Butterflies, Stencils & Tattered Angels

I He{ART} stencils...I love what stencils can do to create beautiful projects...I particularly love the stencils designed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and Dyan Reaveley. Stencils are a great way to add interest to a plain background and all the various Tattered Angels paint products can add that extra punch. I often create my own background paper just for this reason. I started with these 2 tags using different mediums. The blue tag was created with Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist in Boogie Board and Splash. Using the new stamp & stencils combination from Balzer Designs I stenciled the large butterfly with Boogie Board again adding a deeper colored layer.

I  used the corresponding  stencil overlay with Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze in Shindig to create the butterfly wings. The green tag actually was a mop tag that I stenciled the butterfly with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Woven Burlap and the stencil overlay I used Plain Jane Stained Glass in Purple. I then coated the entire tag with Glimmer Glam in Old Pages.

I created the 2 tags as experiments and decided to go a step further with the green tag.T

I grabbed more stenciled scraps from prior projects and you can see all the various stencils used on Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor Paper.  I love creating my own backgrounds and Tattered Angels paint projects just love the texture of the watercolor paper.

Here is what I created utilizing the above materials. The second butterfly was stamped utilizing the corresponding Butterfly stamp and I found the blue scraps and felt they were exactly what this needed. I love the vibrancy of these colors. With my trusty Helmar Acid Free Adhesive, Duck Brand Duck Tape, Dylusions Stamps Word Love and 7Gypsies Gaffer Tape I now have a cute clipboard where I can keep ephemera for my art journal.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will come back...there are going to be some big changes going on here!!! I'm looking so forward to being able to devote my full time efforts to creating art now that I have retired from teaching. I hope to be sharing on my blog much more often than I have!!

Background Art Papers made with Tattered Angels

Spring has sprung and color is everywhere you look. When I'm asked what it is about Tattered Angels paint mediums that excites me it comes down COLOR. I don't see these products as an after thought to mist here and there but as a way to create beautiful background papers.  This post I will be sharing with you examples of how I see Tattered Angels products and its uses for creating your very own designer paper.

This project is a collection of background papers I created to make a journal for use in a class, Letter Love 101, with Joanne Sharpe. I think you will find how beautiful Tattered Angels works on 140lb. Watercolor Paper by Strathmore. Watercolor paper grabs the color and the interferences in each product. Now I can tell you that I used a total of 11 different Glimmer Mist paints and 8 different Glimmer Chalkboard paints to create these backgrounds with a variety of stencils from Crafters Workshop. These background pages measure 9"x12". Here you see them before they were cut apart to make the journal where I will practice my new Lettering skills.

Here are pictures of the front cover with the title that soon will be hand lettered on {I photoshopped the title so that you would get the idea of the look I will going for} and some of the pages in the journal. Using duct tape and 7 Gypsies paper tape I created this no sew journal.

Don't the colors just pop, so brilliant and fun. I just love how Tattered Angels paint mediums work on watercolor paper. You must try it. 

Now I must go because I have homework for this ATC class I'm taking with Catherine Matthews Scanlon over at My Creative Classroom...looking forward to doing these ATC's. I think there is still time to sign up to take it ;)


Thanks for stopping by!

Tattered Angels Love Stencils, Stamps & Masks

This month the Tattered Angels Design Team focused on how to use various stencils, screens & masks. I find that many of my projects start with this technique and I wanted to share what one looks like before I finish it. This is a great way to make your own resist paper. I started with a plain kraft brown cardstock and 3 different screens. The starburst and harlequin stencils are from The Crafters Workshop while the circles are from a piece of punchinella. I scrapped Claudine Hellmuth's Multi-Medium Matte over the stencils and allowed it to dry. I then Glimmer Misted and allowed the paint to drip randomly down my paper {I flipped the paper because I like the dips floating up. I really loved the effect of colors and the designs left where ever the Multi Medium resisted the mist. Cool, huh?

Here is the finished layout. I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Blackberry Cordial,Butternut Squash, Mallard and Snowy Pine to create the splashes of color. The mailing tag was what I moped the excess Glimmer Mist with, the chipboard from Out There Chippy received extra coats of the same Glimmer Mist used in the background and I applied the brass embellishments from Out There Trinkets with my ever faithful Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and Liquid Scrap Dots. This is a really simple technique...just think...you can make your own mistable resist paper.My second project this month was the Pink Paislee Shadowbox. If you've been following this blog you know that Tattered Angels paint products and wood are a match made in heaven. Here is the completed project...it is going to be a gift for Christmas so I did not embellish the inside, leaving that to the gift recipient.

I started this project by covering the frame with a coat of Tattered Angels Butternut Squash Glimmer Mist. A Tattered Angels flourish screen was then placed down and misted with Blackberry Cordial, Pumpkin Spice, Mallard & Timberline. To define the opening I stamped using Archival Jet Black ink to insure the next layers of color would not bleed through. The inside of the shadowbox was covered with random sheet music and pages from a book using Helmar Decoupage & Craft Paste. I used the Harlequin stencil from Crafters Workshop and gesso to lay down another layer for texture. When dry Tattered Angels Nougat Glimmer Mist was applied and allowed to drip giving it a look of being old. The wooden cut-out embellishments from Kaisercraft were misted with Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist in Fairway & Fern. I attached the wood and brass embellishments with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and then a final coat of the fabulous Twinkle Toes Glimmer Mist {oh my, if you haven't tried this yet then put it on your list}.

