Neon Marvels Ghosting Technique

First things first, I am happy to announce the random winner of our Random Act of Kindness Day giveaway on Monday: Comment #6, Toni Burks.

This is what Toni had to say, "I would RAK my friend Ellie Fannin who is struggling with terminal brain stem cancer. I've been papercrafting with her to lift her spirits, but she is very lonely and bored because she can't do much."  

Congratulations to both of you!

Remember last week I posted a fun tutorial called the Metallic Marvels Ghosting Technique? After trying it with the metallic inks, I wanted to try the same technique with Club Scrap's Neon Dabbers. Here are the BOLD results.

Neon Pink Metallics Combo

Step 1. Make puddles of Neon Pink dabber ink and gold and copper metallic re-inkers on glossy cardstock. Roll with rubber brayer.

Step 2. Stamp Tribal medallion image onto wet inks and slide to create ghosting effect.

Step 3. Stamp inked medallion onto plain white cardstock.

Step 4. Allow panels to air-dry completely, or use a heat tool. Finish cards using the panels you created.

Neon Green & Blue 
Step 1. Make puddles of Neon Blue and Green dabber inks on glossy cardstock. Roll with rubber brayer.

Step 2. Stamp various images from Time of Your Life  onto wet inks and slide to create ghosting effect.

Step 3. Stamp inked images onto plain white cardstock.

Step 4. Allow panels to air-dry completely, or use a heat tool. Finish cards using the panels you created.

Neon Dabber Metal Medallions

Step 1. Use white acrylic paint to cover metal medallions. Allow to dry.

Step 2. Apply Neon Pink ink dabber and Gold Metallic Re-inker to medallion. Use your fingertip to blend.

Step 3. Allow to dry. Use Emery board or sand paper to remove ink from the raised areas.

Step 4. Repeat steps using Neon Green.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoyed the tutorials.

Julie


Club Scrap® Products used:
Painted Desert Dk. Pink Cardstock
Cruisin' Black Cardstock
Study in Red Black Cardstock
Take Wing Lime Green Cardstock
Spring Chorus Rhinestone sticker embellishments
Hopes Gold Fiber
Tribal Collection UM Stamp Sheet
Gift from Retreat 2013 (Darius Embossing Folder: Clocks) 

Gelli Art Plates and CS Stencil Shapes

I'm still having fun with my gel printing plate from Gelli Arts, and this time I made a slew of manila tags with some fun, bright acrylic paint colors from Kay's stash.

The steps to create these tags are surprisingly easy and will transfer well to your pages, cards, and art journal projects.


Here's the drill:

1. Add blobs of acrylic paint to the geli plate and blend with a brayer. Don't be like me. Don't use way too much paint. Look at that mess. Ugggh.

2. Press and burnish tags onto the plate to transfer the paint. Use the brayer to blend as needed, and keep going until the paint is gone. Clean your plate and brayer. (And wipe off the drippy paint mess, too, Tricia.) Sit back and watch the paint dry. Switch the laundry loads.

3. Trace large, simple shapes onto the back of your favorite tags and cut with a scissors. You can also run the tag through a die cutting machine to create shapes. Here, I've used the Altered Panel Custom Shapes stencil to add a butterfly and a house shape to this tag.

4. To create a contrasting base for the shapes, paint tags in a solid coordinating color with simple brushstrokes. Allow the paint to dry and match a shape with each tag. You can also create some more neutral geli prints for the tag base.

5. Adhere the shape and draw around the outside edge with a fine-tipped marker. Draw around the image a second time. Crossing over the original line will add to the desired look. Caffeine helps. Finish the tag with a stamped sentiment and top with ribbon.

There is so much more that could be done with additional stamped images and embellishments, but I was quite happy with the simple look and chose to stop there.

Sentiment from the Fire & Ice Greeting UM.

Sentiment from the Tribal Art Nouveau UM.

Sentiment from the Tribal Borders & Backgrounds UM.

So . . . I thought I had this post all wrapped up. But I had more tags, and after sleeping on it, I decided to make this:

I followed the same technique as described earlier, but with Graffiti Black Smooth paper as the base, a white pen for outlining, and the Hopes stencil for the shapes.

