One of my favorite things about convention was seeing all of the Artisan Award projects on display. Here are a couple of my favorites. I can't post them all but here are some more pics if you want to check out more of the awesome projects that were on display Download Winning Artisan Award Projects 2011
This is one of the scrapbook pages I entered in the 2011 Artisan Award contest. I forgot to take a photo of it until it was boxed up and on it's way out the door.
A lot of the features don't show very well in the photo. The letters have icecycle drips using crystal effects then sprinkles with dazzling diamonds. I covered the chipboard with Pink Pirrouette cs before cutting them out with the Big Shot. The ribbon is embossed with the tulip folder by sticking the ribbon to a scrap of card stock before embossing it. You can't see this in the photo at all but I covered the whole page with a big shot adhesive sheet, peeled the backing then cut a swirly decorative strip from the backing sheet. I placed the swirly die cut down the left side of the page then covered the remaining page with faux snow. After dusting off the excess snow I peeled off the swirl and sprinkled that area with dd. It looks very pretty in real life. I also added some snow flakes, pearls and clear bitty buttons. This way my favorite page but then I'm a sucker for pink.
You can find the tutorial to make faux snow using SU products here
Stamps: none
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
Accessories:, Dazzling Diamonds, Big Shot Adhesive Sheet, Stamping Sponges, Crystal Effects, Serif Alphabet Dies, Organza Ribbon, Bitty Buttons, Pearls, Northern Frost, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Pinking Hearts Border Punch, White Taffeta Ribbon, Cheese Grater
Techniques: Faux Snow-grate Whisper White card stock with a cheese grater
This is one of the scrapbook pages I made for the 2011 Artisan Award contest. This was my first chance to play with the baker's twine. It looped like that on its own so I just added my tags and left the loops where they were.
I made the ship in 3 separate pieces. I cut the neck of the bottle from a window sheet, sponged around the edges with White Stazon and attached it to the page with Big Shot Adhesive so it wouldn't show. The ship was stamped on white card stock and cut out around the top. For the bottle, I made a tube and rounded the edges with the corner rounder punch. The seam is hiding under the card stock. I left the top puffed up a little to give it a 3D effect.
Stamps: The Open Sea
Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Nautical Expedition DSP
Accessories: Window Sheets, Jumbo Eyelets, Bakers Twine, Circle and Tag Punches, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Vintage Trinkets
I forgot to take photos of a couple of my entries for the Artisan Award before I shipped them but I found them on display at convention so now I have the complete set. I’m looking forward to entering again next year. I didn’t win but I really enjoyed the challenge and it was pretty cool seeing my stuff on display.
Here are all 10 of my entries for the 2010 Artisan Award.
This was another one of my entries for the Artisan Award. I used the embossing plate to texturize the letters and the two tag die to make my journalling block.
Stamps: Baroque Motifs,
Ink: Versa Mark; Melon Mambo, Creamy Caramel Classic Ink
Paper: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Creamy Caramel Cardstock
Accessories: Two Tags, Pennant, Timeless Type Alphabet Die; Texture Plate Kit #4; Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry Polka-dot Grosgrain Ribbon; Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder; Sponge Daubers
I have several of these little ornament albums hanging in my tree. Just slide the lid up the string to reveal the photo album inside. I add a little tag with the year, jounaling and some photos of some of the year's highlights. They're fun to look at each Christmas.
I also make a pink or blue version as a gift for "Baby's first Christmas. You can download the instructions here .
This project was a remake of a workshop wow I presented at a demo meeting 3 years ago when I first started as a demo. At the bottom of this post I added the samples I made for the meeting as well as the directions I drew up and scanned (yikes). My computer skills are still NOT great but I guess I've come farther than I thought. To personalize the ornament box, print it on a sheet of vellum and emboss it with embossing powder as soon as it comes out of the printer while the ink is still wet. With the new MDS this opens up a whole world of possiblilities.
I love this photo of our kittens. Too bad they don't stay that small. To make the letters I coloured them with a Bravo Burgandy marker then stamped them with versamark and embossed with gold. My journaling doesn't show up in the photo but I wrote on a clear overhead sheet with a versa marker, embossed in gold then trimmed the sheet close to the lettering. I used the same technique for the swirl. I like how you can cut the pieces apart and move them where you want.
