Lets do a little embossing and a resist technique.  Take your choice of embossing folder and run through your manual die cutting machine.  I used my Sizzix big shot for this one.

STEP ONE.

STEP TWO.
I always keep tea light candles around, they are a great base for covering a surface with wax for a resist technique.  Take the tea light and rub across the raised portions of the paper, cover it well.

STEP THREE.

Using the beautiful Autumn Nights Glimmer Mist, I covered the card thoroughly with mist.  Then wiped off with a paper towel to reveal this beautiful background, I trimmed the excess to fit the card.

FINAL STEP.
With some great American Crafts alphabest and some “50″ stickers for my sister in law’s OVER THE HILL birthday and it is complete. 

I am now hooked on embossing folders. 

Candy Rosenberg
www.CertifiedScrapaholic.com

  I love making backgrounds using Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mist.  I like to use crumpled wax paper to apply my Glimmer Glaze to my paper because it gives added random added texture while also resisting the Glimmer Mist. 

For this card, I inked my tattered texture stamps using Versamark, and then embossed the image with white embossing powder. 

I balled up a piece of wax paper, poured a very small amount of Waterfall Glimmer Glaze (be sure to shake it up first) to my misting mat, dabbed the wax paper into the glaze and then pounced the glaze onto my paper.  I applied it around the embossed image as well as the edges.

I sprayed Seafoam Glimmer Mist over the entire project.  Notice how the glimmer mist resists not only the embossed areas but also the glazed areas.  If I had applied the glaze with the brush, I would have brush stroke resist areas, but by using the balled up wax paper, the resist pattern looks more random.

To add a distress look to the edges of the paper, I sprayed a fine mist of Dragonfly Glimmer Mist to my misting mat and dragged all the edges through it, smoothing it out with my fingers. 

I attached the misted paper to a card, added a postage font frame that I randomly pounced the Waterfall glaze on to using the wax paper, and then painted over the entire frame with a paint brush using Chandelier Glimmer Glam.  I added a fairy image from Crafty Secret’s Sew Nice sheet, painted Waterfall Glimmer Glaze on the fairy’s dress, and attached the image behind the frame.  I stamped “birthday wishes” on paper (and misted with Seafoam Glimmer Mist) and trimmed it to a banner and attached it to the bottom of the frame because the image was too short to cover the entire frame. 

Also attached to the postage frame is a glittered wand.  I die cut a star shape from foam core, covered it with German Glass Glitter, and attached a cut paperclip to it for the wand portion.  I wrapped the wand with seam binding that I had sprayed with the Seafoam Glimmer Mist, and then cut the seam binding into narrow strips.  I also attached three heart charms with silver bullion and attached them to the wand as well.  I attached a portion of some Prima Swirls to the card and attached the frame on top.

Here’s a picture of a few other backgrounds I was playing with.  I hope you experiment using wax paper, Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mists for backgrounds too.  Another favorite combination of mine (pictured below) is pouncing Cowboy Glimmer Glaze on your project and spraying with Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist – and a touch of Dragonfly was added to the middle background.  It gives a nice rusty and patina look.  The Tattered Textures stamp set is a must have as well – I especially love them with black or white embossing powder.   And if that weren’t enough, I am loving Glimmer Glaze on metal as well.  They spice up charms quickly, especially ones with holes in them (although those require a little more drying time).  And speaking of metal, I even Glimmer Glazed a fork…yes, a fork.  I bent a fork to use as a stand for my card, but you’re supposed to use a “vintage” fork which I don’t have…yet…so for practice, I bent an old fork and colored it with Cowby Glimmer Glaze.

Now have fun, and go play!

Christine Delgadillo
 

Supplies Used: 
Tattered Textures Stamps (Screen Prints Rockin’ Renaissance)
Postage Stamp Framed Fonts
Glimmer Mists:  Seafoam and Dragonfly
Glimmer Glam:  Chandelier
Glimmer Glaze:  Waterfall and Cowboy (for other background samples)
Fairy Image from Crafty Secrets – Sew Nice
Heart charms from ACharmingPlace.com 

For this project, I began with a vintage cabinet card photo, two plain pages out of a vintage book, and one Tattered Angels Bingo Card.  I sprayed each with Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mist.

The photo and the book pages both had a lot of color variance and speckling from age.  I like that the Glimmer Mist does not cover these flaws because to me they add a lot of vintage charm to the project.

