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October 2011
10/29/2011
10/25/2011
New Class Sneak Peek: Welcome Home Frame featuring Pink Paislee Mistables
I took a little break from the routine this week and stayed out of the studio on Sunday and then today spent the day doing some research for a new project I have coming up. Since the blog needed some pretty new pictures, I decided to share images of a project I have not shared before.
This frame was supposed to be a class I was going to offer in stores this fall, but then because I got sick and had to change up my fall schedule, I never ended up sharing it. I will be working on photographing and writing it up next week as a new downloadable class. It has been a bit since I added a new class to my online classroom and think this one will be a fun online project. Until then, here are a few peeks!
The class will include some inking and misting techniques and also include several mistable products with different types of surfaces. This project is really a quick one and would make a great holiday gift. I am crossing my fingers and shooting for a target date of November 4th to have the class ready for download.
10/18/2011
Tuesday Tutorial: Cloud Punch Posies
This tutorial is now located on my new website. You can find it here: http://tammytutterow.com/2011/10/tuesday-tutorial-cloud-punch-posies/.
Thanks!
Tammy
10/16/2011
Sunday Stamping: Opportunity to Shine
This post is now located on my new website: http://tammytutterow.com/2011/10/sunday-stamping-opportunity-to-shine/.
Thanks!
Tammy
10/11/2011
Tuesday Tutorial: Idea-ology Adornments + Copics
Happy Tuesday! This week I am sharing a simple technique for adding color to metal charms.
I love using Tim Holtz's metal Adormentts charms on projects and while I love them as they are right out of the package, I really love them with color applied to them. You can add color to them with several different mediums like paint, pigment inks, alcohol inks, and embossing powders. One of the quickes is with alcohol ink based markers like Copics and Letraset Promarkers. (I have used both for this technique and received the same results. I am demonstraiting the technique with Copics today because that was the brand I had with the colors I wanted to use.)
If I intend to add multiple colors, I like to start with the lightest color, in this case a super light blue (B34 Manganese Blue).
After the first color is dry (less than a minute) I apply the darker accent color in the areas I want it.
When you color over an area, it really removes the color rather than layering over it. Because of that, you can go back and add lighter accent colors as well, like I did here on the chest and beak. The reason I like to go light to dark is because I don't want to junk up my pen nibs too much with the color that is picked up. If you do pick up color, you can simply scribble it off on scrap paper.
If you end up not liking what you have applied, a few swipes of a new color over the old or with a blending pen will remove the unwanted color.
To seal the color onto the charm, I use clear embossing powder. You could heat the charm and apply the powder to the hot metal, but I prefer to use embossing ink. After the marker ink is dry, place the charm on a craft sheet and tap over it with clear embossing ink.
Cover the surface of the charm with clear embossing powder.
Use a heat tool to melt the powder. I like to hold the charm with long handled tweezers while I melt the powder. I feel like it melts faster if I have the charm up and off of my craft sheet. Remember, the charm is metal and gets really hot when heated. Be sure to allow it and the melted embossing powder time to cool before handling it.
To use the charm with a jump ring, you will need to punch a hole in it. For the Idea-ology Adornment charms I can not reccomend enough the Tim Holtz Drill Punch. It makes easy work of punching the metal. I have tried to use the Crop-a-dile and a metal hole punch and neither would work on the hard metal.
One word of caution about your hole placement. . . be sure to place it in an area where you will have plenty of metal left around the hole. If you get it too close to an edge your hole will not be strong and may break through the edge. Obviously, once you cut the hole it is there and can't be re-done so double check your placement before cutting it.
The final step is to add a jump ring to the punched hole to use the piece as a charm. Pieces without a hole can be used as a flat embellishment on a number of different projects.
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Skipping Stones Designs: Christmas Song Blog Hop
Today I am excited to be taking part in a blog hop with the team from Skipping Stones Designs as a guest designer. They are celebrating the release of the new Christmas Song stamp set. If you are following the hop, you should have come from Kandi Phillips's blog. Next you will head to Karen Baker's blog. For your hopping convenience, I will also include the list of all the hop participants at the end of the post (before the supplies).
If you are stopping by today for today's Tuesday Tutorial, I will be back a little later today with it so please check back in a bit.
For the hop, the team at Skipping Stones Designs is working with the new Christmas Song and their Sketch 97. I will be the first to tell you, I am card challenged. I am not sure why, I just struggle with making them. Maybe it is because I am not a card giver, I don't know. I made several cards for the challenge, attempting to stamp the entire face of the card. I hated every one. I took a break and started playing with ATCs instead, and ended up creating one with the featured stamp set that I really liked. That is when it kind of hit me, that a card really didn't need to be an elaborate production at all, that it could be as simple as an ATC on a card front. And like that, the card I battled with for hours was done.
To create the ATC, I started with a manila ATC blank. I stamped the phrase I wanted to use in Black Soot Distress Ink and added clear embossing powder.
