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Stamping/Crafting Fests! => Older Fests => Pre Inktoberfest Activities 2016 => Topic started by: Far North on October 14, 2016, 03:34:38 AM
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INK16 Warm-up & Shine For posting in gallery: INK16 W-UP & shine
Warm Up NOW Open for play[/size]: Noon Friday 10/14/16 to Noon Saturday 10/15/16 your time.
Overview: I love the random blending of flowing ink colors as well as some sparkle and shine accents. With this technique you will combine sprays for one-of-a kind results.
Focus for this warm-up is to learn the new technique presented. As with alcohol inked backgrounds these may not look as smashing until you use them as part of a card. But for now the focus is enjoyed some playtime with no time limits and no defined quantity to make…just having fun with mixing spray inks to make a few backgrounds.
Supplies needed for Blended Spray Ink Technique with shimmer: glossy cardstock, spray inks (I used Dylusions) including 1 shimmer spray (I used Heidi Swapp’s gold lame and Ranger’s biscotti perfect pearls mist), water mister, heating tool, empty box for spraying and rags/paper towels/or baby wipes. You are welcome to adapt if you don’t have the exact supplies but please share what products you choose to use.
Technique steps:
• Wet glossy cardstock with spray mister.
• Spritz spray inks and let it puddle. Tilt and move paper around allowing the color to run and spread.
• Repeat with another color.
• Repeat with a 3rd color and shimmer mist.
• Dry with heat gun.
Tip--keep a couple extra pieces of paper within reach. If your paper becomes flooded with too much ink dab some off onto a fresh piece of paper.
Gallery Posting: Backgrounds posted in the gallery by the closing time for this warm-up challenge and linked on this discussion thread will be entered into a random RAK drawing.
[/b]INK16 2nd W-U chance
A 2nd chance random drawing will be held to select the winner among players who use backgrounds made during the Warm-up challenge to make cards for an other INK16 challenges which allows card combinations. Limited to 2 card entries. Please label entries INK16 2nd W-U chance and post your gallery links on this thread by the close of INK16.
It’s time to get inky!...Jan
PS. The gallery is not cooperating at the moment. I hope to post my sample backgrounds by Friday afternoon.
Good news I was able to post my samples in the gallery. (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2930#top_display_media)
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Hi Jan! I'm anxious to see your sample and try this technique. I went to look at your blog to see if you had posted there. Perhaps if the gallery is not cooperating you could post on your blog and share a link?
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Sounds interesting and fun! Hope to do several backgrounds after lunch! :smile:
April
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This sounds fun. I also would love the see the samples, so I might go try to find a box so I will be ready later on.
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Very cool backgrounds, Jan. And thanks for the warm-up challenge. I don't have many spray inks because I tend not to like the results I've gotten when using them. I do like the shimmer mists. So I'm not sure if I've got any colors that will work well together, but maybe this challenge will change my mind about sprays.
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I love how enthusiastic Artsy Inkers are about trying new techniques :smitten:
My experience: Do know I adapted this technique from one that was not working for me. I have used about 8 full sheets of cardstock to experiment with this technique. Since glossy cardstock is not absorbent I found the wet spray paint ran off the edges with very little movement when I used A2 sizes. I found working on the 8.5x11 allowed the colors to flow together more. I also learned it doesn't take a lot of water to get the ink moving. I really like the sheen of the painted glossy cardstock and look forward to using my blended papers for holiday cards and diecuts.
I can't wait to hear about your experience with this technique.
Thanks for playing!...Jan
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Sarah-If you have distress reinkers or perhaps food coloring you might want to try to make some of your own sprays. Or might want to try 1 plain color and then add 2 shimmer mists. This is all about playing and seeing what you can create. Thanks for considering this challenge!
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I have had fun with this. I love making backgrounds so this was right up my alley! I made 4 backgrounds. It is hard to see the shimmer in the pictures but they really shine! If I took the pictures in direct light they were too shiny and you could not see the background well. Can't wait to use these on cards! Thanks for the challenge! :smile:
April
Here are the links to the backgrounds --
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2931#top_display_media
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2932#top_display_media
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I had fun and I really like doing this with the glossy cardstock. I only had the small sheets so that is what I used.
I had to make my own mists with distress reinker, and I should have used more reinker as the background turned out very light. You will see in that description that I added a second layer of mist.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2933#top_display_media
Then the second background I used two Heidi Swapp mists and one of my reinker mists and it was much darker, but not dark.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2934#top_display_media
Thanks for this great warm up! My photos are quite poor, but hopefully when I make them into projects it will be daytime and I can get better photos.
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I did manage to use a couple of the sprays that I have for the first one. It is definitely sparkly, which doesn't show in the picture, because the sprays are metallic.
First Background (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2937#top_display_media)
Then I made a couple using Distress Reinker as Jan suggested. But I didn't have an empty spray bottle. So I just sprayed the paper with water, dropped the ink on the paper and sprayed with water again to get the ink moving.
Backgrounds 2 and 3 (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2938#top_display_media)
Thanks for a fun warm-up challenge.
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Thanks April, Heidi and Sarah for filling the gallery with some terrific backgrounds! I tried to post comments on everyone's gallery posts.
Spraying onto glossy cardstock was a whole new twist for me. Although it took me a while to figure out how much water to spray I think all of are usable backgrounds...hope to see some made into cards this week!
If others want to play this Warm-Up is still open until noon today your time. If you are later that's okay...you just will not be included in the RAK drawing. But please play if you like and link here if you wish.
Thanks for sharing in the fun!...Jan
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Here is my attempt at this challenge : http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2945#top_display_media
The only spray I had was color wash other than my glimmer mist, I put the colors I used on the post.
I laid down the wash and then remembered I was suppose to water the piece down first, so that was added next and then the 3 different glimmer mist I had. The only ink refills I have are brown and black so I didn't try using them, plus they are Memento ink and I didn't know how that would work.
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Finally have time to post. I did it first thing this morning.
15 minutes spraying and an hour trying to unclog bottles and transferring to other bottles :tickedoff:
Then my daughter came over, then my son.
So finally have time to post
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/thumbnails.php?album=91
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I am going to try this tomorrow. I know it's too late for the drawing but I still want to try it. Thanks for hosting.
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Well it is tomorrow and I tried this. I don't know if you can tell by the picture but in real life this turned out pretty nice. Here (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2953#top_display_media) is the results. A very fun challenge. thank you
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Sadie and Sheila-thanks so much for trying this technique. I hope you find your results are going to be fun to use! I hope you will share some final tags or cards with us!
Enjoy your creative moments!...Jan
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INK16 2nd W-U chance
A 2nd chance random drawing will be held to select the winner among players who use backgrounds made during the Warm-up challenge to make cards for an other INK16 challenges which allows card combinations. Limited to 2 card entries. Please label entries INK16 2nd W-U chance and post your gallery links on this thread by the close of INK16.
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We have a winner for the warm-up activity! But before I make the announcement I want to remind everyone to read the description for playing in the 2nd chance RAK drawing. Just in case you missed when 1st posted. I reposted in the message below this one.
And we do have a winner selected from the players in the warm-up activity.
And the winner is Sarah!
Congratulations #>
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Congrats Sarah, I made a card using the background I made, I need to get a picture and get it posted
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Here is the card I made with the background : http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2974#top_display_media
This gave me a lot of trouble, I stamped the image with stazon 4 times with my misti and I just couldn't get a good solid stamp for the black base of the image, I decided to give up and color it with my black marker, that looked terrible so I added some heavy acrylic black paint on top, which ended up giving it a matte look but I gave up after that.
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Congrats Sarah!
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Connie, your card is wonderful. Sorry you had troubles inking it. Do you think the issue is the Stazon ink or the paper? Did you use a brand new stamp-had you cleaned it or seasoned it?
I unexpectantly found I had a dried out Stazon inkpad and had to buy a new one while working on your challenge. I thought I had a refill but I had 2 jet black archival refills instead..guess I purchased a 2nd time by mistake.
Thanks for playing!...Jan
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Cool. Thanks for a great challenge, Jan.
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Regarding Connie and the trouble stamping, I was wondering if it was the glimmer stuff that was hard to stamp over. While I was looking at my background thinking about what I was going to do with it, I was wondering if ink would stick to the really glittery parts.
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I am wondering if it might have been all that shimmer mist that it was hard to stick too, but also that was a new stamp so that may have been the problem too, I cut the sentiment out of the same paper and will probably use any pieces left to die cut instead of stamping on
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Heidi, I gave that some thought too and that is why I asked. My Stazon pad is doing fine on my backgrounds and in general I would think the background is a nonporous surface.
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oops, my message and Connie's crossed in transit.
I have been emboss my backgrounds and they are turning our great after swiping an inkpad over the embossed surface. I will probably add additional layers to the surface which could be on any paper. I will try to post a picture tonight.
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Here is a card I made with one of my backgrounds. I used it on Jan's other challenge - Holiday Stylin!
April
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2972#top_display_media
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Stamped, embossed and colored image (new to me)
Put on paper I made in warm up. I tried to stamp words on paper did not work. Covered them up with paper and stamped again. Tried to not cover up paper background! Did two cards same way.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/thumbnails.php?album=91
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/thumbnails.php?album=91
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Connie, April and Sheila I am so happy to see so such terrific results with the backgrounds :smitten:
I posted a couple backgrounds in the gallery (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2979#top_display_media) that I started to work on. I added dry embossing with inked highlights.
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I didn't even think of embossing them, cool idea!
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I am going to be greedy with these papers and use them for ATC s. My daughter said my cards with the sprayed background looked artsy.
I belong to a local club and we make fifteen Atcs. And it is a challange to make them artsy, that is why I am saving the papers for that.
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Here is a project I made with one of my backgrounds:
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3011#top_display_media
I kept it pretty simple because I wanted the background and my new die to shine. Thanks for offering this challenge!
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I know only 2 will count, but I managed to make 3 cards using my warm-up pieces.
Critters (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=3018)
Village Scene (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=3020)
Winter Tree (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=3017)
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Yankee-I think it is terrific that you will be using your backgrounds for ATCs. When you are making so many ATC's handmade backgrounds are a great start in making them artsy. I bet folks will be asking about the shine. Sounds like a fun group.
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I am so happy to see all the end-of-event postings!
What fantastic use of the backgrounds in the gallery...
And such great creativity!
Thanks for playing and making this a fun event!
Now I have the name of the random winner of the challenge RAK....
And the winner is................Connie #>
Congratulations Connie ;D
Your surprise will be in the mail by the end of the week!
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Woo hoo for Connie!
Jan, thanks for hosting. It is so much fun to have a quick warm up challenge to go along with the weekly challenge too!
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Oh YAH!!! It was a very fun week :)
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Congrats, Connie!!!
Thanks for hosting a warm-up challenge. I always enjoy your warm-up challenges.