Creative Chemistry 103 Day 1 Distress Accessories

This week I followed Creative Chemistry 103 by the talented Tim Holtz ( onlineclasses.com )

I took a week vacation to do this.
Original reason for taking the week off was sad news, because the vet told me that my sweetheart Mikey has a malicious tumor, so I wanted to take a week off to spend some xtra time with him.
He has been sitting on my lap a lot while I was playing with my inks, stains, crayons and even the alcohol inks, so sweet....... He seems to feel ok right now. Hope he stays for a while longer.

 Anyway, here are my results :-)

• Day 1 – Distress Accessories 

Technique 1: Distress DIY

1st one on a manilla tag, 2nd on specialty stamping paper. Inkpad is made with tumbled glass, peacock feathers & faded jeans.

Technique 2: Distress Highlight Stamping Technique.

I love this one!!

And here is technique 3: Distress Off-set stamping

Technique 4: Distress Washed Watercolor

And the last one for day 1, technique 5: Distress Micro-Glaze resist.

Steampunk

For Viva Las Vegastamps Challenge July - steampunk I made an atc

Lime & Teal

For this month's challenge on Viva Las Vegastamps I made a journalpage with tags.

My inspiration came from patterns, doodles, lime, teal.
Tried to make a haiku based on lime & teal.

We'd like to inspire you with words like green, lime, teal, blue, black & white, bright, dots,circles, plants, leaves, sketchy, foliage, chevrons, script, doodles, other patterns, and more!

Helloooo

Hellooo look at me....am I not the cutest in the room ? :-)

Made for challenge #24 A splash of neon or bright color on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

Free

Creatie in zwart en wit voor challenge #69 op Art Journey: Birds

Viva Las Vegastamps May Challenge

Finally time for some crafting :-)

What a great inspiration board for the Viva Las Vegastamps May Challenge !
I got my idea from the words: rays, black, brown, numbers, grungy, mice, rats.

Two Of Us

Wow, already April Challenge on Viva Las Vegastamps !
My inspiration was not coffee, but drips, splatters, vintage, brown, dark........

We'd like to inspire you with words like caffeine, coffee, tea, tea time, warm drinks, hyper,hype, cups, recycle, fancy, stain, spill, coffee rings, drips, drops, splatters, vintage, cardboard, corrugated, tan, brown, black, dark, roasted, light, vapor, and last of all.. date time with friends.

Dwell Time

Challenge #23 on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity : Anything Goes.

I made a black&white atc.

Let's party !!!

Challenge #22 on Lost Coast Portal To Creativity : Let's Party

Background is done using brusho & water

Paradise

Viva Las VegaStamps! Monthly Challenges are so inspiring.
It is already time for the March challenge.

This time I kept it simple.
I brayered the background with distress inks Mermaid Lagoon and Stormy Sky.
The clouds are done with Modeling Paste and a stencil.

Monthly Challenge : MARCH

MARCH is here. March >>>> MARCH is already here. I can't believe it.. Spring is on the way, the birds are chirping in Vegas and we are back to short weather. :)

We are also back with another CHALLENGE!!

We'd like to inspire you with words like nature, clouds, sky stuff, water, rivers and streams,masculine, males, fishing, trees, wilderness, greens, browns, blues, fluffy white, flies and other bugs, dirt, worms, fish, wildlife and more!

Dream

A new month, a new challenge on Viva Las VegaStamps!

We're inspiring you with words like bold, patterns, zentangle, rays, stripes, circles, distressed, grungy, purple, black and white, splash of, Mary Vogel Lozinak, characters, checkerboard, whimsical and more!

Mardi Gras

The host this week for the Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC 230
is Kathi.

Here is what Kathi says about this challenge:

"The colors of Mardi Gras are purple, green and gold... use them or the symbols of Mardi Gras - Fluer de lys, masks, costumes or music!! Let the good times roll"

I made a background with water and purple&seagreen brusho.
Used antique gold paint for the accents.

Glued a mardi gras coin on the card to finish it.

