Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Some holiday ornaments...

Here are some glass ornaments that I altered with Tattered Angels paints. For these stars, I placed them face down and poured a really thick layer of Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam on the back of the stars. While they were still wet I sprinkled on some chunky glitter. After they were dry, I flipped them over and embellished the fronts with a few gems.

Products Used - Star Shaped Glass Ornaments: Crate and Barrel; Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove, Paradise Pink, Cowboy and Purple Passion): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess and Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels; Gems: Michaels.

I painted two colors of Glimmer Glaze onto this glass ornament and then coated it with crystal snow glitter.

Products Used - Glass Ornament: Crate and Barrel; Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove and Paradise Pink): Tattered Angels; Glitter: Stampendous.


This ornament started out as a plain frosted glass globe. I sprayed it with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist to give it an all over glimmer. Then I poured green Glimmer Glaze on the top and let it drip down the sides. After the glaze dried, I poured on a second coat of green glaze, and while the second coat was wet, I added some crystal snow glitter.

Products Used - Frosted Glass Ornament: Crate and Barrel; Glimmer Mist (Dazzling Diamonds): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove): Tattered Angels; Glitter: Stampendous.


Thanks for stopping by today - Patty

Monday, November 15, 2010

Tattered Angel's Paints and Wood...

Here are some projects focused on using wood with Tattered Angels paints.

The first project is a set of place cards made using re-purposed wooden stamp blocks and large chipboard letters.

Products Used - Chipboard Letters, Glimmer Glaze (Cowboy), Glimmer Mist (Sugar Maple, Indian Corn, Apple, Meadow Green, Coffee Shop, Glimmer Glam (Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels; Silk Leaves: Michael's; and re-purposed wood stamp blocks. 

The chipboard letters I used here are from the Tattered Angels Regal Framed Fonts. I love their framed font collections. Each letter is made of three separate pieces (the letter, the background, and the frame); this makes it very easy to color each piece a different color. Here I used Coffee Shop GM on the frames, Apple and Meadow Green GM on the backgrounds, and Sugar Maple and Indian Corn GM on the letters. I coated the backs of the letters with Cowboy Glimmer Glaze. To make the bases, I cut a little slit in the wood stamp block with a Dremmel, then I treated the blocks with a crackle finish. Once the crackle finish was dry I painted on some Tattered Angels Espresso Beam Glimmer Glam.

The next project also uses re-purposed wooden stamp blocks to create a framed piece of altered art.

Products Used - Glimmer Mist (Tiger Lily, Peppermint Stick, Candlelight, Sunflower, Twilight, Caribbean Blue, Keylime Pie, Frozen Lake and Meadow Green): Tattered Angels; Chipboard: MAMBI; Epoxy Stickers: MAMBI; Gems: Martha Stewart; Button: Webster's Pages; Paper: MAMBI; Metal Accents: Making Memories; and re-purposed wood stamp blocks.

Some of the blocks were covered with photos, some with patterned paper, and some still have the original sticker showing the stamp design. The solid colored blocks were sprayed with Glimmer Mist. What is so cool about glimmer mist is the ability to get a wide range of shades from one bottle just by altering the amount you apply. This makes it easy to get the perfect shade to coordinate with your project. And because you can blend colors together, having only a few colors of GM can yield many different results.


The last project is an re-purposed wooden wine box.

Products Used - Glimmer Mist (Forest Green, Sunflower, Peppermint Stick, Frozen Lake, Black Magic and Sand): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glaze (Cowboy): Tattered Angels; Patterned Paper: Dream Street; Gems: Prima and MAMBI; and re-purposed wine box.

I painted the outside of the box with Cowboy Glimmer Glaze. I sprayed the inside with Forest Green and Frozen Lake Glimmer Mist. I covered some of the areas inside the box with patterned paper.


I used the Tattered Angels Postage Stamp Framed Fonts to add the word "cards" on the outside of the box. I framed the word with some of the Tattered Angels Embossed Glimmer Chips sprayed with Black Magic Glimmer Mist. The Glimmer Mist colors I used on the letters were Forest Green, Frozen Lake, Sunflower, Sand, and Peppermint Stick.


Hope you enjoyed the wood focused projects!  Take care - Patty.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Treat Bags...

Here is cute little card I made using the Tattered Angels 2010 fall glimmer mist colors, I'm so in love with these colors!


And here are some treat bags, these were super easy to make. I just sprayed pre-made bags/boxes with glimmer mist and then added a few tags and ribbons. On the large bag, the ruffle at the top is made using some of the Tattered Angels Crepe Ribbon.


Below is an image of what the boxes/bags looked like before I altered them.


That's it for today!  Patty

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Hybrid Card and Envelope Sets...

Here are some really easy to make coordinating note card and envelope sets.





