Sakura Vintage by the SeaShore Valentine Tin!!!

Vintage Valentines are my favorites. Here is an altered tin with a vintage by the SeaShore Valentine image.

Coat the tin with the Red from the Sakura Primary Color Set 3D Crystal Color Lacquer. While wet add the red doily. Adhere the image with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and coat the image with a thin layer of Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  I find the  lacquer enhances the color of the images. 

Adhere small shells around the edge of the doily using the

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer add a few shells to the bottom of the image. With the Red Stikles add a border around the tin. Use Gold Stikles to create a border around the image. 

Fill your tin with fun messages for your VALENTINE!!!!

Supplies:
Tin
Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer
Sakura Primary Color Set 3D Crystal Color Lacquer
Image from Altered Pages Valentine collage # 2031
Stickles Red & Gold
Stash Sea Shells and Paper Doily

Sakura & SinCity Scraps Tree Ornaments!

This time of year I love making ornaments... today I am using  Creative Paperclay® and stamps from SinCity Scraps with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers to make these amazing ornaments!

Supplies:

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer
Terri Sproul Mixers
Copper Penny Pearl
Purple Shimmer
Red Shimmer
Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter
Sin City Stamps - Mannequin Tags
Creative Paperclay®
Ornament Hangers
Gold Wired Ribbon
Tools for working with clay

First roll out the Creative Paperclay® you will roll the stamps into the clay, be sure it is thick enough that the stamp will not break through the clay. Gently roll the SinCity Scraps Mannequin Tag Stamps into the clay.

Carefully cut around the stamped images with a cutting tool, then set aside to dry. 

When dry sand the edges, with an emery board. 

Paint the SinCity Scraps Mannequin Tag Stamps with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers! While the Lacquer is still wet sprinkle with Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter. Use a decorative ornament hook and tie a few inches of gold wired ribbon to create "wings".

Terri Sproul Mixers Copper Penny Pearl 

Terri Sproul Mixers Red Shimmer 

Terri Sproul Mixers Purple Shimmer 

Wouldn't a tree full of these be beautiful?

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

FROM the SAKURA DESIGN TEAM!!!

What is Thanksgiving without cute Turkeys on the table! 

I haven't decided if I am going to write names on these for each place setting or use then in the centerpiece and save them for next year! What would you do?

To make them roll out a thin sheet of Creative Paperclay®. 

Cute out turkeys using a hand shaped cookie cutter. I added the beak and waddle, I know they aren't perfect... set aside to dry.

Once dry sand to get rid of the ruff edges.  Paint with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers! Adhere a a seed bead with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer for the eye.

Supplies:

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixers: Copper Penny Pearl, Garnet Pearl, Citrine Shimmer, Gold

Creative Paperclay®

Cookie cutter

Seed Beads

ENJOY YOUR THANKSGIVING DAY!!!

Fall is in the Air!

Fall is in the air... all the leaves are turning their fantastic colors of the season!  Walking down the street you can hear the rustle of the leaves under foot.  Soon the rakes will be out making wonderful piles of leaves to play in.  Before long winter will be here! 

Today's post is a Fall tree for my table center piece! This was my project for our blog hop last month, I wanted to share incase you missed the hop! I love the colors I was able to get with Sakura Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers.

I only had 4 plastic leaves and needed a tree full, what do you do when you need more of something... MAKE MORE!  My favorite product I use when I want to make a casting mold  Amazing Mold Putty!     

I created several molds from the leaves I had. Having several molds made the process go a lot faster.  By the time I had the fourth molded the first was just about set enough to remove and start over again. Once I had them molded they set to dry. Once dry clean them up with an emery board and ready for painting. 

Now for the fun part. My favorite product I love to use to paint Creative Paperclay® is Sakura Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers. The reason is when I am painting I am also sealing. 

The Sakura Crystal Lacquer is a sealer and is a one step painting job. For my leaves I used Citrine Pearl, Rose Pearl and Shimmer Garnet. I love how the colors mixed when I painted the leaves. Let the leaves dry.

Adhere the leaves with a dab of Sakura Crystal Lacquer... and spread the leaves around the base of the tree. 

Enjoy the season!  

Soon winter will be here!

Pink is for October!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I am sure everyone reading this has a family member, friend or knows of someone that has been affected by breast cancer. It is a disease we need to conquer.  Until then everyone man and woman needs to be aware that they are at risk.

This week I would like to share a tribute to my mother, whom my family lost to this disease less than a year ago.  She was a brave soul and fought four hard years.         

My project is an altered Altoids tin. My adhesive of choice for this project is Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. I used images from two Altered Pages collage sheets Think Pink and a sheet I won from their blog hop "Thinking Pink." To create embellishments I fussy cut images from the collage sheets and apply Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, then Set aside to dry. 

Start with an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of pink paper. Cut two strips the height of the tin.  Then score each at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Adhere the two strips (a full size and a short end.) Use a corner rounder on all corners.  Distress the pink paper with ink; use punchinello as a template to get the pattern on the paper. Cut two extra panels for the top outside and inside.  

Outside: Attach upholstery trim around the lower half of the tin with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  Adhere distressed pink card stock and Altered Pages Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered butterfly. While the butterfly was still wet it was dusted with Terri Spour Ultra Fine Glitter.) Add pink half beads around the edge to finish the top!

Inside tin cover: Base pink cardstock, dictionary page, buttons, metal flowers, breast cancer ribbon jewell, sewing machine charm, a little glitter added around the inside and Altered Pages Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered butterfly folded in half.