I added a few shots of the awesome new fall Sugar Maple to the photo card.  Sugar Maple has a really nice tea dye color so it is perfect for vintage projects.  (It is a limited edition so if you love it like I do, you will want to be sure and stockpile a few!)

Using an ink applicator tool, added Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges.

On the book pages, I used Vanilla Breeze and Vintage photo and added stamping in Walnut Stain.  I used stamps from the Tattered Textures  and Timeless Romance Vintage Seasons sets.

I added assorted pinks to a couple of pieces of vintage lace and Vanilla Breeze to a piece of vintage ribbon.

I made ribbonwork roses out of the ribbon and gathered the lace into rosettes.

I wet a piece of wide vintage ribbon and drug it through the colors on my misting mat.  I let it wick up the color so that it would look like water stain.

I added color to the bingo card by using various colors of Glimmer Mist as watercolors.  Spritz a bit of your desired color onto your misting mat and apply to your card with a damp paint brush.  I finished off the card with some Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and Crushed Olive Distress Stickles.

Vintage done vintage thanks to a perfect pairing of Glimmer Mist and Distress Ink.

Happy September!

I hope that you have enjoyed your summer and are settling in for back-to-school, the new season of all things creative, holidays, etc.

It’s that time again, Tattered Angels is building a new design team for 2010!

We are looking for a variety of skills, so show us what you have.

Layouts

Cards

Canvas

Home Decor

Altered Art

The commitment is for one year to start November 1st.  Please make sure that you are able to commit for the entire year.  We know that you are b
As a Tattered Angels design team member you will receive:

*  Tattered Angels product supplied throughout the year including new products that are coming.
* Receive product periodically from our education partners and for blog hops, challenges, etc.
* Your name, bio and headshot will be featured on the Tattered Angels blog.
* Exposure on the Tattered Angels blog and other media.
* Possible teaching, publication and manufacturing opportunities
* Eligible to participate in creating projects for trade shows, such as CHA and other venues.

Because our team is predominately education based, we will need team members with good photography skills and the ability to create tutorials with instructions.  You will also have your own day scheduled to post to our blog.

This call is open to International and domestic applicants.

Please send:

5 projects total.

80% of each project must contain Tattered Angels product.

Each project should be a previously unseen project (each picture max. file size 500k). No work previously published online or in print will be accepted. Use this opportunity to showcase your personal style, talent and misting abilities.

Please send your application to:

rachel@mytatteredangels.com

The deadline to submit is September 30, 2010.

Good luck and happy misting.

Creative cheers,

Rachel Carlson

For this month, I created a mini project using Tattered Angel’s Chip Tile.

This product is sooo versatile you can use it in sooo many ways!  Mini album covers, part of your scrapbook pages, hanging mobiles for home decor, as a base for one off projects.. and the list goes on.

I will show you a simple way to resist the embossed portions of the Chip Tile and that is by using WAX.  Or.. you can use a white crayon (also wax based).  I used a candle for this project and it works fine!

To start off, you will need a Chip Tile and a candle.

Rub the candle onto the Chip Tile gently in circular motions.  GENTLY is key here as the embossed portions are not very deep so if you rub too hard, you will get wax on the other parts of the Chip Tile too.

Once complete, I used a Tattered Angels GLIMMER GLAZE to go over the sides of the Chip Tile and a little in the center.  (Paradise Pink)

Once the GLIMMER GLAZE has dried, it will add as a resist as well.  Notice how the WAXED embossed portions are also resisting the GLIMMER GLAZE?

I added on STARFISH Glimmer Mist, a little SUGAR MAPLE Glimmer Mist to the sides and some BE POSITIVE Glimmer Glam as well to complete the Chip Tile.

Easy ain’t it?

Once the Chip Tile is dry, you can begin embellishing the Chip Tile to your liking… here is the completed Chip Tile again:

I cut a heart out from the Tattered Angels Bingo Board and added more Glimmer Mist and Glam.  The butterflies were punched out from the remaining  portions of the Bingo Board and i used a little CHANDELIER Glimmer Glam over it.. really amps up the look of the Butterflies!

I made some other Chip Tiles with the same resist technique here..

Do try out this fun resist technique on your Chip Tiles ya?  You can also use this same technique on any embossed material.  EG:  Embossing with your favourite die-cutting machine, embossed cardstock etc.

