Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you are all relaxed and ready for the weekend, what are you all up to this weekend? 

Today is going to be a good day as I get to see some lovely friends,  for a good catch up and maybe a little crafting.  Such a perfect start to the weekend.

Tissue Technique Background 

Some off you commented on the Tissue paper background I did the other day so I thought I'd show you the process using different colour mediums so that you can all have a go with what you have.  

The start process is always the same regardless of what medium you use....

Take a piece of card and cover with any dries clear glue.

Make sure you spread it over the whole piece of card, right up to the edges.

Take a piece of tissue paper and scrunch it up so that it fits the size of your card 

Push tissue paper right into the glue, making sure its all touching the glue, you can now trim the edges carefully. 

For this type of tissue Technique the method is the same up to this point, the only difference from now on is the colour medium you choose.

Adding Colour 

This first one I used Pixie Powders,  I picked blues & greens, sprinkled the powders all over the background and then spritzed with water. Have a piece of card ready to 'Smoosh' the water and powders together...

Lay the piece of card over your background and smoosh it right into the powders abd water, this mixes everything together.

Peel that top piece of card away to reveal the magic! Now set this to one side to dry

Don't waste the overspill of powder give a couple of spritzes of water and then mop up that gorgeous colour combination with a piece of card

This is what you will get from the waste!!  Perfect for die cutting or using as a mat. 

Spray inks

Place your tissue covered card into a box to keep the mess to a minimum, then choose your colours

I used Tim Holtz Mica Sprays in green with a bit of blue. 

Once sprayed you do exactly the same as above, spritz your coloured piece with water and take a piece of card to smoosd the colour into the tissue, 

You always get a bonus piece of coloured background to use that way! 

This one was Tim Holtz sprays too, I repeated the same method as above.

These were my bonus mop up pieces! 

Distress Oxides

Now I know that some of you don't have sprays or Mica powders, so I thought I would try Distrss Oxide inks,  I smooshed a selection onto my glass mat and spritzed with lots of water,  I then took the tissue covered card and really smooshed it into all of those inks, I added more water at one point,  you have to move your card around to get good coverage but it definitely worked !!  If you want to add some sparkle,  you could add a pearl mica or pixie powder or add a few drops from a clear sparkle pen. 

This is the Distress Oxide results, it looks amazing!  

I cannot wait to see how these all looked when they dried. 

Acetate & Alcohol Inks 

Take a piece of Acetate (use heat resistant if you want to stamp on it).  Have your piece of tissue paper ready. Gather your Alcohol inks and tool.

Add your inks to your acetate and use the tool and felt to spread the around the acetate, I used a little blending solution to get the colours mixed in.

 

When the alcohol ink is dry I sprayed some adhesive over the acetate and stuck the tissue paper to that. (Because I didn't know how pva type glue would react with alcohol ink) 

This is the look at this point, I felt that the Tissue needed to be stuck down a bit more so ........

I took a piece of white card and added glue as I did for the stage above.  Stick the adhesive to the tissue on the acetate and press down firmly so that the glue gets pushed right into the tissue paper, this gives a much stronger piece to stamp onto. 

Doesn't it look amazing??? 

The Results

Pixie powder results. It was impossible to capture the sparkle. 

Mica Spray, you can just see the sparkle on the top photo. 

Second Mica spray, the colour is lovely on this one, you can just see glints of Mica 

Distress Oxide background, colours a more muted but still looks lovely. 

Alcohol ink and Acetate results, this would make lovely die cut leaves. 

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Such a fun technique with great results,  some will make lovely backgrounds,  others will make beautiful flowers or butterflies.  I cannot wait to create with them all. 

I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial,  if you have any questions please ask. 

Have a lovely weekend,  fingers crossed for some sunshine. 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxxx