Archive for Techniques
This Week’s Techniques For Club 52 – Striated Background Technique
Posted: Thursday, September 29th, 2011 | CommentsHi everyone! Before I dive into today’s post I wanted to let you all know that I haven’t forgotten about the winners I was supposed to announce for the Letters From Santa give-away. I also have a couple of winners to announce for the Calendar and Note Pad Tin Kit. I PROMISE I will announce those tomorrow. I’ve had a brutal week this week and just haven’t had the time. So please stay tuned tomorrow for that announcement.
I also wanted to mention, that although we haven’t been posting a lot here on this blog, if you are looking for a daily dose of inspiration and some project ideas, you can visit our blog at www.papercrafterslibrary.com, because we do post projects just about every day. Now, today’s post here, and today’s post there are the same, but we do have a Halloween and Harvest project we posted yesterday and the day before.
So, today I wanted to share with you all the techniques we are doing this week for Club 52 (which you can read about here) and Paper Crafter’s Library members. This week I’m finishing off our four weeks with Direct To Paper techniques (DTP) featuring dye-based inks, and then for the next number of weeks we are going to be exploring a bunch of awesome techniques using dye ink refills.
This week’s technique is one that I call the Striated Background Technique. Although you can use pretty much any brand of ink pad (as with the other DTP techniques we’ve explred so far) I did find that for this particular technique, my favorite was Stampin’ Up!’s ink pads, simply because of their size. They are the largest ink pads on the market and provided me with more surface area to work with.
So here is a snapshot of this week’s techniques:
I have a close up picture of both tags I created using the Basic Striated Technique:
And then here is a close up of the tags I created using the Surf and Sand Striated Background Technique:
As part of the videos for this week I also included a free bonus greeting download of the Fun in the Sun Greetings which I created, and in a video I show you how to create the sun embellishment.
I have to say, I am having so much fun creating for Club 52. I’ve always loved techniques, but I find that these days, I’m becoming a real technique junkie!
“Sweet” Card Featuring the Striped Pattern Variation of My Pulled Background Technique
Posted: Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 | Comments
Today I wanted to share a card I created today that I think is probably one of my favorites of all the cards I’ve ever made. The funny thing is, when I started I had no intention of creating a valentine-type card, especially considering we’re gearing up for Christmas.
The striped background in the card above is all one layer created with a Direct To Paper (DTP) technique I call the Pulled Background technique. In Club 52 (our year long online technique club) we’ve been looking at Direct To Paper Techiques using dye-based inks for the last three weeks. This week, I created three variations of the Pulled Background Technique, which if you’re interested in seeing, I have posted on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog. This card is a step-stepped up verison. It uses four different colors of ink: Pink Pirouette Classic ink, Pretty in Pink Classic ink, Melon Mambo Classic ink and Rose Red Classic ink.
If you’re a technique-lover, you’re welcome to join the club at anytime. There’s more info about it HERE. You can also get an over-all snapshot of what we’ve done so far HERE.
Faux Marbled & Stained Glassine Flowers & A Video
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 | Comments
For the last month or so, I’ve been experimenting with different products and trying all sorts of fun and interesting techniques. The flowers on today’s project features a technique that I came up with which I am calling “Faux Marbled & Stained Glassine”. The closest existing technique, which hs some similarities to mine, is the Acetate & Tissue technique shown on Splitcoaststampers.
It actually all started when I was playing around and came up with a technique I call Faux Glassine (tomorrow on the Paper Crafter’s World Blog I’ll be sharing a card I created with a Faux Glassine technique as well as instructions on how to do it). As I started playing around with variations of that technique I ended up with today’s technique.
In a nutshell - for the Faux Marbled and Stained Glassine you start with a transparency sheet ( you want to make sure it can withstand heat). Coat the transparency (i.e. acetate sheet) with a layer of Claudine Hellmuth multi-medium mate (or Mod Podge). Place a piece of white tissue on top of the transparency, gently crinkling it onto the acetate as you stick it down. Coat it with another layer of the matte medium and then brush a little water over it. Heat it with a heat tool to dry, and then trim off any excess tissue from around the edges of the transparency. Die cut your shapes and then tint the tissue side with ink refills – note that more intense colors work best – here I used Peach Parfait for the orange flower and a combination of Melon Mambo and Rose Red for the pink flower.
I layered my stained flowers onto flowers that were die cut out of vanilla CS as I wanted the colors to pop more.
Here’s a video of how I created the Faux Marbled & Stained Flowers:
Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Peach Parfait Classic ink refill, Melon Mambo Classic ink refill, Rose Red Classic ink refill, Early Espresso Craft ink (Stampin’ Up!)
