My Farewell Post as a Sakura Design Team Member!

First, I would like to congratulate the new Sakura Hobby Craft Design Team.  I am sure we are in for a ton of great inspiration over the next six months!

The 3D Crystal Lacquer is my go to adhesive.  I also love using it as a finish on many of my projects.  Add Terri Sproul Mixers in the 3D Crystal Lacquer and your imagination is your only limit... you can create so many projects with the combination. 

I use 3D Crystal Lacquer on almost all of my paper projects. It gives paper a thickness that I love working  with. There are a lot of digital images you can print from online sites like AlteredPages.com. To give those images a little more pop I cover them with a thin layer of 3D Crystal Lacquer.

Here images from AlteredPages.com are covered with 3D Crystal Lacquer before I cut them from the page. I adhered the German Scrap/Dresden to the pictures with the 3D Crystal Lacquer.

 The tags fold into each other to create a nice card!

Before I leave I would like to share a few of my favorite projects I made with 

3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers!

My Paris Book

Sin City Scraps Tree Ornaments

Gingerbread House

Altered Altoid Tin Box 

It has been a great being on the team!! I hope the next enjoys it as much as I have! 

THANK YOU

 Sakura Hobby Craft and Terri Sproul!

Sakura Vintage By the SeaShore Valentine!

Vintage Valentines are my favorites. Here is an altered tin with a vintage by the SeaShore Valentine image.

Coat the tin with the Red from the Sakura Primary Color Set 3D Crystal Color Lacquer. While wet add the red doily. Adhere the image with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and coat the image with a thin layer of Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  I find the  lacquer enhances the color of the images. 

Adhere small shells around the edge of the doily using the

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer add a few shells to the bottom of the image. With the Red Stikles add a border around the tin. Use Gold Stikles to create a border around the image. 

Fill your tin with fun messages for your VALENTINE!!!!

Supplies:

Tin

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Sakura Primary Color Set 3D Crystal Color Lacquer

Image from Altered Pages Valentine collage sheet # 2031

Stickles Red & Gold

Stash Sea Shells and Paper Doily

Sakura and SinCity Scraps Tree Ornaments!

This time of year I love making ornaments... today I am using  Creative Paperclay® and stamps from SinCity Scraps with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers to make these amazing ornaments!

Supplies:

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer
Terri Sproul Mixers
Copper Penny Pearl
Purple Shimmer
Red Shimmer
Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter
Sin City Stamps - Mannequin Tags
Creative Paperclay®
Ornament Hangers
Gold Wired Ribbon
Tools for working with clay

First roll out the Creative Paperclay® you will roll the stamps into the clay, be sure it is thick enough that the stamp will not break through the clay. Gently roll the SinCity Scraps Mannequin Tag Stamps into the clay.

Carefully cut around the stamped images with a cutting tool, then set aside to dry. 

When dry sand the edges, with an emery board. 

Paint the SinCity Scraps Mannequin Tag Stamps with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers! While the Lacquer is still wet sprinkle with Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter. Use a decorative ornament hook and tie a few inches of gold wired ribbon to create "wings".

Terri Sproul Mixers Copper Penny Pearl 

Terri Sproul Mixers Red Shimmer 

Terri Sproul Mixers Purple Shimmer 

Wouldn't a tree full of these be beautiful?

Altered Tins for Gift Giving!!!

Altoid Tins are the perfect size for jewelry gift giving!

Supplies:

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixers Copper Penny Pearl

Creative Paperclay®

Gears - Oriental Trading CO.

Keyhole - Tim Holtz

Large Gem

Microbeads

Trim

Fabric

Pattern Paper 

Gift for Giving!

Press Creative Paperclay® onto the tin. Press gear and keyhole into the wet paperclay. Set aside to dry, may take several days. When dry paint with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers Copper Penny Pearl. Adhere gold microbeads around the edge with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  Then adhere fabric and trim inside and trim outside.  Ahdere large gem to one of the gears with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  

Cut pattern paper to cover the bottom and inside lid of the tin and adhere with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  

Have fun creating gift boxes this season!

