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Sweet Sunny Smile | My Favourite Things 2015

29 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by Sara in Classes, Mixed Media, My Favourite Things, ScrapBook

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Dylusions Ink Spray, Little B, Mixed Media Layout, October Afternoon

edit: Ack! I forgot to hit post yesterday! Sorry!

You know how you have products you love but sometimes they get laid aside so you kind of forget about them until you’re looking for something new and/or different to use and suddenly hey! there they are and you fall in love all over again?

Yeah. That was me and Dylusions Ink Sprays this month. The colours. Seriously people, the colours. Yum.

17 - sweet sunny smile

Look at that face. First day of school and she (actually they) let me take pictures even though it was cold outside.

I added rub-ons, iridescent sequins, and those amazing gold feathers from Little B:

17 - title embellies

For the second LO – hello sweet little face –

18 - school boy charmI punched it up a notch with overspray, ghosting, and overheated molding paste.

I still added the same embellishments to tie both pages together:

18 - embelliesAnd I love how the titles worked out on both! Those alphas are from October Afternoon’s new holiday line, Under the Tree, and I love how it can be totally Christmassy, or not.

18 - titleAs always, it was fabulous seeing how everyone used the exact techniques and products I did and yet they are all so different. Gorgeous and amazing pages were made, as usual! If you’re a regular who missed the class this month, you really did miss out! #sorrynotsorry Lol!

Cheers!

S.

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Totally Dylusional….

05 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by Sara in Cards, Classes, Mixed Media, ScrapBook, Techniques

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Classes, Dylusions Ink Spray, Mixed Media Layout, The Paperie

A while back I blogged about a new class series I was teaching called Distress Renewed. This is going to be bimonthly and a few weeks ago we had our second class. This one was all about Dylusions Ink Spray – one of my most fave products!

hangin out

Our first LO was all about using Dylusions to make a watercolour background with resist, complete with misted ghosting and bleach out clouds:

hanging out bleached cloud

The second layout was showing the blendability and fun properties of the sprays:

colourful life

Love how water ghosting works on these!

colourful life water ghostingI also had fun with my new-to-me vintage typewriter and the alpha stickers included in the class for the title work on this one:

colourful life title

Finally, we made card fronts using a bunch of techniques:

water ghosting

water ghosting

bleachout and colouring

bleachout and colouring

gel medium and crayon resist

gel medium and crayon resist

watercolour painting and scribble

watercolour painting and scribble

white gesso pastel

white gesso pastel

black gesso magic

black gesso magic

And that’s it – fun times getting messy and inky! Next class will be all about Distress Paints and I can’t wait to play!

S.

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This and that…

25 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by Sara in Classes, Mixed Media, This & That

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Dylusions Ink Spray, mixed media layouts, Simple Scrapper, The Paperie

Sorry I’ve been AWOL this week – it’s Easter break for the school kids this week and it’s thrown off my usual schedule.

On top of that it’s my baby’s birthday and his party tomorrow:

he's the cutest.... :)

he’s the cutest…. ๐Ÿ™‚

As well, I’m teaching a class I needed to prep for, Simple Scrapper LO’s had to be completed, and the Paperie Retreat is next Wednesday – there’s been lots to do around here!

Here’s some eye candy bits and bobs for you to make up for the absence!

Some Simple Scrapper sneaks:

my girl

my girl

My story starter was fun – I made a beautiful mixed media background on that one as I was trying things out for an upcoming Dylusions class at The Paperie in May.

you - right now

you – right now

And more fun on my template LO for May – a fave technique for the background on this one!

For you Yearlong Album peeps, here’s a sneak of tomorrow’s class:

march layers

And finally, a LO from a mixed media class I took with Cathie – I love how this one turned out!

my boy

Some awesome layers with silver paint, gold embossing paste, tissue paper, and wood veneer with Wink of Stella pen:

my boy - embellishmentsAnd that’s it! Expect next week to be much the same as this, maybe worse since I’m leaving Wednesday for a scrappy retreat – fun times ahead!

