Crafting with limitations and disabilities is possible. With this blog, I am creating a record to show how I am overcoming my disability and using it as a motivation to become a better crafter. I hope my story helps others who may be in a similar situation. My tools, my hands. Crafting with limitations and disabilities is frustrating and can be very painful. The most important tool we CAN use is our determination. Click on a picture on the slideshow to view an enlarged image.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Create tag
Creating is fantastic. We try one way or another to create something. New dishes, a dress, a home, a career... but the most amazing quality we have is the ability to create life. Not all of us chose to do so. Those who do, are forever responsible of that life. This tag starts out by drawing a human to be. What a challenging proposition! Lots of research on-line and finally, I drew the embryo concept on paper, cut with an x-acto knife for precision and then glued that to heavy card stock. Cut again and edge with Antique Linen Distress ink. Stamped old German text with archival ink. Position it on the tag and lightly trace with pencil. Covered the tag with very light green flourish paper, stamped the sun with Wild Honey Distress ink and heat embossed with detail powder. Using Stazon yellow ink and a nib, detailed the silhoute and the sun. Using Wild Honey and Cut and dry foam, edge tag. Then lightly edge with Milled Lavender. Stamp 'create' with Wild Honey towards the middle. Using Eggplant Alcohol ink, dribble over a few frosted glass leaves, heat set and then with a paper towel with one drop of alcohol, wipe the tops of the leaves so only the veins are stained. String on a wire to create a circle and thread into the tag's string.
Free tag
Working my way through the box of word stamps, I am on the 4th one... FREE... what is freedom? The ability to think the way you want, express yourself and go where you want, but mostly, it means to be yourself without restrictions.
On this tag I covered the base tag with small detailed card stock and heat embossed a Victorian birdcage -slightly off center- with copper. Using Stazon purple, I stamped the butterfly with the swirls still on the cage. Edged the whole tag with Concord Grape Distress ink and lined the butterfly stamp with a glazing pen. Punched a 'stamp' using MS punch and stamped 'free' with white Stazon ink, adhered with foam dot. Also a MS punch is the monarch butterfly punched from lavender vellum and glued to a sliver of foam. Perked the wings and its ready to fly. Punched out 2 different flowers, edged the largest with lavender chalk ink, stacked and added a rhinestone in the center. Adhered with a pop dot above the 'free' stamp. Added 2 small glass flower charms loaded on copper wire and attached to the string tag.
On this tag I covered the base tag with small detailed card stock and heat embossed a Victorian birdcage -slightly off center- with copper. Using Stazon purple, I stamped the butterfly with the swirls still on the cage. Edged the whole tag with Concord Grape Distress ink and lined the butterfly stamp with a glazing pen. Punched a 'stamp' using MS punch and stamped 'free' with white Stazon ink, adhered with foam dot. Also a MS punch is the monarch butterfly punched from lavender vellum and glued to a sliver of foam. Perked the wings and its ready to fly. Punched out 2 different flowers, edged the largest with lavender chalk ink, stacked and added a rhinestone in the center. Adhered with a pop dot above the 'free' stamp. Added 2 small glass flower charms loaded on copper wire and attached to the string tag.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Discover tag
Another word from the set is done. The world is a place to discover talent, friends, languages, food, art, you name it! Having had the opportunity to do some traveling, I still crave it. Choosing a place, packing, planing the route, think of all the wonderful things to do... and we realize the journey already started.
After gluing a map over the base tag, used cut and dry foam to ink edges with Tea Dye and very little Vintage Photo. Stamped and embossed the 1/2 world with garnet powder. Masked and stamped all the postoids I own! Then took the cancellation stamp (wavy lines) and stamped it toward the bottom of the tag with bright red.
Separately, stamped 'discover' on a piece of the map with Timber (Stazon), trimmed and then glued to the bottom of the tag. Using Tim Holtz ticket dies and a strip of camel 'foamie' sheet, I got a good base for the ticket stamp (Tim Holtz) with Archival ink. Stamped 'YOU!' on it, trimmed around and glued to the tag. Then I stamped the cancellation mark on the ticket matching the original one on the tag. To complete the look, I attached a flower dangle to a mini compass and threaded through the string on the tag.
After gluing a map over the base tag, used cut and dry foam to ink edges with Tea Dye and very little Vintage Photo. Stamped and embossed the 1/2 world with garnet powder. Masked and stamped all the postoids I own! Then took the cancellation stamp (wavy lines) and stamped it toward the bottom of the tag with bright red.
Separately, stamped 'discover' on a piece of the map with Timber (Stazon), trimmed and then glued to the bottom of the tag. Using Tim Holtz ticket dies and a strip of camel 'foamie' sheet, I got a good base for the ticket stamp (Tim Holtz) with Archival ink. Stamped 'YOU!' on it, trimmed around and glued to the tag. Then I stamped the cancellation mark on the ticket matching the original one on the tag. To complete the look, I attached a flower dangle to a mini compass and threaded through the string on the tag.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Passion tag
This one includes some of my favorites! First, stamped Girl in Wave using chalk ink (progressively darkened toward the bottom) trim and edged with Platinum. Glued to a larger piece of dark bluish card stock, edged that with a postage stamp punch. Separately, stamped 'passion' on the same color paper, trimmed and edged with platinum. Inked around the base tag with foam using Chipped Sapphire. Cutting a tag from Vintage Shabby, I trimmed 2mm around and distressed, then inked the edge with Broken China and adhered to the larger tag. Glued the stamped image at an angle and on top 'passion' with pop dots. Loading 2 headpins with tumbled sea glass I attached them to a jump ring and the tag. Finally, I glued a starfish charm tucked under the raised word.
Hope tag
A friend gave me a boxed set of stamps with one word statements. Maybe I'll work my way through the box and make tags with them...
For starters, we have HOPE. Stamped the keyhole face on transparency material with Stazon, cut and then glued that onto iridescent card stock, trimmed the edges and then carved the hole itself. Stamped the girl (gypsy set) in purple and masked. Added the flourishes with Pumice Distress ink and edged with Wild Honey and Worn Lipstick inks. Using brown I stamped 'hope' 3 times in different directions without reloading ink. I centered the key hole over the girl's face. made registration marks for alignement, pierced and by putting a 4mm bead under the keyhole I got the dimensional effect when I put the brads. The metal key was inked with Sunset Orange alcohol ink and heat set, then attached to tag.
For starters, we have HOPE. Stamped the keyhole face on transparency material with Stazon, cut and then glued that onto iridescent card stock, trimmed the edges and then carved the hole itself. Stamped the girl (gypsy set) in purple and masked. Added the flourishes with Pumice Distress ink and edged with Wild Honey and Worn Lipstick inks. Using brown I stamped 'hope' 3 times in different directions without reloading ink. I centered the key hole over the girl's face. made registration marks for alignement, pierced and by putting a 4mm bead under the keyhole I got the dimensional effect when I put the brads. The metal key was inked with Sunset Orange alcohol ink and heat set, then attached to tag.
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