I do what I want... by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

Today I made a card for the blog- 

For todays card, I wanted to do a watercolor. I stamped the image on mixed media heavy stock. it can really take a lot of medium weather its paints or water or whatever.

I stamped with black versafine clair and dried it with my heat tool. didn't want any smearing. Then I sprayed my TH stains into the plastic pallet. Then just start painting.

I chose the colors for the impression of innocence to go with the snarky sentence .For the blue background, I first went around with my wet paint brush and then took color just out of the cap of the bottle of salvage patina. I wanted it real light.

I dried the card, and then cut my cardstock for the layers and put it all together. Last, I put the sticker sentence on and carefully painted it yellow to match the card. And that is it! I hope you enjoyed!

Stamp used: 

Surprised girl         5554

Other Supplies:

Distress spray stains: Salvaged patina, Saltwater taffy, picked raspberry, antique linen, Victorian velvet, tattered rose, squeezed lemonade.

Verse-TH93704 small talk - snarky   stickers

cardstock

white gel pen- for the eye whites

Sunflowers by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

I'm on the blog today with a bright and sunny card- needed a change from the freezing cold and gray.

To start this card, I made a circle with foil glue. Let it get tacky and clear- that's how you know its ready for the foil. Then I stamped the large sunflower as well as the single smaller sunflower. I then took leafing foil in copper and pressed it onto the circle, brush off excess with a soft brush.

Next I used distress spray stains as watercolors and painted in the background outside of the circle. I was careful to not get any paint in the flowers.

I kept playing with the colors until I was happy. Next I used alcohol markers to color all of the flowers and the pale purple background inside the circle.

Last, I trimmed the card down quite a bit so I could layer it onto two card stocks.

Not so quick card for all of the coloring but then I was in no rush and I find coloring very relaxing.

And that is all - I  hope you enjoyed.

Stamps used:

Leafy sunflower   1170

Sunflower stem    9209

 Other supplies:

Alcohol markers

Distress inks as watercolors- Salvaged patina, squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry

Copper foil leaf

      

Orca by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone! Hope you're all keeping warm... My project for today is a nice and simple card suitable for framing.

 This is a big stamp! wont fit on an A2 size card.(4.5 x 5.5) But I love these beautiful animals so this stamp is a must for me.

I stamped it on white heavy stock with black  versa clair ink. I filled in where needed as solid areas seem to always need some help. I used black watercolor paint for that.

I then took some paper towel and covered the stamp and sprayed salvaged patina  and stormy sky on the card. I dried it with heat tool.

Next I took my red line tape and made a frame around the Orca.

I removed the liner and used a sheet foil pretty side up, and stuck it to the tape all the way around.

Its a black holographic foil- so cool! wish the camera picked up the colors better.

Next I used a glitter marker to color all the black on the orca, I wanted a bit of sparkle I used some gilding size or glue to add the dots and used the foil again. last I layered it all on a piece of black cardstock.

and thats it!

Hope you enjoyed!

Stamps used:

Orca, lg.

Other supplies:

Black hologram foil sheet

Red line double stick tape

Distress spray stains- salvaged patina, stormy sky

versaclair nocturne ink

Tired Santa by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

Todays project is a tag. Hope you enjoy the humor.

I started with a yellow and gray base, sprayed on the colors and moved them around with a brush.

Next I inked the Christmas tree and stamped it a couple times. I dried it and then sprayed distress oxide old paper over the tag

Next I stamped the" deer".( its really an antelope) I added to their horns to make them more deer like.

I also stamped, fussy cut and painted Santa. For the white I used a pigment reinker as paint would have been too thick.

I used a very fine paint brush to get the fur wisps at the edge of the hat and on the collar.

I also put a dot of red paint for Rudolph's nose.

I used foam tape behind Santa for dimension and I made the sentiments on the computer. 

Hope you enjoyed !

Stamps Used:

Christmas tree    18932

Antelope Skeleton    19654

Santa Claus    20357

Other Supplies:

Ink pads: Kaleidacolor: Caribbean sea

Versaclair -Nocturne

Distress inks: Picket fence, Tea dye, Tattered rose, Victorian velvet, old paper, squeezed lemonade, lost shadow

No idea..... by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

Today for my project is a quick card. I hope you enjoy it.

For this card I stamped three of the images on separate cardstock to be cut out. The feet I stamped right on the card itself. 

I needed the candy sucker smaller so I cut it down like you see here. Fussy cut the crazy coffee person and the couple bending over. Then I painted them all including the feet guy. 

Once that was done I gave a watercolor wash for the background being careful to go around the pre stamped image .I used two colors for the background.

Then I put foam tape behind the coffee guy and the couple to give them some dimension.

Found some sentiment stickers and added them. 

And that is it! super quick card.

Thanks for checking it out~

Stamps used:

Coffee drinker    20003

Bending couple   18204

Feet first              4689

Other Supplies:

Distress inks:

Tumbled glass, uncharted mariner, shabby shutters, lumberjack plaid, wilted violet, stormy skies, mustard seed

white and sparkle gel pens

Monster mash by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!!!

Almost Halloween!! Where has the month gone!?

