Today, I want to show you a little gift set I made using the new Our Daily Bread designs set called Jesus. For the card, I used last week's SCS sketch. And I also used five of the Dare to Get Dirty challenges! I used Holly's color challenge of More Mustard, Real Red, and Bashful Blue. I made my own designer paper for Betty's challenge by stamping the Amazing Grace Hymn (music challenge) and the Grow in Grace dogwood flowers. I sponged the three ink colors randomly over the images. Then for Deborah's texture challenge, I sprayed this with Glimmer Mist! Instant designer paper! I added two Spellbinders die cuts (Becca's challenge), threaded with ribbon, to fit with the sketch. I stamped the Jesus image once on scratch paper before stamping onto a piece of Whisper White. Then I stamped the verse over Jesus' image in red. I colored the Hero Arts flowers with copic markers to match and sprayed the red flower with more Glimmer Mist. I added pretty red rhinestones here and there to complete the card!
Now for the candle! This technique is so fun and easy!!! I cut a piece of white tissue paper to fit the size of the candle. You want to cut it to go all the way around. Then you stamp the images onto the tissue paper. Using a piece of wax paper to hold the tissue paper down around the candle, carefully use your heat gun to heat the wax paper until you see that it is getting glossy. Carefully do this all the way around until you get the whole thing melted into the candle. Then just embellish as desired! I used red organdy ribbon, red rhinestones, and a piece along the bottom punched with the Martha Stewart Lattice border punch. Here is a link to a tutorial showing you better how to do the candles!
Stamps-Jesus, Grow in Grace, Amazing Grace Hymn, The Cross of Christ
Paper-Bashful Blue, Real Red, White
Ink-Bashful Blue, Real Red, More Mustard, Memento Brown
Accessories-ribbon, rhinestones, spellbinders, cuttlebug, hero arts flowers, glimmer mist, distressing tool, tissue paper, wax paper, heat gun, sponges
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 GMT Views: 619
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Registered: April 7, 2008 Location: Trinity Alps Resort in California Posts: 70
Tue, Aug 04, 2009 @ 11:18 AM
Wow! So pretty! I LOVE making these candles, but mine don't "hold a candle" to your's! I think one day I'm going to try that glimmer mist stuff, it looks pretty. Thank you for sharing this, very insperational.
Registered: May 18, 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 24623
Thu, Aug 06, 2009 @ 4:42 PM
What a great matching gift set Sandee - you really did a wonderful job on this!!! Love the spellbinder die cuts threaded with ribbon - BEAUTIFUL!!! TFS!!!
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