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Welcome to day three of Falliday Fest 2017! I�m so excited about today's Dendritic Technique challenge! Dendritic is the visual you see when you look at the winter sky through trees with bare branches, or the crackling lines of crystalline, or ice.
Using smooth, nonporous surfaces and paint, this technique creates beautiful backgrounds perfect for any season, occasion or gender.
For this technique you will need:
- acrylic paint in any color(s)
- 2 pieces of either of these nonporous objects, they will be your pressing surfaces:
� THICK glass (thin glass like those used in photo frames is NOT recommended or safe. They have a very high risk of breaking.)
� Acetate, or transparency film
� Large acrylic stamping blocks
� Smooth ceramic tiles
� Flat embossing machine cutting plates
*see sample photos for the difference in looks & pressing surfaces.
- Paint brush
- A thin tool to pry pieces apart, if needed
- 2 pieces of paper (this technique will create 2 paint surfaces to lift from) Bonus: You will get at least 2 card panels from this technique. SCORE!
-Instructions:
Have paper ready.
Apply paint to one surface piece, spread out in an even layer. Lay the second surface onto the painted one. Sandwiching the paint. Press down firmly. Carefully separate the two pieces. The paint can create a vacuum type seal, because of this, the pieces might need to be pried apart. If this happens, slide a thin tool, like a small spatula, or butter knife between the surfaces and slightly twist to lift one corner up in order to get a grip on them & pull them apart. As you pull the pieces apart the paint will create the Dendritic patterns.
Lay your paper onto the pulled apart surfaces. Lightly run fingers over the paper to adhere the paint. Gently lift up the paper from one end in a peeling type manner. Ta-Da! You just created gorgeous, unique background piece. Allow your Dendritic print to dry completely before using on a project.
This challenge also coordinates with our first card drive.
If you are participating in the card drives for the Falliday Fest challenges, please coordinate your Dendritic creation with card drive #1 - Occasions challenge. (birthday, thank you, thinking of you miss you, baby, anniversary, sympathy, encouragement, friend) Restrictions: no glitter, no sharp objects, no metal of any kind. Envelopes required, must have a greeting stamped inside. For more details please follow this link: Falliday Fest 2017 - Card Drive #1
I hope you enjoy this challenge! I simply cannot wait to see all your beautiful creations fill up the gallery.
View the Gallery for this Challenge HERE
View the Falliday Fest Gallery HERE
View the Falliday Fest Master Challenge Thread HERE
UPLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. All Falliday Fest Challenge Entries must be uploaded to the Falliday Fest Gallery, with the specific challenge keyword, no later than October 31st, 2017 at 12:00 Noon Central Time to be eligible for our fabulous prizes! Post a link to your entry in this thread.
2. You may not combine challenges, but you are welcome to create multiple cards for each challenge.
3. Please remember to put in the correct keyword when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos.
4. Please donate as many cards from this challenge as you can to our four Falliday Fest card drives. The donation thread is HERE
Thank you for participating in these card drives!
BIG Thanks to my sample makers! xo
Last edited by UnderstandBlue; 10-10-2017 at 07:47 AM..
This is certainly a WOW technique, Shannon. Thanks for bringing it to us. I don't know if it was meant to be more of a bg technique, but when I lifted my print, I saw an object and went with it.
Here is mine! I used acetate to press , and put the paint on the bottom of a plastic container. I made cards from both sides. Here is God on the Sea
thanks for the new technique!
I have watched that video twice, and it is closed captioned ( SWEET! ) but, what I am curious about is, is there a time delay after you smoosh the paint to get the frosting to appear? ( do you let this sit for some time for that to happen?)
Like everyone else, it took me a few tries to get something I was happy with. My favorite ones I haven't used for cards yet but they are in my stash for another time.Here is one for Fall and one for Christmas:
One of my favorite things about Falliday Fest is trying new techniques. This was so much fun. I ended up using a metallique acrylic paint and love the look.
I just realized my card might not work for the card drive as my embellishment is sparkly....glitter?? I will send another card or cards from my stash to Ronald Mc Donald House.
Such a fun technique! I was really busy yesterday, so I'm a day late doing this one . . . which means I'm also a little behind. But I hope to catch up! Here's my card:
I have watched that video twice, and it is closed captioned ( SWEET! ) but, what I am curious about is, is there a time delay after you smoosh the paint to get the frosting to appear? ( do you let this sit for some time for that to happen?)
Sorry for the late response! No there was no time delay, the pattern started appearing as soon as the pressure released from pressing them together.
__________________ Shannon
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Nin
I just realized my card might not work for the card drive as my embellishment is sparkly....glitter?? I will send another card or cards from my stash to Ronald Mc Donald House.
Isnt it?! So glad you enjoyed it!
__________________ Shannon
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Nin
This card was inspired by my recent trip to my friends' house in Seattle- watched the water from her house for 4 days in all sorts of light- I used 2 jelly jars, purple acrylic paint, and did some heat embossing for my FF17scrapaholic007 Sailing Ships
__________________ "You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." -- Maya Angelou
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