CD Case Gift Card Holder

CD Case Gift Card Holder

Made with Sakura Crafts Products

I decided to make a gift card holder out of this cd case. I figured you could not only put a gift card in there but also a special cd that you make for the person as well if you like.

An accordian album would fit nicely in there with a gift card as well.

This picture was taken while it was still drying. I went to use some of the 3D Lacquer to add a dew drop and when I went to pour I didn't realize I took the WHOLE lid off and a whole bunch of glue went everywhere. The project had been complete minus the dew drop and dried beforehand. I guess that is what I get for last minute additions. :)

Supplies:

3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixers - different colors

(I couldn't tell you all the colors because some of the pieces were made a while back and felt they went along with this project so I added them.)

Terri Sproul- Ultra Fine Glitter

Terri Sproul - Color Enhance Effects

(Used this on the bottom piece of the cupcake!)

CD Case

Cookie Cutter

Molds (I used Martha Stewart for the cupcake and the bow)

The Robin's Nest Dew Drop

Directions:

Add mixer to 3D lacquer and dab it on the cd case.

Then add all your pieces you made in molds.

(It's very easy to pour the 3D Crystal Lacquer into a mold and some mixer, doesn't take much, but depending on the depth of the mold you may need to let it dry up for longer than 24 hours)

The heart was cut out with a cookie cutter.

And due to the spillage of the lacquer I had to fill in the heart with a color mixer.

And added a dew drop to the top of the larger heart that was made in a mold.

Thanks for visiting!

Jamie

http://www.jamielindstromdesigns.com

Card Using Mixers in a Mold

Cute Card Using Mixers in a Mold

 

 

Supplies:

Saturated Canary Digi Stamp

3D Crystal Lacquer by Sakura Craft

Terri Sproul Mixers

Terri Sproul Enchancer Effect

Copic Markers

 

Directions:

 

*Sorry I'm unable to tell you which color mixers I used this time. I'm usually really good about it but I've probably went through at least one 4 oz. bottle of the 3D Crystal Lacquer and all the colors of mixers that I have making various things out of molds and experimenting. :)

 

 

1. Put Mixer in the mold, then color enhancer, and 3D Crystal Lacquer and mix with something such as toothpick. If it is a deep mold you may see the next day that you need to add more Lacquer because it went down some so I add and wait another day.

 

 

 

Patience is always the key.

 

Adhere it to your card and enjoy!

 

Thanks for visiting,

Jamie

http://www.jamielindstromdesigns.com 

Faux Stained Glass with Sakura 3d Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers

I love stained glass and Renaissance art and using Sakura 3d Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul mixers I can make my own.




Supplies:
Sakura 3d Crystal Lacquer
An assortment of Terri Sproul Mixers
Terri Sproul Color Enhance Effect
Black puff paint
Piece of clear glass
Paint brush
Image to paint, same size as glass










Start of with your piece of glass. I had a 20 X 10" piece of glass left over from a room divider I bought for 30 bucks since most of the glass was broken. What I did with the room divider is a whole 'nuther project.

Print out of your computer an image you want to transfer to glass. Since it is glass, you just put it under the glass and trace. Use the tile feature with your printer and you can print a image out as big as you want!
Make sure to clean the glass first. You don't want to paint over a smudge that can now never be cleaned. 


Then grab your puff paint and outline the main design.  You may even want to go over the image with a marker in the spot you want to outline before you begin to outline. I love the Birth of Venus painting and have used it numerous times in designs so I was comfortable tracing over it without any lines drawn on my image under the glass.





 This is what it will look like. Don't paint yourself in a corner. Start at the top and work your way down. Be careful to not place your hand or arm in the wet paint. For example, don't do all the hair first and then go back to do to the face. You will never be able to balance your hand and draw a steady line without getting your arm in the paint. Believe me! I know!

The puff paint will serve as a wall to keep the paint inside a certain area. They even make faux leading for gallery glass but I find that is too thick and you get a cramp in your hand and thumb from squeezing the bottle. If you'd like a gray color just get gray puff paint. I like the black so that is what I use. 









