Shelly's Secret Technique!

Last weekend at Wingdoodle, SheRee, Chris, Shelly & Adele worked on a few techniques.

One of my favorites was the stamping & embossing technique using Ranger alcohol inks and seafoam embossing powder!

On Sunday, I stopped bye and Shelly showed me a sample and offered to let me play at the demo table. How could I resist! And, she showed me a secret technique that I will pass along to you.

Here are 2 cards I made using alcohol inks & seafoam embossing powder. I used the same products on both, but came up with different results.... The key was timing....

First off, I took a small piece of paper and used that as my background.

I embossed my image using SEAFOAM white embossing powder. SheRee found that ONLY the seafoam white is effective using this technique. I let the image dry, or rather cool to room temp and then continued with the next step.
Using whatever alcohol inks inks, I chose, I dripped them onto the felt square and attached it to the "Alcohol Ink Applicator". You could use a make up sponge as well or even a piece of felt & a pair of plastic gloves.
I "smooshed" the felt around on the paper, so that the ink colors blended. I let it dry.

You could either dab it up and down - SheRee's preferred method or you could "smoosh" it - Shelly's method. I did a combination of both!

Because I used alcohol inks, they dried very quickly. I took a paper towel and smoothed over my image just to clean it up slightly. Now, you could add another layer of alcohol ink color over your image.

Now, for Shelly's BIG SECRET....

Sandpaper! I took some sandpaper and gently buffed over my image. It softened the edges up a bit and I like the weathered look for this technique.

Now, in my sample below, I did everything as stated above and came out with the image on the left. The image on the right was created with only one variation....

I embossed the image on the right AFTER I made the alcohol background. The card on the left was done with the embossed image before the alcohol inks.

It gives a totally different effect!

The card on the left gives more of a shadow or "ghost" image, whereas the card on the right shows more contrast.....

Hmmmm, the possibilities of endless!

Thanks Shelly & SheRee!

Reminder

Saturday March 20th I will be doing a demo with one of Sampendous' new stamps and the painting with embossing powders technique.  It is so much fun and easy to do.  You will want to start using this technique on everything.  Come by the demo table and check it out. 

SherRee

Fran's Painting with Powder Technique

This technique is so cool. You use different color embossing powders to paint a stamped image.  It is easy to learn and the results are stunning. We have the embossing powder kits and 4 different stamps from Stampendous that are made for this technique, you can use any stamp though.  I will be doing a demo using this technique on Saturday March 20th though out the day.  If you can't make the demo and want to start trying this technique now the link below will take you to Stampendous' website.
http://www.stampendous.com/Tips+%26+Techniques/?c=2#0

Visitors to My Demo Table

Every Saturday we do make and takes at Wingdoodle. Here are some of the visitors to my demo table this past Saturday. They had fun using markers as watercolors on a spring themed card. I remembered to take pictures while they were making the cards but forgot to take pictures of the cards. You will just have to take my word for it that they all came out really cute. They colored a daisy with a buzzing bee over it. Stop by the demo table this coming Saturday March 6th and make a St. Patrick's Day card. Hope to see you then.

SherRee

News from Wingdoodle

The store has been inventoried and everything is rearranged so it looks like a new store. We all worked really hard to get it all done in 2 weeks so that we could reopen. Everything looks fresh an clean now. All the stamps are rearranged so that you will see stamps that you have never seen before. We have spent the last week and a half writing orders and sending them in. Wingdoodle will be getting a lot of new products. A Muse stamps will be coming too. We are really excited about this company and hope to have the stamps in the store by the beginning of February. We are also getting a lot of Tim Holtz's Distress products, new Penny Black, HeroArts, and Rubber Soul stamps. We will be carrying a lot more pre-cut cards and matching envelopes in a wonderful variety of colors, from Hero and from A Muse.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and Wingdoodle will be doing Valentine make and takes on Saturday morning. This past Saturday we did Valentine treat bags which came out really cute and everyone had fun. Next Saturday, January 30th we will be making shaker cards. Come by and join the fun on Saturday mornings and pick up whatever you need to make your Valentine's cards. We are a full service stamp store so you can pick up your stamps, inks, glitter glue, markers, embellishments and cards to make your own Valentine's cards.

Our coloring contest for Christmas was such a success that we are having another one to celebrate Valentine's Day. You can stop by the store and pick up a copy of the picture or download it at http://www.beezinkstudio.com/. All entries must be in the store by February 11th. We will announce the winners after Warner's annual Valentines Day fun day. This year's theme is "Find the Hearts of Warner". Last year's festival was a big success and a wonderful break in the winter. We hope this year will be even better.

Make and Take

Come by Wingdoodle Saturday September 26th and make one of these cute Halloween tags.