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Bling! Glitter! Mica Flakes!

6/15/2019

Here at the store, we are all about BLING! .... and by "we" I actually mean "me," Elli :-)

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE gems, glitters, mica flakes, stickles and glitter paints.. pretty much anything that sparkles makes me EXTREMELY happy!!

This week for Demo, I played with several ideas to show you the ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES in the world of Bling!

To start with, I showed everyone the AMAZING gems from Tonic/Nuvo.

The gems come in SO MANY wonderful designs!! Each container of gems has 3 sizes of the same shape... so you end up with a nice gradation of sizes in each container.

Check out these ones that look like raindrops!! I love it underneath this umbrella! They are the Water Droplets gems.

I also love using these Silver Petal gems for adding a little "extra" to my brush lettering!!

The 3 sizes of gems are PERFECT for adding the gradation of petals!!

Check out here where you can add bling to the blanket on this little Llama die cut from Taylored Expressions!!

The Golden Ovals gems are also great for adding "berries" onto the branches of this Berries Background Cutting Plate from Taylored Expressions

These SUPER iridescent gems are some of my ALL TIME FAVORITES

The Crystal Gems and the Amethyst Squares are both SO WONDERFUL!!!

The Crystal Gems are great for making things look like water in a bird bath or like winter berries on a tree!!!

The best part about the gems coming in 3 sizes is it makes it EASY for creating BORDERS along the edges of your stamped images...

Now, one of my FAVORITE forms of bling is the Star Shaped Glitter!! (or star confetti) from Creative Expressions

Check out this idea using The Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to place stars in the sky... the Handmade Marbled Paper makes the BEST starry sky!!

Have you played with the Glitterific Acrylic Paints yet?!?!

Here, I created a Rainbow Background with my Calypso Rainbow Ink Pad and added the Blue Glitterific Paint in the area where I wanted water. I used a Palette Knife to apply just a thin layer...

Here, I used the Rainbow Ink pad and my Large Picket Fence Blending Brush to apply an ombre-rainbow background.

THEN I went in with Diamond Stickles and added swirls in the sky!!

Stickles are GREAT for adding just a bit of bling onto the butterfly die-cuts as well because you have such great control of the glitter... even adding tiny swirls!!

I LOVE the Mica Flakes that we carry!! They are a natural-bling and they are GREAT for ocean-themed cards!! To adhere the Mica Flakes, I use the Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Nuvo also creates Butterfly Confetti!! Which is great for creating a "faux shaker card" where you use Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere the butterflies in place!

You could even add just a touch of glitter onto a stamped image... using Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to lay down just a little bit here and there...

There are SO MANY possibilities for adding bling to your art or card making!!

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

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Doodle Ideas and MORE!

6/8/2019

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This last week for Demo, we had to have a *quick* last minute change due to someone feeling under the weather... so it was Wendy's turn to come up with an idea on the fly!!

Check out these ideas!!

I love what Wendy creates when she is in her Element!!!

So this first idea is really clever... Wendy wanted to create a fun art piece. She started with the 140 lb. Cold Press Watercolor Paper

Wendy took a large kitchen platter and traced a circle onto her piece of watercolor paper.

THEN Wendy went online and found a public domain image of a Raven and printed it off A FEW TIMES.

Wendy cut out the Raven first...

I love this idea using the ORIGINAL SHAPES as her stencils so she new how to create the bird shape!
When you cut out the RAVEN ONLY you end up with a basic stencil! (for a sturdier stencil, you can print your image onto card stock). Wendy TRACED THE RAVEN so she got the basic bird shape in the middle of her circle.
Next, Wendy cut out a wing of the Raven, laid it down in the middle of her Raven tracing, and traced the wing
Then, Wendy cut out the other wing shapes, laid them down, and traced them. She did the same with the beak.
Wendy ended up with a line drawing of the bird shape... THEN she filled the shape with doodles!!!
Wendy used one of her FAVORITE doodle pens, the Black Glaze Pen

I love how she created her own branch and filled the space with some "woodgrain" shapes and then filled the other negative spaces with small dots, geometric shapes, swirls, and MORE!!

