I need to wear yellow?

Last week our elementary school held its book fair. In years past, the fair was run by Scholastic in the school's library. This year the PTO teamed up with Barnes and Noble and held the book fair there. They asked for parent volunteers to work shifts as greeters and wrappers. I signed up for a spot and they asked us to wear the school colors. Our colors and black and yellow. The black I have covered - I have tons of black clothes items. But yellow? I don't own a single piece of yellow in my wardrobe. Rather than go shopping (although a fun choice), I decided to make something yellow to liven up the black.

I first threw together a yellow and black ribbon ponytail holder. It was cute but not enough. Since I went with a black top and black pants, I decided to make a pin to have a little pop of color. And fortutiously, one of the more recent Splitcoast tutorials was on paper pins. I don't have a melting pot (yet) so I knew I'd have to melt the embossing powder by hand and made the pin less dimensional that I would have otherwise.

Here's the finished pin. I stamped the flower (Stampin' Up) four times. I colored two of the four in with copic and prismacolor markers. The other two were just to give the colored layers more thickness.

I cut out all four of the stamped images. I adhered each of the colored images onto a non-colored image. I then layered the two colored images to give the flower more petal points.

From there it's all about the embossing. I inked the whole thing with Versamark and dumped UTEE powder all over it. I melted that layer with my heat gun and while still hot, poured more UTEE on and remelted. I repeated this a few more times until the top glaze was the way I wanted. I then hot glued a pin back onto the back of the flower and one yellow embellishment made my outfit complete. I found this project really fun and want to try more. I think this flower would be cute for the Christmas season so that's my plan for next week - make some pins. (And maybe a trip to the store for a melting pot might be in order - don't tell, okay?)

Comments

[Gail]

So - when are you teaching a class? Love to read your entries and love your pin. I collect vintage pins, and have a lot of metal flower pins from the 40's and 50's - your yellow one, looks exactly like one I have!