9th March, 2012 by iGirlZoe
290 days (yes I’m counting)! I wanted to share an altered project that I made for a swap in the Tim Holtz Addicts group.
I started with this naked snowflake that I picked up in the January sales.
I covered the snowflake with Gesso and put face down on to a dictionary page, smoothed out the wrinkles and left to dry and harden. I used distress stains and inks to give an aged effect and gold adirondack paint on the edge of an old credit card to create gold streaks, (a technique from Kate Crane’s Art Journaling DVDs).
I used sandpaper, distress inks and stains to age the edges and attached a chain and some other idea-ology pieces to decorate.
‘The word ‘snow’ is grungeboard covered with distress ink and distress stickles. I made the snowflake embellishment by cutting grungepaper with a Tim Holtz movers and shapers snowflake die, covering with distress ink and pearl adirondack paint. I made a snowflake wax seal, trimmed and attached to the center of the grungepaper with glossy accents and added a small pearl accent to finish it off.
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8th March, 2012 by iGirlZoe
It’s here! My signed copy of Tim Holtz’s A Compendium of Curiosities volume 2 has arrived and I’m delighted! *doing the happy dance*
I am going to spend the weekend pouring over the pages and getting inky. It should keep me out of trouble until the Creative Chemistry 101 classes start on Monday 19th. Tim has just posted a video teaser and details about the class on his blog.
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5th March, 2012 by iGirlZoe
I’ve excitedly waited all day for the Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101 SUPPLY LIST, and here it is…
SUGGESTED SUPPLIES:
Craft Sheet
Ink Blending Tool
Ink Blending Foam
Mister
Mini Mister
Heat Tool
Stamps/Rubber or Clear
Distress Ink
Distress Reinker
Distress Stains
Distress Markers
Distress Crackle Paint
Distress Embossing Powder
Distress Stickles
Clear Embossing Powder
Perfect Pearls Powder
Archival Ink
Ink Palette
Waterbrush/Detailed
Waterbrush/Flat
Vagabond Machine
Texture Fades
SUGGESTED SURFACES:
Tags/Manila
Tags/Kraft
Specialty Stamping Paper
Sticky Back Canvas/Natural
Watercolor Paper
Grungeboard or Chipboard
Kraft Resist
I have most items on the list or a variation of, so my Husband’s credit card remains safe (for now)!
I’ll need to pick up a couple of Distress Markers when they become available. I’m going to order Fired Brick and Vintage Photo first, to see if I likey. I think they’ll be really useful for inking detailed areas of stamps. I may have to add Black Soot to my list, to ink up individual words on a quote stamp.
Oh it never ends! Today a couple of Distress Markers, tomorrow 37 varieties and a new storage conundrum! 😉
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2nd March, 2012 by iGirlZoe
Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101 online class starts on March 19th. I’ve just signed up and eagerly await the supply list to see how hard this is going to hit my Husbands credit card!
Tim Holtz promises to guide us through the science behind Rangers many mediums. Through online workshops we will learn techniques as well as ways to use all the creative mediums in our stash, creating tag swatches with instruction labels for future reference.
Cannot wait! 🙂
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