Archival ink backgrounds

Hi everyone,

Today was the day I decided to play with archival ink and alcohol. Wendy Vicchi had done a wonderful background at CHA when I was there in January and I wanted to try some play with those products myself. Here is the YouTube video of Wendy in action. So I created a bunch of backgrounds and then decided I needed to do something with them. That's when Tim's new wallflower papers – came into play. There's a sheet inside that package that has found relatives. Aren't they grand? I also found a pack of embellishing  papers that easily worked into this. So here's a picture of what I created. It is a frame with six openings from Fancy Pants. You can find these from the Scrapbooking Studio along with many of the stamps and inks I used. I just love Wendy's Archival inks and refills from Ranger.

I had a good time playing with all of these things today. I hope you get a chance try Wendy's technique out. It's a lot of fun. 

Art Anthology Play

Hello friends,

Some of you may remember I was playing with some new paints from Art Anthology the other day. I made a few tags and played with the Gelli printing plate. I decided to incorporate some of that work into a scrapbook page. I used some of the Meridian paint mixed with gesso and applied it through a stencil for the background. I also used some of the spray paint and dripped it about for texture. I used a Prima mask on the upper right to create the "Cute" background.Then I started layering my tags and papers that had made the other day along with a few Prima products.

I love how the clear paint worked as a resist when applied through the stencil on the tag. There's also just a hint of gold glitter in the clear paint. The second photo below gives a pretty good close-up shot of that. 

I had a lot of fun using the pieces that I had created to complete my layout. That gorgeous teal green paint really pops on the page. Thanks for stopping by. Remember the Scrapbooking Studio has the Art Anthology paints available for you. You can also purchase them online here. 

Art Anthology; paint love

Hello everyone.

 Today I started out a simple project making a keepsake box. 

The base is a Maya Road chipboard box created in the shape of a flower. It has a cut out front with the translucent piece for the cover. I pulled that out and set it aside while painting the box.

I have these wonderful new paints from art anthology in luscious colors and wanted to try them out. First I applied gesso to the project to prepare the surface for paint. 

 I sprayed the outside of the box with these luscious paint sprays from Art Anthology.  I find drying during the process created a pleasing effect. The spray paints are referred to as colorant sprays and I used Glorious, Studio Blue, Patients and Waimea Bay spray colorants. 

I used the Black Leather and Meridian dimensional paints for the top That I simply applied with a brush. They're both from the sorbet line of paints. They have a lovely iridescence along with the dimensional quality. 

After painting and drying the surface I started to apply my embellishments mostly from Prima. I coated the embellishments with gesso and began using the coloration sprays on them. After adding color I wanted to give the focal point a little more bling. For this, I went back to my dimensional gel paints in the sorbet line. The paint I used was Dazzle. It has a gold glitter effect. I know it's hard to see it in the photographs but it does sparkle. I used a chalkboard embellishment for the top from American Crafts. 

I love the marbling effect the multiple sprays create on the box surface.

I am sure someone can find some keepsakes to store in such a box.

While I had the paints out, I decided to do the layout. I wanted to see how the sprays would react on gesso and paper. When the paint is used to spray over a gesso stenciled area, the colors are soft and a pretty pastel. 

Do you see the tag done with the new Tim Holtz debossing folder from Sizzix? These will be in stores soon. Keep an eye out for all the new releases from CHA.

I also used the sprays on the flowers. Overall I'm well pleased with these new products. Next time I think I will have to pick up some dimensional paint in the tube so I can write my titles.

  

Remember, If you need any of these fabulous paints or other supplies, you can find them at the Scrapbooking Studio. I know the paints are in both stores. If you can't travel to see things up close, remember you can now order on line.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you had a great weekend.

All bundled up

Hello everyone,

Today I'm working with a wonderful new paper stack from American Crafts Called Bundled Up. 

It's a Christmas pad that has great cut out pages to do your page embellishments or quick cards. 

The line also has page embellishments that contains stitched elements that are so cute and quick to use to pull a page together.

 So let's get started.

I started with a neutral plaid and cut a zig zag border from the page cut-up. I continued to use the cut-ups and additional embellishments from the line to complete the page decorations. 

Another winner are the Thicker alphabet flags that I used for the title. I easily strung these chipboard letter flags onto ribbon to drape across the top of the page. 

I really love the stitched page pieces, epoxy brads and adhesive badges.

Close up of page cut ups

Layered Borders

 epoxy button brads

Next I made a small canvas for the wall or a gift. I layered the torn papers in a patch pattern and adhered with matt medium. Then to push it into the background, I mixed a bit of white paint with decoupage medium and coated the surface, I then used die cuts from Sizzix to decorate the canvas. I love the Bigz dies because of the number of things you can cut with the steel rule dies. Here I used the star border, twenty five, Christmas tree and Merry and Bright phrase. I highlighted with pitt pens and  gelatos from Faber-Castell. For texture I splashed with acrylic ink and paint pens.

Canvas Wall Hanging

Adhesive Badges

These badges are so cute and can be arranged into a snow-person.

Detail closeup

I had a lot of fun exploring with the mixture of mediums to create this canvas. 

I had a tree already cut from the paper pack, so I decided to use it on a card along with some other cut-ups. The picture doesn't show it but I coated the star on the tree with Glossy Accents. The tree die cut is #2 Christmas tree from Sizzix,

Quick and easy 6X6 card

So here are just a few more close-ups

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

All products used can be purchased at the Scrapbooking Studio.

Thanks for visiting today!

Big News

I can finally share with you all. Here is the announcement from scrapbooking studio. I am so honored and privileged to be among this group of talented people. Please check out their blogs you may find some really interesting things there.

2013-2014 The Scrapbooking Studio Design Team

Good morning Scrapbooking Studio friends.  Well it was tough going through all of the design team submissions.  We would love to have had all of you join us on the team for the following year.  The submissions were amazing and there are so many talented scrappers out there.

Please join us in welcoming the 2013-2014 Scrapbooking Studio Design Team

Shelly Maxwell

Janet Ball

Sesil Cratin

Melissa McNaught

Ashley Klewin

Cathy Harper

Christine Meyer

Peg Robinson

Tamara Batista

Chelsea Schroeder

Stacy Rodriguez  DT Coordinator

The Scrapbooking Studio Blog

We look forward to bringing you some fun and amazing things this year!  Kepp an eye out next month as we will start sharing creations from these wonderful ladies!  Have a wonderful day!

~Stacy