Going crazy with colour.....

Hi everyone and welcome to my final project for the CVC project blog. I am leaving the team at the end of October after two great years! 

So for my final project I have gone a little crazy with colour in my journal using a combination of Dylusions and Dina Wakley paints. The background was created by painting in patches with a combination of a brush and my fingers - no great plan... just adding the blue / yellow / green in various places. 

I then added some white paint with a credit card and also through a layering stencil (Splotches.) I also added some background stamping in archival ink.

I die cut some scribbles and splats in white card and sponged some  of the same colours on them adding a little black archival to contrast.

I took a piece of thinner white card and lightly brushed with purple and blue paints - intentionally keeping it light and patchy. Once dry and stamped the scribbly birds and fussy cut.

A quote and some doodling around the page edges finished my page!

I hope you like it!

Nikki

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All Dressed Up!

My project this month is a journal page that could easily be a card or another Halloween project!

I started by spraying the page with Dylusions sprays - I used a yellow spray and then an orange spray. I didn't want a complete coverage so used the sprays with a little more restraint than usual!

Using Black Soot Distress Ink I added a stencilled border. I added a drawn white edge around each stencilled shape.

I added the broomsticks and the stamped the skulls and hats on some spare white card. I coloured the broomsticks and the hats in and cut them out. Using some of the sentiments from the Emma Godfrey stamp set I made a title and added a note against each broomstick.

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Distress Glaze Resist

Hello, Jennie here with you today and welcome to my first post this month. Just lately I have got a little hooked on Distress Glaze as it makes a fabulous resist for Distress Inks.

The technique I am sharing is certainly not my own, in fact you can see a number of examples on Pinterest and which is where I discovered it. However, this is my version and I thought you might appreciate a little step by step so you can see how it came together.

I started by layering Fossilised Amber through one of the mini layering stencils. I found I got better results with a stencil which was not too intricate.

I then layed the stencil back on the tag and blended the Distress Glaze over the circles only with my fingers. You don't need much in fact a dab in the jar does about three circles and that way you get varying degrees of resist.

I then used various colours of Distress Inks (Rusty Hinge, Dusty Concord and Peeled Paint) and the Wrinkle Free Technique to get the ink onto the tag. You can see that the Distress Glaze has resisted the ink reasonably well, but just a little does get through which makes for a rather nice effect!

I then used Rusty Hinge to stamp the mesh stamp over the top, not pressing down too hard so it was a bit hit and miss. I really love this gorgeous inky background and have been experimenting with other stencils and getting quite different effects.

The trouble with such a lovely background is you don't really want to cover it up! So I have used minimal embellishments, painting the cone flour in a mixture of the same colours.

And finishing off with a few rub ons.

Many thanks for joining me today and I hope this gives you some ideas for another style of background for cards, tags and journal pages.

Jennie x

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Distress Glaze	Tim Holtz® Distress Ink Pad - Fossilized Amber	Tim Holtz Distress ink - Rusty hinge	Tim Holtz Distress ink pad - Dusty concord	Distress ink pad - Peeled paint
Tim Holtz Mini Stencil Set 7	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Mesh and Linen	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Flower Garden Stamp Set	Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Tissue Tape Commute
Tim Holtz Ideology Small Talk Sticker Book	Tim Holtz - Idea-ology remnant rub ons - life quotes

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A simple start to Christmas!

Hello! I thought I would start making a few Christmas cards using up some scraps of paper lying around. These cards are 4 x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm).

I have used Tim Holtz Ideology paper for these - not sure which packs - as they were scraps on my desk - but probably Crowded Attic. 

I started with 2 layers - one 7x7cm and the other 7.5x7.5 and then cut my die cuts to coordinate - using Star dies and Christmas packages.

For the card on the left of the photo I added a little Hickory Smoke ink around the edges and stamped Happy Christmas from the Scribbly Trees Christmas stamp set around the edge of the card in Watering Can archival ink.  I stamped the same greeting on the red paper in versamark and embossed with white powder. 

For the second card I kept it simpler - no ink - just layered the card and added an additional matt in gold card. Some twine and rhinestones from my stash finished the cards.

Nikki

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