CALLING ALL DESIGNERS!

Happy September!

I hope that you have enjoyed your summer and are settling in for back-to-school, the new season of all things creative, holidays, etc.

It’s that time again, Tattered Angels is building a new design team for 2010!

We are looking for a variety of skills, so show us what you have.

Layouts

Cards

Canvas

Home Decor

Altered Art

The commitment is for one year to start November 1st.  Please make sure that you are able to commit for the entire year.  We know that you are b
As a Tattered Angels design team member you will receive:

*  Tattered Angels product supplied throughout the year including new products that are coming.
* Receive product periodically from our education partners and for blog hops, challenges, etc.
* Your name, bio and headshot will be featured on the Tattered Angels blog.
* Exposure on the Tattered Angels blog and other media.
* Possible teaching, publication and manufacturing opportunities
* Eligible to participate in creating projects for trade shows, such as CHA and other venues.

Because our team is predominately education based, we will need team members with good photography skills and the ability to create tutorials with instructions.  You will also have your own day scheduled to post to our blog.

This call is open to International and domestic applicants.

Please send:

5 projects total.

80% of each project must contain Tattered Angels product.

Each project should be a previously unseen project (each picture max. file size 500k). No work previously published online or in print will be accepted. Use this opportunity to showcase your personal style, talent and misting abilities.

Please send your application to:

rachel@mytatteredangels.com

The deadline to submit is September 30, 2010.

Good luck and happy misting.

Creative cheers,

Rachel Carlson

Hello everyone!!! Time sure flies and it’s the end of August already! I hope August has been a super month for you.  Here in Singapore, it’s been a really busy month with the celebration of our National Day earlier this month as well as hosting the first Youth Olympics Games over the past weeks.

For this month, I created a mini project using Tattered Angel’s Chip Tile.

This product is sooo versatile you can use it in sooo many ways!  Mini album covers, part of your scrapbook pages, hanging mobiles for home decor, as a base for one off projects.. and the list goes on.

I will show you a simple way to resist the embossed portions of the Chip Tile and that is by using WAX.  Or.. you can use a white crayon (also wax based).  I used a candle for this project and it works fine!

To start off, you will need a Chip Tile and a candle.

Rub the candle onto the Chip Tile gently in circular motions.  GENTLY is key here as the embossed portions are not very deep so if you rub too hard, you will get wax on the other parts of the Chip Tile too.

Once complete, I used a Tattered Angels GLIMMER GLAZE to go over the sides of the Chip Tile and a little in the center.  (Paradise Pink)

Once the GLIMMER GLAZE has dried, it will add as a resist as well.  Notice how the WAXED embossed portions are also resisting the GLIMMER GLAZE?

I added on STARFISH Glimmer Mist, a little SUGAR MAPLE Glimmer Mist to the sides and some BE POSITIVE Glimmer Glam as well to complete the Chip Tile.

Easy ain’t it?

Once the Chip Tile is dry, you can begin embellishing the Chip Tile to your liking… here is the completed Chip Tile again:

I cut a heart out from the Tattered Angels Bingo Board and added more Glimmer Mist and Glam.  The butterflies were punched out from the remaining  portions of the Bingo Board and i used a little CHANDELIER Glimmer Glam over it.. really amps up the look of the Butterflies!

I made some other Chip Tiles with the same resist technique here..

Do try out this fun resist technique on your Chip Tiles ya?  You can also use this same technique on any embossed material.  EG:  Embossing with your favourite die-cutting machine, embossed cardstock etc.

Lotsa love…..

Jasmine

Hi everyone, it’s Erin here today to share with you how I made this 6 inch long irresistible tag out of real wood veneer paper.

