Love is in the air……..

Love is in the Air……….. well almost! LOL! I will be leaving for CHA in a couple of hours but I thought I’ll sneak in a quick one here to show you a fast card I did with the yummy Valentine’s colors!

I used one of the add-on pages for the Fastenation Folder by Tattered Angels to create the card.  This amazing paper has a resist finish and as you can see…. the Glimmer Mist was resisted in those portions.

I sprayed a coat of Valentine Pink Glimmer Mist and then brushed on some Grandma’s House Glimmer Glam over the card.  Then I sprayed the card with Polka Dot Pink Chalkboard.  LOVE the colors!

For the tag on the side, I sprayed it with the new Cross My Heart Glimmer Mist.  I like how rich the color is.. its kind of a pinkish red color.

Then for the alphas, I used a light coat of Cupid Glimmer Mist.

Voila!!! Easy Peasy…

I will be back next month to show you some projects that I did for the CHA booth so until then……. Happy Valentine’s Day in advance and if you’re going to CHA… remember to drop by the Tattered Angels booth and say HI!

Love,
Jasmine.

 

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Pretty in Pink

I have been having too much fun making the world all shades of pink.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I began by coating the entire surface in Valentine Pink Glimmer Mist. When misting on a wood surface, use a heat tool to speed the drying process before applying the next color. Then I misted the layers of color horizontally, beginning with Be Mine, then Cross My Heart, followed by Cupid.

I dipped a flat paintbrush into the Cross My Heart Glimmer Mist and painted the inside and outer edges of the frame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I misted Valentine Pink on white cardstock. I dried the cardstock with a heat tool. Then I misted Cupid over the crown Glimmer Screen. I fussy cut the crown, added black adhesive rhinestones and trimmed the edges with a black marker.

I misted the two balsa wood hearts in Valentine Pink then used different sections of a heart Glimmer Screen to create the pattern. I misted the one on the left in Valentine Pink and Cupid, the other with Cross My Heart and Cupid. You can see the difference in the crispness of the image. The one on the left was completely dry before I applied the next color, the one on the right was still damp and created a fuzzier pattern.

Tip! Tip! Tip! When working with wood, your surface MUST be dry before you attempt to adhere anything to the surface. This applies to trimming the edge in marker as well. If you want to gunk up a marker and throw it away, try coloring on a wet surface. Allow the surface to dry and you will be able to create nice crisp lines with your marker. Just a tip!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I adhered the elements with varying levels of foam tape. And last but not least, I added the “Princess” title and Prima Say It in Crystals black swirl.

Enjoy your Glimmer Mists!

Genevieve

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My winter kitty

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This page once started out pure white. I painted the entire thing with Glimmer Glam To make it heavily covered in a sparkle. then I put down a template I had kickin around and sprayed it with Snow Angel, and Pink Bubblegum. Just a few tone on tone pale pinks. I traced the template again with a black marker to “pop” the shape out. Sprayed a few different glimmer mists all over the Prima flowers. That is my favourite thing to do. Turn white flowers into little custom flowers that match anything!

For the above flowers, you will see I used  Pommegranate, Turquoise, and a few I pre-mixed a long time ago.

Here’s a few closeups.
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The little snowflakes were dollar store items that were kinda of plain. So I painted them with some glaze, added a little glam and voila, they are re-purposed to match my layout, still giving a winter feel.

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Thanks for joining me.

Leica Forrest

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Window Box Frame

CHA Winter 2012 is coming up soon and I am so excited about this year.  It’s a new year for me and I’m looking forward to a fabulous 2012.  I am rather nervous too, because I am participating in this years Designer Showcase at CHA.   This will be my first time exhibiting and I wanted to create something for my table that would represent me without a big sign.   The Pink Paislee Mistables Wood Shadowbox was the perfect thing for this.

I started by using Pewter Glimmer Glam and a script stamp to lightly stamp on the frame front before misting with any color.   I wanted this to be a real subtle effect, so you can barely see the scrip peaking out of the mist on the frame front there.  In one spot, it may not look like much, but it gave a great overall depth to the entire piece.