Did this look difficult? It's not. See for yourself!

Happy Painting . . .
Tricia

August Tribal Blog Hop

Greetings, all! Welcome to the Tribal Blog Hop! Today we have over a dozen talented bloggers sharing projects made with Club Scrap's August Tribal collection.

The stamp image above from the Tribal Collection Unmounted Rubber sheet has a special place in my heart, so I knew I wanted my blog hop project to feature it prominently. This frame now sits proudly on my desk at work! If you're interested, the full story, and the quickie tutorial, are at the end of this post.

Now let's check out what the other bloggers have in store for us. Happy hopping!

Club Scrap Creates (you are here)

Pat Huntoon: The Technique Trail

Julie Heyer: Cape Cod Scrapper

Roni Johnson: Ink Stains with Roni

Deb Weller: Deb Duz Scrappin

Tricia Morris: The Efficient Crafter

Hetty Sanders: CraftChaos

Kay Williamson: Kay's Keepsakes

Cathy Gray: The Artful Gamut

Anne Marie Healey: Artfully Balanced

Anne Hunter: Crzymom'sTidbits

Shona Gibson: Shona Scraps

Debby Hernandez: Masculine Inspirations

Janet Moran: Dishing with Janet

Tiare Smith: iClassy Girl

The UM story, and a quickie tutorial:

There's usually a lot of back and forth, choosing what works, and what doesn't, before the designers settle on the final product you see each month. The August unmounted stamps were no exception. I happened to be conveniently located nearby when the Tribal  UM discussion took place. There was a large open space where a previous idea had been scrapped that needed filling. I casually mentioned how much I liked the look of the symbols, but wish I knew what they meant. Once Jac provided the translations, I suggested it might be cool to pair those words with the art. Imagine how excited I was when I saw the final proof of the Tribal Collection UM sheet!

Since a picture's worth a thousand words, here's a step-by-step photo tutorial.

Paint inexpensive 5x7 frame with black acrylic paint.

Spritz Memories Mist onto Tribal Lite Masking Stencil.

Pretty!

Stamp UM image with India Black Ink.

Decorate frame with Gold Playcolor Metallic paint.

Voila!

Creatively yours,

Karen

All About Club Stamp's Concertina Book Project

Friday Greetings to you!

With the Club Stamp Kit and Project shipping earlier this week, I think this blog entry should be all about the Concertina Book Project! This is the front of the book when it's closed and secured with the ribbon closure.

I've designed a series of three "pop-out" windows within the book--two on one side and one on the other. Can you see all the decorating possibilities? I left some room for photos to be added later.

Using a CS Ink Applicator, I added color with Club Scrap's Ruby, Topaz and India Inks. The Tribal Masking Stencil came in handy in this section.

Adding black acrylic paint seemed to make the perfect background for the gold metallic PlayColor (from the Club Scrap Lite Kit) with the Hopes flower stencil.

And it all folds perfectly flat inside the book covers.

The Club Stamp Project Instructions have all the details on how to make the book, so I won't go on and on. I just wanted to share some of the fun!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Kay at Club Scrap

More Digital Inspiration and a Free Digi Template

Happy Thursday, Everyone!

Did you see Julie’s blog post on Monday? If you missed it, click HERE to read it! I was so inspired that I made a digi-card using the card sketch that Julie shared. Oh, and a big thanks to Jen for hosting the card sketch challenge each month in the Club Scrap forum! As a reminder, here’s that card sketch:

August Card Sketch

And this is the card I made using Club Scrap’s Tribal Digital Kit:

My Digi Birthday Card

Then I thought that this card sketch would make a really cool 12x12 layout! So I built a template in Photoshop using that card sketch as a guide:

Digi Layout Template, based on the Card Sketch

Would you like a copy of this template? Of course you would - after all, it’s FREE! Click HERE to download.

Naturally, I had to make a layout using the template. Once again, I used the Tribal Digital Kit ('cept for the brads--those are from an older CS digi kit):

My Digi Layout

So there you have it, some digital inspiration and a free gift! Doesn’t get much better than that, now does it?

Thanks for stopping by - see ya next week!

-Ron