Howdy! A blessed Sunday to you. I have to say the beginning of the month when Tim posts his new tag for the month is always something I look forward to. His techniques always inspire me to create. Tim's September tag used the alcohol inks and yupo paper for one of the techniques.
I am happiest when I am stamping. I love mixing the stamped images together and creating a blend of stamps together into a cohesive design.
This month's tag and technique used a resist technique which game me lots of fun ways to play with my stamps and stencils.
I started with a patina background on the tag.
I admit I ended up not using this tag in my finished project as I wanted to get close to the colors on my stamped background. I will save this one for another project. I love how the patina looks and could have created many of these backgrounds in different colors.
Next I tried about 3 failed attempts with the alcohol ink backgrounds. I was trying to mix colors and they were beautiful but not cohesive to give a strong imprint and I also tried a few stamps that weren't solid enough in the image to translate well on the resist.
I finally settled on an alcohol ink background with a mix of slate, eggplant, and mushroom.
Next I used an ultra-violet archival ink to stamp the butterfly and script onto the background. I stamped the butterfly first and cleaned it off following Tim's instructions and then I did the script.
I then tried on several scraps to use the blending ink with the stencil to get the numbers/words. The blending alcohol will bleed and I didn't like how I was applying it so I decided to sponge on the same archival ink through the stencil and was very happy with the crispness of the letters.
Another tip: The Yupo paper is so wonderful that I was able to flip over one of my failures and use the reverse side for my card. I also had another failure with the resist which I was able to just ink over again with alcohol inks and start again. Like a magic eraser!
I was having so much fun stamping with the resist that I decided to create another stamped collage.
On the bottom you can see some smearing this was because I didn't carefully remove the excess ink. Tim talks about it in his tutorial. Just thought I would mention it because I did try very carefully but I am a very messy stamper and missed some ink. :)
Have a lovely Sunday!
Suzz
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Sunday, September 4, 2016
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Your collage designs are terrific and you've really mastered this technique. Thanks for the tips, I'm struggling a bit with this one. But you are so right about the paper--I'll begin again on the backside. It's challenging but SO fun.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful Suzz! I love the patina one and can't wait to see where you take it. I bought some Yupo paper about 6 months ago but have yet to take it out of the packet. Must give it a try after seeing your gorgeous creations.
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Lesley Xx
Suzz, love the finished product, so elegant! Thanks for sharing your artistic struggle as you worked toward your design. I often have something in mind, but getting it "on paper" in the way I planned is sometimes a challenge!
ReplyDeleteWell all your efforts were certainly totally worth it, the end effects looks amazing and on the second one I would never have noticed the smudging lol if you had not mentioned it.
ReplyDeleteLove the patina background and can't wait to see whre you will take that one...
I also wanted to say sorry for the lack of visits lately, but as you may know I have been away from home for two month. But now I am back I look forward to more regular visits again. xxx
Oh so beautiful Suzz, these are just gorgeous with your mix of stamps and techniques xxx
ReplyDeleteAll of these are gorgeous but I do like the darker ones better. Welcome to the dark side. Hehe! Fantabulous use of the AI and the yupo paper. I was curious about the paper and you answered a few questions for me. Awesome sauce stamping! Everything looks so cohesive and fantabulous! Wowzers! ~Niki
ReplyDeleteLOVE both! Your images are so crisp too...well done!
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