Just look at the detail!! What a FUN concept!!

The other idea that Wendy had was making an Interactive Card in a NEW WAY

Wendy started out by stamping her Stampscapes Pine Tree Stamp along the bottom edge of her card. She created the background using her Picket Fence Blending Brushes and circle for masking off the moon. Wendy likes to use Distress Inks for creating this effect because the colors blend BEAUTIFULLY together.

To glaze the image, Wendy used Versamark Ink and Detail Clear embossing powder.

Wendy taught the "glazing" technique from a past Tuesday with Wendy class and you can find the step-by-step up tutorial in this previous blog post: https://www.stampadoodle.com/stampadoodle-blog/tuesday-with-wendy-may-21st

Wendy created a gate-fold card and placed the glazed piece at the TOP of the card so that when you lift up the flap you see a gate fold hidden underneath!!

I love how Wendy used these Tree Line die-cuts from Memory Box and CUT THEM IN HALF so that half of the tree lines are on the left gate fold and half of them are on the right gate fold.

She arranged the layers so that the trees on the RIGHT overlap the trees on the left.

On the inside of the card she placed this Oval Tree Frame that I love SO MUCH!! Perfect place for writing a sentiment!!

What a fun card idea!! (And a great card for men! Hunting, camping, fishing.. the themes are endless!!)

Stop by and see us for FREE Wednesday Demo!! It is offered every Wednesday from Noon to 1pm here at the store in the Atrium.

You don't need to sign up for Demo, you can just stop by and learn something new!!!

See you soon!

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Tuesday with Wendy, May 21st

5/23/2019

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Check out the WONDERFUL cards that Wendy designed for card making class last week!!

I LOVE this grouping of cards!!! THEY ARE SO FUN!!

The first card that Wendy designed was inspired from this Pine Tree stamp from Stampscapes and this Cloud Stencil from Rosie's Roadshow. Wendy also used a number of Distress Inks for creating the sky and sun!

To make the card:

For this technique, you will need to use a piece of 110# solar white card stock. The heavier-weight card stock will have more body for doing the ink-layering and glazing.
Take a piece of copy paper and cut out a circle in the middle of the paper using the Hero Arts Nesting Circle dies. SAVE THE CIRCLE and use the piece of paper with a hole cut-out as a stencil.
Use the paper with a hole cut out and line it up on your paper where you want your sun to be. Use the Picket Fence Blending Brushes to create an orange sun... this is meant to replicate some of the smokey skies and cloudy sun we saw last summer. To do this, brush on a soft layer of Distress Ink, Spiced Marmalade. You can make your sun as light or as dark as you'd like depending on how much ink you brush on.
Next, remove the paper. THEN lay down the CIRCLE ON TOP of the orange sun you created (this will act as a mask). Then use the Picket Fence Blending Brushes and Distress Inks to apply a soft layer of ink across the whole page (make sure you hold your mask in place so it doesn't move!) Lay down the Cloud Stencil and apply ink (starting with light colors at the bottom and dark colors at the top) moving the cloud stencil from the bottom of the card up to the top, brushing on layers of ink as you go. When you are done, you can brush on a soft layer of other colors to create a "halo" around the sun. You can also add some black ink along the edges and the corners of the image to really add dimension!
Then stamp the Pine Tree stamp with Versafine Clair, Nocturne ink a few times along the bottom edge of the card
Once you have created your scene, take the Versamark Ink Pad (clear ink) and press the ink pad DIRECTLY onto the surface of the image. **This might make your ink pad dirty, so if you have an old Versamark Ink Pad, you may want to use that one!!**
Now apply a layer of Detail Clear Embossing Powder. It should coat the ENTIRE image. Use a heat-gun to heat-set this image and watch as your image becomes more vibrant and glazed!!
To finish the card, layer a piece of white and black card stock behind the image and mount it onto a dark brown card stock base.

