MARBLED STENCILS

 The last time we did marbling with re-inkers and shaving foam was back in 2010. It's such an easy technique and this variation is just as effective! Previously we dipped the card into the shaving foam that the Distress re-inkers were dropped onto and then marbled with a skewer onto the foam to create the marble look. This time we'll be applying it through a stencil to give a different spin on it. With 72 colours of Distress re-inkers, there will be plenty of colour combinations that can be created. I'll be using Bristol Smooth cardstock but any white/ivory/cream cardstock will work with this technique. 
To see these atcs in more detail, click on the first one and scroll through.

"Unique"


"Halloween butterflies"

"Full bloom"

"Dead leaves drop"

"Chlorine"

"Otherwise"

POWDERED PIGMENTS & COFFEE FILTERS

 Powdered pigments are little jars of fabulous that have multiple colours in them that burst into life when spritzed with water. The assorted colours of tiny pigments in each container make up that particular colour if you mix them together in say a paint palette, but when they are just sprinkled and then spritzed, you get to see all the various colours that make up that specific colour. Black in particular is amazing with lots of shades of blues, oranges, deep purples and others that go together to make black in this format. The brands that I have and use are Brushos, Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals, Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders and Nuvo Shimmer Powder. I sprinkled the powders onto a dry coffee filter, then spritzed to get the colours to show. You can then decide whether to pick up the wet coffee filter and place it onto your glossy photo paper or you can press the photo paper directly onto the wet coffee filter for a different effect. The photo paper absorbs the colour immediately so you can't spread the colour around as it grabs the colour. This is another of those techniques where you can't replicate anything, each individual atc is unique. Glossy photo paper is a great substrate and takes either black Stazon ink well if you choose to stamp or you can use Black Soot Distress Archival Ink, allow both inks to dry though so as not to smear them.

"Half spent"

"Too many tabs"

"So goth"
(The black bats in the background are black
opaque texture paste by Ranger through a
bat stencil.)

"Life is short"

"Grow with the flow"

"Furry"