Monthly Archives: August 2008

Happy Birthday to me

Posted on August 31, 2008 by zindorf| 126 Comments

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Michelle.. . . . . . . . Happy Birthday to me…….. and many more, lol.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to explain why I’m taking this holiday weekend off. One, today is my birthday, two tomorrow is a holiday and three I’m working on workshop projects that won’t be posted. These projects are being especially made for my advanced workshops I’m doing in San Jose, California in October. I say advanced workshops because you have to already have taken one of my workshops to be able to attend the advanced one. Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced workshops: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar/

May your weekend be filled with lots of love and joy!

Until my next post. . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

Note: Links to all my tutorials can be found here: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

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Embossed Resist bird – Tutorial #111

Posted on August 29, 2008 by zindorf| 37 Comments

Hello! I have a tutorial for you on emboss resist, resist. That is what I call it anyway.

I used the embossed resist technique, but did it in layers. When creating a scene with this technique, you will want to keep in mind to work from the foreground to the background. Meaning you will want to stamp the images in the foreground before you stamp the images in the background.

Let’s get started:

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Always, Stem Silhouettes, Brocade Basics

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bashful Blue & Basic Black

Ink: Adirondack ink Pitch Black, Lake Mist, Oregano, Pebble & Aqua

Accessories: Versamark pad and marker, Black Faber Castell marker, Coluzzle Circle Template, Brayer, Fine Detail Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Ribbon, 2 brads, Sponge, Post it Notes

Stamped bird by first loading the stamp with Versamark and then Pebble ink before stamping it on a 5″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock. Heat embossed the image with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Colored over the design on the bird with a Versamark marker and then heat embossed the image again with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped the Brocade flourish by first loading my stamp with versamark and then Pebble ink before stamping. Heat embossed image with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Filled in the White spaces on the leaves with a Versamark marker and the heat embossed the image again with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped the Brocade flourish again by loading the stamp with Versamark and then Pitch Black ink before stamping. Heat embossed the image using clear embossing powder and a heat gun. Filled in the white spaces of the leaves with a Versamark marker and then heat embossed the image again.

Stamped the Stem Silhouettes three times using just Versamark and heat embossed the stems with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Masked half of the panel with a Post it note.

Brayered Lake Mist ink over the uncovered half.

Removed the Post it Note make and put a fresh Post it note mask on, this time masking the Lake Mist half of the panel. Brayered on Aqua ink on the unmasked side.

Removed the post it note mask.

Cut a circle with my Coluzzle to use as a mask and sponged Pebble ink around the outside of the mask.

Used a Faber Castell fine point marker and drew an outline around the circle mask.

Note: If I were to do this again, I would not have drawn the black line across the embossed images. We live and we learn.

I also used the same black marker to define the bottom sides of the Bird and Brocade Flourishes.

Sponged Oregano ink around outside edge of the panel.

Assembled card front and added a ribbon and two brads. Here it is finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial on emboss resist, resist and will want to give it a try.

May your day be filled with the sweet sounds of sing birds and sunshine.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

Note: Links to all my tutorials and be found here: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

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Willow Lake – Tutorial #110

Posted on August 28, 2008 by zindorf| 36 Comments

Hello everyone and happy Thursday!

Just a quick note before we get into the tutorial. I have scheduled a Brayer workshop on September 13th in Dayton, OH at Marco Paper to accommodate the people that wanted to get into the September 6th workshops but were unable to because they filled up so very fast. There are a few spots left. If you wish to sign up and have some fun while taking the mystery out of using your brayer, please contact Marco Paper at 937-433-7030 or 1-888-433-5239 or website at http://marcopaper.com/index.html

Today’s tutorial features stamps by Fire Cracker Designs by Pamela. Here is a link to their online store if you wish to check them out: http://www.safesecurestore.com/stores/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=firecrackerdesignsbypamela

I started this card brayering from an angle and really like the light effects it created.