Two Much Fun

Made for the atc challenge on Stampotique Facebook Group
and entering for this week's challenge SDC229

Two Hats together on a citytrip :-)

Red and pink

For Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC228: Use only hues of reds and pinks,

I made a journal page with tags glued between pages.
Hope she gets a Valentine date :-)

Hello and welcome back to another week and another challenge at Stampotique
This week our hostess is Sue Davies and she is giving us a fun challenge
"Use only Hues of Reds and Pinks"

Here is what Sue says about this challenge:
"With Valentine's Day around the corner we have all seen hues of reds and pinks, I challenge you to create a Stampotique Valentine's Day creation inspired by reds and pinks"

Not all who wander are lost

SDC227 Color Blobs

This week Arwen McCullen is our hostess and she is challenging us to "Color Blobs"
Here is what Arwen says about this challenge:

"I would like to see different color Blobs in your project this week"

The blobs are done with a stamp inked with brusho&water.

Gefeliciteerd

Gemaakt voor Stampinback Challenge Blog: Januari Challenge: Een wens.

Hoe sterk is de eenzame fietser

Made for challenge  #20 Clean And Simple on Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Hi there

Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC 226 : Trees

Our hostess this week is Claudine Criner and she is asking us to use "Trees" in your creation this week.
Here is what Claudine says about this challenge:

"Trees have always been such a source of life for many living creatures and I just love them. I am asking you to add some trees to your entries this week"

This is the story

Art Journey Design Team Challenge #65 : Gebruik een template

We Can Do It

Mijn bijdrage voor de januari challenge op Viva Las VegaStamps.
My entry for VLV January Challenge.

My inspiration  -  vintage, stripes, bold, resolutions. 

We know resolutions, one little words, pacts and more are in everyone's thoughts, so keep those in mind when working on this month's challenge. We'd also like to inspire you with words like femininity, women, exploration, rainbow, neutral and nature, storm, maps, vintage, writing, script, yellows, tans, black and white, stripes, bold, rainbows, storms and more!

Relax

Gemaakt voor / made for Art Journey Design-Team Challenge #63 Everything Goes

Achtergrond / background natte kwast / wet brush & bister

12 tags of 2015 november

This is my take on Tim's 12 tags of 2015 november

Used Salty Ocean paint on the background stamp for the resist and sprayed Fossilized Amber&Twisted Citron over it.
Sponged with Ground Espresso inkpad.
For the gold accents around the edges I first sprayed Tarnished Brass on my fingers, wiped a bit on the tag, then put gold paint over it with an old creditcard.

Winter wishes

I made a journal page for VivaLasVegaStamps Challenge November.

Background with custom made distress inkpad, snowflakes with white gesso, accents with white & black gesso.

Holy... cow. It's November. Snow is flying around the country... people are buttoning up.. and we're ready to inspire you for our new Monthly Challenge!

Are you ready for icicles? snowflakes? wintery trees and warm snuggles?? We want to see your best WINTERY inspired pieces. Trees, blue, ice, pines, snow, snow angels, woodland creatures, falling snow, winter wishes and more!

Everyday Friends

Stampotique Designers Challenge this week is Bright Colors

I made the background with brusho & water on watercolor paper.
It turned out looking like an ocean to me, so I spunged a 'bottom' and used 2 of my just received new stamps :-)
Made some scratches with a hobbyknife and sanded the edges.

This week Carol Fox is our hostess and she is challenging us to "Bright Colors"

Here is what Carol says about this challenge:

"Bright eye popping colors to brighten up November"

Scary Confusion

SDC 219 Scary Confusion.

Background is done with alcohol ink, accents with red acrylic paint.

This week Arwen McCullen is our hostess and with the coming of Halloween she is challenging us to a spooktastic challenge...

"Scary Confusion"

Here is what Arwen says about this challenge:

"I love creepy things and I like weird, combine in your work a little scary and a little confused"

Blue and Brown

SDC 218 Blue and Brown Color Challenge

I made the background with Blue and Brown Brusho (and lots of water).