The well of the tin holds the accordion card cut earlier.  The card is held in place by a ribbon that was adhered to the bottom of the time before the card was attached.   

Here is the card opened all the panels have been embellished and journaling added.

First panel, is adhered to the bottom of the tin.  Altered Pages lady in chair has a Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer dress. 

The Altered Pages birds have added dimension with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  Next panel, is a picture of my mother with a crown and it is embellished with jewels.  

Altered Pages lady with carnation and the rose on the opposite page have dimension added with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. There is a bit of ribbon with breast cancer ribbon.

The ribbon continues onto the next panel.  Here we have a beautiful  lady and a Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered heart from Altered Pages. The final panel is a scene from the back of a playing card and a Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered bird from Altered Pages.  

The back of the card is full of journaling. This is a treasure I hope to have for many years. 

I would like to share the words from the last panel on the back: "Your days of sewing curtains, wedding dresses, hemming pants, driving grand kids, helping neighbors and all that you did for everyone are over. You now have your wings! Wear them proudly, you earned them.  I love you MOM."

Make Your Own 3D Embellishments

Ever see an image and wish you could use it as a 3D element on a card or scrapbook page... 

YOU CAN and is it easy!!!

The images above are from a collage sheet Retro Cafe Art gave away for free.

Supplies:

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Cardstock

Pattern Paper

Black Ink to distress paper

Tim Holtz Black Distressing Marker

Additional embellishments:

Black flower

Rhinestone flower center

Chipboard Key-Maya Road

All you need is Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. 

Adhere images to thin chipboard, cereal box or thick card stock. Fussy cut each image with care.  Apply Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer to parts or all of each of the images as desired. Set aside to dry.  Once dry, take a black marker and carefully go around the edges with the side of the pen.  This covers all the white that may show. 

On the moon without the hat Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer is on the face.  The moon with the hat has Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer on the hat only.

This card has the moon, wings, witches frame, hat & dress with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. Also, the flower  has been applied with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  

The raven has  Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer applied to the whole image, no lacquer was applied to the image of Poe.  

Here is the moon where only the hat has Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  Only the outside frame of the pumpkin with the witch inside has Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  The Two stacked pumpkins have Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer applied to the whole image. 

See what fun you can have creating your own 3D images with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer! I hope I have inspired you. Come visit me on my blog Dreaming of Castles!

~ Later Lyneen

Christmas Ornaments with Sakura & Terri Sproul Mixers!

 

Yes, it is September and Halloween is next month, but Christmas is in the stores and will be here before you know it!!!  

Have you ever wanted a color theme Christmas Tree?  Go to the store and find that it would cost $4 to $5 or more per ornament, return home and put up the same decorations from last year? You are not alone. At $4 that would be $200 plus tax for 50 ornaments... YIKES!

Last week I was at the craft store and found ornament blanks for sixty-nine cents that are usually used with acrylic paint. You heard right SIXTY-NINE CENTS and they weren't on sale!  I thought I would try painting them with Sakura Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers, with a  touch of Terri Sprouls Ultra Fine Glitter.  

Supplies:

Sakura Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixers-Tanzanite Pearl

Terri Sproul Mixers-Gold

Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter

Square Micro Beads(Stash)

Ornament Blanks - Craft store

 

Working on a craft sheet, I mixed Crystal Lacquer with Gold and Tanzanite mixers in separate pots. Then  painted the base of the ornaments one color and the topper the opposite.   

 

While the Crystal Lacquer was still wet I lightly sprinkled  them with Terri Sprouls Ultra Fine Glitter.  I added a few of the square micro beads on the toppers for a little added sparkle. 

I love how the lacquer pools in the design of the ornaments! What I really like when painting with the Crystal Lacquer mixed with Terri Sproul Mixers is it was a one coat project.  No need for a sealer, the Crystal Lacquer is a sealer! 

Yes, I painted the back side of the ornaments. 

I am so happy with the results! I can make a theme color tree with 50 ornaments for $34.50 plus tax and a few supplies:  Sakura Crystal Lacquer, Terri Sproul Mixers and Ultra Fine Glitter for less than half the price! If your store has one of the coupons that is 40% off the total sale that would be a really have a great deal.   

These are now ready for a bow and a tree!

The possibilities are endless. Your creativity is only limited by your imagination...

Just imagine what you could do with 

Sakura Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers.

Finished Paris Book

Finally my finished Paris Chipboard Album 

with

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Spourl Mixers  

Want2Scrap 

and MORE!

Cover with ribbons!

Back side of page with laser Eiffel Tower.  Before I attached the Eiffel Tower to the front side of the page I used it as a stencil on the back.  Painted the page pink, then with the laser image on the surface, rubbed ink over it. Then adhered paper to the page that was torn ti outline the shape of the Eiffel tower. Sealed the page with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixer - Pink Saphire. Bling Maquis Silver Rhinestone Design from Want2Scrap. On the opposite page I adhered images from Retro Cafe Art with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. Embellished with an altered bottle cap with an image of Paris and a few Robin's Nest Dew Drops. 

Last page of the book... laser cut "PARIS" & Eiffel Tower with Want2Scrap bling swirls cut from Jumbo Flower! Added a bit of Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer with Terri Sproul Mixer - Pink Saphire.

One more look at the finished book!

LINKS TO PREVIOUS POSTS!

Cover of Paris Book 

Click HERE to earlier post with details.

 Page 2 with the laser cut Eiffel Tower. Click HERE to see earlier post with details.

Page 3 with sites of Paris. Click HERE to see earlier post with details using Creative Paperclay®.

Ladies of Paris. Click HERE to see earlier post with details.