More Smooch Ink Goodness

I took advantage of one of my students in my Saturday Smooch Ink Class - Mandy, as she's a wonderful artist who does brilliant shading and colouring. She very kindly showed the girls how she gets the best out of her Smooch Inks and below are her samples. Mandy also let me raffle off one of her sample atc's between all the girls who took part in the 3 Smooch Ink Classes. Congratulations to Louise! You're a lucky girl to get this atc as it was coveted by everyone who saw it. These next 5 atc's are all made by Mandy.

"Love and Devotion"... (this was the one EVERYONE wanted - love those Stampotique stamps!)

"Dysfunctional"...


"Shimmer"...

"Untitled 1"...

"Untitled 2"...

"Embrace Life"... (this one was to show the girls you don't have to just colour with the Smooch Inks, you can simply use them to edge a picture and also smudge the ink around the edge of a black border on an atc. It also colours German Scrap and metal as well!)

Now we all have to wait another week or so for more Smooch Inks to come in at Scraptivate, the girls in my atc classes bought just about everyone of them in the store...and we had heaps! Not anymore...lol. The next atc class is Painting with Babywipes, another great background technique.

Smooch Inks!

Smooch Inks come in what would have to be the best looking packaging for a craft product that I've seen in a long time. They look especially great when you have a dozen or so all lined up together and of course the colours are such that you just can't stop at buying only one! For the upcoming atc technique class we'll be using the Smooch Inks to colour stamped images. They blend together beautifully and with the fantastic colour range, there's something to suit every taste...and stamp. I am lucky enough to have Mandy Herring doing a demo on how she colours faces using the smooch inks during my Saturday morning atc class, she does a wonderful job....which is why I asked her to show her talent! Thanks Mandy, much appreciated. :-)

"Blood Night"... (Cherry Pie stamp)

"Muse"... (Lost Coast Designs stamp)

"Unfurl"... (Stampers Anonymous stamp)

"Discover"... (Lost Coast Designs stamp)

"Create Joy"... (same stamp as above but different colours - Lost Coast Designs stamp)

"Enchantment"... (for this one I embossed with gold on a black card, then added the smooch for colour - Stampers Anonymous Stamp)

"Destructionist"... (with faux wax around the edge...love that stuff!!!)

That's it for the moment, might have some more samples after my 3 classes.

Angelina Film/Fusible Film/Fantasy Film

Yes, this particular product has a few different terms. They all mean the same thing, a sheer and shimmery product that produces an awesome effect when you glue it to either black or white card stock, chipboard, whatever....then heat it with a heat gun and watch the colours change! Comes in an array of colours and the effect will alter depending on whether you use a light or dark background. This is the upcoming class for the ATC Technique Book #4 I'm teaching over the next fortnight at Scraptivate.

Remember, this is a product that must be seen in real life to be appreciated. Sometimes it's a bit glitzy for my dark and sombre tastes but you can either use less of it (as in the frame style below - "voluptuous"), or you can give it a light dry-brush with paint (as in "chaos").

"Well behaved women"...

"Voluptuous"...

"Chaos"...

"See, speak, hear"...
"Untitled"...

The last class I taught was Stamping & Beading on Fabric. We used both hand-stitched beading as well as microbeads. Here's the last few samples from that particular class.

"Relic"... (microbeads)

"Life's Blood"... (hand beading)

Scraptivate now stocks the beautiful Smooch Inks. I'll be using these in an upcoming class and below is a sample of what can be done with them. The Smooch is the colouring on the background and the fluid embellishment around the edge is from the Faux Wax class previously taught.

"Destructionist"...