Quilts and Cards: Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 2

Yes, I signed up to Tim Holtz' Creative Chemistry 101 on-line classes and they started this week. So excited!

Day 1 was all about the inks - learning about the different types of inks used in making ink pads and how they act and react with each other. Really good information and so helpful.

Blended Distress/Spritz and flick technique

Day 2 was so distressing - using distress inks in different ways.

My first tags show the blended distress technique and spritz and flick. Fun to do. Love both colour combinations I used here.

Brushless Water Colour

This sample is just so cute - used a Gina K stamp with different distress inks.

I also used water colour paper to stamp this on and it comes out so well - just looks like a water colour picture!

Wrinkle free distressing is something I have never been particularly happy with, but I know that once you layer up the tag with stamps and embellishments, it becomes a background.

I liked the effect that I got with the seasonal distress inks I used for the middle tag and the effects on the RH tag are good too.

Enjoyed doing the homework for day 2 - now off to do the homework for day 3!

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.