A time to lose

I was going to work with CitraSolv yesterday during Tea Tuesday, but the wind was so great, I had to abandon that idea when the postcards started blowing around the table, then sailed into the yard.  I have always used turpentine for a similar technique (see this post, or this one, both using turpentine) but my dear friend Halle of Halle's Hobbies sent this bottle to me for my birthday LAST year, and I'm finally getting around to using it.  Incidentally, Halle's is one of those blogs I can't leave comments on, so I am waving hello from my blog.

Today I worked with CitraSolv and postcards.  For some reason, I thought I read somewhere the process, designed specifically for National Geographic magazines because of the paper's clay base, would also work with postcards.  You see what I'm working with above.

It took awhile to remove the protective child proof covering from the CitraSolv, and when I did, I spilled it all over the table.  Even after trying to clean it up using the postcards, nothing happened.  This technique simply wouldn't work with postcards.  But I still had all that CitraSolv swimming around on my table, so it was off to find

a National Geographic magazine.  These old magazines have such awesome advertisements.  I was torn by all these wonderful images I was seeing.  Finally, I decided and

ran my CitraSolv soaked brush around two images I wanted to illustrate.

Although the technique worked, I was truly disappointed with the outcome. 

Even though I had more control over the brush using the CitraSolv instead of turpentine, and the CitraSolv smelled so much better than turpentine, I was truly unhappy with the results.  I'm not sure what I expected, but these pages didn't remind me of turp papers, but rather looked more like a mess.

One thing I will admit is, although many of my blogging friends warn to work with this product outside, I didn't find the odor offensive at all.  In fact, this is a cleaning product, so I can't understand why I couldn't use it inside.  I'll be trying this technique again when it gets cold outside.  That is something I would NEVER EVER do with turpentine, which now makes me nauseous when I smell it.

We're up to Day 7 in AEDM.  Have you made anything lately that didn't turn out as well as you expected?

And even though I have been to most everyone's blog these last few days, I cannot leave comments on any blog with embedded text.  If your comments don't open in a new window or pop-up box, I'm sunk.  It's a BLOGGER thing and I'm ready for it to end!!