At the end of March we took a trip over to Eastern Pennsylvania for a couple of shows. The first one was in Oaks, a suburb of Philadelphia. It was the first time for a show there and it was great.
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.
Suzie helped us in our booth again this year.
It's very loud and scary when a tire comes apart on the freeway! This one was no exception and it dented the van and bent the exhaust system.
We had an interesting experience with the repairman our roadside service sent to change the tire...and it was NOT a good one! After about a three hour delay, we were back on the road and made it home safely.
This tire still had almost 20,000 miles under warranty! It sure doesn't look like it here! We were very thankful that we were safe throughout the ordeal. We have four new tires now and we'll be ready to hit the road for Pittsburgh, PA right after the 4th of July.