S.

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ICAD 2013 | June 13: change for no one

14 Friday Jun 2013

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Dylusions Ink Spray, ICAD, Index card

This started out as a test run for an upcoming class – it didn’t well especially well but I’m not discouraged; proper paper will probably make all the difference!

change for no one

I misted with my Dylusions again, threw down some mist spatters and made “Glitter Splats” – thanks to Cathie for that invention! Just tap splats of Goosebumps on your projects, sprinkle on some glitter (which I coloured myself with alcohol ink) and let it dry. Look at the awesome dimension and sparkle you get!

change for no one - glitter splats

The sentiment was stamped on leftover index cards from last year – note to self: make more sparkly paper for sentiments – and it’s specifically for my Molly. She’s been difficult lately but I keep telling myself that will hold her in good stead come the pressure filled teenage years. It will right? Someone out there tell me I’m not crazy and delusional! ๐Ÿ™‚

I’m a day behind but I’m going to a friend’s house for a crafty night so I’m hoping to catch up!

S.

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ICAD 2013 – June 12: Reach Up

13 Thursday Jun 2013

Posted by Sara in ICAD

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I love my Dylusions Ink Sprays. The colours, the water reactiveness, the fun. But how would they act on an index card?

Not the greatest! ๐Ÿ™‚ The card is just too thirsty and sucked up all the ink before I could even play – exactly what I expected so I wasn’t that disappointed, luckily. However, I made the card anyway:

reach up

Some mist, some water, a bit of stamping, then I tried the bleaching technique (major fail, as anticipated), some colouring, misting, more stamping. It’s done, another one under my belt, right?

I do love the movement from dark to light and the leaves growing up. And the shine from the silver ink is fabulous, of course!

reach up - shine

Back with another one soon!

S.

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KP Weekend!

18 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Cards, Classes, Techniques

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Distress Ink, distress paint, Distress Stain, Dyan Reaveley, Dylusions Ink Spray, Gesso, Kelly Purkey, Perfect Pearls, Ranger, Stencils, The Crafter's Workshop, Tim Holtz, tissue wrap

This past weekend, The Paperie hosted Kelly Purkey and we all had an awesome time!

sara, kelly, and krista

Krista and I were lucky enough to share the teaching floor with her and do classes so there were lots of different styles and projects for participants to make. Kelly taught a LO class, plus a mini album from scratch. Krista did a completed Dear Lizzy Daybook mini and I did a tag technique workshop. Since I ย don’t have any pictures on LO’s or in albums yet, I’ll show you the tags I taught and be back another time with the other goodies!

First of all we played with Dylusions Ink Spray and gesso, plus the Tim Holtz Easter Blueprints stamps (CMS144):

bunny tag

I love the texture the gesso provides!

bunny tag closeup

Then we used Distress Ink and Perfect Pearls powder to make a great background that we layered with the Vintage Things Blueprints set (CMS152):

typewriter tag

Hello, Perfect Pearls and silver gel pen:

typewriter tag closeup

We did a soft background using Distress Stains, the Sewing Room Sizzix Bigz die, and some tissue wrap:

dress tag

Love the dimension the tissue wrap adds:

dress tag closeup

Finally, we all played with the brand new Distress Paints! We marbleized, stenciled, and painted:

SAMSUNG

And added some amazing mirrored sheet letters to finish it off! Unfortunately, I only have this one cell phone picture of this tag but I’ll update with better pics tomorrow when I get my tag back.

It was a bit hairy at the end of class, trying to get them all done but all in all, I think we pulled it off and everyone liked their tags – whew! Plus, they all got to take home a new Distress Paint and a 6×6 Crafter’s Workshop stencil of their choice, pretty sweet!

The weekend as a whole, starting Friday night with a wine & cheese, leading into classes all day Saturday and then a crop, ending with another full class day on Sunday, was fabulous! I think everyone was pretty tired by the time it finished but it was worth every moment. Plus, we got to get a jumping picture with Kelly at Signal Hill in front of Cabot Tower – the icing on top of a very good weekend, even if we did freeze our faces off to get it!

jumping

S.

