Retro Flakes by Cheiron Brandon
Hi friends! happy Friday! We’re delighted to welcome back special guest Cheiron Brandon with some gorgeous holiday inspiration! Read on and enjoy!
For this card, I wanted to combine two of the newest Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Christmas stamp sets Retro Snowflakes and Christmastime 3 to create a card with a real retro feel. I used Metallic Distress Paints for a festive holiday feel and added a few baubles using the Idea-ology Metallic Droplets.
To begin, I cut a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock to 3 ¼ x 8 1/4. Then I stamped my sentiment using Black Soot Distress Archival Ink. Once my sentiment was stamped, I put some Distress Metallic paints in Tarnished Brass, Brushed Pewter and Antiqued Bronze onto my Glass Mat.
I used a Ranger foam blending tool to “ink” up my stamps by dabbing my tool into the paint, then dabbing off slightly, then applying to the stamp. I stamped the snowflakes all around the sentiment to create a pattern.
I always start with the largest flakes and fill in with the smaller. Be sure to wash your stamps off as soon as you are done stamping, you don’t want the paint to dry on them.
I added black splatter to the entire panel using Black Soot Distress Paint and a Distress Splatter Brush. You can use mask paper or post its to cover the sentiment while splattering.
Once the splatter was dry, I inked the edges of the panel with a foam blending tool and Pumice Stone DIstress Ink.
Then I adhered the panel to a card cut to 3 1/2 x 8 1/2. For the final touch, I added some Tim Holtz Idea-ology Droplets to make the card really shine!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and to Cheiron for being our guest!
Cheiron, this is pure loveliness! Makes me want to invest in some Tim Holtz paints…
Superbe !!!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Gorgeous card!!
This is such a pretty Christmas card!
Love this–I have some of the metallic paint, I need to try this! Thanks for the inspiration.
This is utterly stunning!
so gorgeous!!
Hadn’t seen this technique before using paint. How pretty. Have to get out some of those paints and give it a try. Thanks for showing us something unique like this.
wow! I love all things retro and all things Cheiron, so this is a super-big hit with with me. Great sparkle….never would have thought to stamp with paint! Beautiful and glorious. Thanks for this inspiration.
Beautiful card! That metallic paint makes it special!
Really pretty card