Lotsa love…..

Jasmine

–First I used my Cricut to cut out the tag.  I used the “GiftBag1″ tag from the ” Once Upon a Princess” cartridge and I punched a hole in one end for my ribbon.
–Next I painted a couple of coats of “Hay Ride” Glimmer Glam over the entire wood tag and allowed it to dry.  (The more coats you put on the better it will resist the Glimmer Mist  when it’s sprayed on it.)
–Then I placed a screen over the tag and painted Gesso on top of it.  I removed the screen and let it dry.
–Next I covered the entire wood tag with dry wall tape (it’s sticky on one side and has holes all over it so it’s great to use as a mask!) and then I sprayed “Pomegranate” Glimmer mist over all of it and blot it dry.  I peeled off all of the dry wall tape and blot it again.
–For the flowers I took some of the Prima white paper flowers and used a fan brush to paint them sparingly with “Chandelier” Glimmer Glam.  The larger flower I sprayed with “Pomegranate” and “Tattered Rose” Glimmer Mist and the smaller flower just got sprayed with “Tattered Rose”.   Once they were dry I painted a coat of “Chandelier” Glimmer Glam on them for extra glimmer.   I then stapled my flowers right onto the tag.
–For the Irresistible Chips bird I sprayed her with “Dragonfly” Glimmer Mist and blotted her dry.  I then used a paintbrush to paint on “Blue Suede Shoes” Glimmer Glaze to add a bit of shadowing to her.  After she was dry I peeled off the backing and adhered her on top of the flowers.
–I added a crystal for the bird’s eye and a few more sprayed of crystals coming out of the flowers and then tied on a ribbon.
So there you go!  Just tie it onto a gift basket or a jar or bottle and you have a great gift for someone special.

I took the summer off from teaching classes, but I’m working on my upcoming ones so stay tuned to my own blog and the Tattered Angles Educator’s blog for more details!

Thanks for checking it out!

I took the summer off to totally hang with my kids, so my personal blog took a little hiatus. but come Sept. I will be back, hope to see you drop by!

Have a fabulous day!

Leica

Once that was done, I chose the color or colors of Glimmer Mist I wanted ( in this case Oriental Poppy) and sprayed over the entire tile .

I then wiped away the excess. You can see on the tile below, this really makes the embossed design on the tile  stand out.

Here is a close up look at another tile I did, using this same technique.

Which is the tile I used to create this piece.

 Used: Glimmer Glaze (Cowboy, and Sunflower), Glimmer Mist (Sugar Maple , Apple, and Suede), Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess), Images from Crafty Secrets

 Remember .. .Playing leads to learning… so get out your Tattered Angels goodness, and play til your hearts content!

** If you are interested in seeing the other Altered tiles I made using these techniques ( but very different colors) , you can see them on the Tattered Angels Design Team Blog today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicki

 My blog: http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/

You simply sew around the canvas fabric, then add it to your cardstock, layer the Framed Font Compact and Frame and add journaling – and there you go – a fun – textured – wallpaper like looking – Card or background.

If you want to learn more fun techniques using Tattered Angels come and visit my upcoming Tattered Angels workshops or book them for your store. Here is a place where I teach some of those and other fun Tattered Angels techniques right now:

Online Workshop “Layered Backgrounds” for CraftEdu

Nat Kalbach

www.scrapbook-trends.com

I’ve been working on this cute little album and it was all coming together beautifully until BAM! an embellishment that i HAD to have for the album was the wrong color.

I’ve been on this mission to use what i have so i rummaged through my big delicious box of Glimmer Glam and Glimmer Glaze, I found the absolute perfect color for what i wanted to do.  So i got out my handy dandy paintbrush, my lipstick pink glimmer glam, misting mat and my sparkley photo corner.

I used a nice round brush to dip into the bottle and change the color to pink.  I chose glam because it had the extra dose of multi faceted glitter for that extra sparkle that my album needed. I painted it directly onto the photo corner.

I gave it a few minutes to dry and the sparkle really started to shine through. The drier it became the shinier it was! You know how a girl loves her sparkle!!

I painted several of these because i was having so much fun.

So rest assured….with Tattered Angels in your stash you can create just about anything to your liking!!

Peace out…enjoy the weekend

Stayce

www.staycedewid.com