So my project for this week is a long card. 4.5 x 10 and it s a new paper I have not used before. I have to say it does not have the blending properties of what I usually use. I used white heavy stock. This is for the background only. If you're a heavy inker/ paint user as I am, Id stick to the mixed media heavy stock.

The project is pretty straight forward, tons of fussy cutting and then painting the images and then a lot of foam tape, sometimes triple layered as I wanted a lot of different depths of the images. 

I chose many images, stamped and cut out as I wasn't sure how many would fit or what my scene exactly was going to be and I wanted enough to chose from. After all are colored and cut,  and foam tape applied, I like to fluff them- bend wings ,limbs, collars, etc. to give them some life as it were.

I hope you enjoy the monster Halloween!

Stamps Used:

Spider on web line   19263

Death head moth ( for the wings)   20056

piles of bones and skulls ( for 3 skulls on stick) 19903

wolfman   19725

Frankenstein bolts   5842

Devil  19905

Mummy   14748

Dracula   17686

Vampire boy   15165

Pumpkin   18626

Bat comin at ya   12649

 Plague doctor   19701

 Eye and brow   5795

Intense lady   17904

Bat wings set   14339

Vampire or kisser   17874

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains: Dried marigold, crackling campfire,

Squeezed lemonade, Wilted violet, Salvaged patina, Speckled egg, Lost shadow, Black soot, Antique linen, vintage photo, tea dye, tattered rose, twisted citron, lumberjack plaid

Silver sparkle gel pen

white gel pen

white pigment ink

foam tape

The Spinsters by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello all!

Well I'm in full fall mode on the creative side.... enjoy.

For this tag, I started with stamping the chandelier. Then  a light gray spray stain and added black around the edges with a small brush. While that dried, I stamped all of my images to be fussy cut and did that. I used the spider with lady and the realistic skull together for my spinsters.

One spinster got one layer of foam tape and the other got three layers. I fluff the legs by bending them a bit so they are not so flat, I just roll them over my finger. Then I paint them.

Once my tag was dry, I stamped the rest of the spiders and painted the flames on the candles of the chandelier. I love how the water made the yellow paint run a bit like the flame is blowing from an unseen source of air.

I also went over the webs with a glitter gel pen  Before attaching the spider skulls, I added some spider web material to the scene. I used a dab of hot glue on the back to attach them.

Last I got out my Halloween sticker book for the creepy words. I do use glue on the back of them as they tend to come off over time sometimes.

And that is all for this creepy art tag. I hope you liked it.

Stamps used:

Spider with lady      964

Realistic skull     19724

Striped spider    19508

Spider on web line   19263

Chandelier in cobwebs     19510

Other supplies:

Versafine clair ink pad: Nocturne and pinecone

Distress spray stains: 

Lost shadow, black soot, vintage photo, antique linen, squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade

Spider web material

 TH Halloween sticker words

Cannibal soup by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!!

If you haven't guessed, Halloween is my favorite holiday. And I am so happy to see all the Halloween stuff coming out now- so inspiring. So that leads to my project for this week...

To begin I took a tag and stood it up on my scratch paper. I started by spraying  several colors of spray stains and letting them run down.

So the last view of the tag I had sprayed on some black and some forest moss. It was too dark for  what I had in mind, So I Took another tag and sprayed water and the very inked tag and held it over a new tag. I s[read it around with my finger  and ended up with more of what I wanted.

I also Stamped all my stamps and cut them out and colored them.

Then I decided on a background, and stamped the mouth stamp all over in grey.

I stamped the can twice so I could have a lid for the can. Cutting out just the lid.

Then I assembled everything. I used hot glue for the bones and foam tape as well as double stick.

I also added glossy accents on the inside of can going over the edge for a wet look.

And there it is- I hope you enjoyed!

Stamps:

Cannibal condensed soup          20013

Astonished boy       1061

Begging lady    3176  ( I used the arm)

Open mouth       5766

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains: Black soot, stormy sky, speckeled egg, forest moss, gathered twigs, tea dye, tattered rose, Lumberjack plaid, Antique linen.

White gel pen

sparkle gel pen

Glossy accents

Boneyard bones TH

Foam tape, double stick tape

Hot glue

 

Moon Moth by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

Today I made A tag...I hope you enjoy.

To begin, I used my stamp as a mask.

I then used three distress sprays to put color on.

I removed the stamp and dried the tag, then stamped the moon in the empty space. Then I sprayed more yellow to fill in moon and added a bit of orange.

Next I stamped the moon phase stamp at the top and bottom of the big moon. Then I used a sponge tool to add black ink around the edges of the scene.

Next I stamped the moth twice and cut it out. I also used white ink to stamp over the moon phase I had

stamped in black.

 I then put  some white  re inker on a plastic scrap and ran an old tooth brush in it then flicking white splats onto the tag.

I colored in the moths and attached them to the tag at the edge of the moon. To finish I used a verbiage sticker and that is it!

I hope you enjoyed and got some inspiration! 

 Stamps used:

Moon phase       19543

The Moon   20157

Death head moth    20056

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains- Squeezed lemonade, salvaged patina, Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Antique linen, Vintage photo, mustard seed

Versa clair- Nocturne

Brillance ink pad and re inker - moonlight white

Gel pens- White and sparkle