Aug22
Paperweight Birthday Gift
Gosh, I had five birthdays this week! what the heck? I guess all those xmas party babies, huh? This one is late too. whah! I know I’m not supposed to get notified that it is their birthday and THEN start making their present. I have to go figure out how to change all of my notifications to warn me like 10 days in advance instead of the day before.
Here’s my gift for another friend. I stamped the background with Linen background stamp. Then I colored Pocket Silhouettes with markers and spritzed them with water. Then I stamped them on top of the linen stamped background. I repeated this several times, varying shading and colors of markers. Then I stamped another flower image from the same set onto a spare scrap of white cardstock, twice. I cut both of them out carefully, as the stems are quite thin. I cut slivers of dimensionals, and placed on these two flowered images, and placed on top of the first flowered images. Then I stamped the sentiment, also from the same set. I’m sooooo lovin’ these nature-inspired stamp sets with the grasses, and flowers. Since it’s too hot to landscape, it’s the next best way to bring my outdoors into my stamp room.
The paperweight is from photoweights.com and they have some really cool shapes to work with. The big deal about them is that they have depth that allows scrapbooking, embellishments, and dimension to the base. So you create your artwork either directly on the supplied white chipboard background that comes with the paperweights, or you can do what I do which is to trace it first and then cut it out, and then adhere it to the base chipboard. To finish them off, they provide a nice velvet black bottom. So all you do is turn the paperweight over upside down, insert your artwork upside down (adhered to the provided chipboard) and then peel away the backing behind the velvet and stick over the entire thing. It’s the exact shape and size of the paperweight itself. They come with instructions and there’s even a video to Martha Stewart’s website when she and Dianna Ross made them together. I tivo Martha because she’s so crafty and I also love cooking.
Here’s another view so you can see how thick it is:
I’ll be holding a class on these too, since they make great gifts for ANYONE, but I would think they’d make an excellent Christmas gift for a teacher, business owner, secretary, etc. I’ll be starting at mid -October having almost weekly events to create wonderful gifts for everyone on your list. I hate shopping at the mall, and I hate waiting to the last minute at Christmas time because there’s just too much to do. Believe it or not, I do my Christmas shopping all year long and stash stuff away in my closet; when I see something that reminds me of someone, I buy it then and there. It sure takes the sting out of waiting until December, and having to put it on a credit card. So I’m going to help you out, and who wouldn’t prefer a handmade gift by you over a gift card?
Enjoy!
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