Thursday, November 1, 2012

Festively Distressed





Still feeling festive? We hope so! Dreamweaver and Ranger still have two weeks left of our Festively Distressed collaboration, and we are full of distressing ideas...Tim Holtz' Distress Powder ideas, that is. Mixed with our fabulous line of stencil designs and exciting products, your creativity will know no bounds! If you missed the first two weeks, start HERE and HERE!


For our postings this week and next, we are offering you the opportunity to win one of two prize packages, perfectly coordinated for your holiday crafting. Simply leave a comment on each of our Dream Team's posts, and YOU could be one of two randomly selected winners!




The Dream Team have been challenged for the month of November to create something CAS (clean and simple) for the holidays. The extra challenge is mixing the Distress Powders in for the collaboration with Ranger. Think that it's possible? Well...let's see...


Here's what I came up with:

I am a firm believer of, if it doesn't look right, add more to it!!  That's what happened with my card this week.

I started with LJ923 Mittens.   Soap the back of it with Dreamweaver Coconut Oil Soap.  Cut a piece of Double sided tape the size of the stencil.  Pull off one side of the protective paper and place tape on a piece of cardstock.  Peal off the other protective paper and place the stencil over the top.

I then filled in the mittens and ties with Milled Lavender Distress Powder.  Fill in the mitten cuffs with Tattered Rose Distress Powder.  Press gently to make sure the powder covers all open areas.  Tap off excess.  Pull off the stencil and cover the remaining tape area with Old Paper Distress Powder, tap off excess.  Heat until powder is melted.

Well the powders on the mittens lightened up quite a bit, so they were hard to see in the background.

So next I painted different areas on the mittens with embossing ink and added Dusty Concord Distress Powder.  When heating this time it bubbled up to add more texture.  Then paint the strings with embossing ink and cover with Black Soot Distress Powder.  Heat (that one bubbled too!). 

Wasn't quite right so I masked off the mitten cuffs and added some Barn Door Distress ink.   Liked it so added Chipped Sapphire to the mittens.   Not feeling the result, I placed the stencil back over the image and applied Translucent Paste.  I didn't dry totally transparent leaving a milky finish to some of the open areas.

LOVE IT!  The finished result reminded me of coming in from outside on a winter day with snow stuck to your mittens then hanging them in the laundry room to dry.


So tell me what you think in your comment below before heading over to the rest of the Dream Team posts:



The Ranger blog is offering another amazing prize opportunity, just for playing along with the Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Powders and Dreamweaver Stencils and linking your creation on the Ranger blog. You can find more details HERE.

We hope that you have been inspired by our creations, and will continue to follow the Dream Team through the Dream It Up! blog as well as to like us on our Facebook page. We really encourage you to play along with our monthly challenges for more prize opportunities and creative fun!

16 comments:

  1. What a sweet card...love those mittens. Thanks so much for sharing your technique.

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  2. I don't know how CAS this was, but it sure had creative results!

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  3. The extra steps really make the mittens look warm and cozy. Love the look!

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  4. Your mittens do looks they have some frosty snow stuck on them!

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  5. Those mittens are so cute, they make you feel all warm and cozy! Thanks for sharing your technique!

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  6. awwww....this is darling! It looks like a pair I used to have when I was about 10! Cute!

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  7. that's lovely. I like the addition of the translucent paste at the end.
    grace

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  8. Your mittens look so real...and they really do look like they were just taken off after building a snowman, etc...Very creative and nicely done.

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  9. Great card! Love the two tone/shaded effect on the body of the mittens!

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  10. How cute this is!!! The mittens do look real.

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  11. Fun and a great use of the mittens stencil!

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  12. Love the vintage feel to this one.

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  13. I LOVE the FUN stencil Design that you used!! The vintage feel that you gave this piece is so NEAT!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

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  14. Terrece, glad to hear that someone else keeps playing until they get it just right! Your mittens look so warm and inviting - lovely card!

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  15. I really like the muted colors on this one.

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  16. Love all that texture for the mittens! The colors look great!
    DeniseB

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