After heating the embossing powder, I stamped the tree on the card with Pine Needles Distress Ink. I added clear embossing powder to the wet ink. Where the tree overlapped onto the already embossed words, I used a dry paint brush to brush it away and then heat set the powder. Next I used an ink blending tool to lightly apply Pine Needles to the inside of the tree. I love how the embossed outline, while stamped in the same ink, looks like a different shade of the same green. I used an ink blending tool next to apply Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to the edges of the card.
After heating the card to dry the Distress Ink, I misted the entire surface with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist to add sparkle and create some movement in the ink. I blotted the card with a dry cloth and then heated it to dry.
To create a banner, I stamped a sentiment on a scrap of manila cardstock using Black Soot Distress Ink. I added clear embossing powder to the text and heat set it. I trimmed the strip to fit my card. I liked that by stamping it first and then cutting it out, that I ended up with a straight sentiment, which always seems to be a challenge for me! Next, I inked the strip with Fired Brick Distress Ink and an ink blending tool. I misted the surface with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist. After blotting and drying the mist, I stapled it to my ATC with the Tiny Attacher.
To use the ATC on a card, I simply created a plain card from cardstock (Tim Holtz's Distress Core'dinations Cardstock). I chose a green that looked like it was a shade darker so that my card wouldn't feel too matchy-matchy. Next, I cut a second strip of manila cardstock the the same width as the strip on my ATC. I inked and misted it as before. I adhered it to my card and added Tiny Attacher staples to the ends to complete the look.
Don't forget, if you are following the Skipping Stones Designs blog hop, you will head to Karen's blog next!
Cristina Kowalczyk * Jingle * JoAnn Valderama * Kandi Phillips *Tammy Tutterow * Karen Baker * Katie Gehring * Shannon Teubner * Andrea Ewen * Stephanie Mino * Karen Christensen * Taylor Usry * Wendy Price *Wendy Jordan
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10/10/2011
Spooky Kooky and Fabulous Fall Goody Giveaway Winner!
Wow! How exciting was that give away? It was so fun reading all of your comments! Many, many thanks to each and every person who took the time to comment, and to those of you who added me on Twitter and Facebook. I have some more awesome give aways planned, so if you didn't snag this one, I hope you will stick around and watch for the next one.
To pick a winner, I turned to the trusty random number generator. . .
Lucky number 278 belonged to:
Huge congrats to Amy!
And again, thank you to everyone who took the time to leave a comment. I appreciate you all and wish I could send a little something to you all!
Sketch Support: Fabric Camera Applique
I have a Sketch Support project that I made that I totally forgot to blog and share once it went live on their site. You can find the original sketch on their site at http://www.sketchsupport.com/2011/09/add-on-week-part-2.html .
For this mini book, I used the add-on sketch as the design inspiration for this fabric applique that I adhered to the front of a handmade fabric mini book.
Each piece consists of white printed fabric that was colored with assorted colors of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. I really love that printed design works like a resist with the Glimmer Mist. The colorized fabric was then layered with batting before being sew to the layers below. (This Tuesday Tutorial will help you see how I do my fabric appliques.)
After adhering the applique to the book cover, I sprayed the applique and both covers with Super Seal to protect them. Glimmer Mist is not water proof on fabric, so the applique were to become wet, the colors would probably run. A spray sealer helps guard against that, but still, moisture avoidance is a good idea with this type of application. (I use Super Seal by Creative Imaginations, but I couldn't find it online to link to.)
After adhering the assembled applique to the book cover, I added chipboard letters below it to create a title. I used Helmar 450 QuickDry to adhere the letters. It is my favorite go-to clear liquid glue. It dries really fast and has a super strong bond.
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10/09/2011
Sunday Stamping: Giving ATCs a Try-
This year one of the things I vowed to do was to step out of my "stuff making" box a bit and challenge myself to try a few other crafty things. One challenge to myself was to become a better and more frequent stamper. Up until now I have mainly worked on my stamping by making tags. This week I embraced the ATC. I have resisted them for a while. I just wasn't sure what to do with them. As I have been making more and more tags, I think I finally found what I wanted to do with ATCs. They are perfect for stamping with smaller scale stamps that would otherwise get lost on a much larger tag. To give them a go, I made two ATCs and that is what I am sharing today.
On this ATC, I first stamped the bike image using Black Soot Distress Ink. Because Distress Ink stays wet for a bit, you can use it as an embossing ink, which I did. After embossing, I inked the rays stamp with several yellow and orange shades of Distress Inks and stamped it on the ATC overlapping the bike image.
While the ink was still wet, I added clear embossing powder to the outer part of the rays. I like the texture the embossing powder adds.
I used a Ranger Pen Nib to pick up a bit of ink color from a pad to dab in color in the open areas on the bike frame and tire.
To add a phrase, I stamped the large random words text block stamp from the Stuff to Say stamp set on scrap paper and then cut out the words I wanted to use.
I added brown Distress Ink (I just used the mix of browns already on my brown ink blending tool foam) to the edges of the words and edges of the card. Along the bottom edge I added a light edging of Shabby Shutters.
For the second ATC I used stamps from Skipping Stones Designs. I am guest designing for them this month and will be sharing several more creations with their clear stamps through the month.
