TENseconds Studio

Design Team Call Out

VerDay and VerDay Paint is such a great innovative product that has a TON of applications.  Cheryl and I are starting to release 2 videos a week on what you can do with VerDay and VerDay Paint products.  Even with 2 videos a week, we are still not covering everything that can be done with this product.

This is where I need you.  I'm looking for one design team member a month to make 4 projects.  I think it's important to get different perspectives on what you can do with the VerDay product line.

 

The Task...

If you are choosen, you will receive 1 each of the different VerDay Paints along with VerDay Patina and a spray bottle.  As stated above you will be required to make 4 different projects. It's up to you if you want to make a video or take good pictures with step by step instructions.

 

What's in it for you... 

Other than being the new popular kid of the month and getting new facebook friends/blog followers, TSS followers will see how creative you are.  You can't forget getting $75 in paints too.  If you already have TSS tools we will send you a roll of copper to show off your metal embossing skills too! 

 

Fine Print/How to apply....

This is not a paying gig and we don't put up with DRAMA!

 

 To apply, email megan@tensecondsstudio.com with the following info:

• What would you put VerDay paint on?  You will get extra points if you send pictures.
• What other mediums do you work with?  How would you use VerDay Paints with the other mediums.
• Send me a link to your facebook and/or blog
• Are you or have you been a Design Team Member of another company/product line?  If yes, please let me know which company.

I'll be picking 3 people on Feb 24 for the new Design Team Members for the next 3 months.

-Megan

 

Chipboard the VerDay'd Way

We love embossing all sorts of surfaces and chipboard is no different.

We took a regular piece of chipboard, used an embossing folder with an embossing machine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then painted on the first coat of our VerDay Paint. On the right of this pic is our Brass, Iron and Copper. Let dry.

Sponge on another coat of paint and spray with our VerDay Patina and you'll see the transformation over several hours.

When this is completely dry about 6-12 hours then sand off the top lightly or dry brush another coat of paint on top.

The Iron will take the longest to "rust out." These pieces would also make great backgrounds for cards with embossed metal on top.

Or, die cut a heart and attach to the front of a book. This heart was done in our Bronze and then sanded.

This gives a darker color than the copper and looks so cool with the Fire Engine Red Metal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I truly love about this technique is the randomness of the reaction with the paint and the patina.

If you used regular acrylic paint to achieve this same look, you might over paint the top coat. With this patina....you have no control over what you get! If you want more patina, just apply another coat of paint and spray on more VerDay. It's that easy.

Last week got away from me, I came home from our trip to Tucson to then go and have a cat scan of my stomach, this week I'm seeing another doctor about surgery, so I've got my mind on a few other things right now. Not to mention living in a bedroom with ripped up carpet, holes in the walls and wondering when we can get it all fixed so I don't trip on the freakin' carpet in the middle of the night. Anywho, I meant to pick a winner for last week's blog comment...who is....Sheila from NH. Sheila email me and we will send out some goodies to you asap.

Tollroad to Crazy Update:

For those of you who wondered how your house can have water problems if there is a thunderstorm...it's very common. Lightening just has to hit your house a certain way and can cause pipes that were fine one minute to start leaking the next. Our's did that in two spots and $5,000 later. 

Favorite hubby replaced my mom's toilet seat which was heated, splashed water, dried your ass and probably blew hot air up your ass all at the same time. The new seat is just heated and sprays deodorant in the bowl. When my mom and dad found out about our leaks, then they started thinking about their toilet. So my mom started reading the info packet that came with the toilet (who reads that shit?) and informed me that we needed a different plug for the toilet so that they didn't get electrocuted while sitting on the toilet.

Everytime I sit down to talk with my mom I wonder what she's going to come up with next and I wish you could have seen the look on my face when she voiced her concern. She then wanted to know what favorite hubby was doing at that hour (he was asleep) and could he fix it as it was suppose to rain that night (no he couldn't!) That night as I walked into our bedroom, I tripped on the carpet and almost did a header into the dresser, which is in the middle of the bedroom, I stumbled into the bathroom, sat on my unheated cheap toilet seat and prayed to the gods to just strike the toilet right then. I heard God laugh and say, "Cheryl suck it up!"

As soon as this week's video is up I'll post a link here and hopefully it will be done sometime Tuesday.

My Creative Classroom

For everyone out there who has expressed an interest in taking classes at our studio but were too far away...this is your chance. We are doing a class for My Creative Classroom called Metal to the Max.

