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| Beckie H |
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| Connie H |
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| Melanie H |
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Gallery: 4th Anniversary Project - Matchbox Shrines
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| Aimeslee W |
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| Beckie H |
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| Cathee S |
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| Connie H |
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| Liz F |
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| Lorna S |
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| Melanie H |
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| Patricia B |
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| Peggy G |
Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Fun With Maps
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| by Beckie Holso |
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| by Cathy Calamas |
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| by Connie Holso |
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| by Edith Marshall |
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| by Keron Lee |
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| by Marion Bockelmann |
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| by Lorna Sommer |
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| by Abby Lazar |
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| by Tami Roth |
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Happy Accident Tutorial
I do love happy accidents. This tutorial was originally inspired by Dani Rogall aka Stampingwitch. You can watch the video here:
Step 1 and 2 are from the video.
Step 1:
Take some aluminum foil, crumble it and glue it on some cardstock.
Step 2:
Take a applicator and put some alcohol inks on it and colour the transparent sheet. The colours I have used are Denim, Eggplant and Red Pepper. Then put some blending solution on the applicator and go over it again.
Step 3:
Put some Diamond Glaze on the cardstock with the aluminum foil on top.
Step 4:
This is how it looks when you put the transparent sheet onto the aluminum foiled cardstock.
Step 5:
This is when I came back after one hour. It already started to separate the colours.
Step 6:
And after a few hours more it already looked liked this. I really love the effect and every time you try this it will be completely different. Before finishing off your card or ATC you will have to wait a day before it is thoroughly dry. Oh boy, waiting is not my strongest quality LOL.
The first time I did this I was completely surprised. I made an ATC for a personal swap and we had to work in purple, so I made a perfect purple background, and did all the steps above.
The next day I went to my art room to check up and oh my gosh, all the colours had changed. My first reaction was to start all over because it wasn’t that purple anymore but when I looked at the ATC again I really saw what happened I was very excited because I really liked the effect.
So now I tried if I could do it again and make a tutorial out of it and YES!! It worked out, so now my happy accident is no accident anymore is now a technique HAHAHA!
Here the ATC I was talking about, it was as purple as the right upper corner.
Have fun playing around.
Have fun playing around.
Warm regards Hermine Koster augustus 2009 ©
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Get Stripey Tutorial
Starting by taking a piece of cardstock and make folds every 2 cm (1/2”- 3/4”). There are lots of possibilities to do so I have used the mini scor-board, but you can use other ways to make the scores and, when your cardstock is not that heavy, you even can fold it by hand.
Fold the cardstock and colour the edges direct-to-paper with distress inks; you can use one colour and more, whatever you fancy.
Unfold it and pleat the other way and colour the edges again. When you unfold for the second time, your cardstock should look like the photo above.
Spray water on your cardstock, the inks will start to bleed immediately.
Iron your cardstock. And this is how it looks like when the cardstock is completely dry.
Mask off some areas and put a stamp into the stripes you have created this way; do that every other stripe.
Pleat the top half and punch a hole.
Decorate the bottom half and thread some ribbon through the holes, re-arrange the pleats a bit. This will make awesome gift tags. It’s simple but effective.
This is how it looks when you use mulberryor handmade papers, the bleeding looks even more beautiful on these papers.
This is a gift tag I made with the mulberry paper.
Have fun playing around with different colours and papers.
Warmly, Hermine Koster © July 2009