Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you are all relaxed and ready for the weekend, what are you all up to this weekend? 

Today is going to be a good day as I get to see some lovely friends,  for a good catch up and maybe a little crafting.  Such a perfect start to the weekend.

Tissue Technique Background 

Some off you commented on the Tissue paper background I did the other day so I thought I'd show you the process using different colour mediums so that you can all have a go with what you have.  

The start process is always the same regardless of what medium you use....

Take a piece of card and cover with any dries clear glue.

Make sure you spread it over the whole piece of card, right up to the edges.

Take a piece of tissue paper and scrunch it up so that it fits the size of your card 

Push tissue paper right into the glue, making sure its all touching the glue, you can now trim the edges carefully. 

For this type of tissue Technique the method is the same up to this point, the only difference from now on is the colour medium you choose.

Adding Colour 

This first one I used Pixie Powders,  I picked blues & greens, sprinkled the powders all over the background and then spritzed with water. Have a piece of card ready to 'Smoosh' the water and powders together...

Lay the piece of card over your background and smoosh it right into the powders abd water, this mixes everything together.

Peel that top piece of card away to reveal the magic! Now set this to one side to dry

Don't waste the overspill of powder give a couple of spritzes of water and then mop up that gorgeous colour combination with a piece of card

This is what you will get from the waste!!  Perfect for die cutting or using as a mat. 

Spray inks

Place your tissue covered card into a box to keep the mess to a minimum, then choose your colours

I used Tim Holtz Mica Sprays in green with a bit of blue. 

Once sprayed you do exactly the same as above, spritz your coloured piece with water and take a piece of card to smoosd the colour into the tissue, 

You always get a bonus piece of coloured background to use that way! 

This one was Tim Holtz sprays too, I repeated the same method as above.

These were my bonus mop up pieces! 

Distress Oxides

Now I know that some of you don't have sprays or Mica powders, so I thought I would try Distrss Oxide inks,  I smooshed a selection onto my glass mat and spritzed with lots of water,  I then took the tissue covered card and really smooshed it into all of those inks, I added more water at one point,  you have to move your card around to get good coverage but it definitely worked !!  If you want to add some sparkle,  you could add a pearl mica or pixie powder or add a few drops from a clear sparkle pen. 

This is the Distress Oxide results, it looks amazing!  

I cannot wait to see how these all looked when they dried. 

Acetate & Alcohol Inks 

Take a piece of Acetate (use heat resistant if you want to stamp on it).  Have your piece of tissue paper ready. Gather your Alcohol inks and tool.

Add your inks to your acetate and use the tool and felt to spread the around the acetate, I used a little blending solution to get the colours mixed in.

 

When the alcohol ink is dry I sprayed some adhesive over the acetate and stuck the tissue paper to that. (Because I didn't know how pva type glue would react with alcohol ink) 

This is the look at this point, I felt that the Tissue needed to be stuck down a bit more so ........

I took a piece of white card and added glue as I did for the stage above.  Stick the adhesive to the tissue on the acetate and press down firmly so that the glue gets pushed right into the tissue paper, this gives a much stronger piece to stamp onto. 

Doesn't it look amazing??? 

The Results

Pixie powder results. It was impossible to capture the sparkle. 

Mica Spray, you can just see the sparkle on the top photo. 

Second Mica spray, the colour is lovely on this one, you can just see glints of Mica 

Distress Oxide background, colours a more muted but still looks lovely. 

Alcohol ink and Acetate results, this would make lovely die cut leaves. 

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Such a fun technique with great results,  some will make lovely backgrounds,  others will make beautiful flowers or butterflies.  I cannot wait to create with them all. 

I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial,  if you have any questions please ask. 

Have a lovely weekend,  fingers crossed for some sunshine. 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxxx

Not my usual post...

