Thank you for a great story and a fun challenge Sandy.
I had a great time making this for a fellow Teapotter, knowing it was Tickle a Teapotter week....unfortunately disaster has struck since finishing it and taking the photo!!
I have been watching a few card making youtube tutorials lately where liquid glue is used. I make 99% of my card using double sided tape and for the other 1% of the time is a glue stick or Crayola white school glue.
I purchased some Tombow mono multi liquid glue. It says that it is both a permanent and repositionable glue. I never use anything that fancy so I should have realised that disaster was around the corner. The image is a digi by Make it Crafty (I think - I can't find it on my computer, my digi files are even messier than my acrylic stamp collection) I printed it twice, one image for the back scene and I cut the other one in half for each side step.
No copics were harmed in making this, cos' I didn't use any. Everything was coloured with Distress inks. Smack each colour onto al foil, squirt a very tiny bit of water in one corner, this will give you a gazillion shades of each colour. I applied the colour with an aqua pen, just wipe the brush tip on a baby wipe before moving onto the next colour. I also did a bit of colouring with Derwent Inktense pencils.
Using the tombow glue, I stuck everything on, took photos, checked that they turned out ok. The card was still a bit tacky so I let it sit on my desk overnight. Fast forward 12 hours and I put the card away...everything sounds good so far....Today I went to open the card so I could check that the little bike didn't need a bit more colour.
I was shocked to see that each fold is now stuck together!!! I was trying to gently pry each layer apart, not with a lot of success, so I used clean wet brush to see if that helped..........yep, I forgot that I used inktense pencils....water makes them spread and spread and spread. Needless to say, I will not be joining the tickle, but I am here at the Teaparty in spirit.
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 GMT Views: 2050
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