The next step is to start to paint. With the mixers you can either pre-mix the colors or squirt out some lacquer and mix the mixers in as you go. If you go that route make sure you mix the mixers in with the brush, if you don't you may end up with some spots that didn't mix well. If your lacquer dries before you notice, you can either leave it or peel up that area. 

In the image below, I noticed I hadn't blended the mixers well and went back while it was still wet.






For the skin tone I mixed some Citrine Pearl and Red Pearl together.
I used Garnet Red for lips and
Gold and Gold Dust for hair.
Violet was used with some Terri Sproul Color Enhance Effect for the ribbon, eyes and background. The Enhance Effects changes the color so that I can use the same mixer but it looks like another color (since I had no blue).

Just adjust the ratio of citrine and red for shadows and highlights.

Image over a white sheet. You could frame the image with a white backing sheet for this effect

Or you can  hang it without the backing paper so that you can see through it for the full stained glass effect.

On my next piece, I think I will solder the edges so that I can attach a chain.

My dog in the background likes it too.

Tanya Ruffin

TanyaRuffin@gmail.com

Mini Frame

Mini Frame

 

I must begin by saying I tried to make two things but didn't take into account that the mold for the second project was deeper so would take longer to dry and pulled the piece out and apart. Oops!

 

I tried to make my frame with a Halloween feel and the other project as well.

 

 

Supplies:

3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixer - Shimmer Red

Terri Sproul Mixer - Color Enhancer Effect

Martha Steward Molds

Paper as background from The Robin's Nest

 Plastic Spoon

 

Directions:

1. Take a clean mold and put in the shimmer red all around with the spoon. It doesn't take very much.

 

2. Then randomly pour in different areas the color enhance effect.

 

3. After that finish filling up the mold with 3D Crystal Lacquer.

 

4. Take the other end of the spoon (straight part) and light mix together the 3 mediums.

 

This is what the mold will look like. I only did this method with the frame.

The other piece which was a raised rose piece I only used the shimmer red and 3D Lacquer and it came out a very rich color and was beautiful until wet parts of the rose fell apart.

So if doing a deep mold allow for at least two days to dry.

 

5. Allow the frame mold (shallow mold) overnight or longer if needed to dry.

 

6.Then slowly pull the pieces out and if they need some excess cut off because of overfilling then lightly trim.

 

5.Afterwards I adhered a halloween type paper and then used the Lacquer to adhere the stand to the frame.

You could also put a letter in a frame for a monogram or a picture.

 

I just loved the look and color that came from it. It is very flexible and has almost a pearl like shimmer to it.

 

I enjoyed learning how to use these products in a mold and plan to try them out in my own homemade molds soon.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Jamie

http://www.jamielindstromdesigns.com 



Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Pendant

I made a simple project this week.

That means I need to definitely step it up for my next post, but I've wanted a multiple sclerosis awareness bracelet, necklace or some sort of jewelry and figured no time is better than now. :)

Supplies:

Jewelry Findings by Sakura Hobby Craft

(3 pieces of white brass pendants, only used 1)

3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixer Color Enhancer Effect

Terri Sproul Mixer Jewel Effects Powder - Citrine Pearl

Light orange beads from my stash

Orange ribbon from my stash

1. First mix the Terri Sproul mixer (citrine) with 3D Crystal Lacquer until you get the consistency and amount you need.

2. Then add the Color Enhance Effect.

3. "Paint" the white brass pendant. It ends up being like a yellow like color.

4. Take a ribbon of your color choice and according to the awareness you are trying to represent. I chose orange to represent multiple sclerosis since I have MS. I know that orange also represents other things as well.

Website that shows the colors for different awareness ribbons!

5. Glue the ribbon down to the pendant and cover it and whole pendant with 3D Crystal Lacquer.

6. Use beads and fill in the areas that have no ribbon on it.

7. Clip off extra ribbon from the edge of the pendant.

And now I have my MS Awareness Jewelry!

Hope this helps anyone interested in trying it themselves.