Let’s get started.

Supplies:

Stamps: Fire Cracker Designs by Pamela

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bliss Blue & Old Olive

Ink: Stampin’ Up Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Kiwi Kiss, Lovely Lilac & Bashful Blue

Accessories: Stampin’ UP markers, Faber Castel Grey marker, White Gel Pen, Brayer, Aqua Painter, Sponges

Brayered Bashful Blue ink at an angle, across one corner of a 4.5″ x 4.5″ piece of Whisper White card stock.

Flipped the card stock around and brayered a small amount of Bashful Blue ink on the opposite corner.

Colored the tree and ground below it with an Always Artichoke marker.

Colored the water lines on the stamp with a Bliss Blue marker.

Huffed on the stamp to moisten the color and then stamped it on my panel.

Stamped the Willow Branches with Old Olive ink.

Masked off the sky area with a Post it Note.

Sponged in a circular motion Bashful Blue ink at the edge of the Post it Note Mask. This creates my Horizon Line.

Squeezed the Kiwi Kiss stamp pad while it was closed to create a pool of ink on the lid of the stamp pad. Used the pool of ink to water color with an Aqua Painter the Willow Branches and the ground under the tree.

Added white Gel pen to the tops of the Willow Branches.

Used the fine point side of a Close to Cocoa marker and drew along the right sides of all of the Willow Branches to create some depth. Also colored in the tree trunk and around the rocks under the tree with the same marker.

Sponged Old Olive ink on the tree.

Used a gray marker to color in the rocks.

Colored the ground above the rocks with a Creamy Caramel marker, leaving some of the Kiwi Kiss ink showing at the top of the ground.

With a White gel pen, added some white dashes in the water area to create some highlights.

Sponged Lovely Lilac ink around the entire edge of the panel, being more heavy at the top left and bottom right corners.

Sponged Always Artichoke ink in the very center of the tree and sponged a bit under the tree in the water area to create a shadow for the tree.

Added more White Gel pen dashed so the water area over the Lovely Lilac ink.

Assembled card and here it is completed measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.

You can fine a complete listing of all my tutorials at this link:

http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

I hope you have been inspired to try using your brayer at a different angle to see what fun light effects you will achieve.

May your day be filled with the peaceful sounds of nature.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

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Distant Pines – Tutorial #109

Posted on August 26, 2008 by zindorf| 43 Comments

I have a little scene for you today. Created it with a little brayering, a little sponging and just a tad of stamping. Isn’t stamping wonderful? You can take the most simplest of stamps and create a whole scene without doing any drawing. Love it!

Let’s get started on today’s tutorial.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up “Noble Deer”, “Carte Postale” & “Totally Tabs”

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Old Olive and Not Quite Navy

Ink: Adirondack Oregano, Lettuce, Willow, Stonewashed & Aqua

Accessories: White Gel Pen, Adirondack Oregano marker, Tim Holtz Ruler, Push Pin, Sponges, Brayer, Post It Notes, Tab Punch & Brads

Brayered Aqua ink on a piece of 3.25″ x 5.5″ piece of Whisper White card stock.

Tore through the sticky part of a couple of post it notes and used them as a mask for the sky and to create a hill.

Sponged on Stonewashed ink, in a circular motion, at the Post it Note edge, getting lighter with the ink at the Right side of the card stock.

Sponged on Willow ink at the Post it note edge with a circular motion and then using a swiping motion from right to left put in the foreground area.

Sponged on some Lettuce ink in the foreground area, not covering all of the Willow ink.

Sponged a bit of the Oregano ink at the lower right corner.

Removed Post it Note masks.

Colored just the trees on the stamp with an Oregano marker, huffed on it to moisten it and stamped it. Remember, you don’t have to use the entire image on a stamp. I didn’t want the clouds that are on the stamp, so I omitted them.

