then, use a piece of handmade textured paper and a piece of gold/cream ribbon and layer the pieces to create a fun design on your ivory card base.
Place the leaf-frond on the front of the card and use Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere the leaf design to the front of the card.

I love how elegant this card is... and the tone-on-tone with the metallics looks SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

The last card that Wendy created was inspired from 2 Fred Mullett designs.. Fish Skin and Bluegill

To make the card:

Start with a piece of white card stock. Use Prismacolor colored pencils to run some color HORIZONTALLY across the card. Wendy chose greens, yellows, and blues. Then, once you have put some color down, take some Gamsol (mineral spirits) onto a piece of paper towel and using your finger, rub the paper towel across the colored pencil HORIZONTALLY on the card stock. When you apply the Gamsol to the color, the colors blend together and become very vibrant!!
Next, stamp your fish stamp (the Bluegill fish) a couple times on top of the Prismacolor Pencil background. **CREATE A MASK by stamping your fish out onto a piece of copy paper, fussy-cut the fish image out and place it ON TOP of the fish you just stamped. You will need to create 2 fish masks so you can cover up both of the fish you stamped out**
Once you have laid your fish masks in place, stamp your Fish Skin stamp on TOP of the fish. What happens is the masks block-off the fish stamps you stamped out earlier. When you remove the masks, you are left with the Fish Skin stamp as the background and the fish images as the forefront.
Apply a coat of Detail Clear embossing powder to your stamped images and heat-set it with a heat gun.
Once you have heat-set your image, take a piece of fine mesh ribbon (Wendy chose a piece of light green mesh ribbon) and used double-sided tape on the FRONT of the card to hold the mesh in place. Wendy also put some tape on the backside of the image to make the ribbon wrap around and adhere to the back as well.
Then take your Versamark ink pad (the clear ink pad for embossing) and press it across the entire front of the card, including across the mesh ribbon. Then cover the entire front of the card with a layer of Detail Clear embossing powder. Heat-set the image with a heat-gun.
Finally, mount the image onto a piece of dark green card stock and then onto a light green card base.

I LOVE the vibrancy of this card!!!! And the mesh inclusion is just SO FUN!

Thank you to EVERYONE who attended the last class... we had a whopping 49 students attend!!!

If you have any questions about the cards or techniques, feel free to give us a call at the store 360-647-9663 or send us an email at stampadoodle@gmail.com

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Distressed Techniques

4/26/2019

Have you always wanted to make your art or paper look old/distressed? Not sure how to create "the look" or not sure how to get started?

Well here are some great ideas!!

First, to create that "old" look you can use a brown ink pad. We call this technique "inking" because you are adding ink along the edge (or on top of the paper) to add the look of texture.

You can add ink in a variety of different ways using a variety of different tools.

You can use a brown ink pad DIRECTLY onto the paper.. the color is VERY dark and it can be harder to control... but it also depends on the look you are trying to create!!

You can also use the Tim Holtz Ink Blending Tool. I like to use this one because you can pick up ink OFF of your ink pad and THEN apply the ink onto the side of the paper. This tool is great to use because the ink is not as intense in color AND you have more control of where you put your ink.

Keep in mind, because the tool is SQUARE, if you get a square impression on your paper, do it in another place on your paper so it *looks intentional*

The Nuvo Blending Sponges are GREAT for applying inks because the circular tool leaves no awkward shape behind which makes it look much softer and lends to having more control of WHERE to apply your ink.

Check out here with a piece of woodgrain paper how we applied ink softly until the texture comes to life!!

BUT the BEST tool (at least in my personal opinion) for applying inks are the Picket Fence Blending Brushes.

They are SO SOFT and because there are SO MANY BRISTLES it makes it so much easier for applying a soft layer of ink onto the surface.

For example, here I crinkled up some paper then used the Picket Fence Blending Brush (from the large set) to apply a layer of brown ink. When I lightly run my brush across the crinkled paper, the wrinkles become more apparent and look really cool!! (I even crinkled up my paper and smashed it on the ink pad in some areas to create REALLY dark areas of color)

But just LOOK at how nice this gradation of color is... and it makes it look old REALLY quickly.

if you have a Home Die-cut Machine, you can run card stock through this Woodgrain Embossing Folder.

