TIM HOLTZ CREATIVE CHEMISTRY 103

WAITING ON YUPO

I am soooo excited to try this new

product.  It's called YUPO.

Tim says it's synthetic...a plastic...

and I will tell you after watching his video

in Creative Chemistry 103, that this 

product will WOW you when you

use the alcohol inks with it!

I am sitting on pins and needles waiting for

my YUPO product to arrive.

Anyway, I decided that I would just 

create one tag for Day 5 with Glossy Paper

and then repeat it again on Yupo when it arrives.

Alcohol Ink Stamped on Glossy Paper

Check out this background....

GORGEOUS.....

soooo sad my stamp slipped and this is all you 

are going to see of this BEAUTIFUL background.

This is pretty, but if I had just added some 

more BLUE...I would have had similar results.

Tag #1 - Alcohol Ink Stamped Resist on Yupo

This technique is really fun.....as I think all 

the lessons with alcohol ink will be.

So you apply alcohol inks and the Blending Solution onto
your applicator tool, and dab it all over your Yupo.
Keep applying until you like your background.
Let this dry.
Stamp your image with Archival ink......

be ready with your towel to wipe off the ink.
And TA DA...like magic there is kind of this

ghost image left.   FABULOUS FUN!

My Yupo product has arrived!

Tag #2 _Alcohol Ink Faded Layers on Yupo

This technique is a lot of fun and reminds me of the techniques used in 

Art Journaling.

Begin adding your layers of color of alcohol inks.

.(Let these layers dry). 

Put some blending solution onto your mat and 

gently work the solution onto your round blending tool foam....

(Making sure you apply just enough to wet the foam).

Next take a stencil and lay it on your project where you 

want the design.

Take your round blending tool with blending

solution applied to it and gently remove the color.

I really like this technique.

  

Tag #3 - Texture Resist on Yupo

Using alcohol inks make your background. 

Next pick an embossing folder to emboss with.

In order for this technique to work, this next step is important.

When embossing make sure the image is going to be pushed up through

the paper...(you want to be able to feel the raised image on the colored side of the paper).

Ink the raised surface with Archival ink and then immediately wipe away the ink

with a dry cloth.  You can work in small areas of the embossed image at a time.

As you can see from the tag, the embossed image appears after you wipe 

away the ink.....LoVe this technique!

Tag #4 Alcohol Ink Painting

You can make a very pale background and stamp your

image using a light color of Archival ink before you begin painting.

I went online and found an image to guide me and 

just painted it without stamping.

Pink Daisy

Here is my Alcohol Ink Painting on YUPO.

I found painting with Alcohol inks fun. Once you figure out how they work 

(they dry fast...but you just rewet the ink with blending solution), I think the inks

make them another great product to paint with.

Tag #5 - Alcohol Ink Liquid Landscape on Yupo

I found this technique interesting...but I was very hesitant and leery

of this entire process.  But once you go with it and just allow yourself

to play and not worry so much about the outcome...I found I

liked my end result.  You just move the alcohol inks around

 (you can use a straw or popsicle stick or some smooth tool on 

the surface) and try to achieve a landscape design.  

Pretty cool.....and I fell in Love with it after I stamped

the pine trees on it. 

Tag #6 - Alcohol Ink Splattered Florals on Yupo 

This was another technique that 

I was hesitant about trying. 

I just didn't see the purpose.

So I decided.... well this is suppose to be FUN!

And that is what I tried to do ...HAVE FUN!!!!

Apply Alcohol inks directly to Yupo.

 Apply blending solution, and then blast the ink 

with air using a straw or canned air.

I just used the Distress Marker Spritzer for 

this technique....I didn't have a can of air

or a straw on hand.

This is the final lesson from 

Creative Chemistry 103.

I have learned a great deal and

had a lot of fun using products and techniques

that I haven't used before.

Thank you Tim Holtz, 

Jennifer McGuire

and

Kristina Werner

for a FABULOUS CLASS!!!!!