Today was a great day, creatively. Our local scrapbook store hosted a guest artist. The gal worked with brass stencils and all kinds of supplies. I picked up a couple of great tips, like placing waxed paper over your stencil to get your stylus to glide while dry embossing. When using glitter, the demonstrator used a drinking straw, cut on an angle to "spoon" the glitter exactly where she wanted it. She also taught us that you can make your own small embellishments with freezer paper, a brass stencil, translucent embossing paste and glitter. You tape the brass stencil onto the waxy side of the freezer paper. Then you apply the embossing paste and scrape the excess off with a palette knife. You very carefully remove the stencil and shake on the glitter. Let it dry for at least a day. Then you carefully lift the embellishment off of the freezer paper with the help of an exacto knife.
Tonight was our quilty girlfriends night. I chose to work on a pillow. The top third of the pillow is embroidered flowers. Later on you sew the top third to the bottom two thirds, which is a series of half square triangles sewn together. This is going to be gorgeous when it is finished!
And of course, what get together would be complete without great food. Linda made this new dish with orzo, pineapple, mandarin oranges and cool whip. Oh my, it was yummy!
I spent a great day doing a few of my favorite things.
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