Tips & Techniques Tuesday: Modeling Film and Stickles

Happy Tuesday, Stickle Fans.  Karen N here from Craftily Yours, and I'm here to show you a "new-to-me" product called Clearly for Art Modeling Film mixed with Stickles!  This product is much like a transparency (i.e. clear plastic), but it's a little thicker and can be molded after heat is applied to achieve all sorts of cool effects.  Even cooler (as with anything) is mixing it up with some Stickles!

On our blog hop last weekend, I created a Stickled up flower with it.  First, I ran it through the Cuttlebug with some Spellbinder flower dies.

The film is thick enough that these dies did not cut the film, but it dug down enough that it only took me a few moments to free the designs.

Next, I covered them with Stickles.

The colors used here are Cranberry, Mercury Glass and Pink Taffeta.  As with any Stickles processes, let it DRY fully.   Then comes the fun part, heat up the plastic (with a blow-dryer or heat gun), and mold it as you wish.

and then layer them up.  Easy - and check out the result!  I love the dimension and, of course, the sparklies!

This is my last post as a designer for All That Stickles.  It's been a wonderful two terms, and I want to thank Ashley and Tonya and the rest of both teams for all their wonderful, positive and supportive comments.  It's been a great experience!  

Keep on Sticklin'!

Craftily yours,

Karen 

Tips & Techniques Tuesday: Fireworks Stickles

Hi. It's Angeline from ScrappyScrappy. Today I have a "fiery" tip for you for the upcoming New Year or any celebrations at all. :) Get those Stickles out and Stickle away!

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1. Get your favorite Distress Paint out {Mustard Seed / Picked Raspberry / Salty Ocean}. 

Grab your water mister out and spritz some onto the top of the Distress Paint dauber.

2. Splat onto your cardstock to create a splat effect!

3. Then get your favorite Stickles out. {Glam Pink / Broken China / Yellow}

4. Stickle along the splat lines.

5. Ta-daaa!! And you have fireworks Stickles. :) 

I've stamped the sentiment below using some Unity Stamps.

Here's a close up on how pretty the fireworks is with some Stickles.

Hope you enjoy the tutorial. Go try it out and have fun Stickle-ing!

-Angeline

Tips and Techniques Tuesday: Christmas Ornament

Hi everyone, Sonia from SKdesigns here today to show you step by step how to make a Chrismas ornament using your old jeans and the difference it makes when you use STICKLES to embellish it.  It was something that came to my mind in a minute and I also did it very quickly... It is super easy... hope you like it!

Start by cutting the Jean (double sided) and "pin"

the shape you want.

Stitch around in zig zag, leaving one side open

See the side open?  

Take the pattern off and cut with scissors all around

it, leaving a bit of edge (for looks)

Use some kind of stuffing to fill it in and make it puffy

Close the open end 

Sew a piece of ribbon in a loop to be able to hang it

Add embellishments and voila!... 

a quick and easy, funky country looking 

ornament made with Jeans !!!

For this particular ornament, I used Platinum Stickles

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Tips & Techniques Tuesday: Stickles Snowflake Ornament

Hi Stickles-fans! Angeline here from ScrappyScrappy and today I am going to show you how to make some Stickles Snowflake Ornament.

Christmas is just around the corner and what better way to decorate your home than with Stickles? I don't know about you but Christmas decors are expensive for me - especially the glittery ones. Today's tip will help you save some money and make your tree a much shinier one.

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1. Get some plain old Christmas baubles and your favorite Stickles out. Here I am using Gold Ice Stickles.

2. Then just draw a simple snowflake design onto the bauble. You can search for images online and draw the designs you prefer.

3. When you are done, leave it to dry and there you have it! An ornament ready for your Christmas tree :)

Doesn't it look pretty? :) Have fun with your Stickles and happy decorating!

-Angeline DT

Tips & Techniques Tuesday: Stickle-Enhanced Welded Titles

Happy Tuesday!  Karen N here from Craftily Yours, and today, I'm super happy to show you a fun technique to create Stickle-enhanced Welded Titles.  Sounds complicated!  It's not!  I'm showing you how I do it on a Silhouette Cameo, but you could also do it with regular cut letters from your die cutting machine.

Step 1, on your Cameo, first type the letters you want to cut.  Step 2, draw a very small rectangle at the bottom of your letters.  Step 3 is to select the entire image and right-click.  Scroll down to the "weld" selection.  Since I wanted "thick" letters, I copy and paste the new image a couple more times....then CUT.  

Next, I cut the images and glued them together.  I wanted to end up with blue letters, so I colored them.....ummmm....blue!

Now, go NUTS and pile on the Stickles!  Here, my OWH is shown with True Blue Stickles. 

Easy sneezy way to make your own unique, glittery, fun titles for scrapbooking pages and MORE!!  I used this title (and others) on my design team entry for the Distress Stickles Linky Party.  Be sure to join us...

