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Here are the sample tags I made at my first ever stamping class, billed as “Scrapbook Territory's mini version of Ranger University.” The instructor crammed into two hours what she'd learned in six at Ranger University. She did a pretty good job. Of course it took some of us two and a half hours. I was definitely rushing through the last three techniques, and I did the last one at home. I had a lot of fun. I'll be looking for more technique classes.#1. Color Wash Encaustic Resist. This starts out just the way we're used to doing a resist–stamping with clear EP on glossy cs, and heating. Then you spray the Adirondack color wash colors on a craft sheet, mist it with water, put the image face down on the ink and press it down. Heat it to dry and do again. Heat to dry. After I did it once, I was afraid of ruining it by doing it again, but the lady next to me said that was the way to get the deeper colors so I did it. Thank you, nice lady. That gorgeous stamp is a section of a background stamp by Impression Obsession.#2 Alcohol Ink Agates is the Polished Stone Technique. We did it on a transparency which we glued to the tag with Crystal Effects smeared over the inked side. We also inked up metal letters. Also, we put an adhesive-backed die-cut on the tag, covered it with metal foil tape, brayered it and pressed the foil down with a large tortillion (a large version of what we use to apply Gamsol in the MCPT). Then we did some more polished stone, blowing on it the second time to make it marble. Carefully ink the flower with Archival Ink and carefully rub off the ink to get back to the foil look. (I'm pretty sure Staz-on will do the same thing since I've accidentally removed alcohol ink with it.) The die-cut on the instructor's example was a swirl, and it looked really nice.#3 Adirondack dye ink coordinating colors and faux layering: I saw this technique in the Technique Junkies Newsletter where it was called Dragging. That's what you do. Tear a piece of cardstock or paper and use the edge to create the curves. Start in the center with the lightest color. Work toward one corner, dragging the torn paper and inking against its edge. Flip the tag around and do the same thing going in the other side. I fell in love with some of the Adirondack colors that I didn't have. I only had the earth tones. The blue one was my first one; I messed it up so I tried another.#4. Detailed Distress Embossing–Stamp with embossing EP. Pick up tiny amounts of different distress EP with your fingers and rub to release the EP over different areas of the image. This is cool! Heat until the distresing feels like sandpaper. Cool. Rub off. Distress tag with Distress Inks. I wish I had had more colors to choose from. The instructor's version had lots of contrast. I have discovered that I love the Concord Grape EP. The other tag was called Wrinkled Free Distress. That's the one Dymphie first told us about–rub two or three colors of distress ink on the craft sheet, spritz with water, and smoosh your cs in it.#5. Painting with Perfect Pearls–Pretty simple. We stamped the image with VersaMark on black cardstock, clear embossed it, and then used a waterbrush to paint it with Perfect Pearls. The other one here is using Adirondack Daubers–I'd never used these before. It was hard to get the ink to flow at first. Naturally, I was the first one to use them. We used the daubers to color the back of a stamped piece of acetate (provided–too bad it wasn't an image instead of a graphic). Then you just turn it over and attach it to the tag. The paint acts as an adhesive. I then proceded to play with a few more of the colors. I wasn't too impressed with the daubers. Perhaps with practice? If you're thinking of taking a class, do it. My samples aren't great, but having gone through the process makes it more likely that I'll do it again. On the back of each tag are directions to the technique in case I forget. Plus it was fun! Thanks for looking. Daria
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