–First I used my Cricut to cut out the tag.  I used the “GiftBag1″ tag from the ” Once Upon a Princess” cartridge and I punched a hole in one end for my ribbon.
–Next I painted a couple of coats of “Hay Ride” Glimmer Glam over the entire wood tag and allowed it to dry.  (The more coats you put on the better it will resist the Glimmer Mist  when it’s sprayed on it.)
–Then I placed a screen over the tag and painted Gesso on top of it.  I removed the screen and let it dry.
–Next I covered the entire wood tag with dry wall tape (it’s sticky on one side and has holes all over it so it’s great to use as a mask!) and then I sprayed “Pomegranate” Glimmer mist over all of it and blot it dry.  I peeled off all of the dry wall tape and blot it again.
–For the flowers I took some of the Prima white paper flowers and used a fan brush to paint them sparingly with “Chandelier” Glimmer Glam.  The larger flower I sprayed with “Pomegranate” and “Tattered Rose” Glimmer Mist and the smaller flower just got sprayed with “Tattered Rose”.   Once they were dry I painted a coat of “Chandelier” Glimmer Glam on them for extra glimmer.   I then stapled my flowers right onto the tag.
–For the Irresistible Chips bird I sprayed her with “Dragonfly” Glimmer Mist and blotted her dry.  I then used a paintbrush to paint on “Blue Suede Shoes” Glimmer Glaze to add a bit of shadowing to her.  After she was dry I peeled off the backing and adhered her on top of the flowers.
–I added a crystal for the bird’s eye and a few more sprayed of crystals coming out of the flowers and then tied on a ribbon.
So there you go!  Just tie it onto a gift basket or a jar or bottle and you have a great gift for someone special.

I took the summer off from teaching classes, but I’m working on my upcoming ones so stay tuned to my own blog and the Tattered Angles Educator’s blog for more details!

Leica here to share with you a fun layout. I Love using glimmer mist to create a layout in the tones and colours i want. For this layout I changed the colour of everything with different colours of glimmer mist. (background, flowers, chipboard letters, tag) sometimes I love the ability to be so matchy matchy, other times I get a little wild.

Thanks for checking it out!

I took the summer off to totally hang with my kids, so my personal blog took a little hiatus. but come Sept. I will be back, hope to see you drop by!

Have a fabulous day!

Leica

 Hey everyone! Vicki Chrisman here. I have been having so much fun playing with Glam and Glaze on Chip Tiles, I wanted to share with you. I think every time I get these out I find something new and different that can be done with them. I truly believe you learn so much about what can be done with them , just by playing! The best thing is , if you try something and you aren’t pleased with the result.. you can , wipe, sand , or add more of something, until you like the look. Sometimes the thing you think is a mistake, just ends up leading you to a brand new technique you love. Which is exactly what happened to me when I was working on these tiles. I wasn’t getting the look I desired, so I ended up just brushing Glam all across the entire tile I was working on.  After it was completely dry, I took my emery board and lightly sanded over the raised designs on the tile, exposing the raw tile color again.  

Once that was done, I chose the color or colors of Glimmer Mist I wanted ( in this case Oriental Poppy) and sprayed over the entire tile .

I then wiped away the excess. You can see on the tile below, this really makes the embossed design on the tile  stand out.

Here is a close up look at another tile I did, using this same technique.

Which is the tile I used to create this piece.

 Used: Glimmer Glaze (Cowboy, and Sunflower), Glimmer Mist (Sugar Maple , Apple, and Suede), Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess), Images from Crafty Secrets

 Remember .. .Playing leads to learning… so get out your Tattered Angels goodness, and play til your hearts content!

** If you are interested in seeing the other Altered tiles I made using these techniques ( but very different colors) , you can see them on the Tattered Angels Design Team Blog today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicki

 My blog: http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/

When I heard our theme is going to be Resist Tchniques this month on the Educator blog I put my thinking cap on and one morning I woke up with an idea and it worked great Here is the out come and the tutorial on how to do it

You simply sew around the canvas fabric, then add it to your cardstock, layer the Framed Font Compact and Frame and add journaling – and there you go – a fun – textured – wallpaper like looking – Card or background.

If you want to learn more fun techniques using Tattered Angels come and visit my upcoming Tattered Angels workshops or book them for your store. Here is a place where I teach some of those and other fun Tattered Angels techniques right now:

Online Workshop “Layered Backgrounds” for CraftEdu

Nat Kalbach

www.scrapbook-trends.com

One of the absolute best things about Tattered Angels products is when i’m working on a project i don’t necessarily have to have items that coordinate.

I’ve been working on this cute little album and it was all coming together beautifully until BAM! an embellishment that i HAD to have for the album was the wrong color.