I LOVE the look of this card!!! It looks like a smokey sky.. and it is just STUNNING!! I also love the texture the glaze creates

What I love MOST about this card is how EVERYONE's sky turned out different!! Check out some of these other cards that students made in class!!

The next card that Wendy designed was inspired from this paper pad from Craft Consortium, Tell the Bees as well as this stamp from Hero Arts, Friendly Bee

To make the card:

Start out with a ochre card base (or a very soft orange color)
In the Tell the Bees paper pad, there are SEVERAL bee-themed papers!! Cut out 3 different bee-themed papers to fit on the front of the card. Wendy chose this honeycomb paper with a metallic design on it for the left side of the front of the card. She layered it with a piece of dark brown card stock.
Next, Wendy added in a piece of paper with a few bees on it for the right side of the front of the card base and finished it off with a small piece of paper with bee-words written on it for the bottom right side of the front of the card.
Then, Wendy stamped the Friendly Bee image across the paper. She stamped the bee with Versafine Clair ink, Fallen Leaves and stamped bees across all 3 images so there would be a bunch of busy bees!!
To finish off the card, Wendy used her Black Glaze Pen to add a few dots behind each bee to add movement to the card!!

I love how sweet this card is!! It's so nice to get one of these pads of paper... because you KNOW the papers will all go well together!!!

The last card that Wendy created was inspired from this stamp set from Stamper's Anonymous, Media Marks 2 as well as.... PACKING TAPE!!!

To make the card:

Start out with a black card base. On the right side of the card, stamp one of the "scribbles" along the right side. Stamp with Versafine Black, Onyx and emboss with Detail Gold embossing powder
Next, on your Silicone Craft Mat, create your designs with Acrylic Paint! To do this: squirt out a thin layer of Acrylic Paint onto a paper towel (Wendy used black, purple, orange, green, and blue Pebeo Acrylic Paints) Then, attach your stamps to clear acrylic blocks and STAMP INTO THE PAINT and then onto the craft mat. As you do different images, WAIT FOR THE PAINT TO DRY before doing your next layers. Remember, the less paint you use, the faster the paint will dry!! You want your painted collage to DRY COMPLETELY.
After your paint-collage is DRY, take a piece of Packing Tape and place it ON TOP of the acrylic paint collage. Press it FIRMLY to the silicone mat/acrylic paint. Use a bone-folder if needed to really adhere the tape to the top of the silicone mat
Peel the tape away from the Silicone Mat and as you do so, the image will lift off with the tape!!
On the back of the tape, brush on a very soft layer of Pearl-ex powder. This will adhere to any place where the tape is still sticky
Lay the tape-design (sticky-side down) onto a piece of white card stock. And wrap it around the top and bottom of the paper. Use double-sided tape to adhere it to a piece of black card stock. Layer this with gold card stock and finally bright orange card stock. Mount the final piece onto the black card stock base making sure to put the design on the LEFT side of the front of the card so the gold design is on the right side of the acrylic paint collage

Look how fun this card is!!! I love the colors and the scribble-media look!!

Thank you to everyone who came to class today!

You can join us for the NEXT card making class on June 4th! Please call us to reserve your spot!!
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Woodgrain Ideas with Paper

5/10/2019

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For Demo this week we explored the wonderful world of using Woodgrain ideas in your paper crafting!!

Check out some of these fun ideas!!

First off, there are SO MANY OPTIONS for woodgrain papers here at the store!!

You can use papers that are already printed with a woodgrain appearance and these are the ones we currently have in stock!

These papers are EMBOSSED with a woodgrain texture on ONE SIDE:

When making cards, you can incorporate the Woodgrain texture in a variety of different ways!!

If you have a home die-cut machine, you can use this wonderful Woodgrain Embossing Folder from Taylored Expressions.

I liked the idea of just embossing a thin, plain paper bag.