I’m learning that color is all about layers to create depth, so I started by misting the whole box with a light coat of Route 66 Glimmer Mist.  I then randomly misted by pooling the color on the box with Wheat Beer, Valentine Pink, and a little Mallard.  The wood accepted the color so nice and evenly.   I brushed the flourished frame part of the box and its edges with some Chandelier Glimmer Glam on front and back for a bit more glimmer!

I misted a piece of Pink Paislee Mistables paper with Mallard for the background and wiped off the resist, cut it down to size, and glued it in with Helmar Acid Free Glue.   The canvas mat is from Canvas Corp and was misted with Wheat Beer.  I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to  adhere the picture and lace trim to the canvas and to adhere the canvas to the background paper.   Pink Paislee foam alphabet letters were used for my name.

Pink Paislee Mistables Fabric Pleat Strip was misted with the Valentine Pink Glimmer Mist and glued to the top of the box with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive followed by a small strip of grey lace trim and a Prima flower.

Pink Paislee Mistable Chipboard Alphabets were misted with more Mallard and this time glued on with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots.  The ScrapDots gave that extra dimension to allow the letters to pop off the frame.  If you look close, you can see it under the L there.

To finish the frame and bring it all together, I wove a Prima flower stem through the scroll part of the frame and fluffed it up.   Added a bit of Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive in obscure spots to make sure the flower stem stayed in place.

Hope you liked my project today and that it inspired you to create something.   These frames are great for so many things, and while you may not need a tabletop sign, maybe you’d like a sign for your studio or even your laundry room.   I can’t wait to make something else with one of these frames.

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Love u!

I hope the new year is bringing you good tiding and lots of LOVE!

It’s time to see the world with rose-colored glasses, Tattered Angels style! There are four Glimmer Mist colors that will pull at your Valentine’s heartstrings: Cross My Heart, Be Mine, Valentine Pink and Cupid!

I painted chipboard white and misted the entire surface in Valentine Pink Glimmer Mist. I misted Be Mine, Cupid, then Cross My Heart over Pink Paislee’s Mistables Misting Mask 0520 to create that cute pattern. I dabbed the scallped edges and “Love u” foam alphas with Adirondack’s Gold paint dabber.

Love all the glimmer!

Of course, no project would be complete without some fabulous May Arts trim. It’s a gorgeous shade of reddish-pink with a velour finish. I misted some decorative glittered puffy foam hearts in Cross My Heart, tied them with gold May Arts ribbon and adhered them to the chipboard with large glue strips. I threaded curled red wire through two of scallops and secured them in place by giving them a few twists.

Now, get misting and surprise your Valentine!

Genevieve Rodriguez

 

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Stamp Embossed Journal

I love to just “play” with my Tattered Angels products because you never know what you might discover while playing.  One of the things I like to do is run my glimmer misted papers through my embossing machine—nothing new there, lots of people do this.  I also love pooling the mists to make them blend. Well, last week while I was playing, I got a little over zealous with the spray and got my paper super wet.  Instead of using an embossing folder, I decided to try embossing using my favorite swirl stamp.  (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous V3-1462).  I really like the way it turned out, so I made a second attempt to show for my blog post this month.

I started with a 5.5” x 7.5” piece of Natural Bazzill cardstock, and saturated the front side  with Mallard and Olive Vine Glimmer Mist, pooling the mist in the center.  I dipped sequence waste into the pool of mist and pressed it all over the paper.  Doing this makes a nice pattern on the paper but mainly it helps the mist seep evenly to the back side of the paper.  In order to emboss using a stamp, the paper really needs to be quite wet to get the best impression.  This is my second try at this, and I’ve learned that the paper wasn’t as saturated as the first time I did it as my image isn’t as deep as the first time I tried this.  I also learned that all that pretty sequence waste pattern isn’t really visible anymore after doing the next step—but I wanted to show it, because you could always stop there and call it done.  But of course, I had to keep going!

Because the paper is really damp, you have to be careful doing the next step which is to crumble the paper up to break down the fibers.