This week Gez Butterworth is our hostess and she is challenging us to a color challenge
 "Blue and Brown"

Here is what Gez says about this challenge:

"Blue and Brown is one of my favorite colour combos, I hope you have fun with it too"

I hope you will join us this week for this fun color challenge,  each month two lucky random winners will get a 30.00 gift certificate to our online store

12 tags of 2015 - october

This is my take on Tim's tags of 2015 - october

Background with distress dusty concord & twisted citron.

Stamps are from various companies ( Katzelkraft, A Capella, Inkadinkado, Cherrypie, VivaLasVegastamps)

I had a lot of fun today creating this tag!
Took my mind of worrying about my mom who is in hospital.

Sing Along

SDC217: Birds and Bees

Claudine is our hostess this week and her challenge to use is:

Birds and Bees

Here is what Claudine says about this challenge:

"I just love anything to do with nature and specifically Birds and Bees. Let me see your best "birds and/or bees" project for this one."

Swinging

For Viva Las VegaStamps October challenge

We'd like to inspire you with warm tones like fall oranges and browns, cream, pumpkin orange, dark brown, black and other colors, along with fences, trees, heritage, houses, home, mansion, boys, swings, sweater weather, polka dots, Harvest, farm, orchard, hay, pumpkin patch, fields, corn mazes, chilly weather and more.

Hello sunshine

Made for this week's Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC216 : Tag

It's a new month at Stampotique and a new set of challenges. We hope you had a fun time with us last month and we welcome you back!!

This week Coby vanWilligenburg is our hostess and she is challenging us to "Show her a Tag"

Monochromatic

Challenge #17 On Lost Coast portal to Creativity is : Monochromatic.

I worked with Distress Inks Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord and the new one Wilted Violet, accents are done with acrylic paint violet.

My sister Carla and me had a lot of fun together, creating our entries for this month !

Black & White

Art Journey's challenge #62 is Black & White

Your wings are ready

On Lost Coast Portal To Creativity september challenge #16 is a single layer project.

First I brayered the background using distress inks Stormy Sky, Shaded Lilac & Tattered Rose.
Stamped with distress Chipped Saphire, coloured with distress markers.
Finished with a borderstamp.

Bookmark

Challenge #61 (september 2015) bij Art Journey Design-Team is bookmark/boekenlegger.

Ik heb eerst de plant/stengels gestempeld met versamark en daarover gebrayerd met big&juicy.
Daarna de huizen en tekst met archival black gestempeld en toen nog met de airbrush+distress marker gesproeid.

Rood

Stampinback challenge september is '50 tinten rood'.

Ik heb eerst 5 kleuren brusho (brilliant red, scarlet, vermillion, ost.red en crimson) met water vermengd en hiermee gestempeld, daarna eroverheen gestempeld met adirondack zwart.
Zoals gezien op de Art Specially beurs afgelopen april.
De verschillende kleuren brusho zijn helaas niet allemaal goed te zien.
Met distress inkt barn door wat extra kleur erin gezet.
Randen gesponst met distress fired brick en aged mahogany.
Daarna met distress marker festive berries en een airbrush gesprayed.

Get spooky

Viva Las VegaStamps September Challenge: Get Spoooooky

I made a journalspread for the challenge.
First made the background with dylusions inkspray. Then dripped distress blacksoot reinker at the top of one page, let it run down, closed the pages and quickly reopened again.
Stamped various images, wrote the quote with a gelly roll and spritzed with the festive berries distress marker using an airbrush.

this was the moodboard:

We'd like to inspire you with words like lime green, halloween, spooky, POISON, labels, fruit, bad, spoiled, witch's broom, skulls, droopy, blood, black, white, heritage, grungy, spots, distressed, leaves, stems, and more.

Reaching out for the stars

Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC211 Perfectly Primary

Sue Davies is our hostess this week and she's bringing us back to our childhood days:

Take 2 of the 3 primary colours (and the colours that they create when mixed) and just use these on your creation. You can also use black and white if you like.

Helloooo

SDC210: Anything Goes

Kim Howard is the hostess this week and she's making it easy on you:

Create using freedom this week with no specific theme