Thursday, November 8, 2012

Stampendous and Beacon Adhesives


All this week, Stampendous is joining forces with Beacon Adhesives. Beacon is the official liquid adhesive of the TV show, Craft Wars and has a liquid adhesive to meet all of your crafting needs. I love using Zip Dry when making cards. Recently my love affair has expanded to another Beacon product, Fast Finish Decoupage. It is a great sealant and decoupage medium. Here are a couple other projects I made using this fantastic product: coaster set and witch hat.

Today, I created some chipboard tags to be used during the holidays. I started with a *chipboard ornament mini album, making each page a separate tag. I stamped various Stampendous Christmas images on each ornament using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored with
Prismacolor Premier colored pencils. I then brushed each ornament with Beacon Fast Finish to seal it. Each tag has several coats of the sealant, with drying time in between. As tags, I probably didn't need to seal them but to be honest, I was originally going to give these to my son as magnets that he could place on friends' lockers at school. I love the 'finished' look that sealing them created. The next step was to swipe the 'hanger' of each ornament with VersaMark and emboss using Stampendous Embossing Enamel. I used Aged Gold and Shabby Blue.


Here is some more inspiration from some of my Design Team friends. Please visit their blogs and leave them some love. We all really appreciate you taking the time to look and comment on our creations. Please note that this Saturday we will have a huge Stampendous/Beacon Blog Hop. I hope you'll join us.

Stampendous Impressions
April Derrick
Kristine reynolds
Rhea Weigand
Suzanne Czosek

Thank you so much for visiting today!

Noteworthy Supplies:



* I think the chipboard ornament album is a Clear Scraps product but I am sorry I do not know for sure.

16 comments:

  1. These are gorgeous! You make such pretty things Melinda and I expect you have some very lucky friends come Christmas!! :)

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  2. Cute!! Great idea! Love them all!

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  3. I love your Christmas ornaments. I have never heard of this Fast Finish, but what you girls did with is is amazing.

    Margie F.

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  4. Adorable tags, Melinda. The colored pencil looks so vibrant covered with Fast Finish! I think these would be a great idea for locker magnets, too!

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  5. This are beautiful! Love the images and how you have colored them and the embossed top of your ornament is very clever!

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  6. Absolutely gorgeous!!! You are totally inspiring me to dig out my colored pencils and play!

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  7. These little tags are so adorable and so festive!!!

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  8. Very pretty ornament tags--I like the embossing on the hanger.

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  9. I love these ornaments! Soooo cute! I used chipboard too. Now that I have found fast finish I think I will be playing with it a lot more starting with casing this!

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  10. These are just adorable! Awesome project for the Fast Finish!

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  11. What a great idea to use those adorable tags as magnets!.TFS

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  12. Cool idea to do magnets for the other kids lockers! I love all of your ornaments, they look awesome. Thanks for sharing.

    Katie B.

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  13. Love the tags.

    craftymom205 at yahoo dot com

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  14. OH my gosh! I love this!! So perfect to have customized gift tags for the holidays and such gorgeous images again! I am going to go broke with all the stamps I am going to have after this!! Love Stampendous!

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