Tutorial for background

I've gotten alot of questions about how I did the background - color strip - so I thought I would do a quick short tutorial

    

    Card stock Bristol Smooth                                   Card stock Water color paper

Products:

Tim Holtz Tattered Butterfly Steel Die

Tim Holtz Perspective Butterfly Stamp

Tim Holtz Field Notes Stamp

Tim Holtz Tiny Text Stamp

Archival Ink Ground espresso & Vintage Photo

Distress Oxide Spray - Vintage Photo

Distress Spray Salvaged Patina

First step:  paper, Salvage Patina Spray and brayer

 I used the spray nozzle to add ink in a straight line on my work surface.   The wide the line the wider your colored strip will be.

 Roll the Brayer in the ink and brayer up and down the paper as close to the same area as possible.  If you stray your strip will be wider.  You may have to re-ink and brayer several times to get the desired color.

Watercolor Paper

 

 

Bristol Smooth Paper - I rolled the brayer and the color was not dark enough for me - I added Salvaged Patina Glaze and heat embossed.  I could have added more color and brayered - but I wanted to try the glaze

Bristal Smooth Card stock - Added stamoing from Tint Text & Field Notes

Watercolor Card stock - Added stamoing from Tint Text & Field Notes.  Used Archival distress Ink to darken around the edge.

added the Tattered Butterfly Dies I made a few weeks ago

Added a few splatters with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo & Distress Ink Salvaged Patina and added the sentiments

 

Tattered Butterflies

 Tattered Butterflies Steel Die, Field Notes Stamp set

Tattered Angels Tint

Tim Holtz Archival Ink Ground Espresso

Gelli Print Tutorial

 I wanted to share this great artist that I found on You Tube - I don't do collage but her Gel print tutorials are the best

 Every piece is from a Gelli pull except the Faith sentiment.

Dies Tim Holtz Wild Flowers & Potted Set 2

Colored the flowers with Pitt Big Brush Markers

Stamp set Field notes - 785 and Tag  - Tim Holtz Archival Inks Ground Espresso

I am so addicted to Gel Printing

#TimHoltz # Detailed Butterflies #Field Notes #Tiny Text Stamp

Background is a Gel Plate pull

Used Sizzix Mixed Media #1 as a stencil - Skyline matte paint & texture paste

Fieldnotes Stamp on background with Ground expresso Archival Ink

Tiny Text stamp on background/sentiment

Detailed Butterfly Die cut out of scrap gel Plate pulls

 

 

#Tim Holtz #Tattered Butterfly #Wild Flower Dies

Gel Plate background using matte paints. I cut a 1 1/2 inch piece and glued in the middle to make "wood looking boards" I colored the edges with Pitt big brush Markers and smeared to create the shadows/dimension. I used archival ink in ground espresso and Vintage Photo on the card edges and pulled down the front of the card and "Smile" to create more grainy texture. Colored the flowers with Pitt Big Markers. Nuvo Crystals for flower centers. Butterfly was cut out of scraps of gel print papers. Splatters of course with gold and bronze

Rusty butterflies with paper and paints

 Tim Holtz Sizzix Tattered Butterflies  - Technique - Gel plate with matte paints, distress paints, Distress Oxide spray, Distress Stains and glitter sprays.

Is anyone interested on a possible tutorial on this?