Craftily yours,

Karen

Tips & Techniques Tuesday: Wall Banner with Stickles.

Hey everyone, Sonia here with a short tutorial for All that Stickles.  First I wanted to do some coasters, but when I had the base done, I went for a wall hanger...lol.  One of those days your mojo takes any route...

 1.  I started cutting the frames in chipboard, designer paper and cork with the Cuttlebug using Nestabilities dies.

2. Dress up the chipboard with designer paper

3. Added letters cut with the Silhouette in Plaid Simply stencil (plastic)  

4. That way I can add all the Stickles I want and avoid the paper bubbles. 

5.  Dress it up a bit more adding Wraphia and rhinestones.

6. Also added ribbon in the back using hot glue gun, and open some holes at the ends to add eyelets.  Very easy with the  cropodile.

And here is a close up of the final product, and I used Golden Rod, Peel Orange, Lime Green and Black Diamond Stickles.  Took me 1.5 hours to do it from beginning to end... very fast and easy.  Hope you like it.

Tips & Techniques Tuesday: Garbage to Glittery Goodness

Hello everyone, Cathy here from the ATS Design Team with a bit of a Tip and a Technique to share with you today. The post is photo heavy, so I apologize if it takes a moment to load for you.

I was a re-purposer, recylcer, re-whatever-you-want-to-call-it long before it was hip. I'd spend hours with my grandma and mom being creating with whatever supplies we could find around the house. I still carry that passion and have a hard time throwing things away that I 'might' be able to use for something. My husband has tried to convert me into more of a thrower, but I'll never give up my 'maybe someday' stash. The project I'm sharing today uses two items that were destined for the recycling bin. Then I had an 'aha' moment and took them to my studio.

I know I'm not the only one who receives more junk mail than good mail. I'm sad to say that in this electronic world the only 'real' birthday cards I receive are from credit card companies and my insurance agent. Here's a pic of two such garbage destined items. A postcard from a local garden center and a birthday card from a clothing company. 

The fronts were beautiful but the back and inside show the advertising.

I realized they were too pretty to toss away and I could use them for quick and easy card creations by adding a bit of Stickles.

I started with the full card.

I used 3 colors of Stickles on the bow (purple in the darkest spots, lavender in the mid-tone spots, and icicle in the highlights).

Here's a close up so you can see the Stickles glittery goodness better. 

I used my free form squiggle technique over the sentiment, first with Ranger Glossy Accents and then used Frosted Lace Stickles on some of the swoops. 

The store logo and flower image were on the back of the card. I used Frosted Lace Stickles to outline the flower shape.

I let things dry overnight just to be safe. The cardstock is quite shiny and I didn't know it that would affect the drying time. It did buckle a bit from the amount of Stickles I'd added to the bow, but I knew it would be trimmed and mounted an another piece of cardstock so I could iron things out.

I trimmed down the pieces I wanted and quickly put them together into a new creation. The gift was trimmed, mounted on matching purple cardstock and then popped up over a funky hounds-tooth cardstock. The photo doesn't show it, but the hounds-tooth is glittered on all the white squares. 

For the inside of the card I matted the happy birthday sentiment and adhered it with glue dots over the existing logo and text. I trimmed out the back panel, added a few layers of the scraps and called it completed.

The second garbage destined piece was even easier to do. The image was so pretty, all I did was pile up the Stickles on the natural elements. The Stickles I used were: Magenta, Yellow, Starry Night, Tropical Tangerine, Mystic Green, Paprika, Thistle, Pink, Patina, Lime Green, and Platinum.

I worked from the middle out to the edge so I wouldn't plop my hand in wet Stickles. If you are worried about smudges, you could let each color dry before adding the next. The good thing about using advertisements is they are usually printed on a high gloss cardstock. I had a few oops but was able to wipe them right off and no one will be the wiser. Well, if I hadn't just told you. LOL.

Here's a close up so you can see the massive amounts of Stickles I used to overlay the existing photo.

I left the open grassy area as is. I wanted to give the eye a spot to rest.

Once the Stickles were dry, I just trimmed the postcard down to size, matted it on a purple cardstock and popped the panel up on a glittered cardstock base. The only addition was a die cut butterfly that was in my stash. I layered a vellum butterfly over the green cardstock butterfly for interest.

It really can't get much simpler than that and now I have 2 up-cycled cards that had been destined for the garbage and are now glittery goodness.

I encourage you to use your crafter's eye when you are sorting through the stack of junk mail, you might be inspired to repurpose some items. With a bit of Stickles you can take junk mail to new heights!

Thanks for stopping by, check out your mailbox for fall themed postcards and flyers. You could alter them with Stickles and join in our Fall Harvest Linky Party going on now.