I'm a Tim Holtz Fan

Okay, this is the last entry for the day/night. I promised. Sorry for the huge number of posts today as I haven't been blogging but I've been creating. And there is just so much that I wanted to share!

I bought this yesterday, wanting to scrap something for myself in the month of March.

When I finally reached home late at night, I thought of making something really simple and fast. Since the frame is already so pretty, little needs to be done. However, slowly and gradually, I turned this sweety frame into some really grungy thing like this.

Ha! Dear calls it a pool of shit. Then later, he was a little nicer, he calls it ice-kachang now. Because of all the red, green, blue colours.

I wanted to created the crackle paint and distress stains over it effect, in his book Compendium of Curiosities (Book 2). Perhaps I haven't done enough of planning for the colours. (that's why it looks like ice-kachang). However, I do love the randomness.

The background was done with the technique I learnt in the online class.  

And I love creating the sides of the frames using all the metal charms.

I really like how it turned out and enjoy looking at it while I worked through the painful work in school!

Tim Holtz Chemistry 101 Day 5

I like Day 5 best so far! As I have almost all the materials required for Day 5.

Day 5 is very much like Day 2, with very similar techniques with a little twist.

Tag 1, uses the ink blending technique on a craft resist cardstock.

Tag 2, uses the stains.

Tag 3, uses stains to create the marble effect. The key to tag 2 and 3 is the lovely

chemistry behind the distress stain, picket fence. It's a lovely stain with unique

properties. Another secret in this tag, I hand drawn the branch the bird is sitting on, as I didn't have any

stamps with bird and branch.

Tim Holtz Chemistry 101 Day 4

The lessons are getting more and more exciting.

The first tag was supposed to colour the vintage Tim Holtz stamps using the re-inkers with the fabulous water colour brushes, which Simon Says is still happily (and slowly) shipping them to me. So being left with no choice, I coloured using my distress ink pads on craft sheet instead! Thought I did a wonder job in getting the inks. Though, I know Freddy would definitely yell at me for those hard lines at the background and all around.

Tag 2, was supposed to use re-inkers in misters to obtained the misted look. Well, I didn't have the re-inkers then, and definitely I also do not have the space to purchase more than 1 mister. So I substituted the whole process with my glimmer mist instead. And I thought it didn't turned out too bad either.

My Tag 3's a disaster. I desperately needed the four butterflies in a portrait stamp before I can perfect this technique. It's a very cool technique using the cut and dry felt and the re-inkers. You can actually get to custom make your own ink pad using the cut and dry felt! However, I had a bad stamp. Will work on it and produced something better the next round!

Tim Holtz Chemistry 101 Day 3

Day 3, didn't work out quite well as I didn't have the Tim Holtz pattern kind of stamps. I was more or less trying work with what I have.

For the first tag, it uses alcohol inks on gloss paper. It's amazing to see how these alcohol inks blend together using the blending solution. It's pretty much a brainless kind of art. And I enjoyed such art!

The second tag is what amazes me. The gloss paper by Ranger, allows you to rub distress inks on it! Amazingly, the distress inks stays! As the gloss paper made by Ranger has a clay like porous surface! Wow, so much of the chemistry!

Tim Holtz Chemistry 101 Day 2

There isn't an entry on Day 1, as he shared about the different types of inks and their properties, rather than any techniques. Hence, no HOMEWORK! Yeah! And that made me perfectly understands how my students feel about HOMEWORK.

For Day 2, it's working more on the distress inks and blending them using the blending tool. Lots of exploration in getting the distress inks to react with water as well.

Lots of exploration in getting the distress inks to react with water as well.

And it's beyond words to describe how happy I was when I managed to get the brushless watercoloured effect. Tried to do it some years back using the zig-zag markers, but it turned out really muddy. Was glad the good old distress inks managed to do the trick, without a brush!

First Try @ Mixed Media

There has been so much talk and videos about mixed media, that has got my hands so itchy to try at it. So finally during the March holidays, I've decided to give it  ago.

Definitely quite a noob piece of art. Background was created with sticking lots of pattern paper on a sticky back canvas and white washing it with white acrylic paint and highlighting with other colours. I think I could have done better with the highlighting of other brighter colours.

However, I think I enjoyed the process of doing the collage and getting all the odd pieces of stuff together.

Handmade flowers using tissue paper tape.

My Favourite butterflies. And I thought they look nice, with the golden pearls instead of the usual blings.

Materials Used: Sticky Back Canvas, Lots of Pattern paper (I really can't recalled what I've used), 7 Gypsies tape and tissue paper, Tim Holtz tissue tape.

Tim Holtz Chemistry 101 Online Class

Yes.. I'm excited.. Very excited... Too excited... ABSOLUTELY Excited!!!
Tim Holtz is having this online class, where you can really get the first class seat, and learned all the all so cool techniques!
I can hardly wait for the weekend to get my hands dirty and start making some of the tags.