I’ve been on this mission to use what i have so i rummaged through my big delicious box of Glimmer Glam and Glimmer Glaze, I found the absolute perfect color for what i wanted to do.  So i got out my handy dandy paintbrush, my lipstick pink glimmer glam, misting mat and my sparkley photo corner.

I used a nice round brush to dip into the bottle and change the color to pink.  I chose glam because it had the extra dose of multi faceted glitter for that extra sparkle that my album needed. I painted it directly onto the photo corner.

I gave it a few minutes to dry and the sparkle really started to shine through. The drier it became the shinier it was! You know how a girl loves her sparkle!!

I painted several of these because i was having so much fun.

So rest assured….with Tattered Angels in your stash you can create just about anything to your liking!!

Peace out…enjoy the weekend

Stayce

www.staycedewid.com

Hi all, Cheryl here with some fun resist techniques using Glimmer Glam and Glaze.  I cannot tell you how much happiness these two new mediums bring me.  There are so many ways to use them, they really add a whole new level to your paper crafting.  Today I’m going to show you a couple of ways you can use them to resist glimmer mist(I know, glimmer mist is irresistable, but I think you’ll enjoy this). 

You will need to grab the following supplies:  12×12 white cardstock, two manila tags, paint brush, Coastal Breeze screen print stamps, Beach Comber Glimmer Chips, Postage Stamp Framed Fonts, Seaside Glimmer Glass, Glimmer Glam in Chandelier and Paprika, Glimmer Glaze in Champagne, Glimmer Mist in Lime Twist, Riptide, Autumn Nights, and Sand.

First we will create our background page:

Take your paint brush and paint Chandelier Glimmer Glam along the edges, and in a cross hatch pattern in center of page.  You don’t need to put it on too heavy, you want some areas to be left un-glammed so when you spray over it, it looks distressed.  After the glam is dry, spray over entire page with sand Glimmer Mist.  Wipe off page with a paper towel to reveal the resist areas.

Next you will create your tags.  Brush a small amount of Glimmer Glam in Paprika onto your craft mat.  Stamp into glam using your screen print stamp and then stamp onto tag. 

After the image has dried, spray lime twist and riptide Glimmer Mist onto your craft mat and rub the side of your tag with the image into the glimmer mist(rubbing tags into glimmer mist on your mat gives you a more blended color) blot over the tag with a paper towel then add a spritz or two of autumn nights Glimmer Mist and again blot with paper towel.

Next you will take the glimmer chip shells and crab and paint with Glimmer Glaze in Champagne and let dry.

Again you will paint Paprika Glimmer Glam onto your craft mat ( I used a very thin coat) and rub your glimmer chip into the glam.  This will enhance all of the raised areas of your embossed glimmer chip and add some glitter.

I sprayed the glimmer chip letters with lime twist, riptide, and autumn nights.  I left the postage stamp frames natural to pick up the white from the resist.  I also stamped a couple of palm trees on the background page, painted the seashells on the calling card with champagne glaze, and lightly sprayed the edge of the calling card.  I used a glimmer glass piece under the main photo and I put a picture under it for a little background color.  Another wonderful feature of the glam and glaze is that you can use it as an adhesive as well.  I just brushed some chandelier glam on the underside of my glimmer glass piece and adhered it to my photo.  This is really great when you don’t want adhesive showing through under clear acrylic pieces.  To finish it off, I inked the edges of the layout with walnut ink, and your done!  It sounds like it took a long time, but really only about an hour once I gathered all of my materials.  Here are a few close ups:

Happy Glimmering!

Whew!  Try saying that three times fast!  While I love every color of Glimmer Glam, Golden Goddess is quickly becoming a favorite!  I find myself reaching for it again and again to add bits of gold to all sorts of projects.

For this project, I began with a Chip Tile that I had colored with a base coat of Banana Pudding Chalkboard Mist and then topped it with a coat of Meadow Green.  After the mists were dry, I sanded the raised surfaces for a distressed effect.  I stamped the wonderful key stamp from the Timeless Romance stamp set in Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink.  I embossed the design with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powders in Vintage Photo.