Emboss a small, flat paper bag using the Woodgrain Embossing Folder, making sure that the ragged lip of the paper bag is also embossed. (So you can tuck a note into it!!)
Run a Distress Ink, Walnut Stain ink pad across the textured side of the paper bag and cut your paper bag so it is only one-layer thick.
Cut a piece of card stock to fit on the front of a card base. Wrap the embossed paper bag around the front of the piece of card stock and glue in place with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive. Mount this piece onto the front of your card base.

Stamp a sentiment onto a piece of brown card stock and tuck the little note into the lip of the paper bag!!
Use Distress Oxide ink pad, Worn Lipstick and a Waterbrush to watercolor the flowers. Finish off the card by adding a small ribbon along the bottom of the card

When it comes to the paper that is already EMBOSSED with woodgrain, you can colorize the woodgrain yourself using Distress Inks and the Nuvo Blending Sponges!

I LOVED this look of creating a little garden shed using the embossed woodgrain paper and little charms!!!

Honestly.. you can color your embossed woodgrain card stock ANY COLOR YOU WANT!!!! That way it is sure to match the project you are working on...

Check out this idea... if you are looking to make the "1970's wood plank" it is easy to do with Kraft Sticker Paper and a score board!!

Once you score your sticker paper, apply the paper to a piece of card stock, the "planks" will smash together. Then, when you run a Distress Ink pad, Walnut Stain, across the "planks" they give a Distressed-look as well as giving them more definition.

One of my FAVORITE ideas was SO EASY... just scrape 2 colors of ink pads across a piece of white cardstock, Then CUT IT INTO STRIPS and paste them back down with 1/8" between each "plank"

IT LOOKS LIKE AN OLD FENCE!!!!!

I LOVE THIS WOODGRAIN!!! I had a lot of fun with this idea... You can use the Faber Castell Small Brush Tip pen to create the thin lines AND the chunky lines!!

I used the Picket Fence Blending Brushes to apply a soft layer of ink to the page to add interest...

You can also use your Score Board to create Planks!!

Once you create your planks, you can ink the edges of each plank by rubbing the folds against a brown ink pad!! I added in the little "nails" by just using a fine-line black pen.

You can also create a fun Wood-Plank Fence!!!

When I do this, I cut my paper into strips, then I cut ONE strip with a point and used that as a template to cut my other wood planks.

I used the Faber Castell Fine-line black pen to add in the lines of woodgrain.

I used my Tim Holtz Blending Tool to "ink" the edges of my planks before I adhered them down.

I love this ivory woodgrain paper!! The lines on the paper make it really easy to cut out the planks and make a fun fence!!

I loved the idea of crows on a fence...

I stamped the Crow Trio stamp (from Impression Obsession) on the paper FIRST and then I lined up the planks to create a 3-Dimensional Fence

Check out this sweet idea making a flower box!!!

This woodgrain Flower Box stamp is from Impression Obsession. I stamped it with Versafine Clair ink, Nocturne

Then I tucked in all these fun flowers from this sweet Cottage Cutz Floral die-cut set and the botanicals from this Tim Holtz/Sizzix Greenery set

I LOVE this new Tree Ring Stencil from Altenew!!!

I decided to play with this idea.. I first used the Picket Fence Blending Brushes and brushed a light color of Distress Ink, Walnut Ink

THEN I went in with a few sizes of fine-line Faber Castell black pens to add in the "grain" and it is SO AMAZING!!!!

I LOVE THIS LOOK!!

The Blending Brushes are SO WONDERFUL for applying inks because the color blends out color until it disappears!

One of the EASIEST ideas for creating the woodgrain look is to use Tombow Brush Markers!

The brush markers are great because you can do fine-lines AND thick lines. I love having the tones of dark and light lines.

Once you have drawn your lines, you can make it less-intense by just spritzing on a light mist of water

Woodgrain texture is so much fun to play with!! You can make signs, you can cut it up to make "planks", you can do card making and SO MUCH MORE!!

Stop by the store to get inspired!!

See you soon!!

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Distressed Techniques

4/26/2019

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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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