My last project was done on the reverse side of a Prima Mistable canvas sheet...I wanted to do a canvas but I didn't have one so I utilized this and applied it to a 12x12 canvas board with Helmar Premium Craft Glue...turned out to be a great solution and the Prima canvas is of such quality that I may have to by more just for that purpose!I used a Tattered Angels screen from the Bold Borders set and applied Rockin' on Sunshine Glimmer Glam over the screen and random swaths of it over the remaining canvas knowing it would resist further Glimmer Mists. I then use a Prima mask in the same area and lightly misted with Mallard Glimmer Mist. I stamped with the matching Tattered Angels Clear Stamp to finish. With random misting using Blackberry Cordial, Pumpkin Spice &  Mallard Glimmer Mist I finished the background. I added a textured brick stamp to add texture and then I did a faux sewing technique to create the illusion of being sewn with black thread. To finish I used Prima Canvas letters sprayed with Butternut Squash and stenciled with Pumpkin Spice and Tim Holtz Grungeboard letters got a healthy coating of Mallard. The butterflies are cut out from Prima Mistable canvas misted and layered with the same colors as in the background and a coating ofTwinkle Toes Glimmer Glam applied. To complete the project a Prima Vine, May Arts Leaf Ribbon and the butterflies were attached with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue and Liquid Scrap Dots.

I'm thrilled with the way these 3 projects came out and I realized after the fact that the majority of Glimmer Mist & Chalkboard mists are from the Ltd. Ed. Fall 2011 Collection. Shows you the versatility of the colors and how different they look depending on how they are utilized.

Thanks for stopping by...hope you enjoyed  these projects !

Art Journal on my radar screen...

I have to give credit where credit is due!!! In Jan. I saw a blog post from Julie Balzer...Art Journal Every Day. Although I had thought about doing this I was timid and not sure that I had the artistic abilities to do one. Seeing this blog post was the impetus to start. I'm not sure if Julie realizes that she kicked my butt into gear...now it's one of my favorite form of art to create!!! So if anyone sees Julie tell her for me ;)

ART JOURNALS : Doing Art Journals was the last thing I ever thought I would do... much less enjoy. This is a brand new art discovery for me. I started out very slow...didn't want to jump in with both feet so I took apart two Tattered Angels  albums {I love the paper that is used in them}. I figured IF I liked this process I would then bind them into my SO CALLED Art Journal. I worked on these individual pages off and on from Jan. to the end of April and created 35 pages. Surprisingly I really enjoyed this process so I took off my training wheels and started my big-girl Art Journal at the beginning of May.

Creating backgrounds has become one of my favorite parts {still not big on the journaling...baby steps} and using Tattered Angels paint mediums is so rewarding for the incredible designs that can be created. So I would like to share with you a few of the pages I created this month. They are self-explanatory but I've listed the Tattered Angels paint mediums & colors used.

Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mists: Cornflower Daze, Sprout, Grape Ape, Teal High Heel. Golden Gesso, Tim Holtz masking tape, 7 Gypsies tissue paper.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists: Bell Bottom Jeans, Cadillac Pink, Frost & Piece of Heart. Golden Gesso, Tim Holtz masking tape, Tattered Angels Stamps & Ten Seconds Studio Alphabet Stamps.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists: Marmalade, Sun Sisters & Trunk Bay. Tattered Angels Glaze: Penny Loafer. Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze: Peach Bellini & Tide Pool. Golden Gesso. Stamps from Donna Downey Collection & Julie Balzer Collection.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze: Golden Goddess. Tattered Angels Chalkboard:Inchworm. Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: Turquoise Blue. Tattered Angels Butterfly screen & stamp.

Commit to the Mist...

This month the Tattered Angels Design Team is focusing on Art Journal pages and Wedding Themes. As I'm getting ready to post mine on June 22nd I thought I'd share a page I created yesterday. Enjoy...it's Friday...it's the weekend...YEA!!!

Tattered Angels Paint Mediums used:

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist...Iridescent Gold & Sugar Maple

Tattered Angels Chalkboard...Decadent Chocolate, Inchworm & Teal High Heel

Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze...Sugar Cane

How would you like to win????

CHA is ready to open and I can feel the excitement all the way here to the NC coast...things are rocking there! Have you seen the new Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist CHALKBOARD colors??? This is just a glimpse...head on over to Tattered Angels to see the entire Chalkboard collection. And while you're there leave a post and you might be the lucky winner of a set of 6.

There is also time to win a set of the Ltd. Edition Spring 2011 Glimmer Mist colors...play along with the  THINK YOU KNOW YOUR TATTERED ANGELS PRODUCTS? game and have a chance to be the lucky winner...there still is time! Here is a canvas tag that uses all 6 of the Bahaman Cruise Spring Colors...