Hey There, Candy here.  So I have to fess up to something.  I have never used an embossing folder before, (please dont tell anyone! shhh!) But I have been thinking about using them and even own ONE folder, well until recently when I received one as a gift and purchased two more and I was determined to use them this weekend!  So I pulled them out and this is what I came up with:

Lets do a little embossing and a resist technique.  Take your choice of embossing folder and run through your manual die cutting machine.  I used my Sizzix big shot for this one.

STEP ONE.

STEP TWO.
I always keep tea light candles around, they are a great base for covering a surface with wax for a resist technique.  Take the tea light and rub across the raised portions of the paper, cover it well.

STEP THREE.

Using the beautiful Autumn Nights Glimmer Mist, I covered the card thoroughly with mist.  Then wiped off with a paper towel to reveal this beautiful background, I trimmed the excess to fit the card.

FINAL STEP.
With some great American Crafts alphabest and some “50″ stickers for my sister in law’s OVER THE HILL birthday and it is complete. 

I am now hooked on embossing folders. 

Candy Rosenberg
www.CertifiedScrapaholic.com

  I love making backgrounds using Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mist.  I like to use crumpled wax paper to apply my Glimmer Glaze to my paper because it gives added random added texture while also resisting the Glimmer Mist. 

For this card, I inked my tattered texture stamps using Versamark, and then embossed the image with white embossing powder. 

I balled up a piece of wax paper, poured a very small amount of Waterfall Glimmer Glaze (be sure to shake it up first) to my misting mat, dabbed the wax paper into the glaze and then pounced the glaze onto my paper.  I applied it around the embossed image as well as the edges.

I sprayed Seafoam Glimmer Mist over the entire project.  Notice how the glimmer mist resists not only the embossed areas but also the glazed areas.  If I had applied the glaze with the brush, I would have brush stroke resist areas, but by using the balled up wax paper, the resist pattern looks more random.

To add a distress look to the edges of the paper, I sprayed a fine mist of Dragonfly Glimmer Mist to my misting mat and dragged all the edges through it, smoothing it out with my fingers. 

I attached the misted paper to a card, added a postage font frame that I randomly pounced the Waterfall glaze on to using the wax paper, and then painted over the entire frame with a paint brush using Chandelier Glimmer Glam.  I added a fairy image from Crafty Secret’s Sew Nice sheet, painted Waterfall Glimmer Glaze on the fairy’s dress, and attached the image behind the frame.  I stamped “birthday wishes” on paper (and misted with Seafoam Glimmer Mist) and trimmed it to a banner and attached it to the bottom of the frame because the image was too short to cover the entire frame. 

Also attached to the postage frame is a glittered wand.  I die cut a star shape from foam core, covered it with German Glass Glitter, and attached a cut paperclip to it for the wand portion.  I wrapped the wand with seam binding that I had sprayed with the Seafoam Glimmer Mist, and then cut the seam binding into narrow strips.  I also attached three heart charms with silver bullion and attached them to the wand as well.  I attached a portion of some Prima Swirls to the card and attached the frame on top.

Here’s a picture of a few other backgrounds I was playing with.  I hope you experiment using wax paper, Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mists for backgrounds too.  Another favorite combination of mine (pictured below) is pouncing Cowboy Glimmer Glaze on your project and spraying with Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist – and a touch of Dragonfly was added to the middle background.  It gives a nice rusty and patina look.  The Tattered Textures stamp set is a must have as well – I especially love them with black or white embossing powder.   And if that weren’t enough, I am loving Glimmer Glaze on metal as well.  They spice up charms quickly, especially ones with holes in them (although those require a little more drying time).  And speaking of metal, I even Glimmer Glazed a fork…yes, a fork.  I bent a fork to use as a stand for my card, but you’re supposed to use a “vintage” fork which I don’t have…yet…so for practice, I bent an old fork and colored it with Cowby Glimmer Glaze.

Now have fun, and go play!

Christine Delgadillo
 

Supplies Used: 
Tattered Textures Stamps (Screen Prints Rockin’ Renaissance)
Postage Stamp Framed Fonts
Glimmer Mists:  Seafoam and Dragonfly
Glimmer Glam:  Chandelier
Glimmer Glaze:  Waterfall and Cowboy (for other background samples)
Fairy Image from Crafty Secrets – Sew Nice
Heart charms from ACharmingPlace.com 

I love when I discover two products that I love work so well together.  In this case, my favorite Glimmer Mist color Vanilla Breeze and my favorite Distress Ink color Vintage photo.  The combination of the two make a wonderful glimmery vintage effect.

For this project, I began with a vintage cabinet card photo, two plain pages out of a vintage book, and one Tattered Angels Bingo Card.  I sprayed each with Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mist.

The photo and the book pages both had a lot of color variance and speckling from age.  I like that the Glimmer Mist does not cover these flaws because to me they add a lot of vintage charm to the project.

I added a few shots of the awesome new fall Sugar Maple to the photo card.  Sugar Maple has a really nice tea dye color so it is perfect for vintage projects.  (It is a limited edition so if you love it like I do, you will want to be sure and stockpile a few!)

Using an ink applicator tool, added Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges.

On the book pages, I used Vanilla Breeze and Vintage photo and added stamping in Walnut Stain.  I used stamps from the Tattered Textures  and Timeless Romance Vintage Seasons sets.

I added assorted pinks to a couple of pieces of vintage lace and Vanilla Breeze to a piece of vintage ribbon.

I made ribbonwork roses out of the ribbon and gathered the lace into rosettes.

I wet a piece of wide vintage ribbon and drug it through the colors on my misting mat.  I let it wick up the color so that it would look like water stain.

I added color to the bingo card by using various colors of Glimmer Mist as watercolors.  Spritz a bit of your desired color onto your misting mat and apply to your card with a damp paint brush.  I finished off the card with some Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and Crushed Olive Distress Stickles.

Vintage done vintage thanks to a perfect pairing of Glimmer Mist and Distress Ink.

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

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.