March Tattered Angels Layout Classes!

It's time to put together our March Tattered-Travel adventures!  Join Stayce ( www.staycedewid.com  ) and me at any of the following locations!

March 10th - Scrap 2 It (Scrap 2 It), Ft. Collins, CO
March 11th - Little Stamp Corner (Little Stamp Corner)  , Scottsbluff, NE
March 13th - Paper Crown (Paper Crown - OKC),  Oklahoma City, OK
March 14th - Scrap*Funattic (Scrap*Funattic), Andover, KS
March 16th - Imagine That (Imagine That), Columbus, NE
March 17th - Imagine That (Imagine That), Columbus, NE
March 18th - Imagine That (Imagine That), Columbus, NE
(March 19 - 20; tbd)

Here are some sneaks from the layouts I will be teaching :)

           

February Tattered Angels Classes!

Stayce DeWid (www.staycedewid.com) and I will be teaching some classes at Rocky Mountain Memories (http://rmmemories.com)  in Estes Park, CO on Friday, February 17.  We are still working on times and class details, but will keep you posted in case you'd like to come out and join us :D

We are going to be in Ft Collins at Scrap2it on Saturday, February 18, for most of the day, as well!  Stay tuned for exact times and we'll be sure to keep you posted!

Tattered TV - Tattered Angels/Basically Bare Web Class!

join me for a free class!  Wednesday, October 5 at 6pm (pst)

Seasonal Journal - TatteredTV

Featuring Tattered Angels paint products and Basically Bare alterable items. the Basically Bare Simply Shapely Album features 5 different types of surface to craft on - chipboard, felt, canvas, corrugated cardboard and acrylic.

we will use Tattered Angels products among a few other things to mist it, distress it, paper it, stamp it and paint it. we add a few pockets for memorabilia, lots of tags for journaling memorable moments and still leave space on each page to add photos!

Tattered Angels and May Arts...SWEET!

hello all!  So happy to have the opportunity to have a blast playing with the May Arts ribbons and Tattered Angels products...seriously beautiful selection and quality.  The possibilities are truly endless!

in playing with the May Arts ribbons this week, i decided to use them in a few different ways...this is an altered portfolio keeper that i designed for a "List" project i am working on (below)...

to begin with i traded out the standard elastic with this awesome stretchy Lace for my closure (above)...worked perfectly!

i then used some of the versatile silk ribbon on the inside to lace up some brads and create a place to stash mementos (below)...

i affixed some of the vintage-looking Crochet Ribbon with brads heat embossed with Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glam for a detailed edge to my sewn-on pocket (below)...

i tinted some of the Solid/Center Stitched ribbon with Glimmer Mist (below) and used them to decorate my Glimmer Mist tinted tags...

finally, i used my favorite of all of the ribbons i worked with - the Solid/Wrinkled Ribbon - and created a simple accent bow on the inside...

...and again on the outside.  this time i used more of the silk ribbon (crumpled and dipped in Glimmer Mist) tied with it for accent.

the finished portfolio has all kinds of places to hide and/or display things (below).  the Tattered Angels products gave it sparkle and shine; the May Arts gave it all kinds of ribbony goodness!

thank you for stopping by...now go play with some ribbon!

Shawna

so, this one time...i spilled some TA product on a photo...

...ruining that copy of the photo of course, but in a really pretty way, LOL!  have you ever tried Tattered Angels products on photo paper?  i've been playing with it lately and have discovered some pretty cool results :)  keep in mind that my pictures blow, as usual, and you really can't appreciate the glimmer and shine plus the vibrant colors on the photo paper until you do this yourself...give it a shot :)

the Mists are neat because the colors are so bright!  you do have very little work time though, the inks settle in immediately. leaving them on a bit longer does give a bit more saturated color (below) - but pretty much what you spray (or flick, or drizzle or paint :D) is what you get...

i think my favorite Tattered Angels product on the photo paper is the chalkboard (below)...normally they result in a soft, dreamy, rapid-dry color, but on this paper...BAAAAM! they float and swirl and blend and make neato new colors with rings and auras around them :D you can use multiple colors of chalk or combine chalk and mist.

i haven't experimented as much with the glam or the glaze yet, but here is one i did with the chalkboard and some glam (below)- pretty stinkin cool!

one last thing i've been playing with is Tattered paints, shaving cream and photo paper.  it's a pretty cool technique - messy, of course, but you get some very nifty results (below). awesome for just the perfect background paper, look for more on this technique in an upcoming class! :D

thanks for looking,

shawna martinez~http://barely-controlledchaos.blogspot.com

sneak peek: fun to come :)

with just a glimpse of where some of my inspiration came from:

hold tight...new Tattered Angels class coming :)

"Grunge": the great cover-up

i am a very messy scrapper. i knock stuff over and i smear things that aren't dry and i smudge things with the colors from another project. my table is a disaster after i finish a project...so, i discovered my "style" and i'm pretty sure i get to call it grungy. honestly, at times things are unfix-able and i have to start over again, but more often than not i kinda dig what turns out...

 
this shadow box is a GREAT example of Shawna - the disaster scrapper's messy thing of beauty :)  it started out as an unfinished wooden shadow box, some standard patterned paper and stark white cheesecloth:and soon became a variety of gorgeous Glimmer Mist Paints...i misted the box with a combination of Brown Sugar and Apple Glimmer Mists. i painted a top coating of Glimmer Glam in Chandelier to bring out the shine.

i held the cheesecloth in a loose ball and sprayed with bursts of Apple, Sugar Maple, Cranberry Zing and Pomegranate; opening, shifting and re-balling the cheesecloth after each color.

the patterned paper was pretty, but didn't match what i wanted to do; so i misted it with Apple Pomegranate and Cranberry Zing Mists.

the "remember" tag was white with raised velvet and clear embossing on it. i also used the Apple and Pomegranate colors to enhance it; brayering off the extra mist to get the resist to pop.


i used Apple and Pomegranate Mists and then Chandelier Glam on some of Tim Holtz's Grungeboard for accents. i didn't want them very dark, so after i applied the Apple and let it dry, i applied the Pom and brayered it off immediately afterwards. you see the flecks of the Pom, but it doesn't overpower the accent.

i sprayed some sinamay Mesh and silk flowers that i had (again, in the wrong colors) with Mist to get them to coordinate with the rest of my project.

a bit more fussing here and there and my finished project is just the right amount of grungabooty for me!

altered picture frame ~ friends