MORE Tutes

OK, I messed up. There are two tutes that I missed and they wonderful. I hurt my back on Thursday so was barely functional (and that's my story).

Please do not miss this fabulous tutes from Judy Perez on Printing on Tea Bags. This is really cool

Alma Stoller has a super tute entitled How to Recycle a Magazine. Great stuff.

I have an interview coming up with Alma this week so this is an excellent introduction to her. Thanks to all our Art Spark-ers for this excellent round of tutorials. I hope it has been an inspiration for all of you. It sure has been for me.

xo Diana

Tute Tsunami, Day 4

OK, the final tute in the Tsunami is Gloria Hansen's Painted Shibori cloth. This is very beautiful and I'm looking forward to trying my hand at it.

I hope that you all have enjoyed these tutorials. Bookmark them, share them with your friends and send me pics of your creations!

Enjoy your weekend. xo Diana

Tute Tsunami, Day 2

Here is Lyric Kinnard's Painted Shoes tute in which she inspires us to leave no shoe unpainted. Fun! I love these patterns on her shoes. Here is Alisa Burke's altered striped t-shirt tute. All links are listed on my side bar over ------------------------> there :)

Here is Alisa Burke's altered striped t-shirt tute. All links are listed on my side bar.

Sumi Smoosh Tutorial

Wooooo ! It's time for the Tute Tsunami with Art Sparks.

My Sumi Smoosh with Vellum tute is below. I've also uploaded YouTube vids: Part 1 and Part 2.

Here is Melly Testa's tute on hand dyeing from her book Inspired to Quilt and here is Jane Lafazio's tute on Needle Felting. Next up: Lyric Kinard and Alisa Burke. I'll have their links up Thursday!

Sumi Smoosh with Vellum let's get to it!

Supply List
White Vellum Paper
Plaste folder, or sheet that you can fold
Inks: 2 colors and a metallic (or what you have on hand)
Spray bottles (1 per color, I use Ranger's Mini-Misters)
   if you don't have the spray bottles you can just drop some ink onto the plastic sheet
Brayer (or just rub your hand over the plastic to move it around)
Water
RUBBER GLOVES!
If desired and at hand:
alcohol
needle and thread
tape

One of my students named this technique and it stuck. Great name: sumi is the Japanese word for ink.

First open up your plastic folder (clear plastic)
and drop or spray some inks in like so:

Now, close the plastic folder and rub or brayer the ink around, like this

Open up the plastic folder and lay your vellum in on the right hand side, like so:

Close up the plastic and brayer again. Open it, and voila!

There is always plenty of ink left over on the plastic sheets. So do it again. You can make more marks on the paper with stamps by picking up some of the leftover ink. Shown below are roller stamps made with double stick craft foam and wallpaper seam rollers. 

While the ink is wet, and the paper is still on the plastic, try spraying with alcohol or dropping alcohol. That's a neat resist. I love to fold the vellum paper and create a creased pattern that will accept the ink in a different way. You could also crease the vellum after it is dry. You could try other resists as well.
Here: I used one of the pages in my journal. I sewed it in at the top of the page (could have stapled, taped, brad-ed, eyelet-ed, paperclipped). I used a Black Sharpie and a White Sharpie here as well as washi tape from Pretty Tape on Etsy.

Yes, very important to give directions on your journal page, right? Or perhaps, I'd have forgotten ...

Here's a close up of the sewing bit (bottom right)

I hope you will enjoy this simple technique. Let me know if you try it out. I'm looking forward to seeing Melly's and Jane's tutes. There are more coming every day for the rest of the week! Fun, right?