Monday 23 September 2013

Experiments in Miniature

Today is my recovery day from visiting Ally Pally at the weekend. I have to say, getting a ticket for two days was much more relaxing, more time to watch the demos and to remember what I saw. I am exhausted, I blame the hike up that hill from the carpark but its a good excuse to do nothing today other than play in my craft room.

I revisited brayered backgrounds this afternoon, its been some years since I used this technique. I have to say, its much easier when the end result is a 2 inch by 2 inch square.


Kaleidacolor dye inkpad : Caribbean Sea
Moon stamp : Stampscapes
Mushrooms : Lavinia Stamps
Make a Wish sentiment : Papermania

I will enter this one for the September Twinchies Challenge where the theme is "Anything Goes".

My second experiment was a technique I saw at the show yesterday using distress ink and water. I used Adirondack Woodlands dye ink for the background, I don't know why, I have plenty of distress ink but it is water based so the technique works.
Spritz the rubber stamp with water and stamp it on the background then dry it with a heat gun. The result looks like this:


The water removes the ink and leaves a fuzzy impression, a bit messy at this stage but the next bit is really good. I overstamped it with Adirondack dye based ink in Red Pepper and this is the finished leaf. I like this. Credit to the demonstrator on the Stamps Away stand for this technique which I will try out again on something bigger.


The September theme at the Show us Your Twinchies blog is "Autumn and Autumn Colours" so this fits the theme for that challenge.

I hope you enjoyed my experiments and hopefully I will not leave it so long before posting again. September has been a busy month!




10 comments:

  1. oh I love your twinchies - thank you for sharing

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  2. Lovely results Julia ! It's nice to work small (hence the small hexagons) must be why I enjoy inchies & twinchies & moos - nice to see you are still in there with the twinchies too.

    Sally

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  3. Fabulous technique used on the leaf twinchie, both Twinchies are fabulous. Thank youfor joining us for the Show Us Your Twinchies Challenge.

    Sylv xx
    Show Us Your Twinchies DT

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  4. Beautiful twinchies! Love the colours on the first inchie particularly.

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  5. Great technique on the second inchie, love the effect. Love the colours on the first one.

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  6. Fab Twinchies, thank you for entering the Challenge and good luck, hugs xxx

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  7. Love your twinchies, the brayered one is stunning.

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  8. So glad you had fun at Ally Pally last week. I was so sad not to get there this time - I will make it one day! Love the brayered twinchie - those tiny mushrooms are beyond adorable, and the double leaf stamping is really effective - look forward to seeing more!
    Alison xx

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