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Video showing how a novice jewelry maker used Gelli prints to make a colorful necklace!

 

I’m trying my hand at jewelry for the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays blog hop!   There’s lots of inspiration so be sure to check it all out including the fabulous giveaway from the very generous sponsors!!

If I’m making something, it usually involves a bit of color and this necklace is no exception!  These may not be traditional holiday colors but these are colors I think my friend will love when she gets this necklace as a gift.

Video showing how a novice jewelry maker used Gelli prints to make a colorful necklace!

This Gelli print, made using techniques from my One Pull Wonders workshop, started it all.

 

Thanks to the Sizzix die, asymmetrical rings, and Maria McGuire’s Doodle It Inchie stencil these ready for the Ice Resin!

Video showing how a novice jewelry maker used Gelli prints to make a colorful necklace!

 

Video showing how a novice jewelry maker used Gelli prints to make a colorful necklace!Now you know there had to be an Oops or two here…and there was…especially since I am not a master jewelry maker in any way!

 

Watch Gelli Printing and Ice Resin Make a Necklace on YouTube.

 

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Handmade Holidays 2014 Hop

Welcome to the final day of the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop! We hope you enjoyed the projects from the last 2 days! A few years ago we were looking online for handmade gift ideas and thought it would be great if there was a resource dedicated JUST to handmade gift ideas. Enter the Handmade Holidays hop! We’ve gathered over 100 of our creative blogger friends in the craft industry as well as some of our fellow product manufacturers to bring you a plethora of inspiring gift ideas you can make now to give to your friends, family, and colleagues. Pin and bookmark these ideas for this holiday season and to use throughout the year! Each day of the hop features approximately 30 gift projects and you can “hop” from one blog to another to check them all out.

Are you ready for lots more creative handmade gift ideas and projects??

Follow along on our blog hop! Simply click on each of the links below to be taken to that post with additional information and photos on how to create a handmade gift project. Have fun and pin away!

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Follow our Handmade Holidays Gift Ideas Pinterest board for even more inspiration!

Follow Jennifer Priest of RainMaker Media Works + Hydrangea Hippo’s board Handmade Holidays on Pinterest.

 

A huge thank you to our sponsors for this hop – please visit their blogs & websites below and follow them. And be sure to come back tomorrow for another 30+ amazing Handmade Gift Ideas!

Handmade Holidays 2014 Hop

Clearsnap || Ellison Educational Equipment || Walnut Hollow || Graphic45 || Westcott || ICE Resin || Therm O Web || Rowland Industries || Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L || Pink and Main || Elizabeth Craft Designs || The Buckle Boutique || Neat and Tangled

Additional Sponsorship provided to bloggers by:

Sakura || Fairfield Processing

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Video showing how to turn plain paper lunch bags into wonderful stenciled gift bags!

A plain brown bag? Never as long as I have stencils and paint.  Just some quick stenciling to transform these grocery store lunch sacks into gift bags.  When I say quick, I do mean quick. Sloppy, messy, and fast.

 

Video showing how to turn plain paper bags into wonderful stenciled gift bags!

In the video,  I employ some of my favorite skills such as

  • not lining anything up -that would involve precision
  • using sloppy fast stenciling -I have patience issues
  • making coordinating paper – that involves leftover paints so nothing is wasted
  • using a tool that makes me look far more precise than I really am

 

Watch Stenciling Turns a Boring Brown Bag Into Wonderful on YouTube.

My Art is You students will probably recognize these bags…

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Mixed media and stenciling video tutorial by Carolyn Dube showing how she thwarted the inner critic and embraced everyday moments

There’s no spell check in art.  Once you paint a word there aren’t any squiggly red lines alerting you to a misspelling.  Or a quick delete button to fix it.

So what did I do when I had a typo? Nothing.  It’s just an Oops.  Well, I did laugh at myself…I have always been a challenged speller and it is a part of who I am.  It also explains why I am not a newspaper editor…

 

Watch Sacred Play on YouTube.

Mixed media and stenciling video tutorial by Carolyn Dube showing how she thwarted the inner critic and embraced everyday moments

This play started with this random paint and collage play with a Spark of Art-spiration on a piece of scrap cardboard.

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Mixed media and stenciling video tutorial by Carolyn Dube showing how she thwarted the inner critic and embraced everyday moments

This photo of an unknown couple reminded me that  the little things in my life are the sacred treasures to cherish.

Those everyday moments like setting the table together for dinner, the rides to school,  chasing a wet dog around the house when he escapes at bath time, watching The Voice together, are the sacred moments I treasure with my family.

What are the everyday moments you treasure in your life?

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