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Technique Tag Class | Sneak Peek!

08 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Cards, Classes, Techniques

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card class, Distress Ink, Distress Stain, Dylusions Ink Spray, Gesso, Kelly Purkey, technique tags, The Paperie

It’s a bit late but I’m back with sneak peeks of three of the cards for next weekend’s Technique Tag Card Class during the Kelly Purkey weekend at The Paperie!

The first one will be made using Distress Inks and Perfect Pearls:

technique tag card class sneak peek - inks and pearls

Then we’ll do a pretty one with Distress Stains and Inka Gold:

technique tag card class sneak peek - stains

And the third is made with gesso, mist, and alcohol ink!

technique tag card class sneak peek - easter

We are actually making four cards but the last one uses a top secret and very fun product so no sneaks for that one – it will be an awesome surprise to the class goers!

If you haven’t signed up for this awesome weekend – and why haven’t you? – I think there’s still a couple of spots available! Kelly is teaching a LO class and a minialbum class, Krista will be doing an Amy Tangerine Daybook, and I’ll be doing a bunch of technique tags that we’ll make into cards! Plus, there’s a meet and greet with Kelly on Friday night and a crop night on Saturday! It’s going a be full and very amazing weekend!

S.

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Index Card A Day – #50 & #51

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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Cosmo Cricket, Creative Imginations/Luminarte, Dylusions Ink Spray, ICAD, ICAD2, Kiddies, Ranger, The Crafter's Workshop

#50 – Make a beautiful mess

I recently got some black gesso and decided to use it on an index card. It didn’t turn out as planned! So I took some old paper towel and adhered it with gel medium. Because of the black base, it turned out pretty dark which is why I added Golden Light Molding Paste over the Peony stencil to cover the majority of the card – it lightened it up quite a bit, thank goodness!

I heat set the molding paste, since I like the look when it puffs up, then added the sentiment from some Cosmo Cricket word stickers.

After a bad start, I really like how it turned out! And the detail from the stencil is awesome!

Here’s a bonus for you today – M did one last index card!

Of course, she had to use the “sparkly pots” aka my Twinkling H2O’s and she covered the whole card in gold. She then painted little wood veneer people and when the card was dry, stuck them on. She’s pretty minimalist, so she said that was it!

I love the colours she used!

#51 – Be true…

This is one of my recent faves – I love the bright colours!

I first added molding paste over another new stencil, Zinnia, and then misted with my Dylusions Ink Sprays. I added a couple of stamps but it was still just not quite right. ย Then I saw the mask left over from card #48 and since it was covered in a different colour mist, I added it to the mix.

Love how it turned out! I little bit of colouring and some more Cosmo Cricket word stickers and it was done!

That’s all I have ready to show you, but there will be a few more in the next little while – I just need to get the time to complete them! ๐Ÿ™‚

S.

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Tuesday Techniques – Dylusions Ink Sprays

10 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Dylusions Ink Spray, Ranger, Tuesday Techniques

Before I start I just want to say that this will be the last Tuesday Technique post this summer. The weather is beautiful, we’re always outside, and I simply don’t have the time to blog like I want to right now! Hope you all understand – things will get back to normal in the fall! We have so little great weather here that I feel the need to take full advantage while it’s nice!

Moving along…

You should all know my love of Dylusions Ink sprays by now, I do use them once in a while! ๐Ÿ˜‰ So, I decided to do a quick little tutorial on how to use and layer them to build backgrounds. All you need are your Ink Sprays:

…and some water!

Dylusions work best for the techniques I’ll be showing you as they were made to react and play with water for neat effects.

First, pick your colours and randomly, but heavily, mist your surface:

I always mist with water and roll paper towel over it after the initial step. This will blend the colours a little more and take off the excess water while subduing the vibrancy a bit. Remember, we’re going for a background here, it needs to be a little more subtle!

