New Dylusions Stamps in the House

I just got some new stamps last week...the Doodle Parts set from Dylusions.

This is my twist on the set with the Ink Sprays from Dylan as the starting point.

Bright, yes, they're always bright. If you own them, you know that's a fact!

LOVE THEM!

The lower left corner is the Bubblegum Pink and the center is Vibrant Turquoise. Fresh Lime, Squeezed Orange and Lemon Zest make it fun. Everything else is a mixture of sprays, splotches, and runs.

The next step was using Jet Black Archival ink to stamp the new set around the tag.

I find the "Sea Creature" doodle just too much fun. That's my name for it, I'm sure Dylan has a better one picked out.

Then I got out the Distress Markers and the white Sharpie Pen.

I still wanted more definition, so I used the Black Glaze pen on some of the outlines and dots.

The Distress Markers add more color and shadows that make the contrast a bit more stark.

The tag is dark, so the white pen and the gold lame' bow on top made it brighten up and sparkle.

Love the Pens, the Stamps, the Inks and the Markers.

Take out a tag and just start playing.

Now the weekend pictures of family....I've GOT to share.

Remember the ALEX card I led you through....well here is THE ALEX.

One of 2 kids chosen to give a speech at the graduation ceremony for Moline HS class 2012 of 480 students, and he ROCKED it!

"He's Confident, he's funny and he's good-looking!"

And we are so proud of him!

Then remember the NO BAR CODE card for beloved granddaughter Brittany?

Well she liked it. Isn't she gorgeous???

And the necklace I gave her she has on is a Tim Holtz Bat charm I added 2 holes to it, and a chain.

The little ghoul (girl) loved it!

Be Well and Be Blessed...I am.

Linda

Products used:

Dylusions Ink Sprays - Vibrant Turquiose,  Bubblegum Pink,

                                            Squeezed Orange,  Fresh Lime, 

                                            Lemon Zest  

Dylusion Stamps - Doodle Parts

Distress Markers - various colors

Sakura Glaze Pen - Black

Archival #0 Pad - Jet Black

Inkssentials Surfaces - Manila Craft Tags - #8

Sharpie Poster Paint Fine Tip Pen - White

---------------Adirondack Inks and Paints--------------

This was a challenge.

Use Ranger Adirondacks products - inks and paints.

I had several Dye Ink pads, a few Pigment Pads, lots of Paint Dabbers and a whole bunch of Alcohol Inks.

So where to start. Add some white paint with a dabber and a stencil.

Flip it over and smoosh extra paint on the other page.

Then I rubbed all kinds of color all over a journal page using Direct to Paper and Cut-n-Dry foam.

 Needless to say some of the colors were really bright like the Clover, Bottle and Terra Cotta.

I added some stencil work with Distress Inks and Paint dabbers.

The Seedless Preserves, Gathered Twigs, and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks really made the stencil work pop.

Gold paint dabber on the stenciled raindrops added some shine.

I love the Lemonade and Terra Cotta background with contrasting Distress Ink here.

Can you see the eyes coming from the corner....just a happy accident.

Some silver raindrops here and lots of white gel pen.

I traced some of the leaves with the stencil and added outlines and shadows.

This was a fun project, and a real learning experience on combining different types of inks and paints.

Explore and Expand!

I'm off to Prairie Art Stamps this weekend...can't wait!

Linda

Products Used:

Adirondack Dye Inks - Aqua, Stream, Peach Bellini, Terra Cotta, Eggplant
Adirondack Pigment Inks - Lemonade, Juniper, Clover, Bottle
Adirondack Paint Dabber - Snow Cap, Gold, Silver
Distress Inks - Seedless Preserves, Dusty Concord, Chipped Sapphire,
                        Gathered Twigs, Pine Needles

Distress Markers - Broken China, Pumice Stone

Stencils - Dylusions Lusious Leaves and Crafter's Workshop Daisy Doodad

Other Products:
Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen
Sharpie Black Permanent Fine and White Opaque Poster Pen

Thanks Everyone...I had a great day!

First of all.....thanks to everyone for all the wonderful Birthday wishes yesterday.

I was completely blown away on FaceBook!

I was out and about having lunch with Bill, shopping for garden ideas, enjoying the day and I came home to a real treat in the mailbox!



So for the rest of the day I got to play and Bill watched the ball games.

I posted a bad picture of this on FB.

Then I had a few questions about how I did this, so I thought maybe I'd do a post on what I used...this is for you Linda P.xxx 

I had done a single page with a large stencil using white paint dabber.

Then, with the paint still wet, I pushed the stencil down on another page letting the paint you usually wipe off the stencil go onto the page. Dyan Reaveley technique there.

