I do a Technique Tuesday at 2pm on Facebook Live and Tuesday was Making the Most of Mistakes:
https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraPageKellsctmhscrapingfun/videos/268780804620847
These are the cards that I was "Playing" with to see how new things might got together.
It is hard to tell but I did 2 butterflies and colored them the same. I used 3D foam on the body of both butterflies. In person the wings stand out. The stamp is gorgeous but if you are making multiple cards, coloring like this with 2 per card can be time consuming. I think it is worth it but just making a note for all those future cards that need lots of coloring. What you also can't see is that I used a shimmer brush over both butterflies. This time I was sure that the markers had dried because many CTMH inks are water base. The markers are alcohol based but they will "bleed" the inks if they aren't dry. The open hearts have a red tint as I didn't wait for the drying and the shimmer brush picked up from the solid hearts the color.
The gnomes didn't have mask so I stamped one of them and then cut out the shape that would work and traced it on the back of the glitter paper. I didn't draw lines around the outside or on the 3 panels. I did with the sofa card. Sometimes plain is the best.
I have wanted to use this whole family on a card and until the slim line came out, I didn't have the space. The inside has the saying "Staying in is the new going out". Again there was lots of coloring and cutting. It isn't bad unless you do lots of multiples at one time.
The Distress Oxide inks react with water. I tried spraying from our old sprayers and it was a fine mist. It made the paper wet and when I put it on the card I thought it was dry but part of the paper stuck to the Tombow runner. I played later splattering with water from my fingers and from a water brush. It was more like what I was looking for.
The "sofa" or "davenport" I thought would be cute to do in the color that I was going to coloring on but it made the saying sort of go away. I used my Melissa Esplin marker to draw over the saying - It would have been better to just do the outline in black or write on a separate piece as tracing doesn't do what you think it should.
I love using liquid glass. I couldn't wait for this stamp to come and try it. The nozzle was plugged so I used a needle and didn't notice that I made a hole on the side as well as opening up the whole thing. It blopped terrible in the middle of the jar and obliterated any of the lettering. I used a water brush to move it around. It didn't turn out well. I was going to do it to the TV but didn't and just used a shimmer brush
The Virtual Hugs on the laptop I used the liquid glass and finally got it right. It was smooth and nice. I just changed out the tip of liquid glass and just used the tip to get it smooth and even - sort of like you were waxing a floor. Next time I will use it on the jar and TV. I used the liquid pearls to go in the open space of the lettering. It probably would have worked better to use a marker.
If you are trying something new, post it and share what you tried, what you learned and what you might do next time. Keep pushing the "envelope" of your discoveries and have a good time.