We will show you how easy it is to take our metal and learn various tips and techniques that you can use in your very own crafting from card making to scrapbook pages.

I've even added a really cool technique at the end that I've never taught before and we will be showcasing with this class.

We are also offering specials just for those who sign up for these special classes. Click on over to their site asap as the classes start on Feb. 15th. While you're there check out some of the other classes taught by a cool group of teachers.

What happens....

What happens when you leave town on a trip...a two week trip and a storm comes through and lightening zaps your house causing your floors to leak. Luckily Megan was at our house (with her grandparents) and called plumbers, insurance adjusters, more plumbers and more insurance adjusters to get the problem fixed. Every time I called to see how things were going she would lovingly scream "do you know what I have to do here!?"

So, to say the last two weeks were a clustermess for her would be an understatement. She was able to get out two videos on youtube that she did on her own. We are having so much fun with our VerDay Paints and Patina that we are just painting up a storm. Megan is even getting into the painting from the looks of my floor in the classroom. I just need a couple of days to catch up on sleep, sleep and more sleep and then I'll be back in the loop. When I got home today my bed was pushed into the corner of the room and the rug is peeled back from the leaks but at this point I doubt if that will bother me tonight.

 

 Let us know what you think of these techniques in our comment section and on Friday I'll pick someone to get some VerDay goodies from us. She didn't show what the little baby screw eyes looked like in the video but you can see what they look like in this picture. When I say this stuff goes on anything....I'm not kidding...anything. Remember, the beauty of these techniques is the randomness of the patina solution. Hope you have fun this week and I'm off to wash sheets!

I think these aluminum samples came out beautifully with those paints!

Ver-Day Paints are in the HOUSE!

The next batch is here and we are shipping these babies out this week. If you've already ordered, don't worry your order will be going out in the order it was received.

These paints are still on special or go into your favorite scrapbook/stamp/craft/art store and ask them to carry the best metal paint on the market.

We are busy doing videos on different techniques for this product and can't wait to showcase all these ideas in videoland.

I'm leaving on Tuesday for Phoenix and teaching at Scrap Happy Sisters Tuesday night, Paper Metal on Wednesday and Frenzy Stamper on Thursday. We will be vendors at the Bead True Blue Wholesale show at the Doubletree Reid in Tucson from Jan 29th-Feb 3rd and The Tucson Bead Show at the same location from Feb 4th-6th (retail show.) We will have these paints at these shows.

Since we will be at the Bead Show in Tucson, we won't be at CHA this winter.  We are wholesaling these paints and can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. We are also bringing back one of our product lines Metal Tape Sheets at a fantabulous deal. We came out with this product in 2006 and have done a variety of videos and techniques using these sheets. They are 8x10 and Megan will be posting more info in our newsletter. 

New Ver-Day Paint

We are having the time of our life playing with our new paints. Today's video show's the process for these paints. This simple two step process will breath new life into your art or crafting projects.

 

We were rushing to get this video up last night and had to cut a little off at the end where we show you some samples. So below is the birdhouse.

I've painted the birdhouse with copper and iron paint. Then I sponged on the copper and sprayed the roof...let it dry. Then sponged on the iron and sprayed the house part and let it dry. In the background you can see a plastic frame in the iron/rust and bronze/green. I think this shows the versatility of this product and how you can do much larger surfaces if needed.

This wood frame shows how vibrant the rust looks on the iron paint.

We're getting this up on the website hopefully today, but I have to say that since last week's posting, we have been slammed with calls and preorders.

Hope you love this look as much as I do. Make a comment on this blog posting and someone will get to win this frame.

 

This month is going way too fast. Megan and I seem to be on hyper-drive trying to get everything done. Tuesday's posting is now Wednesday's posting, my theory is better late than never. I'm getting ready for my trip to Arizona next week. Most of the classes are sold out at Paper, Metal and Scrap Happy Sisters. Frenzy Stamper still has a couple of openings left. I'm so looking forward to the warmth of Arizona and the Bead Show at the end of the month.

Guess what we've got?

We have been busy little kick ass broads. We've got a line of Patina's for artists that will take your breath away. I just got my samples in and I've been playing with these on all sorts of surfaces.

