This great page was done by my up-line Janice Barlow a couple of years ago for Convention. I have always loved this page. I just think the colors are beautiful together. She colored the pretties flowers by putting them in a solution of ink refills and water I think.
Category: Accessories
Swapping Saturday 1-17-09
Time for swaps again and I’m still wishing I knew who it was. I forgot to say one other thing as to why a lot of these cards don’t have names. When we go to the local meetings we usually do full cards instead of card fronts like at convention. This way we can actually use the card. However because of this we often don’t put our name directly on the card. Some will include a business card or the card might have a sticky note with the name, but they often get lost or removed. That’s why I don’t know who to give the proper credit to.
I really love this card and the way that she stamped the trees and then cut them apart. I just think it is a really neat look. I also really liked how she put on the ribbon. It’s unique and different than the traditional knot that most people do (including myself). I think it’s a beautiful card.
Freewheeling Friday 1-16-09
Here is another great card from Brandi’s meeting. Once again I really wish I knew who made it. I want to say that it was Chantia, but I could be wrong. I do need to redeem myself a little here. I had a display at the meeting so between setting it up and asking questions I really didn’t get to look at the swaps people were giving me. Otherwise I would probably know who gave them to me. At least I might know some of them. Please if anyone does know I’d love some help to give them proper credit.
Anyway I just love this card. It uses the cupcake wheel. I love the picture because you can actually see the sparkle on it. I believe she used dazzling diamonds glitter.
This is a really fun wheel because it’s a line image instead of a bold image like alot of the wheels. Which allows you to color it and really make it your own. This is a really simple card but I think it’s so cute and she did a great job.
Technique Tuesday 1-13-09
These awesome matches were made by my up-line Mindy Bywater. She did them for a Convention Swap last year. I think her and Janice used them for a club later because I made the card at one of Janice’s Demo Club nights. Now your are probably wondering why they would be on technique Tuesday. Well if you look closely at the ear of the Elephant you can see why. On all of the animals she has used the beads.
I thought this was defiantly a fun and different way to use the beads. If you’ve never tried them before then here’s the easy steps to use them. I usually use both beads when I make things, but here she only used the micro beads. I believe that we used the crystal effects.
First you want to stamp your image like normal. Next you want to cut your image out if you are cutting them. All the animals on the page are cut out. The card is just on a square. Once you have cut out your images you are ready to put on the beads.
I’m going to be bad here and suggest something other than our wonderful powder pals when working with the beads. The reason is the tiny beads bounce really bad and are full of static. I sometimes use the large powder pal underneath, but I’ve actually found what works best is a piece of paper folded in 1/2. I use the grid paper because it’s nice and big. I like the paper because it doesn’t cause as much static and I can fold it completely in 1/2 and pour the beads back into the container without them bouncing everywhere.
To apply the beads you want to apply just a very thin layer of crystal effects and then sprinkle on the beads. Don’t worry about spilling some on your paper that’s why we made it so that we could funnel them back into the container.
Shake off any loose beads and set them aside and to dry. Make sure you let them dry really good. You don’t want to try and apply them to the page when they are still wet or you will squish your beads and it won’t look good.
If you are doing just a small area like on the giraffe. (It’s just his tail and the top of his antlers.) The easiest and best way to do it is just to dip the end of the desired part into the beads. This is a lot less messy and and a lot faster too.
Now you are probably wondering where she got the cute circles from that are on the two stripes. It’s actually one of the center’s available for the Pick a Petal #109445 $27.95. Another fun thing she added is all the dots on the words are actually brads. They would also be really fun to do with the beads.
I hope you try this fun technique at home. I will show you another time how to use the beads with both sizes.
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