hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel thank you so much for
coming back today I create a new car tutorial with a woodgrain pattern in the
background using Tim Holtz distress crayons these crayons come in many
different colors but the two that I'm using today are being given for free
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the two free crayons are only available on December 7th and 8th 2017 but you can
buy the set of all the crayons anytime from scrapbook com all the products and
things are listed in the description area below the two distress crayons are
amusing today are vintage photo and walnut stain and to create the
background I use Strax more smooth Bristol paper I applied the distress
oxide inks directly to the background by just rubbing them and painting on the
bathroom I alternated between the two Browns and then using a little bit of
water just blended the colors with my fingers distress crayons are great for
blending and they can create any type of background because they actually react
with water unlike regular crayons the distress crayons as you may know react
with water and can blend together on any type of surface but it's better to do
them on a smooth surface so you don't get any lines
I continued blending until everything was smooth and all the colors were
blended together then I added another layer by applying more of the crown on
top of this first layer that way I got a more intense color and a deeper brown so
I could die cutter or emboss I grabbed a second piece of Bristol paper and then
used the crayons again to create a second background this time I added the
crayons in a horizontal way by alternating between the two colors this
is another way of applying them but it gave me the same results and then I went
ahead and smooth them out with water again this background was created almost
like a gradient in terms of colors and I thought it was perfect to die-cut a tree
with it I took a die cut from paper smooches
this is the fall tree and what I did is I run it through my vagabond machine and
cut one tree and two sets of leaves each set came with eight different leaves so
I knew I would have enough if I cut sixteen of them so I could add to my
card
then I ran this second paper through an embossing folder that has a woodgrain
pattern the wood grain texture came out beautifully but to really see it I ran a
wet wipe on top of the embossed area and it took off some of that ink and it made
it look really good I took some Neenah environment Desert
Storm cardstock this is the hundred and ten pound cardstock and I measured it so
it would be on a slant on my card the reason was is that I didn't want to
cover the whole background because I really loved the actual woodgrain
pattern so I measured where the cardstock are supposed to go and then I
went ahead and I placed it slanted on the back that way I really had a good
way of showing off my tree without covering most of my wood grain pattern
I glue the Desert Storm cardstock to the woodgrain background and then I glue the
tree right on top of that car that way I had a good contrast between the back and
the front and the tree matched perfectly with the background then for the leaves
I took my old siren machine which I haven't really used in god knows how
long and I thought to myself why try to glue these tiny leaves without any help
so I went and dug it out from the bottom of my scrapbooking bin and went ahead
and run it through and put all the leaves inside and created stickers out
of them I can't tell you how good it felt to not have to glue each and every
one and just have to run it through that machine it's not really a machine it's
more sticker maker but I call it a machine because it really created
stickers for my leaves so all I did is just take the leaves and glue them to
the background and then I was done I also took a brown fine point marker and
just added a little bit of a ground underneath the tree to make it a little
bit more realistic but I drew that freehand and without any guide I'd also
took my wing Castella and added a little bit of shimmer to all
the leaves and the tree trunk just so it would be a little bit more shimmery
then I glue the card to an a2 note card made out of the same Desert Storm paper
just so it would all match
finally for the sentiment I stamped a hero art sentiment that says thank you
with my Versamark ink and then embossed it with white superfine Ranger embossing
powder and of course as usual I added the powder tool to make sure that no
embossing powder sticks to the background so I keep my embossing powder
in a container so I just went ahead and added it to the background and then heat
set it and I wanted to do it in white just to add a little bit of contrast I
took pictures of my project on a wood green background as well which is the
back porch in my house because I thought it would be perfect for this thank you
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