Tag - Eternal beauty - faux leather technique

Hi and welcome :0) Today I have a new Nr. 10 manila tag (ca 21,5 x 10 cm) with faux leather look. 

I used a nice 3D embossing folder with Peonies from Lisa Horton Crafts and painted the whole tag - an debossed side - with a Vintage Photo Distress paint. Then I rubbed a Ground Espresso Tim Holtz's archival inkpad  over the whole surface to reveal the design. The deepest parts remained lightest and upper parts are darkest. Finally I sealed and enhanced the leather look with Distress MicroGlaze. In the reality the paper looks fantastic - like a real leather.

I was thrilled with the outcome so I did not want to cover it much, so I finished the design only with a few smaller butterfly stickers and a quote (and - because nothing is perfect and we should embrace the imperfections - with a small mistake too) :0)

Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)

18.5.2023 Eternal beauty

Creative weekend 4 - "New Year's resolutions" and "Beauty of pear"

Two new pages in Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. First ones in this year :0)

"New Year's resolutions" made with Dylusions and  Distress acrylic paints, LaBlanche stamp and Dylusions white and black pens and "Beauty of Pear" with Distress stains, paints and markers, Penny Black stamp, simple masking technique, Distress Vintage photo embossing powder, "Perfectly penned" alphabet stamp set from Concord & 9th and beautiful white mulberry paper.

14.1. 2017 New Year's resolutions

15.1. 2017 Beauty of PEAR

Tim Holtz Creative chemistry 103 adventure ends....or maybe not :0)

So here are my tags from Tim Holtz's Creative chemistry 103...

Day 1 techniques:

Distress DIY ombré (tags 1-3), Distress highlight stamping (tag 4), Distress off-set stamping (tag 5), Distress washed watercolor (tag 6), Distress Micro-glaze resist (tags 7-8)

Day 2 techniques:

Distress paint resist (tags 1-2), Distress paint lifting (tags 3-4), Distress stain rub resist (tag 5), Distress luminous mica (tags 6-7), Distress marker spritzed watercolor (tags 8-10)

Day 3 techniques:

Distress layered collage (tag 1), Texture paste coloring (tag 2), Texture paste embossing (tag 3), Texture paste resist (tag 4), Distress grit-paste grunge (tag 5)

Day 4 techniques:

Distress crayon smudge (tag 1), Distress crayon gesso fresco (tags 2-3), Distress crayon texture resist (tag 4), Distress crayon watercolor resist (tag 5), Distress crayon blended background (tag 6), Distress crayon layered coloring (tag 7)

Day 5 techniques:

Alcohol ink stamped resist on Yupo (tags 1-3), Alcohol ink texture resist on Yupo (tag 4), Alcohol ink painting on Yupo (tag 5), Alcohol ink faded layers on Yupo (tag 6-7), Alcohol ink liquid landscapes on Yupo (tag 8), Alcohol ink splattered florals on Yupo (tag 9)

Tim Holtz Creative chemistry 102 adventure continues

So here are my tags from Tim Holtz's Creative chemistry 102...

Day 1 techniques:

Distress paint marbling (tags 1-2), Colored crackle (tag 3), Altered surfaces (tag 4), Eroded metallic (tags 5-6), Stamping resist (tags 7-8), Industrial (tag 9)

Day 2 techniques:

Mixed-media layering (tag 1), Embossing with stencils (tags 2-6), Embossing through stencils (tags 7-9)

Stencil stamping (tags 10-11), Stencil sketching (tag 12), Ink monoprint (tag 13-14), Paint monoprint (tag 15)

Day 3 techniques:

Smudge stamping (tag 1), Brayered stains (tags 2-3), Photo tinting (tag 4), Faux cracked glass (tags 5-7), Distres glitter Rock candy (tag 8), Distress glittering (tag 9)

Day 4 techniques:

Faux patina (tag 1), Faded layers (tags 2), Ombré (tag 3), Monoprint (tag 4-6)

Day 5 techniques:

Rusting with distress powder (tag 1), Sticky powder with glitter (tag 2), Sticky powder with leafing (tag 3), Shabby chic (tag 4), Tarnished silver (tag 5), Chalkboard (tag 6)

Tim Holtz Creative chemistry 101 adventure

Summer was quite busy, but I still had some time for creating. I spent few very nice weeks with Tim Holtz's Creative chemistry courses 101, 102 and 103 and it was a great adventure to discover or re-discover all the techniques he shows in his video lessons :0)

On the beginning of Creative chemistry 101 I decided not to use only Tims's Manila cardstock, but try a different kinds of papers I have and I could use in the future for my art pieces instead, so I have a better references how these papers behave, how they take water, colors and stamped images. I used more than 10 types of papers - watercolor, mixed media, kraft, black, specialty, even photo paper and mostly I was very happy with the results, although sometimes was a bit difficult manage the technique on them. And if I loved some technique a lot I made a few (or more) tags with it :0)

So here are my tags from Creative chemistry 101...

Day 1 techniques:

Blended spritz and flick (tags 1-4), Brushless watercolor (tags 4-5), Wrinkle-free distress (tag 6)

Day 2 techniques:

Alcohol ink agates (tags 1-2), Archival resist (tags 3-4), Reflections stamping (tags 5-9)

Day 3 techniques:

Watercoloring with re-inkers (tag 1), Layered misting (tags 2-5)

Day 4 techniques:

Stained kraft resist (tags 1-4), Stamping with stains (tags 5-6), Marbled stains (tags 7-8)

Day 5 techniques:

Watercolor with markers (tag 1), Blending with markers (tag 2), Stamping with markers (tag 3-5)

Day 6 techniques:

Rusted enamel (tags 1-3), Nostalgic batik (tag 4), Distress powder resist (tag 5)

Day 7 techniques:

Dabber resist (tag 1), Crackle paint resist (tag 2), Shattered stains (tags 3-4)

Day 8 techniques:

Perfect distress mist (tags 1-2), Perfect distress (tags 3-4), Perfect splatter distress (tag 5-6)
Day 9 technique:

Rock candy distress stickles (tags 7-8)