Winter card camp ~ Sticky fingers!

 

Hi friends!

*This is a picture heavy post! I took a lot of pictures because I had a lot of 

mishaps and what not to do ~ scoll down to see just the card

or ALL THE WAY THROUGH to see the whole process!*

It's the last day of winter card camp with our final class

and today's class from Jeanette is all about using glue!

It was a huge learning curve and took me awhile

but I decided to stick with it :)

Today's theme: Using school glue as a base coat for the card

and then blend a distress ink on top of that!

To skip the blog post, here is my card:

I'm a visual learner and tried my best to follow the tutorial 

but did have some struggles along the way.

 In case you are reading this and want to give this a go,

I'll share with you 2 problems that I ran into so you won't have them!

The technique requires an acrylic block, acetate or layering tool.

I didn't have an acrylic block and even used an old wooden stamp block

and didn't want it to smoosh around with acetate.

So I improvised and used this .........

a sponge brush.

You may remember that from this creative adventure! 

Next, I started swiping into the regular school glue and I ran 

into problem #2 ~ it's too thick.

I tried another glue (name brand, fancy schmancy) - same result.

I decided to just dilute it and added a teaspoon of warm water and

per-fec-tion!

The first couple 'passed' with the brush sponge were JUICY!

I mean, it was on there like stripes on candy cane!

For the next one, I squeezed a lot of it out before adding it to the base

and it gave it was beautiful lightwash texture -

a lot like what you'd see when you paint a wall.

I made 5 base panels and this reminds me SO MUCH of gesso.

I let them dry - they took over 3 hours total because there was 

one or two tiny spots that were persistent :)

Finally, I used the mini stamping tool to blend and just chose

random distress oxides because I had NO IDEA what I was going to 

make with the completed panels.

I thought "Choose blue!  You can't go wrong with something blue!"

Here are 3 and you can really see how the glue gives it

a great balance between the smooth parts and texture.

Because I'm not really in a creative spirit right now,

I took the easy way out and just went with flowers.

After stamping and die cutting the flowers,

I decided to use light blue as a background and teal blue for leaves.

And after glueing it all down, I added a sentiment and done!

And that's my card and the wrap up of our friends

winter camp with 4 different tutorials!

The hilarious part - as I was cleaning up and getting rid of the glue,

I maybe have accidentally invented another technique!

Stick around - it may be coming up soon in a blog post :)

Thanks for stopping by today!