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."

Lace Mask

I have seen many versions of the lace mask lately and wanted to try one with the supplies I had on hand. I think it came out pretty darn cool. I must do this for Mardi Gras!!!



Lace mask before outline

Lace mask after outline.

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Supplies:

You need a mask to trace or a mask pattern, 3d Crstal Lacquer, Terri Sproul mixers- assortment of colors andfine glitter, a plastic sheet protector, paint brush, lace, scissors, exacto knife and optional dimensional puff paint.


Trace mask on the plastic sheet protector with a sharpie.

You only need to trace one half- you will fold it in half to cut it out. This will make it come out evenly.

Cut out the mask shape. Only cut one side of the protector, you will be able to make several masks from one.

Folding the piece in half and cut out your mask shape.

Cut out the eye shape with an exacto.

You can clean it up with your scissors.

This is your mask shape.

You will refine this later.

Spread of a good amount of 3D Crystal Lacquer.

Make sure you get a thick coat and go all the way to the edge. This is where the teflon sheet comes in handy because after it dries you can just peel it up.

Lay you lace face up in the lacquer. Most lace has a raise side, this side will be away from the plastic facing up.

Allow to dry. I place mine under my task light for about 30 minutes.

Using a hole puncher, punch a hole about even with the edge of the eye.

Fold mask in half so the holes line up.

Cut the eye holes out of the lace. You will start the hole with the exacto but then move to your scissors to get a smooth edge.

At this point, place it over your face and make any adjustments.

This is your lace mask.

Now time to embellish.

Gather your Mixers and Glitter.

Put a decent amount of 3D Crystal Lacquer on the mat and mix in your background color.

This lace pattern is of flowers so I decided to do my flowers in red and the background area in gold.

This is how it is looking so far.

I decided to leave a few petals white to bring focus to only a few. I was scared it would get too busy if I painted them all red. The ones remaining I painted with lacquer and ultra fine glitter.

I tied a few poneytail holders to make an elastic strap.

I couldn't decide on an outline or not, this is with the outline.

I used dimensional puff paint to outline. I like both.
I did not embellish any further but you can add feathers, jewelry, resin pieces (above you can see I had a fleur de lis ready to go but like this look so stopped) or anything else.

Tanya Ruffin



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Beaded Pen

I was at work the other day and saw a beaded pen and thought about making one for myself rather than go out and buy one.

I will say it's a lot more work than I expected yet worth it.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my beaded pen and yes it does work and is actually comfortable to use.

 

Supplies:

Wax paper or something to put your work on for a mess

Pen (any kind)

Beads

Sakura 3d Lacquer

 

Directions:

1. Get any kind of pen and put it on a surface that can be cleaned easily because the Lacquer and beads are going to be messy.

2. Then put the Lacquer on it and roll it in the beads.

3. You will need to let it dry some because the beads will be sticky and many will fall off. After it dries some you are able to add glue to the areas that are bare and add them to those spots.

 

4. Then add some of the Sakura 3d Crystal Lacquer all over to seal the beads in place.

 

Thank you so much for coming over,

Jamie

http://www.jamielindstromdesigns.com 

 



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

Ouija Glass Pendant

Ouija Glass Pendant

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Materials:

Sakura Hobby Craft Glass tiles- 1"
1" circle punch
Metal Flashing Tape
Sakura 3D Crystal Laquer
Scissors
Ouija image
Bail



Glass tiles- 1", 1" circle punch and Flashing Tape

Sakura 3D Crystal Laquer and image









Step 2

Directions:

1. Gather your materials
2. Design your image and use 1" circle punch to punch it out.

   

   Step 3

3. Using Sakura 3D Crystal Laquer, cover back of glass with laquer and press the image face down on the glass. Use a qtip or something else smooth to burnish the image down. You can look through the glass side to see where any air bubble may be. Let dry.
4. Use the 1" paper punch to punch out a circle from the Metal Flashing Tape (this is bought at the hardware store). Also cut a strip of tape wide and long enough to wrap around the edge.
5. Place the metal tape on the back of your glass. This is will be a faux metal back. Place the tape around the edge only slightly overlapping on the front.
6. Burnish edges down
7. Glue on bail using the 3D Laquer.

   

   Step 3
   
   
   
   



Step 5



Finished!

Tanya Ruffin
Create Studios
TKArts
http://www.sakuracraft.com/

Breast Cancer Ribbon Pendant

Welcome to October!

 

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month

so I plan on trying lots of different things out this month with ribbons and making ribbons.

 

I figured that I would start off with making a necklace with a pink ribbon.

 

I think I should've used a lighter background so the ribbon would have stood out better but still happy with the way it turned out regardless.

 

 

 

Supplies:

3D Crystal Lacquer

Glass Tiles - Sakura Hobby Craft

Terri Sproul Jewel Effects Pearl Powder - Pink Sapphire Pearl

Pink Ribbon

Hemp Cord

Pink Cardstock

 

 

Use 3D Clear Lacquer to adhere the ribbon to the glass piece and the cardstock to that.

 

Attached the pink polka dotted ribbon to the back with lacquer.

 

Ran hemp cord through it.

 

Mixed 3D Lacquer and the pink sapphire pearl mixer down to as light of a pink as I could get it and brushed it over the top of the glass piece.

 

Note: If trying this I would go for a darker pink ribbon and something other than a pink cardstock background such as white so it shows up much better.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

-Jamie