Ranger and CardMaker Blog Hop

Hello!  I'm very excited to be hopping with the CardMaker blog team today, highlighting Ranger Industries products.  We were sent the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons to showcase in this hop.

You should have arrived from Linda Beeson's blog.  The full hop list is below so you can view all the great projects today. We'd love it if you joined along!

• CardMaker Blog
• Linda Beeson
• Lisa Silver <-- You're here!
• Kim Klinkovsky
• Pamela Haskin
• Carisa Zglobicki
• Dawn Lusk
• Ranger Industries

Let's jump into the projects, shall we?

Both of my projects were a bit of an experiment.  I thought I'd try my hand at mixed media.  While it's not my daily go-to style, I had a lot of fun pulling the elements together.

Butterfly Wish

To recreate this card:

1. Adhere Tim Holtz Idea-ology Melange Tissue Wrap to a white cardstock panel with Distress Collage Medium
2. Place the Flourishes stencil over the panel and cover with Transparent Gloss texture paste and allowed to dry
3. Using the Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and Mermaid Lagoon crayons, color over the background.  Blend the crayons with your finger, achieving green, orange, and purple in the background.
4. Use a damp cloth or baby wipe to remove the crayon from the transparent texture pasted areas.  Since the background was treated with the Distress Medium adhesive, the color will remove from these areas as well, so hit only the high spots.
5. Complete your card and embellish with a medallion and paper string

Here's a close-up of the background:

While my supplies were out, I thought I'd try a second card with a slight variation.

Bright:

To recreate this card:

1. Adhere Tim Holtz Idea-ology Melange Tissue Wrap to a white cardstock panel with Distress Collage Medium
2. Color the background with Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and Mermaid Lagoon crayons.  Blend the crayons with your finger, achieving green, orange, and purple in the background.
3. Place the Lace stencil over the panel and covered with Transparent Gloss texture paste and allow to dry.  This step needs to be done carefully.  The addition of the texture paste will "move" the crayon a bit and it will be easy to overwork the background.  An overworked background = mud = trash bin = : (
4. Use a damp cloth or baby wipe to remove the crayon from the open background areas.  Since the background was treated with the Distress Medium adhesive, the color will remove easily.  All of the crayon under the transparent paste will be trapped.
5. Complete your card and embellish with ribbon

Overall, the Distress Crayons are a unique product with very interesting properties.  The colors are vibrant and blend well.  I know I have more experiments in mind and can't wait to see what the rest of the team created!  They are sure to inspire!

Kim Klinkovsky is next on the hop!

Thanks for visiting,

Lisa
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Supplies:

Paper:
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Melange Tissue Wrap Paper (Ranger)
Pop-Tone Blu Raspberry and Pop-Tone Lemon Drop cardstock (The French Paper Company)

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight, Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, 25 pk

Tonic Comfort 8.5 Inch Guillotine Paper Trimmer by Tim Holtz

Teflon Bone Folder

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons, Set 1

Ranger Texture Paste, Transparent Gloss

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Brushes, 1-1/4

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Mediums, Matte

Ranger Dina Wakley Media Palette Knife (04176)

Tim Holtz Stencils, Flourish

Tim Holtz Stencils, Lace

Tim Holtz, Paper String, Solids

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons, Set 3