Artful Times - New Challenge (23)

For this week we decided to do a Colourful Technique and I chose to do the Stazon Technique, a version of which I featured on my blog not long ago.  I was first taught this by Cath Wilson and then the other week Lynne (Wilkinson) repeated it for everyone at Victoria Stampers.

Here's the one I submitted for you to look at on the Artful Times Blog.

If you go over to the challenge blog you will see there is a link provided so you can go and watch a video on how to do it.  Here is a quick written version (all inks used are Stazon):

• Stamp main image at an angle on white card (coated if possible) creating four distinct corners (as shown purple).
• Take a smaller background stamp and stamp in the four corners.  Heat set.
• Using Post-It-Notes, to mask off areas you do not want to colour, apply Azure to the corners and then Blazing Red over the top with some cut and dry foam.  You now have a purple.
• Apply other colours to the central image one by one until the area is filled with bright colours (Cactus Green, Pumpkin, Mustard, Azure and Blazing Red).
• Heat Set again.

• Take word stamps, or use an alphabet stencil and stamp words at an angle across the card using Black Stazon.
• Take a Post-It-Note and put above the word and apply black ink off the edges of the mask to give a black frame effect.  Repeat kind of "upside down" to give a black frame at the base of the word.  Do this with all the words you have stamped.

• Now, using a white pen (my preference is the Signo), rule a white line where you masked the edges.  Leave to dry.  Repeat with other words.
• Highlight the letters with the white pen also.
• Put dots in the background stamped corners using your white pen.  Again leave to dry.

There you have it - the Stazon technique.

I did a variation using Distress Inks in the new colours and got quite carried away making these cards although they all require a word or two yet before they are finished.  Guess they could be left as they are not strictly Stazon technique are they?  But they would do for this challenge!  As you can see I did have fun with these (they were on my desk a while ago but in a pile) and I think I will have some more fun later, afterall this says "time for fun".

As you can see I used my white pen to do different things on my corners.  And did different colours in the corners rather than the central image.  Guess you could say - nothing like the Stazon technique at all.

Hope you join in with us with this challenge.