Put a new Post it Note on to mask the water area in the scene. Sponged Willow ink at the Post It Note edge to create my Shore line. Be care that your Post it Note is straight or you will have a crooked shore line and your water will look very un-natural. Water doesn’t run up hill. I’ve learned this lesson the hard way, lol.

Remove Post it Note mask.

With a swiping motion from Left to Right with a sponge and Stonewashed ink added a bit of clouds to the sky area and the water area.

On a separate piece of Whisper White card stock, stamped Tab stamp with Stonewashed ink.

Punched tab out with a tab punch.

Stamped Sentiment with Lettuce ink.

Glued a Not Quite Navy card stock panel on an Old Olive one and used my Tim Holtz Ruler and a push pin to pierce the top and bottom of the panels.

Note: The Tim Holtz Ruler has holes in it for piercing straight lines. Very handy in deed!

Cropped my main image panel down to 3″ x 5″ and assembled card front and added brads.

Used a white gel pen to create faux stitching by drawing the white pen from pierced hole to pierced hole.

Here it is finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.

Hope your day is filled with the peaceful images of mountain lakes and streams.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

Note: A page listing all of my tutorials can be found here: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

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Madame Butterfly – Tutorial

Posted on August 25, 2008 by zindorf| 31 Comments

Happy Monday! Well I’m trying to start the week off with a good attitude, so I’ll say again, Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a super wonderful weekend.

Today’s tutorial features a stamp sheet by Innovative Stamp Creations “Friendship”. Here is a link to their online store, check them out: http://www.innovativestampcreations.com/ischomepage.html

Let’s get started.

Supplies:

Stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations “Friendship”

Paper: Stampin’ Up Cool Caribbean, Take with Teal & Chocolate Chip

Ink: Stampin’ Up Taken with Teal, Tempting Turquoise, Close to Cocoa & Creamy Caramel

Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig, Photo Corner Punch, Sponges, Sharpie Gold Paint Marker, Stampin Up markers, Versamark Marker, Fine Detail Clear embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Cuttlebug embossing folde

Stamped butterfly on Whisper White card stock using Close to Cocoa ink.

Colored the butterfly with a Creamy Caramel marker.

Added some darker touches with a Chocolate Chip marker.

Colored the inside of the wings with a Tempting Turquoise marker.

Colored over the image with a Versamark marker and heat embossed using fine detail clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped the face over the embossed image using a Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement and Close to Cocoa ink.

Cropped panel down to 2 3/8″ square.

Sponged on Creamy Caramel ink being darker toward the outside of the panel getting lighter toward the inside.

I used a circular motion with the sponge starting on the outside edge.

Colored the eyes with a Tempting Turquoise marker.

Used a black marker to define the eyelashes.

Sponged Close to Cocoa ink around the outside edge in the hair areas.

Added some streaks of Chocolate chip marker to the hair closest to the face.

Cut two panels 5″ x 2.5″ out of Cool Caribbean card stock. Yep, I’m still using up my Cool Caribbean card stock although it is retired. No sense wasting it.

Embossed the panels with a Cuttlebug folder.

Sponged Tempting Turquoise ink on one side of each panel.

Edged the main image panel with a Sharpie Gold Paint marker.

Adhered the Tempting Turquoise panels to a panel of Taken with Teal card stock. Sponged Taken with Teal ink around the out side edge.

Punched for photo corners out of Chocolate Chip ink.

Embossed them with the Cuttlebug folder.

Assembled card and here it is finished measuring 5 3/8″ x 5 3/8″.

May your day be filled with wonderful things!

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

Follow this link to see all of my tutorials: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

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The Blog Candy Winner IS. . . . . . . . . .. . .

Posted on August 23, 2008 by zindorf| 8 Comments

We have a blog candy winner!!!! The Random Number generator picked number 193 out of 392 entries, from the post on August 19th, and that entry is:

Mary Strauser who left this comment “Great tutorial. I love trying your tutorials. Wish I could do my braying the way you do. I have tried different things and nothing works for me. My favorite stamps is lovely as a tree or delight in life
thanks for giving me the chance to win that set.”