You can use your Picket Fence Blending Brushes to apply 2 colors of Distress Ink onto the paper that has the embossed image in it. I like to use the 2 colors of Distress Ink because the tone-on-tone colors give the paper more interest.

Depending which shades of brown you use will make the woodgrain image look darker and older or brighter and more fun!

Notice how in each of these ideas the centers of the woodgrains are darker. I usually coat the whole image with the lighter color FIRST and then go back in with the darker color in the centers of the woodgrain.

You can also add color to the embossed woodgrain image using Watercolors. I like using the Chisel-tip Waterbrush because then you can use brush-strokes that go up-and-down to follow the same movement of the woodgrain. I tend to spray my watercolors with WATER first, then pick up the color and brush it across the textured paper. I always start with a lighter shade of brown and then move to darker colors.

On the image below, the black was added LAST by just rubbing the black ink pad along the texture. I love how imperfect it is! It actually looks pretty neat!!

Ok, now for some FUN ideas!!!

Check out this idea using crinkled Tissue Paper and PVA!

On your piece of paper, stamp an image with Versafine Clair ink, Nocturne (or another water-proof ink) and then brush on a little bit of PVA around the image and "scrunch" the Tissue Paper into the PVA. You can add a little more PVA if needed. I applied Tissue Paper around the image on the top and bottom.

THEN use the Picket Fence Blending Brushes to apply a soft layer of Distress Ink (Walnut Stain and Black Soot is what I used here). I LOVE the look of the inks on the crinkled Tissue Paper... it adds so much texture and dimension.. and it makes it look old!!

On this one I used the Distress Oxide ink, Peacock Feathers AND the Distress Ink, Black Soot. Showing that YES you can use the 2 kinds of inks together!! (and honestly, I LOVE blending with the Oxide inks!! They are SO VIBRANT!!! )

I used one of the Fred B. Mullett Stamps for this card and I LOVE how it turned out!!! I stamped in the Versafine Clair ink, Nocturne because I didn't want my image to bleed or move when I applied a layer of PVA and Oxide inks..

Or check out this idea:

Use 3 colors of Distress Oxide inks (Wild Honey, Lucky Clover, and Wilted Violet) and Distress Ink (Black Soot). Start out by applying some of each of the Oxide Inks to a piece of Solar White card stock.
Spray some water to blend the colors together. Use a heat-gun to heat-set the inks.
Apply a soft layer of Distress Ink, Black Soot using the Picket Fence Blending Brushes
"Fleck" the paper with water using some water on your fingertips. Don't worry.. it's not meant to be perfect!! Use your heat-gun to heat-set this image again.
Lastly, use your Picket Fence Blending Brushes to apply another soft layer of Distress ink, Black Soot and watch as those "flecks" of water become darker!!

THIS IS SO FUN to create!!

I love the look of a Collage Art Piece with a Distressed Theme...

I used a combination of stamps, Distress Oxide inks, Distress inks, water, and the White Zig pen in this design to add a fun look! I LOVE the vibrancy of these Distress Oxide Inks!!!

I stamped my Halo Bird image and the circular textured image with Versafine Clair ink, Nocturne because I wanted my images to be waterproof as I added in the brighter Oxide inks and moved them with a spritz of water.

I LOVE the Halo part of this bird image!! So when I went to create an Ocean-inspired piece I used the SAME HALO but just inked the image without the bird so I could stamp a Lighthouse in the center instead!!

I LOVE HOW THIS TURNED OUT!!!!! I had so much fun creating this.. I love the pop-of-color with the Distress Oxide inks and the movement that was created from this swirl stamp from Impression Obsession... what a FUN CARD to create!!!

In this image, the white highlights were created with Bleed-Proof White and the splatter was also created from the same ink

There are SO MANY WAYS to make your art look distressed!!! These are just a few ideas of ALL THE THINGS you can do!!!

Time to get out your inks, paints, and tools and start playing!!!

Have any questions? Need items set aside for you? Give us a call!!