See all the cool spots that have no paint...very distressed looking.

When it was dry, I used dark Distress inks all over it...Vintage Photo, Pine Needles, Wild Honey, Walnut Stain, and some Mustard Seed in spots.

Wipe the Distress Ink off the white paint gently with a baby wipe.

I got out my new Number Jumble stencil from Dylusions and used it all around the page with Vintage Photo and Black Soot.

PRETTY DARK...

Stamped my new flowers from Background Love and the fun alphabet from Bordering on the Page.

STILL pretty dark.

Then........out comes the White Gelly Roll Pen.

And the Distress Markers!!!!!

Let the magic begin!

Last was the Numbers from Basic Backgrounds with Coffee Archival Ink.

Never give up...just keep swimming!

Thank you Dorie.

Have fun....I did!

Linda

Products Used:

• Dylusions - Stamps - Background Love, Basic Backgrounds, Bordering on the Page
• Dylusions - Stencils - Number Jumble
• Ranger - Tim Holtz - Distress Inks - Pine Needles, Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Walnut Stain
• Ranger - Tim Holtz - Distress Markers
• Ranger - Archival Ink - Jet Black and Coffee
• Ranger - Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snow Cap
• Sakura - Gelly Roll Pen - White Med
• Stabilo - Write-4-all - Black Pen
• Plaid - Simply Stencils - Large Design

Up, Up, and Away Tutorial with Dylusions Inks

Happy Easter to everyone! Here's a fun tag tutorial to play around with.

The Balloon kinda looks like an Egg and the background tags are SO Easter in their colors.

I am in love with the new Dylusions Ink Sprays from Dylan Reaveley.

The colors are brilliant....but what would you expect from the perfectly names sprays like...Bubblegum Pink or Squeezed Orange?

So let's get started with our little tutorial on a tag!

I started with a #8 Manila Tag and spritzed it lightly with water.

Then the magic begins.

I sprayed the middle tag with several different colors of Dylusions Ink. Patted with a paper towel and dried with the Heat tool. Then I spritzed it with a bit of Walnut Stain Ink. Picked up some drops from the Non-Stick Craft Sheet and dried again.

Then I thought....try Dylan's technique of spraying one, then blotting a second one on top to capture the excess ink....

So the ones on the sides are that process.

I wasn't sure what I was going to do, didn't want to ruin the "cool" tag, so I started with the dark one on the left. (who says "it's just a piece of paper???) I'm a chicken sometimes.

So off we go! I used the Picket Fence Distress Stain on the dots in the Mixed Media stamp set from Tim Holtz.

Works like a charm!

Then I stamped the Balloon from the Remnants set with Jet Black Archival Ink and embossed with Super-Fine Clear Embossing Powder...LOVE that stuff.

You can still see the white dots underneath the Balloon...amazing!

Here I used a tiny border stamp I got a couple of years back at CHA...sorry I am not positive of the brand. Just stamped, not embossed.

Then the WONDERFUL Chicken Wire stamp from Mixed Media with Coffee Archival Ink went over the top using Dylan's "roll the stamp" method rather than putting it on a block.

The Flourish was stamped with Deep Purple Archival Ink.

NEXT LAYER!!!

White Gelly Roll Medium tip pen.....no Sharpie here.

Add the color around the stamped images at the bottom, and around the Flourish to make it look like the wind blowing.

I added pen to areas of the Balloon and in the middle of the Chicken Wire.

Have you tried the new Specialty Stamping Paper from RANGER????? OMGosh!

Amazing stuff. I'm not easily impressed, but I'm here to tell you that stuff is a Totally Different Animal to stamp on...WOW!

So, off my soapbox. Stamp the Air Mail stamp using Venetian Orange Archival Ink on the paper.

Here I used the Deep Purple, then a Venetian Orange (not too cleaned off stamp) and a CLEAN stamp with Venetian Orange. (see the darker difference)

The ink wasn't completely dry on the paper and kind of pooled here and there, so I decided to EMBOSS them all with the Clear embossing powder.

It gave them a really cool mottled edge. I cut them out and added Broken China to the edge, and Old Paper to the middle, with Distress Markers to soften the stark whiteness of the paper.

Then a thin black pen line made the whole piece stand out.

Now here's something I learned from Michele Charles YEARS ago in a class I took from her.

I used my Pumice Stone Distress Marker to add an edge to the Balloon and Flag. This creates a shadow and makes the figures have dimension.

The edges are darkened with Walnut Stain and Black Soot Distress Ink, and the tag is layered onto a piece of Black Chipboard. At this point I was going to add a ribbon, but I liked it just the was it was.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

New products are coming in every day at Inspiration Emporium, so check them out!