I used a kit that included quickpages (Secrets Of Nature by Manu available at scrapbookgraphics.com). I sized four of the quickpages down to 5″x5″, printed them onto white cardstock, trimmed to size, and then glued them to front of store-bought envelope. I’ll just write the person’s name/address in the part where the photo would normally be placed.

For the note cards I made a 5″x10″ canvas in my photo-editing program (Photoshop). I combined a few of the elements from the kit on the lower portion of the canvas (below the fold line). To make it easy, I kept the base graphic (the black swirl and the tree) the same on each card and just changed the one featured image on each card (flowers/butterfly). I printed each note card onto white cardstock, trimmed to size, and then folded each in half. That’s it, nice and simple!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Some Tattered Tags...

First...A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT...Tattered Angels is looking for their 2010 Design Team!  They are looking for a variety of skills with regard to layouts, cards, canvas, home decor and altered art. You can get more details and all of the submission requirements here. Good luck!!!

Have you gotten any of the new fall colors of Glimmer Mist yet? I used them for most of my projects shown below and I must tell you - I’m in love with these colors! Sometimes the photos don’t do them justice, they are so A-MAZZZ-INGLY beautiful in person.

August was "resist" month on the Tattered Angels blog, so each of my projects showcases a resist technique. My first project uses Vaseline for the resist.

Products: Tag: Office Supply Store; Chipboard Butterfly: Tattered Angels; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, October Afternoon; Patterned Paper: DCWV; Ledger Stamp: Hero Arts; Ribbon: Offray; Heart Stick Pins: Maya Road; Vaseline; Varnish: Delta Creamcost; Glimmer Mist (Apple, Wheatfield): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels.

First I stamped the tag with the ledger image than sprayed it with Apple GM. After the GM was dry I coated the tag with a satin finish varnish and let that dry. Using a stuff brush I painted the Vaseline on several areas of the tag. You could just apply it with your fingers as well. Then I painted over the entire card with Espresso Bean Glimmer Glam. After it was dry, I rubbed the card with a paper towel. The Vaseline keeps the Glimmer Glam from adhering to the tag so all of the Vaseline covered areas will be wiped clean down to the varnish layer. As you can see, you can create a really nice distressed paint look with this technique. The butterfly chipboard is from the Butterfly Framed Fonts, it has been sprayed with Wheatfield GM.

On the next tag, I stamped and embossed (white embossing powder) a compass stamp (from the Tattered Traveler Stamp Set). Then I sprayed the tag with Apple, Dragonfly, Pomegranate, and Autumn Nights GM. The embossed image resists the glimmer mist; you just need to wipe the glimmer mist off with a paper towel.

Products: Tag: Office Supply Store; Gems: MAMBI; Letter Stickers: October Afternoon; Compass Stamp: Tattered Angels; Ribbon: May Arts; White Embossing Powder: Tsukineko; Embossing Ink: Ranger; Glimmer Mist (Apple, Dragonfly, Pomegranate, and Autumn Nights): Tattered Angels.

On this next tag, the resist was done using a stencil and varnish. I coated the entire tag with Golden Goddess Glimmer Glam. Once that way dry, I placed the stencil on the tag and applied the varnish (the resist medium). After the varnish was dry, I sprayed the tag with Apple, Dragonfly, and Pomegranate GM. The resisted parts are the golden colored petal shaped areas. Then I stamped and gold embossed the beehive pattern. I stamped and embossed the butterfly twice – first in gold, then in black. The butterfly stamp is from the Nature Collection – Graceful Journey Stamp Set. The chipboard butterfly (from the Nature Glimmer Chip Collection) is sprayed with Pomegranate and Apple GM. The chipboard letters are from the Regal Framed Fonts Set, they have been sprayed with Apple and Dragonfly GM.

Products: Tag: Office Supply Store; Chipboard: Tattered Angels; Letter Stickers: October Afternoon; Butterfly Stamp: Tattered Angels; Honeycomb Stamp: Prima; Ribbon: Offray; Leaf Stick Pins: Maya Road; Stencil: Prima; Varnish: Delta Creamcost; Glimmer Mist (Apple, Dragonfly, and Pomegranate): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess): Tattered Angels; Embossing Powder: Ranger; Embossing Ink: Ranger.

Just like on the previous tag, the resist on the next tag was done using a stencil and varnish. I coated the entire tag with Golden Goddess Glimmer Glam. Once that way dry, I placed the stencil on the tag and applied the varnish (the resist medium). After the varnish was dry, I sprayed the tag with Dragonfly and Pomegranate GM. The resisted parts are the golden colored areas. Then I stamped and black embossed the beehive pattern. I stamped and white embossed the flourish image (the stamp I used is actually the tree canopy from the Blossom Stamp Set – Trees). Then I stamped it again on the other side of the tag and embossed it with purple glittered embossing powder. I colored in some of the beehive cells with Emerald Cove Glimmer Glaze. The chipboard frame is sprayed with Pomegranate GM and the area within the frame is sprayed with Apple GM


Products: Tag: Office Supply Store; Chipboard: Tattered Angels, Prima; Letter Stickers: Doodlebug; Stamp: Tattered Angels; Honeycomb Stamp: Prima; Ribbon: Offray; Stencil: Prima; Varnish: Delta Creamcost; Glimmer Mist (Apple, Dragonfly, and Pomegranate): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glaze (Emeral Cove): Tattered Angels; Embossing Ink: Ranger: Embossing Powders: Tsukineko, Ranger.