The next step is to lay a stencil over the misted surface and spray with water.

Since the Ink Sprays react, the stencil creates a ghost like image to appear. Don’t worry if it doesn’t show up immediately when you try this, it takes a second for the water and ink to react and as the surface dries, the ghosted image becomes more pronounced.

Finally, after drying what’s been done so far, I spatter mist on top to get coloured droplets. All I do is remove the top of the bottle and shake the tube of ink over the surface – instant drops instead of mist!

I almost always finish my bright backgrounds with black stamped images – they stand out better and they make the colours pop. For the lighter images, I rub the ink pad over the stamp instead of properly inking up the stamp. You get a second generation look without having to stamp off first.

Hope you enjoyed this last tag of the summer and I hope you stick around for my erratic postings over the next month or so!

As always, please link me up to your projects – I’d love to see what you create!

S.

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Tuesday Techniques – Stencils Part 3: Mist

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Dylusions Ink Spray, Mist, Ranger, The Crafter's Workshop, Tuesday Techniques

We’ve done dry media (ink), wet media (paint), and so today we’ll do fluid media (mist).

As I mentioned in my first Stencil post, the drier the medium, the better the resultsย if you want precise images. However, I also said that wet mediums can be used dry, like stippling with paint, for example. The same goes for mist, which is fluid.

You can mist your heart out:

And get this:

Now, to be honest, no one will ever mist that heavily and, chances are, they would roll paper towels over it first to soak up some of the excess before removing the stencil so it wouldn’t be this messy. I just wanted you to see how fluid the mist really is.

You can also spray some mist on your craft sheet, pick it upย sparinglyย with a paintbrush, and get this:

Kind of a fun, arty look – not perfect but still quite defined.

Or you can go easy! Now I’ve been told that’s easier said than done so here are my tips and tricks to get a perfect misted stencil image every time. Keep in mind, it’s not wrong to mist your heart out if that’s they look you’re going for! If it’s not, read on!

First, do not, I repeat,ย do not press all gentle and nice on the mister. That will guarantee you splotches and puddles of ink. Not what we’re going for here! Just press down my friends, give it a good push and commit to the spray! I know I’ve mentioned this before….

Second, stand back; you don’t need to be on top of your project. Mist has a mind of it’s own andย althoughย you can say, “I want it round about there,” that’s asย preciseย as it gets. It’s liquid and you’re spraying it, you have to be content with drifters. That being said, masking can beat the pants off fly away mist!

See? No mist will go where I don’t want it to be (like the top and bottom of the tag)!

Hold your mister about 12″ away and go for it. Don’t do it too much, two maybe three sprays are plenty, we’re trying to stay dry, remember? Carefully lift a corner of your mask and check, chances are you’re good to go – more ink comes down than you think.

This was two sprays, loads of colours and a few puddles – that’s why you don’t want too much.

My other no fail trick? Don’t spray on your project. No, seriously, it works! This is one of the only times I break out my misting box…

Set your paper inside, lay down your stencil, mask if needed, then aim your nozzle at the back of the box and go! Lots of ink will drift down over your project and give you a great image. This is fabulous with white mist on black paper – perfect snowy night!

Because this is an indirect method, it’s also the driest, but may require a few extra sprays. Always lift a corner and check, then mist again if you want.

See – a lot cleaner but the colour isn’t as intense.

One more thing – don’t waste all that mist on your stencil! Flip it over and press it onto another tag, or in an art journal, or on a 12×12 piece of cardstock for a LO background. Just use it!

You get the negative – sweet, huh?

Here’s my finished tag:

I misted three colours heavily (though not asย heavilyย as the first example) and blotted the stencil before removing. I ย wanted a defined but not perfect image and it worked!

I hope this makes you want to go play with mist a little – remember to leave me a link in the comments so I can check out your work when you give this a spin!

Next week – fun media with stencils! ๐Ÿ™‚

S.

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