Burnt Distress Stain

We've just had a restock of all the wonderful Distress Stain colours at Scraptivate, just in time for my next atc technique class....Burnt Distress Stain. The Distress Stain is the base colour for this technique and I'll be using a lemon to burn it...yep, you read it right....a lemon! So the darker bits on these backgrounds are from the lemon. Samples follow...

"Not Wanted"...

"Wild Life"...
"Now what do I do"...

These last 3 are from the previous class Metal Foil Stamping.

"Rapture"...

"Broken"...

and my favourite, "Cutting Edge"...

There will be more samples of the Burnt Distress Stain within the next week as I always create something with the demo's that I show the girls in the classes. I LOVE my Distress Stains!!!

Metal Foil Tape cont'd... & Cali

Well, 2012 started off in a not so good way for me this year. Our much loved (& spoiled!) Basenji had to be put to sleep on New Year's Day. She'd been going downhill over the last couple of months but the end was very sudden. Considering it was less than 6 months ago when she was last at the vet and he commented that he hasn't seen an 18 year old dog look so good! So no more pets for us, will just have to be content with grandkids when they arrive, no rush Elice & Jarred!!! lol

My new technique book #7 starts this Saturday with Metal Foil Tape for the cover which you can see in the previous post. Here are some samples of this technique on atc's. The first one is for Cali.

"Cali"... (the heart is coloured with Red Pepper Alcohol Ink)

"Zen"...

"Relinquish"...

This next atc is from a previous class we did at the end of last year - Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax. This one is on it's way to you Glenda!

"Dire Warning"...

Here's a couple of pics of Cali...

Grant and Cali when we first got her at 7 weeks of age back in 1994.

Here she is in her prime!

This is the last photo that was taken of her on Xmas Day 2011. She was gone just 7 days later. Happens to every living thing I know but it still doesn't make it any easier. Time is the only thing that settles the heart.

Technique Book #7!!!

Here it is, 31st December 2011 and I have a mini-post today. I've just finished my cover for the ATC Technique Book #7 which I'll be teaching next Saturday (7th January 2012) at Scraptivate. It's a Metal Foil Tape cover and I've used both the Cuttlebug embossing folders as well as a stamp to decorate it. I've been using this metal foil tape for years now and it's one of my firm favourites! So many things you can do with it and Scraptivate sells it for $1 per metre....what a bargain!!!


This cover is 8" wide x 6" high, or 20.5cm x 15.5cm if you prefer metric. ;-) Click on the picture to get more detail. The little squares and rectangles are done separately and added after. Tomorrow I'll be working on my sample atc's for this class so I'll post again before next Saturday.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a wonderful 2012!

UTEE and My Book!

Yes, I'm still going on about my book, in case you missed it in the last post....I have my ATC Technique Book finally finished. (To see the front cover check out my previous post here). It has 40 techniques in it for $35, A4 sized with colour sample pics of each technique. Postage anywhere in Australia in a tuff bag is $4 and postage to the US, the UK, most of Europe and Asia is $14 or less (Asia is less than $14). If you want a copy you can either pick it up from Scraptivate where I teach my classes or if you can't get in there, email me on this link and I can organise it for you through the post. I take direct deposit and paypal.

Onto the upcoming and final ATC class for this year...UTEE. For the uninitiated it stands for Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel, basically it's a thicker, chunkier embossing powder. Great for giving a really metallic look to chipboard embellishments and I'll be using both black and clear in the class. Samples...

To get in the spirit of Christmas...

"Sweater"... (the frame is embossed with UTEE & stamped)

"Alcohol and Calculus"...(the chipboard embellishment up the top is UTEE embossed and looks very thick and metallic in the flesh)

"Bizarre"... (once again, it's a chipboard embellishment that's coated with UTEE)

"Fashion"... (another UTEE embossed & stamped chipboard embellishment with a little Gilding Wax rubbed over the top to show the detail)

"Antique Love"... (yes, it's a chipboard embellishment, coated with UTEE, stamped & Gilding wax rubbed over to show the details of the stamping)

I also did a card using this technique, the gold section in the centre is UTEE that's been stamped into and laid over the top of the same stamp that was done on white card. Make sense?

This next atc is from the previous class, Transparent ATC's.

"Bite Night"...

Lastly, here's one that was from the second last class, Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax. This one's on it's way to you Barb!

