Twinkling H2O

Hi everyone, As some of you may know, I've been taking an online class of sorts. It's called Camp Scrap and it's like a virtual camp for papercrafters. Each week there are new videos and challenges and all sorts of stuff. Anyhoo, one of the challenges was to use a new product or one you haven't used in a while, so I broke out my Twinkling H2O.

This Alaska album has been about modification. Modifying my papers and embellishments to better suit the colors of the pictures. In the above photo, I used the Twinks to change the color of the chipboard stickers, which worked great, because the glitter was still showing through, even after I painted them.

To also add more interest and layering, I broke out my grungeboard accessories, and painted them with the Twinks as well...

As you can also see in the above picture I painted green cardstock (which originally was the wrong green of course - lol) and cut out letters and strips of accent paper for the page.

I think the final layout really came together well. I'd forgotten how great those little paints are!

Hope everyone has a crafty day!

Fun in the Snow!

Been Awhile... Hi everyone, it seems like I haven't posted in forever, but looking at the date of the last post, I guess that's the truth! LOL Just to give a few details about what's been going on... Folks came down in November for 2 weeks and we had a blast. If you go to my Facebook page pics are posted with more to follow. I made it through the Christmas season and inventory at Hobby Lobby, which was crazy busy and stressful! Work has calmed down a bit, but I'm thinking about a career move, more on that to follow. Then finally Rob and I went on an Alaskan cruise for a week, to celebrate Rob's birthday, the big 50! It was amazing and it's working on this album that has brought me to today's post. Out of all the paper I've got, the pics are this amazing blue and green, and I just don't seem to have the right color of paper in either cardstock or print paper. I'm having to improvise. Of course this applies to my embellishments so...
This first pic is a comparison of where my flowers started and where they ended up. They started as pale pink, salmon, yellow etc. and ended up this amazing forest green with gold highlights.

Here are the tools that I used. I used Pinta alcohol ink but you could easily use the Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks. The Lumiere paint I added with my finger. The paint is a hunter green with gold highlights, which are what I wanted to pop out from the flower.

Here are the final results...