MIX28 - Any Way the Wind Blows (8/9/2013)

[dini]

Challenge Title: Any Way the Wind Blows

Hostess: dini (Dina K)
Keyword: MIX28
VIEW THE GALLERY FOR THIS CHALLENGE HERE

Ready for a new Mix-Ability challenge?!! We hope you're having fun with these! Our goal is to make mixed media, easy, approachable and FUN! We want to convince you that no matter what your style is - you can DO it!

This week I want to challenge you to use air to move color on your project.

There are so many ways this can be done! Here are a few ideas:

1. Blowing bubbles to create a background (put a little dish soap, ink, and water in a container, blow bubbles through a straw till the bubbles raise above the edge of your container, then catch them on your cardstock!) - demonstrated in the video below...

2. Load up some watered down paint or ink on your paper, then blow it around with a straw.

3. Blo-Pens, or airbrushing

4. Use canned air or a compressor to blast color (I don't have these, but here's Tim Holtz's tutorial video using alcohol inks)

5. Aerosol spray paints (these are great with stencils, since they dry so fast)

Here's how I used these techniques, plus a few more tips and tricks to try!

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If you want to start these challenges in the pages of an art journal instead of a card, or on scrapbook pages, or on 3D items - please know - ANYTHING is welcome! We want you to learn and enjoy!

Please remember to put in the correct keyword (MIX28) when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos. Then come back to this thread and paste a link to the card in your gallery so we can all ooh and ahhh!

[Scrapacat]

This is such a FUN technique! It's wide open to your imagination. Here's my gallery link for a little more info. See what you can find to BLOW!

Sea and Sky

[dini]

I sure do wish I had an aircan! Every time I use the Blo-Pens I think of this scene from Daddy Daycare:

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[Cook22]

Oh, this sounds like fun Dina! I do believe I have some Blo-pens somewhere if I could find them. I know I have compressed air - I've tried it with alcohol inks. I'm going to try to play quickly when I get home, before we have to leave for the weekend.

[Biggan]

Thanks Dina for a great video and challenge! Here�s mine;

Blowing in the wind


TFL!
Birgit

[dini]

One more for fun...... make sure you don't drink the bubbles!

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[Jeanne S]

Here's mine:
MIX28 Winter Trees by Jeanne S - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[peeps321]

Here's mine. I dug out the spray paint. Thanks for looking!

Be Afraid

[donidoodle]

Dina, thanks for a fun challenge. These mix-ability challenges really are encouraging me to play and explore!
Here's my card:
MIX28 by donidoodle - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[ohmypaper!]

Fun challenge Dina! Thanks for your tutorial! I laughed at Daddy Daycare. I have not seen that one. I REMEMBER this episode from Little Rascals. My sister watched that show a lot! You have definitely given me a grin to start my day! And yah, it's 11am and it actually started at 6am but I am finally home again and GETTING started on my "indoor" day now!

[StampinAK]

Fun challenge, Dina. I'm sharing a card that I created for June's VSN using a straw to move the ink. I will be back after work tonight with another card as well!

JUN13VSNKIDS - Silly Straws & Flowers by StampinAK - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[StampinAK]

Oh my, I really needed the chuckle this morning ... Love the Little Rascals!

[Precious Kitty]

This is not gonna happen for me. I made a disaster trying these techniques and they do not work for me. Sorry maybe next week challenge I can play.

[cullenwr]

I learned from previous Mix-Ability challenges that there is one tool that is an absolute MUST HAVE! Plastic coated freezer paper to use as a work surface!! Made this project a breeze (pun intended) to clean up! Here's MY CARD.

[Luv Flowers]

Thanks for these new mix ability challenges Dina!! They do mix things up and just make it all about having fun. That's what I did today. MIX28, Fall... by Luv Flowers - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[Cook22]

For the record, I tried! I really did!!
Got home from work, tried the bubbles ( I watched the video with breakfast).
One wet sheet of card, no colour...
Found my compressed air and used watercolour on wet watercolour paper, ended up with something so-so, from which I die-cut a little Christmas tree. Decided it was a bit hard to see that I had blown my paints on it, so I got out a homemade stencil from an earlier MIX challenge and sprayed a kraft tag in silver and gold with the only aersol paints I have. Looking better...
And then I had an accident (first in a long time) with a bottle of re-inker. Because the gold and silver acted as resist I used the air to blow some of the re-inker around the tag and can probably re-use it when I get home again, but by the time I'd tidied all that mess up and washed the ink off everything, it was time to pack and leave the house tidy.

[MariLynn]

I have to say this challenge was a blast... well if I had had something to blast it with other than just my own hot air it would have been even better. I choose to blow watercolor paint with a straw. You have to look really closely on my UGLY card to see it. I used a page from an encyclopedia, stamped it and then blew the paint.

It is a little easier on my Butterfly card.


Here is my Butterfly card showing the triple easel panels.

[dini]

Here's another video - his branches are really amazing!

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[Stamperrobin]

Here is my card done with alcohol inks and glossy paper...i did some other ones as well that I will post later.
MIX28 SAFE HARBOR by Stamperrobin - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[dini]

Looking like my Blo-Pens are obsolete. Here's a very similar product called Sprayza - anyone seen these?

Amazon.com: Melissa & Doug Sprayza - Super Deluxe Set: Toys & Games

[artystamper]

I need to find me a blow pen!! I just blew on the water and ink on my panel - but I love how it came out - I've done the blowing with the straw and wanted to try something else - Still have to try the ink on the bubbles though!!!

here's my nautical waterblown card! MIX28 Oh! the places you will go! by artystamper - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[artystamper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by artystamper

I need to find me a blow pen!! I just blew on the water and ink on my panel - but I love how it came out - I've done the blowing with the straw and wanted to try something else - Still have to try the ink on the bubbles though!!!

here's my nautical waterblown card! MIX28 Oh! the places you will go! by artystamper - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

I realized I hadn't done quite the proper technique on my card above - so I went back into the craft room and did a redo -

this time I brushed water onto the card - then dropped drops of reinkers into the water - (rather than waterbrushing it on!) and then blew the ink with my mouth

here's my redo!

MIX28 Redo - the places you will go by artystamper - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[Stamperrobin]

Here is a card done with Adirondack re-inkers and water
MIX28 DUDE by Stamperrobin - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[Stamperrobin]

Card done with re-inkers and spritzed with smooch spray
MIX28 BUTTERFLIES by Stamperrobin - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[steadybeadin]

just watched to tim holtz video. I'm so trying that air can technique!

[StampinAK]

Here's my card:
His Child Silhouette

[jodylb]

Here's my card -

Windblown Swallowtail by jodylb - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[susanbri]

I used a bowl of water, dish soap, food colouring, and a straw for my background for this card:

Soap Bubble Background

[ckbythesea]

Thanks for a fun challenge to get me back in the saddle after weeks away!

MIX28 Airy Eggplant by ckbythesea - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[ohmypaper!]

I want to play this challenge again but I had fun using the blowing technique to create my card. After all I did to the background panel you really can't see the blowing but I started with red water color at the bottom and added yellow reinker at the top and blew. When I was done using the drywall tape, I liked it standing vertical so the yellow reinker is now on the left side instead of top. Super fun challenge that I will play again!

Time To Live

[marney]

After much thought I decided to post this anyway... Loved that video of the Tree Branch but could not produce the fine hair line branches... even by turning 40 shades of purple...LOL.... Just too old I guess.. LOL..


Mix 28 by marney - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[steadybeadin]

peacock canned air technique by steadybeadin - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers


Finally got it uploaded!