"Constipated people"...

I may not be back here until my next atc class in 2012, the first one is Saturday 7th January so it's only a few weeks. Though I do have one more update to do on my naughty blog....sssshhhhhhh..... Happy Christmas everyone!

Transparent ATC's & MY BOOK!!!!!

I've finally done it, my atc technique book is printed and ready for sale! It's A4 sized with 40 techniques in it, colour pics on each technique page....all for $35. (Postage in a tuff bag within Australia is $4, postage to the US is $14). Yes, I can do direct deposit as well as paypal. Email me here to order.

The technique for this fortnight is Transparent ATC's using acetate, stazon ink and alcohol inks as well as chipboard frames. To make a normal atc I have used 2 frames back-to-back so you have a completely transparent atc. For inclusion in the technique book the girls are making in class (or for on a card!), one frame is used and then a piece of white or cream card stock is added to the back so you don't lose the alcohol ink/stamp effect on the black background pages in the book.

"Offering"...

"Clarity"...

"ho ho ho"...

Here's the last of the Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax atc's from last fortnight's class.

"Reflection"...

"Treasure"...

"End of life"...

"Ill-fated love"...

Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax

Seems like forever since I've posted here though I've only missed one fortnight's class while recuperating from a minor operation. I'm fully functional again now so it's straight into the next atc technique that's coming up this Saturday....Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax. I've actually done this technique before but as the girls who attend my classes know, if I've done something before and repeat it, I always put a twist on it so it's new for the old girls and new for the new girls...make sense??? Well it's clear to me anyway.

Gilding Wax is a new product that we'll be selling at Scraptivate. It's like Rub'n'buff, Treasure Gold etc but I love the tins that it comes in. Rub'n'buff has always annoyed me when it dries out in the tube. Not a problem with Gilding Wax. Sometimes these products do dry out but you can reconstitute them easily in the tin by adding a few drops of Mineral Turpentine, not something you can do in a tube! So here's some samples of the new version of this technique.

"Not polite"...

"Recline"...

"Life is the flower"...

"Idiots"... (This is not my opinion of my hubby, I just liked the saying and it matched the crown)

I'll have some more samples of these using stamping in my next post. The above ones are using Cuttlebug embossing folders, but you knew that didn't you!

Here's a couple of samples from the last technique - Texture Paste Backgrounds.

"Change your life"... (I'm waiting for some little handcuff charms to arrive to add to this one!)

"Perfectly Good"...

Finally a couple from the class before Texture Paste Backgrounds - Reflective Microscope Slides. It's extremely difficult to get a good scan or photo of these because of the reflective quality of the foil tape under the glass slide. You'll just have to imagine....

"Laser printer"...

"Opportunity"... (This one's for you Barb, as I said, it's a saying that we can all relate to!)



Now a bit of news about my ATC Technique Book....it's all completed except for the printing. As soon as this last bit is done it'll be for sale through my blog. Will keep you posted!

Texture Paste Backgrounds

Texture Paste is another one of those products that has been around it seems like forever but it's one of those great standby's for when you're looking for that extra bit of dimension, it's just perfect! I've used texture paste before in my classes, several times in fact but each time I do I try to give it a little twist so the girls who have been doing my classes for several years will still learn something new about an old product. So we have texture paste backgrounds coming up in this fortnight's ATC Technique classes at Scraptivate. Samples below...

"Breath"...
"Dreamscape"..."Wild"...

"Bewitch"...

I'll have more of these to show after I've done this class again.

The atc below is one of the Glue Backgrounds from a couple of posts ago that I've just finished. It's going to be a raffle atc for the Paperarts Yahoo Group that I belong to. Each month we do a WTA (Winner Takes All) Raffle where we submit an atc and then a winner is drawn and everyone in the raffle sends their atc to that person. As a consolation prize as I don't like losers (who does!!!), I also send an atc to the loser too so they don't have to feel bad about not winning. Just a bit of fun and it's the only other atc's that I send out on a monthly basis. Apart from my raffle atc's for each of my classes that is, oh, and also apart from my naughty atc swap I do with Mands each month....come to think of it, I don't do too bad after all.

If you haven't noticed my new blog link up the top right for the naughty blog.....take heed of the warning, but if you're open minded, take a look!

"Fallen"...