Blog Hop January!
Welcome to the first FCD Blog Hop of 2010!!
Official start: Jan. 22 -08:00 (EST)
This blog hop will end on Jan. 25 , 2200 (that’s 8 pm, EST)
Theme: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle-Celebrate the New Year by finding a new way to use an old product!
I decided to go through my ’stuff’ drawer, and see what’s been hiding in there for a few years. I found 3 cork coasters..and thought..yeah…why not…I’ll stamp them, and then wood burn them…I decided to color them too…see what you think!
To wood burn stamped images, you want to be sure they are large enough images with out TOO many details or they get lost in the burning process. I think these sets worked great! Click the thumbnails to see the larger images.
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- All 3 finished coasters
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- Stamp a transparency with your images using StazOn ink. Use this to determine what images to place where.
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- Hover over the transparency for placement, remove transparency and stamp surface
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- Stamped coaster with Black StazOn ink
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- Carefully burn the lines of the image with a wood burning tool
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- Half way done with this one
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- Most of the stamped lines are burned. I left off the tiny detail lines
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- Color the images with copics or triart markers
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- Stamp sets used: Chicory, Sitting Pretty (curly leaves)
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- Stamp sets used: Daffy Daffodils, Sitting Pretty (curly leaves)
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- Stamp sets used: BE Susan, Sitting Pretty (curly leaves)
Sets used: Sitting Pretty (I LOVE the swirly stems in this set), BE Susan, Chicory, Golden Daffodils
This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!! You no longer have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from! It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)
BLOG CANDY!! One winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess…so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he
Your next stop on the hop is URSULA!!
Pamela
Super fantastic, what an awesome idea! Your cork coasters are beautiful! Now I have to go get a wood burning thingy to try this! Great, great project!!
Seee?? That turned out so awesome!! I love these!! They look amazing in color, too! Nice work, lady! :o)
These are gorgeous! I love the tutorial on how they are done- have never stamped on cork, but that may have to change……..Wow!
Oh MY! I’m out of words! This is super fantastic! Never seen anything like this before and I’m in love with this technique. It looks FAB! And the texture must be lovely as well. Love the little stitched details too!
This is one awesome project and just love this technique. The tutorial was so easy to follow too. Thanks for this creative and inspiring project.
OH MY! I guess when you ran off to create you really meant it! Digging out the wood burning tools and all this is AMAZING! you do really great work with that tool! I love how you added the color to the cork. What a great gift idea!
I can see this is another MUST TRY–beautiful!!!! What a great gift idea
What a great idea! Love it!
Holy Crap!!!! These are fabulous! Now I know why I haven’t been motivated to finish MY calender project! I need more beautiful floral stamps! Time to order!! That is the coolest technique! Never in a million years would I have thought of using a wood burning tool on cork! Did you burn the lines to keep the ink from running or did you just like that effect on the cork??
FABULOUS! I have some cork sheets… Now I am inspired to pull them out! tFS!
great coasters, I have never tried wood burning, but I do love this look. thanks for sharing.
What a great idea and I have a tool just for this down in the …basement in a box!
I love what you did with the cork Pamela! I have a roll of cork and I think a wood burner around here somewhere! I am going to have to try this! Very Cool! Thanks for sharing it with us! Hugs Lori
Awesome idea Pamela………….Totally love it
TFS
Pamela, I went full circle and just had to post again to tell you what a great blog hop this was! All of the artists projects are fabulous and have really inspired me to use the tons of older stuff that I have laying around. Thanks so much for having it!
Hugs Lori Reinholz
This was a really fun blog hop - I discovered some ideas on some things to do with someof this stuff I have in my stash. It’s amazing what people can do with things we’d only imagine.
Thanks
Diana-dj_enns@yahoo.com
What a clever idea. Very cool!
That was a great idea, to burn the coasters. It really added some life to them. I want to get me a tool for that. I love the color you added. Great Job!!!
These turned out so pretty Pam!
What a great idea. I have all the essentials needed to try this. Thanks for the inspiration.
These are gorgeous! I have a wood-burning tool, I will have to try this!
Super cute coasters!!
I love this idea. The cool thing is I have all the supplies in my stash. TFS
Wow Pam, these coasters are beautiful! TFS!
These are FANTASTIC!! I have always loved cork and the idea of stamps combined with my wood burning tools - that is truly inspiration!! Thanks so much!!
Hi
Oh I. love this . I,m going to have to try this one . .
Love your work as alway wonderfull . Fantastic work .
Thank you I enjoy your blog everytime .
Hugs Sandy. O
littlelou49@aol.com
What a neat process! And a clear and interesting tutorial!
Thanks for sharing it!
Love the circular hop!
Kim Marie
kimmet123@aol.com
such beautiful wood burnt coasters, loving the outline that made the images so dimensional!
Cute idea, I have lots of those cork coasters. I wonder if there is anything else that you could burn the image in besides a wood burner craft tool. I don’t have one but would love to find a different way to do it. Love these blog hops, so off I go!!
I know I already posted comments about your project but I just finished the blog hop and wanted to tell you how wonderful each of your designers are. I learned some new things and got some wonderful ideas today. I look forward to the next blog hop that you have.
Gayle Taylor
gaylememories@sbcglobal.net
What a nifty idea! Cute hop! Thanks for sharing
My internet is being a pain so I can’t hop this time, but I just wanted to say I love you coasters. I have some of them and a wood burner, hope it isn’t too stinky. LOL!
These are gorgeous…very neat idea! dianegreghov@att.net
Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I’m more of a visual learner