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We are very proud to announce that one of the Christmas cards made by Els has made it on to the Winter edition cover of Paper Creations www.papercreationsmag.com!

Check out the three other Elizabeth Craft Designs Christmas cards featured in this edition of Paper Creations

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Sticky Shapes!

09/21/2009 18:25:08

Dear Crafters,

In this newsletter I want to tell you something about the use and possibilities of the Sticky Shapes.

You will find three pictures of projects that I created using the Sticky Shapes and black and white Peel Off’s.

You can use the Sticky Shapes in different ways.

With the butterflies I did the following. You leave the protective sheet on top of the Sticky Shape. Then you cut out the butterflies. After you have taken of the protective sheet you sprinkle two different colours of the Micro Fine glitter on top of the Sticky Shape and burnish. Burnish means you rub over the glittered Sticky Shapes with your index finger which will give it a totally different look. Now you have a glittered outline (positive) and a negative that you can use.

If you take a good look at the pictures of the cards you will see that I used both positive and negative for these two cards with the butterflies.

For the card with the circles I took a white Peel Off, stick the two butterflies onto a piece of watercolour paper and use a pair of tweezers to put the negative parts back into the white Peel Off. Some parts, the body, head, dots and small leaves, are coloured with the Tombows. For the card with the one butterfly on the square I did put the Sticky Shape outline on a piece of watercolour paper and put some parts, the body, head and the dots, of the Sticky Shape negative back with the pair of tweezers. The other parts are coloured with the Tombows. As you can see I also used the text sheet ‘’Just for You’’. I used a silver text sheet and coloured the text with the Peel Off markers. The other technique you can do with the Sticky Shapes I used for the doodles with leaves. You take a full sheet of Sticky Shapes. Take of the protective sheet and sprinkle a few different colours of the micro fine glitter over the full sheet. Burnish it with your index finger and you are ready to use the doodles. If you take a good look in the gallery you fill find some cards with the Fantasy Flower where I used the ‘’leftover’’ of the sheet with the doodles with leaves. Whenever you have used all the doodles you take a matching colour of background cardstock, take off the full sheet of ‘’leftover’’ in one time and stick it onto the cardstock. Press it down firmly and you are ready to use this part as a background.

The third card it the card with the Sticky Shape leaves and the ladybug. For the leaves I did glitter the full sheet of leaves in one time with three different colour of the micro fine glitter. Burnished it and then stick the leaves on watercolour paper. The leaves are coloured with the Tombows. For the ladybug I took a black Peel Off, stick it on the watercolour paper and colour it with the Tombows and the Sakura Glaze pen black.

I hope you can all use this information to get started with the Sticky Shapes. Working with the Sticky Shapes is so much fun and different than the ‘’regular’’ Peel Off’s that you should try it for sure.

If you have a look on the website www.ecraftdesigns.com you will also see that we added some images in Sticky Shapes.

I also want to invite you to send pictures of some projects you created using my designs. I want to start a gallery with projects created by you. Everybody has a different style and ideas and it is so nice to get ideas from other people. We are always learning and taking a look at work from other people can only inspire us for creating more and different projects.

Happy crafting,

Els

Elizabeth's Blog: Indonesia, summer and rocks!

08/08/2009 21:57:29

Elizabeth's Blog: Indonesia, summer and rocks!

Dear Crafters,

Are you all enjoying the summer?

I just came back from a trip to Bali and Java and it has been wonderful. One huge source of inspiration. Wood and stone carving, paintings, jewellery and even the most beautiful decorated eggs. You won’t believe how creative the people are over there. I could go on with the tropical fish, beautiful flowers, fresh green rice fields, the shells, fishing boats and the many, many temples. And last but not least the people itself. Nice and colourful with the typical Indonesian batik decorated cloths. So you can imagine that I took lots of photo’s!

Back in California now and the weather is great but I need and want to start working again. In between I went to the beach for a walk and found some rocks. Inspired by all the creative ideas I took from Bali and Java I got an idea for these rocks, so I took them home and started to work.

First I put a layer of ModPodge over the stones. This way you brighten up the colour of the stones. After that I took a black sheet of Peel Off’s and Sticky Shapes of the big leaves (nr. 0437) took of the protective sheet of the Sticky Shapes and glittered the full sheet with different colours of green from the micro fine glitters of Glitter Ritz and burnished it with my index finger.

Burnishing means rub over it with your index finger which gives it a totally different look. Try it and you will see what I mean. When you have done that the rest is easy. You stick a black leave on a stone and take a tweezers to pick up the glittered parts and put that back in the black outline. You can also do it the other way around or take a piece of Magic Tape and just pick up the negatives of the glittered leave and stick that on the stone. It was so much fun to do and very easy.

You can just use the stones for decoration or use is as a paper press which makes a nice present. I found my stones at the beach in California but I’m sure you can all find some not too far from your own home or even in the garden.

Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Happy Crafting, Els

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