This started as a muck-up, but I'm likin' having a new 3D use for rub-ons. I failed at the rub-0ns trick from page 23 of the autumn/winter 2008 Close To My Heart Idea Book. I just love that catty; thank you lovely Anna DaGenerous! (So anywho, this was a technique where you add pastel to the rub-on & then rub it on. It gives a halo.) However, I flopped. I used Stampin' Up! rub-ons & pastels so maybe that's why it didn't work. But... it did turn into something else: homemade pastel primas out of rub-ons.
I didn't want to waste the rub-ons when they wouldn't stick, so I decided to add 'em to a project another way. It was really easy to cut them into flowers and curl them a little for shaped primas. Here's how-to:
For the flowers:
- Rub-ons (SU)
- Pastels(SU)
- Bone Folder
- Gem Brads
Making the Flower:
- Cut a rub-on & remove its backing
- Dab pastel onto the sticky side of the rub-on ( I used 2 colours red & turquoise)
- Dust off excess pastel powder
- Trim around the shape with scissors
- Curl them (I used a foam mat under them & rubbed a bone-folder over them)
- Add a brad through it...
This is the back view of the rub-on. From the front, the white (or whatever colour rub-on you have) will show through with a halo of colour around the edges.)
Intricate rub-ons like these dotted ones from Stampin' Up! are good for this since the colour shows through the spaces inside the design. I can just picture the snowflakes from "Word Flurries" or the flowers in "Hidden Garden!" Ouuu dreamy! (For you Demos, it'd be a fun way to show customers another use for pastels & rub-ons.)
One way to use pastelled rub-ons...
I used these pastel rub-on flower thingies on this little notebook I made as a thank you for someone special. I'll post a notebook tutorial for you soon; it's SO easy! (Just pierce the card center & stitch some folded paper in the center.)
Schtuff for the notebook:
- Close To My Heart Perfect Day paper
- Hole punch (to distress the CTMH paper with holes)
- Red Ridinghood In-colour cardstock (matches the CTMH paper perfectly)
- Cardstock to form notebook (Naturals Ivory 12x12)
- Paper for inside of book
- Sakura Glitter pen or silver pen
- White embroidery thread
- Paper piercer, foam mat & needle
- Metal frame thingy (Dollarama store in Ontario) :O)
- Quickie Glue Pen
- Silver embossing powder
- Crystal Lacquer
- Add rub-ons where you'd like them
- Doodle lines for stems or a flourish or something ( I use a silver or glitter pen so it's pretty if it shows under the stitching.)
- Pierce holes along the lines
- Stitch along the design
- Stick 3D pastel rub-ons on over top
The sentiment (A) is made by glue embossing a letter:
- Draw out the letter in Sakura Quickie Glue Pen
- Sprinkle with embossing powder
- Heat it & Punch out the letter
- Glue onto the back of the charm with Crystal Lacquer
Here's a quick look at the inside (I stitched some paper in the middle and added a little area at the back for notes. This gorgeous distress-look blue graph paper is also from Close to my Heart. (Thanks again Annapurna! You ROCK!)
Thanks for poppin in! :O)