Creative Chemistry Day 10!

Tonight we got received our very last technique from Tim Holtz for Creative Chemistry 101.  The lesson was all about adhesives, sealers & dimensionals.  The technique taught us a little bit about Distress Stickles.  I have to admit.  Even though I have about 9 different Distress Stickles colors from a big lot of stuff I bought on eBay, I've never used them before...  or rather...  never known how to use them correctly before.  I tried to use them like regular stickles once and didn't like how it turned out, so I never tried them again.  Now I know...  you need to spread them out in a thin layer and they look beautiful!

Here are my last tag and square:

y) Distress Stickles Technique

This has been such an amazing journey!  I'll be finishing up my butterfly display with all the squares over the weekend (hopefully...  it's Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, so I'm swamped with work this weekend) and will post pictures soon!

Creative Chemistry Day 6

 Creative Chemistry Day 6: Distress Markers.

Today we learned about the newest addition to the Distress Line...  Distress Markers!  As soon as I heard about them from watching the CHA 2012 new releases on paperclipping.com, I knew that I HAD to have them.  I've got a few sets of permanent markers already (no copics, though), but no water based markers.  I also felt like it was a good opportunity to get the entire set without buying all the ink pads (even though I hope to collect all the ink pads eventually).  I ordered my set on Ebay and got them about a month ago.  It seems that they are rather hard to get right now and I got very lucky to get them so quickly.

Here are my creations:

 

m) Watercolor with markers, n) Stamping with Markers, o) Blending with Markers

 Here is my O-ring with all the tags I've created since starting this class!  It's starting to be quite the collection and I'm very excited about it: