We are going to be playing with a couple of fun resist techniques today!
To start we have a #8 White Tag, Sunset Orange Pigment Adirondack, Clear Embossing powder, Non-Stick Craft Sheet, Hero Arts "Row of Houses" stamp and Heat It tool.
Apply the pigment ink to the stamp, and then sprinkle the embossing powder over the top.
Heat with the Heat It tool until all the embossing powder is melted. This creates a resist that will protect those cute little houses from the next few steps we are going to make.
Press Faded Denim, Shabby Shutters, Milled Lavender and Broken China onto the craft sheet.
Spritz lightly with water from a Mini-Mister to loosen the inks and help them start blending together.
Place the Hero Arts "Clouds" DesignBlock down into the ink and wiggle around a tiny bit
Than stamp over the top of the tag. It will be a little damp from the water, so you can give it a little love from the Heat It if you would like. But be sure to gently wipe with a dry cloth, the beading ink from the little houses that we did the resist on.
Now we are going to get really fancy and add some sparkle to our cloudy sky with Maya Road's "Resist". What is really great about this product is that it isn't permanent like the clear embossing technique we did previously. This product can be applied a few different ways and is really easy to remove. It has and excellent precision applicator tip that would have worked just fine for this project, but I wanted to see how it would work with a brush for finer application points.
It works really well when applied with a brush and is relatively easy clean up. A word of caution, you have to work fast or rinse the brush out every few minutes if you have a large and intricate project. Also, the product does dry quickly which is fantastic for moving through a project quickly, but that means that when applying with a brush it will gum up on the top of the brush bristles. I found this very easy to clean by using a straight pin to gently pull through the bristles it pulls the gummed material right out.
Squeeze a little resist out onto your mat at a time and quickly apply with your brush onto the clouds. This will keep the clouds white when we apply our next layer. When finished immediately clean your brush.
For the little hit of happiness inducing sparkle, I loosened up some Frosted Lace Stickles with a little water and then put a little Silver Stickles into it for some depth.
Remember that Distress inks are water soluble, so will "move" when the moisture from the Stickles hits it. With that in mind we are going to lightly brush the stickles onto the surface of the tag.
Wipe the little houses down again with a clean cloth to remove any stray glitter.
In this image you can see where I have removed the resist from a few of the clouds to show you the difference the resist makes. This resist is so easy to remove too, it only took a minute to get it all cleaned up.
Now all of the resist is removed, and you can see the glitter on the sky, but the clouds are still fluffy white and the houses are that happy orange and glitter free!
I wanted to have a ribbon that looked like the suns rays shining onto our happy little row of houses, so I got out two Copics in two types of yellow, Y 06 and Y 19 and a piece of that gorgeous silk May Arts ribbon that is so fun to color.
Lay down the lighter color first in random streaks...
Then add the more golden color.
Tie it all up in a pretty bow and sew on a Cosmo Cricket "Material Girl" button for good measure.
The little houses to be grounded, and because I can't help myself, I used green thread and ran it through my sewing machine. I think it is so happy and cute!! A fun and sweet spring tag that can be used for all kinds of occasions, how about on a house warming gift or welcome to the neighborhood basket.
I hope you can't resist trying these fun techniques for yourself ;o)
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