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

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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!

Emboss Resist Technique

The new class for this fortnight is Emboss Resist Technique. Another of those wonderful backgrounds that can also be used as a main focal point if your stamps can tell a story by themselves. These first atc's are like the latter, the stamps can stand alone as the main focus of the atc.

"Twilight"...

"Fear Not"... (yes, I know I've used the same stamps but I wanted to tryout some different colour combinations)

These next ones have the emboss resist as the background.

"Remember"...

"Moan-a"...

"Go confidently"...

"Canvas"...
"Women and cats"... (love this combination of Tim's new distress ink colours - Victorian Velvet & Pumice Stone - which are all available at Scraptivate now!)

I still haven't downloaded the pictures from my camera and I don't yet have any pictures of my son's wedding. Not really an issue if you're only here to look at my arty pursuits!

Webbing Spray ATC's

After a wonderful 2 days spent with Jen Crossley & Dawnie in Ballarat at yes, a previous house of "ill-repute" (pics to follow!), then 4 days at the Creative Soul Retreat at The Country Place in the Dandenong's in Victoria, then a 9 day drive from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide.....I'm home! I'm having a few modem issues so this blog post is a bit late. I have yet to upload my pics from the camera with previous mentioned massage house in Ballarat as well as pics of the retreat so these may be in the next post....possibly....don't hold me to it.

We have a bit of an exciting day happening this Saturday (10th April) and as we are so close to it, and also as none of my family actually read my blog, I can tell you it's my son's wedding! It's a big surprise, starts out as an engagement party (for only an hour), then the wedding kicks in. Hopefully to the total surprise of everyone attending!

Anyway, back to the reason for this blog post. The technique I'm currently teaching in my atc classes is webbing spray. I like to use webbing spray on all sorts of backgrounds, credit card technique, smoosh technique, resin fresco, in fact any background will benefit from a little spray with the web. If you only have one can of it in a particular colour (it comes in gold, silver, black & white), then if you're quick you can pour embossing powder over the webbing spray immediately after spraying as it stays wet long enough to grab the powder, heat it and you've changed the colour!

Some samples...

For Sale (wording up the top is fun foam stamped into with a word stamp)...

"Steel"...

"Nothing risque"...

"Poe"...

"Length of life"...

Even a simple glimmer mist background looks better with a little webbing spray. Steel and Poe above are both done on plain copy paper with Graphite glimmer mist and then black webbing spray. Length of life, For Sale and Risque are all done with gold webbing spray then coated with Antique Brown (a combo of copper and black powders) embossing powder.

Glad to be home in my own bed and after Saturday my life will settle back down again....phew!