The Crafty Corner With Janna

  Hello and welcome to this week’s TFJ Inspiration Avenue blog. This week we are creating to the theme of “Pastes and paint”.  For this week’s theme I have decided to create some texture on a card and discuss several distress paint techniques. For full process video click  here . For this week’s project I used he following supplies featuring paints and pastes. For the first paint technique we will be doing some paint marbling with distress paints chipped sapphire, broken china, and tumbled glass. First I added some paint drops to the media mat and then spritzed with water. I will be using a mixed media tag as the substrate and spritzed the tag with water too. Then I swiped the tag through the paint on the media mat. This is the first dip. After the first swipe I then dried it with the Ranger heat too. Now one of the really cool things about distress paint is that once it is dry it cannot be activated again with water. This means that we can add other layers over the top a...

Hello and welcome to this week’s TFJ Inspiration Avenue blog. This week we are creating to the theme of “All About Alcohol”. Since we are featuring inks I decided I wanted to go with a cosmic vibe for this theme. We are going to create a celestial inspired card with alcohol inks. For full video click here . Alcohol ink glacier, laguna, dandelion, alloy gilded, cobalt, vineyard, boysen berry, Ranger Alcohol Ink Duralar, Ranger Yupo Paper, Sizzix Mischievous, Sizzix Crescent Moon and Stars, Holly Jolly CMS 474, mink ink, deco foil, foam squares, tiny attacher, Idea-ology decorative tape, isopropyl 90%. To start today’s card we will be creating an alcohol inked yupo base. The colors we are using today include laguna, vineyard, glacier, and cobalt. To create our background we will be using the drippy Ink technique. First I drizzled the alcohol inks at the top of the yupo paper and then set it up against a bottle to prop it up to let the ink start dripping downwards. Next I spritzed heavily...