Claudine Hellmuth is featuring an easy-peasy transfer technique on her blog today, using Ranger's Foil Tape Sheets. The Foil Sheets come in two sizes and I'm picturing the smaller size here—which includes six, 4.25" by 5.5" sheets.
Do we have them at Stampassion.com? Yes we do! First, check out Claudine's tutorial via the link below:
Next, check out the Foil Tape Sheets by clicking here. Transfer techniques are generally tricky and messy. I'll be trying this one because it doesn't appear to be either of those.
I find the Handmade Ryan Gosling captioned photos to be so clever and funny. Don't we just wish! Check them all out. Meanwhile, this one is for my knitting buddies. You know who you are...I dabble, you are masters of the art.
And let's remember... what's good for the goose, is good for the Gosling.
One of the exciting new products just introduced at CHA is Distress Markers. This Canister Set has 37 markers, including 36 to match all the Distress colors plus...White Picket Fence (which I'm anxious to try on black Zentangle tiles!). The set is available now at Stampassion.com. Plus, we are offering them at a discount with free shipping!*
Distress Inks are among my favorites, for two reasons: 1) they are extremely versatile, working well with tons of fun techniques; 2) the color does not shift or change; 3) although they are water-based, they are also fade resistant. I've been looking for a marker I can use right on the stamp and here they are!
These water-based inks are for coloring, journaling, stamping and much more. They have a dual tip and are ideal for many coloring techniques:
use the brush tip for coloring, stamping and shading
use the detail tip for journaling and drawing
use to color directly on rubber and clear stamps
markers are acid free and non-toxic
Watch Tim's demonstration video below and you'll be as excited as I am! Distress Marker Canister Sets are shipping NOW. Our regular retail price is $114.95 for the Canister Set, but you will pay just $105.95, plus we will ship them to you free of charge*. That's crazy good—just $2.86 per pen!
We have a limited number arriving in the first shipment (and eligible for this special), so order soon! If you would like to order anything else with the Canister, please note it will all ship free (to the Continental USA).
I'm sorry to have been away for so long, with no communication. I wasn't feeling too well in November and December and after Thanksgiving, found I needed some minor surgery, to take place at some point to be determined, in January. Needless to say, it made planning for the New Year difficult at best, so no classes or projects could be planned. That said, every Stampassion.com order was sent out on time (actually super-fast!), as we always do : )
The surgery was on January 6, I'm doing fine and am looking forward to getting back up-to-speed—almost there—and back on schedule with Zentangle classes, card kits and creativity! Here's an extremely attractive photo Dan took of me before surgery. I wanted to Zentangle on my pretty blue hat, but they wouldn't let me (hospitals are so picky). Actually I was at Bellevue and they were great, as is my super-surgeon, Dr. Debbie Youngelman.
The web site, Kind Over Matter, is a lovely place to visit and they offer some wonderful, free (!) printable downloads—look for Freebies. This set of love notes would be a nice addition to an art journal or print them up for those days when you, or someone else, needs a boost. Or keep them handy for random-act-of-kindness giveaways.
The girly art pieces in this book looked like they would be so much fun to make. So I ordered it from Amazon.
I do that. Order art instruction books. But then I don't seem to find the time to experiment with said instruction in order to actually make the art. Some day, right? And, my friend Lauri gets to borrow the books, which is a sweet deal for her.
Wandering around the internet, I ran across this poster, which is free to download, on the web site Kind Over Matter. I love it and think it is just too special not to share. If I had a public space, I would put it up, for certain! It reminds me of the principles of Zentangle and what drew me to the art form that is so much more than pen and paper.
The thoughts represent all the good choices we have an opportunity to make each day, but often don't, me included. So, pop to Kind Over Matter, get yourself one of these Zen babies and let's all have a positive thoughts week!
