Okay, here is another teaser for you. My class on October 25th (see my Calendar) will feature holiday pins (or if you don’t want to make it a pin, you can make it a magnet or leave as an embellishment).
This set "Free & the Brave" is awesome… I love the Eagle, it’s demeanor says ‘don’t mess with me.’
Remember to check out the Step-by-Step tutorial on my Project Gallery HERE.
Its been a long time since I’ve had the time to make these wonderful pins… AND just in time for the holidays I am offering a class on October 27th (see my calendar).
I needed an ‘over the top’ idea and pulled out my old samples and found a "Kelli Purkey Paper Pin"!!! I actually met her in person and watched her teach a spontaneous class (literally sitting at a table, cranking these pins out) at Convention years ago. I saw her again on a cruise once (not that she’d remember me!).
So in homage to the phenomenally talented Kelli Purkey, I have come up with the ‘Attention Deficit Adult’ version which instead of layers of acrylic spray (which used to take a day or so to finish), I use Crystal Effects. (By the way, if you are like me and can’t control yourself from touching the Crystal Effects before it’s dry… well, you *will* need that acylic spray to fix that right up!)
I have published a Step-By-Step in my Project Gallery HERE with a link to my Project Gallery page featuring the original pins that I saw her make. For the super lazy… I have the PDF for download (left).
How awesome is this set and the new Designer Series paper "Urban Garden"!
My color inspiration is from the Urban Garden DSP, mixing Night of Navy with the new Kiwi Kiss. The flowers were embossed in white on the leafy DSP and then gently sponged with Kiwi Kiss to make them pop… this was a quick card that we did at my August Stamp a Stack of Stuff!
I have been working on some techniques with the awesome line of ‘silhouette’ style stamps! Look forward to sharing them soon!
Happy New Year! I should be getting better ready for Leadership and making Sell-A-Bration samples but I wanted to share these holiday WOW cards I made last month.
The focal image is actually hot glue (see my tutorial here). While it is still warm you dust it with Pearl Ex powders… it’s too cool! Unlike real sealing wax it is fast, doesn’t require a heat source and it isn’t brittle. You can reheat it with a heat tool to “correct” the image also!
The backgrounds are done with the direct-to-paper technique (see my tutorial here). I touched up the finished card with some rhinestones (gotta have glitter) and any remaining moisture from the crafter’s inks with Hologram Highlights embossing powder.
The sets are Snowflakes, Alphabet Stew (“Merry & Bright”) and Many Merry Messages (“Seasons Greetings”) which is a new holiday greeting set this year. The Zig silver/gold painty pen touched up around the snowflakes (taking a photo on a slant catches more of the glitz!) and you can see the Hologram Highlights embossing powder.
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