May Basic Training-Heat Embossed Resist

Summer is well on its way and in honor of all the May flowers those April showers brought I am sharing a fun resist technique using heat embossing.

Michele here with a super easy background technique.
Here is what you will need:

I used watercolor paper.

Stamp your image with embossing ink and sprinkle with clear embossing powder.  I used Viva Las VegaStamps! high gloss embossing powder.  Now heat it up.

Spray your paper with as many colors as you would like.  I used four Colorations from Art Anthology.

Wipe the color off where is has beaded on the stamped image.  This  one is a VLVS! stamp from a new release,  Wildflower Silhouette

Move the pooling color around and dry with a heat gun.

The Coloration colors used were Waimea Bay, Timeless, Salted Carmel and Guacamole.

You will be able to see the finished card I made with this background over at Viva Las VegaStamps! on May 21.  Visit http://vivalas.blogspot.com/ to check it out.

I hope you are inspired and join us in our challenge drills this month!!  There is a great Spring mood board up right now!!

December Basic Training-Framed Stamping

Where has this year gone??!  Can you believe it is time for our last Basic Training of 2014?   Since Christmas is right around the corner I am going to share a new technique I learned on a Christmas card.  Over at Viva Las VegaStamps! DT member Hermine is one of my stamping idols and she shared a technique with overlapped circles framing some awesome stamping....here is my take on it that technique.

You will need a piece of cardstock with 2 different size circles (different but close), ink, stamp, pen, stencil and a bit of washi tape.

I started with the larger circle.

Traced the circle.

Then used the smaller circle, offsetting and traced.  I did this a couple of times.

Then I aligned my circle to use as a mask.

Taped it with the washi and stamped the image in the circle.  I used a Viva Las VegaStamps! Santa Smoking.

I used black ink because i planned on watercoloring the image.

I used my favorite Um Wow Studio mask, star confetti, and stenciled some of the tiny stars where the lines overlapped.

I absolutely love this technique!!!  There are just so many possibilities...

All Authentique paper, Bo Bunny doily, May Arts silk ribbon, Distress Markers, Um Wow Studio star confetti and flair from the Be Merry set.

Thank you SO much for sharing a part of your day with us at this busy time of year!  I hope you are inspired to try this fun technique AND have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hump Day August 20th

Michele here...Saturday I shared a background technique using a gelli plate (click here to see it).  Today I want to share the finished layout created with that piece of paper.

The paper is Authentique Classique: Pretty Neat and Cursive.  I got this collection in my kit for Scrappy Chic, I just love Authentique!!  I also used an Um Wow Studio mask (circle confetti) with mist for another layer then paint splatters and some modeling paste in the butterfly swarm mask. There is a bit of the damaged punchinella chip (also UWS), some of the new banner ribbon from May Arts, a Kaisercraft flower, Heidi Swapp 'smile' embellishment and a couple of Viva Las Vega Stamps (butterfly specimen and waybill/invoice background).

Here is a close up of the layers of the background.

I had so much fun creating this background!!  I can't wait to try it again.
Thanks so much for stopping by to see my finished layout and make sure to stop back Saturday for our next drill!!

Hump Day August 6th

It's HUMP DAY!!  Whoop, whoop!!!  Michele here with a little mid week inspiration to share.

I was in my craft room this weekend working on various projects and started one just for me, you know a little experiment with modeling paste and vellum as a background.

I was excited with how it turned out...

For more details pop over to my blog.

Thanks so much for sharing part of your day with us and make sure you visit Saturday for our next drill.

Happy creating!!

Hump Day: Created for you by Michele

Happy HUMP Day!!!
 
Michele with stuff by belle here today...have you been is a scrappy slump lately??  Well I have and no matter how many time I went down to my 'lair', as my friend Amber would say, I wasn't inspired...and then SUDDENLY it hit me!  I just picked up a new Quickutz die and had an idea!
I made these 2 cards lickety split all with scraps of paper from my scrap bin.

MME, Authentique and Bazzill Basics paper scraps, Viva Las Vegastamps! sentiment stamps, bits of UmWow Studio chipboard confetti, May Arts burlap twine and Tattered Angels glimmer list.

Clean and simple, quick and easy and I love how they turned out.  Feather are fun!

If you are like me and have been in a slump or even if you're not, I hope you are inspired to crafty today!!  Thanks for stopping by and we will see you soon for our next drill!