Summer of Creative Chemistry Fun

Tim Holtz and Online Card Classes have teamed up for a summer of fun.  Tim Holtz previously had Creative Chemistry 101 and 102.  In August a new class Creative Chemistry 103 will debut.  The  classes are reopened.  I took the independent classes earlier, and now the forums and galleries are open and Tim is answering questions.  I highly recommend it if you have not signed up before.  I also really like the month long format.
The month of June is Creative Chemistry 101.  We are in Week 3 and focusing on Paint and Perfect Pearls.  I do not own Perfect Pearls yet, so would love to win the prize that includes them.

This week I am playing with the Dabber Resist technique.  Join the class to figure out how it's done.
I love how the distress stains blend and create so many colors!

This Crazy Cats tag I played with Candied Apple, Mermaid Lagoon and Carved Pumpkin Distress spray stains.

Here I played with the Botanical Sketch stamp and Mermaid Lagoon and Carved Pumpkin Distress spray stains and Twisted Citron Distress stain.

#SummerofCreativeChemistry

Compendium of Curiosities Challenge #31

The new Compendium of Curiosities Challenge #31 uses Layering Stencil Paint Resist found on page 47 of Tim's Compendium of Curiosities Vol. III. I don't use stencils and paint often and I've only tried this technique once before in a class, so this is very experimental. I bought a couple of Distress Paints recently, so I thought I'd see what I could do. For more experimentation, I decided to use the newest set of distress ink mini (set #13) - and oh - it was so much fun! I was excited to see the bright colors on Tim's blog, and then I started blending them and I am giddy with delight! I LOVE these colors! I love the colors they create when blended! I used Twisted Citron, Abandoned Coral, Mermaid Lagoon and Fossilized Amber.  Four different stencils were used in this card.

This is a great challenge blog! It's a fun way to work through all the different ideas in Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities #3 book. I recommend you click the first link above and see all of the CC3 teams great projects.

This week's sponsors are Inspiration Emporium, who has donated a generous $50 gift certificate to a randomly chosen winner, and Tim and Mario who donated a bunch of goodies to the winner of the Curiosity team's choice.