I started this card by stamping the background with a background design from the Pumpkin Seed Sentiments set in Shabby Shutters Distress Ink. I then stamped greenery from the Dandelion Dreams set in Peeled Paint Distress Ink.
I stamped just the stem portion of the dandelion with Pine Needles Distress Ink. While the ink was still wet, I added clear embossing powder. After heating the embossing powder, I inked just the flower part of the stamp with Scattered Straw distress ink. I stamped the flower part again over the the first stamping with Mustard Seed Distress Ink. I then stamped the flower portion for a third time using Distress Embossing ink and clear powder. I love how layering the two colors created a really nice color variation in the image. I inked two small butterfly stamps with both Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge Distress Inks. I added a phrase with Black Soot Distress Ink that was also clear embossed. To finish off the card, I brushed over the surface and edges of the card with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.
I am thinking I just might be hooked on stamping on ATCs! I definitely think I will be making more of them when I want to get inky and stamp!
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10/05/2011
Spooky Kooky and Fabulous Fall Goody Giveaway!
I had one of those days yesterday where I got absolutely nothing accomplished. I had a busy, busy week last week working on somethings for project sheets for a national crafting store (more on that later) and by the time I finished them up, I was just out of gas. So yesterday I ended up not posting my usual Tuesday Tutorial. It will be back next week bright and early and back on track.
Today though, I have something really fun that I hope you will enjoy! My friends at Bazzill Basics Paper sent me their fun new Spooky & Kooky collection to play with along with tons of coordinating goodies. The best part is, that they also sent me tons of goodies to share so I have a MONSTER give away to tell you about at the end of this post. But first, let me share what I created with the collection...
First up, I created a frame. I used one of my clearance aisle rescue frames from my stash. I covered the frame with this fun Halloween text pattern. This pattern is printed with a diagonal design, so I turned it so that my text lines were straight. I used the new Limited Edition Gathered Twigs Distress Ink on the edges for shading and definition. If you missed out on getting the new fall distress inks and really wanted them, you are going to want to check out the give away below!
To embellish the frame I added a Perfectly Pleated border and layered on these fun pumpkin paper piecings and flowers. I matted a sticker from the collection on a piece of cardstock and added it to the cluster of embellishments with a Trinket Pin. I also made a couple of twisty vines using brown floral wire. I added a touch of Gathered Twigs to each piece to add tie in the brown on the frame with the elements.
I used Super Tape to adhere the Perfectly Pleated strip to hold it nice and tight on the frame. I used adhesive foam squares to bring the little pumpkin up off of the surface to give it a little added depth.
While I had everything out, I thought it would be fun to create a simple little decor piece with the same group of products. The base is a small wood plaque that I picked up quite a while back at Target in their Dollar Spot and covered with the polka dot print from the 8x8 paper pack. I again used Gathered Twigs on each item for a touch of distress. The plaques had monkeys printed on them with the sides and backs painted white. I knew I couldn't get a piece of painted craft wood for the same price so I bought a stack of these. They have been a great item to have in my stash. I added a Perfectly Pleated strip and two buttons to the front of the plaque.
After inking the paper leaves, I misted them with Biscotti Perfect Pearls mist. After drying the leaves I adhered them to a wire ring I made from floral wire. I stacked two adhesive foam squares together to create extra depth and used them to adhere the wreath to the plaque. I stamped a sentiment on a sticker label from the collection, added brads and adhered it with Super Tape.
Both pieces took less than an hour each. Super simple, super easy, and both fun touches for my fall decor.
I am so excited about this give away because it is seriously packed full of goodness! The folks at Bazzill sent all of these things for me to share with one of you! (I added in the pack of orange Flower Pots because I had a new one on hand and really love them so I added it in too.)
There are two paper collections (8x8 and 12x12), a Perfectly Pleated pack, 2 sticker sheets, buttons...
2 packs of flowers, and 4 of their really fun cardstock die cuts. Whew! It is a ton of stuff just perfect for your fall and Halloween paper projects!
But wait, there is more! I have been planning to give away a few of the new Fiskars limited edition fall punches for a couple of weeks now. I decided this would be a great time, so I am including with the awesome Bazzill goodies, 2 border punches, 2 squeeze punches, and 3 lever punches!
And hold on. . . that is not all! I scored an extra of the super limited edition Fall 2011 Seasonal Distress Inks and I am including them in this incredible fall give away package! I love the colors in this set and think they are a perfect compliment to the Spooky & Kooky collection. They are seriously a must have set of inks.
So what do you have to do? I like to keep it simple, so just leave a comment on this post. Your comment can say anything from "pick me" to anything else you would like to share! I normally don't do this, but since I think this give away is super cool and super huge, I am going to let you get multiple chances in. Again, I like it simple so you can leave an additional comment each if you follow me on Twitter and/or my page on Facebook. If you already do, that counts too, just let me know that you follow me and on which one. (I share lots of extra pictures and stuff on both so I think and hope you will enjoy following me there too.) All together, that is up to three separate comments/chances per person! I am leaving the comments open all weekend so you have until midnight Sunday October 9th to leave your comment(s). I will draw one random name from the comments as the winner and send them this awesome box of goodies! Good luck!
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