Pour acrylic paint into small cups and mix with about 1/4″ of flotrol and a few drops of the silicone. The paint should be fairly thin. You can also dilute it with water. Stir thoroughly.
Each color gets its own cup. Take one large cup and put about 1/8 cup flotrol and white paint with silicone in the bottom. Mix thoroughly and layer each color on top.
Prep your canvas with regular white paint. It doesn’t need to dry. Once all the paint is in the cup. Flip it onto the canvas, it doesn’t matter where you put the cup. Once you flip it allow the paint to drain and remove the cup. I used a swiping motion.
Use a heat tool or torch to pop the surface tension of the paint which will allow the cells to pop to the surface. Once it is dry (my canvas is small and its pretty warm here in North Alabama) my canvas took around 3 days to completely dry.
I used a clear aerosol spray sealant. I allowed ample drying time between coats and sued two coats total.
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I plan to charge between $3-6 for this box according to what is placed inside and the price of those materials.
For today’s project you will need:
2 Pieces of Cardstock (I used one color for the top and one for the bottom and then used the scraps for layering),
BOTTOM: 8″ X 5 1.2″ cardstock
Score at 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 then turn and score at 1″ on the other two sides.
cut to the middle, fold on score lines and glue the middle pieces to form the box.
LID: 5 5/8″ X 3 1/8″ cardstock
Score at 1″ on all 4 sides. Cut those middle pieces and glue into place.
TO DECORATE
BOTTOM
Cardstock: 3 1/2 X 4 1/2″ and patterned paper 3 1/8 X 4″ apply to box
LID of box
Cardstock: 3 1/2″ X 7/8″ and the patterned paper 3 1/4 X 3/4″
For my box I used the large bow die from #PinkandMain . This was cut from paper that coordinated with the layers of the box.
For the front decoration, I cut approximately a 3″ scalloped eyelet circle die , from a coordinating Orange cardstock. This was layered onto the front of the box and decorated with the flowers from #PinkandMain pocket of sunshine die.
This box will comfortably fit 5-6 cards that measure 3″ square and their envelopes or two 3″X3″ Sticky back notes and a small pen. Please enjoy the video and contact me via comment below or by email if you have questions! Email: Ms.Rhetta@gmail.com.
I hope you are all doing well! Today is a short and sweet blog post. Today you’ll view a video of how i store the reference of the embossing folders that I own.
I used scraps of card stock from my collection and cut them down to basically 4″ x 6″. Then I used scraps of paper from my scrapbooking collection to make the covers. I used a cinch machine to punch the holes for the binding and a 1″ coil wire for the binding of the books.
I also printed out “embossing folders” title from a lightweight white card stock. The font is called Lily One and it is a google font you can download for free. Just do a google search for it, and I’m sure you will easily find it.
Here is a video slide show of the Craft Club meeting on March 30, 2019
Our wonderful group of crafters!
Special thanks to Julia, Judy, Lelani, and Sharon for their help in preparing materials. If you would like to help prep materials, please email me, all materials (including the loan of dies, stamps, and a die cutting machine) will be provided. Pictured below: Julia, Loretta and Lelani — complete with rabbit ears provided by sweet Lelani.
Julia is our craft club vice president. Thank you for your willingness to serve our group and community!
Bobbie, Sara Elizabeth (SEC) Jay, Loretta, Julia and Jill — The final packaging of this months 90 projects.
Cove Crafters
Today, eleven members of the Cove Crafters (Shepherd’s Cove Hospice), met in the new Shepherd’s Cove Thrift Shoppe to assemble Easter-themed gift baskets for our patients. We produced 90 of these adorable Easter projects, which will be distributed to our patients starting April 1, 2019. Each basket contained three hand made elements, One large pinwheel, one small notebook (with a pinwheel on the cover) and a chocolate bunny treat.
Each gift also had a small handmade card matching the spring and Easter theme.
Someone asked me today how much time I typically spend preparing for the monthly craft meetings, which usually run only 3-4 hours. The fact is, it requires about 80-120 hours of preparation on my part, as well as additional helping hands, to gather materials & hand-craft all the individual parts and pieces that go into each project. The goal is to have each project ready to be individually assembled by our Craft Cove volunteers at the monthly meetings.
As president of the Cove Crafters group, I happily facilitate each monthly project. It is such a blessing to be part of this community.
One of the most important lessons I have learned is not only humility, but the importance of seeking out and graciously receiving help. In this case, the words “It takes a community…” rings true. I couldn’t do this by myself. With the help of the Cove Crafters wonderful volunteers, the blessings we may give to our hospice patients and their families are returned to each of us a thousand-fold.
If you would like more information on supporting Cove Crafters, please send me an email to: Ms.Rhetta@gmail.com. Please put “Cove Crafters” in the Subject line so that I will not mistake your email for spam.
Colossians 3:23-24
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”
It is an easy project for craft clubs, fairs and gifts. Entire project actually took about 22-30 min. However I do want to note, if you do all the prep ahead of time and assembly line style put things together the process is very easy.
The best advise I can offer with this project is patience. I suggest, just clean off your work surface, prep and get things done. I plan to charge $10-14 each for these.
Ask questions in the comment section or email me at Ms.Rhetta@gmail.com
