Clear Scraps Challenge

IMAGINE Crafts is proud to feature projects created by our Artists In Residence this week using products from ClearScraps.  We hope you enjoy the creativity our team shares with you this week!

Winged heart is one of my favorite motif, so I was thrilled when I get my Wing acrylic album. This time, I made it romantic way.

Supply List:

Imagine Crafts/ TSUKINEKO 

Stazon

Opaque Cotton White, Metallic Gold

Ink Blushers

ClearScraps

Acrylic Album - Wings

Stencil - 6" Spiral Dots

May Arts

Gold String

Rubber Stamp -DeNami 

Diecuts-Spellbinders,  Sizzix

Craft Glue

Cardstock

Paper Flowers

Metal Charms

How To

Die cut large motif from light blue cardstock

Die cut several hearts from red card stock

Preparing Cotton White StazOn. Shake the inker more than 30 times.Apply several drops of ink to the blank pad.

Spread ink with attached mini squeezee.  I use only a part of pad since the stamp is small.

Stamp the image on hearts and panel

Score center, glue together.

DTP two pieces of acrylic wings with Cotton White.  I dropped some ink to the acrylic panel then tapping with ink pad.to spread out.  Let them dry.

Prepare StazOn Metallic Gold.  This time, just dropping enough ink after shaking the inker.

Pick up ink from the pad, stancil with Ink Blusher

Sponging bottom edge with the same ink. Repeat these procedure to another wing

Tie the wings with gold string

Glue prepared heart panel to the center of wings.

Decorate the panel with paper flowers, metal charms and rhinestones

Those paper flowers were made with die cut papers stained with diluted StazOn

Hanged with clips and ribbon

Finish

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Thank you for visiting.  Hope you enjoyed!!

Just returned home sweet home

I've been visiting Japan 3 weeks, returned home last night.
This time, we had full of fun schedule, like stamp convention, trip to northern Japan (for the first time) and class tour, seeing friends and families, and setting up shop/class room for Tsukineko.

I'll share a few trip photos later :)

another Dreamweaver challenge

Hi all!  Since last posting, I've still playing with Dreamweaver stencils.  

So much fun!

Dreamweaver Blog Hop

This week IMAGINE Crafts and Dreamweaver Stencils are featuring a Blog Hop showcasing our fabulous products and providing some inspiration for you to get creative! Be sure to leave your comments on each artist's post that you visit for your chance to win a fabulous prize that includes IMAGINE Crafts and Dreamweaver products. Contest closes at 11:59pm PST on Sunday, June15th.

Hi All!

It was about 15 years ago to see the Dreamweaver stencils at local rubber stamp show.
As a stamper, stencil is kind a close tool, of course I purchased a few at the show for trial.  That time, demo was coloring with pastel, rather simple, yet so beautiful.
Since those days, tools and materials have been added to stencil world, and each one of them make the project more fun.

This time, I use Imagine Crafts' Creative Medium as texture paste, in addition to NEON inks.

Supplies

Dreamweaver Stencils

Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Radiant NEON inks

Creative Medium - Vintage

Memento Black

Kaleidacolor - Denim

Stencil Brush

Cardstock

masking tape

HOW TO:

Tape down the stencil to the cardstock

With stencil brush, color center of flower with Radiant NEON yellow ink

Add Radiant NEON orange and coral to the petals.  Wipe off the brush

Base coat with Radiant NEON yellow to stems and leaves.

Add Radiant NEON blue here and there

continue adding colors of Radiant NEON green.  Let it dry

Take generous amount of Creative Medium Vintage over the stencil plate

Scrape off excess

Remove the plate carefully

When the Creative Medium dried (takes about 30min) add blueish colors from Kalaidacolor Denin to make background

add more background colors.

Thank you for stopping by!  

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Here are the other posts from the Artists In Residence for today:

Kazuko Kocho (you are here)

Nancy Hawes

Cathy Andronicou

And presenting the posts from the Dreamweaver Design Team for today:

Dream It Up!

Lynn Mercurio

Louise Healy

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Lyn Bernatovich

***Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like “Sorry this page cannot be found” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture or the blog’s name) and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.

Altered Pages Blog Hop

 

 Each Tuesday during the month of June, IMAGINE Crafts would like to share with you the projects that our Artists In Residence have created using products from .  The Design Team at Altered Pages will also be featuring IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko products on their blog throughout the month and we hope that you'll visit the Altered Pages Blog to see the fabulous projects that their team has designed as well.

Here are the other projects from the Artists In Residence Team:

Allie Gower

Nancy Hawes

Kazuko Kocho

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Hi All!  I've received fun package from Altered Pages for this event sometime ago.  I could imagine so many possibilities with these old book pages in many languages, sizes and themes, in addition to a lot of ribbons, laces and embellishments, even um rubber stamp sheet.

I love the collage sheet with vintage girls faces and doll poem.

My project turned out something recycle. I found this tag was too cool to toss, it's made of chipboard and interesting shape, even ball chain attached, so kept them for my art project, and this is great opportunity to use.

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supplies

Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

StazOn Midi - Ganache

Inkblusher

Creative Medium - Vintage

Others

Garment Tags

White Glue

and Altered page package

how to

This is the original garment tags.  

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Cut the dictionary page slightly larger than the tag.

Stain with StazOn Ganache using Ink Blusher

Apply Creative Meium Vintage to the tag.

Adhere the dictionary page paper. Do the other side same way.

Using brush end, trace the tag shape 

Tear excess paper by hand

Apply lace pattern with StazOn Ganache and Ink Blusher

Add more color to stain the lace. Let it dry

Glue down stained lace to the tag

Tear baby face from collage sheet

Stain the edge to cover white area with StazOn Ganache

Adhere to the tag

Cover the circle tag with dictionary page paper

Apply StazOn Ganache 

Stain charmes (original color was silver) with StazOn Ganache

Adhere Chinese page paper to manila shipping tag with Creative Medium, seal the paper over the Creative Medium too.
 Then stain with StazOn Ganache

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Assemble shaped tag with embelishment

Assemble the shipping tag . Adhere the bingo paper and stain,. The word [Gothic] is stamped with StazOn Ganache on paper, then stained. The bird is cutout from book page. Glue some charms and stained lace too

Assemble tags and charmes, add ribbons and laces

Finished!

I still have plenty of materials, maybe will make more vintage tags with chipboard or die cuts.

Hope you enjoy the project.

Thank you for your visit :)