Technique Thursday - Mulberry Paper Batik

This is a way cool technique! Try and see what you think!

1. Cut white or very pale mulberry paper 5 x 3 3/4. Cut a piece of white card stock the same size.
2. Stamp on the mulberry paper with Versamark.
3. Emboss with clear embossing powder.
4. Using sponge daubers sponge ink over the mulberry paper. Continue until you have the color that you want. I used Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue, and Pretty in Pink ink pads.
5. Once done, use an iron and clean white typing paper. Fold the paper and place the mulberry paper in the middle. Iron to REMOVE the embossing.
6. Mount the mulberry paper on the white piece you cut earlier.
7. Mount on your card and decorate! As you can see, I used the Direct To Paper (DTP) technique in Bashful Blue on the Pretty in Pink cardstock.
   
8. I used Prima flowers that matched the colors used and a SU! colored brad to further accent!
9. I used SU! two tag punches to make the tag, stamped "bliss" in Bashful Blue and added some lilac ribbon as a finishing touch.
   

Now it's your turn! Give it a try...you get an absolutely different look every time and this will definitely "WOW" your friends and family to get such a wonderful looking card!

Watercolor Class Cards

Been a while since updating! I have been busy at work, coming home late, going in early...but here I am!

Last Saturday we did a watercolor class using aqua pens, watercolor crayons, watercolor pencils, markers, ink pads and pastels.

Girls using watercolor crayons

Whale using pencils

Clam using pastels

Fish using markers

Frogs using ink pads

VSN Weekend - What a blast!

Carol came down for the weekend and we participated in the splitcoaststampers VSN weekend. What is VSN? Virtual Stamp Night! It starts at 6 pm on Friday with the last project posted at 11 pm! Yep...they post a project every hour for 6 hours on Friday night. You have 45 minutes to complete the projects! Today it starts at 12 pm with a project every hour until 11 pm again! This is the 2nd one that I have participated in and it is so much fun! Try it some time!

Here is one of the creations from last night....quilling....which I have never done before!

Instructions

1) Cut paper into 1/8th inch strips using your paper cutter in various colors.

2) Take strip of paper and roll end around needle. If you moisten the end of the paper, it will roll really easily around the needle. Continue rolling paper around the needle until whole strip is rolled, keeping the edges as even as possible.

3) Remove from needle.

a) Rolls
i) *Tight Circle: Roll paper, slip off of needle holding the roll with your fingers to keep it from unwinding and glue the loose end of the paper to the side of the roll.
ii) *Loose Circle: Roll paper, slip off of needle and allow the coil to loosen. Glue the loose end.
iii) *Teardrop: Roll and glue a loose circle. Pinch one side of the circle to a point.

4) Once you have made your rolls, you can glue them down on your card into flower shapes. Play with the shapes to get different flowers.

5) For Example, glue 6 teardrops around a tight circle. For the stems, take a green strip and fold it in half. Partially roll each end loosely towards the outside.

Once you have made your rolls, you can glue them down on your card into flower shapes. Play with the shapes to get different flowers. For Example, glue 6 teardrops around a tight circle. For the stems, take a green strip and fold it in half. Partially roll each end loosely towards the outside.

Technique Thursday - Retro Resist Technique

Below are the directions for the technique:

1. Fold a piece of waxed paper in half, and then in half again (now it’s in quarters).

2. Next fold it into wedges (like a piece of pie) folding it into as many wedges as possible. Holding the thin wedge piece, now take and twist it to get lots of crinkles in the waxed paper.

3. Unfold waxed paper and place on top of a piece of Glossy card stock. Place a piece of scrap paper over the waxed paper and iron over the layers with a hot iron. Remove scrap piece, and waxed paper. The Glossy card stock will have a faint resist marking on it.

4. Option #1: Using a marker, draw a spiral on the Glossy card stock starting in the center going outward. Continue with more spirals of different colors. Once your card stock is covered with swirls of color, use a clean sponge dauber and starting in the center of the design, rub in a circular motion to pull the colors into one another like a tie-dyed shirt.

Option #2: Ink up a sponge dauber on an ink pad. Draw with the dauber on the Glossy card stock in a circular motion (like a bull’s eye); alternate with another color.

(This sample was done using ink pads and sponges.)

Okay....jumping on the blogging band wagon!

I had another blog going on bloggoing.com but apparently they have done away with it - the whole thing because I can't even find the homepage now! So here I am.

My name is Theresa and I live in south central Michigan with my DH James of 8+ years. My mom, son and grandson Stephen live with us. We have one dog, Max, who is a Husky-German Shepherd mix.

I joined Stampin' Up! in 2002 - hard to believe that it's gonna be 5 years! I love SU! as it has built new relationships and rebuilt past relationships. I hate to admit it but I have never liked women in general....but I guess between SU! and my age I have mellowed! LOL I love the time that I get to spend with family and friends, laughing and creating!

I will be sharing stamping and scrapping projects/directions along with my calendar of events, newsletters and share some of my grandchildren's antics!

You gotta love GC because you can spoil them and send them home....unless they live with you! Here is a pic of my three...Jasmine (age 5), Trenton (age 4) and Stephen (age 7). This picture was taken for Easter this year...and they were laughing at the photographer! :o)

What things are important to me?

God
Husband
Family
Friends
Work
Fun with SU! :o)

Come back soon!