Hello
I am certainly
late today, but at least I have made it before midnight which was my New Year
Resolution – to post a card a day!
Not a card again
today but a mini plaque, the plaque came as a set of 4 from ebay, in case you
fancy having a go, this is the link....
I painted the plaque a few times and after the last
coat dried I scuffed it with fine sandpaper especially along the edge where it
went back to the mdf in places. As this was going to be a surprise gift for my
friend Ann I knew she loved pinks and purples so I used Vintage Plum Metallic
Gilding Wax by Creative Expressions, I simply used a cloth to pick up the
colour and dabbed it here and there, and in some places I dragged the cloth to
add more colour, when I was happy with the colouring I used another soft cloth
to buff the wax and give a shine.
Free in a recent magazine were a set of stamps that
I just loved, it had a small jar and lid, and lots of bugs, butterflies and
flowers. I stamped the jar at an angle and the lid at the bottom so it looked
as though the lid had just fallen off the jar. I randomly stamped the bugs
around the top of the plaque; I also stamped a few inside the jar, and added
the word Bug!!! Inside the jar and near the bottom right hand corner.
The jar was covered with Cosmic Shimmer clear varnish
lacquer and set to a side to dry thoroughly.
Using my big alphabet letters I stamped out Ann
onto white card then used a swirly stamp and bright orange ink and randomly
stamped over the letters, cut them out, then dabbed a versamark ink pad over
the letter covered with clear embossing powder, tapped away the excess and
heated, I did this a further 2 times which gave me a very high gloss finish,
the letters were set aside to cool down and set.
After a full day I picked up the plaque to finish
it off and as I held it I was rather heavy handed and managed to put a thumb
print in the middle of the jar, it wasn’t dry in the middle so I had a mess
there...quick thinking, quick fix, I stamped another couple of bugs, and stuck
then on the jar – it was ok...only ok!!!
On the back of the plaque I started by using a cube
versamark ink pad and patted it all around the edges of the back of the plaque
then covered with copper metal magic by Debbi Moore and tipped away the excess
then heated up carefully so as not to blow off the grainy powder, once it was
done I went around in places where the powder had blow off and repeated.
One of my favourite rubber stamp messages was
stamped onto the left side of the plaque “one can never have too many hugs or
laugh too often” it was stamped in Sepia Versafine and very slightly to the
right of the sentiment I stamped an owlet which I love, this was bought from
the Barn Owl Trust and was again stamped in Sepia ink.
I used Pinflare gel to hold the letters in place,
and got so agitated with them that in the end I piled anything and everything
heavy on top of it. It only took around 15 minutes to be set in place.
Butchers twine was threaded from the back at the
right, and butterfly charms were added before threading the twine back through the
hold at the left.
Before tying the holes at the back I added a Hope
ribbon to one end and tied a knot then trimmed off the excess, at the other
side I added a small heart inscribed with best friend.
The finishing touch was the date which I wrote in
brown promarker so it blended in with everything else on the reverse side...
Had a message from Ann this afternoon to say the
plaque had arrived and was now hung above her desk...I love to make and send
things to Ann as she gets so excited with them, and I know she keeps everything
It’s just 6 minutes to midnight so see you again
tomorrow
Angie
xx
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