Clearance Stamps/Stencil Set

Why do clearance items "call my name".

 I don't think I would have been interested in this set, except that it was in the clearance bin at JoAnn's. I cannot find the name of it on the label: just THMM102. I supposed that somehow goes with the text on top, Mixed-Media Stamps/Stencil.

The Ranger tags were on clearance too, so I had a chance to see how they held up to water and ink and gesso. You can see from the image, there was some warping of the paper. The size is about 6-1/4 inches tall by 3-1/8 inches wide.

I used wrinkle free distress technique with oxides:

abandoned coral

picked raspberry

twisted citron.

Then I added gesso over the bricks. When dry I sponged some brown ink on the edges and also with the crackly stencil. I think the brown color might be frayed burlap-I have been using that a lot lately. Added a black paper wildflower die cut from Tim's Wildflowers #2 thinlits. The friend definition stamp is from Stampin Up!.

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Stampfest with Lynette

Lynette and I had a great time stamping and visiting on Monday.

We tried a distress oxide background technique

demonstrated by Richele Christensen on the Ranger blog.

Since I didn't have the oxide in peeled paint, we just used the regular distress for that color

along with the faded jeans oxide and cracked pistachio oxide.

After we dried the background with a heat tool
we spritzed a stencil with water
and placed it on the background to "lift off" color.
Our result was not as dramatic as Richele's. 

Perhaps we did not leave the wet stencil down long enough?

Jennifer McGuire has a tutorial for stamping with water for unique backgrounds.
Would like to give that a try.

We sponged ink with stencils and stamped with a manuscript stamp on the background.

Cut Wildflowers #2 Thinlits from black cardstock and attached with glue.
Punched butterflies from Lynette's 2 butterfly punches and attached.

I used a piece of muslin fabric to stamp my sentiment and mini stapled it to the black cardstock.
Lynette used cardstock.
Then the layers were attached with dimensional foam.
I copied Richele's idea and used twine.

I would like to try this technique again adding an orange as shown on Richele's California Art Girl.

Addtional inks used:
distress vintage photo, hickory smoke, frayed burlap
Versafine black onyx

Stamps used:
Tim Holtz cling, saying stuff
Hero Arts H2141 manuscript background

More Mixed Media Thinlits Cards

I have been having fun with my Sizzix Thinlits:

 Mixed Media #1 - 660220

and Mixed Media #2 - 661185.

You can see through the Mixed Media #1 die cut to my home made background made background. I used the "embossing folder stamping" technique that I shared in April 2016. Here I also stamped with a Stampin' Up! flower on top of the green pine needles with distress dried marigold. Used the Michael Strong Mini Cloisonne Butterfly and a Stampin' UP! Sentiment in the dried marigold ink on the front layer.

Used the Mixed Media #2 thinlit die on a piece of watercolor that I made previously. Sentiment  and matching die are from Hero Arts. Stampin' Up! flower stamped in mint then fussy cut.

Used the Mixed Media #2 thinlit die on white cardstock, with a pink layer underneath. Sentiment and matching die are from Hero Arts. Butterfly is cut from a Martha Stewart punch. Leaves are an old Stampin' Up!/Sizzix embosslit called Sweetest Stem.

Here is the Mixed Media #1 thinlit die used on an alcohol inked piece from my stash. Flowers are cut from Wildflowers #2 thinlits. Sentiment from Tim Holtz.

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Wildflowers and Mixed Media Thinlits

I thought I'd share some cards I made in the past month or so

using my new Sizzix dies:

Mixed Media (background)

and Wildflowers #2.

I had fun using old book pages for these two cards.

As I sponged this background I tried to create a peaceful scene.  I don't like to make gloomy sympathy cards. The cut openings reminded me of an opening into a beautiful world.  The tree reminded me of the everlasting tree of life. 

Used an alcohol ink background on glossy paper from my stash for this one.

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