Mosaic Embossing, Peeled Paint & The BDB

Mosaic Embossing is the 12th technique in Technique Book #3 so it'll be the last one. The books can end up quite chunky if I try to put any more in them so the next class will be Rinse Aid Resist (a la Claudine Hellmuth) and this will be the cover of Technique Book #4.


So here are a couple of samples for Mosaic Embossing....more to follow.


"Portal"... (this has a thin piece of mica placed over the door - glued on with Glossy Accents).

"Fragment"...

The atc's below are the final ones from last fortnight's Peeled Paint Technique.

"The nicest girls"...

"Mad"...

"ec"... (for those who don't know, ec stands for Edward Cullen from Twilight...but you all knew that, didn't you!)

Okay, still on the vampire theme, I've been sucked in (excuse the pun) to another vampire series. I've always read horror stuff since I was young, all the Stephen King novels as well as Anne Rice, then of course Twilight, then True Blood. My latest obsession (and it IS that!!!) is The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J R Ward. Now we all know that Twilight is YA (young adult), True Blood is probably PG15, The BDB is actually much, much, MUCH racier. Don't bother to read them if you are not totally open minded and don't like your books sizzling hot. J R Ward is such a wonderful writer, her books are very easy to get drawn into. I belong to a Yahoo group dedicated to this series and we all contemplate who could possibly play the roles of the characters as they are so much larger than life (yep, in all ways!!!). Below are my thoughts of the characters at this point in time, of course I may change my mind as more books are released. So now you've been warned....proceed with caution.....lol (nothing explicit in the pics by the way, okay... maybe a little well-toned torso).

p.s. the spellings are correct according to the way they are spelt in the book

"JM"... (John Matthew, a newly transitioned vamp. On the left, the blood drop looking things are from the Cuttlebug embossing folder set with 5 in it called Pop something?)

"Z"... (Zhadist - one of the Brothers, another peeled paint technique atc)

"Vishous"... (another of the brothers whose tastes run to a little to the extreme...does the chain give you a clue? Oh my!!!)

"Potential side effects"... (something you may suffer while reading these books!)




"Lesser"... (every story needs a baddie and the Lessers are it, humans who've had their soul removed by an ultra baddie (The Omega) who also bleed black blood if attacked. The black blood in this atc is Tim's new black enamel paint - absolutely wonderful stuff in real life!)


More brothers to come as I do them. If you do get into this series, don't shoot the messenger if you don't like them. They come under the genre of Paranormal Romance and if you like that style, J R Ward is "the duck's nuts"! I actually contemplated saying nothing about this series but wanted to show the atc's so there you have it. All explained, do with it what you will. ;-)

Peeled Paint and last of Distressed Gesso

I'm a little early (for once!) in posting the next technique that starts the series for this fortnight's atc classes. Peeled Paint is a technique learnt from Claudine Hellmuth, along with Peeled Paper it's a great way to alter your atc's but is suitable also for larger sized projects, like cards. All you need is some paint, gel medium and of course some Vaseline! This had the girls wondering when I told them what they had to bring at the next class.....let's leave it at that! lol

"Reality"...

"Lineage"...

"Pose"

"Forever"...

"HIM"...

More of the Peeled Paint technique to come in the next post. Below are the remaining Distress Gesso atc's from the previous technique.

"Skin deep"...

"Secret of Life"...

"Innocent"...

Distressed Gesso

UPDATE... Linda Baldock is having a fabulous give-away on her blog... to win one of her original rings, go check it out!

Distressed Gesso is another background technique that with just a few supplies you can turn out some wonderful background papers. Gesso, Distress Ink Pads and either book paper or ugly scrapbook papers are all you need. It's a matter of splotching the gesso on thinly, drying and then layering the distress ink colours that make this background work.

First though, some more samples from the previous Transfer onto fabric and hand-beading atc class.

"untitled"...

"Allure"...

"Senseless"...

Now for the Distress Gesso atc's.

"Handle with care"...

"Serene"...

"Remember"..."Vintage Love"...

More to come....

Transfers & hand-beading atc's, wedding pics!

Now my computer is feeling much better and I've had a chance to scan my Sheer Heaven Transfers & Hand-Beading atc's I can post them! This is my next series of classes at Scraptivate commencing this Saturday. I'm even giving the girls an extra half hour as I just KNOW that hand beading sucks the time up and before you know it, hours have passed! I know some of these were in the previous post but I think they will expand larger if you click on them so you can see the beading in more detail.

"Life"...

"Remember"...

"Cherish"... (my grandparents)

"Seduce them"...

"Mystery"...

"Flattery"...

"Enchant"...

Finally I have some wedding pics too from my son's wedding on the 10th of April, the disc just arrived yesterday so these are hot off the press!!!

Transfers onto Fabric & hand-beading atc's!!!

Woo-hoo!!! Just noticed this is my 200th post....and do I have a way to celebrate! My next upcoming atc technique class is transfers onto fabric and hand-beading. Hand-beading is just so relaxing and something that even a real needle-phobe can do. You only need to stitch a few beads on in a simple style or you can be as elaborate as you want with fringing, peyote (not the ingestible kind!!!....how do I even KNOW about that???) and my favourite - picot beading! So as not to freak my students out too much, we'll be sticking to fairly simple beading for this class but if they've done it before, they can just go to town if they like - I won't stop them...I'll be cheering them on!

Now as my stupid computer decided to blow a gasket and has to be hospitalised for a few days, I'm without a means of showing you the pictures of the beaded atc's...but Natalie has kindly allowed me to use the pics that she took of them for the advertising of the class at Scraptivate.


"Life"...

"Passion"...

"Cherish"...

"Enchant"... (yes, I know it's pinky/apricoty and pretty, but remember I'm a Gemini so I can swing both ways! lol)

When my computer gets better I'll upload the rest of the pictures.

Fold-out ATC Class

Next up in my atc technique book series is Fold-out ATC's. There are several ways of making these atc's and for those of you who look for more room to add either extra images, wording or stamping to your atc's, these are for you!


"Rules"... (closed)

"Rules"...(open)

"Mavis & Sue"...(closed)

"Mavis & Sue"...(open)

"Serene"...(closed)

"Serene"...(open)

I do have more fold-out atc's but need to scan them...check back in the next post for more!

The following atc's are from the last class I did on Emboss Resist.

"Be still"... (yep, same picture as above, look how versatile it is!)

"Annie Marble"...

"In the heart"...

"Ancient Tragedy"...

"Insufficient Funds"...(a personal favourite! lol)

Finally, a late webbing spray atc.

"Blood night"...(notice how well Tim's film strip works on this one. I thought it was fitting seeing how the image is from Twilight, the film - which of course you'd know unless you've been living under a rock these last couple of years!)

I'd fallen behind a bit in making sample atc's for in my own book but have now caught up and surprise, surprise....I'm even ahead now!!! I've made 7 atc's today that have fabric transfers and beading on them. That's the next class coming up. The girls will need to bring their good glasses to be able to see the beading needle and little beads!