Summer Of Creative Chemistry - Week 5

Summer of Creative Chemistry continues this month over at Online Card Classes and Tim's challenge for this week was to use 3 or more colours of Distress Paint & any technique from Day One of CC102. I looked back at the tags I created for Day One when I first did CC102 and the only technique I didn't try was Eroded Metallics. That's probably because I didn't have any of the Distress Metallic Paints at the time.

Since I had all the products I decided to focus this weeks project on that technique.

I started with 4 colours of Distress Paint - Squeezed Lemonade, Ripe Persimmon, Candied Apple & Carved Pumpkin. Following the technique in the class - I applied all of these paints to the tag and blended with my foam tool.

After thoroughly drying the paint layer with my heat tool, I stamped my images with Archival Ink.
Following the directions from class I applied Tarnished Brass Distress Paint. Once this layer was dry I applied my sentiment & some random script stamping.

I love this technique! I can't wait to try it again with different colour combinations and different metallic distress paints.

Summer Of Creative Chemistry - Week 4

It's time to share my week 4 project for Summer of Creative Chemistry!

This week's challenge is to create a project using Archival Ink.

My first project is a card using the Archival Ink Resist Technique.

This is a really fun technique that I don't think I've used since the first time I took

Creative Creative 101. It was wonderful revisiting it!

I started by stamping my trees on glossy paper using Potting Soil & Leaf Green Archival Inks.

I then gathered a few different colours of Distress Ink and using my blending foam & tool tired to recreate the colours of a sunset.

I added my sentiment and adhered to my card base to finish it off.

This card was so quick to make that I decided to make another card using the Alcohol Ink Agate technique on yupo paper with Archival Ink stamping.

Summer Of Creative Chemistry - Week 3

It's time to share my week 3 project for Summer of Creative Chemistry!

This week I rediscovered the awesomeness of  Perfect Pearls.

 Tim demonstrated 3 fabulous techniques but my favourite was

Perfect Splatter Distress Technique.

I decided to make a birthday card using the Perfect Splatter Distress Technique for my background and the Paint Dabber Resist Technique for my oval focal point.

Unfortunately, the shimmer from the Perfect Pearls does not photograph very well.

I was enjoying the Perfect Splatter Distress Technique so much that I made a few more card background to keep on hand.

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Summer Of Creative Chemistry - Week 2

It's week 2 of the Summer of Creative Chemistry!

I was late starting week 1 because I thought I didn't need it. I did CC 101 & 102 already.

Why did I need to repeat it all over again? Well, let me tell you that revisiting these techniques has only opened my eyes to the new possibilities!

So if you are a Distress product fan and haven't decided on taking the course, it is well worth it!

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For week 2 we were challenge to use Distress Stains & stamping.

I decided to make a birthday card ~

I used Stormy Sky, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feather & Picket Fence Distress Stains to create a marbled effect background on my card base.

I then used the Halftone stamp (from the Halftone & Rings stamp set) & Picket Fence Distress Stain to stamp on top of the marbled background. 

Here is a closeup of the Picket Fence stamped over the background.

I stamped the the word "Celebrate" and the Party Hat image on the card.

I stamped the party hat a second time on to some watrcolour paper and used my Distress markers to watercolour the image before cutting the hat out and adhering it to my card. I added some ribbon to complete the hat.

Summer Of Creative Chemistry - Week 1

Did you hear the exciting news? Tim is introducing a brand new technique series - Creative Chemistry 103. CC103 will begin in August but in the mean time Tim will guide students through

CC101 & CC102 - with brand new challenges & giveaways.

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For week one students were challenged to use four or more Distress Inks to create a tag, card or something else using a technique used in class.

I decided to make a tag using 2 of the 3 techniques and 6 Distress Ink colours.

The Distress Inks I used for the Spritz & Flick are Twisted, Abandoned Coral, Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass. Once I had flicked water over my tag and let it dry then I applied the brush-less watercolor technique. I applied Picket Fence Distress Ink to my Rings background stamp from the Halftone & Rings stamp set from Stampers Anonymous, spritz my stamp with my mister then stamped it on my tag.

I love how this technique turned out over my inked background.

I applied Hickory Smoke Distress Ink with my round blending tool to the edges to finish it off.

Finally adhering a die cut of Umbrella Man and a sentiment stamp from the Stuff To Say set from Stampers Anonymous to complete my week 1 homework.

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Summer of Creative Chemistry - Week 1