Paper: Sweet and Sour Specialty DP, Sweet Stiches DP, Pumpkin Pie CS (Stampin’ Up!); Vintage Cream CS (Papertrey Ink)
Accessories: clear embossing powder, Island Blossoms die, Big Shot, Sweet Stiches Fabric Brads, Pumpkin Pie satin ribbon (Stampin’ Up!); Heat It Craft Tool, Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte (Ranger); transparency, white tissue paper, paint brushes, water bucket, orange rhinestones (other)
Awash With Flowers Card Featuring the Paper-Piecing Technique
Posted: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 | Comments
Today I thought I’d share with you a fun Stampin’ Up! card using a stamp set I’ve had for quite awhile now (whenever it first came out), that I’ve never used – Awash with Flowers. Gasp! I know! Shocking isn’t it? I actually can’t believe how many supplies I have, that I’ve owned for awhile, but haven’t used yet. I buy them because I love them, and I KNOW I’ll use them – it’s just a case of when LOL.
Instead of using the 2-step stamping technique (which I’m not overly fond of), or coloring in the images, I decided to use a paper-piecing technique using Stampin’ Up!’s Sunny Garden designer paper. On their own, I find the colors of the Sunny Garden DP kind of loud, but as a paper-pieced element, they’re divine! You get gorgeous images WITHOUT having to color them in. Granted, it does take time to cut everything out, but then, it would take time to color everything too.
This card was posted on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog yesterday – which is a private blog on the member home page for Paper Crafter’s Library members. Every day we post pictures of one or more projects, plus whatever the featured technique is – and of course, every single project has a video.
Here’s a list of the supplies used:
Stamps: Awash With Flowers, Teeny Tiny Wishes (Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink (Ranger); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko); Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight Classic inks (Stampin’ Up!)
Paper: Barely Banana CS (retired – can substitute with So Saffron CS, or Lemon Tart CS from Papertrey Ink), Pear Pizzazz CS, In Color Patterned Paper Stacks, Sunny Garden DP, Greenhouse Gala DP (Stampin’ Up!)
Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note Die, white embossing powder, Stamp-a-ma-jig, paper snips, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Brights Designer Buttons, Tombow Liquid Glue, sponge daubers (Stampin’ Up!); White Opal Liquid Pearls, Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)
I also wanted to share with you another one of my mixed media canvases. Below you can see a peek – but if you check out THIS post on the Paper Crafter’s World blog, you can see pictures of the whole thing. Mixed Media has been a love of mine for awhile, but it’s not something I’ve really felt ready to share until recently. If you missed it, you can see the first one I posted HERE.
Faux Silk Technique Featuring a Mixed Media Twist
Posted: Thursday, March 31st, 2011 | Comments
After weeks of hoping that Spring might really, finally be here, I woke up to a gray sky and snow on the ground. Which I think is why I chose blue and yellow for my project colors today – something to remind me of the blue sky and sun – which I’m really aching to see.
Today’s project features a mixed-media twist on the faux silk technique. If you’ve never tried the faux silk technique before, it involves stamping on tissue paper and then decoupaging that to a piece of cardstock. When it dries, the effect looks kind of like silk. For my card, I covered my Stampin’ Up! Greenhouse Gala designer paper with white tissue paper. I then painted over the entire surface with a wash of Champagne Shimmer paint and Crumb Cake Refill. After that I painted just the corners with undiluted Crumb Cake ink refill. Once that was dry I stamped over the entire thing with the Sanded Background stamp in Timber Brown StazOn (a StazOn color that Stampin’ Up! used to carry). For the other elements of my card I did quite a bit of aging and distressing with ink and shimmer paint on the cardstock, crochet trim and roses.
The card uses virtually all Stampin’ Up! product which you can see listed below. Since there is a lot to this card in terms of steps and techniques I am going to be filming a video for it tomorrow which will go into Paper Crafter’s Library on Monday.
Stamps: Sanded background, Just Believe (Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Timber Brown Staz On (Tsukineko); Crumb Cake Classic ink, Crumb Cake Dye Ink Refill, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (Stampin’ Up!)
Paper: So Saffron CS, Baja Breeze CS, Greenhouse Gala DP (Stampin’ Up!); Lightweight chipboard (backing from DP packages from Stampin’ Up!); white tissue paper (other)
Accessories: Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte, 3/4″ flat brush from Claudine Hellmuth Artist Brush Set; ink applicator tool with foam (Ranger); 1″ Brown Nylon paint brush (Dick Blick); Plastic Paint Palette (dollar store); 2 3/8″ scallop circle punch, 1 3/4″ circle punch, paper-piercing tool, Mat pack, Vanilla Rosettes Victoria Crochet Trim, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tombow Multi-liquid adhesive, Champagne Glass Glitter, Crystal Effects (Stampin’ Up!); Fabri-Tac adhesive (Beacon Adhesives)
Andrea Walford 