I used the crumpled paper to wipe up the excess mist on my mat.  Wiping up like this, you get the excess glimmer onto the paper – especially the gold glimmer from the Olive Vine mist.

Open the paper gently and get the stamp you want to use, rubber side up.

Lay the wet paper on top of the stamp, and then lay a sheet of plastic wrap on top of the paper.  The paper helps keep your fingers from sticking to the paper when doing the next step.

With the plastic wrap over the crumpled paper, press the paper into the stamp using the palm of your hand to really make an impression, followed by pressing down all areas with your finger tips to get into the grooves and around the edges of the image.

Remove the plastic wrap and the paper from the stamp and lay the paper on your mat.  Cover the front side of the paper (the side that you pressed into with the stamp) with a layer of Chandelier Glam.  This helps keep the embossed impression together.  After I applied the glam, I used a heat gun to dry the paper, front and back. (The picture of the backside of the paper is on the right).

Once dry, I lightly rubbed vintage photo distress ink directly on the paper to hit the embossed highlights.  I did this to both sides of the paper.

With the unglammed side of the paper facing up – completely cover the paper with chandelier glam.  Since the distress ink is water based, adding glam at this point is going to make the ink move.  To prevent contaminating your chandelier glam with vintage photo ink, instead of dipping your brush into the glam,  pour the glam onto the paper (I use the cap for pouring) and spread the glam around the paper with your fan brush.

Immediately cover the wet glam with an acrylic sheet and press down to be sure contact is made.  If you wanted, you could use a piece of chipboard instead, but I used an acrylic sheet because I loved the way the back side of the paper looks as well.  The impression looks different and the coloring is lighter because the paper wasn’t sprayed directly.    I pressed down around all the acrylic with my fingers, especially the edges,  so that glam seeped out the edges.  This will help assure the paper is sealed to the acrylic.  Below is a picture of the backside with acrylic on top.

Let dry for about 10 minutes.  While it was drying, I misted both sides of a 5×7 piece of chipboard with Mallard and Olive Vine to use as the back cover, and cut paper to put inside of the book.

After about 15 minutes, the acrylic was still wet but was dry enough for me to pick up and trim the paper close to the acrylic edges.  When I was done trimming, I pressed all around the edges again.

Once the cover was pretty dry (about another 30 mins.), I used a crop-a-dile to punch holes in the covers and inside pages, and used a string of pearls for the book binding.  I tied the pearls closed with narrow seam binding ribbon, and mini wired flowers.  I added more ink to the embossed areas and the edges of the book using a combination of Vintage Photo and Black Soot Distress inks.

To decorate the cover, I misted two Prima flowers.  One I misted with Mallard, and the second flower I misted a little Mallard on my mat and added a bit of Chandelier Glam to lighten the color, and then used my fan brush to paint it onto the second flower.

I made an interesting discovery for the leaves.  I was going to cut individual leaves off some May Arts silver leaf ribbon and then mist them with Olive Vine.  However, when I glanced around the table, I couldn’t find my scissors and didn’t feel like hunting for them again, so I thought if I pulled hard enough, I could just tear the leaf off.  I couldn’t get it to tear off, but while pulling, I discovered that I could use the connecting string as a basting string.  So I instead pulled the string and then pushed the leaf fabric upwards to make it look like a crinkled leaf. That’s probably not news to May Arts, but it was to me!

I misted the leaves lightly with Olive Vine mist.  I then looked harder for my scissors and cut off the connecting string.  Kinda nice when being lazy (and misplacing stuff) leads to a new discovery.

If you’d like to see my first attempt at this technique, you can see it on my blog, here.  Because I was just “playing” when I tried this, I don’t know what colors I used.  I just usually grab and light, a medium and a dark color—can’t really go wrong playing and combining glimmer mist colors.  So take some time, and just play!

I hope you’ll join me on Wednesday, January 11th, when I do my next Tattered TV Educator Style show.  Here’s the mini album we’ll be making where we combine Tattered Angels products with Prima products!  Show starts at 6pm PST, I hope you’ll join me!

