Yesterday, I took the Vintage Christmas Card class at Archivers. It's been a long time since a class was "challenging" and this one was. Lots of inking, embossing, stamping, dabbing, etc using the Tim Holtz distress inks and stamps. Four cards and a tag took 3 hours. (Which for all you non-scrappers, is a long time.) They turned out beautiful.
Things I learned... using the dabber with the inks to color the stamp. Yes, believe it or not, there are still things for me to learn. There are these little sticks, with dense cotton, almost a modified q-tip. Tap the ink... and then tap it off on the craft mat to lighten it up. What this does is that it will take a color such as "Tea Dye", a brown color and makes it a soft skin tone color.
Then there was the "grunge board" which we dry embossed, placing a pattern on it. Then we heat embossed it to make it look metallic. I've got a lot of the grunge board from a grunge board shopping spree back when it first came out. BEFORE, when I new product came out we (me) had to have it all. So I've changed just a little. :) Maybe.
I got to work at a table with my friend Sandy (who works at Archivers) and her sister Lisa. Both veteran scrappers/stampers. Which was good, because you had to move in this class and know what you were doing.
It was fun.. my fingers got inked and it's a good thing that when we went out with friends that night the lights were down low so no one could see my "dirty" hands. (Takes a little bit for the ink to come off.)
What I didn't do was buy anything. Not the dabbers, not a color of ink. Not the really cute Tim Holtz's Christmas stamps. (Which were SO cool.) None of the embossing powder. Nothing. BUT - what I do think I need to do is put together a stamping box from the supplies I DO have. Like they have at Archivers with all the supplies in a bin in the middle of the table. The embossing gun.. the inks, blenders, etc. All in one box. So when I go to ink and stamp, I'll have all my toys in one place. That would be fun.
January to-do list: Make up a "Archivers Stamping Kit" of my own. (I need to go find a box to put it in. Preferably clear plastic.)
(Pictures to follow later today.)
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