A stamped vase cozy (and a giveaway)

How to make a stamped vase cozy using Faber Castell mix and match cloth markers and pencils.

Disclosure: I was provided with product for the purpose of this review

UPDATED: The winners of this game show drawn via random.org are no.12 Sabirah and atomic number 102.32 Kate Dunn.  Praise, I will be emailing you presently.

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I recently received about unreal Faber-Castell Mix & Match products to try out.  After days and days of procrastinating as to what I should make with them and perusing all single Page of the design memory craft blog, I was doing dishes unity good afternoon and happened to embody washing out a large rough garlic jar to pop into the recyling bank identification number when I finally had an idea.

The jar was just too lifesize for me to dedicate information technology up that easily, I knew I could re-purpose it and I had remembered recital that the Mix & Check products could be victimized on canvas, so I decided to bring i a jar cozy and flex this great bump around into a funky vase.

The products I received were these Mix & Match Interracial Media Sampler and Color Gelatos & Clear Stamp kit out.

With the various products in the Mix & Lucifer collection you can make over some absolutely arresting pieces of work.  I came across this gorgeous artwork connected Scrapscene so this rattling bird banner (scroll go through a bit) happening Art Talk (you may want to turn your volume down, there's music).

Present are the book of instructions to make the vase cozy:

Step 1:

Exploitation a taping measure, take the measurements of your jar and issue out a nibble of canvas allowing an spare 5mm all round for a hem.

Tread 2:

Choose a clear pigeonhole and go with a stampers block.  Fill in the detail on the stamp using the Color Gelatos – you can brush concluded these with water to make a watercolor effect.  I used 3 colors on mine: The metallic pink gelato around the outside, orange just at heart that and yellow toward the center of each wing.  Stamp onto your canvas.

I and then used the Art Clasp® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencil in red to highlight the inside information around the butterfly.  These pencils are permanent, but again, if you brush a little water finished the top it creates a beautiful watercolor effect.

Whole tone 3:

Color over a worded stamp using the Metallic PITT® Artist Write out and stamp just underneath the butterfly.  I did this in two stages as the phrase was quite long and I wanted to separate it finished two lines.

Step 4:

Using a Yellow Gelato in a downright position stamp a few scattered circles around your blueprint.

Step 5:

Create a framing around your design using a PITT® Pastel Pencil.  Add highlights using the Metallic PITT® Artist Pen.

I had a artificial scrapbooking frame that I used as a stencil to create the material body around my design.

Step 6:

Sew hems on the circus tent and can of your canvas victimization a zigzag stitch to prevent fraying.  Stitch the open side unitedly victimisation a straight stitch to make a sleeve and very cautiously wiggle it down over your jar.

The possibilities truly are endless with these amazing products.

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And with that, I have a GIVEAWAY!

2 winners bequeath each receive the same kits that I did to create their own masterpiece: the Mix & Match Mixed Media Taste-tester and Color Gelatos & Assoil Stamp kit.

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This giveaway is open to all residents of the America over 18 geezerhood of age and will end on Thursday May 5 at 10am PST when a winner will constitute drawn via random.org.

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