On this tag I used a stencil with Glimmer Glam. I placed the stencil on the tag and applied Espresso Bean Glimmer Glam (the resist medium). After the glam was dry, I sprayed the tag with Apple, Dragonfly and Pomegranate GM. Then I stamped the swirl (from the Regal Collection Stamp Set - Classic Accents) in black solvent ink. The chipboard “U” and surrounding circle are from the Tattered Traveler Framed Font Set, they are sprayed with Apple, Dragonfly and Pomegranate GM.


Products: Tag: Office Supply Store; Chipboard: Tattered Angels, Technique Tuesday; Letter Stickers: Doodlebug; Swirl Stamp: Tattered Angels; Honeycomb Stamp: Prima; Ribbon: May Arts; Swirl Stencil: Prima; Glimmer Mist (Apple, Dragonfly, and Pomegranate): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels; Black Solvent Ink: Tsukineko.


On this last tag I stamped and clear embossed the ledger lines. I then sprayed the tag with Dragonfly, Apple and Sugar Maple GM. Once the GM was dry, I added letter stickers spelling “thank you” to the tag. I traced around the stickers with a permanent-ink black pen and then removed the stickers. I filled in the letter areas with a clear dimensional glaze. Once the glaze was dry, I sprayed the letter area with Pomegranate GM. The glaze resists the GM. The chipboard owl (from the Nature Glimmer Chip Collection) was sprayed with Apple GM.


Products: Tag: Office Supply Store; Chipboard: Tattered Angels; Letter Stickers: Pink Pasilee, Basic Grey, ScrapWorks. Leadger Stamp: Hero Arts; Ribbon: Offray; Gems: MAMBI, Stick: Craft Store; Clear Dimensional Gloss Medium: Ranger; Glimmer Mist (Apple, Dragonfly, Sugar Maple, and Pomegranate): Tattered Angels; Clear Embossing Powder: Ranger; Clear Embossing Ink: Ranger.


I thought I re-post a few of my older projects that used a resist technique with Glimmer Mist. All of the cards below use a sort of a double emboss resist technique (heat (wet) emboss over a dry embossed image). You rub clear embossing ink onto the raised parts of the image, add clear embossing powder and heat emboss. Spray Glimmer Mist over the image and then dab/wipe the Glimmer Mist, the mist will wipe off the raised embossed portion of the image. You can get more info and images in the original post here.



Thanks for stopping by today and good luck to those of you who will be trying out for the Tattered Angels Design Team!  Patty

Friday, September 10, 2010

Some more hybrid cards...

First I have some cards made with Resolutions Kit from Phuong at Scrapbook Graphics. This kit was only available last month as part of Scrapbook Graphics Birthday Celebration. So, hopefully some of you got your hands on this kit while it was in the available last month, it’s beautiful!


Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee; Butterfly Antennae: Impress; Liquid Applique: Marvy Uchida.   Digital Products: Resolutions by Phuong at Scrapbookgraphics.com

 
Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter Stickers: Basic Grey; Leaf Stick Pins: Maya Road; Liquid Applique: Marvy Uchida. Digital Products: Resolutions by Phuong at Scrapbookgraphics.com

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter Stickers: Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket; Antennae: Impress; Liquid Applique: Marvy Uchida. Digital Products: Resolutions by Phuong at Scrapbookgraphics.com

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter Stickers: Basic Grey; Leaf Stick Pins: Maya Road; Liquid Applique: Marvy Uchida. Digital Products: Resolutions by Phuong at Scrapbookgraphics.com

Next, I have some cards made using kits from Ronna Panner: Scrap Like You Mean It and Life is a Canvas. Currently, these kits are still available in the Scrapbook Graphics store.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill; Acrylic Drops: The Robin's Nest. Digital Products: Scrap Like You Mean It by Ronna Panner at Scrapbookgraphics.com


Products: Cardstock: Bazzill; Acrylic Drops: The Robin's Nest; Dimensional Paint: Ranger. Digital Products: Life is a Canvas by Ronna Panner at Scrapbookgraphics.com

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill; Acrylic Drops: The Robin's Nest; Dimensional Paint: Ranger. Digital Products: Life is a Canvas by Ronna Panner at Scrapbookgraphics.com
 

And lastly, here are some cute little gift tags I made with Laila's Everlastings Elements By Berna at scrapbookgraphics.com.


Thanks for stopping by today - Patty