Yes you CAN use SU products for mixed media, as I’ve been enjoying finding out lately. I decided to make a list of some of the items you can use. I bet you already have loads of these, so what are you waiting for? Get messy!
Showing posts with label reinkers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reinkers. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
15 Stampin' Up!® products you can used for Mixed Media projects
Yes you CAN use SU products for mixed media, as I’ve been enjoying finding out lately. I decided to make a list of some of the items you can use. I bet you already have loads of these, so what are you waiting for? Get messy!
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Bokeh technique with Big Day
At Crafty Friday (my easygoing Friday morning class) this month, we played with the bokeh technique.
Like many fabulous ideas, the word ‘bokeh’ comes from Japan and literally means ‘blur’. You see this effect in photography, in the out-of-focus sections of an image. Sometimes this creates circles of light, which is the look we are going for when trying this technique.
It looks like a complicated technique but it really isn’t. All you have to do is create a multi-coloured background and then sponge the circles in Whisper White craft ink on top, using a template or stencil.
We tried two ways of creating the background: watercolour paper and reinkers was the first; sponging on Whisper White was the second.
This is the watercolour paper technique and I followed an excellent tutorial by Diane Dimich. After wetting a piece of watercolour paper, we dabbed small amount of ink onto it, to watch it spread. As Diane says in her tutorial, keep going until the whole surface is covered, and the colours will blend into each other.
Once this was dry (we speeded it up with a heat gun), we sponged through some Window Sheets to create the circles. These look best when overlapped in certain places, but you have to let the ink dry or be very careful not to spread the white around when you move your template.
And that’s it! This was the first time I’d tried this technique and I was really happy with the way it turned out. I used it to create this card for my downline, Alison (Patsy), whose birthday is today. Sadly, I completely forgot to post it to her so she’ll have to wait!
Links by TheseAreMyStamps.com
Friday, 30 January 2015
What a guy masculine card
This image from Guy Greetings really cracks me up, it’s so silly. For this card I decided to keep things easy… well, easy in one respect. I grabbed the stamp set, along with Gorgeous Grunge, a couple of brown ink pads, my Adventure Bound DSP stack (LOVE this) and my box of Neutrals scraps. The ribbons were already out.
So it may seem remarkable that this card features punching and embossing, too… but it’s amazing what you find in your scraps box when you start digging!
I’ve used my Baked Brown Sugar ink pad rather a lot and it’s beginning to lose its colour so I decided to reink it.
In case you’ve never done this, it’s really easy. All you do is ‘scribble’ over the pad with your reinker. I like to go diagonally across the pad, then do the same the opposite way. Then you take your bone folder, or a palette knife (be careful you don’t slice the foam!) and smooth it over the pad, as if you were icing a cake. Your bone folder may stain (as mine has) so if you have a non-SU plastic one, you may prefer to use that instead.
Links by TheseAreMyStamps.com
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