Here's the make and take that the amazingly creative Claudine Hellmuth was demonstrating at the Ranger booth during CHA! One of the most wonderful things about going to these shows is gettting hands on with products AND meeting the artists themselves who design these products.
We used the canvas sticky back sheets (these were my first time with these and they were very cool!), next we painted with the glossy acrylic paint from the CH Studio line, used a heat gun to dry it quick but you could let it air dry. Next, stamp wtih Ranger Watermark pad and then wash a top coat of paint ( we used white with lots of water, but black works or choose a cooordinating color for subtel effects!) over the top and the stamped image "magically" appears.
These went into the Ranger frames with memory glass, the sticky back paper and acrylic paint were Claudine Hellmuth Studio/Ranger products. <-----click to go check these products out or look for them at your local scrap/craft store! The paint colors can be mixed to create many tertiary colors and the paint has a slight glossy finish to it - with super brilliant pigments (this was not your *average* acrylic paint!).
The Ranger Watermark pad and the canvas sticky back sheets are on my "must have" list!
ETA: the wonderfully talented Claudine just popped in to let me know I needed to modify my instructions and I have done so :-) make sure you don't use a heat gun to dry the stamped image. The watermark stamped iimage will remain "wet" when you add the wash the next color layer over it.
(that's Claudine on the right).
thanks for doing the MITI!!
On change to your directions. Do Not dry the watermark resist after you stamp it or it won't work :)
great to see you at CHA!
Posted by: claudine hellmuth | August 05, 2009 at 12:26 PM
eeeeeek! thanks for pointing that out!!! I think I've fixed the directions :-)
Posted by: Rebecca Grohall | August 05, 2009 at 02:07 PM