Fun With Sakura and Outline Stickers!

Today I had the opportunity to work with Outline Stickers from Sparkraft Enterprises with Sukura Hobby Craft products. The Outline Stickers are various colors and textured PVC foil adhesive backed sticker sheets.

For the first technique, place the Outline Sticker on a Miracle Sheet and cut the size of the panel to be used. Then over one of a little pan  pour Terri Sproul Ultra Fine Glitter, shake off the excess.  With a piece of paper over the image burnish the glitter into the Miracle Sheet with the side of a bone folder.

Use Copics to color the image. 

This butterfly was fussy cut 

and attached to the card directly. 

 

The second technique, place the Outline Stickers on a transparency.  Add desired colors of Terri Sproul Mixers to  to Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. Paint the images with a rainbow of colors to create a stain glass look. 

Fussy cut the images from the transparency

 and create one of a kind cards! 

I didn't have much luck staying in the lines when I painted them, I was a bit impatient. Once dry, MY TRICK IS, since I used a transparency I was able to use the back side of my images as the finished product. The Sakura 3D  Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers are transparent and look great on the Sparkraft Enterprises Outline Stickers! 

Please click on the images to get a closer look at how cool they look!!!

Pink is for October!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I am sure everyone reading this has a family member, friend or knows of someone that has been affected by breast cancer. It is a disease we need to conquer.  Until then everyone man and woman needs to be aware that they are at risk.

This week I would like to share a tribute to my mother, whom my family lost to this disease less than a year ago.  She was a brave soul and fought four hard years.  This is my Sakura Crystal Lacquer Design Team post this week and my submission to the Altered Pages Challenge this month.    If you would like you to can join the challenge  

My project is an altered Altoids tin. My adhesive of choice for this project is Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. I used images from two Altered Pages collage sheets Think Pink and a sheet I won from their blog hop "Thinking Pink." To create embellishments I fussy cut images from the collage sheets and apply Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, then Set aside to dry. 

Start with an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of pink paper. Cut two strips the height of the tin.  Then score each at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Adhere the two strips (a full size and a short end.) Use a corner rounder on all corners.  Distress the pink paper with ink; use punchinello as a template to get the pattern on the paper. Cut two extra panels for the top outside and inside.  

Outside: Attach upholstery trim around the lower half of the tin with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  Adhere distressed pink card stock and Altered Pages Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered butterfly. While the butterfly was still wet it was dusted with Terri Spour Ultra Fine Glitter.) Add pink half beads around the edge to finish the top!

Inside tin cover: Base pink cardstock, dictionary page, buttons, metal flowers, breast cancer ribbon jewell, sewing machine charm, a little glitter added around the inside and Altered Pages Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered butterfly folded in half.

The well of the tin holds the accordion card cut earlier.  The card is held in place by a ribbon that was adhered to the bottom of the time before the card was attached.   

Here is the card opened all the panels have been embellished and journaling added.

First panel, is adhered to the bottom of the tin.  Altered Pages lady in chair has a Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer dress. 

The Altered Pages birds have added dimension with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer.  Next panel, is a picture of my mother with a crown and it is embellished with jewels.  

Altered Pages lady with carnation and the rose on the opposite page have dimension added with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer. There is a bit of ribbon with breast cancer ribbon.

The ribbon continues onto the next panel.  Here we have a beautiful  lady and a Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered heart from Altered Pages. The final panel is a scene from the back of a playing card and a Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquered bird from Altered Pages.  

The back of the card is full of journaling. This is a treasure I hope to have for many years. 

I would like to share the words from the last panel on the back: "Your days of sewing curtains, wedding dresses, hemming pants, driving grand kids, helping neighbors and all that you did for everyone are over. You now have your wings! Wear them proudly, you earned them.  I love you MOM."