An Autumn Art Journal Spread Over at Ranger Ink

Hello All! Today, I have a tutorial over on the Ranger Ink blog showing how to make this Playing In The Autumn Leaves Art Journal spread using lots of Ranger's Paint Dabbers and Dye Inks, as well as lots of Dina Wakley goodies. It's been a while since I've shown anything in my Art Journal, so it's about time. I hope you pop on over, and here are a few more...okay a lot more... photos in case you do. Thanks for looking!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for popping over and for looking here everyone! I wish you the best Autumn season ever!

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Wendy Vecchi Rose Tags

Happy October everyone...yikes the year is flying by! Today, I have some new Wendy Vecchi goodness to show you. I've made two tags (Started out as one.) using Wendy's new A Rose Is A Rose Stencil It Stamp It set, and her new stamp set Artful Thoughts, both from Stamper's Anonymous. I've been waiting for these two items to arrive impatiently I might add, and the minute I got them, I started playing, and have made these for some special friends. I used Ranger's Liquid Pearls to help...see my last video to see how else I use it. I hope they like them. Enjoy!

Sorry for the blurry photo. I took a piece of card from a Tim Holtz Idea-ology packaging and began to play. I mixed two green tones of Ranger's Liquid Pearls with some Glossy Accents, and stenciled the leaf portion in with the rose stencil, and then mixed red Liquid Pearls with more Glossy Accents and spread that above the leaf area...I didn't want to wait for the green to dry before stenciling in the red, so I just spread it on willy nilly. The sheen is amazing!

I had this tag left over from another project (Mother's Day Cards), and I mixed Ranger's Opaque Texture Paste with more Liquid Pearls, and stenciled this over the tag with Wendy's new Ferns Stencil.

Before I stamped the rose (Such a gorgeous image!) on the Liquid Pearls card, I stamped it on another tag made from Specialty Stamping Paper to see what inks I would use (I used Library and Red Geranium Archival), and loved it so much that I decided to make another tag with that. Then I stamped the rose on the before mentioned card with the same colors of ink, and cut it out. LOVE the results!!! Since the red Liquid Pearls where the same color as my ink, Red Geranium, I decided to highlight some of the lighter tones of the rose, and I colored over those parts with a white colored pencil. This was a great effect. Then I further highlighted those parts with Glossy Accents. The rose looks dewy wet. I inked in the other rose using the stencil again with Pink Peony and Leaf Green Archival from Wendy, and stamped it a few more times on the tag. Then I inked the rest of the tag in with Peacock Distress Ink, stamped the Script Background image with Garden Patina, and doodled around it and the other with white and black gel pens.

I colored Crinkle Ribbon with more Peacock, this time Distress Stain Spray, and stamped the Script again in Garden Patina over the ribbon.

I added the sentiments from Wendy's Artful Thoughts...all her sentiments on the newly releases stamps are fantastic...and colored in the Butterfly and Leaves from her Mat Minis and adhered those. Then after attaching, matting, and sewing everything, I gave both tags a quick spray with Wendy's Pearl Mica Spray...I'm addicted to all the Mica Sprays!!!

  

 

And with that, I'm leaving today for The Croppin' Bug in LaMarque, Texas, to teach four classes. If you will be there, I sincerely thank you! Have a great day!!!

Supplies:

Ranger Liquid Pearls in Ivy Green	Ranger Liquid Pearls In Key Lime	Ranger Liquid Pearls in Garnet	Ranger Glossy Accents Glue	Ranger Palette Knife set
Specialty Stamping Paper 8,5 x11	Wendy Vecchi Stencil It Stamp It Set: A Rose Is A Rose	Ranger Archival Ink in Library Green	Ranger Archival Red Geranium Ink Pad	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Carnation Red
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pad - Leaf Green	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Pink Peony	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE	Wendy Vecchi Stencils For Art: Ferns	Peacock Feathers - Distress Ink
Stamper′s Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Stamp: Artful Thoughts	Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad	Tim Holtz Core′dinations KRAFT CORE NOSTALGIC Colorcore 4.25 X 5.5 Cardstock	Stamper′s Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Background Stamp: Script	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Garden Patina
Wendy Vecchi Mat Minis in Flowers	Wendy Vecchi Mat Minis in Butterflies	Peacock Feathers	Sakura WHITE OPAQUE GLAZE GEL PENS	Sakura Glaze Pen In Black
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Mica Spray Set	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Crinkle Ribbon	Distress Spray Stain PEACOCK FEATHERS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Ranger Enamel Accents and Liquid Pearls Video!

Hello everyone! Today, I have a VIDEO for you, showing lots and lots of techniques that you can do with Ranger's Enamel Accents and Liquid Pearls. It's quite lengthy, just over 30 minutes, but it will be well worth your time if you own or are thinking about getting these products. I had a heck of time videoing...camera did not cooperate well...and editing this, and for some reason when I uploaded it and enhanced the quality, it started bobbing up and down. I hope you don't get seasick watching it...yikes! Anyway, please enjoy, and I hope you learn something new.

Thanks for joining me today, and if you watched the video, a huge huge thanks to you as well!
I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
-Anita