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

Today's post isn't my usual Craft related post, mostly because I didn't get to make a card yesterday,  Sophie took me into Witney to collect a large parcel from Next containing a selection of dresses for my sisters wedding,  the beauty of Next is the have so many different companies,  including Phase Eight that have a lovely selection of dresses,  I can now try them all on in the comfort of home.  While we were in Witney we did a bit of shopping and Soph treated me to lunch out, which was lovely.

We got back home and it was soon time to start getting ready for our Night out Celebrating Adam & Becca's Engagement,  Becca's boss invited our whole family to dinner at the Wild Table at Bull Burford, which is the main hotel that Becca manages and Adam is Executive Chef at.   We had a truly lovely evening, its a very different dining experience,  we were outside in a marquee kind of structure,  the food is cooked in front of you over a Wood burner, the table seats up to 10, there were 8 of us altogether,  the two waitresses were Becca's friends which was like having extra friends dining with us too, we had such a laugh.

This is the setting, you all sit around the fire/

Grill where the food is cooked on front of you.

We finished our meal with Smores that we could make ourselves, which everyone loved.

We had a lovely evening celebrating Adam & Becca's Engagement, we also got a guided tour of the hotel and got to meet all of the lovely people that they work with. 

I hope that you all have a great day,

Love & Hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxxx

A simple Alcohol Ink background

Good Thursday Morning Ladies, 

How are you all?  How is your week going?  I can hardly believe its Friday tomorrow,  we didn't do much yesterday (Lucy & I), Paul was at work, we had to pop to Co-Op in Bourton to get some chocolate as we were making a Creme Egg Cheesecake,  she insisted that I take my new walking aid, it's a 4 wheel walking aid, with a seat, it's a bit embarrassing if I'm honest however it is 100 times more comfortable to use than my crutches for short trips!  It worked fine plus I had somewhere to put my shopping and my purse! 🤣😂

Brenda I have sent you a text message, as my Messenger messages aren't getting to you, I think it may be something to do with the fact that in my Messenger your name is 'fridges at Brenda " I think it got changed a few weeks ago when you were looking for a new fridge.  🤣😂  its only to let you know that we are planning a Watford meet up, I think the journey may be too exhausting for you though, I wish we could come closer to you my lovely XXX 

Janet did you get to Knit & Natter this week, I hope that you are managing to get out my lovely XXX 

Now onto todays card,  this was a super quick make yesterday afternoon,  I was feeling mentally drained after looking at dresses since 10am, I have ordered a load to have a try on at home, fingers crossed that one will work. 

I took a piece of heat resistant acetate and added some yellow, orange and pink alcohol inks and smooshee them together with a blending tool. Once they were dried I took a piece of scrunched up tissue paper that was slightly larger than my piece of acetate, I sprayed some adhesive onto tje back of my inked piece and smooshed it onto the tissue paper, I then decided to add some glue over the tissue and popped it onto a piece of white card. I cut a piece down to 2 1/2 by 3 inches.  I then chose a simple stamp to add to the front, (a flower stem from Tasteful Textures)  I dusted my piece of acetate with anti static bag and them stamped the flower stem,  I added gold embossing powder land heat set, annoyingly the acetate still warped a bit.  I placed the acetate piece it onto my card base (don't stick yet). I popped the whole lot into my stamp platform and decided where the focal piece was going to go and while it was in place I lined my sentiment up beneath the acetate.  I used a Julie Hickey sentiment,  I absolutely LOVE these sentiments as they look hand written.  I stamped in Versamark and added gold embossing powder, which I then heat set.  I placed large fo pads onto thr back of the acetate piece (to try and get it to lay flat), sadly it didn't lay completely flat.  I lined the acetate piece up above the sentiment,  added glue to foam pads and adhered it to my card.  Despite the buckled acetate I think it looks okay.  Trying to photograph it was a nightmare,  I have sent you a selection of photos taken at different spots around the house, hopefully they give you a good idea of how it looks.

I get to spend the day with Sophie today, I hope that you have a lovely Thursday, 

Love & Hugs 

Sandra  xxx