Tip for making clay buttons using Stampin Up's Simply Pressed Clay & Button Molds

I hope this is a help to anyone else that is struggling using the button molds

Julie :)

Making Flowers using a Honeycomb Embossing Folder or Hexagonal Papers

Hi everyone, here's a really quick Flower making video for you, so easy to do and I like how they turned out. Hope you all have a great weekend :)
 

Using bleach on a background stamp !! :)

Hi everyone, I just want to share a video I made today showing how I used bleach on a woodgrain background stamp, I've used bleach on my cards before but only on small stamps and after trying a few times to get a good bleached background image I was finally pleased with this attempt after adopting a 'less is more' attitude towards the bleach lol

Sewing linen thread onto your cards to make branches

Hi everyone I hope you're all keeping well

Here's a little tip that I think is quite cute for your bird stamps... enjoy :)




 Let me know if you have any tips you'd like to share here,

Julie :)

Cute Polymer Clay Easter Bunny Tutorial from Ewa

LET'S CLAY! Easter Bunny - tutorial polymer clay

Click HERE to go to Ewa's You Tube Channel

Treasures from the button box

Thank you very much Wil for contacting me to share your clever use of buttons to use as dolls house accessories.... isn't this clever!!  I can't tell you how long I've been staring at this photo in awe.. such a brilliant tip and I'm now looking at my own stash of buttons in a new way

You can see this photo on Wil's Blog HERE 

Make Your Own Embellishments

Hiya There... Debbie here

Today to share is a little Tutorial.

I know we all like to use embellishments on our cards and there are some beautiful ones available to buy, but I get more satisfaction when I make my own.

I feel then the card is totally 'Handmade' with Love.

  

Here Im showing you how I made the frames and corners I keep being asked about and they are ever so easy.
There are LOTS of different Air Dry Clays on the market. This one Im using at the moment is a Martha Stewart one. There are different colours available but I mainly use white but also have Blue, Red,Brown and Yellow as they are the main mixing colours.

Using a little bit of clay, roll into a sausage and spread evenly around the mould, pressing firmly so that the pattern engraves in the clay.

Once all covered make sure none is overlapping the edges.

 

I then pop straight out and make another. I must admit the first time I did this I was scared I would spoil the frame as it wasnt set, but the moulds are so flexible it just popped out.Leave on a flat surface and allow to dry.

Then once you have become more brave try mixing. Here I used a tiny ball of red to make Pink

 

I even attempted a flower and attempted two colours in one mould.

 

 I always spend hours making embellishments and flowers, then they are just at hand for your projects

 

Once finished and set, which can take a few hours I then paint. I usually end up painting white anyway, but they do look nice with a different colour showing through.

 

Hope you liked this tutorial.

I also have more Tutorials on my blog HERE under the Tutorial Tab

Thanks so much for looking

 

Big Hugs