Direct to Paper Branched Out – Tutorial #252

40 Comments August 25, 2009 zindorfstamps

I love Tim Holtz Distress Inks and can spend hours whiling away smearing ink on card stock and creating backgrounds for silhouette images. Here is one I put together this morning. I hope this tutorial inspires you to smear some ink today. 🙂

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Branched Out

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Basic Black and So Saffron

Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Black, Handsome Hunter, Old Olive and Tim Holtz Distress inks Black Soot, Scattered Straw, Weathered Wood, Brushed Corduroy, Faded Jeans and Broken China

Accessories: White gel pen

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Started with a 4″ square piece of Whisper White card stock. Used the edge of the Broken China Distress ink pad and smeared it across the card stock. This technique is called “Direct to Paper”.

Added Faded Jeans Distress ink with the corner of the pad.

Added a little bit of Brushed Corduroy using the corner of the pad.

Added Black Soot Distress ink using the edge of the pad and a light touch.

Added Weathered Wood Distress ink using the edge of the pad in the sky area of the card stock.

Added Scattered Straw Distress ink using the edge of the pad in the sky area of the card stock.

Stamped the Tree from the Stampin’ Up Branched Out Set with Basic Black ink.

Stamped the leaf stamp from the Branched Out set with Old Olive ink on the left side of the tree.

Added some more leaves with Handsome Hunter ink in the middle of the tree.

Stamped some more leaves with Basic Black ink on the right side of the tree.

Put some highlights in the leaves on the left side of the tree, out lined the left side of the trunk and added a few grasses at the base of the tree with a white gel pen.

Teamed the main image panel up with a few card stock panels and left off embellishments. Some times embellishments take from your design instead of adding to. I felt that was the case with this piece today.

This is the finished card measuring 5.25″ square.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Huge Hugs,

Michelle

Get ready for Brayer Workshops! I am coming to:

Greenwood, Indiana

Castro Valley, California

Yardley, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia)

Knox, MaineAkron, Ohio

Broomfield, Colorado

Moore, Oklahoma

Nashville, Indiana Portland, Michigan

2010

Dayton, Ohio at Marco Paper

Phoenix, Arizona

Monroe, Louisiana

Jacksonville, Florida

St. Louis, Missouri

Mechanicsville, Virginia

Raleigh, North Carolina

Colleyville, Texas

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Boise area of Meridian, Idaho

Riverside, California (Southern California)

Salem, Oregon

Wheaton, Illinois

St. Cloud, Minnesota

Rockville, Maryland

North Chili, New York (near Rochester)

New Johnsonville, Tennessee

Helena, Montana

Middleburg Heights, Ohio

Venice, Florida

Here is a link to my workshop calendar where you can see all of my travel schedule and to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar

Link to my Stampin’ Up website were you can order all of your must have Stampin’ Up products from me 24-7: http://michellezindorf.stampinup.net

Frequently asked questions answers: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/frequently-asked-questions/

Dream a Little – Tutorial #210

17 Comments May 15, 2009 zindorfstamps

Before we start today’s tutorial I need to announce the winner of the Creative Hot Marks tool. The random number generator selected. . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .

Cledith who wrote “After discovering your website, I’ve bought a brayer. Now I have to use it!”

Congratulations Cledith, please e-mail address to mzindorf@aim.com and I will pop this set in the mail to you.

Thank you to all 459 of you that entered the drawing. Wish I had a set for each of you.

One other announcement, I will be teaching my Beginner & Advanced workshops for one day only in Greenwood, Indiana (right outside of Indianapolis) at Sharon’s Crop Studio Store on August 29, 2009. E-mail me at mzindorf@aim.com for information on the workshops or to register. Warning, these workshops are filling very fast.

Now a bit about today’s project. This project was done using the direct to paper technique for the background. I wanted to demonstrate how effective it is to leave the white of the paper showing through on your backgrounds to give the scene a real sparkle of light. Hang out a few moments with me and check it out.

Let’s get rolling or smearing, lol . . . .

Supplies:

Stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations “Marvels of Nature” & Stampin’ Up Totally Tabs and Dream a Little

Paper: Stampin’ Up Design Paper, Whisper White & Pacific Point card stock

Ink: Distress Inks Peeled Paint, Black Soot, Old Paper, Faded Jeans, Antique Linen

Accessories: Stampin’ Up Basic Black & Close to Cocoa Markers, White Gel Pen, Tim Holtz Distress Tool, Stampin’ Up Old Olive Brads, Tab Punch, Stamp-a-ma-Jig, Piercing Tool

Are you inspired by this Blog? One way for you can help support this blog is by ordering your Stampin’ Up products through me. You can order from me 24-7 from this link: http://michellezindorf.stampinup.net or e-mail me at mzindorf@aim.com if you are within the United States. Want to become a Stampin’ Up Demonstrator and earn instant income? Consider being part of my Stampin’ Up Team.

Start out with a 3.5″ square piece of Whisper White card stock.

