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by Martha Lucia Gomez

In this world, we want to buy everything we like and see, but sometimes experimenting and recreating is part of the fun. Today, I am sharing with you a card that I made using beautiful single pieces that I combined with “necessity” because I don’t have a plaid stamp! I am crazy with the fabulous plaid designer papers that I saw during this season but I decided to create my own pattern just using two colors of VersaFine Clair Ink and without embossing to make it more rustic.

Skill: Advanced
Time: 1 hour

Directions

Step 1

I took a stamp set from Peek-a-Boo Designs that includes a lot of different stripes and selected just two or three to be used on my card. I positioned the stripes in my Stamparatus and stamped stripe by stripe using for the wide strip VersaFine Clair Morning Mist…

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I read a few different tutorials.

It’s very very easy.

You need

Empty jars no sicker (soak in water to peel off)

Twine (garden style)

Hot glue gun

Spray paint off choice (mine is matt white)

How

Dab a tiny bit of hot glue on base of jar rim attaching the end of the twine on the roll

Wrap randomly down then back up fairly snuggly

If any bit are moving glue with a tiny dab of hot glue

Wind back to start, glue again and snip off

Outside follow paint can instructions and spray from all directions

You want to be smooth and fine in your layer not thick and dripping (you can always do another layer).

Wait until it’s dry

Peel off twine. I started at the glue join. This removed the glue nearly perfectly. You could pick of any remaining glue but it’s clear anyway.

I’m planning…

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