Christine Delgadillo

 

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Christmas Gift Card Tag

BLESSED CHRISTMAS to everyone!!!!!!  I hope you all had a marvelous Christmas weekend full of love, family time and presents!!  Today I want to share with you a little tag that I created for some Starbucks Gift cards that gave out to some peeps I love.

First I stamped the ‘WITH LOVE’ stamp onto the tag using Archival Ink.  This stamp was a dollar stamp that I picked up from Michaels when I was in the States a few months back….!

Then I added some Gesso to the tag to make it look a little ‘wintery’.  Once the Gesso dried, I sprayed the tag with ‘BUBBLE LIGHT GREEN’ Glimmer Mist.  The Gesso will resist the mist beautifully!

Next, I added some ‘HAMMERED COPPER’ Glimmer Glam to the tag to give it a Christmassy ‘red’ feel.  I also distressed the sides using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending foam.

For the name holder, I sprayed ‘L.E.D RED’ Glimmer Mist onto one of the Pink Paislee Mistable Journal Tags and stuck it down onto a Starbucks Cup holder.. added some Christmas embellishments and Voila!!!

Easy Peasy!

Do join me this Wednesday 6pm PST for Tattered TV Educator Style as we create a wooden display piece that you can display your favorite Christmas family photo in!

Here’s the project we will be creating:

Come join me ya!

Lots of love ,

Jasmine

 

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More Embossing and Some Painting with Glimmer Glam…

In my card creating frenzy over the last couple of weeks, I’ve used Glimmer Mist, Glaze and Glam in a few different ways…this card features painting with Glam.  I stamped my image using a craft ink and embossed it with a UTEE powder to set the ink quickly.  I then colored in the image with Glimmer Glam. Beautiful, shiny and bright!

 

I also painted chipboard letters with Glimmer Glam and sealed them with embossing powder. Fun, quick and so easy!

 

Thanks for visiting and Merry Christmas!

Shawna Martinez ~ {barely} controlled~chaos

 

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Tags & Place Settings

I know all year round we create magnificent artwork, but sometimes some little pieces do just the trick. Have you thought about creating your own gift tags, or maybe place settings. Snowflakes are the theme around our house this year. We made Lot’s of glimmer misted tags. This is such a great easy thing to do with the kids. Highly recommend it!

We lined up 12×12 pieces of scrap paper, arranged the snowflakes all over and then I let each kid spray a different colour. So we have pink, blue & brown snowflakes. Surprise surprise!(it’s still pretty gender driven colours in our house, lol)

Anyways, we made tags & place settings. (I took this pic of the tag on the tree, it made it look so much more Christmas-y.

Jager LOVED his little glimmer misted cards So I cut them up for him, and stamped our names on them and we are now ready for Christmas supper. Fun little craft to do with your kids.

Merry Christmas!

Leica Forrest

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Pretty presents

Dear Santa,

I’ve been a good girl this year. I committed to the mist. I didn’t spill any bottles of Glimmer Glam. I glazed to my hearts content. I hope you bring me lots of glimmery goodness in the new year.

XOXO, Genevieve

P.S. Santa, I’ve been practicing gift-wrapping. If the elves want to giftwrap Tattered Angels-style, have them keep reading this blog post!

I selected two synthetic flowers, one that was made of a shimmery silver material and another with a white one with a velvety finish. I pulled apart the flowers and started misting.

 

 

 

I misted the silver one in Twinkle Yellow Glimmer Mist. I misted the other in shades of blue and green. I coated the bottom layer in Icicle Blue Glimmer Mist. I coated the upper layer in Bubble Light Green Glimmer Mist. Then I misted the center with a spritz of Icicle Blue and Twinkle Yellow Glimmer Mist.

 

 

I added a little extra oomph by coating the edges in Blizzard Glimmer Glam.

 

 

 

 

 

The leaf started like the plain one on the left. A nice even coat of Private Meadow Glimmer glam gave it a lovely luster and vibrant green color in the leaf veins and nice chunks of green glitter throughout.

And what will you get? A lovely arrangement of gift-wrapping embellishments like this…

Happy Holidays!

Genevieve Rodriguez

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