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Mar31

I Know a Place!

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I Know a Place!
I Know a Place!

In our rural county, there’s not much in the way of craft stores. I found a booth in a local antique store that sells new and lightly used craft supplies! Here are examples:

I bought that Martha Stewart butterfly punch!
‘Thinking about these…
I love Unicorn Spit and the new stuff is pricey!
Re-inkers!!!
A strange punch contraption!
Embossing powders!

There were lots more goodies! Laura bought an unopened rock painting kit for her grandson. We made a little trip when she was visiting last week! Here’s the building:

Carolina Treasures on Main

The address is 519 Main Street, N. Wilkesboro, NC 28659. The booth, Wilkes Craft, is #19. The proprietor is Allison Pinnix O’Neil.

We also discovered the portobello quesadillas across the street at the Cinder Bistro!

The collards were Laura’s!

I’ll have to go back for a better exterior photo (and more quesadillas!)
Mar23

Styrofoam Stamps?

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Styrofoam Stamps?
Styrofoam Stamps?

I found a piece of a lid to a styrofoam take-out box, going through my crafty trash stash, today.

I have heard you can mark on styrofoam, or styrene, and make a stamp.

There’s an old coloring book from when the grandkids were little in a cabinet of saved books. I remember seeing cute little birds.

I tucked the foam under a drawing and traced it with a dull colored pencil. I couldn’t find my ball-end stylus.

It wasn’t very “impressive!”

So, I colored around the bird to compress the foam.

I got out a couple of ink pads and some scrap paper. I tried the blue first.

Not so impressive.

I re-inked and tried again.s

I cleaned the stamp and re-inked with red. I could be more precise with the small ink pad.

Not much better

I tried a copper Sharpie.

It barely transferred at all, but now, I can see the stamp better.

I’d only count this as a success if I only wanted a suggestion of a bird.

If I try this again, I might color inside the bird, to depress that area, and maybe produce a reverse image?

Oh well, it was fun to try.

Oct2

An Ink Box

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An Ink Box

Buying storage seems crazy when you have lots of boxes and lots of paper and paint.

The “paper“ I covered my box with is self-adhesive vinyl, found on Clearance at Hobby Lobby for 62¢/sheet. It took less than two.

I needed ink storage. I ’m not as careful and thorough as I once was, but, “Ta Da!”

(Washi tape is not sticky enough.)

Jan16

Try, Try, Again

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Try, Try, Again

I recently tried dissolving inks with Citrasolv, a degreasing agent I discovered on You Tube. The artist using the solvent was Froyle Davies, and I have become a big fan of her collage work.

After watching her video. I immediately ordered a small bottle of Citrasolv on Amazon, together with a few empty little spray bottles.

Froyle, along with several other You Tube artists, I learned, dissolves the ink from the pages of National Geographic Magazine. The ink moves and makes bubbly designs.

I didn’t have any Nat Geo’s on hand, so I searched for glossy pages from other publications.

I tried three colorful catalog pages, one from Southern Living and one from glossy South Park Magazine, as well as a local sales circular.

I laid them all out on a plastic trash bag in the garage and gave them a good spritz of Citrasolv. I checked them in 20 minute intervals to see what happened. Basically, they went from wet to dryer to dry. The ink didn’t move.

The Citrasolv did make the garage smell like an orange processing plant!

Feb3

Ink Lessons

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Ink Lessons

inksSharpie fine point permanent markers work better on glass than Sharpie pens.

I can clean Stazon ink off glass and stamps with alcohol, so no wonder it smears with alcohol inks. I’ll have to find something else to use with them. Memento looks good, and so does Ranger Archival ink.

Metallic gel inks look good under glass and can be used to highlight images before decoupaging them. (See the navy and white gem.)

Alcohol inks can be used to color Diamond Glaze. Sharpie ink can be used on top of that when it dries. (yellow gem)

Stamps are expensive. Simple designs can be drawn with permanent ink pens. Look for Memento pens (heart gem)

The best way to stamp glass gems is to ink the stamp and very carefully press the gem to the stamp. Pick the gem straight up from the stamp. (butterflies gem)

Jan11

A New Experiment with Glass Gems

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A New Experiment with Glass Gems

I bought tiny rubber stamps (used, on eBay,) and a pad of permanent ink. I stamped these tiny roses on the back of one of my glass gems.

ink on glass 2ink on glass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was inspired by a rectangular piece I saw on Pinterest. The inspiration piece used alcohol inks, but the accompanying article also mentioned using Stickles glitter glue. I don’t have alcohol inks, (yet,) but I did buy this 3 pack of Stickles on clearance at Michael’s a couple of weeks ago. Since baby blue AND pink are the 2016 colors of the year, I thought it a wise investment. I think I would’ve liked the gem better in all white. It needs some touch up, too.

Ink and glitter on glass

Here’s a link to Pantone: https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2016