Thanks for looking!

Jamie

Jamie Lindstrom Designs

The Fleur Debris! Hurricane Art

Hello, I am Tanya and a newbie blogger here. I love crystal lacquer and use it with almost everything. For my first project I had planned something very special, but I got an unexpected visit from someone that disrupted my plans.



I live at the second stop in the Hurricane Isaac Stateside Tour.

Hurricane Isaac came ashore last week and living in south Louisiana you get accustom to this kind of thing. What you dont get accustomed to is the heat and the boredom when you are out of power. This time I preassembled some craft items I could use when the boredom set in. The heat is another matter. I cranked the air down while I still had air conditioning and it managed to stay cool through the first night without power.

During the eye of the storm the raining stops and this storm was so slow we were several hours in the eye. At that time I decided to rummage around outside and see what damage had been done. My neighbor had shingles missing and all over the yard...so I picked up some. I saw leaves and branches and even rocks and nuts and bolts. I gathered all these things and brought them inside....hmmm, what to make... AH, a fleur debris! Yes, I know, I make a lot of things with fleur de lis' in them. It is our state symbol, after all! (And the Saint's emblem).









Supplies I used:
3d Crystal Lacquer
Terri Sproul Mixers- gold
Twine
House Shingle
Storm Findings
Watch Parts
Hoard of items from Hubby's work room

I mounted the shingle to a piece of mat board. The drew out the shape of a fat fleur de lis with 3d Crystal Lacquer and let it set a bit. It was too liquidy to hold the twine down, so I let set up some and then pressed the twine in it.

Now I start adding the twigs, leave and other debris inside the twine outlined shape. My original idea was to make the shape out of twigs but I couldn't replicate the curve very well so I went with some twine in my hubby's workroom.

I added a washer from the street and used some watch hands that I already had on hand (ha ha, pun intended).

I use the 3d Crystal Lacquer as glue and then fill in the spaces with a coat. Then I begin to drop in some watch parts as a filler. Wherever a see too much shingle, I drop a watch part or a spare screw.

 

 

 

I then mix up some Terri Sproul Mixers with some lacquer and use my finger to wipe some gold accents on the twigs and rocks.

 

 



 

You can see the gold highlights here.

 

This is what it looked like after the lacquer had dried overnight.

Made up from debris from Hurricane Isaac 2012

The Fleur Debris!

 

 

Tanya Ruffin

 

Trinket Box - Love

Hello, I'm Jamie and I'm new to the design team but definitely not new to 

Sakura's 3D Crystal Lacquer!

I was given it a few month ago and immediately in love and now learning how to use the Terri Sproul Mixers along with it!

For my first project, I decided to go with a small trinket box. 

I'm still trying to get a hang of the Mixers. Not that they are hard to use. It's just me trying not to go too crazy with the 3D Lacquer with them. LOL.

I used their Sakura Hobby Crafts products as well as an embellishment word from a set sent in with my design team package from Want2Scrap!

Here is my project:

Everything was dry except the excess I put between the letters.

I love the shine!

Ingredients and Instructions:

Mini Trinket Box ($1 at Michaels)

Want2Scrap Chipboard Sentiments - Words of Love

3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixer - Color Enhance Effect

Terri Sproul Mixer - Jewel Effects Shimmer Powder (Shimmer Violet)

Terri Sproul Mixer - Jewel Effects Pearl Powder (Citrine Pearl)

1. Sanded the box down.

2. Mixed small amount of the 3D Crystal Lacquer with a very small amount of Citrine Pearl, then used a sponge brush and dabbed it onto the word "Love."

3. Then took the Shimmer Violet and added with the lacquer and some color enhance effect and just kept adding here and there until I ended up with my desired color.

4.Then I put a coat of it on the trinket box. Decided on only one coat, I liked the way the stain of the wood came through from the opaque like coat.

5. Adhered the word "Love" on with the lacquer then covered the word with it and in between the letters.

6. Added 4 baubles to the corners and it was finished off.

Hope you enjoyed,

Jamie