Mask a little over half the bottom of the card stock with a post it note.

Drag one edge of the Antique Linen Distress ink pad across the unmask portion of the card stock, LEAVE SOME OF THE WHITE PAPER SHOWING THROUGH.

Flip your card stock upside down and cover the sky area you just smeared in with the post it note to mask it.

Smear about 3/4 of an inch of Faded Jeans Distress ink right above the post it note, LEAVE SOME WHITE OF THE PAPER SHOWING THROUGH!

Smear Old Paper Distress ink on the rest of the card stock that is unmasked, LEAVE SOME OF THE WHITE PAPER SHOWING THROUGH.

Unmask the scene and turn it around so it is upright.

Load this great Palm tree from Innovated Stamp Creations with Peeled Paint ink, then load the trunk of the tree with Black Soot ink before stamping it.

Colored in the trunk of the tree with a Stampin’ Up Basic Black marker.

Added a bit of Close to Cocoa marker to the leaves of the tree.

Added White Highlights to some of the leaves on the tree.

Oops! Missed a photo, after I applied the White Gel pen Highlights I used a Tim Holtz Distressing Tool to fray the edges of the main image panel.

Next, stamped the Totally Tab image on a piece of Whisper White card stock and then punched it out with the Stampin’ Up Tab Punch. Folded it in half and adhered it to the main image panel while assembling the card front.

Look at this, I’m using pattern paper! Gasp! I know, I know, I never use pattern paper. Well you will probably be seeing me use more of it since I went wild and purchased about every piece of pattern paper Stampin’ Up has. They have a sale going on right now, buy 3 packs and get one free. Yep, I love a sale!

I added some Old Olive brads to the tag, by starting the hole for the brad with my piercing tool.

Stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up “Dream a little set”, using my Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.

Here is the finished card measuring 5.25″ square. Check out that sparkle.

Now it is your turn to leave a little white showing in your backgrounds!

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

Get ready for Brayer Workshops! I am coming to:

Dayton, Ohio

Covington, Indiana

Buffalo, Minnesota

Webster, New York

New Johnsonville, Tennessee

Stoughton, Wisconsin

Columbia, Missouri

Lynchburg, Virginia

Greewood, Indiana

Castro Valley, California

Yardley, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia)

Knox, Maine

Broomfield, Colorado

Moore, Oklahoma

Portland, Michigan

2010

Jacksonville, Florida

Pocatello, Idaho

Salem, Oregon

Here is a link to my workshop calendar where you can see all of my travel schedule and to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar

Link to my Stampin’ Up website were you can order all of your must have Stampin’ Up products from me 24-7: http://michellezindorf.stampinup.net

Here is a link to all of my tutorials: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

Frequently asked questions answers: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/frequently-asked-questions/

Wild Direct to Paper Sky – Tutorial #191

39 Comments March 25, 2009 zindorfstamps

Okay, I know this is my second tutorial today, but it has been raining all day and I am procrastinating. I should be out doing my grocery shopping. Instead I am hanging out in my PJ’s stamping away.

This is a very easy sky to create with Tim Holtz Distress ink pads. I used just the corner edge of the pad and smeared in different colors. I think I like the effect of this. I bet it would look great with pastels too.

Let’s get started. 🙂

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Branch Out

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White & Basic Black

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress inks Aged Mahogany, Faded Jeans, Dried Marigold, Dusty Concord, Black Soot & Scattered Straw

Accessories: Gray marker, White Gel Pen, Post it Note

Please don’t forget you can order your Stampin’ Up products from me 24-7 from this link: http://michellezindorf.stampinup.net or e-mail me at mzindorf@aim.com if you are within the United States. Also, please consider being part of my Stampin’ Up Team. We have valuable monthly meetings in Miamisburg, Ohio.I started out with a 4.5″ Square piece of Whisper White card stock and smeared the Scatter Straw distress ink directly on the card stock using the raised edge of the ink pad.

Smeared on a little Dusty Concord distress ink using only the corner of the raised pad.

Smeared on Aged Mahogany Distress ink using only the corner of the raised pad.

Smeared on a bit of Faded Jeans Distress ink only using the corner of the raised pad.

Add a touch of Dried Marigold Distress ink using the only the corner of the raised pad.

Smeared on more of the Dusty Concord Distress ink at the bottom of the card stock.

Tore through the stick part of a post it note and used it as a mask at an angle to create my ground area.

Using the edge of a Black Soot Distress ink pad I smeared the ink on the bottom of the card stock, pulling the pad straight down. This created those streaky lines.

Removed the post it note and added some more Black Soot ink at the bottom of the card stock. I liked the streaky look of the the black ink so I did not cover it all up. I think it adds some interest to the piece.

Stamped the tree using Black Soot Distress ink.

Added White Gel pen highlights to the right side of the tree.

Assembled card and added a Gray marker outline to the left and bottom sides of the small black card stock panel to add a casted shadow. I also added a few white gel pen dots to the ground area.