Tim Holtz Alcohol Pearls and Alloy Glass Resin Conversation Hearts

Hello again this week, and welcome to another Ranger new product post! This time Tim Holtz has launched six new colors of Alcohol Pearls and one new Alloy, to go along with the Alcohol Ink line.  All of the colors are beautiful and the names of them are so regal and yummy! There is Opulent, Divine, Elixir, Radiant, Scorch, and Intense Pearls and Rose Alloy. I hope you were able to catch his Live earlier today, but if you didn't he always has a replay, and you can learn so much more about them as well as see their lustrous beauty. I have used all of the new colors to make these blown glass resin filled conversation heart ornaments for Valentine's Day. I cannot even begin to tell you how much fun I had making them and how addicting they are to make with all these colors. I have had the glass hearts in my stash for about 16 years, and finally found a good use for them as they are so fragile and break so easy, so the resin has now made them super resilient and heavy, and the Pearls and Alloy made them over the top gorgeous. I can't wait to give them out. Enjoy!

The extra Opulent heart with 'smile' was my tester, but it turned out so good that I included it in all the pics, so there are seven instead of six. Bonus!

 

 Squeeze a few drops of Crimson Alcohol Ink into the hole of the glass hearts and move it around. Spray one squirt of 91% Rubbing Alcohol into the hole and move the ink around further while pouring out the liquid and creating legs running down from the ink. 

 

 

Shake Rose Alloy really well until all sediment at the bottom is gone. Add a few drops of Rose into the heart and move around. Once you like the pattern, tip the heart to remove any liquid.

 

 Shake Opulent (or whatever color Pearl you want) really well until all the pearl sediment is gone. Add a few drops of Opulent into the heart and move around, creating legs, and pour out the liquid after you like the look. Repeat any of the above steps until you like the look of the heart, and hang it to dry out. 

 

 Once wet liquid is gone, place hearts upside down into a container so they are straight up. The pattern will continue to move until dry. Repeat all the steps above with more hearts using different colors of Pearl on each one. 

 

 

Mix up Resin per instructions, and pour into a bottle with a nib that will fit into the holes of the hearts. Squeeze Resin into the hearts until filled up. I used two kits for seven hearts. Leave these sitting upright at least over night until the Resin cures. The 91% Rubbing Alcohol cleans the resin up well, especially off skin, tools, and the outside of the hearts.

 

Clean outside of hearts with rubbing alcohol. Apply Remnant Rubs words to the center of the hearts. Remove old string and add new string.

 

Supplies: 

(91% Rubbing Alcohol in Sprayer, Plastic Cup, Stir Stick, Syringe or Fine Nib Bottle) 

-Hollow Blown Glass Heart Ornaments with Blow Hole 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: Crimson 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Alloy: Rose 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Pearls: Opulent, Divine, Elixir, Radiant, Scorch, Intense 

-Ranger Clear Resin Kit 

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Tiny Text Remnant Rubs 

-Thin Ribbon

 

I will be back again soonish. Thank you truly for stopping by here. Until next time, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Wendy Vecchi Flowers Say It All Chippies Magnets

Hello All, and happy new year to you! This post is the start of new products launching with Ranger Ink, and there are so many more to come. Wendy Vecchi has just introduced her new Chippies! Did you catch her Live earlier today? She had so many wonderful samples using the new Chippies. They are just darling pieces of chipboard, five sets in all with Bases and Frames, Leaves, Blossoms, Wreaths, and Beverages. They all primed with gesso which allows you to use so many mediums on, and you can even dry emboss on them which I thought was the best technique using them, and that's what I've done on these magnets I made using so many of the Chippies, plus I painted on them too. I just love flowers, and I tried to coordinate these using them in different ways, and I think they will make great little Valentine or Birthday gifts. Enjoy!

Introducing Wendy Vecchi Make Art Chippies!

 

Select the Chippies you want to use for the magnets and cut if need be (I cut the wreaths for leaf swags.), and arrange the them the way you want. You might want to take a photo of your arrangements to help you in the planning.

Using Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Paint, paint over the cups, saucer, and tea bag tags. Paint over heart frame and spoons with Silver Metallic Paint Dabber. Ink over the solid heart with Mulberry Archival Ink and an Ink Blending Tool. Let all dry. 

 

   

Mask off stripe on the large cup with Sticky Notes, and ink in with Mulberry. Ink the flower centers or petals with Mulberry using the tool or a detail craft swab if the parts are too small. Use a Black Fude Ball Pen to color in the etched lines on the border of the stripe on the cup. 

 

 

Using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Star Bright Texture Fade, emboss the small cup (try to leave the inside of the cup not embossed by placing the cup on the edge of the fade), saucer, large tea bag tag, solid heart, and the handle of the largest spoon, doing each separately for the best image placement and run them through the machine three times each for nice detailed embossing. 

 

 Ink over all leaves with Pricky Pear first and then some parts in English Ivy Archival and the Ink Blending Tool. Ink in petals and centers of flowers with Golden Rod Archival. Leave some petal parts white. 

 

 

Ink in bow with Mulberry. Using the tip of your finger, add Mulberry Archival to the raised parts of the embossing on the little cup and saucer and large tea bag tag, by gently rubbing over the design to color it in to see it better. Do the same with the raised designs on the heart but use Antique Linen Distress Paint. Let them dry. Use a detail paint brush to paint in wispy lines over the petals of the flowers using Antique Linen. Add some more detail wispy lines to the flowers and bow with yellow and red Pitt Pens. Adhere heart to frame and some of the flowers to stems with Perfect Card Adhesive.

 

 Stamp 'Flowers Say It All' sentiment three times onto Ivory Heavystock using Black Soot Archival, from the set with the same name. Cut apart and ink the edges of the those with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Stamp small heart from Merci and More onto the small tea bag tag using Mulberry. Tie string to the tea bag tags. Figure out where you want the sentiments to go and add foam tape to the back of each. Assemble all three designs together using Perfect Card Adhesive, and ink any edges as you go with Black Soot or Gathered Twigs. 

 

Add sticky magnet sheet to the back of each design, making sure they stick well to the Stay-tion so you know they will work properly. Use Sunflower and Garnet Liquid Pearls to dot the centers of each flower and anywhere else you want using, and use  a stylus to help you make perfect dots by picking up the color from the Stay-tion and dotting it on with the stylus if you have a hard time controlling the Pearls straight from the tube. Let dry.

 

Supplies:  

(Stay-tion, Scissors, Ink Blending Tools, Detail Craft Swabs, Sticky Note for Masking, Embossing Machine, Detail Paint Brush, Stamping Block, Foam Tape, Stylus)

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Make Art Chippies: Base and Frames, Beverages, Wreathes, Blossoms 

-Ranger Paint Dabber: Silver Metallic 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Antique Linen 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink: Mulberry, Golden Rod, Prickly Pear, English Ivy 

-Ranger Fude Ball Pen: Black 

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Texture Fade: Star Bright 

-Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stamp, Die, Stencil Set: Merci and More, Flowers Say It All 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock: Ivory 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Perfect Card Adhesive 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower 

-Ranger Liquid Pearls: Garnet 

-String, Sticky Magnet Sheets

 

I'll be back again soon. Thank you so much for stopping by, and until next time, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!