Have you been following along with Tim Holtz's demos? I've just recently started tuning in to the Live's on Sundays. So much to take in. This week I went back to an older demo called Spritz, Sparkle + Smudge and followed along with a couple techniques. This is my finished Spritzed Tag.
Here you can see the tag before I decorated it, along with The Professor Smudge tag.
Before adding colour, I spritzed Distress Resist Spray through a stencil on the upper and lower portions of the tag and let that dry. Next I used several distress inks smudged on my glass mat and spritzed with water to create the colourful background. I dried between layers then added a few droplets of water and patted ry with a paper towel. Then I took a couple of the distress inks and blended a little more where the tag wasn't completely covered in colour. Of course the Resist Spray did exactly that, created a barrier to resist the inks.
At this point the tag was done from a technique perspective. It was bold and bright and I wasn't quite sure what I would do with it. I used the script stamp and Archival ink to create some flow and ten began looking through my stash.
I found a piece of ephemera that went well with the colours but it needed something behind it to ground it so it wouldn't get lost. I had a piece of white corrugated paper that I tore to size and then added some Grit-Paste. Once that was dry I added some Vintage Photo crayon and smudged with my finger.
The only thing left to do was to add the token which I coloured with white paint, rubbed it off then added Broken China crayon and rubbed it into the word. I used a small paperclip to attach it to the paper.
Supplies:
Distress Inks: Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Broken China, Milled Lavender, Spiced Marmalade
Distress Oxide: Mustard Seed
Distress Paint: Picket Fence
Distress Resist Spray
Decho Arches Stencil
Distress Crayons: Broken China, Vintage Photo
Archival Ink: Potting Soil
Ideaology: Botanical Layers, Label Letters, Mini Paper Clips, Typed Tokens, Big Chat Stickers
SA Stamp: Dearly Departed (for the script)
Distress Collage Medium, Grit-Paste opaque