To give the key a touch of color, I used a paint brush to brush on Glimmer Glam Golden Goddess over the embossed design.

The two blended perfectly to create a very aged looking gold key.

After embossing and painting the key design, I decided I wanted a bit more intensity in the green background.  I didn’t want to spray over my work and change it so I created a mask for the stamped design.  I stamped the image onto a piece of Masking Magic and cut it out.

I stuck the mask in place (it has a sticky back) and then added another layer of color (English Ivy).

I found glitter stickers in my stash that were the perfect size and texture for my project.  Unfortunately, they were silver.  Not a problem, I brushed on Golden Goddess Glimmer Glam and ended up with letter stickers that were a perfect match to my stamped image!

I rounded out the Glimmer Glam touches by painting a pearl stick pin and Tim Holtz Idea-ology Token to match.  Glimmer Glam adheres nicely to the metal and stays very sheer so that variations in the metal color and texture still show through.  I finished out the piece with Distress ink around the edges as well as a bit of ribbon scrap that was “aged” with a few quick mists of Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mists.

The combination of Glimmer Mists, Glimmer Glam, and Distress products come together for a delightful vintage result.

Hello everyone!  CHA Summer is here!!!!  For those of you at the show, do remember to drop by Tattered Angels booth to view all their latest offerings!  Oh how I wish I was at the show now but if you’re not there, like me, remember to check the Tattered Angels blogs and facebook for updates ya?

This month I got to play with the new FALL collection of Glimmer Mist colors.  Really love the richness of the colors and how versatile they are.  I made a fun resist background for my layout and really had a great time transforming a white cardstock into a warm fall color layout.  It’s really simple and I will show you how!   This is how the final layout turned out…

Here are the Glimmer Mist and Chalkboard Mist colors you will need for this layout.  :

- Banana Pudding Chalkboard Mist
- Hot Chocolate Chalkboard Mist
- Apple Glimmer Mist
- Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist
- Dragonfly Glimmer Mist
- Pomegranate Glimmer Mist
- A piece of white cardstock
- Claudine Hellmuth’s Multi Medium (i used Matte)
- Tattered Angels Tailored Tags
- Paper Towels to make flower (I used a printed Paper Napkin that I found at IKEA!)

Alright here we go….!

First, use a wide bristle brush and coat the paper with Claudine Hellmuth’s Multi Medium.  I used the MATTE version but I’m sure Glossy would work as well.  You have to let the medium DRY completely before continuing.  You need a bristle brush to create the streaky effect.  You can use brushes that you buy at a paint store for painting your wall..

Once the matte medium has dried, spray with APPLE, SUGAR MAPLE and some DRAGONFLY.  Use a paper towel to wipe off the parts with the matte medium.  The medium will resist the glimmer mist.  The effect is pretty similar with Gesso resist since I am using a white cardstock and the matte medium dries clear but if you use a patterned paper or a colored cardstock, you should get a translucent resist.

I also wanted to make the layout a warmer colored one, so I misted the edges with SUGAR MAPLE Glimmer Mist and HOT CHOCOLATE Chalkboard Mist.  Really happy how this turned out from a plain white cardstock!

Alright, once the background was done, I went on to mist one of Tattered Angels’ Tailored Tags.  For this tag, I coated the tag with HOT CHOCOLATE Chalkboard Mist first.  This gives a nice chalk / semi opaque finish to the tag.  Then I misted over with SUGAR MAPLE, APPLE and DRAGONFLY Glimmer Mist.

I also wanted to add a nice paper towel to the layout so I took out some Paper Napkins that I bought from IKEA.  Love the polka dots on them!  Of course, you can also use regular paper towels for this.

I misted the paper towel strips with DRAGONFLY, APPLE and POMEGRANATE Glimmer Mist.  The POMEGRANATE colored strip was actually the back ‘ply’ of the paper napkin so there was no prints on it.

Liz Hicks has a very nice video on youtube that shows you how to make these flowers.   She used CREPE Ribbon but the paper towel construction is similar.  You can view it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQEOsAUQiE

This  is a close up of how my flower turned out!

Once the flower is done, assemble your layout with your photo, add on embellishments and title and voila!

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial this month… see you again in August!

Lotsa love,

Jasmine