Remember the craft kit I showed you on Sunday? This is the finished Valentine’s Day tree. To make it, I covered the tree in sheet music. This was an absolute pain to do, because of all the curves. If you do the same kit, you may want to paint and stamp it instead. That’s what […]
You have some deeply etched rubber stamps and no stamp pad? No problem. Just grab a crayon or a charcoal pencil, your stamps and some lightweight paper and make rubbings of them. Of course, the image won’t be reversed the way a stamped image is, so this doesn’t work for word stamps. Place your stamp […]
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I’ve been working on backgrounds inspired by Traci Bautista this week. I wasn’t terribly fond of using paper towels as she recommends, so I went with decorative papers that held up when they were wet. I also followed her directions for experimenting […]
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I know I’ve talked about paper patchwork quilt pieces before, but this is just about backgrounds. If you are like me and you make 9×12 backgrounds that are cut down for different ATC and fat book projects, then you have […]
The other day, I came across a tip to make glass glitter from unwanted glass ornaments. (I can’t remember which blog I read it on to give credit, but what a great, money saving idea.) Anyway, I took a bunch of red balls that were faded and scratched and stuck them in a bag to […]
Do you find that you doodle the same image over and over again? I make a ton of peacock leaves and lollipop flowers. The other day, I realized they’d be super easy to carve and I made rubber stamps for them. Now, when I want a tree filled with peacock leaves, I can make it […]
As I create background pages and experiment with different colors and techniques, I end up with a stack of backgrounds that are just plain ugly. However, I don’t throw them away. This is because you can almost always save an ugly background with one of two things - gesso or walnut ink. This mixed media […]
I really had fun working on the background for this piece. The kids jumped in and made their own backgrounds, too, which looked really interesting and filled with texture.
To make a spackling paste background, you will need spackling paste, gel medium and acrylic or watercolor paints. Begin by mixing the spackling paste with a few […]
A few Christmas themed rubber stamps and some polymer clay combine to make some fun and easy Christmas ornaments. To make Christmas ornaments using polymer clay, you will need to gather rubber stamps with simple lines, polymer clay, a pasta machine or rolling pin, gold leaf, powdered pigments or other glittery embellishments and a […]
When I was playing around with Sculpy last week, I looked up and saw a bird laser printed copy I had and wondered if the toner would adhere to the clay. I ran the image and the clay through my pasta machine three times and then rubbed the back of the image some to be […]
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