Linda

• Ranger - Dylusions Ink Sprays - Squeezed Orange, Fresh Lime, Bubblegum Pink, Crushed Grape, Lemon Zest, Vibrant Turquoise
• Ranger - Tim Holtz - Picket Fence Distress Stain
• Ranger - Tim Holtz - Black Soot and Walnut Stain Distress Ink
• Ranger - Tim Holtz - Distress Markers - Pumice Stone, Broken China, and Old Paper
• Ranger- Mini Mister, #8 Manila Tag, Heat-It Tool, Super-Fine Clear Embossing Powder, Non-Stick Craft sheet
• Ranger - Archival Ink - Jet Black, Deep Purple, Venetian Orange, and Coffee
• Stamper's Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Remnants, Mixed Media, Fancy Flourish Stamp sets
• Sakura - White Gelly Roll Pen
• Unknown clear border stamp
• Heavy Black Chipboard

The Bird and the Butterflies Tag- Doodling and Layering

HEY, EVERYONE!

Wow, I've finally gotten some time to watch the last 2 episodes of Creative Chemistry 101 with Tim!! And of course, he never fails to inform and teach. You cannot go wrong with these lessons, they are a mini Ranger U for sure. Click on the link above for supplies from Inspiration Emporium and start taking the classes.

Now for a bit of Tag Fun from me!

The Bird and the Butterflies

I think I've found my niche.

This tag and my journal pages make me happy.

And it's just a piece of paper....if you don't like it....wait a day and add something else.

That's what happened here. I made the background. Didn't care for it. A week later it called my name!

I had added color to the tag with watercolor crayons and reinker sprays.

 Then after using the unknown number stencil with the white paint dabber on another tag, I used Dyan Reaveley's technique of pressing the excess paint onto this tag...hence the backwards numbers here and blobby paint spots.

There's wonderful tutorials on her blog!

You can also see Stencil work here. I LOVE The Crafters Workshop Stencils!!!! Julie Balzer is amazing. I actually used one of her earlier stencils, Punchinella, but it has a mini section of the Chickenwire stencil that is linked above.

Tim used her Numbers Stencil in Lesson 4. Love it!

If you want to see a great ARTIST at work, check out her blog.

This  Bird is by Collections. I sprayed it with a long ago concoction I found in a Mini Mister.

Added a stamp from Artistic Outpost-Whimsical Melange and some white pen to make it stand out.

The  Tim Holtz Papillon stamps  were stamped over the sprayed background with Jet Black Archival Ink.

You can see the Butterflies and Numerals that have been highlighted with white ink.

I drew a few leaves in the top left corner and painted color with the  Distress Markers  on them.

I like my tags to lay flat. Therefore I mount them on heavy chipboard. Here I used plain old gray chipboard that I dabbed around some color with Distress Stains. Make it blotchy.

Then when it's dry you can glue your tag to it, trim leaving a small edge,

 and it will have a cool border.

This is one of the new Prima Wooden Buttons. I started to add color on the right, and decided to take a before and after picture.

This is the button after I added layers of color with the Distress Markers.

Cool, eh??? (For my Canadian Ranger U friends, yes, I am still prone to saying it years later.)

Here you can see lots and lots of doodling and pen marks. I freehand drew stars and outlined the butterflies with white pen.

The white paint blob has the new Tim stamp Mixed Media over it that added a really fun layer.

So if you want to practice journal backgrounds....try it on a tag to get your feet wet!

It's JUST A PIECE OF PAPER!!!!!!

Linda

There were so many products used here, I decided to try a different layout of them. I've yet to work on setting up my inLinks, so click for Inspiration Emporium links below.

Still $5 shipping within the US!!

Products used:
Distress Markers Ranger- Barn Door, Dried Marigold, Pine Needles, Forest Moss and Weathered Wood
Distress Stains Ranger - Broken China and Chipped Sapphire
Distress Re-Inkers Ranger - Fired Brick, Dusty Concord, Peeled Paint
Perfect Pearls Powder Ranger - Sunflower Sparkle
Snow Cap Paint Dabber Ranger
Wood Buttons Prima - Natures Garden
Balzer Designs Stencils/The Crafter's Workshop - Punchinella
Jet Black Archival Ink Ranger
White Gelly Roll Pen - Sakura
Balck Glaze Pen - Sakura
Tim Holtz Stamps Stamper Anonymous - Mixed Media, Little Labels, and Papillon
Whimsical Melange Stamp Artistic Outpost
Mini Mister - Ranger
Manila Tag #8 - Ranger
Chipboard Bird Collections

And lastly, here is where my Vagabond is located. Right where I need it!