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Tuesday with Wendy, April 16th

4/19/2019

Cards from Wendy's card making class this week were SO FUN it was really hard to choose a favorite!!!

I mean, just LOOK how wonderful!!

The first card that Wendy designed was inspired from this stamp set from Stamper's Anonymous, Funny Farm, as well as these 2 new stencils from Tim Holtz, Gradient Hexagons Layering stencil and the Gradient Squares Layering Stencil

To make the card:

Start out with 2 cut-down pieces of Solar White card stock.
On each piece of white card stock, apply a soft layer of Distress Inks using the Picket Fence Blending Brushes. Start with Mustard Seed, then Twisted Citrone, and finally Broken China. Remember to apply a VERY soft layer...
Next overlay one of the new Tim Holtz stencils on the papers and apply a darker coat of the Broken China and Twisted Citrone.. you will end up with BEAUTIFUL tone-on-tone designs across both pieces of paper.
Next, use your Tim Holtz stamp platform to stamp the farm animals and their words on the back side of ONE of your stenciled papers. Wendy used Versafine Clair, Nocturne ink.
On the other stenciled paper, die-cut the holes. Wendy created a nice guide for cutting out the circles.. She used the Hero Arts nesting circles and cut out the paper in 4 areas with 4 sizes of circles. The holes she cut out line up PERFECTLY to allow you to see the animals peeking through the holes!!
I LOVE how clever this hinge is!!! To make the 2 pieces of paper fold like a card, she took 2 of the larger circles she cut out and adhered them to the 2 pieces of paper so one half of the circle is on the front of the card and the back half of the circle is on the back of the card...
The 2 leftover circles Wendy cut apart to add interest to the INSIDE of the card!! HOW FUN!

This is card is SO, SO, CUTE!!!!

The next card that Wendy created was inspired from this STUNNING Seahorse stamp from Indigo Blue as well as this Tim Holtz Stencil, Gradient Circles Layering Stencil and the Round Sponge Stamp from Fred Mullett

To make the card:

Start with a piece of light blue card stock. On the front of the card, use the clear, Versamark Ink to stamp the Round Sponge stamp image across the paper.
Next, use the Versafine Clair ink, Twilight, to stamp the Seahorse image 3 times on the front of the card, it is ok if the seahorse images overlap the sponge images you just stamped.
Now, apply Detail Clear embossing powder to the ENTIRE card front, shake off the excess, and heat-set using a heat-gun.
Then, use the ALL NEW Dream Drops from Nuvo (Wendy used the green ones, Dragon Scales) and apply small drops along the edge of the Round Sponge images.
Next, take the Tim Holtz Stencil, Gradient Circles and lay it around the edge of the card. Apply a small amount of Nuvo Expanding Mouse, Boatyard Blue using the new Silicone Media Spatulas. Heat-set the image using your Heat-gun and watch as the Expanding Mousse expands and raises with the heat!!!

The last card that Wendy designed was inspired by this ADORABLE Llama stamp set from Creative Expressions!!

To make the card:

Start out with a coral-colored card base. Use the Nesting Oval die cuts from Hero Arts to cut out 2 sizes of ovals, one larger one out of Dark Coral card stock and one out of Ice Gold Stardream card stock that is a little bit smaller. Adhere the 2 ovals together using double-sided tape.
Stamp the Llama image with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto the Ice Gold card stock. Use Detail Clear embossing powder and heat-set the image.
Use Tombow Markers and a Waterbrush to colorize the Llama image.
Use one of the filagree stamps to stamp a fun flower filagree in each corner of the front of the card base. Use Tombow markers and the Waterbrush to also colorize the little flowers
Use pop-dots to adhere the oval to the front of the card base, centering it between all the filagree stamp images you did in the corners.
Finish off the card by applying a few drops of Copper Crystal Drops to the crown of the Llama!

I LOVE how sweet this card is!! The added embellishment on the Llama crown is so sweet..

Card making class is SO MUCH FUN to attend!!

The next card making class will be offered on Tuesday, May 7th.. you need to sign up by the SATURDAY before class to reserve your spot!!

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