Stamping with your Dies by Cathie Allan Mediums and tools that multi-task always have a special place in my creative heart. I totally enjoy looking at my creative tools, toys and mediums from various sides to see what I can get them to do for me other than the “intended use” suggested by the manufacturer. For this blog post I decided to play with the “Heart Clasp Die” from Art Impressions. This die makes a lovely wrap for a card but by joining two of these dies I was able to wrap my scrapbook page and then of course wrapped my photo. I then took this die a “stamp step” forward by applying ink to the backside of the die I thus was able to use it as a stamp. Look at that die “go”!! To begin I made the Art Impressions, “Heart Clasp Die” perform as a stamp. Apply…
Have you played with Art-C products? They put the oh-la-la into your mixed media products! All the products you need at your fingertips! They are made available through Momenta; a company with over 40 years of experience designing and distributing paper-crafting and mixed-media products. We have added their products twice to our “MUST list” in the summer issue! We love their Art-C Texture Cream for a grainy, textured finish. Check out our editor; Jackie Ludlage’s complete layout on page 10 of the summer issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine! No mixed media project is complete without some cool ephemera…Art-C has you covered! Want to see more? Head to Art-C Mixed Media Product’s Facebook page for updated projects and product information. You can find some great video tutorials on the Momenta website. …and of course you can see lots of their products in our current issue of Creative…
SUCH A HANDSOME “DEXTER” PUPPY! By Cathie Allan Here is a quick and fun layout using some “timeless stamping tools”. I kept the steps for this “altered scrapbook layout” simple and fast. After stamping the “Line Background” stamp from Frog’s Whiskers Ink several times on our Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock (my favorite cardstock for my projects) in Clearsnap ColorBox Blackbird, Fluid Chalk ink I added super quick coloring with my Tombow pens. Quess what? I have been stamping a long, long time and my Tombow pens are years old and still are full of ink and ready to go. The capping system is so good on these particular pens that you will get every bit of ink out of them so long as you put the caps back on. I love this! I did not do any “fancy coloring” I just added color. After that I used my Clearsnap ColorBox…
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When I walked into the Clearsnap booth at CHA, there was a special person there waiting to say Hi! Do you recognize that happy face and wave? Yes, it is Cathie Allan, sharing her stamping magic and love of inks in the Clearsnap show floor classroom. At the end of this post, you will find a video with Cathie ‘LIVE” doing a demo for us in the booth. There is good reason for Cathie Allan’s exuberance and energy…the Clearsnap products are awesome! There are 8 new pigment ink colours and new Cat’s eye Crafter’s Colorbox inks too. New Colorbox Chalk ink pads were on display as well. A new pigment inks Petal Point was released under the Teresa Collins name, called “Fierce.” Teresa Collins also has created a line of wood mounted stamps: There are beautiful new colours of Colorbox Premium dye ink in full size and minis by…
Faux Watercolour Loveliness and Pigment Ink Oh, the wonders, versatility and unending twisted ways I can play with pigment ink. I am sharing with you an altered page that is a “jump off” from a class that I taught at CHA in Anaheim in the Clearsnap booth. The class was presented as a shape card but of course what was most important was “not the project” but the ideas and the techniques we used to take white cardstock and turn it into something “marvelous”. Yes, this was white cardstock when I began and those lovely, wispy, very watercolor looking branches in the background have been stamped with ColorBox, pigment ink by Clearsnap. Yes, I am combining my pigment ink with “Top Boss” clear embossing ink so the stamped images have that “watercolor feel”. At times as I am creating this look it is almost like I am erasing the image…
The thank you cards are keepin on – keepin on! This Monday morning we are thanking Stampendous and Spellbinders! Two wonderful companies who both stir our creative souls! Cathie Allan designed this card featuring both Stampendous and Spellbinders Here are the main products that she used. Thank you once again to these two companies for sponsoring our Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnivals – we truly appreciate it! Want to take a Cathie Allan class? Cathie is coming to Winnipeg Nov 6-7th! Don’t miss out! CLICK HERE to REGISTER TODAY
Let There Be Projects, Lots & Lots of Projects – by Cathie Allan The past two classes that I have been teaching for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine incorporate some of my newest and “of course” most favorite techniques … why, because I get to use stamps/stencils and ink, of course and because “they are my newest” and new is always captivating. These techniques are so “multicraftable” that I have been non stop, creating projects using the ideas that I shared in those classes since I made the originals. A huge part of the joy of sharing new ideas is when someone in the class looks at me with “eyes wide open with inky possibility” as they realize just how beautifully easy stamping and “smearing ink” can be. One treasured moment from this year happened when a young gal came back to me after the class (she was on the crop floor…
Cathie Allan has been playing!!!!!!! To create this card she used – Stampendous stamps Clearsnap ink and Spellbinders dies Guess what – all three companies are sponsoring our Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnivals!!! I would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to …. for being three of our The carnivals are COMING to Calgary and Edmonton!!!! YAHOOOO!!!! YOU ARE ALL INVITED to attend!!!! GET YOUR 80’s on!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Visit our website CLICK HERE for all the details!!! Don’t miss out!!
Finding “Your” Happy Place – by Cathie Allan A few weeks ago I posted a few photos on Instagram showing a project that I was working on. I had some “brand new” stencils and stamps from Magenta and I just could not wait to dive into a project. Not knowing what it should be … “Que sera sera” (if you don’t remember this song, you are younger than me, lol), I simply began playing in my art journal book. The products I used are shown in the following photo. Of course I was using my trusty pigment inkpads from Clearsnap and I threw in some stamping with white acrylic paint to get added texture. The project of course grew from what I shared on Instagram and it is now one of my projects that makes my “stampy, stencilly, inky heart” smile. I added a gorgeous “multi-sized” dragonfly stencil and the…
