Distress Oxide Spray Resist Tone on Tone Look

Hi! I still have another post or two on leather embossing, but while I was working on a card I grabbed a Tone on Tone background that I (for a moment) forgot how I made it 😉 . I started this blog for my friends, students in my classes, and my Mom to remind them…

Original Distress Oxide Spray Resist

Hello Everyone! I was going through my backlog of videos trying to find a bunch that were supposed to be part of my new series on leather and realized that somehow I lost them. I am in the process of re-shooting them, but meanwhile there are so many videos that I have made and never…

3D Printed Plate for Embossing in the Sizzix Big Shot

Hi everyone! Today’s post is possible because of a new friend I made this year! Tim and I have become email pen pals and it has been fun sharing our art and ideas and even collaborating on projects! One of them was a plate he printed for me with his 3D printer, from one of…

Clear Gesso on Yupo Paper and Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Sprays

Hi everyone! Finally! I think this will be the last in my series of using Yupo paper cut on the Silhouette Curio with different mediums to allow Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains and other water based inks to work on the porous surface without sliding off. But I may stumble upon some other idea in…

Yupo Paper Cutouts with Matte Medium

appy New Year everyone! Here’s looking forward to a much more “normal” 2021 once all of us get vaccinated! I miss people, and classes!! This past fall I started a series on how to color Yupo paper cutouts that I cut on my Silhouette Curio. This non-porous paper doesn’t color well with water based media…

Gelli Art Laser Print Transfer Technique and Using the Leftover

Hi everyone! Today I am taking a break from Yupo paper cutouts because I am in Holiday Card making mode! I am making a series of cards for a nursing home project, and I decided to play around with a bunch of different techniques so that I could have several designs. One of the techniques…

Yupo Paper Grit Paste Distress Oxide Spray Technique

Hi all! I am back with another installment of adventures with Yupo paper cut out on the Silhouette and coloring it with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide sprays and Distress Spray Stains. In this video I am experimenting with the Grit paste also by Tim Holtz. As I have in the past, I cover the Yupo…

Yupo paper Silhouette cutouts with Gesso

Hi everyone!! Here is another post in a series on using different mediums on Yupo paper cutouts (cut using the Silhouette Curio- see my tips and tricks post on that here). As I have explained before,  Yupo paper cuts beautifully on the Silhouette Curio, but when you try to color them using inks or stains,…