People love working on metal and the natural progression is then applying patinas. We have been working over the years on getting new types of colors and This Is It! Ver-Day Paints...there are four base colors of Brass, Copper, Iron and Bronze. These paints have real metal particles suspended in the paint. But the fun part is spraying on our Ver-Day over the tops of the paint and watching as it naturally reacts with the metal in the paint. You've seen what Ver-Day looks like on our pure copper but wait till you see what it does on each one of these colors. It creates a different chemical reaction.

This product doesn't just go on metal, it goes on anything. Did I say anything? Paper, wood, metal, fabric, walls, refrigerators, cabinets, brick....or anything. These letters are chipboard. The paints come in 8oz bottles so you can metalize your world.

Can you paint with regular paints to create this same effect...no, because there is real metal in this paint and is as close to the actual type of natural patina's as you can get.

Can you use acrylic paints and get the same effect? Have you ever painted something and then overdid it and it doesn't look right? With this paint the Ver-Day does all the work and the reaction is random everytime you spray. Plus each color will have two or three other colors in it depending on the thickness of the paint application.

Are we going to do a video on this technique? Does a chicken cluck?

Just as soon as we get the studio cleaned up there will be more filming and we will be putting this stuff on just about everything we can paint. OOOOOOwwww, it would look cool on a car!

The sample here is Brass with Ver-Day sprayed on top. There are about three colors going on here. Don't worry we have the spray bottles too.

Remember, we don't cook so we think of everything for you. Hope you're having a great weekend.

Copper Three Ways

I love copper. What can I say, I can't put it on enough items. Today I took a plain jane box I bought at one of our local stores. It came like this and I immediately thought copper metal on those numbers.

Although this container looks pretty cool just

like

 

 

it

 

is.....

It looks even better with copper metal on the numbers.

So I took pure copper metal and antiqued it One with Ver-Day

Two with liver of sulpher

Three with a industrial heat gun.

Now this heat gun isn't the wussie ass one that crafters use. This is an industrial, peel paint off walls, burn the hell out of your fingers kind. It gets to 1200 degrees. So you can't touch the tip...duh. You could also use a torch but mine was out of butane. I love this piece. I think it may be the best thing I've ever done. If you want to get an up close and personal look at it, we will have it on display at our booth at The Tucson Bead Show in Feb.

To see how we did this watch this video.

Arizona Classes

In a couple of weeks I'm off to Arizona for two weeks of classes and The Tucson Bead Show. My folks lived in Arizona for many years and it will be nice to warm up in January.

I'll be teaching one of my favorite classes Metal 101. This class literally shows you everything you need to know about metal.

What I find helpful is that I can show everyone the techniques and then watch how they do it and offer suggestions and tips.

 

 

 

I'm also teaching our Copper Metal frame with our new Ver-Day. Students will get to create their own unique design using our tools and molds on pure copper and then see how it transforms with this gorgeous patina.

 

 

 

 

 

We will also be using some of Leaky Shed's cool chipboard shapes. I designed these wings for the heart that is collaged with antique papers from an old book, add some copper and a cool glittery fluer de lis and you have a beautiful hanging piece for Valentine's Day.

I hope those of you who live in the area will check out the classes at your favorite store and come join us for "metalizing your world."

I will be at Paper and Metal Scrappers on Jan 25th, Frenzy Stamper on Jan 26th and Craft Fusion on Jan 27th. Please click on these links and join us.

We will also be exhibiting at The Tucson Bead Show from Jan 29th - Feb 6th at the Doubletree by Hilton Reid Park in downtown Tucson. We're working on some cool things that we're selling during this show just for jewelry. So, I hope to see a lot of our friends in Arizona during this trip.

We didn't show a video for this week. We're getting back into the groove after the holidays, doing inventory and all the other fun at the end of a year. We will have a new video next week so stay tooned.

Holiday Cheer

Megan usually makes some of her Christmas gifts and this year was no different.  We love to go and stock up on frames for projects and she used this one for one of her close friends.

This frame is store bought from one of our favorite places. She antiqued our copper metal with Ver-Day and then hung the jewelry piece on top.

We filmed this as a video and for some reason I couldn't figure out how to get the camera in focus for the first part.

This video also ended up being more out-takes than anything else. When we do get to the closeups of the project the focus is much better. 

 

 

 

 

Hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas Holiday and you have a Happy New Year. There is still a couple of days to post a comment on our Ver-Day video and win a bottle. Megan will be picking the winner on Wednesday and we'll announce it on Thursday.