Second Thursday Tutorial: a review

 

I still haven't bought the product I need to make a couple of tutorials.  I now know what it looks like and hope to get some one of these days.  Therefore, I am going to share some of my favorite tutorials.

I compared various chalk and oil pastels in this tutorial called Comparing Chalk and Oil Pastels.

  Here are some results.

  I compared watercolor pencils to watercolor crayons in this tutorial called Comparing Watercolor Pencils to Watercolor Crayons. 

  Baby wipes and three colors of your choice were spread on a sheet of 110 lb cardstock.

  When the page has been completely colored, you have an added bonus in the colored handiwipe.  I call this my Baby Wipe Background Technique.

  Over two tutorials, I created these nine sheets of coffee dyed papers made using cardstock.  You can find part 1 here 

  and part 2 here.

  I compared Vaseline (aka Petroleum Jelly) four different ways in a tutorial I called Four ways to use petroleum jelly (aka Vaseline) in your art. 

  In this tutorial, I was Dyeing fabric using cabbage.

  Some of these techniques turned out better than others.  I especially liked when I used only the cabbage,

  but I was also quite impressed with how baking powder turned the cabbage dye green, while ammonia did little to change the color of the fabric. 

  Another of my favorites was called Making bakers twine using Sharpies.

  I think these turned out great and cost a ton less than the store purchased baker's twine.

  I often link how I make these mists using mica powders that DO NOT have a binder.  They are one of my biggest go-to backgrounds.

  They are wonderful, especially if you can keep the mister unclogged.

  I showed how to use those decorator scissors we all simply HAD to have when they first came out.

  Sorry about the poor  lighting in the craft room, but here is a page I created using different decorator scissors.

  Finally, this tutorial seemed to make a big hit.  

  I show how to Make your own vellum using baby oil, a makeup sponge, and copier/printer paper. I also showed the paper could be printed on using either an ink jet printer (the poulet) or a laser printer (Paris). As an aside, it even bends like vellum.

Thanks ever so much for dropping by today.  I hope you enjoyed these and I encourage you to check out each tutorial you have never seen.