ASIAN CARD CLASS

I taught an Asian card class at My Craft Room over the weekend - the cards featured strips of origami paper, a heart mask, Chinese book paper and Asian stamps.  Distress Ink was used with a make-up sponge for the masked heart and Stayz-On Ink was used for the stamped images.  Here are my samples:

Heart Mask w/Distress Ink

Torn Paper Heart w/Stamping

Mask and Torn Heart Collage w/Stamping

DYAN REAVELEY TAGS OF IMAGERY CLASS

And one more using a black jumbo tag:

It made her smile.....

See below for technique and my first attempts:

I took advantage of an opportunity to take part in Dyan's Tags of Imagery class this past weekend - way too fun (but I knew it would be)!  We used #12 tags which are quite LARGE and first added the background layers using Dyan's Dylusions Inks - she separates her colors into warm colors and cool colors - we were given baskets with one set of the colors to grab three quickly and spritz them onto our tags which we first misted with water - three colors of warm went on into six segments of the tags - two sprays with each color - that were then misted with water again.  Next step was to take the soaking wet colored tag and flip it over onto an uncolored tag, getting two tags out of the process.  We rolled over our colored tags with paper towel rolls and then went on to switch baskets and do the same with the basket of cool colors.  (If you mix the warm colors with the cool colors, you will get a muddy brown which was not the effect Dyan was teaching.)  We were to work quickly without thinking - she is a tough taskmaster.  We then all ended up with four tags, two of each color palette.  The four tags took about a total of 5 minutes from start to finish (I usually stress over my backgrounds for some time - NO MORE.)

Cool Colors - Second Print

We then each picked two of Dyan's stencils, laid out one set of colored tags, placed the stencil on the first one and sprayed water over the stencil, quickly then flipping the wet stencil onto the second tag - quick roll with the paper towel roll over both tags and, voila, your backgrounds are finished.  Same procedure for the second set of tags.  Four tags colored and stenciled in about 6 minutes total.  In this class, we were to "do" not "think".  Next we were given five minutes to search through magazines, rip out pages, and cut out images to place on our tags (we did this twice).  Second round, Dyan really socked it to us and made us pass our cut-out image to the person on the right, pass them again to the right, and once again to the right.  More stress on some participants this time around - again no "thinking", just "doing."  Very similar to Yoda's "There is no try, only do or do not."  Anyway, here's my results from the two tags we had time to work on in class plus my finished versions.

Finished Cool Colors Tag

Cool Colors - Master Tag

Finished Warm Colors Tag

Warm Colors - Master Tag

Warm Colors - Second Print

SPRING PANTONE COLOR ATC

The challenge was to create an ATC using three colors from the spring Pantone palette - I created mine using three colors of Distress Inks along with a fun stamp.  My ATC was featured in the Paper Traders Yahoo Group site in March - I'm so glad they liked it!

I kept it simple using the muted palette along with Tim Holtz's doily stencil.  I'm loving stencils right now - don't know what I'd do with them!