Our friend, Jackie Lewis, came by our booth on Sunday to take some pictures to post on the Stamp Scrap Art Tour blog and she did a great job showing our make and take project in pictures. I thought I'd share them with you here:
Usually JP does our make and take project, but it was my turn to sit down for awhile. I'm not sure what I'm doing here, but possibly pointing out the different images to choose from.
We start by using our Square Frame stamp H602 and stamping a smaller stamp inside the frame. Our Spiral Dragonfly D633 is one of our favorite stamps to use in the frame but as you can see, almost any stamp will work great.
The Open Rose and the Gathered Flowers stamps are also very popular. We start by stamping the square frame on our Smooth Finish Watercolor Paper using Stazon Ink. Choose the stamp you want to use in the square and mask it if necessary so that it isn't outside the frame. Then cut the paper just a little larger than the frame.
We like to use the Twinkling H2O paints and the waterbrush to color the image. You can use nearly anything to color, but we like these paints with the mica in them to add that little extra shimmer to the project.
Once the image is dry, we cover it with a piece of Beadable Tape that is cut the same size as the Square Frame stamp. We also carry the tape in 9 x 9 inch squares that you can cut to any size or shape you need.
Once the tape is down, we press out all of the air bubbles and make sure it's down tight and then pull the blue liner up off of the tape.
We offer a choice of either Sugar Dust or Sugar Beads to pour onto the sticky tape. These are both very tiny clear glass beads. The Sugar Dust is incredibly fine and smaller than the Sugar Beads.
We shake off the extra beads and put them back in the container for our next project. This project is complete as it is, or you can attach it to the front of a card, add a word stamp and you have a finished project.We'll be offering this make and take at most of the shows we do this year, so be sure to check our show schedule for one near you and please stop by to try our make and take project.
