Creative Chemistry-Day #9

Below are my tags for Day 9.  Left to right they are Perfect Distress Mist, Perfect Distress, and Perfect Splatter Distress.

My favorite of the three is the Perfect Splatter Distress.  You can't see if from the picture but the tag looks like it's aged patina copper!  Lots of rusty looking purple and green with the shimmer of the Perfect Pearls!  I want to frame it!!  I wrote down the colors I used but I'm sure I'll never get it to turn out the same again.

Creative Chemistry-Day #8

Here are my tags for Day 8.  Left to right they are Paint Dabber Resist, Crackle Paint Resist, and Shattered Stains.

The paint dabber resist was fun but I was a little freaked out about putting acrylic paint on my stamps.  I'm working on not being such a clean freak with my stamps.  I'm the type of person who wants to remove every last bit of ink from them so that they look like new after I've used them.  It's really time consuming to do that!  And to be honest with you I did clean every last bit of the paint off the stamps I used!!  Some habits are hard to break.

Creative Chemistry-Day #7

Whew!  Who would have thought that an online class could be difficult to keep up with?!  I spent this weekend completing the tags for week 2 of the class.  There just wasn't any time to work on them during the week after I got home from work.

I wasn't able to do the projects for Day 6 because I don't own any of the new Distress Markers.  Maybe someday!  Below are the tags for Day 7.  Left to right they are Nostalgic Batik, Rusted Enamel, and Distress Powder Resist.  I must say that of the three my favorite is the Nostaligic Batik.  And as you can see from my samples I was really in to orange for some reason!  I've discovered that Spiced Marmalade is now my favorite Distress color!

Creative Chemistry-Day #5

Below are my tags for day 5.  Left to right they are Stained Kraft Resist, Stamping with Stains, and Marbled Stains.  The stained kraft resist and marbled stains are my favorites so far!  Funny thing happened...I tried to use Dusty Concord stain on the resist paper and it came out blue.  So I figured that had something to do with the color of the kraft resist.  I added the purple to that tag using the Distress ink pad and an ink blender.  I then used the same Dusty Concord stain on the next tag which was manila and it still came out blue!  So I'm not crazy and I have a Dusty Concord stain bottle that was filled with one of the blue shades of stain instead!

Creative Chemistry-Day #4

Below are my tags for day #4.  Left to right they are...Watercoloring with Re-inkers and Layered Misting.  I don't have an ink palette or very many distress reinkers so I squeezed the stamp pad and cover together so that some of the distress ink ended up on the inside of the pad cover.  Then I dipped the water brush in that.  That worked pretty well but the ink palette probably would be easier.  I didn't have cut and dry felt so I couldn't make the third tag!

Creative Chemistry Tags-Day #3

A few quickie posts...I was able to get caught up on the class content over the weekend.  These three tags are from day 3...left to right they are Alcohol Ink Agates, Archival Resist, and Stamping with Reflections.  I don't have any Reflections stamps so I used some other non-text stamps.  I didn't have good results with that so I ended up just embossing the tag and stamping directly on the tag!

Where in the World is My Vagabond?!

I'm adding this photo to enter the Sizzix Where in the World is Your Vagabond promotion.  In exchange for linking a photo you can receive a set of gauge keys and new stickers for the Vagabond machine.  I need the stickers as my first set didn't seem to adhere very well and some have come off.  Probably because of the Florida humidity.

Anyway, my Vagabond doesn't travel much...it sits on my craft counter ready to be used with all of the other awesome Tim Holtz products!

Sooooo...Where in the World is Your Vagabond???