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Creative Embellishments
For Paper, Jewelry, Fabric and More

Author: Sherrill Kahn
Pages: 112
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11 "
Publisher: Martingale Company
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4Q0418
Weight: 1.50 lb
20% off: $22.36
MSRP: $27.95

Back Cover Information

Creative Embellishments—For Paper, Jewelry, Fabric and More

How do you add sophistication and style to craft projects with shrink plastic, rubber stamps, and fun foam? Look to this best-selling author for a bounty of advice in this technique-packed book—then get ready to play!

• Discover dozens of imaginative embellishments made from paper, fabric, plastic, clay and more
• Spotlight these color-splashed embellishments on quilts, garments, journals, and any other project you make
• Create art without expensive supplies—over 150 photographs show you how

Common Materials—uncommon results!

About the Author

Sherrill was an art educator for thirty years in the public schools with an emphasis on drawing, painting, fiber and design. Since retirement from the public schools, she has taught nationally and internationally for stores, conferences, guilds and educational institutions. She owns Impress Me, a rubber-stamp company, with her husband, Joel. She has four fabric lines with Robert Kaufman, paint line and paint studio products with Jacquard, and Rollagraphs and Style Stone products with Clearsnap. She has written over 40 magazine articles; this is her third book.

Sherrill has loved to draw and paint as long as she can remember. She would sit for hours coloring and painting as a young girl. She received Lincoln Logs for Christmas when she was seven and enjoyed building structures with them. She made doll clothes when she was eight using a composite doll about 9" tall with arms that were removable, so the garments could be put on and taken off easily. Her mother, Ann, who taught elementary school, taught her to sew, knit and crochet.

Today Sherrill continues to experiment with every possible media. She loves to play endlessly with her designs on the computer, as well as draw, knit, crochet, make fused glass and create three-dimensional pieces. Sherrill enjoys trying out every new product that seems interesting. She definitely lives by the words "What if?" and hopes you enjoy and have fun with the techniques in Creative Embellishments.

Instruction Page

Appliquéd & Stenciled Vest

Fun-Foam Necklace

Fun-Foam Pin

Mixed-Media
emphasis color pencil, acrylics, batik, foil, paint, stamping, crayon, embroidery, pens, dyeing, 3-D, fabric etching

Mixed Media Tools & Paints

Also See Paint Accessories: Metal Tips, Daubers, Squeege, Misters, Plastic Bottles & More

Shiva Paintstiks

Copic Alcohol Ink Pens

Tsukeniko All-Purpose Inks

Jacquard Exciter Packs

Polished Pigments

Craft Metal / Foil, Glue Foil / Metal & Glue Film is used to make Craft Metal WITH an Adhesive / Laminated Backed
Metals are easy to cut and pliable for sewing, painting, embossing, & embellishment
Glue Foil & Film: Reheat to REPOSITION!

8x11

Craft Metal Foil
Aluminum, Copper, Stainless Steel

8x11

Craft Metal
Glue Foil
Aluminum, Copper, Black, Stainless Steel

Metals: Paint and Colorize with Airbrush Paints & Alcohol Based Inks and Pens
For an exquiste transparent color overlay allowing the metal to shine through

Acrylic Mediums, Gesso, Gels, Glazes, Masking, Pastes, Pigments & More
Use w/ Fiber Art & Art Quilt Projects

Color Pencils, Textile Medium, Paints &/or Paint Sticks

Simulate Faux Applique and Traditional Blocks OR Embellish Innovative quilts with:

Color Pencils

Faux Applique
by Helen Stubbings

Paint a Quilt
by Marie Monteith Sturmer

Patterned & Printed Cloth and Metal:
w/ Paint, Dyes, Inks, Color Pencils, Pens & Markers, Acrylic Mediums, Foil, Metal, Gold Leafing, Glitter, Stenciling, Stamping & More

Learn Multiple Mixed Media Techniques

w/ excercise chapters

Also See:
Beaney & Little John (20+ book) Series

Stencils

Stencils

Modular System
6" Square Repeat Design Stencils

Unique & very original Stencils that can be used with quilting, thread painting, glitter, foils, inks, paints, batik & more

Mixed Media

Books, Patterns, DVDs & More Index
instruction on using acrylic gel, mediums, pastes, inks, dyes, paints, foil, stamping, stenciling, mixing with hand/machine embroidery & beading, stamping, doodling & more.

Fabric Inks & Alcohol Inks

Foil, Craft Metal & Glues (Use with Alcohol Inks)

Fabric Paints, Paintstiks & Pigments

MicroCut Glitter & Glue

1. Jones Tones Poly Prismatic Holo Crystals Glitter & Confetti Glitter Shapes
2. Jones Tones MicroCut / Ultra Fine Glitter
Highlighter, Metallic, Hologram, Prismatic, Glitter Glue
3. Jones Tones Glues for Foil, Glitter, Fabric & More

Fabric & Illustration Pens

Micas added to Pigment & Paints for that extra glitz

Tools & Accessories for Paint, Stencil & Craft Projects

ALL Stamps, Stamp Pads, Cleaner, Books, DVDs

DVD, CD, Videos for Embellishment & Surface Design

Fabric Dyes

Art Quilts & Mixed Media Books & Magazines