The last technique for this year is Glimmer Mist Wrinkle. The technique using wet paints, sprays etc and then placing plastic wrap (Glad Wrap or similar) over the top in a wrinkled manner, allowing it all to dry and peeling off to reveal a wrinkled background is a technique that has been around for years in the stamping/craft community. The problem I found is in a 2 hour class, you don't have time to wait for the card to dry and it needs to be dry to get the wrinkled effect as the colour is more concentrated in the wrinkled areas.
So, what does one do..... obviously you can't use a heat gun as the plastic wrap will just shrivel up and that's the end of that! What I did do was placed my pieces of card with the wrap on it while still wet, into the oven. Not too high a temperature and you have to watch out for the fan-forced ones as it wants to blow the wrap around. But in only a couple of minutes, it's dry enough to be able to take the wrap off and your card is dry and the wrinkled area is perfect!
So, what does one do..... obviously you can't use a heat gun as the plastic wrap will just shrivel up and that's the end of that! What I did do was placed my pieces of card with the wrap on it while still wet, into the oven. Not too high a temperature and you have to watch out for the fan-forced ones as it wants to blow the wrap around. But in only a couple of minutes, it's dry enough to be able to take the wrap off and your card is dry and the wrinkled area is perfect!
Below are A5 sized pieces of card using Glimmer Mists and this technique. Using Glimmer Mists means that you have the shimmer/sparkle from the sprays collecting in all the wrinkles and it looks absolutely wonderful! I have used some of these as backgrounds for my atc samples below. An A5 sized piece of card will give you 4 atc backs as it's 5" x 7" in size.
"Voyage of Discovery"...
"Twirl"...
"Dramatic"...
"Just because"...
"Soulful"...
Finally, a couple of more samples from the last Metallic Distress Stains Class.
"Nymph"...
"See"...
A Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year to all.... see you in 2013! (unless I get something else done over the holidays which is blogworthy).
