Re-inkers & Maintenance

Day 4 of Creative Chemistry 101 with Tim Holtz. What a fabulous class! The value in this two-week course is unbelievable. Just US$35 to have Tim on-line, answering your questions in the forum and tailoring his videos each day to cover what the students are asking about. He's an easy-to-listen-to teacher, the downloadable class materials and content are fabulous and I'm learning something every day. I'm very grateful that Rachel brought the course to my attention.  It's not too late to join in.  Enrol now!

On Day 4 of class, Tim got some amazing results using Distress reinkers. 


Watercoloring with Re-inkers Technique
As my Distress reinkers are on order from the States, I had a play using my Vivid! Premium Dye Ink reinkers (any waterbased Dye ink will work for watercolouring). Tim also used watercolor paper, and as I didn't have any, I quickly learnt a good lesson: trying to watercolour inside the lines of your archival ink stamped image won't work on normal cardstock, the colours will bleed.

To compensate for the cardstock, I tried again, embossing the image with black embossing powder before starting to watercolour. I'm not happy with my background, but the cute gecko makes me smile.  (1385LI Cute Gecko available from your local Kaszazz Consultant - or me!)

Layered Misting Technique

I again used Vivid! Dye ink for this technique in place of Distress.  As I already had some Dye reinkers pre-mixed with water in my Mini Misters, I just used what I already had mixed up, and it wasn't until I sprayed them that I remembered that I had also mixed Ranger Perfect Pearls into them, so my tags have a pearl sheen to them.  

Tim's third technique on Day 4 was the Custom Stamp Pad technique. Unfortunately I don't have anything to show you for this one yet, as I need to purchase some Cut n' Dry Felt in order to make my stamp pad, but I can tell you that this technique blew me away. It's something I never would have imagined, and as I was watching Tim's video, I thought I knew what he was about to do to create the effect, but I had no idea. It was like a great movie where you don't anticipate the ending. The most amazing thing about it was that, after creating your custom stamp pad using a myriad of Distress colours, you can then stamp it 50 plus times, without reinking it. I can't wait to try it and show you my results here.  

Each day of this course has been terrific, but Day 4 is the stand-out for me so far.  

Have fun making a mess today.  I know I will.  

PS the messy creativity that you don't want to keep, makes a great toy for your baby: