CRAYON BRUSHO RESIST

 Brushos and other similar powders are a great way to add colour to watercolour paper or, as I've used here, photo paper. There are quite a few different brands of these highly pigmented powders available, and I have used the following for my samples: Brushos, Nuvo Shimmer Powder, Lindy's Magical Shakers and Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder. They are all dry pigment powders made up of several different colours that create the final colour when mixed together, but the amazing effect you get if you don't mix them is wonderful! You end up with little bursts of several colours all in the one powder mix.

I've used a white crayon for the resist technique portion of this technique. That's all of the white marks that you can see on the photo paper. 

"Don't judge"

"Probably bad"

"Someone's perfect"

"Run"

"Mr businessman"


"Steampunk"

POWDERED GELLI PRINTS

 After a much-needed hiatus over the Christmas & New Year period, I'm ready to get back into creating ATCs with lots of great new techniques. As usual, I'm starting the year off with a simple one so I don't crash the brains of the girls in their first class. I'll be using both baby powder and graphite powder to act as a resist on Gelli prints. You can get some really great effects and it can be layered or used with stencils. I'm keeping it simple this time so no stencils will be used, just the powders. 

To see these images more clearly, click on the first one and scroll through. I save them in a high resolution so the detail is much better when it's larger. Of course, they always look better on a laptop or desktop pc. 😊

"Morally grey"


"Join NASA"


"Life is art"


"Stability"


"Moonlight mayhem"

ALCOHOL INK VASELINE RESIST

 This class uses alcohol inks and Vaseline to create a resist technique. The most important part of this technique is care in choosing which stamp to use. It needs to be big enough to be a focal point and the colours of your alcohol inks need to be dark or bright enough for the resist-stamped image to show through. These atcs can then be further enhanced with words, die-cuts, rub-ons, stickles, or any of the myriad of embellishments that we all have and sometimes forget to use.
To see these in greater detail, click on the image and scroll through. 

"Whispers in the crypt"


"Be brave"

"Life is too short"

"Insignificance"

"Different"

"Breathe"