Mary, please e-mail your address to mzindorf@aim.com so I can pop this in the mail to you. Congratulations!!!

Thanks to everyone who played along. I wish I had blog candy for each of you.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

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Prismacolor Pencil Victorian – Tutorial #107

Posted on August 22, 2008 by zindorf| 42 Comments

It’s FRIDAY!!! On Fridays Split Coast Stampers.com has the limited supply challenge. Today’s challenge is to use the supplies you have not used in quite a while, you know the ones that have all the dust on them, lol. Well I went way back and dug this Stampin’ Up set “See with the Heart” out. It’s a beautiful set that dates back to 2004 and has only seen ink once since I got it. I also used my poor neglected Prismacolor pencils and Odorless Paint Thinner today. This card is not my usual style, but that is why I like the challenges. They make you stretch and when you stretch you grow.

FYI, my brayer workshops at Marco Paper in Dayton, OH on September 6th have sold out so we have add a Brayer workshop on September 13th. So if you missed out on the 6th sign up for the 13th of September and we will take the mystery out of using that brayer. To register, please contact Marco Paper at 937-433-7030 or 1-888-433-5239 or website at http://marcopaper.com/index.html

Let’s get going on the tutorial.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Seeing With the Heart

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Soft Sky & Basic Black

Ink: Palette Noir Black, Distress inks Brushed Corduroy, Frayed Burlap & Antique Linen

Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils & Odorless Paint Thinner, Sponge, Cuttlebug Corner die, Faber Castell Fine Point Black Marker, Brads

I started out by stamping the main image on a 4.5″ x 4.5″ piece of Whisper White card stock with Palette Noir Black ink. I used this ink because I will be coloring with a solvent based medium and this ink won’t smear with this technique.

I say the coloring medium is solvent based because I dip the tip of my Prismacolor Pencil in Odorless paint Thinner before coloring so the color melts on the paper like butter and you can blend so well with this method. I don’t use blending stumps, I just start with my lightest color and blend with the pencils as I go.

I picked a light blue (Sky Blue Light) and a Darker Blue (Slate Grey) to color her dress. I colored her dress in completely with the Sky Blue Light an then colored the dark areas of her dress with Slate Grey.

For the Roses I pick a light Peach (Peach) and a dark Peach (Pumpkin Orange). I colored the roses in with Peach and then the darker areas of the roses with Pumpkin Orange.

Colored her skin with Light Peach.

Note: I left the small flowers uncolored so the white would draw the eye into the image by being such a contrast to the colored image.

Colored the leaves with Celadon Green.

Colored her hair with Dark Brown.

Colored the background area to the right of her with Cream.

Sponge Distress ink Antique Linen around the edge of the card stock, up to the image.

Randomly sponged Distress ink Frayed Burlap around the edge.

Got a bit darker by randomly sponging Distress ink Brushed Corduroy on the edge of the card stock.

Adhered the main image panel to a 5″ x 5″ panel of Soft Sky card stock.

Stamped the rose image around the edge of the card-stock. Note: when you stamp over multiple layers of card stock you will have gaps in your design where the card stocks meet.

Filled in the gaps with a Faber Castell Fine Point Black marker. This marker is made of Indian ink and and works well (doesn’t smear) with solvent based coloring mediums.

Colored the Roses the exact same way I did on the main image panel by using the same colors.

Sponged Distress ink Brushed Corduroy right on the edge of the Soft Sky panel.

Cut out 4 corner pieces using my Cuttlebug.

Assembled card, added brads and here it is finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.

I hope you enjoyed this coloring tutorial and will be inspired to get out those stamps you have been hording and not using. They are just longing to see they light!

May your day be filled with the smell of a Victorian garden.

Until my next post. . . . . . . .. . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

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