Sunday, February 24, 2013

T Shirt Experiment #1

I went to my LSS yesterday afternoon (Memory Keeper in Hamilton) in search of some new Tim Holtz stuff...maybe some inks...some new stamps, some core-dinations paper...OK so I ordered some stamps and the paper while I was there...and I bought these...Distress Stains

I have never used them before, but have seen a few of Tim Holtz's video tutorials and thought they'd be fun to try, so I picked up five different colours to start (Pumice Stone, Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, Spun Sugar and Peeled Paint).


I also found THIS super cute T shirt die and co-ordinating stamp set from My Favourite Things(how fun is THAT???).


So this morning I started experimenting, cut a bunch of T shirts out of white cardstock and ended up with these three little T shirts:

This one used faded jeans distress stain, which I spritzed with water. The "Rock On" came with the stamp set, I heat embossed that in black.


On the next one I started with spun sugar (it's really really light) and went over top of it with pumice stone. The skull is a stamp from Graphicat and I heat embossed it in glittery pink. I also used my versamarker to draw then heat emboss the collar.


For the last one I started with fired brick, then heat embossed (again in black) the sentiment which is one of my fave stamp sets from SU "carry on."

So I guess the next challenge will be to actually make cards to put these on!!!

Thanks for lookin!!
 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Donna I think that experiment was a success! Those are so stinkin' cute and fun!

Hugs

Spike

PS. Sooooo what other goodies did you get? lol

Jessi Fogan said...

So fun! I love Distress everything...I haven't tried one of those products yet that didn't wow me. And sparkly pink skully? Um, yes please!!!